Luna Tail

I’m getting so excited! Tomorrow, October 1, 2008, will mean we are in the same month that my cruise is in! 25 days until I leave!

I just called for a scuba update lesson. I haven’t been scuba diving for oh… probably eight or so years now. So I want to get updated before I go. I have an excursion at Grand Cayman for a dive. I have always wanted to dive the Cayman Islands, and now I get to! I need a snorkel though, mine broke. I’m going to borrow a friends and see how that works. I have my mask and fins and wet suit.

I have a hair appointment for the 17th to get my hair done. Nail appointment on the 24 just the very day before I go. I’m so excited!

How am I going to pay for this all, if I have no money? Well blogging pays for my nails, my husband pays for my hair (he’s such a good guy) and the rest comes out of my vacation fund. I have about $800 in there, I hope it’s enough. I budget to the freakin’ penny. I’m good that way. So even though I only have $23 in spending money for food and lunch and stuff, I do have a stash in my vacation fund!

Yippee!!!

Well, it’s looking pretty good about going on a cruise. I’m excited. I also found everything I need to renew my passport. I have two old ones, and I have to send in the most recent one. It was issued less than 15 years ago (I got it in 1994) and so I’m good for the mail in renewal. I also found our Marriage License and Certificate, I will have to include those as well. Oh yeah, I was going to look at the turn around time with passports, as I’ve heard the horror stories of how long they are taking now. Hopefully mine won’t take 10 months to get!

We are looking at a Carnival Cruise that goes to Grand Cayman and Belize City, among other things. I want to go scuba diving. I’ll have to get my scuba certification renewed as well, because the last time I went was back in 1998. I wouldn’t feel comfortable going unless I got re-certified. I think it’s just a short lesson and I can go to Sea Base for it, it’s considered an open water dive.

I am quite excited. I’ve invited some people, too. We’ll have to know who is going to come, for sure, soon. I want to get a good price on the cruise. And, I get the bug to do something like this and I like to plan early! I wonder if the ship will have wireless internet. I would absolutely love to blog from the ship! I’ll have to check it out. Here at home our wireless network is working well, and so is our used cisco we bought a year or so ago to power it all!

I am soooooooooooo excited about a cruise!

EDIT: Yay! I just found, on the Carnival website, they do offer wireless access on the ships! Yay!

Ooooo I am so excited! My friend at work and I really want to go on a cruise. We can’t really afford Alaska, but maybe we’ll go someday. My husband doesn’t really want to come, he’s not into crowds, but my friend’s sister wants to go.

If three of us go, it’ll be cheaper. The third person is about one half the price of the other two. So if we split the total cost three ways, we all score!

I want to go to the Cayman Islands and Belize. And I’ll want to scuba dive again. Will have to get re-certified and find all my scuba gear.

We will probably go October 2008!!! I love planning trips. Caribbean, here we come!