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Tomorrow morning we drive down to Cape Canaveral. It's something like a 7 hour drive - not that much further than it used to be to get to doricom's house, really. Our departure time is 7am, so yeah -- I'll be a zombie for a good portion of the trip. We are going with 3 other firefighters and their wives, so we are caravaning. They didn't want to carpool, cuz you know, that'd make economic sense. Honestly, i am rather glad of it, mostly because other people tend to wear perfume and deodorants and stuff that set off my migraines like you wouldn't believe and if i were trapped in a car with someone wearing perfume... Oi. [I accidentally put on some scented deodorant this week. I ended up having to take two showers and change my shirt because of the scent. Despite that i still had a migraine the entire day. And it was -vanilla-!]
We board the ship Saturday morning after staying overnight in a hotel. The hotel has a program in which they allow us to leave our vehicles in their parking garage while we are on the cruise - so that's a very good thing.
There -is- a tropical storm heading toward the Bahamas right now. I am told from someone with past experience that the cruise ship won't even mention it and instead will re-route the ship to avoid the weather. This means we may or may not actually end up where we are supposed to go, but i am honestly not all that concerned about it. The only thing i was interested in seeing was the Atlantis resort in... somewhere, so.. *Shrug*
I will have my cell phone and my laptop with me, although i am 100% uncertain how or if they will work. Either way, my phone is also my music player and my laptop will be the spot to clear off my camera's memory card, so I have reason to have them even if they don't allow me to stay in touch. What? Vacation? Supposed to be out of contact? Aren't i pretty much that way already?
I've heard tell that cruises are all about 'partying, drinking and sex.' I am not a party girl, i am not allowed to drink while i am on my medication, and i already have an amazing sex partner so, i admit that i am still not really seeing the appeal of this whole shindig. Then again, i hear that people who go on cruises become addicted, and go on them time after time after time again - pretty much making them every vacation they ever take again. Maybe they like the parties, drinking and casual sex? I dunno. I guess we'll see.
But. Yes. I am going to try to have fun. Try. I have swimsuits, after all.
We board the ship Saturday morning after staying overnight in a hotel. The hotel has a program in which they allow us to leave our vehicles in their parking garage while we are on the cruise - so that's a very good thing.
There -is- a tropical storm heading toward the Bahamas right now. I am told from someone with past experience that the cruise ship won't even mention it and instead will re-route the ship to avoid the weather. This means we may or may not actually end up where we are supposed to go, but i am honestly not all that concerned about it. The only thing i was interested in seeing was the Atlantis resort in... somewhere, so.. *Shrug*
I will have my cell phone and my laptop with me, although i am 100% uncertain how or if they will work. Either way, my phone is also my music player and my laptop will be the spot to clear off my camera's memory card, so I have reason to have them even if they don't allow me to stay in touch. What? Vacation? Supposed to be out of contact? Aren't i pretty much that way already?
I've heard tell that cruises are all about 'partying, drinking and sex.' I am not a party girl, i am not allowed to drink while i am on my medication, and i already have an amazing sex partner so, i admit that i am still not really seeing the appeal of this whole shindig. Then again, i hear that people who go on cruises become addicted, and go on them time after time after time again - pretty much making them every vacation they ever take again. Maybe they like the parties, drinking and casual sex? I dunno. I guess we'll see.
But. Yes. I am going to try to have fun. Try. I have swimsuits, after all.