Girls Trip - Austin, TX - Four the Moms

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and tell them for the Moms sent you. Hey, y'all,
welcome back to for the Mom's Podcast. Today, we're going
to be talking about all things traveling. This podcast is
brought to you by Q and A Network. I'm Kelsey,
I'm Jasmine.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm Valerie, and I'm Ariel and we are for the Moms.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
So we actually have an upcoming girls trip, So we're
going to kind of start off with that. What are
we most excited for this upcoming girls trip?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
No kids, no kids.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Kids, yes? And seeing our friends that are living other states. Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
So it'll be us four, it'll be tea standing and
boutique's crew, Tiff, Mick, and Taylor, and then motivated Mama,
she's all the way in.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
South Carolina, excited, I know, saying this is the first
year that Jessica gets to come.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yes, so that'll be fun and just a little nice
little getaway, you.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Know, girl time, little get away.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Okay, how did we decide on this destination? So the
past two years on our girls trip, we have went
to Dustin, Florida, but this year we kind of switched
it up. And I don't remember whose idea it was.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
We found it on TikTok. I think so, yeah, Kelsey.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
So we just all put a destination and a hat
and we all chose our own destination and Texas, we're
going to Austin.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I don't know who chose Austin.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I think I did. Yeah, yeah, that was her choice.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
So we're gonna be headed to Austin.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Here.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Have any of us ever been to Austin? Thought?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay, I have an.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Idea, but I was pregnant, so I have.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Been there as dinner one night.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I have not been like.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Out all right, So I'm excited. I haven't really got
to explore it. This girl's trip. We are gonna have
our producers that film our podcast. They're coming along with
us to get some really good footage of the girls trip,
put some videos together for us, and we will have
one exclusive Patreon released of the girl strip.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
How do we feel about that? It's gonna feel like
a MTV Real World?

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
People are gonna be looking at us like we crazy
with the camera going down the street.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
The Real Housewives of.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Right.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Fun though, and I think we will be able to
like be ourselves more and we're not gonna have to
pick up our phones and record.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
We're not gonna I.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Love the part where we're not gonna be worried about
recording and like trying to do our social media content.
We're just gonna be able to be in the moment,
having fun, enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
And that's another thing with our crew. We never film
when we're together, like we will pick out these these
little tiktoks to make. We may make one the whole
entire trip. We literally just put our phones down and
enjoy ourselves. Now we're actually going to be able to
have some footage and still enjoy ourselves and not have

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to worry about doing.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
That because are on our way homes every time we're like, dang,
we don't have anything.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Post because we never film, like literally never film on
a trip together.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Things that we can post, we really can't post.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
You're just sharing that.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Do we have any rules or a round as we except.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
For never go to the bathroom alone? We do that
for safety, but yeah, show.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
No private parts now.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, so that is a little weird right closeure eye. No,
we don't do that.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
We're not that bad, but yeah, that is one of
our rules on our girls trip, like if we're out
and about, like no one person goes to the bathroom
alone or anywhere for instance, like if you gotta go
outside and make a phone call or whatever, always take
somebody with you.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
And we usually share our location. We're not usually we
always share location.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Do with all the people.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
With everybody we're with, we all share our locations. That way,
if we got to come find somebody.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Or if some go in earlier then the others, we
can watch our phones and see where they're act or
walking back or.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
In the uber or whatever they're doing, so we keep
it safe.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, but our husbands are excited though, because.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh for the filming. Yes, yeah, they're ready to see
what goes on because all the things we don't do
that they think we do.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Like the last thing we're worried about is a man.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
We don't want a man they think we are. They're
just girls a little while.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, and the man I got sometimes because he'd be
on my nurse. Do you think I want to know them?

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm like the last thing that we're out looking for
as another man?

Speaker 4 (05:03):
No, So what is one thing that y'all always pack
in y'all suitcase no matter what destination you're gonna do?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
A fan?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
I'll spend ten thousand dollars to door dash me a
fane wherever that one area.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Seeing it back as Kelsey's box. Sand Yea, our.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Very first girl shipped me and jasminely and better said Jasmine,
it's too quiet here. I can't sleep like his valeries like, no,
this is good. I'm like, hell, we need we need
something like a helenip, Like.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I have to sleep with a fan. If you walk
in mine and Josh's a room, you know how like
a lot of people have like the esthetically pleasing rooms
and you see a big ass fan in our room
because I cannot sleep, That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Okay, So mine's a sweatshirt because I'm always freaking cold.
We just got back from the mountains and I literally
had to go to a gift shop because I've forgot
my freaking sweatshirt. I don't know, I'm just weird, like
in the hotels or in the rooms at night, like
I have to have a sweatshirt. I try, so mine's
a sweatshirt.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
The ame way too. I have to pack sweatpants and
sweatshirts and socks. I have to have socks on my feet.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I don't care because you're a psycha who sleeps socks on?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Do you really? I feel like if my feet are warm,
my body's warm.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
That's like outside the cover to keep And.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I don't like dirty feet. So if if I feel
like the the place that you're I'm staying at is dirty,
I will wipe my feet down with baby wipes. I
would wipe my kid's feet down with baby wipes and
put socks on. Anybody that knows me knows that I'm
like that.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
I will wipe my feet down for sure, like I
could have a bath, but still, like if we're on
vacation or something like walking around the house or whatever,
I will definitely wipe my feet down before I get
in bed.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
But yeah, I said, when with socks on. Yeah, I
mean I rarely ever go to sleep without taking a bath,
but if it's one of those nights, I have to
wash my face and wash my feet. Yeah you're so good.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
You should wash your ass too.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
But he ain't touching it right, I'm not having sex
unless I take a bath, Say John should be trying.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, care Josh.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
But yeah, I know in my mind like a half
let me take a quick shower.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Just text me.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
He said, you're gonna be celibate tonight. You're can let
me clap them cheeks.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
That is hilarious, an egg plan and that's all I'm
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Last night was gone. Whatever I went to sleep. Actually,
that's funny.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
You better tell them I'm gonna let you clap them
cheeks for let me book that Disney. True.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, Greg is knowing way too much about us. I
don't feel like you have to leave.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Okay, changing it up a little bit. Traveling with kids,
what are your go to tricks for keeping the kids entertained?

