July 29, 2024 • 48 mins
Jana is back from her wedding in Scotland and she's ready to recap every magical moment! Allan joins the ladies to take us through the chaotic travel, the beautiful setting, and everything in between!
You won't believe what went wrong... and what went right! We're walking down the Whine Down aisle for Jana's wedding recap!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wind Down with Janet Kramer and iHeart Radio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hi we're back. Wah wah wah.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We've got a mouthfi depression.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
One million percent.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It's kind of like a I was telling you on
the plane, where it just feels it was so much anticipation,
you know, the wedding and the honeymoon and and just
I mean all of it, and then so then when
it's just done, it just feels kind of like in
a way and not not depressed, but just like a bummer.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But it's all done.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Yeah, and then we'll come back to clothes. Yes, four
or five days as well, which doesn't help, No, not
at all.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
It's been so cloudy and I mean the sun is
not peaked out yet in like five days. So it's
just adding to the jet lag the tiredness. And we
haven't really been able to connect from being back either.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
No, I've went from spending every single minute with each
other too, arrived back with the kids to deal with
romans jet like.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He's new tooth coming through.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
And I was in Chicago yesterday, So I feel like
I've not seen you for four days.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I mean, we really haven't because we've been so tired too.
By the time we go to bed, it's eight o'clock
and we're like, we're exhausted, and just you know, unpacking
everything and just getting trying to get back into the
rhythm of things has been I think a little difficult.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
For real least.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, And there's also so I think I mentioned that
when we were in Italy that you know, when you
go somewhere and then you're in it, so you sometimes
don't appreciate it or and then when you come back
you think, but you think back and you reflect, you
think that was so special. I think this has been
even more difficult because we realized during the honeymoon how
(02:08):
incredible and special a place it wasn't how incredible a time.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was together.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah, So I think the anticiap it's not even.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I don't want to call it.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's like a cloud the word depression, yeah, either because
it's a strong word. Yeah, but that cloud. Now that
we're okay, we've had to leave that special place in
our special honeymoon and reality jetlag, screaming kids, teething problems,
but it was the most amazing experience ever.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
No, I mean it's true though, what you said, because
I feel like a lot of times. And I know
in past trips that I've taken, I don't really soak
it in, but I mean every moment was soaked in.
It was and we were grateful for every moment, every meal,
every every piece of every piece of the cacha, every
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you know, I mean the gelato. I still I mean
the amount of sounds that I made eating the food,
Like last week, if I.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Could have put gelato on for caca, well it's with
some pasta on.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I know, it's it's crazy too because the food there
I'm not eat pretty we both eat very good. I'm
pretty much gluten free, pretty much dairy free minus like
the random you know, cheat days. But in Italy I
was like, you know, I'm just I'm not going to care.
I'm just going to eat whatever I want to eat.
And it's totally fine. How I came back five pounds
(03:47):
less because fills. I know that's I want to move
to Italy now because of that, because I've never enjoyed
my life more eating all those carbs. I mean, we
had we had bread at every meal, with pasta, with
pizza with the katcha, then followed by ice cream, and
I had the flattest stomach ever, and I was happy
eating all that food. It's crazy and I come back
(04:10):
here and I'm like, I'm my gut hurts again. I've
had skin problems like my two weeks away did like
wonders for my just everything.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, we've Capri and a maufy coast must be one
of the most famous locations for fresh food in the
quality of food.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Italy in general with food and wine is world renowned,
doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
But that particular part of the country is like it's
almost on like a different level from anything else in
terms of how special it is and the quality of everything,
like even like the color of the ocean, like and
how it contrasts with the cliffs. And it's just the
whole place is the whole place is just like heaven
on Earth.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And I think that's why. I mean, you've known me
for a couple of years now, When have I ever
wanted to stay longer on a trip? Usually it's how
soon can we get out?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
How can we change our flight to get away earlier?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Normally what you do always because I want to get
back to the kids, or I want to take the
earlier flight, or I just want to get out and
I wanted to stay.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I mean I was crying.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Cried the night before, You cried on the boat the Naples,
you cried on the transfer to the airport.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You try you cry in the airport.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Because it was truly the most magical special time spent
with you. I mean it was a week of just
soaking up every of everything and just having such I
mean we had the most beautiful time personally together too,
just all the laughs we had and just the connection.
And I don't think there was one thing like, Okay,
(05:48):
so let's well, we'll we'll chat with because the girls
are going to come burst this wedding post wedding suite
in a little bit a few minutes actually, so I
guess before they come, what's like a moment for you
that was the most special.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The most special moment. So there's a couple. But I
for I have to really.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
If I really to define the whole trip, Like I
knew the first hotel in Ravelo, the Belmont Curuso. I
knew that it's sitting at the infinity Pool where you
can you almost feel that you're in the mountains, but
you can see the ocean and you're so high up.
I can't remember. I can't remember how many thousand feet
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up were, but it's almost but it's almost like it
gives you the peace and tranquility just to reflect and
plan ahead. And that's not very often, I know what
I'm like, I'm always going from one thing to the next.
But it was almost like I could sit there and
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capture the mountains and capture the ocean, capture a vision
of the rest of our lives together. So for me
being able to have that vision every day at the
pool and just like and I knew I would reflect
on that. Okay, we were in the boat and we
were in the ocean, and we jumped in the ocean,
and as incredible as it was, but being that high
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and having the mountains in the ocean, just being able
to like, okay, I can actually see the future.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I can't see the future, but.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I was like, tell me more, what's happening in our future?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
But that that was like a really special moment. And
then there was times where we would share those moments together,
on times where you would go on your own and
look at the the view and I would go on
my own. And so I think for me that that
vision of the mountains and the ocean together being so
high up was and you need to people listen to
this and be like, well, I don't understand what it means.
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You have to be there to experience it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's almost like when I was in Ireland at the
Cliffs of Moair, it was like, you can't A picture
doesn't do an injustice. Like we can show a photo
of this beautiful scenery that we're talking about, but to
feel what we felt there, it's like you have to
just be there to see it, you know. That's how
always say too, Like when I talk about the cliffs,
I'm like, it's the most magical thing. Like it's like
(08:19):
a photo. Pictures don't do it justice. Like evenh we
were taking photos, we kept saying, this just doesn't do
it justice. Like take look at our photos on Instagram
and then multiply it by a million, and that's like
how it is there.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, I hear you, and yours.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
For the honeymoon, I would say, I.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Thought we were only talking about the honeymoon.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's okay, you know, I mean, yeah, well
we've kind of gone backwards, but we'll go We'll start
the wedding recap with when the girls come. But for
the honeymoon, I I mean, I definitely agree with you.
Just staring out and having so many moments where I
just kept saying thank you, thank you to God, thank
(09:01):
you to my Grandpa's thank you to just like how
life has changed in a way that I never thought
it would and how beautiful life is. And it's just
I just kept being just so many moments of thankfulness.
Just I just kept saying thank you over and over,
like thank you for this, like thank you for this
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road that I would have never even known was a
possible road to walk down. So I think those moments
were just really like beautiful. And then to have you
walking down those roads with me, you know, it's just
like it's just a I don't know, it just was
like a very sentimental yet and then having this experience.
(09:42):
I've never had a honeymoon. We've got to experience this
together and it's just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, so the wedding, what was your favorite moment?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I feel like we need the girls to kind of
recap everything first and then I'll tell my favorite moment
from there because it was not as expected. You know what,
why don't we just take a break and then we'll get.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The girls on. Okay, the girls are here.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
We so we were just talking about the honeymoon and
just kind of how we've come back and it's been
really gloomy here. It's been hard to kind of get
in the the rhythm of jet lag, wanting to sleep
all day, wanting to know not or not being able
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to sleep, Like, isn't that it's gloomy?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And ye waking up at like the.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Tan Russells are here Italian sun Kissed Russells party too. Well,
that's what we were saying. I'm like, I've I want
to go back to Italy, like yesterday it was the
most magical time we've ever ever ever, So should we
recap the rest of the honeymoon or should we.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Start from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Well, it depends for the girls want to hear about
the honeymoon or not.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Well. I actually facetimed in on the honeymoon, you too,
I did. I felt like we all lived together for
like four days and it was like ooh, I just
felt like very like college, and all of a sudden,
everybody went their own way and I was like, well,
this doesn't feel cozy, And I was like, Hi, what
you doing? And where was I laying in a chair
looking gorgeous in the sun. It was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Face colored and for catcha crumbs.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yes, all right, so then we'll just start with the
honeymoon then, so for those that because they wanted to know,
you know, where we went. So we went to Ravello.
So I originally really wanted to do post Aitana because
I under the Tescan Son is one of my favorite movies.
I wanted to do Tescany in Positano, and uh, we start.
(12:06):
I've never worked with the travel agent before, but we
got her information and I'm like, you know what, we
should probably hire someone because I don't know anything or
like what that area and you were we weren't really.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Like not being testly, but I've never been to Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
We just wanted someone that had like the knowledge of
where we were going. And she was like, you do
not want to go to post Aitana in July. And
I'm so glad that we talked to her because we
almost booked six nights in Postana. Remember, there was like, oh,
there's a honeymoon, sweet deal. I'm just going to book
it at this hotel thing. It was called Hotel Poseidon
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and She's like, if you want something relaxing, you do
not want to go to Postana. It's hot, there's a
ton of people, and I'm like, everyone says how much
they love it though, And then we.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Went and we had also a bit strange.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
We are so strange, intend not to like the things
that everyone else likes.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
But the fact that we both are the same is great.
