Officially excited, 74 days to go...

OK, I am officially excited about our cruises because Uniworld has just issued the Cruise Companion and Excursion Planner for the Grand European River Voyage! If you just can’t contain your curiosity, it’s here. And Holland America has its brochure out here for their 27-day Azores, Spain & Mediterranean Expedition. 74 days from now we will be on a plane bound for Fort Lauderdale!

Even though our kids are with us on the whole trip, it’s really nice to plan stuff with them. Well, mostly with Kathy as she’s the one who seems to share my love of planning, planning, and woo-hoo! PLANNING! I really do think that planning is almost more fun than the trip. First of all, planning takes a LOT of time and the trip itself will be over in a green flash. Our ‘round the world trip was ostensibly 104 days + and it seemed that we had hardly gotten on the ship and we were getting off. Not that I am complaining!

It’s going to be fun over the next few days looking at the (included) shore excursions for the river cruise and comparing Holland America’s excursions with the ones we’ve planned ourselves.

One of the things I was thinking about for our world cruise was (is) a new photo bag. There are lots available that are designed specifically for women and maybe, just maybe, I will get one. One I’m interested in is this one

Lyric

From www.epiphaniebags.com . But Mustard is out of stock. 

This is nice, too, but rather large

Madison

And none of the available colors floats my boat anyway. I mean, really, TURQUOISE? TEAL?

The ones I like seem to be the ones that are out of stock, like this

Sydney

in Caramel. But Kiwi is in stock as is Turquoise. No wonder! Who wants to carry a lime green or turquoise camera bag?

Then there’s Kelly|Moore

2 Sues (yes, that’s really the name)

But there’s lots more, so I’ll keep looking!