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Or leave them home, leave them home, getting canceled iPads?

Speaker 4 (08:07):
For mine, it's their phones or iPads and like coloring books.
Colors Ella really likes to do in word searches.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
She loves those snacks.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's gonna plenty of snack.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Last time we flew with Charlie, we did the little
Bennie travel We put like the little mini travel kit
of Plato and a little slow cane mat because you
take the trade down and you put it on there.
She played with Plato forever. We did window cleans. If
you fly, you can do those in the car too,
if your kid can reach the window window what window cleans?
Like you know how the holiday ones on the airplane,
like you can play with them like on the window. Extra.

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Kelsey is so smart think at that time that's about
to be them all on the social media that my
kids crying the whole time. But no, those are easy
things if you're now. If your kid's older, you know
different things. But that's like for smaller kids. The Plato
thing really worked well. We do that in the car
sometimes too. We get little trees like little crawfish trays.

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It depends on how long the car ride is. It's
like not very long. But like we drifted Disney and
we literally anything to keep my kids occupied I don't care,
it'll vacuum up. We got mats.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Ours is a lot of color, and we definitely do
like the colors. Both of my girls have one of
those little pads that you can drow on and click
the button in any races, and then they make the
reusable coloring books worth the water. Yes, the water disappears
when it dries.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, we love that kids.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
And then of course iPads because they have.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Nothing but the point in my car because I'll have
stab holes in my seats.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
They're in the car seats, so they don't they can't
really reach the seat.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Well.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
I have a couple they try to stick stickers on them.
One another day, I said, we ain't about to be that.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, we don't do this.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Stuff that should be stuck.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yes, when my kids get tired of the iPad in
the car after a little long, they're like then they're
like really like going crazy. I'm like, okay, pull all
the tricks. I don't care, Candy, do what you got
to do, especially on an airplane if it's flying, candy,
I'm telling you, bring out the candy. Bring out those
things that you're like absolutely you know, because it's gonna
keep your kid quiet.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
So what are y'all's favorite snacks the pack for the
kids while traveling, Any of those little snap bags.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Anything pussies that they can get, because that's what.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
They get every day in time.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
It's like now like, no matter what way you travel,
you're gonna pass BUCkies.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, I've built the Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
But yeah, pretty much anything that.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Doesn't make a mess. Yeah, well they'll make a mess.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah. Yeah, my kids will make a mess with paper.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Stuff that melts. Like we stick away from the chocolates.
They will do.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Like this, and then it's like snow in the b
exactly if.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
We stop that fast food. I dread even handed them
a barbecue sauce because.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's going everywhere. It likes to figure figure. I don't know,
you know the little thing underneath the door lock. Yeah,
she always manages to spill the freaking sauce in that crevice.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh that's nothing. The last trip we went on, not
this pastrip, but a couple of months ago, I don't know.
I let my kids have crayons and a colored book
because it was like a five hour drive and they
left their freaking crayon and door.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Handle and it melted.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yes, now I got to bring my cars to the
shop because sometimes my back handle will work and sometimes
it will not. Like, what do you do to get
it out?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Get a blood drion remelted?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh yeah, you can have to remelt it.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Bring that ship to the shop.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well yeah, but if you try to do it yourself,
you're just gonna have to remelt it. Yeah, get it?

Speaker 4 (11:51):
And then what just tick a paper towel.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
It probably melts every day.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
I don't know, sometimes it melts. And how do you
handle sleep routines or naps while on vacation And do
you stick to a schedule while on a trip with.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
The kids or do you kind of go with the flood?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, there's no routine for us.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
So I say, when my kids were like really little
babies and stuff toddler, we stuck to the nap schedule,
especially because we did beach vacations, right, so it's super
easy to just bring the kid back up, sit for
an hour or two. But now that they're older, No,
there's no bedtime, there's no wake up time.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Y'all do what you want.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah. No, Uh, we were the opposite, Like we went
to Disney whenever Ella was like two and a half
and Evy was a newborn, they sleeping in the stroller.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
We ain't going back to that room.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, yeah for a trip like that, And people are like,
I'm going back to take a break. I might.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
No, I'm getting my money's worth.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
We have schedules during school, that's it, vacation holidays, anything
like that. They are up as late as they want to,
like one the beach.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, we was living our best life. Okay, do your
kids love traveling or is it a struggle?

Speaker 3 (13:05):
My kids love traveling.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
My kids love traveling. I say we're taking a trip,
They're like, where's the suitcase?

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Let's go. Literally, Ava and Mason and Morgan that they
love the traveling because you know we're going somewhere. But
Austin doesn't understand the time yet. She doesn't understand five hours.
She does not understand that. So we could be twenty
minutes down the road. Are we there yet?

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
We get in a car and we're She's like, we're there.
How much we just put off?

Speaker 1 (13:33):
They don't understand time.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Like, if you don't understand time right now, so stop
asking you. I don't know how else to explain it
to you.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's frustrating, but it does get better as they get on.
This was the first trip that we just got back
from the where Laney didn't do that so previously she
had and it was the first time there. She was
just like gung ho on everything we did, like there
was no complaints.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Good morning adjustment. How much one god like de side?
Well the car stops is when we get there.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's funny.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
What it's been one of your biggest travel fells.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
With kids forgetting the diapers.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I we missed the flight coming home from Disney World
because I wanted Chick fil A before we went through.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Tsa? Yeah, we'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 (14:56):
That was probably and it pushed us back twelve hours.
Oh no, oh yes.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
I don't know off the top of my head. I
can't really like.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Think had any mom was just when they were babies
like that, forgetting diapers and having to go to the
store and buy more. Yeah, I forgot the pack and
play at the beach one time.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
I'm sure car sick, but she used to get bad carsick,
like really bad. It's kind of sliped off a little
bit here lately, but that is really only our ever
our mishaps.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I have lost Ava and BUCkies one year. Well, it's
because we went with two families and Ava rode in
the car with my mother in law's friends and we
all went in. She went in, and then Susie was
her name. I had Ava, Susie thought Ava was with us,
and we thought Ava was with Susie, and all of