That's what we said over pizza.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So you like a lot of people, No, that's I
think where they're going. They did not like a lot
of people.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
We went to Positive Tunnel, so the Mouthi Coast, the
most famous part of their Maufi Coast is probably Positive
Tunnel degree.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I agree, well, my knowledge of it.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
The most widely recognized place. Millions of people.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Either we go there and we're like, we say to
the driver, okay, well give us two hours and we'll
be back. We got there, I hadn't even driven through it,
like we might be back here in forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I instantly felt my throat clothes. When we got out
of the car.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I was like, so are you going to stay here
in this area because there's just people everywhere, right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
But it's so steep for the he crowded, and so.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I knew that once we're going down, we're going to
have to come up with all these people too. And
I mean there's just and it was hot. It was
like one hundred degrees and so and you're in these
like crowded little streets going down and I'm like, I
just thinking we're going to have to go up and
this is not going to be good. And he even
looked at me and he was like, are you okay?
Are you are you feeling claustrophobic? But I didn't want
to say yes, even though my whole body was.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Like the telltale sign was Our plan was okay, go
walk around for a little bit, get a pizza, and
then go back. We got we got to the pizza
restaurant and she's like, can we get this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
To go.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Just calmed down by the ocean. But even then it
wasn't like we were looking onto the ocean.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It was so crowded.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, you know when you see those images from like
of beaches in the fifties and sixties and they're just
rammed with people, And that's what that's what it was like,
wasn't it. Yeah, it was almost like a step back
in time. With this, loads and loads of people in
a small area. But we had we stayed strong.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Instant, we did it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We had a pizza and we walked back.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And he only returned the pizza once for too much cheese.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
As much as say, how do you even eat pizza?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's a huge tomato fan too, right, so like, oh
you do? So do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Put?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Like the tint but of mozzarella?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
She would. I took a video and you'll say there's
some zero's on that. The guy's like less and I'm
like he means less, like like nothing, Just put like
one literally.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
To make it an official pizza. So one little shred.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
But we stayed in Ravello for three nights and it
was the biggest blessing because it was so peaceful and quiet,
and the little town in Ravela was adorable. We would
walk down there and get gelato and it was just
it was not swarmed with a bunch of people. You
can still go to post Atano and do all those
things on a day trip if you want, but I'm
glad that we did not stay there. How far is
the drive if you do that, like ai ftew minutes?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh okay, okay, yeah, So it's like, I have a
drive is geographical reference in my brain? Wear anything crazy?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, and you're going to want to hire a car? Yeah, yeah,
because there's just I wanted to take a scooter.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
O god, that would have been amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Desk and he said no, and I'm we actually met
someone in Capri that their scooter brakes didn't work, and
so she was all red, like, I mean he fell off.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's too terrifying. Yeah, and he's like, thank goodness. My
wife was like yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
So then we left Ravello. We did a boat trip
from Ravello to Capri as they call it, and that
was a magical day. And it was funny because what
was the first thing he said, got on the boat?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Are there any shot about our driver? Say yes, make
oh lord joined and it's like a welcome aboard on
the way he did me too obvious.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Otherwise it was pretty funny that we said it. He's like,
should you thank Mike for driving us around? But the
boat trip was so beautiful. We went just you two
on the boat. It was just us too. He took
us around to just different caves and.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Hey, are you guys, I forget this? Are you big?
Like water ocean people? Like in the water. Like I'm
a solid beach goer and I love to be on
a boat and look at water, but I don't like
to be in.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I will jump in the middle of the ocean. Okay,
he was more, I will jump in at the course.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I don't like. I don't like not knowing what's underneath me.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Same human Okay, I wondered.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I jumped on the course of the courst.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
And where we differ as I had a noodle because
I'm not the.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Strongest swimming in the middle of the with a night
that I was going to be my next question.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They call it posita because it is Italy.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yeah, but there was one place I didn't use the
noodle in that beach club because no one else was
and I was like, well, I can't be the.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Only one ten feet from the rocks.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
True. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
But we got to Capri and that was it. We
had to we had to switch our mindset a little
bit because it was a different vibe.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Hotel was beautiful, Yeah, lovely, this little small boutique. It
was like if Ralph Laurn made the hotel.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, super cute.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Our room, though, was above a public beach, so like
you can hear kids screaming from like in your room.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So it's just like you had. I had to go
a little taste at home.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
But I had a little moment of like, oh wait, wait,
this is not peaceful to me.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And we had a little tell us what those eyebrows me?
And Alan? I want to hear his version. Yeah, I
mean I almost feel like we need a little Alan
Russell run down something good.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
But I think it'd been edited until that point. And
we were in a tranquil spot in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I mean the mouse tranquill.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
And we didn't know that Capria was going to be
slightly different, although very classy and and nice. But the
beach and to be fair, the first night was the
noisiest night.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
But I mean we have a balcony on the beach
and at ten thirty at night, they're having a party
at the beach and so it just wasn't we can't
we couldn't even use our balcony because it was just
it was so loud. It was was not relaxing.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
So it'd be polite, yeah, I mean, you just didn't
feel at peace. So we were thinking, did we change hotels?
We did we do this that? But we I wasn't
too bothered by it, but you were more bothered than
I was. But we managed to come to a solution
where we blocked out the noise.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And we stayed.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, because the last thing I want to do is move.
I just had to change my mindset.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Well. Also, like I would say this objectively, and I
think a lot of people listening would feel this way,
like you've planned this like once in a lifetime trip
and you're.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Spending a lot of money ocean balcony view that I'm
not now using because it's so loud and crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I had a similar experience when we checked into our
hotel at Scotland. Actually, oh really yeah, okay, I had
a moment uh huh where I was like, no, no, no, no,
this is one in the lifetime right right, yeah, so
you can kind of see, yeah, I'm like, this is
not what was described.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Sure, and I might have changed a room or had
a different room if it was like if I knew
it was right above a public beach. And now that
I looked at reviews, I'm not the only one. I
had an issue with that room.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Okay, anyway, and really it wasn't an issue. No. The
next two nights will actually fairly quiet, and we relaxed.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Then I just had to change my mindset to going, Okay,
now we're in a different place, it's a little more lively,
and let's go out and let's you know, because like
when are we really in the rooms anyways? Minus So
I'm like, Okay, instead of going back to the room
and having a chill, let's go out and get a
drink in town or let you know. So it's like,
let's change the vibe, which we did and we we
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rocked it with that, and I fell in love.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
With Capri and the hotel was amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
They were so sweet. Yeah yeah, and ended up and
I would go back there with the different.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Room pretty sure. The stuff he is, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Sure if you're welcome back, but you wouldn't go back
and wait, there are other different rooms that aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
There's like farther away rooms from the actual and it
was a private on the beach with their higher so
like the rooms would be little. So we're like right there,
got it, that makes sense, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Like it's there's a.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Higher room a little bit more over where there's not
as much.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Noise, just a lively public beach. Yeah, interesting until late right,
that's Grandma's do you agree with that?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Changes and put us into the penthouse. But our room
was actually better than the penthouse. So we're like, no,
we'll leave it. Yeah, but she can put your plugs in,
we'll be good.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I did, and I did. I put my air plugs in.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So I think having said all of that, it was
like so beautiful. I tried to stay longer you did.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I did.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I called the airlines to see and they were like
that I know, that's what I was saying.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I know, I'm a little shot.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Thought.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
When all the flight stuff was happening, I was like,
she changed her flight sooner, that's what you usually did.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Tried and they're like it will be this much, and
I was like no, so and then we almost missed
our flight or we still don't have our bags, but it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Was still don't know no, wow.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
No, I did go get in a razor because finally
I was like, I have to shave. It's been no
a week.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
That's amazing. So did you ever have your bags? We did.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So the problem was is we went from Naples to
oh sorry we were We had to stop because we
had to go obviously, go pick up the meatball. So
this is one of the questions on Instagram is howd
the kids get home? So Jolie and Jase flew with my.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Heard the kids go home.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's a fair.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Question, Okay, so some people really like logistics. Yeah, and
I logistically handled it well. So I flew because we
knew we wanted to go to Italy post but we
didn't want to have to all fly back to then
fly back. So we had Joli and Jase fly home
with my dad and his wife, and then they spent
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some time in Michigan. I then flew Mike up to
Michigan to get the kids. A few days later. Mike
then flew them back and then Roman stayed in Scotland
with Alan's mom and dad, and so we had to
then after Italy go back to Glasgow to go pick
up via Frankfurt and Edinburgh. So at Edinburgh I learned
(24:01):
the same Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So we've all are just Edinburgh corrected American this wedding Edinburgh. Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So then we were leaving h Naples and it's a
matt house at that Naples airport.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's so many people, it was so small.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
They were lovely though, because I was that frantic person
every time it kept getting delayed. I'm like, we have
a connection and it's not that long. Do you think
we'll make it. She's like, you'll be fine, You'll be fine, Like,
you'll be absolutely fine. And then it delayed even more
and she's like, you're not gonna make it, You're fine,
And I'm like, because at this point I knew there
was then now no options to get home. It was
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going to be like Thursday or Friday to get us
on like and it would be like a massive change
because it's some different airlines or whatever. So we would
have had to it would have been it would have
been crazy. Anyways, So we land and the I will
say the fledgends were lovely in Frankfurt because they knew
that we had we were the only ones that had
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that the type the connection. Yeah, So we landed in
Frankfort at the time our other flight was taking off.
