Getting Ready for the Cape, Camping, and Monhegan Island - Episode 206

This week Danielle is basically rambling about her upcoming travel and preparations for it. Hayley is still in Disney World, which seems unfair. This message brought to you by Danielle.

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Hey guys, Danielle here. Um, flying solo today because Haley is still, if you can believe it, off having her giant Disney World and cruise adventure. Um, I can't wait to hear her trip report. I've barely spoken to her. She's had her hands completely full while she's been in the parks with the four kids and obviously on the cruise. Texting is a little dicey. So we actually had a funny thing happen where we expected our WhatsApp to work okay and our text not to work, but it the opposite happened and we don't know why. So I can't wait to debrief and find out about all of that. But we have some travel coming up, so we're going away together next weekend, and then I have my own travel adventure. So it might be a little bit before we get to that uh trip report. We'll see what happens. Um, but that's actually what I wanted to talk through today um is some of that upcoming travel and those details, and then what we need to do to get ready for it, and how I'm kind of organizing things and getting ready. So um that's that's what we're gonna chat about here today, partly because I need to get my head around it. I'm feeling very intimidated by the next couple of weeks. Um, okay, so what are the plans? So today's Friday. We didn't have an episode waiting in the wings this week, like I typically try to. Um, so that's why I'm releasing this a little bit late today, and it is just me. But one week from today, so next Friday, um, we are headed to Cape Cod. We're going on a girls' trip, and that's gonna be me, my three girls, Haley, her two girls, and then maybe the baby, even though he's not a girl. Um, our mother, and we'll all be in one suite. We have um what the hotel we're staying at is calling a family suite. I don't know very much about the layout yet. It just says four queen beds, so I'm guessing it's two bedrooms, but it's not super specific. Um, so that is uh, you know, I guess we'll have to sort of determine who's going where when we get there. Um, and then it says it has a dining area, but I can't tell if there's a kitchenette. So again, we're just gonna we're gonna have to play this a little bit by year. So that's that's the room that we're gonna be in. And then there's another room that's gonna have my aunt Karen and her granddaughter Riley, who's about my daughter Ella's age. Um, and then I think my Aunt Shell and maybe Auntie Mary are coming. There's other aunts are coming, and I'm pretty sure that's who, uh, but I'm not a hundred percent on that. Um, so we're staying at a place, it's called the Riviera in Yarmouth, um, which is uh not too far on the Cape. Um, so that's good. Um, but it's uh it's a two-night quick trip and um something we booked ages ago just to have it on the calendar so the cousins can all get together. Um, and we actually stayed at that hotel. Um we have we have a trip report from this hotel, I think we did on the goes, um, for it was Haley's like 39th birthday or something a few couple years ago. And we went we went near her birthday, which is in early September or like mid-September, and it rained the entire time we were there, like literally the entire time was an absolute downpour. Um which was pretty funny. We did have like some nice moments on a rainy beach that was fun, but um, that it was like you can't be outside because it's just too rainy. Uh so hopefully, hopefully we'll have better weather this time. Um, it's also not the shoulder season, so the Cape it gets quiet after Labor Day. And so when we were there, lots of stuff was on reduced hours, like the hotel's um main bar was closed, the restaurant was closed, or like very, very limited. Um, so it'll be nice to be there and kind of like the hubbub when everything is like actually happening. Um, it is right on the beach, so that's nice. Um, but it also has an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. So even if the weather's like not awesome or my kids get very nervous about the ocean, which they're correct, the ocean is large and scary. Um but so they're not big beach swimmers, so it's good that we have like the pool options. Um, but we're dri and yeah, so okay, so that's next week. That's on Friday, it's a week from today. We're driving separately. Well, I guess I thought we were driving separately, but I guess I should check with Haley. Well, definitely driving separately, but a qu it's a question mark what time they're going down. I have to bring my oldest to get tested for a hornet allergy because she got stung by a hornet and her like face completely blew up, and she got this rash all over her face and her neck and her chest, and she had a little fever. Um, and it was just a bigger reaction than I liked given that her sister, Audrey, my middle kiddo, is deeply allergic to a handful of different kinds of bees, hornets, and wasps. So I figured we should get that looked at. So that we have that blood test on Friday morning. It's like eight o'clock in the morning, a couple towns over. So we're gonna get it out of the way early. I am working from home the afternoon before because of our