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a sudden, over the BUCkies intercom, the parents of Ava Rogers,
please come to the front. Ava found a worker. She
was about Mason's age, was very I was very, very
impro so she weren't on the worker and yeah, so
that was a little embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
But yeah, speaking of losing kids, I love somebody else's
kids at the kid at the beach. One time, we
go on a big family vacation every year with Eric's family,
and one of their friends had a girlfriend that had
a little girl with her. Well, we they were sleeping in,
so we're like, we'll take your little girl with us
down to the beach where we're setting up the chairs,
and little Drew runs off down the beach and we

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don't know it. She had made friends with the little
neighbor kids and she was playing, but we all freaked out.
That's one of the reasons I hate the beach. That's feeling, yes,
of losing.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
A child, thinking they're out there.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yes, like we were scrambling that panic you get.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, but it can happen so quickly. We can turn
around to set the chairs up and she was gone
and it wasn't my kid, so I felt even worse,
you know, but she was, thank God, right there.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
But it's scary.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
What has been your all time favorite family vacation? Mine?
I kind of have too. We love the mountains. We
love Montana. Montana is like our all time favorite kind
of have three We love, love, love Montana. I would
move there in a heartbeat. I would love to go
back for another family trip. We also love the beach,

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We love Dustin, We love Crab Island, my kids love
Crab Island. Me and Josh love Crab Island. We just
love Dustin. All together. We've been making it like a
little family trip for the past couple of years now.
We truly enjoy going there. And you know, we're from Louisiana,
so it's not a bad drive. It's only five hours away,
four to five hours, whereas Montana is like twenty two hours,

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so we don't get to go there as often. But
whenever we did work up north, we went there as
much as we could. We went there several times. But
another one that really holds a place in my heart
is South Carolina. We lived there for six months and
I truly truly enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I'd love to go back.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
We did a lot of hiking there, a lot of waterfalls,
went to the Pretty Place Chapel. If you've never heard
of The Pretty Place, definitely look at it. It's amazing beautiful.
Those would be my top three.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Mine is the beach and Disney World. And Disney World
has become my top because as the kids get older,
Disney becomes easier and more fun.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
We definitely need to do another Disney trip. We haven't
been in a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Christmas.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
No, I mightst stay home for Christmas this year, are
you I am?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Finally?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
My husband won't let us take any Christmas vacations until
the kids are older. Yeah, and yeah, because I can't
imagine just waking up Christmas morning not at home, which
I feel like when the kids get older to be fun.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Just eighty teenagers, all of them.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah, I mean last year we bought our house, and
obviously we stayed home last year for Christmas because it
was our first year in the house. But I feel
like we were still like kind of getting settled in,
like how to go buy all the new Christmas decorations
and now that like I already have that and I
don't really have to go out and do all of that.
I just want to like stay home and like truly

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truly joy.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
If I tell my kids, Okay, we're taking a trip
this year instead of like one hundred presents, they're not
gonna No, we would wake up Christmas somewhere else. They're
gonna be like, where's my presence? Yeah, I'm gonna fly
with it.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
I just booked our Christmas trip. Last night. I told
my kids, I said, do you want to go to
Disney World for Christmas? Or do you want to stay
home and get presents? And both of them immediately just
go to Disney.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
I mean they're gonna get ten thousand dollars with the
gifts there anyway, I mean, that's awesome. But Edward be
Disney and the cruise. We liked the beach, but I
don't like being a pack meal pack and all this
shit to go to the beach for two hours and
then my kids are ready to go on the cruise.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
You ain't got to pack all that.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
You can come and go as you please, and you
go do whatever. But the cruise was like the best
vacation with our children. If you're hesitant, I'm telling you,
do it. It's the best vacation.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
I think so, especially as a mom, like you not
having to pick up after anybody, you don't have to
make beds, you don't have to clean, you don't have
to cook. Like that was a true vacation for me as.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
A well, I do take back what I said. She's
got number four.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
I do this past year. Uh well sorry, this past
summer we went on our first cruise as a family.
That is like, I don't even know how I forgot
about that. Yeah, that is like one of our top favorites.
We are booking another cruise for next summer because we
just truly enjoyed it so much. Like they said, you

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don't have to cook, you don't have to clean, you
don't have to pack a whole ass beach. And like,
as much as we enjoyed Dustin and the Beach, I
don't mind packing the beach wagon, but you don't have
to do that on a cruise.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
And we loved that.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
So we're going back. And look, if I get too drunk,
nobody's gonna carry me back to my condo and DestinE,
somebody's gonna carry me back in a wheelchair to that
cruise ship. Then make sure I get on. So I mean, hey,
can't be that, but no. Disney. Disney of the Little
Kids is definitely our favorite. My kids love it. Their
faces light up meeting the characters, especially when they're little,

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and that magic is still there for them.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's definitely and see a lot of people will say, oh,
don't bring them when they're little because they're not going
to remember. It doesn't matter if they remember, it matters
how they are in the moment.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
My kids both still the first time I took Charlie
she was turning three. She still remembers. She all remember
every talks about it. And my kids are experienced kids.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
I can buy them toys and things like that, but
they like to go places, they like to do things.
They like to make new memories. That's their thing. They
just that's what they like. But we were like that
as kids. My mom we took trips all the time,
So I mean that was you know, that's my two.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I like the mountains too, though. The mountains time that
it's just so much more relaxing because just like the beach,
like you're not hauling all that crap everywhere you go.
You just leave your cabin or whatever and you go hike,
or you go down to the lake, or you go
do whatever thing they have there. It's so much more relaxed.
And like we had first vacation we went on this
past week where we had zero fights and zero complaints.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
It was great.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
So REALI is there a destination you wouldn't go back to.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Anyone?

