Hello. Hey, Boomer. Listeners.
Speaker:Welcome from me and Maddie. Hi. We are here
Speaker:in Nashville for a very special show for all
Speaker:of you. I think some of you know that
Speaker:it has been my birthday. Hi, Heidi.
Speaker:And I've had such a wonderful time here.
Speaker:We had an amazing meal for my birthday because my son
Speaker:is quite the chef and we had a beautiful death
Speaker:by chocolate cake because Maddie's mother is
Speaker:an amazing baker. And then I got
Speaker:presents and we played in the pool and we went to a soccer game.
Speaker:So we have just had the best time.
Speaker:And today hi, Doris. Today I
Speaker:want to talk about being a mom and a grandma and traveling
Speaker:with your grandchildren. Hi, Gail.
Speaker:So being a mom, as you all probably
Speaker:agree, is one of the hardest jobs because you're
Speaker:trying to raise your children and teach them lessons and have all these
Speaker:moral conversations and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker:And being a grandmother is
Speaker:just a joy because you don't have to do that. You don't have to do
Speaker:the parenting right, and we help you, and we just
Speaker:get to play and love. So all of that is
Speaker:wonderful fun. And one of the ways
Speaker:that I started doing that, because it was super important to me
Speaker:to be involved in the lives of my grandchildren
Speaker:and really get to know them and have them get to know me
Speaker:and hopefully be a good role model for them.
Speaker:And so one of the things we did early on when they were little is
Speaker:we had Camp Way, Way, and Way. Way is what they call me.
Speaker:That's short for Wendy. And I
Speaker:would have Maddie and her brother Alex one
Speaker:summer, or I would have Grayson and Griffin one summer,
Speaker:and we would do art projects and we would go on little adventures, and that
Speaker:was always fun. But I promised the kids, each one of them,
Speaker:when they were somewhere between ten and 14,
Speaker:let's say we would go on a trip,
Speaker:just the two of us, and we would pick a place to
Speaker:go and we would have our own individual adventure.
Speaker:And so the first trip was with Grayson,
Speaker:my first grandchild, and we
Speaker:went to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and then we
Speaker:drove from there to Nashville and we went to the Grand
Speaker:Old Opry and we went to the Ryman Auditorium and we
Speaker:saw Vince Gill, and that was super fun.
Speaker:And my second trip was with Maddie.
Speaker:That's me.
Speaker:And Maddie and I did a road scholar trip.
Speaker:Road Scholar is a travel organization
Speaker:for older adults, and they
Speaker:also do grandparent trips. And we're going to actually have them as a guest later
Speaker:on, I think next month or maybe October.
Speaker:But Maddie and I went to Chinkatik Island.
Speaker:And you read about Misty of Chinkatik before we went, right?
Speaker:Yes. So we did a little preparation for what we were
Speaker:going to do there, and it was a science
Speaker:kind of a trip. We went to see the Wild horses, but we also
Speaker:did a lot of ocean science and bay science and learned
Speaker:a lot while we were there. So we're going to talk,
Speaker:Maddie and I, about our experience on that trip.
Speaker:But first I want to talk about doTERRA,
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Speaker:remember somewhere when we first started talking about doTERRA
Speaker:that some of you talked about having experience with
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Speaker:comment in the chat and let me know that
Speaker:you are familiar with doTERRA, what you liked about it,
Speaker:maybe what oils or products you used. I would just like to get a
Speaker:little feedback on that. And I wanted to
Speaker:point you towards my doTERRA wellness advocate,
Speaker:Heidi Woody. And Heidi
Speaker:is absolutely committed to
Speaker:learning as much as she can and sharing her knowledge and
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Speaker:it can improve our lives. And you can reach
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Speaker:heidig Woody so
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Speaker:or anything like that. Just reach out to Heidi, talk to her
Speaker:a little bit about it, see if you think that doTERRA might help.
Speaker:I can tell you it has certainly helped me.
Speaker:Another thing, labor Day is coming up, right? And so
Speaker:I didn't book anybody for Labor Day because I figured everybody off
Speaker:doing stuff, but it's the Delta variant, so we may
Speaker:not be out doing too much. So I thought
Speaker:instead of that, maybe you all would like
Speaker:to get together and have like, a little hey Boomer
Speaker:Chat. And so I'm thinking we would do it on Zoom
Speaker:so we can all get to know who's in our boomer community.
