I have a flag counter here and I wanted to make it a bit
different. Well, I sure did that! And in the process lost all the count of how
many different people from what country had looked at my blog. I don’t think I’ll
ever get to the count that gaznjo has: 12,259 from Oz, 2,330 from the US, through
63 from Bahrain, down to 22 from France, but I had quite a few and I’m desolate
that the list has vanished. That will teach me to tinker with my blog!
Although time seems to be moving at a glacial pace, our trip
IS getting closer. Everytime I watch the videos from this year’s World Cruise I
get alternately energized and depressed. Watching gaznjos blog and vimeo
posts I am energized by the wonderful videos of the ports they went to—and, for
the most part, we will also be going to next year. I think he does the videos
and she picks the music; they each do a fabulous job! At the same time I get
depressed because I don’t think I can ever do as well.
But I tell myself that I don’t have to do as well, I’m just
doing this blog for my family and friends and they will be very happy (won’t
you?) just to see and read about what we’re doing. So I’ll try some videos to
add a bit of interest to my blog.
However, taking videos of Kathy’s horse show made me realize
just how difficult it is to do GOOD videos! Anybody can point a camera at a
thing and take a picture of it; not just anybody can make that picture or video
into an interesting one. If it were easy all of us would be making movies like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade all
the time. I mention that movie because we will be going to the area where at
least part of it was filmed, Petra in Jordan. Naturally, we’re going to have to
watch it again!
I’m going to google the ports we’re going to and see what
movies—if any—were filmed at those ports. For example, Athens was the setting
for, among others, For the Love of Benji
and The Day the Fish Came Out (I
never heard of that one either) and several dozen others filmed in Greece,
mostly in Santorini rather than Athens, but how far wrong can I go watching a
movie set in Greece? For movies shot in Mykonos, I hit a double: The Kings of Mykonos, an Australian
movie shot in Mykonos. Really it’s a hat trick as it’s a comedy, too.
OK, I really HAVE to get cracking on some tours. Yeah, yeah,
I know it’s still—let me look at the cute little counter on my blog—179 (5
months and 3 weeks) days until the cruise leaves. But it’s only 2 weeks until
our second payment is due. Ouch. Then there is the third payment due about 6
weeks after that. Then we’ll REALLY know we’re going!
Anyway, I’ve put a request on the Cruise Critic
Roll Call for the Sun Princess about a tour of Mumbai by a company (used by
others on Cruise Critic) called Mumbai Magic. I wish I had discovered Cruise Critic long ago, before our
first cruise! They have everything you could possibly want to know about
cruising. And I expect we’ll have a much better time on our cruise because of
the connections I’ve made on the Roll Call.