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I don't think I have one here.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, I think every trip is worth it.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, definitely, even if it's not as good as other trips,
you know, you still make the best of it, and
you're still even if.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
It goes horribly wrong, you're still making memories.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Any hidden gems or underrated places you visited, what is
that place?

Speaker 1 (22:32):
So when we went to Branson, not last year, the
year before, Ava had begged and begged and begged to
go find Yes, it's a gym. Yes, that was like
her dream like. She said that she wants to go
do that, and we stopped there. We took a detour
and stopped there to surprise her and it was not
what I expected and she said the same thing.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Mhmm.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
It was just hot about it.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
So I would say my hidden gem are underrated place.
I don't think it's underrated, But the hidden gem would
be the Pretty Place Chapel in South Carolina. It's absolutely beautiful.
Ten out of ten recommend taking a trip there. And
then just Montana in general, Yellowstone Glacier National Park, like

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you can't go wrong. It's beautiful and Crab Island when
it's crystal clear water, I.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Feel like everybody's gonna have a good time.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
I will say when we went to Colorado, a lot
of people know about it, but it's there's a very
there's a place where you can go, and it's a
very short hike. When I say very short, I was
thirty one weeks pregnant when I did this. There's a troll.
It's like a man built troll, huge like wooden thing,
and it's a very short hike to get to it.
But it is so cool to go look at. We
love that in Colorado. It doesn't Breckenridge, So we'll say

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that one was Colorado's mur Murfreesboro Crater of Diamonds Park.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
That's what I was looking up. I think it might
be that, but it's not standing out to me.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Well, if it's a hidden gym, it might not.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
They said we used to take school trips there.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Oh cute.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
What's a dream trip you haven't taken yet?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Greece.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
I want to go to Greece before I die. No,
Greece is mine. We can Sanerini. Yeah, we're going. Are
I think we're going. We're going for our tenure. We've
Josh has already said it. We've pretty much kind of
already planned it, but we definitely are. We're gonna do
it like a two week thing. Backpack, Oh, backpack, get
it girl, pretty I mean pretty much. She's not gonna

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stay in one place. Ye's gonna just go between because
you think about it, Meek noson Si, it's not like
you just go next to it. Yeah, I mean you
have to take the train, travel, you take a plane.
Like taking a plane there it's like forty bucks, like
twenty forty bucks.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So I'm trying to kind of jealous about European countries
in that sense, where you can travel everywhere within like
a day's t travel. We have to freaking fly overseas
to go see all that.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
It's between that. It's that in Alaska, we want to
go an Alaska and cruise.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
That's on our bucket list.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, same Alaska.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
King and I were talking about.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
This a little.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Greece's our tenure. We Josh's had one of his bosses
just went and he said, let's just go. I'm like,
I'm not taking my kids. I don't want to take
my kids. It's not Yeah, I don't ever.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Have a dream place to go. I would just just
ready to travel. Once I can travel yeah, I would
just go everywhere anywhere. Yeah, I don't care, but Wars
sounds nice.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
We can go to Houston, Texas and baby, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
We go somewhere like there's places that I want to go. Okay,
this is like inside of the United States, like go
to California, New York, Miami, like things like that. But
Mark has no desire to visit any of those places.
That's gonna be girls just he.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Only want to go overseas or he just doesn't like
traveling in general.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Just well, he just has no desire to to go
California or New York or anything like that. He would
probably would want to go to Montana, Colorado's South Carolina,
things like that. I want to do a trip to
New York and which I've been to California and stuff,
but I would like to go back.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
That was one of our options where Christmas trip is.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Now that I'm older, I actually might be going to
New York and the next month or so you need
to come with for It'll be like a little brain trip.
I got to offer a couple days to do it,
but it'll be for like a weekend for Christmas.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I would like to go for first holidays. But I
would still like to not like Chris, not Christmas. I'm
not wearing the diaper to not like Christmas Day or anything.
You need to just go during the holidays, like Christmas holidays. Yeah, yeah,
so we can go to New York during Thanksgiving when
we try to do I.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Mean it still can happen. Yeah, we next, we still
didn't even book the Disney.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
We were just talking about that.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
You never even responded, No.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
I didn't. I can't go to Disney. If and if
I haven't taken my kids to Disney.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
I agree with my kids would flip.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I cannot, But they've.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Been to Disney, soide, I'm gonna tell them. I gotta
tell them where I'm going.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, I didn't realize I'll never been to Disney.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Not with the kids.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
So you've been to book a trip, so you've gone
without them, You've gone without them.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I have gone so you can have children before I
have children?

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yes, okay, So beach, mountains, or city. You gotta pick one,
which are you like forever or just just to travel
in general, like where would your ideal like?

Speaker 3 (27:31):
You got to pick one of the three to travel
to our live because that's makes me difference, I don't know,
just pick one beach. We honestly and truly, Josh is
like hardcore on wanting to move to Florida, and it's
it's an everyday thing. He's like, have you found the
house yet? Are you ready to move yet? It's like
that's our goal. Like I think I'm gonna let my
kids stay here until they get out of high school,

