Glad To Be Home - Happy New Year
My family and I just returned from a three-day cruise to Baja. Our first cruise, in fact. I brought in the New Year drinking and dancing with my wife while the kids played and watched movies at Camp Carnival. We had a good time. A few brief comments about the trip:

1. They serve lots of food all day long. It's all pretty good, but my strategy was to avoid the ordinary stuff that I eat often and focus on the fancy food: lobster tails, jumbo prawns, crabcakes, sushi, and of course caviar.

2. Booze is extra. My strategy was to bring stuff from home. Wine and champagne is OK, although there is a corking fee when you have it with dinner. You're not supposed to bring hard liquor, but I find that Bombay Sapphire gin looks a lot like water in a plastic bottle in a baby bag.

3. Baja was fun, but I ever take another cruise, I think I'll try a more interesting destination, such as the Caribbean or Alaska.

4. Tsunamis are not very impressive in deep water. If one were to cross our path, we might not have noticed.


- served up by Oven @ 8:41 PM