Speaker:If you think you might be interested in that and you think it might be
Speaker:fun, drop me an email at wendy at Hayboomer
Speaker:Biz and I'll compile this little email list, send out
Speaker:some proposed times that might be good and
Speaker:we could have fun. Just bring your my tie or your iced tea
Speaker:or whatever you want to drink that day. And let's have a little
Speaker:hey boomer chat for Labor Day,
Speaker:okay? You know, I love to see you out
Speaker:there. I love having the comments. Hi, Susan.
Speaker:And so thank you all who have already commented and said hi
Speaker:to us. Continue. That another thing. If you know
Speaker:people that you think would enjoy this show, whether they can watch
Speaker:live or not, if you put their name in the chat with
Speaker:an ampersand, it's going to tag them and let
Speaker:right the little A sign, it's going to tag them and let
Speaker:them know, oh, I was thinking about you. About you and
Speaker:your grandchildren. I bet you would like this show. So go and
Speaker:watch it. So go ahead and do that and let your friends know.
Speaker:Hi, friends. Are you ready? Yes. Okay.
Speaker:We introduce you to the fabulous, amazing Maddie.
Speaker:It's nice to meet you guys.
Speaker:I said she's my granddaughter. I'm her granddaughter.
Speaker:My second granddaughter sickly first.
Speaker:She's 13 years old. Maddie was born in DC.
Speaker:She has lived in Pennsylvania,
Speaker:she has lived in Asheville,
Speaker:and now she is living in Nashville.
Speaker:And I still can't spell Nashville, right? Because Nashville
Speaker:has an e and Nashville does not.
Speaker:So confusing. Maddie also has an amazing
Speaker:entrepreneurial spirit. Last year
Speaker:she had an ice cream subscription
Speaker:business, right? She made her own ice cream.
Speaker:She sold it by membership to
Speaker:neighbors. And she was making ice cream all summer. Right.
Speaker:And the best part was I got 50% of the ice cream I made.
Speaker:And you made money. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker:so that was part of our trip out, too. She was talking to me about
Speaker:how she was going to take over Amazon or compete with
Speaker:them. You know, we might do that in the future.
Speaker:Like that future.
Speaker:So anyway, Maddie is a natural leader and she's a friend magnet,
Speaker:which helped a lot on this trip because she made friends
Speaker:right away. So let me just tell
Speaker:you, we left Asheville
Speaker:and we had a very long drive to
Speaker:get from Asheville to the shore of Maryland
Speaker:where Chicatik Island was. So we stopped.
Speaker:So Maddie, do you remember where we stopped that first night?
Speaker:Wasn't it like a great with the hotel,
Speaker:whatever. What was your excitement about seeing that hotel? So I got all
Speaker:these butterflies in my stomach and I was like, oh, my goodness, I get to
Speaker:unpack all my stuff and then I see this pool
Speaker:there and it looked so fun. And they had the best waffles
Speaker:in the morning and that was a lot of fun. And we had been stuck
Speaker:in a bunch of traffic on the drive, so we got to rest.
Speaker:And I was really excited about that, right. Pool.
Speaker:Pool was important in that hotel. Before we and we also
Speaker:went to the Walmart, remember? And I got a giant ball.
Speaker:We kind of played the Walmart game, running around Walmart like, oh, what are.
Speaker:We going to do? Some time before it's dinner, we got.
Speaker:A giant blue ball that was bouncy and a lot
Speaker:of fun. And before we went on to
Speaker:Chinkate, because we couldn't check in too early,
Speaker:we decided to stop at the Norfolk Naval base.
Speaker:And we took a tour of the naval base. That was so
Speaker:cool. I mean, there's all these giant things.
Speaker:Just giant things. What are those things called?
Speaker:Ships. Yes,
Speaker:there were ships. And there was this bus and we took this bus and it
Speaker:looked so sketchy from the outside because it was. All like dark and black.
Speaker:And then we get in, and there's all these cool, giant seats, and it.
Speaker:Was so much fun. And cool was the operative
Speaker:word because it had been pretty hot that day.
Speaker:Yeah, but that was a cool trip to go around the naval base and
Speaker:learn about the different ships, destroyers and battleships
Speaker:and whatever heck they were. I thought I was playing the game.
Speaker:And they let us letting us get pretty close.
