For anyone who knows me, they know that I hate to sit still and hate waiting for things. I’m Mr. Instant Gratification. That makes waiting for vacations pure hell. Like now. We have booked our next cruise for March 7, 2009, on the Independence of the Seas. We’ll be going to St. Maarten, San Juan, and St. Thomas as well as a stop at Royal Caribbean’s private beach area in Labadee, Haiti.
Whenever I book a cruise, I put myself through hell by counting down to the cruise; visiting cruisecritic.com all the time and probably bugging everyone I know to death talking about vacation. About the only thing that makes the waiting somewhat bearable is that, for the most part, I don’t finalize plans much mo ethan 60 days before we leave. That way, i only have a couple of months of hellish waiting.. I see people who have booked cruises a year in advance or more and basically just know that if I did that, I would die from waiting.
Interestingly, the cruise isn’t even the closest “vacation” I have. This weekend, we are taking the daughters for a long weekend to LA that will include taekwondo black belt national championships as well as a day at Disneyland (a first for our 5-year old). So basically, I’m trying to make it through the work weeks until the trips. I’m looking forward to seeing my younger daughter at Disneyland. Her big sister has gotten to go to Disneylad and DIsney World but this will be the first time she is old enough to go along. Seeing their faces light up and how excited they get is a lot of fun.
Well, will let you know how the LA trip goes and then the real tough part of my wait starts because there will be nothing else to distract me from the cruise wait 
