Happy New Year!

It is now 2009, which I hope will be a prosperous year for all of us. One thing that was good (for us) about the failing economy of 2008 was that it opened enough cabins on this cruise for Princess to offer the travel agent rate on some. Otherwise we would never even have thought about doing a World Cruise… well, perhaps as a Last Hurrah when we were old and gray, wait a minute we are gray even if not so old.

Jim has been working to get all our electronics ready to go; extra cards for the cameras, clearing out the Epson photo hard drive, he even bought a little speaker thing that plays music from flash drive sticks so we can have some music in the cabin. Since every plug strip we have is in use he also bought a new one for use in the cabin.

I have some things sorted to be packed, but very little already in the one suitcase that is on the bedroom floor. It seems I’m spending most of the time getting our clients taken care of before turning over everything to Michelle and Shannon. Ray and Joann headed out today for their Holland America S. America Grand Voyage on Prinsendam and Paul left a couple days ago for his Amtrak adventure to Ft. Lauderdale for his Holland America World Cruise Segment. Wow, the next file folder up is ours! How exciting, when we booked this back at the end of August, it seemed to be a fairly long time away. Now it is almost here.