Mr Papa’s World

Looks like we have decided to book a cruise for this coming fall. Now the fun begins of picking the cruise we want to take. Last night was a cruise planning “party” to try to narrow down the list and discuss our options. Of course, we hadn’t planned to stay up until 2:00 am doing that, but we did – except for Savannah that is who fell asleep about 9:30.

Suzanne had spent the week before hand gathering info on the cruises in the time frame we were interested in. In this case, somewhere near Thanksgiving or Christmas. She gather info on all the available cruises, pricing and airfare information. She also had some stuff on potential shore excursions for the cruises too.

To facilitate this planning session, we had a bunch of print outs and also hooked my laptop up to our 62 inch HDTV … READ MORE

Well, it didn’t take too long. We thought we would skip a cruise this year because of two family reunions that we already have planned. Now, I am not sure that is going to happen. Cruising is our favorite way to spend a vacation and the thought of not doing one this year has not appealed to us.

It’s only been 7 months since our last cruise to Alaska, but the though of not cruising again until 2009 was more difficult than it should be. Anyways, we have decided to tighten the belt and see if we can’t go ahead and swing a cruise this Thanksgiving season, which is a common time for us to cruise.

Nothing is for sure yet as we want to make sure we don’t stretch ourselves too far, but we have been zeroing in on a couple of cruises that look … READ MORE