And at this point I've already processed where we've missed it,
and I've already processed that we're going to most likely
have to take a flight to where.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
At this point you've deviated to wolst case scenarios.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, because the flight was taking off was always a chance.
Come on, you knew that flight no no before this though,
like we knew we were taking off and it was
still on time.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
But the captain dead states is, don't make any assumptions
until we get on the air and we can update you.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Right that captain should write as if is going to listen,
don't make any assumption.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Other flight was still on time, and he said the
flight our time is going to be this many hours.
So we were landing at the time our other flight
was taking off. So would you not assume you're going
to miss that flight?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I feel.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
If I thought we were going to miss a flight,
I wouldn't have sprinted Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Well obviously because it went okay.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Anyways, so we're having a couples intensive. Well yeah, because
I'm like, we clearly had missed we were missing that flight.
So I had already processed we're missing that flight. The
only there was like two options. We either got a
flight from from Frankfort to Manchester was that it, and
then drive to Scotland, getting in at like two am,
then getting the meatball and then getting on our eight
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am eight thirty flight.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I traveled the same way though, like I would rather
just go Okay, if it happens, we have a plan,
and if we can catch it, excellent, But most likely
my brain was like there's no possible way, right, Like
we are literally landing when it takes off. So while
we're taking off, we get a notification that our flight
is thirty minutes delayed, and I'm like, I've already in
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my brain again processed I've missed this flight. Don't do
this to me, because the worst feeling.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
In the world is running to an airplane gate and
then you're seeing your plane and telling and then them
telling you you can't get on, like then having that
feeling of like missing that flight, I was just like
I don't I don't want to, Like, I just I
can't deal with that. So when we landed in Frankfurt,
the sweet guy and girl that were like, hey, so
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your plane has not taken off yet and they haven't
started boarding yet, so run and we I could have
like split up blood I ran.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I was so out of shape that too, like eating pizza,
car overload, like gelato, really regretting a lot of those choices.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I stopped and was like I'm in a puke and
we ran and we made it, but our bags didn't.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Love story shortcase, so that's that suitcases didn't.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
But long story short and made the flight and that's
the logistics. We got meatball then when and then went
from Glasgow to London, London then too Nashville. So we've
made it home. But how about we take a break
and then let's start from the beginning. Okay, So where
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do we even start?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, probably the.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Travel too, Yeah, okay, because no one knows that piece
of it. So I was telling my therapist the other day.
I was like, what part do you want to hear first,
the good or the bad?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
What did she say?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
She was like, I want to hear it all, and
I want you to share as much as you want
to share.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Response.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It's a great theramist, tell me more and because we
know too. Like when I was talking to her, I said,
one of my biggest things was, you know, I just
I want it to be perfect and I'm afraid and like,
what if people get sick or.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know, what if they do? Cramer, what if they do?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
And so but I was like, I'm they're fine, I'm
I've you know, I got pumped with IV's a couple
of times I've been filling the kids up with stuff
like everything's going to be great. The flight was seamless,
they were amazing. A last minute I upgraded and I'm
so glad we did. It just made me feel better
and everyone got to sleep. The kiddos slept great, Romans slept.
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We did not, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
And then we land in Scotland and I'm not again,
I will not. This is not your this is not
your dad's fault. I'm just going to start.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I'm going to start nothing. No, nothing starts a healthy argument,
quite like, I just want to say at all.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I just want to say it's not though, because it's not.
It wasn't solely him that was coughing. There was people coughing.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
On I mean a lot of people cough.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
There was a lot of people coughing on the airplane
to exactly Glasgo. There was a lot of people coughing
at the airport waiting like that one lady that was like, Joelie,
please go stand over there because I'm like, and I'm
very conscious of a cough right because i just don't
want the kids to get sick at this point, because
I've done such a good job trying to keep everyone.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Healthy, conscious of power, anod both.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Equally equally will own. So we.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Sendy just a lot of people cough they do like
they exactly a lot of people is a human thing. Yes,
and your dad does cough a lot like I feel
like old older people, like they have a lingering cough
all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He does, right, for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, there was a little something different to this coough
when I got into the car, so we had a
little Europeans don't believe in big cars, so we had
to take two cars to your parents' house or to
the where we were, to your aunt's house where we
were staying, and there was you know, we're just having
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some delays or whatever. So I was like, well, I
got to go home and feed, I got to go
get roman fed. And everyone just kind of situated. So
why don't I take the kids with your dad when
some of the luggage and then you meet us there.
So then we take it the thirty minute trip with
your dad and he is, i mean hawking up along
and I was just like, oh, Julie, did you say
it's hot in here?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Honey?
Speaker 4 (31:31):
So I'm like just like and in my mind I
was like, oh, dear God, please know. Like, but then
I'm thinking it's fine, it's all good. And then your
dad says that he has a fever like the next day,
and again, I'm not putting this on your dad whatsoever,
because I think there are so many chances that they
could have gotten it from anybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Having said that, the next.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Day, I heard it from Jolie and I was like, oh,
here we go. And then one hundred and four fevers later,
all three kids were sick. Yeah, and uh with they
had croup and COVID.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
COVID.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Well, my dad tested positive and my mom after they
were with the kids, so I'm pretty sure it was COVID.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh they both got Wow. So I'm pretty sure. So everyone,
And how are you feeling, Katie?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I feel great, and I does negative and I feel excited. Okay,
So it was the I mean, I will say here
and this is what I kind of told my therapist.
I said, as I look back, it was the kids
were coming in in the middle of the night, suffering
to breathe because they had that croup, wheezing. We were
able to just get some of the things that we
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knew that we needed for them.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
You got creative we got.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Creative with getting some things like I knew they needed
like albutle and hailers and all that and some antibiotics
and but it it was difficult because you know, they
were sick, and a piece of me was I still
wanted them to make awesome memories. So when we went
to that one castle, I mean, they were running one
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hundred and three fevers, but we you know, gave them.
We were rotating between tyle and hall and motrin, and
when they were feeling up to it, I'm like, and
their fevers broke for a few hours. I was like,
all right, let's go, and they wanted to you know,
like there was moments of times when they.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Well there's nothing, That's what I said to you, there's
nothing that would have really changed. They just said it
not feeling as good as they should have felt.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I know, but that broke my heart. Is like it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Stolen Castle has been quarantined for two weeks now, no
one else has been allowed.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Then is that true?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
It's been quarantined stolen Castle?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Oh stop it. Like I didn't even understand that one
right now. I fell for it.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
No, But I mean, like I still like got them
out because I just when they were still you know,
they they wanted to too, Like we didn't go to
Edinburgh with you guys because I was like that would
be too much of a journey for them feeling sick.
I always think, is Yeah, So like, you know, we
did the zoo thing, which we were in the car for
and you know, we weren't around a bunch of people,
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and the Stirling Castle was outside, and so we did
things that and that was the day they were really bad.
Was that Wednesday? Uh but and then Thursday, but I
mean all three of them. And Thursday that's when Roman
spiked his really high fever of one of four. And
it was just that piece was so stressful and I
regret at that moment not having help because it was
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just us and in the middle of the night, you know,
it's I'm wanting all of us to get sleep, and
now I'm not getting sleep because now I have anxiety
that I'm going to get sick and I'm going to
be sick for the big wedding day and then the honeymoon.
And so I then became like this insomniac for the
rest of the vacation because I just would wake up
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with anxiety and then like a pool of sweat that
one morning. That one night I asked a like, I
need to go because I took ivermect him.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You took I woke up.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I was like, I was like clammy and sweating like profusely.
I was like in a puddle. I don't know if
I was like cleansing like cause, because at that point
I texted Nate and said, Okay, I have like this
medical emergency kit with me. What can I take in
here to like help me not get sick, you know?
And he was just like, if you have ivermectin, take it.
So I took one. And then that night I woke
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up in like a puddle of sweat. I was cold,
I was clammy. It freaked me out.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, but anxiety can make you.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
For sure, and it might have been that too, but
I've never woken up in a puddle of sweat. And
I continued that for like four days. And so that
was that was the piece of the trip that I
felt bad for the kids. They weren't feeling good. But again,
looking back, like they don't they don't remember that. They
remember the castles, they remember, you know, all the fun stuff.
I just it was so stressful because when everyone was
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checking into the castle on Thursday, I was like constantly,
you know, making sure that the kids are okay and
taking temperatures and doing id beprofen than talent, all the
medicine and this and that, and then making sure like
they're good. And then I'm like, all right, well, you
know now I need to Like when you guys were
playing that game night that night, I'm like, I would
have loved to have stayed and done that, but I'm like,
(36:19):
I need to try to get some sleep because I
know that sleep is going to help me stay healthy.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
And and for reference, thursdays when we check in and
Saturday's the wedding. Yeah, so this isn't like you have
like a lot of days to right run the risk
or yeah, and not having that help was too hard,
like we I mean it was, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
That's the one regret that I have is not bringing
help to help us.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Do you agree? Disagree? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I mean up with being easier?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
But yeah, I mean I think we managed, but who
knew like that the kids were going to get sick,
you know, I just I felt so bad for that.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I also think no matter what. Kids just want their parents.