gymnastics schedule. So I'm gonna try to do most of the packing on Thursday afternoon and evening, and that way on Friday we can just do the allergy thing, come home, get the other kids, pack up the van, and hit the road because cape traffic can be absolutely brutal on a Friday in the summer. Actually, even on Thursday in the summer now, it's pretty bad. Let me actually just plug this into my GPS right now. How long is this supposed to take me? Let's see, let's see. Yarmouth, Massachusetts, from my town without traffic. It is looking like about two, two and a half hours. Um, but I would be very surprised if it's that fast on a Friday morning. So um, you know, better to just get there, get it done with. And again, it's a quick quick trip, so want to maximize the amount of time we have there. Um, so try to hit the road as soon as we can. Um, and then uh I'm not well, and I'm not sure if if I'm picking up my mom or if Haley's gonna drive for we had different plans and then Haley's schedule changed, so I guess we have to nail that down. But I'm thinking ahead about what I need to pack and um all of that good stuff. I mean, obviously bathing suits, and I actually need to take so part of the impetus for this, like the reason I thought this would be a good episode, is this weekend is our because we're going to the Cape, and then we have a big trip after that, the weekend after that, I need to think through all of the stuff for both trips this weekend. Like this is my last opportunity to like make sure that I have ordered the right clothes and everybody's like outfitted correctly and all of that stuff. So, one thing I need to do is lay eyes on the children's bathing suits because we haven't seen them since we went to Florida, which was months ago. So I think um they've been running around in the sprinkler and we went to the beach one time and they've been wearing gymnastics leotards, which is not like my best parenting moment, but it's not my worst either, I promise you. So I would like to find the actual bathing suits, we'll see, and make sure that everybody has what they need for that. I actually may order myself a new bathing suit just because the last time I wore it, I didn't actually get in the water, but it's just it's a little, it doesn't fit my current shape. It's like baggier in some areas and too tight in some areas, and I think I could do better. So I may get myself a new one. We'll see. I've been holding off, but then it's like, why, Danielle? You should have a bathing suit that fits you correctly, so I should just do it. Um, so I want to lay eyes on those. Um, we have to remember to bring a floaty for Gloria, especially for the pool, because um she loves to swim, but she can't actually swim. So um, and she's right on the cusp of being tall enough to be in the shallow end of a typical pool without needing one, but I'll just feel better if she has it. There is a great goggle debate because I feel that every time there are goggles available, all we do is fight about goggles. It's like constant. And can you fix them? They're too tight, no, they're too loose, they're letting water in, but then they fix them and then they're too tight again, or this pair fits Gloria best because it's made for small faces, but then it's everybody's favorite pair. And why does she only get to use it? It's just a whole, it becomes a whole situation immediately. But one important element is that Haley and I are gonna have to be on the same page about this because I thought we weren't bringing goggles to Florida, and Haley brought goggles to Florida, so we're gonna have to figure out what we're doing as a united friend. So that's some stuff. I usually like to bring maybe like Uno or like apples to apples or something, something that um, well, Haley's kids can't read yet, but at least my three can read. So I I think we could maybe do a little board game moment or something if it's raining or if we're winding down at night. Um, definitely gonna need some room snacks. Again, not sure about the kitchen net situation, but I don't want to rely 100% on restaurants ideally. Um and maybe I don't know, I might get some like embroidery floss or something for friendship bracelets that they can work on. Just kind of kind of like contained little activities for when it's time to like take a little break. Um, and that is kind of it. I think probably have to bring like one nice-ish outfit per person because I think we'll probably go out to one decent dinner. Definitely planning on. Uh, my mom is obsessed with this place called Pancake Man, so that's gonna have to happen. And then um I had gotten her a gift card to I forget the name of the restaurant, but that's probably where we'll do the dinner. And I think we're gonna do a little mini golf moment, like all the kitsy stuff from Cape Cod, basically. Um, and obviously very what weather dependent. So packing for that is probably not super bad. We're gonna need all of the the tablets, the Kindles, the chargers, the all of that good stuff. Um but I think fairly typical packing for that. The real challenge is the trip afterwards. So we're gonna get back from the Cape on Sunday, depending on how long that takes us. The traffic to get off the Cape can be just as bad as to get on the Cape. So um we'll have to see how things are doing there and how quickly we're able to get home. And then