We Took 8 Kids on a Cruise to Mexico — ATVs, Camels, and Nobody Drowned | Big Family Jewels

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We spotted our cruise ship from Disneyland. And then we got on it. Eight kids. Open ocean. All-you-can-eat everything. Xander found the food within 30 seconds of boarding. This was always going to be chaotic. 🚢 First stop: the ship. The kids lost their minds at the size of it — water slides, a flow rider, lifeboats on the side. Xander disappeared toward the buffet immediately. We ate butter lemon something. It was good. Second stop: Cabo San Lucas. We got off the ship, survived the cat bridge situation, rode ATVs, and then — camels. Yes, camels. In Cabo. My heart. Third stop: Mexico. The kids were bargaining in the market, touching things they shouldn't, wandering into a cemetery, getting drawn toward rocks in the ocean, and absolutely not listening to me. They did, however, listen to the lifeguards and the police. So there's that. We lost Xander. At least it was Xander. Cruise recap: chaotic, beautiful, ridiculous, worth every puppy dollar. 🐾💛 👇 Have you ever taken a big family on a cruise? What port was your favorite? Drop it below! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 First look at the cruise ship — it's MASSIVE 1:07 Boarding + checking in (it was rough) 1:53 Xander finds the food immediately 3:10 Life on the ship — food, fun, and flow rider 7:08 Arriving in Cabo San Lucas 7:42 The cat bridge moment 8:17 ATVs in Cabo 8:28 Riding camels — yes, really 10:50 Mexico port day 11:13 Kids bargaining in the market (chaos) 12:20 Wandering into the cemetery 13:03 Beach day — nobody listening, Xander lost 13:58 Mexico wrap-up ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ WATCH THE VIDEO PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/@JulieJeppson/featured 🎧 LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/julie-jeppson/id1723559441 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/195HkHnjCXBc4sEgFvvnFj Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcHAua2FqYWJpLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0cy8yMTQ3Njk5NTM5L2ZlZWQ 💛 JOIN THE CHANNEL FOR PERKS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHI_BZNa02ETMuPCbiHShag/join 💸 Support Julie directly: Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/julie-boye CashApp: https://cash.app/$thebigfamilyjewels 🎮 FAMILY CHALLENGE CHANNEL — The Big Family Duels https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa2NTkZE9Ywiw5DExLFFRgg 👵 BON BON'S CHANNEL — Expert Grandma https://www.youtube.com/@thebestofbonbon 🦴 WRIST JOURNEY VIDEOS: My severely broken wrist: https://youtu.be/8xMK3uYyEVw Flu Shots: https://youtu.be/qG7JHkPxAhs 4 Surgeries in One Day: https://youtu.be/V8ldhjEGtJo Post-Surgery Cast Comes Off: https://youtu.be/F67xHJr6RdA Worst Break the Surgeon Has Ever Seen: https://youtu.be/t560wlllm4w Emergency Surgery: https://youtu.be/D8_Lc9CXbtI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 FOLLOW US Instagram (channel): https://www.instagram.com/theboyefamilyjewels/ Instagram (Julie): https://www.instagram.com/julieboye/ Fitness page: https://www.instagram.com/gymjewels/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julie.boye.31 LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/theboyefamilyjewels 📬 SEND US MAIL PO Box 901605, Sandy, UT 84090 💄 LIPSENSE — SeneGence Distributor ID: 802225 https://web.senegence.com/en_us/?distributor_id=802225 📧 juliejboye@gmail.com (remember the j in the middle!)

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