597 Messages

Since we are at sea today I decided to go ahead and wade through my email. I have 597 unread email messages. I’m sure the vast majority are spam. Since I turned off my home machine, I’ll have not spam filtering through my webmail interface. Spam SUCKS!. Testing the cruise ship internet’s speed. I’m connecting…

Cruise Day 6: At Sea

So we are at sea for the first of two days on the way back. Not much really happen today. We slept late, getting a panicked called from the sister-in-law at 10:30 waking us up. She couldn’t find her two year old daughter and thought we might have her. Someone found her wondering around and…

Cruise Day 5: Belize

Today we arrived in Belize and our excursion was Discover Scuba Diving. My eldest and I went together. This wasn’t really what I was expecting. I’d done a thing in Hawaii 15 years ago where they just put the tank on you and swim around with you. This one was an official PADI thing. You…

Cruise Day 4: Cozumel

After a night at sea and a short stop in Playa Del Carmen – which we slept through – we arrived in Cozumel. In case you don’t know Cozumel is an island off the coast of Mexico. I was signed up to do Discover Scuba Diving, but it was canceled due to weather. When we…

Cruise Day 3:Progresso

Today we went to Chichen Itza, a large Maya ruin. Our tour guide was a Mexican of Maya decent and was very interesting he told us lots of interesting facts about both peoples. For instance he says that all people with maya blood are born with a spot at the bottom of their back. It…

Cruise Day 2: At Sea

We spent this day at sea. I don’t really remember much about the day, other than the art auction my wife and I went to. And bought two pieces of art. Nobody was bidding on anything, but we found two we liked. (I wrote this on Thursday) Technorati Tags: cruise, NCL, Norwegian Cruise Line

Cruise Day 1: Getting aboard

Well its the first day of the cruise and we spent a lot of time getting from my in-laws house the port of Houston to board. It was strange going down a little two lane road in a stretch limo, among hugh container ships to board our curise ship. Galveston has a cruise port, but…