Speaker:Yeah. And there were the statues with all the labels,
Speaker:and then we got to read the labels and learn about it.
Speaker:Yeah. I have to say she was a great travel companion because
Speaker:Maddie has this brain that is interested in everything. Very curious.
Speaker:So we were so excited to finally
Speaker:get to Chinkatik, and we left the naval base, and we're
Speaker:driving along, and we're driving
Speaker:along, and we're driving along, and it's becoming,
Speaker:like, less and less populated, and we're, like,
Speaker:wonder where we're going here. And the answer was to the middle of
Speaker:nowhere.
Speaker:It was called the Chinkatik Field Station,
Speaker:and it was like a dormitory, kind of a set up.
Speaker:What was your first impression when you saw it? Okay, so I got again,
Speaker:the butterflies came back, and I wanted them to go away, but at the same
Speaker:time, it was kind of tickly. And then we get into this dorm,
Speaker:and it's like, there's three beds, so we had an extra bed for storage
Speaker:and safe. And I love setting up
Speaker:bunks and stuff, so that's always my favorite thing to do at camp, is get
Speaker:in and just set up the area. So we set up all of
Speaker:our stuff, and then we met a bunch of people in our dorms, and we
Speaker:played with the giant blue ball that we got at Walmart,
Speaker:and we got introduced to everybody, and then we went and did we
Speaker:have lunch? We did. And we had lunch. And we found
Speaker:this creepy crawley that you didn't like very much. There was
Speaker:a spider. It's like that big.
Speaker:It was that big. That big.
Speaker:I learned that Maddie was afraid of spiders.
Speaker:They're crawling.
Speaker:She's like, she says she's setting up. She's unpacking her
Speaker:bed, you know, setting every hanging things. Yeah,
Speaker:everything is set up so nice. And there's spider girls out. She was like,
Speaker:on the bed. Oh, my God, there's a spider.
Speaker:It's just a spider. It's tiny, tiny, tiny.
Speaker:No, that was it was so big.
Speaker:It was like a balloon. It was a balloon.
Speaker:So that was kind of funny for us.
Speaker:So, yeah, like she said. So we got our room set up,
Speaker:and then we met some of the people in the
Speaker:dorm. And then Maddie just immediately was,
Speaker:like, out in the mix meeting everybody.
Speaker:She became, like, the little team leader there.
Speaker:And we had our introduction to what
Speaker:the events were going to be like at Chinketik. It was
Speaker:crazy. It was like, okay, we're going to do this, then this, then this.
Speaker:And I was like, whoa. Then when you actually start, it's like,
Speaker:okay, yeah. So it was kind of
Speaker:cool. Can I see that book? So I
Speaker:made a book for us, a memory book. I did this with Grayson also,
Speaker:and it tells the story of our
Speaker:trip, and it's a great reminder and
Speaker:of what we did. So the first day, we headed out
Speaker:to the nature center there, and they had
Speaker:that touch tank. There were, like, little stingry
Speaker:thingies, and I thought horseshoe crabs,
Speaker:horse, those creep me out. They're like,
Speaker:cool from the outside, but on the inside, it's like it's like the spider again.
Speaker:But the person with us from Rhode Scholar
Speaker:was explaining all about the different sea creatures, and then they
Speaker:had, like, these binoculars look out over the
Speaker:water. It was like one giant sort of telescopey thing that
Speaker:I loved looking out of, and you could see everything.
Speaker:Yeah. And then we got to have a picnic and play in the
Speaker:Atlantic, because on Chinkatik Island, you have the
Speaker:bay on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other side.
Speaker:And we learned that the reason Chinkatik
Speaker:Island was made a natural resource
Speaker:preserve was because of the wild ponies.
Speaker:And there's some discrepancy or disagreement or whatever about
Speaker:how they may have ended up there. The exciting story is that
Speaker:a shipwreck happened and the ponies all swam to this island
Speaker:and then the egrets, right? So there's a lot of these beautiful
Speaker:egrets on the island now, but at one time,
Speaker:people were hunting those egrets for their feathers,
Speaker:and so they created this natural preserve
Speaker:area to protect the ponies and to protect the egrets.
Speaker:So after that, we headed for ice cream,
Speaker:back for dinner, and then, of course, we had to have a campfire s'mores.
Speaker:S'mores so good,
Speaker:right? You have a day of ice cream, and s'mores doesn't get
Speaker:better, and you. Have to take the chocolate off the s'more and then eat
Speaker:it separate.