uh I have work on Monday in person and um Monday through Wednesday in person. Um, Gloria has hockey, Ella has gymnastics, um so you know, all the usual week logistics have to happen on Thursday because of Ella's gymnastics schedule. I need to leave work at, I think I said I was leaving at two, and then I have to be there to pick her up at three, but I have to take a conference call also at three. So we might be doing a little conference call from the parking lot of gymnastics, um, and then heading home to finish up work and also pack and prepare because we are heading to Maine. So we're driving to Acadia. Um, and in my head, we were gonna leave on Thursday. I'm not sure that that's gonna happen. And when I tell you, my husband has not thought about this at all. I'm not overstating that. Um, so I need him to get his head in the game this weekend so we can kind of strategize. I believe some of the people we're going up with are driving up on Thursday, not quite getting all the way there, but getting pretty close, staying at a hotel. And then I think they were like visiting friends that have a house in Bar Harbor or something in the morning, and then getting to the campground to get um set up. I am not sure if we're gonna be logistically prepared to leave on Thursday. And I do think the other family the third family that's going are maybe leaving on Friday as well, but I could be wrong. So I guess we kind of have to firm that up and figure out if we need lodging Thursday night somewhere along the way. Um and then Friday, either we'll arrive from a different hotel or we will drive all the way up. But we're um staying at Blackwoods Campground in Acadia, where I have never been. I apparently I was there as a kid, but I don't I don't remember it. And um we're staying with my husband's um brother and his wife and sister and her partner, and they all have kids, and the kids all get along great, so it'll be super, super fun. Um, we have a group site um in a pretty good location, although it's really funny because if you go to the website, it's like categorizes the location, it says poor, but it's near-ish to restrooms and the ranger station, and I feel like that's not a bad thing. Um, it is non-electrical, it's a tent site. Um, and we I think we're bringing at least we we have an absolutely giant tent, so we're bringing that, and that typically had worked for us in the past. Um, it basically has like three rooms. There's kind of like a little entryway area, and then off to one side there's a room that has a little curtain that comes down, and that's John and I sleep there, and then across the uh tent there's another little room with a little curtain that comes down, and that's where the kids sleep. And typically my younger two sleep on an inflatable bed, like an air mattress. Um, John and I just have camping um sleeping pads, and that's fine. And then Ella, we have had on either a sleeping pad or a smaller blow-up bed. It's just not working. She's too, she's the size of a grown adult. The last time we went camping, we felt like it was maybe not um not sufficient space for her. So what we might do is also bring a small tent. We have a one-person backpacking tent that could do it, or we have a two-person very small tent that could be fine. Usually we bring that kind of thing, put it off to the side, and that's kind of like the hangout tent. So if the kids want to play or have a tent to be in and out of constantly, I don't like them to do that with our sleeping tent because then there's bugs and sand and it grosses me out. And then you go in to get ready for bed, and it's like, well, who's jumping on my mattress and all my covers are everywhere? And like, I I like there to be a designated kid chaos tent, but we may have to sacrifice that um in favor of giving Ella her own sleeping space so that she has some more room to spread out. Um, so we'll see about that. That's something we have to take a look at this weekend. And I'm I'm actually not sure if we're gonna know in advance if we're really gonna have room for that. So we may have to prepare for both potential eventualities and go from there. So um we'll see. But we're in Acadia, we're there uh Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And then I believe everyone else is staying until Tuesday, but we're leaving Monday. Um, so we have four nights uh for us, and we have divided up the food. So I think every family is taking one dinner um to feed the whole crew, and then I think there's one extra dinner, and we have to just kind of play by the play play it by ear and see what we have. Um, the challenge for us is that after this camping trip, we are driving directly. We're gonna on Monday morning, um, we gotta be out early, so we have to kind of pack up to the extent that we can the night before, and then just finish up in the morning. We need to be on the road, I would say by 10 to drive down to Port Clyde, which is um a couple hours, it's about two, two and a half hours south down the coast. Um, because we are catching the ferry. They want to be on the three o'clock ferry out to Monhegan Island, which I've talked about this before. It is this um very rugged little postage stamp out all by its lonesome. There's another very small island off, just kind of like off to the side of it, but um not super uh habitable. Um, whereas Monhegan has um