It's exactly four days before we cruise again, this time to Alaska for 14 nights. This is a cruise that we booked on a whim while we were on the Emerald Princess last February. This is a cruise that is a full departure from our normal M.O. of cruising to warm climates during our winter months.
This is a cruise we are incredibly excited about.
While we are so fortunate to be able to spend many of our winters cruising the Caribbean, when we return home in February we resign ourselves to staying home until the next year. Not that that's a real hardship. True, we do get an additional snow or two (or five) after we return home, but they're spring snows, fast moving and quickly melted. By March we're looking forward to starting on home projects, and gardening and yard work. The summer is filled with outdoor activities, camping out with the kids and dining al fresco on the deck. Our one traditional road trip is to Vail, Colorado around the Fourth of July for G to complete his annual Vail Hill Climb, a 7.5 mile run up Vail Mountain. This was his 25th year doing this. He is an amazing man.
(I volunteer at the top and hand out the t-shirts. I ride the gondola up. Amazing has never been a personal goal of mine).
But this summer has been a long one, with record setting heat and severe drought conditions. The news has been horrible on so many fronts, and we are well ready to leave the land of half-staff flags. The kids are back in school, the flowers have peaked, the corn and tomatoes will have to wait for our return...we're going NORTH TO ALASKA!
