booked a cruise

After almost an year of contemplation and a failed effort to go cruising, we finally did it ! No no, I am not talking about actually doing a cruise but rather booking it... One can say that the last time also we booked it but never managed to finish it, but this time there is an extra incentive for us to go, we are not the only ones going :-)

To summarize the saga of our cruise, we booked a Caribbean cruise last October.... so far so good... but then I decided to be a bit lazy about my visa and finally applied for a British visa about 2 weeks before the cruise started. Thanks to the December holiday seasons, the damn Brits decided to be lazy and instead of processing the application within a day or 2 just like the last time when I applied for a transit visa, they decided to take it easy.... but wait, that's not the worst part... the worst part was that I did not need a visa since Grand Cayman doesn't need a visa for cruise passengers !!! Dejected, we decided to go to Miami anyways and explore the southernmost corner of continental US. I would say that I was definitely dejected but pretty excited to see Miami/Key West.

Thanks to Carnival, we even managed to salvage most of our cruise money which we ended up putting in this Canada/New England cruise which is supposed to start in about 9 days !! Yipppeee !!!

More details to come later.......