Cruising Back to Mexico

Well, its finally here! Time to go on a cruise. It’s only been a year since our last one, but it seems like a lot longer. I guess the long, arduous year at work with minimal vacation time has made it seem longer. Tomorrow morning we will be driving to San Diego for our Monday […]

Winding Down

Time to wind down… I survived a major review at work yesterday. It was the culmination of the past years effort and a relief to have behind me. Its now time to coast through the rest of the year. I say coast because I will only work 5 more days the rest of the year. […]

New Digital Camera

I finally broke down and bought Suzanne a new digital camera. I have been frustrated with hers ever Âsince she damaged a couple of parts on it a while back. After some research and trading off features versus cost, I decide on the Canon Powershot A630. Its an 8 mexapixel camera with decent ISO and […]

Weekend Musings and NutriSystem Update

Wow! What a busy weekend. It was even a three day weekend for me as it was my Friday off week. Some of the activities though were self-inflicted. I put myself in a hole sleepwise early as I stayed up until 3:30 AM on Thursday night playing America’ Army. That game can be quite addictive […]

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 […]

Update on Drunk Celebrity Captain

Here ia a press release update on the drunk Captain of the Mercury… Celebrity Fires Captain of Mercury for Intoxication The captain of Celebrity Mercury reportedly has been stripped of command and will be fired after he failed an alcohol breath test. The unnamed captain was taken ashore in Seattle on Friday after a Coast […]

Celebrity Mercury Captain Drunk

Hmmm… interesting story out of Seattle today. This Seattle Times article reports that the Captain of the Celebrity Cruises ship Mercury was arrested today for being drunk while preparing to take the ship out of Seattle. Evidently, breathalyzer tests registered twice the legal limit. This is rather interesting since we will be sailing on the […]

Family Reunion Cruise Booked

We booked our family reunion cruise to Alaska for June of 2007 today. This should be a fun family event except for the absence of sister Kelly and family from Michigan. We exepect to have a least four cabins of folks for the cruise. More are talking about going. We will be sailing on the […]

Family Reunions

Surprise Surprise! We received a call this weekend from my Mother stating that she wanted to get the whole family together here in Arizona this summer in a family reunion type atmosphere. Sweet! We had all gotten together last summer in Gulf Shores, AL and it was fantastic. The kids just loved hooking up with […]

2003 Mexico Cruise on Mercury Photos Uploaded

I am trying to upload some of the photos I had on the previous incarnation of this website. Since we are again going to be cruising to Mexico this fall, I thought it appropriate to get the photos from our last cruise to Mexico on the site. These photos are from our 2003 cruise to […]