lots of lots of uh Airbnb, you know, kind of inn kind of stuff. It's not a camping island. There's like Airbnb stuff, and there's um vacation rental homes and um some inns, and just very New England and very rustic. Um, and we're gonna be staying um at a place called the Cracked Mug, which I'm super excited about. Um, it is a guest house and it's owned by um the innkeeper at Monhegan House, which is an inn um on the island that has a great restaurant, apparently, that we've never eaten there. We've only gone there as day trippers before, so usually we get on the first ferry out and we're there for the day. And then I believe it's like a 4:30 ferry or something to head back to the mainland. So this is really exciting. We're staying three nights. The guest house we're staying in has four bedrooms. We have rented three of them. Um, and it'll probably be me and John in one, Gloria and Audrey in one, and then Ella in another. And then the fourth bedroom in the house is um rented out. It's kind of like separate, like kind of down the hallway, and it's um rented out to a resident artist who's there for the summer. So um that the island itself is kind of like an arts colony. There's a lot of artists there. Um, I'm in a bunch of Facebook groups for Monegan, and they uh there's a ton of people like sharing their art and their photography. People go out there to do retreats and that kind of thing. Um, there's no cars, they have a handful of uh pickup trucks that help bring people and their gear out to where they're staying if they need that. I'm pretty sure we can get away without that. So, this is what we're thinking through. I'm thinking that we have these two separate trips, right? And the car stays in a parking lot while we're on the island. There's a parking lot near the um dock, and you tell them how long you're staying, and they kind of strategically park your car accordingly. Um, and all of our camping gear will still be in the the van, and we will be on the island. So, what I need to do this weekend, uh, hear me out. This is this is what I'm thinking. Um I think that I'm going to I'm gonna make two packing lists. One is for Monhegan and one is for camping. I'm gonna pretend they're two totally separate trips, and then I'm gonna do a little Venn diagram and figure out what we need just for Mon Hegan and what we need just for camping, and then what's in the middle of the Venn diagram that we need for both, and how can I be organized about repacking that stuff? Um, and like the best way to kind of do that. I this is gonna be really tricky. And the other thing we have to figure out is the food because we are bringing food for camping. Um, we typically don't get through everything we bring, but we need to be much more strategic about that this time because our cooler is gonna be sitting in the van while we're on the island, and uh, you don't want a whole bunch of food just kind of rotting in your car for three days. That's gross. So I have to think through that and make sure that we don't have a lot of leftover stuff. Maybe we can leave things with the other folks who are staying on for an extra day. Um if uh we need to. I don't know. This is stressing me out, but um, anyway, I'm thinking that what we might do is pack John's large backpacking backpack, which um we and I'm not sure that's gonna be enough. So I might call my brother-in-law and see if I can borrow his backpacking backpack because I don't think they need it for Acadia. But what I'm thinking is we pack those two and maybe like another small bet, like a couple small backpacks that the little kids can carry too. And then maybe we like maybe one of those backpacks is packed with the stuff that we don't need while we're camping, and then the other backpack we pack with stuff that is like we're gonna need it while we're camping, but we need to put it back into this backpack so we can just grab it and get on the ferry with it. That's what I'm pondering. We also have to hit a grocery store on the way from Acadia to Port Clyde because uh there isn't really a grocery store on the island. There's a small kind of like staples general store, not staples like store, but like it has like the stuff you the basics. It has the basic staples, you know what I mean? Um there's there's that, and I seem to remember there's a farm stand as well for produce, but you know you never know what you're gonna get, right? So I'm thinking we hit the grocery store. Um, breakfast is included. We can have breakfast up at um uh Monhegan house, which is supposed to be amazing for breakfast, so that's really exciting. But for lunches, dinners, snack food, that kind of thing, um, adult beverages as well. You're on your own, and the house has a kitchen. It actually also has like a speakeasy bakery that only opens at night. That's pretty exciting. That's gonna be um off the side window of the house. So that's exciting. That'll be cool to hang out there. Um anyway, we need to figure out what we what can we bring that's like simple, easy to make, like, but like good food. You know what I mean? So we have to that I have to strategize about this weekend. And uh then I have to find a grocery store because there isn't even a regular grocery store in Port Clyde. So I have to find something that is on its way. Like I didn't even see one in Tenants Harbor, which is a larger