"We booked $70k five-month cruise around the world for our entire family"

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Meet parents who have splashed out $70k on a five-month cruise around the world for their entire family.  Mark Baker, 40, and his wife, Tiffany, 39, decided to pull their daughters - Giuletta, 10, Penelope, eight, and Delia, seven - out of school and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.  The cruise ship will call at 52 ports in 21 countries - including South Africa, Madagascar and Argentina - across five different continents.  The pair are homeschooling their children and working remotely while they are onboard the ship - which set off from Marseilles, France, on January 6.

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00:00We just started a four-month world cruise with five people. We have two

00:04ocean view rooms and let me tell you we cozy y'all. My husband is the one who

00:15when we travel just like unpacks everything so I'm gonna give like a

00:18little tour later but it's still hitting me that like we moved to a space the

00:27size of my master bath. Four months we're doing it. We're just gonna go see the

00:40world. It's gonna be great. Just gotta get everything tucked away first. We're cozy.

00:46We are on day four of a world cruise. I just wanted to show you our room. We have

00:51two ocean view rooms and this room we actually are using as just like a

00:56hangout area so it's actually pretty clean. It's my Zen zone is what I call it

01:02because you know these are small rooms but we really didn't bring that much

01:10stuff. We have a lot of empty drawers actually and it's just great so we set

01:17these up so that we have these they're almost like couches to us and then of

01:24course the girls get up in the little windows their little reading nook so as

01:31of day four it's pretty clean y'all. My family is on a four month world cruise.

01:35We're one weekend and I love getting all the questions so my family of five is

01:43actually in two ocean view cabins. When we booked the cruise actually over a

01:48year in advance there was only there were only two rooms that were right next

01:52to each other that were available on the ship and so we took them and we were

01:57nervous about it. It's been amazing. We have one room set up as a sleeping room

02:02and then one room that we call the Zen den where we just like hang out. We have

02:05the beds separated so they're like couches. It feels very fancy and my

02:11husband and I were nervous about getting a balcony with our daughters who are

02:15seven eight and ten years old on such a long trip so I've been on cruises before

02:21where we had like a suite and with a balcony with our girls and honestly I

02:29just didn't sleep well. I was nervous about having the balcony so I figured

02:33you know what for four months let's just use this as our home and it has been so

02:40fun. We have talked about the adjoining rooms and the setup of the rooms would

02:47be totally different. Now of course it would be ideal because we wouldn't have

02:51to like go back and forth in the hallway but we have a video a baby monitor that

02:58doesn't require Wi-Fi. It was less than 50 bucks and it's been working

03:02great. The girls had a movie night with a friend last night and then the parents

03:06and us we hung out in our Zen den and watched the NFL game and then the

03:14kids were watching a movie right next door. We could see them on the baby

03:17monitor and all that stuff and so it's been really fantastic. We were really

03:22nervous about not having adjoining rooms. We tried really hard to try to switch to

03:27get adjoining rooms and now we don't want them. So one weekend we are loving

03:33the setup. To be continued we have oh my gosh what a hundred and ten more days of

03:39this cruise. So many countries we're crossing the Atlantic Ocean right now.

03:45What an amazing experience. I'm so happy to be sharing it here.

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