So even if you had, specially when they're sick.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Yeah, I think more like not that I wouldn't help
them when they were sick, but like that way, like
I could have enjoyed even just like sure everything more,
you know, and just you know, for example, the Thursday
to actually eat dinner instead of being feeding Rome, you
know what I mean, like just having like, hey can
you feed Roman?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Someone feed Roman?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, instead of okay, and then in the middle leaving
the group of dinner going to bathe Roman, you know
right right, stuff like that, Yeah, would have been a
little bit more helpful having.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Trying to relieve you from here when I have to
say your kids were troopers for being sick, Yeah, I
mean they were. Yeah, nobody was in such great spirits.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I was like, my kids are not, like they're more
down and out, Like I was very impressed with how
well they handled everything and being sick, like I thought.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Melt down. I thought they were graving. Yeah, I mean
we did a good job.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I think keeping them on like that's huge, the ibuprofens
than tile and also.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
That when they go down, yeah, where's off?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
But yeah, I mean they were angels. But that just
that piece just made me so sad. Because I was
telling her Amy yesterday in therapy. I'm like, she's like
what is She's like, what's the problem that they were Like,
why is it such a big deal that they were sick?
I was like, because I just want them to have
the best memories. And she's just like, they did have
great memories. Like kids aren't going to remember that they
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were sick. They're going to remember the castle or that
mommy and Alan got married and then they were a
flower girl, and so she's like that's what they're going
to remember. It all came back on like me though,
because I'm like, well I didn't have the best memories.
She's like, this is about you then.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Not about your kids. Yeah you know.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
So I was like I know, which is why I've
come back now. And we've made a memory.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Wall in our room of all the fun memories. So
like these were fun memories, right, because I just think
that's all Like we aim for excellence. There's also like
the standard we set in our brain when we spend
so much money or we plan so much in advance,
like the expectation, Yeah, that is like a fair letdown
to like for it to not be like seamless. Hm.
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But I also think it's like you'll look back, even
probably already and go like, we teamworked so well and
that's really like I love when people celebrate a marriage
over a wedding, and I feel like, you guys married
well even in the wedding week.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Well so, And I'll say that too, like because he
was even saying when we were there, like, You're like,
this has been so stressful the leading up to the honeymoon,
I'm sorry leading up to the wedding, and I just
kept saying, I'm like, but this is what it is,
you know, Like we have to be on somewhat of
a schedule with Roman and we have to you know,
but we managed to do it and we still had
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fun even though they were sick, and that was important
to me, like going, Okay, it's not perfect. How do
we still steal moments of joy out of this? As
a guest, where are you smiling?
Speaker 5 (39:52):
No, You're right, Like I think the first couple of
days we tried to squeeze too much. And also and
like I said, let's just stop doing things to tick
a box and actually just take the time and experience them.
And if Roman doesn't go to bed when he's supposed
to go to bed, then it's fine. You will go
to bed thirty minutes later or forty minutes later. The
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schedules were all messed up anyway, So I think in
the end up we did a good job of not
just ticking boxes. We did a lot, but actually were
present when we did them and enjoyed them and still
kept them on a schedule.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
So all worked out.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
It was stressful because the ill and you're in someone
else's house as well. You don't have your own space.
Like my aunt's house is a big house and it's
it's a really nice place, but if you've got three
kids and someone else's house, you're almost like they're putting
up with us rather than hosting us.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Oh they were amazing.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, I feel that way, though I don't stay well
with you.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
So that was that was more from my side of, yeah,
we don't have our own space to deal with the
kids being sick, and would envy that someone's house and
everyone's sick, So it was more of a like, it's
more like, just get me out of here, let's just
go somewhere. But we're on we're own, we can isolate
the kids. But it was fine because they were amazing.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
They were truly amazing.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Yeah, so it all walked out and then when we
got to we got to the castle, it was it
was perfect.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Well, and that's what I was telling Amy too. I
was like, the only thing that I could say about
the trip was, you know, I feeling terrible that the
kids were not feeling well, But once we got into
the castle, I just felt like it was from my
point of view, Yes, there were moments where I said
it to her, like I wish I was more present
in certain areas, like you know, being able to stay
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and do the game with you guys at night time,
and I wish, I wish I let my brain. I
wish I was able to sleep. Like that insomnia thing
really mess with me because I would literally get up
at two in the morning and toss and turn pretty
much cry until five in the morning, and then sleep
for another two to three hours. And it was when
he was a missed. I was like, I want to sleep.
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It was the first time I've ever dealt with them
like I've never experienced like wanting to go to sleep
but can't go to sleep. I also just need to
mention this because it's really worth mentioning. Like you just
had a baby, not really, but like according to like
science and our bodies, like you still have a there's
like an underlying level of like that anxiety. There's still too,
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like you're not completely leveled out either. So add all
those things pleasure getting married, and you spent all this
money and all this time and all this planning, and
you want it to be magical, like I would be
the same way that stuff all sneaks in, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, I just wanted it to be perfect.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'm like, I've waited so long for this, like fairy tale,
and it's it's here, and I'm afraid like that it's
going to just be terrible or every everyone's going to
be just sick. And meanwhile your guests are like living
I know. But like I said to Amy, like the
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we had them, it was the most magic coal time ever,
you guys, the group of people you moved.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Into estates, I loved it. Like I will say, I
was a little nervous. I just don't do well living
with people that I don't make or marry, and so
I thought, I'm not so sure about this, Like whole
real world takes over Scotland moment that we're about to
have so much fun. So like you, guys, and I've
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always said this about you, truly to everybody, but like
you have this way of collecting human beings and making
it so fun, Like you've collected fun people everywhere, like
I know, Sarah Bryce because of you. You know, I
just lived my best life. Like we had all these
fun people. We had roommates, we had alan playing games
like it was that was so fun. My cheeks literally
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hurt from like laughing. I'm like, what have I got
myself into? Though?
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Instead of you, seeing as you missed out on it,
I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
That happen over here. But I do think you.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I think for us as your friend, really great night
for us to spend with him and his friend.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Because we don't ever get to be with him, we don't,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So I don't want you to see it as like
just a negative It was a great night.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
And not spending time with me.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
No, you hear what you wanted to hear out of that,
I'm saying that it was normally we we don't hang
out with him without you, sure, and we probably won't
ever really, you know, but like it was a night
to truly see Alan and him having fun and his
friends and having fun with them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
So it was it was it was a cool experience
for us too, and that right, and that was.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
By the way, I'm thinking, he knows what I'm thinking,
Like an hour and a half, ever play games with me?
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yes, well let's do it right now. But it wasn't.
It wasn't. It wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Games. Do you want to play drinking games?
Speaker 5 (45:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I had a blast plane you gir with Alan and
would you play drinking games? You know? They answered exactly.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Oh my god, it was really fun. But even beyond
that night, like its just cool.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Everyone play a game.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
We're going to play this drinking game and you're going
to play because.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
You felt I've never played a drinking game. Well these
are best. I didn't even really drink with. I didn't
really drink because I just can't right now, like I'm
just I need to. And yeah, when you're competitive enough
that I won't drink, you don't have to drink. It's
so funny to watch. We should show we should I
have some good footage so funny, like I drink a bit,
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but I didn't like I was chugging beers or like
you don't have to, you just want to.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah, no, I'm glad you guys had fun while of
my nightmare Dungeon.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
It was almost like you haven't I explained that to you.
It was almost like, so when you're a profession sports person,
you've got a big event coming up, you get insomnia.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah, performance insomnia.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
And I explained to you, like two nights before a
match is the most important night for sleep.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
So I used to always I need.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
To sleep on a Thursday because that's the most important
night before a Saturday match. And I would get insomnia
on Thursdays because I placed so much importance on sleeping
on a Thursday. So I would toss and turn and
tossing turn and tossing tourn And it's almost like you
had that for like five nights of I've got this
big event coming up, it needs to be perfect. It's
like almost like a performance insomnia type thing, which is
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which is normal.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Absolutely very normal. I've just never experienced that before.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
Like usually I sleep and I sleep well, and that
was just I mean, the marriage.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
Was like playoff final, the Super Bowl performance anxiety.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, I don't remember when we talked about this before
we left, and you're like, the only thing I'm anxious
about is not sleeping because I have to have.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
My slate, and it was in my brain.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Yeah, you literally talked about it before you like, that's
the only thing I'm worried about. Your expectations were so
like everyone. I mean, everyone has expectations, right, and so
it just that was in your head already. I remember
you specifically saying that.
Speaker 5 (47:14):
This is where you need to like, you're so incredible
with planning, and this is where you need to trust
yourself a little bit more because everything you do walks out.
And I told you that there's a lot of planning
and it will all come together, it'll all be perfect.
And it was like, there's nothing that would change from
the moment we arrived at the castle to the moment
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we left, the moment we arrived in the honeymoon to
the moment left. I would not change a single thing
apart from you getting more sleep and.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
The kids not being But yeah, but you're right, you
did say that You're like even so like they were
great and they had fun and they had with lots
of moments of fun. No I know, I know, I yeah.
Speaker 5 (47:55):
Nothing that would change apart from the Americans when in
the shooting cleave pigeons.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
So it was Scotland versus USA involved in almost anywhere
there could be a competition. Okay, that is all we
have for this week, but we have even more fun
of wedding details coming next week in Part two.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Stay tuned.