Speaker:And one thing that I also always do with my grandchildren
Speaker:when we go on these trips I don't know if Griffin is going to go
Speaker:along with this is we journal. Yes.
Speaker:Right. So that's kind of part of the trip. I journal,
Speaker:and my grandchildren will journal.
Speaker:And it's a way to have a memory book also
Speaker:of what we did.
Speaker:I remember this one time where she told me to journal,
Speaker:and the only thing I could remember from that day was,
Speaker:like, driving around town and seeing this guy, and he
Speaker:had this giant backpack on. He was walking his dog,
Speaker:and on the top of his backpack, there was a cat. I remember that.
Speaker:And I had to draw it in the journal. I remember
Speaker:that. That was pretty funny. It was amazing. I would like to teach my
Speaker:cat to do that. Just stay on top of there. I know,
Speaker:but, like, what happens if they jump down?
Speaker:I guess the cat was trained to. Stay up or duct
Speaker:taped. Cat tape. Duct taped. Cat taped.
Speaker:So the second day, we really kind
Speaker:of went out on our adventure. So we started with something called the Godzilla
Speaker:line. Do you remember what that was? Yeah.
Speaker:Everybody holds hands and lines up. And then a few people take
Speaker:this giant net, right? And then they hold it at one
Speaker:end of the river downstream. And then the people who are upstream,
Speaker:they run down and chase all the fish into the line and
Speaker:the shrimp and everything. And then you pull up the god,
Speaker:and then there's all these fish in it, right. So it's sane
Speaker:netting, it's a way that they used to catch fish. And what we
Speaker:did was we would capture some of the ones that
Speaker:were caught in the net, and we brought them back to the lab
Speaker:so that we could study them and learn about the different
Speaker:creatures that would be in the water. And we all had these little,
Speaker:like, the magnifying
Speaker:glasses hung around our necks. And we would all look at the. Little fishes
Speaker:and the crabs. You remember catching the crabs?
Speaker:How was that? They were big.
Speaker:Yeah, I think you liked netting them.
Speaker:Better than yes, I liked netting them, and I liked
Speaker:when we got to put them in the bucket and
Speaker:then. I'd go, yeah, because she didn't like all the icky stuff you had to
Speaker:put on the hook to get the crabs.
Speaker:And they were over here like, I'm. Going to get you.
Speaker:Okay, so after the same netting, I think that's when
Speaker:we went to the mud pits, right? Oh, my goodness.
Speaker:Maddie had a question for me about the mud pits. Like, she asked me
Speaker:what was one of my what was one of your.
Speaker:Favorite experiences, or like, most memorable with
Speaker:the grandparents, right? So you've got to understand this was grandparents.
Speaker:So we were ages in our 50 plus.
Speaker:I think Maya's grandpa was in his eighty s. Yeah.
Speaker:And so walking out to the mud pit, I mean, it was
Speaker:sucking our feet really hard to walk
Speaker:in. And I'm trying to walk
Speaker:with some of these grandparents that were not as balanced,
Speaker:hoping we weren't going to lose any of them in the mud pit.
Speaker:Only a few. Only few.
Speaker:It's a little treacherous. But when we got to the mud.
Speaker:It was like this giant pit, and I had never seen so much mud.
Speaker:And I was so excited because then we got to cover ourselves in mud,
Speaker:right? And I was like, OOH, all this essentialness. And I
Speaker:covered myself in mud and I put some on my face,
Speaker:and all I remember was how bad it smelled.
Speaker:It smelled so bad. Picture of
Speaker:the girls with the mud all over them. It smelled so bad. It was sulfur,
Speaker:kind of. It smelled like rotten eggs.
Speaker:And it was gross,
Speaker:but fun, but gross when it dried
Speaker:and like caked off. It was so good for your skin, my dear.
Speaker:Flourishing. Very lovely for the skin.
Speaker:The girls loved it. I think I stayed out and
Speaker:held on to some of the grandparents. You didn't
Speaker:get fully encased in the mud? I did not.
Speaker:But it was good for your skin. It was good for your skin and
Speaker:it wore them out, I'll tell you, that. Bus ride back to the
Speaker:field station that day. Hello, David.
Speaker:Hi, David. I think most of the kids
Speaker:kind of fell asleep on the bus on the way back. I did.
