booked

Next year!

Bubba and I will celebrate 50 years of marriage.

Trying to get my head around that truth.

Anyway,

we have been saving for quite a while to take the whole family on a cruise.

Yes, that's thirteen souls.

Well, this week we booked!

We are all so excited.

In the late eighties my mom and dad took all of us on a cruise.

There were eleven then.

That was way back when "cruising" was just getting popular for us common folks.

It took a little while but we were able to find a ship that would visit the same ports of call.

Needless to say we are all over the moon excited.

Bubba and I have a suite...

all of the others have balcony rooms.

Cannot wait!

🎈🌴🌅

"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea,

 except I think 

it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes. and ships change, 

it's because we all came from the sea.

 And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins, 

the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean. 

Therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. 

We are tied to the ocean. 

And when we go back to the sea ~ whether it is to sail or to watch it ~ 

we are going back from whence we came."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy