Sixty-one days until we drive out our driveway on our way to
start the cruise—which is exactly 11 weeks from today! Our box of things to
take with us is growing fuller and fuller.
Our son and daughter-in-law (Greg & Yolanda) are here
from Sydney so we are picking their brains about what we should wait to buy
when we get to Oz and what we should bring from here. And Randy and I are
arguing about whether or not we should have Greg and Yolanda bring a suitcase
back to Oz for us. I maintain that that is just another suitcase that will have
to bring home again in September. We should bring just over what we’ll bring
back (plus of
course the souvenirs that we’ll pick up!), otherwise we’ll be
overloaded on the way home. Randy just doesn’t want to carry it over ourselves if
we can get G&Y to carry it over for us! And round and round we go.
I’m starting to look at clothing catalogs for beautiful stuff
clothing to bring with us. I think I’ve found a couple of formal-wear shops
online with some handsome vests and ties for Randy to wear on formal nights. I can tie a
formal bow-tie but all the bow ties are already put together—fake bow-ties. Bummer. And a
shirt. His formal shirt is so old it’s starting to turn yellow!
Our friends, I’m sure, are getting heartily tired of hearing
about our upcoming cruise! Oh, well, I can’t seem to help myself. Hey friends, it could be worse! At least I
have this outlet!
I am learning from the other travel blogs what I enjoy
reading about and what I don’t enjoy reading about. I don’t enjoy hearing
complaints—unless they are done in a humorous way. I do enjoy hearing about the
people the bloggers have met and I love really good descriptions of the scenery
and good descriptions of interactions with the local populace. So that’s what I
am going to strive to do. Whether or not I succeed—well, that remains to be
seen, but I’ll try to be, at the very least, entertaining.
We won’t be in New York until July 20 and 21 but I’m already
trying to figure out what we’ll do, other than going to The
Book of Mormon. I’d like to find a good tour company but am not having a
lot of luck. Many tours are walking tours but at our age, I don’t think I want
to spend the better part of six hours walking around NY! On the other hand,
knowing the traffic gridlock that can happen in NY, maybe I don’t want to be on
a bus either. Perhaps we can just wing it, figuring out what we want to see and
just taking the subways to get there. I imagine that if we do that we may have
some of the Aussies go with us, which would be really nice. Randy, I’m sure,
would love to show off NY and we have two days to do it!
Similarly in Los Angeles. Perhaps sharing a van and driving
around to the most famous sights would be fun. Too little time to see
Disneyland (we’re only there for 10 hours). In a request to our friends for
suggestions of what to see, one of them said, “Why on earth are you only
planning 10 hours in LA?” Uh, maybe because we don't have a choice? The cruise ship is only in town for
10 hours?
I told you it was some leaps of ideas.
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