Wind Down with Janet Kramer and iHeart Radio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hi we're back. Wah wah wah.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We've got a mouthfi depression.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
One million percent.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It's kind of like a I was telling you on
the plane, where it just feels it was so much anticipation,
you know, the wedding and the honeymoon and and just
I mean all of it, and then so then when
it's just done, it just feels kind of like in
a way and not not depressed, but just like a bummer.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But it's all done.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Yeah, and then we'll come back to clothes. Yes, four
or five days as well, which doesn't help, No, not
at all.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
It's been so cloudy and I mean the sun is
not peaked out yet in like five days. So it's
just adding to the jet lag the tiredness. And we
haven't really been able to connect from being back either.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
No, I've went from spending every single minute with each
other too, arrived back with the kids to deal with
romans jet like.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He's new tooth coming through.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
And I was in Chicago yesterday, So I feel like
I've not seen you for four days.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I mean, we really haven't because we've been so tired too.
By the time we go to bed, it's eight o'clock
and we're like, we're exhausted, and just you know, unpacking
everything and just getting trying to get back into the
rhythm of things has been I think a little difficult.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
For real least.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, And there's also so I think I mentioned that
when we were in Italy that you know, when you
go somewhere and then you're in it, so you sometimes
don't appreciate it or and then when you come back
you think, but you think back and you reflect, you
think that was so special. I think this has been
even more difficult because we realized during the honeymoon how
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incredible and special a place it wasn't how incredible a time.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was together.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah, So I think the anticiap it's not even.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I don't want to call it.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's like a cloud the word depression, yeah, either because
it's a strong word. Yeah, but that cloud. Now that
we're okay, we've had to leave that special place in
our special honeymoon and reality jetlag, screaming kids, teething problems,
but it was the most amazing experience ever.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
No, I mean it's true though, what you said, because
I feel like a lot of times. And I know
in past trips that I've taken, I don't really soak
it in, but I mean every moment was soaked in.
It was and we were grateful for every moment, every meal,
every every piece of every piece of the cacha, every
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you know, I mean the gelato. I still I mean
the amount of sounds that I made eating the food,
Like last week, if I.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Could have put gelato on for caca, well it's with
some pasta on.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I know, it's it's crazy too because the food there
I'm not eat pretty we both eat very good. I'm
pretty much gluten free, pretty much dairy free minus like
the random you know, cheat days. But in Italy I
was like, you know, I'm just I'm not going to care.
I'm just going to eat whatever I want to eat.
And it's totally fine. How I came back five pounds
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less because fills. I know that's I want to move
to Italy now because of that, because I've never enjoyed
my life more eating all those carbs. I mean, we
had we had bread at every meal, with pasta, with
pizza with the katcha, then followed by ice cream, and
I had the flattest stomach ever, and I was happy
eating all that food. It's crazy and I come back
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here and I'm like, I'm my gut hurts again. I've
had skin problems like my two weeks away did like
wonders for my just everything.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, we've Capri and a maufy coast must be one
of the most famous locations for fresh food in the
quality of food.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Italy in general with food and wine is world renowned,
doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
But that particular part of the country is like it's
almost on like a different level from anything else in
terms of how special it is and the quality of everything,
like even like the color of the ocean, like and
how it contrasts with the cliffs. And it's just the
whole place is the whole place is just like heaven
on Earth.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And I think that's why. I mean, you've known me
for a couple of years now, When have I ever
wanted to stay longer on a trip? Usually it's how
soon can we get out?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
How can we change our flight to get away earlier?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Normally what you do always because I want to get
back to the kids, or I want to take the
earlier flight, or I just want to get out and
I wanted to stay.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I mean I was crying.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Cried the night before, You cried on the boat the Naples,
you cried on the transfer to the airport.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You try you cry in the airport.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Because it was truly the most magical special time spent
with you. I mean it was a week of just
soaking up every of everything and just having such I
mean we had the most beautiful time personally together too,
just all the laughs we had and just the connection.
And I don't think there was one thing like, Okay,
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so let's well, we'll we'll chat with because the girls
are going to come burst this wedding post wedding suite
in a little bit a few minutes actually, so I
guess before they come, what's like a moment for you
that was the most special.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The most special moment. So there's a couple. But I
for I have to really.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
If I really to define the whole trip, Like I
knew the first hotel in Ravelo, the Belmont Curuso. I
knew that it's sitting at the infinity Pool where you
can you almost feel that you're in the mountains, but
you can see the ocean and you're so high up.
I can't remember. I can't remember how many thousand feet
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up were, but it's almost but it's almost like it
gives you the peace and tranquility just to reflect and
plan ahead. And that's not very often, I know what
I'm like, I'm always going from one thing to the next.
But it was almost like I could sit there and
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capture the mountains and capture the ocean, capture a vision
of the rest of our lives together. So for me
being able to have that vision every day at the
pool and just like and I knew I would reflect
on that. Okay, we were in the boat and we
were in the ocean, and we jumped in the ocean,
and as incredible as it was, but being that high
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and having the mountains in the ocean, just being able
to like, okay, I can actually see the future.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I can't see the future, but.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I was like, tell me more, what's happening in our future?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
But that that was like a really special moment. And
then there was times where we would share those moments together,
on times where you would go on your own and
look at the the view and I would go on
my own. And so I think for me that that
vision of the mountains and the ocean together being so
high up was and you need to people listen to
this and be like, well, I don't understand what it means.
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You have to be there to experience it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's almost like when I was in Ireland at the
Cliffs of Moair, it was like, you can't A picture
doesn't do an injustice. Like we can show a photo
of this beautiful scenery that we're talking about, but to
feel what we felt there, it's like you have to
just be there to see it, you know. That's how
always say too, Like when I talk about the cliffs,
I'm like, it's the most magical thing. Like it's like
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a photo. Pictures don't do it justice. Like evenh we
were taking photos, we kept saying, this just doesn't do
it justice. Like take look at our photos on Instagram
and then multiply it by a million, and that's like
how it is there.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, I hear you, and yours.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
For the honeymoon, I would say, I.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Thought we were only talking about the honeymoon.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's okay, you know, I mean, yeah, well
we've kind of gone backwards, but we'll go We'll start
the wedding recap with when the girls come. But for
the honeymoon, I I mean, I definitely agree with you.
Just staring out and having so many moments where I
just kept saying thank you, thank you to God, thank
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you to my Grandpa's thank you to just like how
life has changed in a way that I never thought
it would and how beautiful life is. And it's just
I just kept being just so many moments of thankfulness.
Just I just kept saying thank you over and over,
like thank you for this, like thank you for this
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road that I would have never even known was a
possible road to walk down. So I think those moments
were just really like beautiful. And then to have you
walking down those roads with me, you know, it's just
like it's just a I don't know, it just was
like a very sentimental yet and then having this experience.
(09:42):
I've never had a honeymoon. We've got to experience this
together and it's just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, so the wedding, what was your favorite moment?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I feel like we need the girls to kind of
recap everything first and then I'll tell my favorite moment
from there because it was not as expected. You know what,
why don't we just take a break and then we'll get.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The girls on. Okay, the girls are here.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
We so we were just talking about the honeymoon and
just kind of how we've come back and it's been
really gloomy here. It's been hard to kind of get
in the the rhythm of jet lag, wanting to sleep
all day, wanting to know not or not being able
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to sleep, Like, isn't that it's gloomy?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And ye waking up at like the.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Tan Russells are here Italian sun Kissed Russells party too. Well,
that's what we were saying. I'm like, I've I want
to go back to Italy, like yesterday it was the
most magical time we've ever ever ever, So should we
recap the rest of the honeymoon or should we.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Start from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Well, it depends for the girls want to hear about
the honeymoon or not.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Well. I actually facetimed in on the honeymoon, you too,
I did. I felt like we all lived together for
like four days and it was like ooh, I just
felt like very like college, and all of a sudden,
everybody went their own way and I was like, well,
this doesn't feel cozy, And I was like, Hi, what
you doing? And where was I laying in a chair
looking gorgeous in the sun. It was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Face colored and for catcha crumbs.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yes, all right, so then we'll just start with the
honeymoon then, so for those that because they wanted to know,
you know, where we went. So we went to Ravello.
So I originally really wanted to do post Aitana because
I under the Tescan Son is one of my favorite movies.
I wanted to do Tescany in Positano, and uh, we start.
(12:06):
I've never worked with the travel agent before, but we
got her information and I'm like, you know what, we
should probably hire someone because I don't know anything or
like what that area and you were we weren't really.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Like not being testly, but I've never been to Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
We just wanted someone that had like the knowledge of
where we were going. And she was like, you do
not want to go to post Aitana in July. And
I'm so glad that we talked to her because we
almost booked six nights in Postana. Remember, there was like, oh,
there's a honeymoon, sweet deal. I'm just going to book
it at this hotel thing. It was called Hotel Poseidon
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and She's like, if you want something relaxing, you do
not want to go to Postana. It's hot, there's a
ton of people, and I'm like, everyone says how much
they love it though, And then we.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Went and we had also a bit strange.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
We are so strange, intend not to like the things
that everyone else likes.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
But the fact that we both are the same is great.
