Thank You H1N1

I don't know if you've noticed but I haven't been commenting much lately. The reason is the Mister and I have been on another cruise. Very last minute, but very fun. A friend of ours gave us a call and told us about the Carnival Splendor that was scheduled to go to the Mexican Riviera. The ports had been closed because of the flu so they were rerouting to Canada. Many of their passengers didn't want to go to Canada and canceled. If we could get our ducks in a row, we could cruise for seven nights to Victoria and Vancouver for $199.00! AND since the mister is a veteran for $4.00 more we could have a balcony room. Woohoo!! The daughter #1 and her little family came over to dog sit and water our newly planted lawn. We threw some clothes in a bag, got some great deals on some Jet Blue flights and off we went.

Carnival's largest ship...

The length of three football fields...

The view from our balcony...(that's a towel monkey hanging from the curtain)

Water slide...

They had three big pools, and an outdoor (under a dome) movie theater...

Every evening we came back to our room and found one of these.
I asked the mister if he wouldn't mind learning how to make these towel animals. I wanted one by my sink every day, not just on cruises. He said he'd put it on his list of things to do. He said it's number 4,987.
We had wonderful food, of course, and a singing Maitre D. He sounded a lot like Frank Sinatra, only Irish.

The bonus was while we were in Southern California we got to go see the sweetpeas.

This work of art is entitled "Thumbelina's Garden". Brilliant use of color. And Q tips.

As much as I like to get away, I really love being home. And this is what we came home to.