We're back (a week behind)

A week has passed since we returned from our cruise and yet no posts were made to this blog since our return. The intention was to summarize our trip with some pictures, but alas that hasn't happened yet and so I decided to get over the hump and post this brief review.

The cruise was great. Aside from United losing one of my wife's bags on the way down to Florida (which we finally received just before heading to the ship), everything went smoothly. Needless to say, it paid to travel to Florida the day before the cruise rather than the day of. We couldn't have asked for better weather. It only rained for about 20 minutes on St. Thomas, and then once in the middle of the night (I don't recall where we were). Having done both a cruise and an all-inclusive resort, we agreed that we'd opt for a second cruise before returning to another resort. There's just so much to do on the ships and it's fun to wake up to a new port of call in a different country.

We ended the cruise with the VIP Tour of Kennedy Space Center, and that was certainly worth the time and money. Endeavour is scheduled to launch Aug. 8 so we got to see it on the launch pad, which was very cool. Obviously, we didn't get close to it, but we did get much closer to pad B, which gave us a nice view of Endeavour on pad A. In addition, the VIP tour takes you to a special Apollo center that houses what would have been Apollo 19--the actual Saturn V rocket suspended lengthwise in a long building. It's enormously cool. We highly recommend the tour if you have the chance.