Currently - Please Let The Website Function!
I'm currently dressed to go for a walk followed by a lunch with a neighbor - my gift to her following a recent 80th birthday celebration where 'no gifts, please' were requested - so I'm giving her an experience instead.
However, I'm chained to the house until the website to purchase tickets for an upcoming film festival we'll be attending goes live at 9:00 AM. If, big caveat, If all goes according to plan, I should be done by 9:15 AM and onto my walk. However, in years past all kinds of website glitches have occurred on the first day of sales, so I'm trying to be mentally prepared if things get really wonky.
I suspect that either way it goes, I'll really need that walk - either to celebrate that, yeah, all went well and tickets for the 15 films we hope to see have been purchased for the precise date and times we want, or aaaargh, that was awful, the website was horrible, and I need to walk off some negative energy! 😄
Otherwise, my plans for the day include finally, really, booking our upcoming holiday hotel reservations in Nashville, and booking the air for an upcoming Panama Canal cruise in February - one way only, yeah, as we return back into Los Angeles for disembarkation, meaning a simple and quick Uber ride back home.
This cruise, the first of four we have booked for 2026, will be our first time in a mini suite, which should be fun. Because we booked it fairly late, the mini suites were discounted to the same price as for a balcony to ensure a full ship sell out, and we happily booked one. The upgrade means we'll have a full size sofa in the main area, a bathtub in the bathroom, and a deeper balcony for lounging.
Here is the route we'll be taking:
Good luck on the tickets. Everything is web based now and we're all stuck if things don't work right. Your trip sounds incredible
ReplyDeleteGot all 15 sets of tickets, so I can set that load down. The cruise should be lovely, and it will be very interesting to see the third new lock, which was recently completed in a width wide enough to accommodate today's mega-ships, vs the existing two locks, which will not.
DeleteLook forward to hearing about your cruise. That route and one going all the way around S. America have always intrigued me. Glad you got your tickets and have those dates to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteThis will be our second Panama Canal cruise. We are going in the opposite direction, East to West, this time, which I would strongly recommend in that you gain time throughout the cruise rather than losing it as the ship crosses thru each Time Zone. I would also recommend reading David McCullough's book about the building of the Panama Canal - The Path Between The Seas. It made the day that we spent in the Canal incredibly interesting and emotional.
DeleteWe did an entire circumnavigation around S. America in 2020, finishing just before the COVID shut downs began. It was an incredible trip that including being in Rio De Janeiro for Carnival, an experience we will never forget.
I wish you good health and happiness. I have never been on a cruise but a friend of mine has and she said she and her husband had a great time! Warm greetings from a 69 year old retired lady living in Montreal, Canada.
ReplyDeleteHi Linda, thank you for your first comment! You live in a lovely part of Canada, even if currently a bit chillier than my part of the USA!
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