You may be wondering why I posted an image of the Cruise Globe, with most of my voyages listed on its face. Well, I'll get to that eventually, but first, let me describe my day.
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I woke up this morning, and knew that I didn't want risk moving my car, only to lose the one visitor's parking space left in our lot. A blizzard was coming, and they expected the snow to start by mid afternoon. RQS was safe in her home, near all the cold weather gear she'd need when the blizzard is over. As for me, I got dressed for only one reason - to take kitchen waste to the dumpster before the snow made it impossible for me to do so. (Once back inside, it was back to my jammies.)
As I may have mentioned, I am working on a spreadsheet to allow people to plug in key parameters, and generate an approximate cost for an adult taking a specific cruise. Each cruise line's beverage prices, Wi-Fi prices, package prices, package inclusions and automatic gratuity charges differ, and there is only so much someone can do to allow people to "Compare Apples to Apples." At least, this spreadsheet comes reasonably close to doing so for basic fees, but it doesn't include things such as Specialty Coffees, Bottled Waters, and Top Shelf Beverages. Work on the spreadsheet kept me busy all day and much of the night.
When I came up for air, I watched some cruise videos and read some cruise news. There were 3 ships scheduled to leave from the New York City area, and all of them were affected by the weather. NCL's ship left Manhattan as scheduled, and I expect people will get seasick before they spend their first night in the casino. MSC's ship left Brooklyn, and returned later due to the weather. Finally, Royal Caribbean's ship took on its passengers, but stayed in port. Although the plans are for this ship to leave either on Monday or Tuesday, passengers had to be on the ship before its originally scheduled departure time. Both RQS and I are very glad that we took our latest cruise in January, as the winter snows that came in the last month would have caused us some grief when we returned.
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Tomorrow, I expect to get dressed as Mario and shovel my car out of its parking space. Since it's a heavy snow, I don't plan to rush things. I'm no longer in my 20's, and I have to be careful not to over exert myself.
