2003-12-09 ~ 10:22 a.m.

This Past Week

I went on the cruise, and that was pretty snazzy. My explorer is still pissing me off, and that is less snazzy. I'm still scared to get married.

The cruise was wonderful. I forgot how wonderful it is to be on a boat. You forget why you rock babies to sleep until you get on a boat and lay down. I swear, it doesn't matter how well rested you are, as soon as you feel the motion of the ocean, you're out like a light. I guess it's kinda a downside because you spend the whole cruise half asleep, or longing to be asleep.

It was a 5 day cruise, but they count the day that you're supposed to get on the boat plus the day that you get off the boat as days, and they don't really count. If you get there early enough on the first day, sure, they have activities and all, but I don't see how they can call it a day of the cruise when you're not actually *crusing* anywhere. But I will say that it was long enough. I thought that I would feel gipped since the last cruise I was on was a 7 day, but, admittedly, 5 days did me just fine. Probably all the sleep I got.

When we finally got in (there are a bunch of details that I've failed to mention about how it took us awhile to get there and checked in, but I'm not going to include them because they're boring) we went to our room. It wasn't the room that we had paid for. We paid for a room with a picture window instead of one of those sad little porthole windows, but not only did we get a porthole window, but our room was RIGHT next to the anchor. Not to mention, they had extended the wall there so that we couldn't even put our faces up to the window, and if you've been on a cruiseship, you know those rooms aren't particularly roomy anyway, so taking a foot and a half away means a LOT. So, we turned back around and went to the purser's desk.

Betrothed, Rally Edition is pretty good at raising hell, so he raised it, but in a nice way. And the cruise wasn't full anyway, so it wasn't too much of a problem to get a room with a picture window (again, which we had paid for in the first place.) When all was said and done, we had jumped 6 floors, we got a bigger than the picture window we had paid for, not only the extra space from the window area, but ALSO, we had room for a tiny little couch (built in against the wall where the bathroom is) plus a mini fridge, and our vanity was a whooooooole lot bigger. There was so much more counter space, they had the TV on one instead of nailed to the ceiling. It was absolutely lovely.

Now, to help with our upgrades, The BRE, threw in the, "ya know, we just got engaged, this is a really special cruise for us" type of stuff. So, in doing this, the purser lady pretty much took us on as her special case for the cruise. The first day, we got a little note from her telling us that she hopes we have a wonderful cruise and that if there's anything she can do, blah blah blah...... but then.... the real stuff started coming. In the next few days, we got a plate of h'ors d'ouvres, a plate of petit fours, a gift bag full of little casino memorabilia like a money clip where the ornament part is a little unscrewy thing where you can put a casino chip in it, a deck of cards, a die, but mainly a $10 voucher for the casino, then a plate of chocolate covered strawberries, she also had a bottle of wine sent to our table. The $10 voucher was the best part. When we redeemed it, they just gave us $10 cash, so we could have just kept that, but we decided to play it figuring it was free money anyway, and BRE turned it into $100!! WOO!

I'm gonna end this little installment before it gets too long and before my Explorer goes poo-poo.

I'll put more up when I get the pictures downloaded to me puter.

Live long and prosper.

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