Speaker:You did. So our third
Speaker:day was when we were doing a lot
Speaker:of the science work in the lab and learning about
Speaker:the different creatures that were in the bay and down
Speaker:by the bay, down by okay. She's the singer.
Speaker:Yeah. So do you remember any of the science
Speaker:stuff, what we learned? Yeah, so I remember there being a bunch of samples
Speaker:on the big table in the front, and we were all sitting it's kind of
Speaker:like a college classroom. It was. And we all
Speaker:had magnifying glasses and like what
Speaker:are they called? The microscopes. Yes. And we put
Speaker:the stuff on, like, a little tray under it, and then we got to
Speaker:look at it and it looked crazy weird, like all these little
Speaker:tiny and then the person was coming around and
Speaker:she was talking to us about what we were seeing. And it was really cool.
Speaker:And me and Maya had a lot of fun looking at them.
Speaker:I just remember laughing a lot. Yes, there was quite a bit
Speaker:of laughing. And because some of the stuff you just put that drop
Speaker:of water and you don't think there's anything in it until there
Speaker:is. Little squirmy things.
Speaker:Weird, but fun. But weird. Yeah,
Speaker:mainly weird. And then the final night,
Speaker:the counselors or the leaders were so
Speaker:excited that they were going to well, first of all, we did the talent show.
Speaker:Wait, let's think about that first. So me and Maya decided
Speaker:that we were going to do toe painting with ketchup and mustard.
Speaker:So we had these two bowls of ketchup and mustard
Speaker:in front of us and ketchup
Speaker:in the picture. Yeah. You would ask the audience, right? Yeah.
Speaker:We said, what should we paint? And we
Speaker:painted with our toes.
Speaker:Toe painting. Can you see the toe painting?
Speaker:Because that was the best thing to do at a talent show. Very creative.
Speaker:Oh, yeah. I have to say that was the. Counselors or the leaders did it
Speaker:once. Did they? I think they did. Is that where you got the idea?
Speaker:You think maybe they did
Speaker:something like much more competitive, like a
Speaker:bear wearing a halo?
Speaker:I don't know. And then the kids would vote on. Oh,
Speaker:maybe they did that. They were helping you prepare because there were times
Speaker:you were with them and you weren't there.
Speaker:Yeah, they gave us grandparents a little break every once in
Speaker:a while. Oh, and then I was the host.
Speaker:You were the host? I was the host. I had the fake microphone,
Speaker:right? Like, no surprise.
Speaker:Maddie's the leader. Maddie's the friend magnet.
Speaker:Everybody wanted Maddie to be the leader and in charge. Actually,
Speaker:I kind of just said that I was.
Speaker:Is that what a leader does? Bruce Malcolm, though. Yeah, I'll just
Speaker:take over, right? Yeah, you know,
Speaker:I think so. Then I got the funny voice and the hello,
Speaker:people. So after the talent show,
Speaker:as I started to say, the counselors, they put together
Speaker:this fabulous meal for us.
Speaker:They did a low country boil. We were in the
Speaker:eastern shore of Maryland, right, with these great crabs.
Speaker:And so they did a low country boil. And they were so excited.
Speaker:Everything spread out with the brown paper on the tables.
Speaker:And they were going to show us how to pick crabs.
Speaker:Okay, so I have never liked seafood. So they tell us
Speaker:to open up the crabs and then there's going to be mustard in it,
Speaker:right? So I open it. There's this brown squishy stuff. And I
Speaker:was like, oh, no. So then on the drive home, I texted my parents
Speaker:and I was like, mom, dad, I am now vegetarian. She did.
Speaker:And I was vegetarian for six months.
Speaker:Not just seafood. She gave up all meat for a while because of
Speaker:that one experience with picking crabs.
Speaker:I loved it. On the other hand, everybody did. People were just eating
Speaker:the crabs all around me. And I was like, oh, my goodness Grish. And it
Speaker:was fortunately, there was corn, of course, and potatoes and so other things that
Speaker:she could eat. But she was not enthralled.
Speaker:They weren't dead. They were dead. They were like
Speaker:there with their claws. They're going to pinch your mouth.
Speaker:No, the Maryland crabs are some of the best.
Speaker:Let's see. In the fall, I'm going to
Speaker:take Griffin to Atlanta. Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Griffin and I got delayed on our trip because of COVID so we're replanning.
