The crap of dawn...yes this is a good way to put it. I can't think of one person who is excited about getting up this early...except maybe my kids. They have said they will be too excited to even go to sleep. Great. MY kids will probably be the most ornery on the plane! Come to think of it, I probably won't be my normal cheerful self either. For those of you who don't know me, I am not a morning person. That might be putting it mildly. I have insomnia and am addicted to ambien. Which means in order to get the right amount of sleep and have the ambien worn off enough so I can function a little, I will need to go to bed (and sleep) around 7pm. Since I am not a morning person, that means that I AM a night owl. I don't normally go to bed till around 1 or 2AM. Even if we assumed everything that needs to be wrapped up was actually wrapped up by 7pm, going to bed at 7 is so not gonna happen. Which means I will TRY to be in bed and trying to sleep by 11. Which gives me only 4 hours of sleep (assuming I conk out right at 11, which I won't). That means that at 5am, when you all see me, I will still be sluggish from the left over ambien which won't have left my system yet and I won't have had any coffee yet to try to counteract this sluggishness.
Why am I telling you all this? Because, while all of you have had your concerns over little items gearing up for this trip, MY greatest fear is hurting someone's feelings. So, if you say something to me first thing in the morning and I look at you blankly, or I answer and it seems a bit abrupt, I apologize in advance. My brain doesn't seem to fire on all it's cylinders (is that the right terminology, Tony?) and we can't blame it on a slight overdose of sleeping meds and lack of coffee.
I'm glad there are those of you that are so detail orientated. I have racked my brain to remember how the luggage thing works. I have been on 4 or 5 cruises and for the life of me I can't remember how that worked, other than when we signed in, our bags disappeared and then magically showed up in our staterooms later. I'm not too worried.
I feel a little like I should apologize for not being as concerned about some of the details as some of you have been. To be honest, I have called the cruise lines so many times and asked questions. I have asked the SAME questions at DIFFERENT times and gotten DIFFERENT answers each time. It has been frustrating for me to say the least. We are 4 days away from boarding the ship and at this point it just seems easier to relax and try to fix whatever issues come up when we get ON the ship and the people who actually RUN the ship can help us with our concerns, rather than the idiots who just answer the phones. I know there are going to be things that have to be fixed, this trip isn't going to be completely smooth no matter how hard we tried to make it that way. I think that's just the nature of traveling in a group of 28. It will be an adventure for sure though and I am SO excited to be doing this adventure with THIS family...rather than the secret one I have.
The plan is for us to meet on the Lido deck before we run off to rooms, I will go to every one's rooms and make sure they are made up right, for the right number of people, that there is a crib for Cate, etc.
As a reminder for excursions... make sure to bring cash for any excursions that you have not paid for through the ship. They usually only accept cash or travelers checks. There is a safe in the room that YOU set the pass code up for that you can store your money, passports and any other valuables you might bring.
Well, that's all for now. See you the day after tomorrow!
Kym
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