area. Um, and we have to figure out like getting it, getting it on the ferry with us. Like what has to be refrigerated or what can be okay not refrigerated for a couple of hours. Um, and the the other thought about the backpacks is that I would like to not have to hire one of those pickup trucks. It's like not that big an island. I feel like we could probably just hike out to where we're staying. I think. I guess I have to think through that. Uh we'll see. I don't know. But anyway, these are all the things that I'm thinking. And for Monhegan, other stuff that we like to bring. Um, I like to get little sketchbooks and like sketching pencils for the kids, but also kind of for me. Um, because there is so much art that happens on Monhegan. It's just kind of like a fun activity for them to do, like when we stop and on a hike and like just take it all in. It's a fun, like little breather activity for them to do to just like sketch stuff that they see while we're there. Um and Ella in particular is very art. They're all very artistic. Ella's uh sketching skills are pretty, pretty good. And um Audrey is as well. Gloria is still pretty little, but um, I think that would be fun. So I have to pick that kind of thing up, uh, deck of cards, that kind of thing. Um, I'm probably gonna reread a book called Summer People, which is what by one of my favorite romance authors. Her name is Brittany Nicole, not the Christian singer. And she uh she writes a lot of hockey romance that I read, but um, she also has this very cute contemporary book called Summer People that is set on Monegan. And um, so I want to reread that while we're out there, and I think that would be that would be fun. But I have to like start, I have to get all these things together, and uh so that's kind of what the weekend is for. So we're gonna, I'm gonna sit down, maybe even this afternoon, make my packing lists. Um, I actually have a packing list on my phone. We keep two camping lists. We have one that is like the stuff to pack, and then we have another that is stuff we forgot to pack, like stuff that along the way we were like, oh, we should, you know what we should have could have used this trip or should have should have packed this trip. And I put all that stuff in a list because you know, when you go a year later, it's not like you can remember those things. Um, so I try to dump those onto a to-do list um as we go. And so let's just take a look at that real quick. Packing, packing. So many packing lists, Danielle. Um stuff we forgot for camping. There's 12 things on here. 12 things on here. Real coffee cups. Oh, this is this is good feedback. We need real coffee cups instead of um the little plastic like mess kit cup cups that we have been using. They just lose heat too quickly and the coffee gets cold like immediately. So um that's important. Um wanna bring why did I say Dr. Bronner's? I don't remember why. This campground does not have showers. If you want to shower, you have to go across um the way into the next town where there are coin op showers. Um so I don't see a lot of showering happening in Acadia. Um, and I can be okay with that. I know I make a really big deal about like requiring a shower every day. I can do a mental shift when I'm camping. Like if it's a nice, if it's campground, like a nice shower, then yes, I'm gonna shower probably every day. But if there's just no shower, I will, I will be okay. I can do hobo baths. It's probably not something you're supposed to say anymore. I can do sink baths, um, or bring, you know, body wipes. Like I'll I will be, I'll survive this, I promise. And then when I get to Monhea getting a shower, like the second I step on that island. Um, so yeah, so I don't know why I said Dr. Bronner's, but um, but we need a better tent fan. That's true. That's true. It wasn't it wasn't strong enough and it didn't like aim in the right direction. It is, you know, it's coastal main. We're not directly on the water, but we're quite close to the water. I don't think it's gonna be sea breezy at the campground necessarily, but um, I looked at the weather, it's got a high of I want to say 81 this week, and then nights get down to around 60. So actually, we may not have to stress too much about the fan for this trip. Um, and then on the island, it's in the 60s every day this week, so you definitely have to think about layers and things like that. Um Dustbuster, like a little a teeny vacuum. That might come in handy. We'll see. Um, we do need to, oh, this is a good note from John. We have to replenish our fire starter kit. Um let's see. Oh, a colander. Bringing a colander is a good idea. Um, what else is on this list here? Oh, waterproof bins for dry food. We've run into a situation where the, you know, the dry food is like in shopping bags or, you know, just in a box kind of thing, and it rains and the box gets wet, and then like your cracker box that's inside gets wet, or your cereal box that's inside gets wet. Um, so we we thought we should bring some large waterproof bins to just hold all the dry food in one place. Um oh, we have talked about a card table. I don't remember why that might not be necessary this trip where we're going with such a big group. Um, binoculars, definitely, because there's lots of cool wildlife to see in Acadia, but then also on Monhegan. So we'll want to bring that to both. Um