Vacation Anxiety

     OK, I admit it, I'm excited about going on a ship.  As a career Navy guy, I vowed to never set foot on any "boat" ever again, unless it was on a lake.  When we were offered this wonderful gift from our eldest child, it was a little before Christmas, and nothing was certain, except that we would be going on an 11-day trip that included a 7-day Western Caribbean Cruise.  In January we learned that it would be around our 44th Wedding Anniversary in March, and we started to make a few plans.

     The original stateroom on the Carnival Magic was an "ocean view" room, which meant it may have a window, or a porthole, but for a price, we could upgrade to a "balcony room," which has a glass door that opens on a patio...

...in all my times at sea, I've never had accommodations like this, so you can see I'm getting a little excited about this trip... It was like a "no brainer".

     Next, we started looking for "easy" excursions in some of the ports that Magic would visit in the 5 days of "port hopping" from Cozumel, to Belize, to Isla Roatan, to Costa Maya in Mexico, and decided to do a couple of beach days in Cozumel and the Isla Roatan (Mahogany Bay).  There were a lot of other things to choose from, but no matter how good of shape I'm in, I'm going on 67 years old, and I've had strokes, cancer, hip and back surgeries, and I'm not a young man anymore.  Some of the excursions required a lot of exertion, and I'm really not going on this vacation to "work up a good sweat".  Since there were no golf excursions, and tons of stuff to do on the ship, we decided to take the time to relax, stay on board, and play.

     My undying appreciation to our daughter Tyffany, and husband Peter, for their generosity in making this all possible.