Hey all..We are not on this ship. [:'(]

This was going to my bday cruise.  My Birthday is Oct.3.  The pricess went too high for us.  We have a family of five.  

We were waiting to see if the closer the date got, the price would come down.  They just going up and up.   Those prices would have just totally eaten up our cruise budgett.  I was so disappointed.

We chose the Inspiration 9/27/08, 5 day. We are very happy!

The kids were a little disapointed until they saw that big ol slide and they were "cool" mom!

Are we going to be any of the ports w/your ship?  

I think the ships dragg race when we aren't looking.

I am going to sneak abroad just to have a look around then I will leave.   LOL!

Really though, Congrats to the couples getting Married.

Have fun all..eat drink drink drink eat

Almost 3 days!

Mary, This happen to us once also about waiting for lower prices. Never again. We found out from our great PVP that if we book early (usually the best price) that if the price goes down she will get ours lowered. She also set us up with a payment plan (like layaway) and that made it easier on our budget now that I am retired on disability. So we booked our cruise on the Legend (325 days out) on Jan. 11, 2009 and when final Payment on Oct. 25th gets here it is only about $300.00 for the 2 of us. Hope this will help you for your sent cruise as we now you will want to go again. Lew

Status Report:

Previously - I had been burnt out on the excitement of prepairing for the cruise that I lost all motivation to do anything. 

This past weekend we forced ourselves to try and book shore excursions and get an idea of what we want to do.  We decided to wing it in Cayman, and Cozumel.  Booked Goff's Caye in Belize and Tabayana in Roatan.

Last night I got off my A$$ and started to pack... errr... well... I started to pull "potential" outfits out of the closet and moved them to the side.  I quit in frustration feeling I have nothing to wear... Oh!  One good thing!  I tried on my formal gown (from my  brothers wedding 3 years ago) and it STILL fits!  So I rewarded myself and took a break and ate some icecream. :)

I abandoned trying to figure out what clothes I am bringing and got most of the toiletries packed.   And while doing that, saw what a mess the bathroom was in, and cleaned it. 

Then I decided to color my hair.  I am now officailly a Brunette!  Thank you...

So... I didn't get a lot done, but I learned a lot...  Like... I gotta stop taking those little soaps from hotel rooms... I have 123 under the bathroom sink that I will never use.  And saving shampoo bottles that only have an inch left of shampoo is stupid... throw them out... and it seems one can never have enough of those little cosmetic bags, at least I can't... and... I look good as a Brunette. 

Tonight we will try again to pack the clothes...

if you havnt been to tabayana you will love it, its one of the best beaches in the west and the island is just wonderful but there isnt alot of shoping there like other ports.

have fun be safe

 Just seen these forums...

Me and my soon to be wife will be going on this cruise (Honeymoon) - We traveled on princess last year and this is our only other cruise. Princess was fantastic - We are hoping Carnival will be just as good. Anyone traveled both princess and carnival and have an opinion?

My wife and I are flying in Sat also, leave Seattle at 7:30am and get to Tampa 6pm or there abouts.  Looking forward to a week of sun and sea.

Our 5th cruise, Carnival, Princess, and NCL.  They are all great if you are just trying to have fun, they all have their ups and downs.

We live on the Strait of Juan de Fuca so we watch them all sail past every week in the summer. Wishing we were on them.

Looking forward to snubba in Belize and the Caymans.

See ya there

George and Jody

 We all ready???  I finally got my clothes packed last night... they are all wrinkling in the suitcase as I speak.  :)

Checked the weather forecast at all the ports - rain (bla). 

Cruise was awesome, not going to write a full Trip Report right now.  I just wanted to ask everyone on the cruise - Did you all see the Bird Attack the night before we arrived in Belize??  It was like out of Hitchcock movie!  Pretty cool!

 (For those not on the cruise - the night after we left Cozumel, the boat was swarmed by hundreds, if not thousands of birds - looked liked small Swallows, or Sparrows.  They seemed to be attracted to the lights of the ship.  It was a sight to see.  They stayed with us for over an hour. 

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Cruise was awesome, not going to write a full Trip Report right now.  I just wanted to ask everyone on the cruise - Did you all see the Bird Attack the night before we arrived in Belize??  It was like out of Hitchcock movie!  Pretty cool!

 (For those not on the cruise - the night after we left Cozumel, the boat was swarmed by hundreds, if not thousands of birds - looked liked small Swallows, or Sparrows.  They seemed to be attracted to the lights of the ship.  It was a sight to see.  They stayed with us for over an hour. 

 

I got a pic of one sitting on our balcony. Looked like a finch of some kind.