Does Gravlax sound like food to YOU?

Got up at 6:15 AM, and arrived at the airport to check in later - Mom got annoyed at Vivian's family since they weren't at the gate when the airport people started calling people to board our plane to San Diego. Steph said that Vivian's cell was turned off, but the four of them showed up very soon afterwards because they were at Tim Horton's eating some breakfast. Air Canada is cool since they provide you with individual screens, so I watched CHILDREN OF MEN... avant-garde it may have been, but I wanted to see it when it came out! Interesting plot, and I loved how all the military men and everyone else were in AWE of the baby since it was the first born in 18 years! We grabbed a taxi (not literally :P), and Mom kept accusing me of elbowing her during the short ride to the cruise ship terminal... no, you're just overly sensitive and frazzled! :P

Steph loved the palm trees, and we all noticed the hot weather in San Diego before we embarked on the cruise ship - the Volendam's atrium with its tower of light is kinda ugly compared to the Dawn Princess with their cool elevator and marble staircase! Mom said that the "great giveaway" was a "farewell party"... gee, I didn't know that they wanted to get rid of us within two hours of our stepping onto the ship before we even left port! There were a lot of old people, and some of them had been on board since Fort Lauderdale where the cruise ship started its voyage! Then again, there was some cruise my parents took a while ago, and they were the youngest people there when they were in their late forties! (wheelchairs, canes, and portable oxygen tanks... oh my!) Maybe it's cheaper than a nursing home, and you also get to see places / enjoy life? Heh, we all know there's bingo and casinos on every ship just for the seniors! ;)

We saw a questionably-named food item in the Lido cafeteria... Gravlax sounds like a medication (hybrid of Gravol and Ex-Lax?), not a ham thing! Sister and I went to our room when it was ready, and saw The Inside Man on the TV - brought back memories of when we saw that at Citrus' place a while ago. It was on all day and night, so we figured it must have been yesterday's theatre movie, haha. Discovered that the toilet flushing sounds like diarrhea: my sister wondered why I asked what she was doing in the bathroom, haha. Discussed postcards, ship tours (the guide thought we were teens!), and these extremely long cruises I read about in the literature provided for us: 66 days to Asia / Australia / Polynesia, 73 days, or a 114-day Grand World Voyage?! Man, I wonder how much THOSE cost! Took lots of photos, and discovered that ESPN was very heavy on the baseball coverage - very little hockey, which sucks! Uncle Wayne was advising Mom on all the liquor for sale since he works at a liquor store, and would have the knowledge of good deals, too. The night's entertainment was a singer doing John Denver tunes - pretty good stuff! We can do ship games for "dam dollars," which we may redeem later. Good times so far, mostly... we should write more in the journal Mom brought along, haha. Jon can read it later, too!