Speaker:So we're going to go to Atlanta. And then next year is the trip with
Speaker:your brother. He's so excited. Do you have
Speaker:any advice for him?
Speaker:Mainly just to not freak out. He gets homesick,
Speaker:but he won't admit that he's homesick. Like, you'll know that he's
Speaker:upset, but he won't tell you that he's upset.
Speaker:So as long as he stays open,
Speaker:then he makes a lot of friends. Because I think
Speaker:the main thing is making friends. As long as he makes friends, as long
Speaker:as he is good with you, then he'll
Speaker:be perfectly fine. He loves trips. He loves getting
Speaker:out of the house. He does love travel. You guys are both good travelers.
Speaker:And I'm sure we will have a few laps of our own and
Speaker:we'll work together to kick the trip. He's going to love it.
Speaker:He's going to love it. He has his mind set on the grand canyon.
Speaker:Oh, really? Well, we may have to talk that through because that
Speaker:was also going to be a family trip for your family.
Speaker:There are other national parks we'll have to talk about that.
Speaker:We'll see. So did you have some questions for me?
Speaker:Yes, I did. What inspired you to start taking
Speaker:your grandkids on trips and why at the age you
Speaker:picked? And I love that question.
Speaker:And like I said,
Speaker:I love visiting the families and everybody's excited
Speaker:and talking, and we're all interacting, but to have
Speaker:that one on one time,
Speaker:I'm going to cry. To have that one on one time with each
Speaker:of my grandchildren separately, to get to know them,
Speaker:to watch them and their excitement, to live it
Speaker:through their eyes, to have that time.
Speaker:And I picked the ages, Maddie,
Speaker:like, between ten and 13, typically,
Speaker:because you're young enough that it's
Speaker:still cool to go out and be with your grandparents,
Speaker:right. But you're old enough that
Speaker:it's not too scary to leave.
Speaker:You don't need a whole lot of care.
Speaker:So it's a good age between ten and 13
Speaker:to do it, and it's just been the best thing.
Speaker:I have loved it. What was it like going for the first time
Speaker:with Grayson? Like, were you nervous? Were you scared?
Speaker:I think she was a little nervous, I would imagine.
Speaker:Yeah, I think she was a little nervous, but she
Speaker:was great, like you, because in the car, we had
Speaker:great conversations. I mean, Maddie was telling
Speaker:me about all her business ideas, and like I
Speaker:said, she's going to take over the Amazon market,
Speaker:not totally take over multibillion.
Speaker:Grayson was into the women's soccer. Oh,
Speaker:yeah, right. So she was naming all of the women's soccer team
Speaker:players.
Speaker:Maddie's family and Grayson's family, they try to keep
Speaker:a very healthy, nice meal balance and
Speaker:all of that. Well, when we're on the road,
Speaker:right, we're eating at the Waffle House or Kentucky Fried Chicken. I had Waffle
Speaker:House for the first time, and it still remains the first time.
Speaker:So, yes, they get to have travel food when they're with me,
Speaker:but I don't think I was really nervous. I was so excited
Speaker:to go. So was I. I was like, whoa, junk food. Yay.
Speaker:Junk food. What else?
Speaker:What were some of your favorite
Speaker:moments? I asked you about it with the grandparents.
Speaker:Do you remember any with you and me?
Speaker:Oh, yeah. So many favorite moments.
Speaker:I think just driving out the first time,
Speaker:I was like, okay, so this is a long drive.
Speaker:What are we going to talk about? We talked. We talked
Speaker:and talked. I know. It was so fun. We had
Speaker:so much to talk about. It was really refreshing.
Speaker:Refreshing? Well, because the
Speaker:parents are like, yup while they're reading the magazine,
Speaker:and we're just sitting here on the six hour car ride just talking.
Speaker:We had so much fun, and we
Speaker:were silly. And I think
Speaker:watching you. I didn't know how much you
Speaker:just gravitated and people gravitated to you. I didn't
Speaker:know that because when I would visit, I'm usually with your family.
Speaker:Yeah, right. And to see her just she kind
Speaker:of hurted people towards her. She didn't hurt her,
Speaker:but like a people hurt her. People hurt her. I know. They were
Speaker:climbing trees and they were like, oh, is Maddie there? Can Maddie come play?