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and then after.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
That beach too. I ain't going to the mountains that
mix me.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
I love the mountains and mounds are fine, but it's
only fine when we were up in Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Like, I'm like, I would move here summertimes really funy mountains.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
I mean it's not's a cold and it's beautiful weather,
like like seventy degrees on a good day.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
It is.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
But then like when you think about the mountains, if
you think about like winter, you think about snow and
snow too bad.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, yeah, fun stuff.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
I would never live in the mountains though, I don't think.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
I think I would probably choose the beach over the mountains.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
But it's a close, close, closer race.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah for me. I love them both, and it's the people.
If I had to choose to live somewhere I'm going south.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh yeah, the people are so different, it is, that's true.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
So if you've been to a big city, what which
is your favorite big city minus Chicago, which I haven't
been to.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Like, this is not dark, It is not fair but dirty.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
New York's fun to visit, but I would never live there.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
This is not fair because she's traveled more than any
of us. Oh yeah, for eight years, and she's given
us these questions. Yeah, I've been to like five states.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
I mean, come on, you've never been to a big
city like New Orleans.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean I've been in Austin, Texas, So I mean
that's a big city, right.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
I lived in New York is not nice. No offense
to anybody in New York. New York people are not nice.
New York is very dirty and they're freaking super rats.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Or the south of this damnable and there's trash bags everywhere.
Like it's a good place to visit.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
But yeah, yeah, visit it.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, we love Chicago. A lot of people talk down
about Chicago, but it was very clean, it was nice.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
We loved it. Like I feel like you said that
the crime rate.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
The crime rate is very bad in Chicago. But say that,
you just it's just certain areas that you cannot New Orleans. Yeah,
I mean there's a certain Every.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Big city has high crime.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Right Chicago the worst is beautiful. That is so clean,
like that is a nice city. Yeah, I would go
back there.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
But I feel like every.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Really in Vegas. We went to Vegas. Vegas was super clean.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
When we were it was I I was twenty one.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Every city has its ups and its sounds. But the
part of Chicago that we went to, even Vegas like,
it was clean.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
It was nice.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
I did not feel unsafe, Like I would have walked
the streets of Chicago at night time by myself and
not felt Yeah, when I have done that, seriously, would
not have felt unsafe at all.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Coming from the one that doesn't want to drive up a.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Bridge, that's different, Mallory, she would have not walked those
streets by herself.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I love Nashville too, That's the Mark.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Nashville was nice.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
See Mark is the type of person that does not
like big crowds, So that's probably why he doesn't want
to go to New York, Miami, California. But he absolutely
loved Nashville when we went. He said he would go
back there over Vegas.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Eric and Mark can go to the desert and we
can go to a city.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Eric's the same way. He doesn't like the crow.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
I will say a good destination that I want to
go to is the Keys for the teeth. Oh yeah,
that island.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Scott Back and her picchers were beautiful.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
They say Alligator Island is Show's.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Florida Keys and some of her trip destination thing.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's like Cribe Island on steroids.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
It is.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
So I've been stuck on the side of TikTok for
a while.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Okay, so do you overpack or underpack?

Speaker 3 (31:16):
I overpacked.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Everybody always overpacked if you're a woman.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, I overpacked ten I.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Tend suitcases trying to fagle. Okay, this's gotta go in
this bag. It's gotta go in this.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Gotta buy an extra rag.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Underpack from my kids though I don't know, I mean
they I don't realize how much clothes they go through,
because when we went camping way underpacked, my kids went
through ten pairs of underwear and four.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
A areal that I was packing thirty two outfits for
my kids for seven days.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
She's like, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (31:44):
She's like, Why do they need that much?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Because they go swim and they come back in and
clothes and lay it out the same clothes on one
one set a day.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
That's what we pack for. I don't overpack for my
kids at all, Like they have these outfits for these
days and it's all organize me. I don't know what
I want to wear, so it's just all going in
the suitcase.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Any hacks forgetting the cheapest flights are best deals I
recommend for flights Hopper. I really like the Hopper app.
It'll kind of tell you if you should go ahead
and buy, if you should wait a couple of days.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
If it's a good.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Rate, Hopper is good. But also private browser Google search
a flight and is going to tell you the exact
date to book your flight for the Chilis price. Yes,
they always use a private browser. Do not use your
regular browser. I did not, because if you're looking up
a flight and you continue looking up that flight, it's
just going to continue getting higher and higher. If attracts

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your cookies and it's going to So.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
How do you open a private browser?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Then here's your cookies?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, No, on Safari, you just click and when you
do private or.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I did not know you could do that. That's neat,
I'll say for booking like Airbnbs and stuff for condos,
I found that if you find a condo or a
house that you really like, look up the actual rental
agency that they use and go to their website and
book directly through the rental agency because you don't have
to pay all the extra fees.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yes, correct. And so say you do find a house
on Airbnb, like Ariel was saying, even if they don't
have like a rental agency, and it's like the actual
owner posting it, copy and paste the title of the place,
put it into Google, and nine times out of ten,
if it's listed somewhere, they're gonna have the same title

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for the house, like the same whatever the name of
it is, and it might come up on like a
separate website where you don't have all of those fees.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, and also use a travel agent for certain things
because they have to do you're not charging anything for it.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
And a lot of people don't realize that you don't
have to pay for a traveler.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, you don't have to pay for a travel agent.
And like for Disney World, for instance, if you go
and book Disney World right now, by yourself, you don't
have access to those fifty percent off kids tickets, you
don't have access to the twenty percent and off you know, stays,
you don't have access to those promos. Using a travel
agent gets you access to those promos to apply to

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whatever your stay. Maybe. And it's if you just want
to use a travel agent to book just literally book
that trip. You complain it yourself, like you don't have
to use them for everything. But I would just use
a travel agent because some travel agents can get you
deals that you can't find by yourself.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
No, I lost my place.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Sorry.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah, road trip versus flying? What's your preference and why
for me? If it's a short distance, I don't mind
her drive. But if it's like more than I don't know,
six hours or so, I'm going to try to fly
if I can.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Too.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
But then again, like I said, we're going to Disney
for Christenas for instance, it's a nine hour drive. The
flights were eighteen hundred dollars. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean
it's there's that's a no brainer right there. I mean
it's a simple drive, like we drove to see what
was it? Well? Last shared the year before. That's only
nine hours. I mean, I'm not Yeah, I'm not going
to fork out two thousand dollars just to fly. I mean,

