Booked

Well it's official.... the cruise is booked! So leaving on Easter weekend I will be in the Caribbean the second week of April. It's a little later in the season than I'm used to traveling but it comes with the perk of better prices and upgrades. Now doesn't that thought make me feel better than the weather forecast for tomorrow which reads:

Cloudy. Snow at times heavy and blowing snow beginning late in the morning. Amount 10 to 15 cm. Wind becoming southeast 30 km/h gusting to 50 in the afternoon then increasing to 50 gusting to 80. High minus 2.

Doesn't that make you want to just run out and order up some more of that? NO!!!! It's much more pleasant to be making decisions such as "do you want the early or late setting for supper and would you like to be seated at a large table?" Late and yes please. Sure helped me get through the work day which had an increase in the usual insanity (maybe the predicted storm brought set everyone off) resulting in two hours of overtime and no lunch.

The travel agent is a real smoothie as far as cruise packages and she made a helpful suggestion on Miami hotels - thought it was best if we didn't end up in establishments known as crack houses - hard to argue with that eh? The mental image of two excited ladies from rural Nova Scotia with luggage in tow checking into a crack house dive near the Miami waterfront at 10 p.m. was enough to discourage any more checking online for accomodation. The agent is now in charge of searching for room at the inn. Although neither of us would be considered as backing down from a fight... we don't seek out problems (hard to wrap your head around that when you think of some of the situations we've encountered between us) It should make for an interesting enough trip without looking for trouble.

I can't say I'm a first time cruiser as I remember March Break of 1973 when I participated in a Mediterranean cruise (cost all of $400 for the 10 days) which was not as glamorous as it sounds - it was a WWII troop carrier the SS Nevasa with inedible food, cramped dorms and a Nanny to tuck us in. Anyway, enough trip musing, off to catch some sleep as due to the forecast I'm heading in early in the a.m. I have stayed overnight before in the hospital but I'm NOT planning that for tomorrow.