That's what we said over pizza.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So you like a lot of people, No, that's I
think where they're going. They did not like a lot
of people.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
We went to Positive Tunnel, so the Mouthi Coast, the
most famous part of their Maufi Coast is probably Positive
Tunnel degree.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I agree, well, my knowledge of it.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
The most widely recognized place. Millions of people.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Either we go there and we're like, we say to
the driver, okay, well give us two hours and we'll
be back. We got there, I hadn't even driven through it,
like we might be back here in forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I instantly felt my throat clothes. When we got out
of the car.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I was like, so are you going to stay here
in this area because there's just people everywhere, right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
But it's so steep for the he crowded, and so.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I knew that once we're going down, we're going to
have to come up with all these people too. And
I mean there's just and it was hot. It was
like one hundred degrees and so and you're in these
like crowded little streets going down and I'm like, I
just thinking we're going to have to go up and
this is not going to be good. And he even
looked at me and he was like, are you okay?
Are you are you feeling claustrophobic? But I didn't want
to say yes, even though my whole body was.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Like the telltale sign was Our plan was okay, go
walk around for a little bit, get a pizza, and
then go back. We got we got to the pizza
restaurant and she's like, can we get this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
To go.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Just calmed down by the ocean. But even then it
wasn't like we were looking onto the ocean.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It was so crowded.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, you know when you see those images from like
of beaches in the fifties and sixties and they're just
rammed with people, And that's what that's what it was like,
wasn't it. Yeah, it was almost like a step back
in time. With this, loads and loads of people in
a small area. But we had we stayed strong.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Instant, we did it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We had a pizza and we walked back.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And he only returned the pizza once for too much cheese.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
As much as say, how do you even eat pizza?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's a huge tomato fan too, right, so like, oh
you do? So do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Put?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Like the tint but of mozzarella?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
She would. I took a video and you'll say there's
some zero's on that. The guy's like less and I'm
like he means less, like like nothing, Just put like
one literally.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
To make it an official pizza. So one little shred.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
But we stayed in Ravello for three nights and it
was the biggest blessing because it was so peaceful and quiet,
and the little town in Ravela was adorable. We would
walk down there and get gelato and it was just
it was not swarmed with a bunch of people. You
can still go to post Atano and do all those
things on a day trip if you want, but I'm
glad that we did not stay there. How far is
the drive if you do that, like ai ftew minutes?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh okay, okay, yeah, So it's like, I have a
drive is geographical reference in my brain? Wear anything crazy?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, and you're going to want to hire a car? Yeah, yeah,
because there's just I wanted to take a scooter.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
O god, that would have been amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Desk and he said no, and I'm we actually met
someone in Capri that their scooter brakes didn't work, and
so she was all red, like, I mean he fell off.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's too terrifying. Yeah, and he's like, thank goodness. My
wife was like yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
So then we left Ravello. We did a boat trip
from Ravello to Capri as they call it, and that
was a magical day. And it was funny because what
was the first thing he said, got on the boat?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Are there any shot about our driver? Say yes, make
oh lord joined and it's like a welcome aboard on
the way he did me too obvious.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Otherwise it was pretty funny that we said it. He's like,
should you thank Mike for driving us around? But the
boat trip was so beautiful. We went just you two
on the boat. It was just us too. He took
us around to just different caves and.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Hey, are you guys, I forget this? Are you big?
Like water ocean people? Like in the water. Like I'm
a solid beach goer and I love to be on
a boat and look at water, but I don't like
to be in.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I will jump in the middle of the ocean. Okay,
he was more, I will jump in at the course.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I don't like. I don't like not knowing what's underneath me.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Same human Okay, I wondered.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I jumped on the course of the courst.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
And where we differ as I had a noodle because
I'm not the.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Strongest swimming in the middle of the with a night
that I was going to be my next question.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They call it posita because it is Italy.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yeah, but there was one place I didn't use the
noodle in that beach club because no one else was
and I was like, well, I can't be the.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Only one ten feet from the rocks.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
True. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
But we got to Capri and that was it. We
had to we had to switch our mindset a little
bit because it was a different vibe.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Hotel was beautiful, Yeah, lovely, this little small boutique. It
was like if Ralph Laurn made the hotel.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, super cute.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Our room, though, was above a public beach, so like
you can hear kids screaming from like in your room.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So it's just like you had. I had to go
a little taste at home.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
But I had a little moment of like, oh wait, wait,
this is not peaceful to me.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And we had a little tell us what those eyebrows me?
And Alan? I want to hear his version. Yeah, I
mean I almost feel like we need a little Alan
Russell run down something good.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
But I think it'd been edited until that point. And
we were in a tranquil spot in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I mean the mouse tranquill.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
And we didn't know that Capria was going to be
slightly different, although very classy and and nice. But the
beach and to be fair, the first night was the
noisiest night.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
But I mean we have a balcony on the beach
and at ten thirty at night, they're having a party
at the beach and so it just wasn't we can't
we couldn't even use our balcony because it was just
it was so loud. It was was not relaxing.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
So it'd be polite, yeah, I mean, you just didn't
feel at peace. So we were thinking, did we change hotels?
We did we do this that? But we I wasn't
too bothered by it, but you were more bothered than
I was. But we managed to come to a solution
where we blocked out the noise.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And we stayed.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, because the last thing I want to do is move.
I just had to change my mindset.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Well. Also, like I would say this objectively, and I
think a lot of people listening would feel this way,
like you've planned this like once in a lifetime trip
and you're.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Spending a lot of money ocean balcony view that I'm
not now using because it's so loud and crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I had a similar experience when we checked into our
hotel at Scotland. Actually, oh really yeah, okay, I had
a moment uh huh where I was like, no, no, no, no,
this is one in the lifetime right right, yeah, so
you can kind of see, yeah, I'm like, this is
not what was described.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Sure, and I might have changed a room or had
a different room if it was like if I knew
it was right above a public beach. And now that
I looked at reviews, I'm not the only one. I
had an issue with that room.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Okay, anyway, and really it wasn't an issue. No. The
next two nights will actually fairly quiet, and we relaxed.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Then I just had to change my mindset to going, Okay,
now we're in a different place, it's a little more lively,
and let's go out and let's you know, because like
when are we really in the rooms anyways? Minus So
I'm like, Okay, instead of going back to the room
and having a chill, let's go out and get a
drink in town or let you know. So it's like,
let's change the vibe, which we did and we we
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rocked it with that, and I fell in love.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
With Capri and the hotel was amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
They were so sweet. Yeah yeah, and ended up and
I would go back there with the different.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Room pretty sure. The stuff he is, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Sure if you're welcome back, but you wouldn't go back
and wait, there are other different rooms that aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
There's like farther away rooms from the actual and it
was a private on the beach with their higher so
like the rooms would be little. So we're like right there,
got it, that makes sense, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Like it's there's a.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Higher room a little bit more over where there's not
as much.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Noise, just a lively public beach. Yeah, interesting until late right,
that's Grandma's do you agree with that?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Changes and put us into the penthouse. But our room
was actually better than the penthouse. So we're like, no,
we'll leave it. Yeah, but she can put your plugs in,
we'll be good.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I did, and I did. I put my air plugs in.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So I think having said all of that, it was
like so beautiful. I tried to stay longer you did.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I did.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I called the airlines to see and they were like
that I know, that's what I was saying.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I know, I'm a little shot.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Thought.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
When all the flight stuff was happening, I was like,
she changed her flight sooner, that's what you usually did.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Tried and they're like it will be this much, and
I was like no, so and then we almost missed
our flight or we still don't have our bags, but it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Was still don't know no, wow.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
No, I did go get in a razor because finally
I was like, I have to shave. It's been no
a week.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
That's amazing. So did you ever have your bags? We did.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So the problem was is we went from Naples to
oh sorry we were We had to stop because we
had to go obviously, go pick up the meatball. So
this is one of the questions on Instagram is howd
the kids get home? So Jolie and Jase flew with my.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Heard the kids go home.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's a fair.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Question, Okay, so some people really like logistics. Yeah, and
I logistically handled it well. So I flew because we
knew we wanted to go to Italy post but we
didn't want to have to all fly back to then
fly back. So we had Joli and Jase fly home
with my dad and his wife, and then they spent
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some time in Michigan. I then flew Mike up to
Michigan to get the kids. A few days later. Mike
then flew them back and then Roman stayed in Scotland
with Alan's mom and dad, and so we had to
then after Italy go back to Glasgow to go pick
up via Frankfurt and Edinburgh. So at Edinburgh I learned
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the same Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So we've all are just Edinburgh corrected American this wedding Edinburgh. Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So then we were leaving h Naples and it's a
matt house at that Naples airport.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's so many people, it was so small.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
They were lovely though, because I was that frantic person
every time it kept getting delayed. I'm like, we have
a connection and it's not that long. Do you think
we'll make it. She's like, you'll be fine, You'll be fine, Like,
you'll be absolutely fine. And then it delayed even more
and she's like, you're not gonna make it, You're fine,
And I'm like, because at this point I knew there
was then now no options to get home. It was
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going to be like Thursday or Friday to get us
on like and it would be like a massive change
because it's some different airlines or whatever. So we would
have had to it would have been it would have
been crazy. Anyways, So we land and the I will
say the fledgends were lovely in Frankfurt because they knew
that we had we were the only ones that had
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that the type the connection. Yeah, So we landed in
Frankfort at the time our other flight was taking off.
And at this point I've already processed where we've missed it,
and I've already processed that we're going to most likely
have to take a flight to where.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
At this point you've deviated to wolst case scenarios.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, because the flight was taking off was always a chance.