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if the fights were super cheap yet. Now it's like
a two day drive. Yeah, we're going to California. Yeah, Yeah,
it's like a something like that. Yeah, we can easily.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
I'm on a good road trip with my husband sometimes. Yeah,
and a girl's trip would be fun. But with the kids,
I prefer to fly.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Yeah, I mean I don't.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
I mean, I don't believe it either. But also I
like driving at night, Like I'm leaving in the middle
of the night.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
I'll fall asleep. No, I'll ride and I ain't driving
at night. You gonna catch me sleeping.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
We tried that one year, leaving at like three or
four o'clock in the morning with the kids thinking that
there was sleep till like not earlier. No, they don't
go to sleep early enough.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
I know two am.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
So I want to back it up really quick to
a question earlier, a place that you would probably not
go to again, or a place that I didn't like.
When she said Tennessee a minute ago, ill it went off, y'all.
We went to Gatlinburg last year for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
No, that's year year before.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Sorry, it was like some of the things we did
was fun.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
The traffic was horrendous.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
It was honestly terrible because it was hot.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Yeah it was hot.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yes, it was in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Huh. And it probably super expensive because Branson and.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
And Gatlinburger exactly.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Yes, we've been to Branson three times and we've been
to Gatlinburg once and you're not going to catch me
at those places again just to go on a vacation. Now, sure,
if there's like an event we're going to like something
like that, you're sure I might go back, but just
for a vacation. You're not gonna catch me in Branson
and you're not gonna catch me in Gatlinburg. But so expensive,
it's price times four, Like it is just a touristy. Yes,

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it's a tourist town.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
And you can go to Disney World for the same Yeah,
you're not going to catch me there.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Like sorry, No matter what we did in Branson, I
know that I have a big family. It was five
hundred dollars a pop. Well, going to the little museum,
going to dinner, it was three to four hundred dollars,
but it was expensive.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Everything I did way overrated.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
It'd be fun for an adults. I'd say fun for
an adult trip with like fun just because you're sitting
in the cabin and you know, hanging out a hot tub,
that's part of it. That part of it, Yeah, that
part of it is just no fun. But just adults,
it's overrated in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
All right, how do you plan activities when traveling? Do
you wing it or do you map everything out?

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Wring it?

Speaker 4 (37:40):
I am a map it out person. I have to
know what we are doing, when we are doing it,
where we are doing it. I need everything planned before.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
And honestly depends on the trip too, because like on
the cruise, for instance, we had that stuff mapped out.
Because you're getting off that ship and you only have
a lot amount of time. You need to know what
you're doing. You need to know what time you need
to be back for that ship because if not, you're
getting left. They don't wait for you. But stuff like
that you have to have a map out. If you
go for the beach for the week, you know, going
to dinner at night, you don't have to map that out.

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You wing that. But if you're there's something like, you know,
the Dolphin Tour, any kind of like scourge and things
like that. Yeah, you play that out.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
I even Disney World. Now, last time we went to Disney,
it's been que a few years. We literally planted out
to a t like I have an itinerary because you're
one of those I am.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
I feel like you have to with Disney though you
get everything done.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Huh, I have to.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
I can't go to Disney. We need to bring the
kids again. I need to see you maybe for like
next fall.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
I think you've canceled two Disney trips.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Look my my allotted mount for you to cancel instead kidding.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
And then she was supposed to come with me and
about one year and we were supposed to go but
we didn't need canceled. But another time we never booked it. Oh,
I never booked it.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
I canceled the one year that her and Valerie was,
yes you did, I did not with me, Yes you did.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
That was the year I went with them. You knows
this growing.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yes, that was this past this past year. You should
just go with your dad. I was, I'm like, oh,
I know, because I'm just looking at.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
That last night Alm.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
We went somewhere else? Where did we go?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Where did we go?

Speaker 4 (39:23):
We went somewhere else?

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Did y'all go to Tennessee instead?

Speaker 3 (39:26):
No, this was like January we went, so we went
on the cruise in May instead of doing Disney in February.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yes, that's what it was. That's what it was because
you were gonna do it during Marty Gras.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yes, yeah, okay, Jenney Road.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
You do not need an itinerary. You can, but you don't.
If you don't want to itinerary and you want to
go with the float, hit me up you can. I'm
one of those people.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yeah, I'm the.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Type of person that like I'll look up things to
do in the area before we go and just have
a list. But we're like a day by day Okay,
wake up, what do we feel like doing today.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Off of this list?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Like I'm not like we have to be here at
eight am on this day. No, we don't do not that.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
Like at the beach a lot like that because now,
like we did the Dolphin tour, obviously you have to
book advance.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
We had that book.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
But the beach is kind of like probably one of
the only vacations that we're just more go with the flow. Yeah,
because like it might be writing in or it might
you know, like the kids might be super wore out
from the beach. But like if you're going somewhere and
there's like a lot of things to do and you
need a book in advance.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, anything you have to make a reservation for, you
kind of have to.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
I've learned a Disney World you have to take a
rest day because three or four days in a row,
waking up before eight or seven o'clock and getting back
between nine and eleven.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
It's very very When I say you plan out Disney,
I say, the only thing we plan out is that
rest day. You put it smacked up in the middle
of your trip. You plan out your reservations, and you
plan out your lightning lins. That's it, And you plan
out what time you're gonna be wrote.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Don't you have to plan what day you go to
each part?

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Too? Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:54):
I thought you had to pre schedule all that.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
So the way lightning lanes work now you do have
to pick your day. But you also don't have to
buy the lightning lanes if you don't want to.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
What's lightning lines?

Speaker 1 (41:05):
They don't have, gotcha?

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Okay? I was called multi pass.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
I know nothing about Disney World.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Do you prefer prefer Airbnbs or hotels?

