I am in my glory planning a party or planning a cruise. Since there are no parties on the immediate horizon, I have been busy planning the latter.
We are down to 22 days and a wake-up for our cruise to New England and Canada and I am so looking forward to "authentic" fall weather...crisp and clean.....and seeing the trees in a blaze of reds and oranges and yellows and browns.
We embark from New York, and will set sail for ports in Newport, RI, Boston, MA, Bar Harbor, ME, St John, New Brunswick and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
This will be our 17th cruise since that first one, a Christmas gift from our neighbors, in 1996, and our 4th since I retired in 2008.
One of the fun things I like to do in preparation of our cruise or a very special vacation, is to make a "countdown" calendar. I love "exing" the days off the calendar and turning the pages to the final countdown! When I was still working, I would get requests all the time from co-workers, to make a countdown calendar for them for their cruise or special vacation!!! And I had as much fun making the calendars for them as they had in checking off the days until their vacation. Next year, we will be renting a beach house in New Smyrna Beach for our family vacation with the boys and all the grand kids and I will be making calendars for everyone to mark off the days. And then, in the fall of 2011, we hope to be going over to England to visit our friends and take a trip to Scotland, so I will need a calendar for that vacation.
After a busy 2011, I will have to start thinking about cruising to another destination, on another ship, and yet another countdown calendar........
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