For those of you who know our history with cruises, you'll understand why this is such a big deal to us. See, we were supposed to go on a cruise of the western Carribean for our honeymoon. Marty had planned it all out for us, and was so thrilled to be able to take his new wife on such a tropical, romantic getaway. Well, Hurricane Katrina hit a couple days before our wedding. And our cruise ship was supposed to dock in and out of New Orleans. Oops. So they re-routed us a bit and told us our new port would be in beautiful Galveston, Texas. We rearranged our flights and hotels and all that. No harm done, right? So the morning of our wedding Marty got a call from the cruise line saying that FEMA was confiscating our ship to use as housing for the Katrina refugees. Our cruise was cancelled and we honeymooned in "beautiful" Galveston, Texas.
Needless to say, we were a little bitter when we saw our cruise ship docked there with no refugees in sight. Just an empty boat representing our empty honeymoon dreams. Although honeymoons are all about having crazy monkey sex anyway, so I guess in the long run it doesn't really matter where you do it. Ha ha.
Anyway, we're finally going on a freakin' cruise. Marty turns thirty this year (gasp), so in thinking about how to celebrate his milestone birthday, I decided it had to be something big. How about a five-night cruise down to Cabo? We leave Monday, September 15th, and will be baby-less for a whole week as we hang out and enjoy some time to ourselves. So so fun. I can hardly wait.
I was going to keep it a surprise, but really could hardly wait to tell Marty about the pending va-cay. And with the tough time he's been having at work, I knew it would do him some good to have something fun to look forward to. So two weeks ago, I set up a little scavenger hunt for him that led him through our house as he found clues that hinted towards the big gift--the cruise.
It started with a little note on the door explaining that his August birthday would be celebrated earlier than usual this year...
And ended with a very happy husband and proud wife for being able to pull off such a fun surprise!
So if you see us in late August and we look more tan than usual, and our smiles are a bit bigger than usual, you'll know why.
3 comments:
that's awesome! How exciting for you guys! and to be baby-less for a few days...wow! early happy bday to marty...I went through that with miguel just this last november and it's so much fun, especially being soooooo much younger (well, in my case five years)...I teased the hell out of Miguel and had fun doing it! All in good fun of course! Have fun in Cabo! Oye! Oye!
Can't wait! Woot woot!!
How exciting! You guys are going to have a blast. Cruisin' is so much fun; I think it's addicting too.
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