Speaker:Yeah. She was such a natural leader. I loved watching. It was just
Speaker:a lot of fun. I think that if you have fun, everyone around you has
Speaker:fun. It's like the mood. They explain this
Speaker:at camp to us, but it's like happiness is like glitter. Once glitter
Speaker:is out, it's out, and it can't come back in, which can be very
Speaker:annoying because then it's in your carpets.
Speaker:But at the same time, you can also throw
Speaker:it. You can throw the glitter everywhere and
Speaker:it's sparkly. Yeah. So I
Speaker:am telling you, I would highly recommend traveling with your grandchildren
Speaker:and getting to know them. It is
Speaker:so much fun. And building those memories,
Speaker:like, that's going to be there forever. Oh, yeah.
Speaker:She has the book, the picture book. She has her
Speaker:journal. If she doesn't lose it. No, I still have it.
Speaker:It is in my bookshelves. When we got
Speaker:to the hotel, what were some of your first thoughts?
Speaker:Like, were you excited or were you like,
Speaker:oh, man, look at this hotel. I was glad to be there.
Speaker:I mean, it was a long drive.
Speaker:It was a long drive, a tiring drive,
Speaker:because we had all that delay, the big backup that we ran
Speaker:into. So I was just glad to be there and
Speaker:let you play in the pool. And I could chill for a few minutes.
Speaker:Chill being, again, the keyword, because it
Speaker:was hot or car. Then we got the pool and
Speaker:we got to chill. Right. We got to have dinner and rest and get
Speaker:ready for any waffles. I eat waffles the next morning before
Speaker:we went to the naval base. Oh, yeah.
Speaker:That was a lot of fun. So would you recommend traveling
Speaker:with grandparents to your friends? I would give it
Speaker:six stars. Because six out
Speaker:of ten. Five. Six out of five,
Speaker:which is like. Twelve out of ten.
Speaker:Okay. And then because you get to
Speaker:be with your grandparents, and you don't get to do that a ton,
Speaker:especially when they live in a whole nother state. And so
Speaker:we got to connect a lot. And our room was super
Speaker:cool, minus the big giant spider.
Speaker:Yeah. And it wasn't fancy.
Speaker:It was a dorm. Yeah. Right? So we had our room. We had to share
Speaker:the shower and a bath and all, but it was. Still a lot of fun,
Speaker:like, waking up and being like, oh, my goodness, what are we going to do
Speaker:today? Are we going to see more wild horses? Are we going to go.
Speaker:Into town and see a lighthouse and get souvenirs and
Speaker:it was so much fun. Hey, we didn't even talk about the lighthouse,
Speaker:did we? Oh, no. So one day, it was a free day,
Speaker:and me and my friend Isabelle, we went into
Speaker:town with her. With her grandmother?
Speaker:No, we just walked out by themselves? Yeah. She gave me
Speaker:the car keys. I was gone.
Speaker:And then we went to the lighthouse.
Speaker:And then we went souvenir shopping, and we spent
Speaker:30 minutes and I spent 30 minutes at the store. And I bought three
Speaker:magnets. You have to have magnets of
Speaker:your trip. Oh, yeah. Super important to have magnets.
Speaker:Right, for your refrigerator. And I really wanted this purse,
Speaker:but I didn't get the purse.
Speaker:But you got something for Mom, dad and Alex, the magnets. That's right.
Speaker:Super important magnets. And I picked each magnet
Speaker:individually because it looked like the mom, the son and the dad.
Speaker:How thoughtful. Yeah.
Speaker:And I think when we came home, I think you were ready to be home.
Speaker:Yeah. There was no giant spiders
Speaker:in my room. There was not a moth flying around.
Speaker:There was a moth, too, guys. It was real scary.
Speaker:It was buggy. It was buggy. There were two.
Speaker:It was crazy. But,
Speaker:you know, it was a great time. We thoroughly
Speaker:enjoyed it. We were ready to come home. We were both tired. We were both
Speaker:tired. Really good showers. So much fun. And we couldn't wait to tell mom
Speaker:and dad about all we had to tell him everything and
Speaker:have a good dinner. Oh, yeah. We knew dad would cook us a good dinner
Speaker:that night. Yeah. I love
Speaker:you guys, too.
Speaker:So that's the takeaways.
Speaker:Travel with your grandkids. Make it a special time.