Come on, you knew that flight no no before this though,
like we knew we were taking off and it was
still on time.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
But the captain dead states is, don't make any assumptions
until we get on the air and we can update you.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Right that captain should write as if is going to listen,
don't make any assumption.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Other flight was still on time, and he said the
flight our time is going to be this many hours.
So we were landing at the time our other flight
was taking off. So would you not assume you're going
to miss that flight?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I feel.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
If I thought we were going to miss a flight,
I wouldn't have sprinted Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Well obviously because it went okay.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Anyways, so we're having a couples intensive. Well yeah, because
I'm like, we clearly had missed we were missing that flight.
So I had already processed we're missing that flight. The
only there was like two options. We either got a
flight from from Frankfort to Manchester was that it, and
then drive to Scotland, getting in at like two am,
then getting the meatball and then getting on our eight
(26:30):
am eight thirty flight.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I traveled the same way though, like I would rather
just go Okay, if it happens, we have a plan,
and if we can catch it, excellent, But most likely
my brain was like there's no possible way, right, Like
we are literally landing when it takes off. So while
we're taking off, we get a notification that our flight
is thirty minutes delayed, and I'm like, I've already in
(26:55):
my brain again processed I've missed this flight. Don't do
this to me, because the worst feeling.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
In the world is running to an airplane gate and
then you're seeing your plane and telling and then them
telling you you can't get on, like then having that
feeling of like missing that flight, I was just like
I don't I don't want to, Like, I just I
can't deal with that. So when we landed in Frankfurt,
the sweet guy and girl that were like, hey, so
(27:22):
your plane has not taken off yet and they haven't
started boarding yet, so run and we I could have
like split up blood I ran.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I was so out of shape that too, like eating pizza,
car overload, like gelato, really regretting a lot of those choices.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I stopped and was like I'm in a puke and
we ran and we made it, but our bags didn't.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Love story shortcase, so that's that suitcases didn't.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
But long story short and made the flight and that's
the logistics. We got meatball then when and then went
from Glasgow to London, London then too Nashville. So we've
made it home. But how about we take a break
and then let's start from the beginning. Okay, So where
(28:23):
do we even start?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, probably the.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Travel too, Yeah, okay, because no one knows that piece
of it. So I was telling my therapist the other day.
I was like, what part do you want to hear first,
the good or the bad?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
What did she say?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
She was like, I want to hear it all, and
I want you to share as much as you want
to share.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Response.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It's a great theramist, tell me more and because we
know too. Like when I was talking to her, I said,
one of my biggest things was, you know, I just
I want it to be perfect and I'm afraid and like,
what if people get sick or.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know, what if they do? Cramer, what if they do?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
And so but I was like, I'm they're fine, I'm
I've you know, I got pumped with IV's a couple
of times I've been filling the kids up with stuff
like everything's going to be great. The flight was seamless,
they were amazing. A last minute I upgraded and I'm
so glad we did. It just made me feel better
and everyone got to sleep. The kiddos slept great, Romans slept.
(29:35):
We did not, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
And then we land in Scotland and I'm not again,
I will not. This is not your this is not
your dad's fault. I'm just going to start.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I'm going to start nothing. No, nothing starts a healthy argument,
quite like, I just want to say at all.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I just want to say it's not though, because it's not.
It wasn't solely him that was coughing. There was people coughing.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
On I mean a lot of people cough.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
There was a lot of people coughing on the airplane
to exactly Glasgo. There was a lot of people coughing
at the airport waiting like that one lady that was like, Joelie,
please go stand over there because I'm like, and I'm
very conscious of a cough right because i just don't
want the kids to get sick at this point, because
I've done such a good job trying to keep everyone.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Healthy, conscious of power, anod both.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Equally equally will own. So we.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Sendy just a lot of people cough they do like
they exactly a lot of people is a human thing. Yes,
and your dad does cough a lot like I feel
like old older people, like they have a lingering cough
all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He does, right, for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, there was a little something different to this coough
when I got into the car, so we had a
little Europeans don't believe in big cars, so we had
to take two cars to your parents' house or to
the where we were, to your aunt's house where we
were staying, and there was you know, we're just having
(31:11):
some delays or whatever. So I was like, well, I
got to go home and feed, I got to go
get roman fed. And everyone just kind of situated. So
why don't I take the kids with your dad when
some of the luggage and then you meet us there.
So then we take it the thirty minute trip with
your dad and he is, i mean hawking up along
and I was just like, oh, Julie, did you say
it's hot in here?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Honey?
Speaker 4 (31:31):
So I'm like just like and in my mind I
was like, oh, dear God, please know. Like, but then
I'm thinking it's fine, it's all good. And then your
dad says that he has a fever like the next day,
and again, I'm not putting this on your dad whatsoever,
because I think there are so many chances that they
could have gotten it from anybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Having said that, the next.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Day, I heard it from Jolie and I was like, oh,
here we go. And then one hundred and four fevers later,
all three kids were sick. Yeah, and uh with they
had croup and COVID.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
COVID.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Well, my dad tested positive and my mom after they
were with the kids, so I'm pretty sure it was COVID.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh they both got Wow. So I'm pretty sure. So everyone,
And how are you feeling, Katie?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I feel great, and I does negative and I feel excited. Okay,
So it was the I mean, I will say here
and this is what I kind of told my therapist.
I said, as I look back, it was the kids
were coming in in the middle of the night, suffering
to breathe because they had that croup, wheezing. We were
able to just get some of the things that we
(32:45):
knew that we needed for them.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
You got creative we got.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Creative with getting some things like I knew they needed
like albutle and hailers and all that and some antibiotics
and but it it was difficult because you know, they
were sick, and a piece of me was I still
wanted them to make awesome memories. So when we went
to that one castle, I mean, they were running one
(33:09):
hundred and three fevers, but we you know, gave them.
We were rotating between tyle and hall and motrin, and
when they were feeling up to it, I'm like, and
their fevers broke for a few hours. I was like,
all right, let's go, and they wanted to you know,
like there was moments of times when they.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Well there's nothing, That's what I said to you, there's
nothing that would have really changed. They just said it
not feeling as good as they should have felt.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I know, but that broke my heart. Is like it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Stolen Castle has been quarantined for two weeks now, no
one else has been allowed.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Then is that true?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
It's been quarantined stolen Castle?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Oh stop it. Like I didn't even understand that one
right now. I fell for it.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
No, But I mean, like I still like got them
out because I just when they were still you know,
they they wanted to too, Like we didn't go to
Edinburgh with you guys because I was like that would
be too much of a journey for them feeling sick.
I always think, is Yeah, So like, you know, we
did the zoo thing, which we were in the car for
and you know, we weren't around a bunch of people,
(34:09):
and the Stirling Castle was outside, and so we did
things that and that was the day they were really bad.
Was that Wednesday? Uh but and then Thursday, but I
mean all three of them. And Thursday that's when Roman
spiked his really high fever of one of four. And
it was just that piece was so stressful and I
regret at that moment not having help because it was
(34:32):
just us and in the middle of the night, you know,
it's I'm wanting all of us to get sleep, and
now I'm not getting sleep because now I have anxiety
that I'm going to get sick and I'm going to
be sick for the big wedding day and then the honeymoon.
And so I then became like this insomniac for the
rest of the vacation because I just would wake up
(34:54):
with anxiety and then like a pool of sweat that
one morning. That one night I asked a like, I
need to go because I took ivermect him.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You took I woke up.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I was like, I was like clammy and sweating like profusely.
I was like in a puddle. I don't know if
I was like cleansing like cause, because at that point
I texted Nate and said, Okay, I have like this
medical emergency kit with me. What can I take in
here to like help me not get sick, you know?
And he was just like, if you have ivermectin, take it.
So I took one. And then that night I woke
(35:29):
up in like a puddle of sweat. I was cold,
I was clammy. It freaked me out.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, but anxiety can make you.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
For sure, and it might have been that too, but
I've never woken up in a puddle of sweat. And
I continued that for like four days. And so that
was that was the piece of the trip that I
felt bad for the kids. They weren't feeling good. But again,
looking back, like they don't they don't remember that. They
remember the castles, they remember, you know, all the fun stuff.
I just it was so stressful because when everyone was
(35:59):
checking into the castle on Thursday, I was like constantly,
you know, making sure that the kids are okay and
taking temperatures and doing id beprofen than talent, all the
medicine and this and that, and then making sure like
they're good. And then I'm like, all right, well, you
know now I need to Like when you guys were
playing that game night that night, I'm like, I would
have loved to have stayed and done that, but I'm like,
(36:19):
I need to try to get some sleep because I
know that sleep is going to help me stay healthy.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
And and for reference, thursdays when we check in and
Saturday's the wedding. Yeah, so this isn't like you have
like a lot of days to right run the risk
or yeah, and not having that help was too hard,
like we I mean it was, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
That's the one regret that I have is not bringing
help to help us.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Do you agree? Disagree? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I mean up with being easier?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
But yeah, I mean I think we managed, but who
knew like that the kids were going to get sick,
you know, I just I felt so bad for that.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I also think no matter what. Kids just want their parents.
