Cruise Today Or No Cruise Today.....?

Or......what happens when you wait in a doctors office for an hour and thirty minutes.

I'm old school. I think on time is ten minutes early. I try to always take a book anywhere I know I may have a wait. This includes doctors, dentists, and waiting for Costco to open. 

It is no surprise, those with medical diplomas tend to march to their own time drummer. It's a damn shame but it's the way things are. 

This morning I had a doctors appointment at 8:45. My plan was, go to the doc's and maybe stop at Safeway on the way home. Get back here by 10 AM and start writing the blog.

If you have been reading me for a while you know I like to write in the morning and post around 1 PM. Since Wanda works Monday through Thursday those are my 'work' days too. What's the worst thing that will happen if I deviate from this schedule? Someone will stop reading the blog? 

Wow.....sorry, you wasted your time checking here and nothing is new.

My ego made me do it. Look, it's nice to get compliments on my writing and I appreciate every one of them. I'm very glad people have taken the time to ask questions or say something nice. I'm also very glad no one yet has left a comment like, 'YOU SUCK' or 'YOU'R A BIG FAT DUMMY HEAD.' (which is, of course, a reference to "Shark Tale"...a DreamWorks animated movie.

Tuesday I posted on Cruise Critic, a web site about, interestingly enough, cruising. I let people know I was writing about the recent cruise. Over the course of two and a half days close to four hundred people looked at the message, lots of them clicked over and read the blog. One person left a comment, Mary, thanks for that. 

So, why am I concerned that I'm running late? Why am I concerned that I had a bad morning? Why am I concerned about not writing the next chapter of the cruise today? What, you expect me to know? I don't. I'm a retired nurse not a psychologist. I guess it could be my crying out for attention? It also could be my consistent desire to seek approval? Or, maybe I don't want to disappoint anyone? Maybe.

So, for today, no cruise talk. 

I sat in that damn office for an hour and a half this morning. 

Susan.....thanks for the comment and the question.

No, the cabin we had, the Window Suite, is larger than standard cabins. Cruising vacations offer a wide range of options. It's not like in 'the old days' when most things were regimented. Now the two main things, your cabin and your dinner arrangements are totally up to you. Most all cruise ships have several cabin categories. 

Inside cabins have no windows and ocean view cabins do. Balcony cabins have a private veranda (or balcony) and there are suites. Some cabins are ship or cruise line specific. Princess has mini-suites, larger than a standard balcony and smaller than a suite (why they are called mini suites I guess). Norwegian Cruise Lines has very small cabins for singles.

The cabin prices escalate with, of course, size and amenities. On a seven day cruise an inside cabin may be as little as six or seven hundred dollars a person while a suite, and I'm not talking about one with a grand piano (who in the Hell is going to play a piano on a cruise, Billy Joel?) thirty five hundred to four thousand a person. And the great thing is, for the most part, everyone eats the same food and is treated the same way, with respect and consideration.

I thought I wasn't going to write about cruising today?