Friday Five - I Am Excited About Our Upcoming Trip!
After a run of rain, wind, and gray skies, I am very much looking forward to getting on a plane this weekend and heading to Fort Lauderdale, where sunny skies await.
Plus, I've planned out a really fun few days there prior to boarding our cruise ship next week. I've booked a harbor cruise, a Segway tour, made reservations to visit two museums, and identified a few very lovely sounding restaurants to walk to each evening for Happy Hour cocktails and small bites.
Otherwise-
1. I am excited to sail away next week! We have a mini suite booked, in that it was the same price as a balcony room at the relatively late point that we booked the cruise, our first time in one. A bigger balcony and a bigger sofa in the room are the two things in the suite I'm the most excited about. I spend lots of private time on both reading and gazing at the ocean if not running around the ship doing other things.
2. For the first time in umpteen cruises, I booked all our shore excursions through the cruise ship. I just want this cruise to be stress free, something I do find I struggle with increasingly as I'm aging. All the tours we booked have a historical component included, and both my spouse and I are looking forward to learning something about every Port in and amongst the otherwise fun we'll have - I can't recall each and every excursion we selected at this point, but I do recall that sloth chasing in Costa Rica, an IMAX film about the building of the newest (third) canal lane in Panama, and wine tasting and tequila tasting in Mexico are involved. 🙂
3. I've been reviewing these Roadscholar Grandparent/Grandchild trips online. My husband and I are hoping to take turns with each granddaughter beginning next summer. Our idea is that one granddaughter selects a trip of her choice, and we gift the staying-at-home granddaughter with the Day Camp of her choice, so no one feels left out. (This summer we're taking our granddaughters and their parents to Alaska on a cruise - both granddaughters are equally excited, LOL.)
4. Looking forward to packing for our trip, because for the first time in pretty much my entire adult life, everything in my closet fits!!!
5. Enjoying waking up to a warm house. Growing up, my dad pretty much never, ever ran the heater (or air conditioner) in our California home, so waking up to a warm home feels like the ultimate in luxury, even still.
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I loved reading and gazing out at the sea on the cruises I took. The suite sounds terrific.
ReplyDeleteThe ocean is the best part of cruising IMO. I would absolutely reject a free cruise unless it came with a balcony room! (Not that I'm entitled or anything . . . 😄 )
DeleteThose excursions and your suite sound great!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to a lovely, stress free trip, Juhli!
DeleteSounds fabulous! Have fun! Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteThank you Cindy! We are looking forward to it!
DeleteTamara, once again, I have had to hunt you down! I have subscribed to your blog several times, but I never receive notifications of new posts. I know Blogspot and WP have communication issues, but there has to be a solution. Had we known you were going to be in Ft. Lauderdale, we would have come down for lunch. Anyway, keep up the good work. You look great. Have fun on the cruise and stay in touch when you can. We are off to Australia/NZ in two weeks, so the blog will be quiet for a while. Posting on Instagram when I can. XO
ReplyDeleteI tried to pull up your email a few weeks ago, but couldn’t locate it 😕
DeleteI hope you two have a fabulous time on your upcoming trip! Coincidentally, we have an upcoming B2B cruise ourselves - our first time!