Speaker 3 (41:17):
It really just depends.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
For this past trip, it took us an hour to
get out with the elevators an hour.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
In the condos. Oh yeah, that's because there's so many people.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Saying, oh, the kind of the elevators are broke down,
one working one.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
It just depends. Like if you're going somewheres and you're
only going for like a Friday, Saturday, coming back Sunday,
I'm going to do a hotel. No, it's a no brainer,
especially because we have a credit card that we use
that's a Hiatt Card, and if you travel a lot,
I highly suggest getting like one of a cards like
that because you get points and we most of the
time we stay in the hotel for free. No, if
it's something longer than that, we're definitely going to get.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Like an Airbnb or something like that has everything there
for you.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Yeah, we do. We've been doing more Airbnbs over hotels
like the past few years. For one, they have everything,
it's completely supplied, and two sometimes it comes out even
cheaper than a hotel and like you know, you're right there.
You literally your parking space is right there about the house.
You have the parking a parking lot and then walk

(42:19):
all the way our stuff up.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
We loved like restaurants when we were at the beach
just past week, and everything that we could just walk
to because it was just gonna be such a chore
to go.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
You had a ton of people, Yeah, nineteen people. Yeah,
but yeah, I would definitely say probably more Airbnb over hotel,
which you don't get me wrong, you know, if it's
like one night or something.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Well, uh, and my kids are wild, so having their
own space and not bothering anybody else.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I like that they can have their own bedrooms in
an airbnb. Like this past vacation, the kids had their
own bunk room. It was like six bunk beds. They
were all double beds, So they just went upstairs and
they were hanging out there making as much recket as
they wanted to, and we got to chill downstairs.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
It's nice who is the mom of the group when
you travel. Chelsea's probably more of the mom.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I am a mom, but I don't have itineraries.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Just kidding.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
You just make sure everybody like you're sending links. Hey,
this is what y'all need to get like making sure
everybody's got are you packed?

Speaker 4 (43:21):
You know, always has notes on her phonees what we need.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yeah, the cruise I did.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
I had it packed out like the Mountain clothes my
kids needed. What I needed to be off Amazon?

Speaker 4 (43:31):
What do I need?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Thank gosh, because my kids weren't gonna have no clothes
went off on my list.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
And I'm telling you that organization, the little magnet hook
was the best thing I ever bought.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Uh, what is the most extra
thing you've packed?

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Just in case.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Two fans?

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Most extra? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
I'm kind of stuck on that one too. Yeah, I'll
bring everything. I'm over pracking.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
If I'm going somewhere for three days and I'm bringing
like sixteen pairs of Underworths, because what if you shit yourself,
you don't know, you don't know what's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
Yeah, I mean, while my.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Husband's bring two pairs.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Yeah, Josh, they are. Have we ever had a vacation
that didn't go as planned? Yes? Yeah, trying to think
of a certain one who went.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
To Tennessee a couple of years ago, and that was
when Tennessee had the really bad really really really bad
ice storm, snowstorm, and we got to the mountains that
night and we're sitting there and then the news is
coming on. I'm like, Josh, well you need to go
to the grocery store and get some more food because
I don't think we're gonna have enough. That next morning
we wake up it was negative one degrease. It had
already snowed. We couldn't get out that day. We had

(44:51):
a snow tube in session later that afternoon. They would
not refund me my money. We had to go. When
I tell y'all, we almost got hyperthermia frostspite on that mountain.
But we went, and we snowed too, about three times.
Poor Charlie snot was frozen down her face.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
We left, went back.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
We got stuck in the cabin for three days after that.
On a Christmas Day, we had rolling blackouts. We had
our pipes froze. The guy came him and Josh have
a torch trying to unfreeze the pipes under the thing. Well,
what happened was down the road and then busted. Say
then we were without water for three days. We were
taking water out of the hot tub to flush the toilets.

(45:27):
We see, we were taking our kids bath with on
the stove. We had a gas stove luckily bold water
and took my kid's bath. I didn't take a bath
for those couple of days. It was literally like a
freaking king in a freight or something. Then the jobs
is like, get our money back, we're going home, and
I'm like, by the time then like the the it

(45:49):
was got like fifteen degrees, twenty degrees, get a little higher.
The roads were starting to get back a little bit better,
and I was like, just fuck it, We're just gonna
stay the next three days. What we did the most
out of those three days that we went home with
Josh say we're never coming here again. We went way back.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
I remember that we were working in South Carolina because
we were gonna come meet up with y'all. But then
we were like we can't.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Oh, I'm telling y'all, it was so bad on that mountain.
It was negative thirteen and the wind was kicking, so
it was it was miserable. Josh stayed inside with Whitley
because she was only one at that time. She wasn't
even one yet. We were leaving the day before her birthday.
It it was so bad, Like, I'm so glad Josh,
I said, Joshua the store of the night to get
more food because we literally would have been scavengers. And

(46:31):
I think you win Kelsey and you're in the water
out of the hot tub because Josh was like, I
gotta take a shit.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I'm like, wait, I have no electricity.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
What do you mean.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
He's like, well, go get some water on the hot tub.
I said, I'm not. I said you can't. So we
were jumping it in the back.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
I think our worst experience that I can remember was
so we worked up north in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty,
we made a trip to Minnesota to the Mall of America. Well,
Josh had a a two wheel drive truck of four
f one fifty and it was Josh, my uncle, Bull, me, Ella,

(47:08):
and Ebb in the truck and we're traveling from North
Dakota to Minnesota and a blizzard came through. They said
it was like one of the worst blizzards that they've
had in like years. Y'all. I knew we were dying
that night. Like I did not think we were making
it to Minnesota. When I tell you, the snow.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Was so bad.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
We were all over the road and like, josh can
we just pull over and get a hotel? And he
was like, we can't. Like everybody's out of power, like
we are. We gotta go, we gotta get there. He's like,
we got to get out of us. I like my
life flashed before my eyes quite a few times. And
then one particular moment, we're trying to go up a bridge.