cooking utensils. Oh, yeah, this came up last time. We only had like the normal mess kit utensils. So we definitely want to bring like some serving spoon, kind of like, you know, a spatula, that kind of thing. We were missing all that stuff last time. It's probably worth just picking up a cheap set that we keep in our keep in our camping bin um rather than trying to remember to take it out for the kitchen at home or vice versa. Um, I'm just looking across my living room and seeing that my daughter did not bring her water bottle to camp today. Ala. Um oh well, it's almost over. I'm gonna go pick her up in a little bit. Oh, the other thing, we yeah, we didn't have the right pump for our air mattress. So we either need to get an air mattress. I believe we need a new air mattress. We're gonna check that out this weekend. But we last time, I think we didn't have the right pump or something. And we did a workaround and it was fine, but it wasn't as good. So we either need to get an air mattress that has a pump built in or bring our air pump with us and just pack it with the mattress. So those are the those are things we forgot last time. Um, but I think the big thing is this weekend we need to pull out the camping bin and all of that gear and kind of test all of it. Like I I'm fairly certain I remember that our era mattress was leaking pretty heavily last time we went, and I think we had made a note that we might need to get a new one for this time. So we need to blow it up and see how it does and test it out. We need to check that that second tent is gonna be an okay size. Um, we need to like just there's definitely some stuff that's gonna need replacing. I also I have been hiking previously on Monhegan in just my Birkenstocks, and that's been fine. But I'm having this old lady foot problem where sometimes wearing flip-floppy type shoes or Birkenstocks is giving the top of my foot an like an annoying pain. And I think it's just related to how you use your feet when you're wearing that kind of shoe rather than something with like more support or that's like containing your foot. Um, so I've been trying not to wear them as much. So I actually feel like I'm gonna bring those, but I'm also probably gonna want to bring my hiking boots, which I have not worn in quite some time. So that's gonna get checked out. Um, I gotta make sure the kids have shoes that are good for clambering around an island. Um, I definitely got rid of my fleece. I had some just like cheap Amazon fleeces, but as I said, I've body shape has changed significantly, and I got rid of those because they were giant on me. Um, and just kind of not flattering, they were just too bulky. So I think I'm gonna need to get a fleece or some kind of layering situation for that. Um, we do want to make sure we bring the white noise machine, and I think that that got taken out of the camp bin to go to Disney. Did it ever get put back in the camp bin? I kind of doubt it. Um, so all of that good stuff. So I'm gonna work on my lists. That's my plan after I finish this recording. Work on my lists and then compare and contrast. And then this weekend we'll pull everything out, we'll test everything out, and come up with a third list of stuff we still need to acquire and or fix. And then I think we'll be ready to start packing slowly. Oh my god. I'm I'm like so I'm so excited about this trip, but I'm also very daunted just because it is a lot of logistics and it's another one of those trips where it's like, I feel like I made a plan and I communicated along the way with the plan, but maybe no one was really paying attention when I was doing that. And so it the trip may just be a surprise to everybody. And that makes me nervous when it's not Disney or universal where I feel like I am an expert. Um, and uh so this, but you know what? We're going out on a limb and it's gonna be a fun experience, regardless. And yeah, so that's this is gonna count as a little pre-trip report. We probably won't get to like a formal trip report because we're playing a lot of stuff by ear here. Um, but definitely there will be some. I'm thinking maybe on the goes on the cape trip, and yeah, probably on the goes on the island as well. And I always try to get um some good content. I always get like really fun New Englandy b-roll when we do this our main trip every year. So I'm looking forward to that. And um getting a little more active on social media again, so that would be that would be a good way to kind of kick it off is with the big main adventure. So I hope you'll follow along. Check back here, we're gonna get all of that good stuff, and then also Haley's post-trip report, which I is just gonna be a beast, like buckle up, it's probably gonna be a two-parter. I cannot even imagine the level of detail we're gonna get from where I'm excited. Um and yeah, so hey, if you want help planning your own adventure, I would just love to help you. I do Disney Universal, um, I do most major cruise lines, I do all inclusives, and then I also do this kind of thing. So if you're like looking to have an off the beaten path kind of adventure, I would love to talk through how I could help with that. And um, yeah, reach out when you can. It's uh Danielle Griggs at fantastical vacations.com, and I would just love to help. Um, so hey, I wish me luck. And if that's all for now, see you real soon.