So even if you had, specially when they're sick.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Yeah, I think more like not that I wouldn't help
them when they were sick, but like that way, like
I could have enjoyed even just like sure everything more,
you know, and just you know, for example, the Thursday
to actually eat dinner instead of being feeding Rome, you
know what I mean, like just having like, hey can
you feed Roman?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Someone feed Roman?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, instead of okay, and then in the middle leaving
the group of dinner going to bathe Roman, you know
right right, stuff like that, Yeah, would have been a
little bit more helpful having.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Trying to relieve you from here when I have to
say your kids were troopers for being sick, Yeah, I
mean they were. Yeah, nobody was in such great spirits.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I was like, my kids are not, like they're more
down and out, Like I was very impressed with how
well they handled everything and being sick, like I thought.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Melt down. I thought they were graving. Yeah, I mean
we did a good job.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I think keeping them on like that's huge, the ibuprofens
than tile and also.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
That when they go down, yeah, where's off?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
But yeah, I mean they were angels. But that just
that piece just made me so sad. Because I was
telling her Amy yesterday in therapy. I'm like, she's like
what is She's like, what's the problem that they were Like,
why is it such a big deal that they were sick?
I was like, because I just want them to have
the best memories. And she's just like, they did have
great memories. Like kids aren't going to remember that they
(38:21):
were sick. They're going to remember the castle or that
mommy and Alan got married and then they were a
flower girl, and so she's like that's what they're going
to remember. It all came back on like me though,
because I'm like, well I didn't have the best memories.
She's like, this is about you then.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Not about your kids. Yeah you know.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
So I was like I know, which is why I've
come back now. And we've made a memory.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Wall in our room of all the fun memories. So
like these were fun memories, right, because I just think
that's all Like we aim for excellence. There's also like
the standard we set in our brain when we spend
so much money or we plan so much in advance,
like the expectation, Yeah, that is like a fair letdown
to like for it to not be like seamless. Hm.
(39:00):
But I also think it's like you'll look back, even
probably already and go like, we teamworked so well and
that's really like I love when people celebrate a marriage
over a wedding, and I feel like, you guys married
well even in the wedding week.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Well so, And I'll say that too, like because he
was even saying when we were there, like, You're like,
this has been so stressful the leading up to the honeymoon,
I'm sorry leading up to the wedding, and I just
kept saying, I'm like, but this is what it is,
you know, Like we have to be on somewhat of
a schedule with Roman and we have to you know,
but we managed to do it and we still had
(39:37):
fun even though they were sick, and that was important
to me, like going, Okay, it's not perfect. How do
we still steal moments of joy out of this? As
a guest, where are you smiling?
Speaker 5 (39:52):
No, You're right, Like I think the first couple of
days we tried to squeeze too much. And also and
like I said, let's just stop doing things to tick
a box and actually just take the time and experience them.
And if Roman doesn't go to bed when he's supposed
to go to bed, then it's fine. You will go
to bed thirty minutes later or forty minutes later. The
(40:13):
schedules were all messed up anyway, So I think in
the end up we did a good job of not
just ticking boxes. We did a lot, but actually were
present when we did them and enjoyed them and still
kept them on a schedule.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
So all worked out.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
It was stressful because the ill and you're in someone
else's house as well. You don't have your own space.
Like my aunt's house is a big house and it's
it's a really nice place, but if you've got three
kids and someone else's house, you're almost like they're putting
up with us rather than hosting us.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Oh they were amazing.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, I feel that way, though I don't stay well
with you.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
So that was that was more from my side of, yeah,
we don't have our own space to deal with the
kids being sick, and would envy that someone's house and
everyone's sick, So it was more of a like, it's
more like, just get me out of here, let's just
go somewhere. But we're on we're own, we can isolate
the kids. But it was fine because they were amazing.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
They were truly amazing.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Yeah, so it all walked out and then when we
got to we got to the castle, it was it
was perfect.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Well, and that's what I was telling Amy too. I
was like, the only thing that I could say about
the trip was, you know, I feeling terrible that the
kids were not feeling well, But once we got into
the castle, I just felt like it was from my
point of view, Yes, there were moments where I said
it to her, like I wish I was more present
in certain areas, like you know, being able to stay
(41:41):
and do the game with you guys at night time,
and I wish, I wish I let my brain. I
wish I was able to sleep. Like that insomnia thing
really mess with me because I would literally get up
at two in the morning and toss and turn pretty
much cry until five in the morning, and then sleep
for another two to three hours. And it was when
he was a missed. I was like, I want to sleep.
(42:02):
It was the first time I've ever dealt with them
like I've never experienced like wanting to go to sleep
but can't go to sleep. I also just need to
mention this because it's really worth mentioning. Like you just
had a baby, not really, but like according to like
science and our bodies, like you still have a there's
like an underlying level of like that anxiety. There's still too,
(42:22):
like you're not completely leveled out either. So add all
those things pleasure getting married, and you spent all this
money and all this time and all this planning, and
you want it to be magical, like I would be
the same way that stuff all sneaks in, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, I just wanted it to be perfect.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'm like, I've waited so long for this, like fairy tale,
and it's it's here, and I'm afraid like that it's
going to just be terrible or every everyone's going to
be just sick. And meanwhile your guests are like living
I know. But like I said to Amy, like the
(42:58):
we had them, it was the most magic coal time ever,
you guys, the group of people you moved.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Into estates, I loved it. Like I will say, I
was a little nervous. I just don't do well living
with people that I don't make or marry, and so
I thought, I'm not so sure about this, Like whole
real world takes over Scotland moment that we're about to
have so much fun. So like you, guys, and I've
(43:27):
always said this about you, truly to everybody, but like
you have this way of collecting human beings and making
it so fun, Like you've collected fun people everywhere, like
I know, Sarah Bryce because of you. You know, I
just lived my best life. Like we had all these
fun people. We had roommates, we had alan playing games
like it was that was so fun. My cheeks literally
(43:50):
hurt from like laughing. I'm like, what have I got
myself into? Though?
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Instead of you, seeing as you missed out on it,
I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
That happen over here. But I do think you.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I think for us as your friend, really great night
for us to spend with him and his friend.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Because we don't ever get to be with him, we don't,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So I don't want you to see it as like
just a negative It was a great night.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
And not spending time with me.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
No, you hear what you wanted to hear out of that,
I'm saying that it was normally we we don't hang
out with him without you, sure, and we probably won't
ever really, you know, but like it was a night
to truly see Alan and him having fun and his
friends and having fun with them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
So it was it was it was a cool experience
for us too, and that right, and that was.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
By the way, I'm thinking, he knows what I'm thinking,
Like an hour and a half, ever play games with me?
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yes, well let's do it right now. But it wasn't.
It wasn't. It wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Games. Do you want to play drinking games?
Speaker 5 (45:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I had a blast plane you gir with Alan and
would you play drinking games? You know? They answered exactly.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Oh my god, it was really fun. But even beyond
that night, like its just cool.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Everyone play a game.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
We're going to play this drinking game and you're going
to play because.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
You felt I've never played a drinking game. Well these
are best. I didn't even really drink with. I didn't
really drink because I just can't right now, like I'm
just I need to. And yeah, when you're competitive enough
that I won't drink, you don't have to drink. It's
so funny to watch. We should show we should I
have some good footage so funny, like I drink a bit,
(45:43):
but I didn't like I was chugging beers or like
you don't have to, you just want to.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah, no, I'm glad you guys had fun while of
my nightmare Dungeon.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
It was almost like you haven't I explained that to you.
It was almost like, so when you're a profession sports person,
you've got a big event coming up, you get insomnia.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah, performance insomnia.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
And I explained to you, like two nights before a
match is the most important night for sleep.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
So I used to always I need.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
To sleep on a Thursday because that's the most important
night before a Saturday match. And I would get insomnia
on Thursdays because I placed so much importance on sleeping
on a Thursday. So I would toss and turn and
tossing turn and tossing tourn And it's almost like you
had that for like five nights of I've got this
big event coming up, it needs to be perfect. It's
like almost like a performance insomnia type thing, which is
(46:37):
which is normal.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Absolutely very normal. I've just never experienced that before.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
Like usually I sleep and I sleep well, and that
was just I mean, the marriage.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
Was like playoff final, the Super Bowl performance anxiety.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, I don't remember when we talked about this before
we left, and you're like, the only thing I'm anxious
about is not sleeping because I have to have.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
My slate, and it was in my brain.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Yeah, you literally talked about it before you like, that's
the only thing I'm worried about. Your expectations were so
like everyone. I mean, everyone has expectations, right, and so
it just that was in your head already. I remember
you specifically saying that.
Speaker 5 (47:14):
This is where you need to like, you're so incredible
with planning, and this is where you need to trust
yourself a little bit more because everything you do walks out.
And I told you that there's a lot of planning
and it will all come together, it'll all be perfect.
And it was like, there's nothing that would change from
the moment we arrived at the castle to the moment
(47:35):
we left, the moment we arrived in the honeymoon to
the moment left. I would not change a single thing
apart from you getting more sleep and.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
The kids not being But yeah, but you're right, you
did say that You're like even so like they were
great and they had fun and they had with lots
of moments of fun. No I know, I know, I yeah.
Speaker 5 (47:55):
Nothing that would change apart from the Americans when in
the shooting cleave pigeons.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
So it was Scotland versus USA involved in almost anywhere
there could be a competition. Okay, that is all we
have for this week, but we have even more fun
of wedding details coming next week in Part two.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Stay tuned.
Host
Jana Kramer
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