(47:50):
Obviously we can't make it up and we're just sliding
back down.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
How did you get that part of our trip? Because
today that it reached snow, that we did the same,
He's I think ours was so steeping the mountain. That's
why when me and Jackson went, I texted people, I'm like,
is it steep? Like is it hard to get up?
If it starts it decides to snow, Because I said Joshua,
he's watching the car try and go snow. Trucks are
like behind us, let's go on the front, and he's like,

(48:14):
we got it, we got it, we got it. My
full my little Tahoe ain't no fool will drive. He's
got pedalton that on. My kids just screaming in the back,
and I'm saying my hell, Mary and he's like, just
where did tracks control? Because we're freaking we made it,
by the grace of God. When we got out, I
literally was like, fuck, what the hell was.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Pissed on the ground.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
Yeah, I literally I don't know how we made it
through that, because I'm telling y'all, we were coming back
down that bridge and like we were going off of
a cloth, literally, and I was like.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
And it was dark too.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Official, don't go to the mountains in the winter, that's
what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
I'm telling you all. That freaking snowstorm was so bad.
It was bad. That was when it got down to
like the twenties. I never experienced anything like that to
the twenties, I would say.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
The only thing was when we went camping not too
long ago. That's probably the worst thing ever that I've experienced.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
So that was there was.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
No water, no water for the most two days, and
then we once we finally got water up losing power.
But that wasn't as bad, but we made the most
of it. Yeah, that wasn't really we were camping.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
We were lamdaking.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, really, can't we're camping anyway.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
It wasn't that big of so that was the worst
I've ever experienced that. I'm doing real good.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Yeah, that's not bad. I don't have any horrible ones.
I right after college, I was dating a guy and
he booked a condo in Florida and he drove through
a freaking hurricane to get us there because he couldn't
get his money back. So we went and vacationed in
Florida during a hurricane and we could not leave the
condo the entire time. But that's like the worst.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Yeah, So what is you all favorite thing about coming
home from a trip?

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Nothing, I don't want to come home.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Maybe my bed, but in my cats.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Yeah, missing the animals every time we go on a vacation.
Like Joshua me looking on Zillow.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
All right, I think everything's better than Louis Like, no,
unlet's move over there, back every place you go, let's
move here, Like could you just see us living here?

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Like that's so it's telling Eric.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
I was like, this cabin's only six hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Literally, let's see our kids can go to school right there.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Like in Rotin, I was.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Telling Jopson, like, man, we got back on the ship.
I was like, could you imagine our kids going to
school with all them little kids, and then you know
we're living on the side of the village, just with
the village. People like Mark looked up what are those?

Speaker 1 (50:32):
So it's not like the season passes at Disney World's
the other thing annual. No, it's something else. It's something
that costs like thirty thousand dollars a year. Yes, I
should have.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
We should have. We should have wanted the trigger when
the guy quoted me my twenty eight thousand dollars because
by now I've already spent much.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Twenty is like a timeshare.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
No, it's no, it's you buy a point. Yeah, you
buy points, and you can purchase them from different resorts.
Most of them are the luxury sorts, like for instance,
we looked into ringing DVC points for our Christmas day.
The guy had one hundred and twenty three points to
offer me for that thing, and it was twenty dollars
per point. So he can rent them out for however
much he wants to. But it's an investment pretty much, and.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
You you own it.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
It's like indeed, you own that, and you when you die,
you have to put it in your will of who.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Is going to get so it never goes away.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
It never goes away.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
So it's a one time sort of like a timeshare,
but not really.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
It's a one time payment like ours was like twenty
eight thousand, two hundred and something. When the guy had
to code of me. He took a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
Oh, I don't know. I thought it was like every
year you pay that amount you have.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
There have there's fee, you have a fee you have
to pay every year, but you you purchase however many
points you want. So if you're thinking about like a
seven nights day, you know once a year you would
purchase one hundred about one hundred and twenty twenty. Yeah,
and so it never runs out, like how does that?

Speaker 4 (51:55):
It renews every year, but you have fee you have
to pay every year.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
What if somebody doesn't want it? Though, when you.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Die, you have to sell it.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
That's a commitment. It goes all the time, but committed.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
But you can also you also are able to rent
those points out, like there's you can you can run
them out and you if you don't want to go
that year, you rent those points out and you're still
getting you're still getting to.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Pay for it.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
There's a whole website you can go to just to
rent DBC points, so if you didn't want to use
them that year, you could just list yours.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
There and other people can actually crack down though this year,
because some people just buy into it, just turn it
out and re up that price and do it. And
they Disney cracked own part this year pretty much because
you can just you can.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
Yeah, but I mean as long as you go sometimes
you could still run them out sometimes too. It's worth
it if you're going.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
To go, if you're going to go all the time. Yeah, yeah,
at least once a year. I would love to have
an annual pass. I just can't bring myself to.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
We just need to move to Florida and then it's cheap.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Madison, you just got a Florida license?

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Can we do it?

Speaker 4 (52:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Mark, she goes job Florida and they offered us to
like some of the workers there or whatever. Because Mark
even has like a license plate for Florida and some
people that lived in Florida that he met there. You
can't do it. They are so strict about it.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
You can't even have like, say, your grandma lives in Florida,
you can't even use her license to buy you. When
she gets to that gate, you're going they're going to ask.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
For that Florida license.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
I was just saying, using.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
A Florida resident, which makes sense.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
That's why Josh wanted to buy a piece of very
small piece of land.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
Somewhere in Florida.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
It doesn't matter where your license change.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
Yeah, I wonder how much their car insurances. I wonder
if it's cheaper than I would.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Probably you will never see me.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
I'd be a Disney all the time. Speaking of Disney,
we're doing a twenty four hour.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Trip, so we are.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
That'll be fun in September and.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Ariel is coming to I'm going to talk to a
because I don't see that happening. You're going not even
a lie.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
I can understand that about the kids.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
Yeah, well, y'all, that is a wrap for all of
our travels. We hope y'all tune into our Patreon for
the full videos of our girls trip. That will be
the only platform that'll have like all of the full videos.
So I'll definitely tune in if y'all want a little
peek into the Girls trip. It'd be fun and exciting

(54:18):
and wild. Yes, we can't wait for it.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
And you don't want to miss it.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Yeah, until next time, guys.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
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