Speaker:It doesn't have to be fancy. I hear people say
Speaker:they take them anywhere in the world. That's fine if that's what you want to
Speaker:do, but make it special and make it about them.
Speaker:And them.
Speaker:Thank you. What? People are saying you are the
Speaker:most inspirational guest yet. I'm blushing.
Speaker:But you can't see because there's a white light.
Speaker:So let me tell you about next week's guest,
Speaker:who also, I think is going to be inspiring.
Speaker:All right, so next week's guest, I was
Speaker:introduced to him. His name is. The future is bright with Wendy
Speaker:and her grandchildren. Thank you, Susan. She has a lot of them.
Speaker:So, anyway, next week's guest I was introduced to by
Speaker:a friend. He is a retired journalist with
Speaker:the Detroit Free Press, and he recently wrote a book
Speaker:he recently wrote a book about oh,
Speaker:wait, bruce wants to hear more about the ice cream subscription. We'll tell you in
Speaker:a second, Bruce. Anyway, John Gallagher recently wrote
Speaker:a book called The Irishman and Detroit.
Speaker:And it's a great story about two people that
Speaker:well, two people, the man who is
Speaker:a boomer and Detroit, who were both down on their
Speaker:luck. I mean, certainly you've heard about all of the hard times
Speaker:Detroit has had. So this is kind of a comeback
Speaker:story for both Detroit and this
Speaker:gentleman and entrepreneurship in Detroit.
Speaker:It's a fascinating read. Please join me next week.
Speaker:Bruce wants to get your ice cream subscription company on Shark
Speaker:Tank. Well, it all started with one Borg summer,
Speaker:and I was like, man, we have nothing to do. And my
Speaker:mom was like, I forgot. I bought an ice cream maker
Speaker:a few years to one year ago, and we never used
Speaker:it. So I was like, oh, my goodness. What if I sold ice
Speaker:cream to our street? You and your
Speaker:dad made a business plan? My dad made me write a whole outline,
Speaker:and I had to make a logo and everything. So then
Speaker:we printed out the what. Did you call it? Funny koalas homemade
Speaker:ice cream. Homemade gourmet. Yeah,
Speaker:because it was super fancy. My favorite flavor I made was coffee
Speaker:Oreo. That was really good.
Speaker:A Christmas special. And then I passed
Speaker:out all the flyers, and the emails came in,
Speaker:and I was like, oh, my goodness. I didn't actually realize I said, have to
Speaker:work. I thought I could just eat ice cream. So then I made the
Speaker:ice cream, and my brother, he would give them to people,
Speaker:and I paid him by giving him ice cream.
Speaker:So he basically just got to lick the bowl, which was like three servings of
Speaker:ice cream. And then we filled up these little containers,
Speaker:and we biked really fast down the street so it wouldn't melt.
Speaker:And we knocked on people's door, and we stood there like, come on, come on,
Speaker:come on. Because we didn't want it to melt, right? So they
Speaker:opened the door, and we're like, here's your ice cream. They were like, thanks.
Speaker:Here's your money. And we're like, thanks. And then I got this jar,
Speaker:and we made some money, and it was a lot of fun. Shark Tank.
Speaker:Here we go. All right, so anyway,
Speaker:thank you for tuning in today, Bruce. I think we'll
Speaker:work on her presentation, but she may get
Speaker:there. She may get there.
Speaker:Support Heidi, Woody, and doTERRA, go ahead and
Speaker:contact her and let her know what ails
Speaker:you and see if there's something that they can do that can help.
Speaker:Let me know if you would like to whoops that's? The website
Speaker:email me. Let me know if you would like to join us
Speaker:for our Labor Day zoom, where we're going to kick back with
Speaker:our chill drinks and just kind of get to know each other and chat about
Speaker:whatever we want to chat about. So drop me
Speaker:an email. I'll put you on the list, and we will cover
Speaker:that. And I think that's all
Speaker:I want to hello, Anne.
Speaker:Whoops. I need to take that off. Oh, hi, Anne. Yeah,
Speaker:I wanted to remind you where did my cursor go?
Speaker:That I always like
Speaker:to leave my show with this note. Maddie, you are
Speaker:never too old. Wait to set another
Speaker:goal or dream a new dream. Got it?
Speaker:So keep dreaming. Got it. Come back next week.
Speaker:Join us. I love you all. My name
Speaker:is Wendy Green. This is Maddie, the reporter.