Next Cruise Planning

Well, as mentioned here before, we currently don’t have a cruise booked yet for 2009. We have been planning on waiting until around the September time frame to see if prices were any better due to being inside 90 days for the cruise. That all sounded good and well, until this weekend when we decided […]

Barcelona and Transatlantic Cruise 2008 – Day 16 – Atlantic Crossing

[image title=”img_5017″ size=”thumbnail” id=”2117″ align=”none” linkto=”viewer” ] Today was our fourth straight sea day as part of the Atlantic crossing. We have continued to be blessed by great weather and seas for the crossing. The seas have continued to remain very calm with swells of only 3 feet. The weather warms up every day as […]

Barcelona and Transatlantic Cruise 2008 – Day 6 – Day at Sea

[image title=”img_4157″ size=”thumbnail” id=”2061″ align=”none” linkto=”viewer” ] Today was a day at sea as the Celebrity Summit begin its journey toward San Juan, Puerto Rico. Days at see tend to be our favorite parts of the cruise which is one of the reasons why we chose a transatlantic cruise for this years vacation. The day […]

My Daily Alaskan Cruise Blog Coming to Mr Papa’s World

Thursday we leave on a flight to Vancouver to begin our long awaited Alaskan cruise adventure onboard the Celebrity Mercury. The ship doesn’t actually depart Vancouver until Friday, but we get into Vancouver pretty late and won’t have time to enjoy the city. In fact, we are just staying at an airport hotel with plans […]

Our Mercury Cabin With Balcony

You probably remember my recent posts about the recent Celebrity Mercury refurbishment and how our cabin we had booked for the Alaskan cruise this summer was being upgraded. Well, the Mercury has finished it’s dry dock refurbishment and is back in service. We now have a photo of the Mercury back in service complete with […]

Celebrity Cruise to Mexico

Looks like we have finally zeroed in on what excursions we are going to do on our upcoming cruise to Mexico this coming November on the Celebrity Mercury. On one hand, we did this same Celebrity Mercury Cruise itinerary three years ago, se we dont really want to the same things or even things that […]

Suzanne’s Cruise Talk Blog

If you havent yet checked out Suzanne’s Cruise Talk Central site about cruising, now might be a good time. She has just posted a review and photos of her 2nd cruise on the World Renaissance way back in 1978. The photos themselves are a good laugh just to remember back to the old days. Of […]

Family Reunion Comes To A Conclusion

This morning, we took the family to the airport for their trips home. The family reunion here in Sonoita, AZ has come to a conclusion. But, yesterday was a fun day. I started the day by making Eggs Benedict for everyone. I think we devoured 24 eggs. It was a fun challenge to make a […]