YES it was enough. We signed on to an 11 day cruise which would begin in Athens and end in Barcelona. Plans were made to fly into Athens a day early to get over jet lag and to see the Parthenon and then board the ship for our 30th anniversary cruise.
But remember that we were signing on a full year in advance so the wait was going to be excruciating. To pass the time and make sure that we didn't miss a thing on this trip, I began to research the ship, it's food and amenities, the cities we were scheduled to see and the shore excusions available.
What I found was some rather expensive shore excursions but never fear, we had plenty of time to save up for our choices. Even though they weren't going to take you to the exact spots we wanted to see (in other words I couldn't see both the Sistene Chapel AND the Coliseum in the one day we had in Rome) I could pick out some pretty interesting trips all the same.
Since we were traveling with others all of us were constantly talking about which trip and which shore excusions sounded better than the others. We even had a meeting to see if we could explore setting up our own excusions since we had enough numbers to perhaps split a small bus or get a better rate on several rental cars or getting our own private tour guide.
The excitement continued with each conversation. Well, at least amoung the other travelers. My husband had committed himself to go but basically was he was letting me make all the plans. The good news was that he knew how much this trip meant to me so basically wherever I wanted to go was fine with him. The bad news was that since I was doing all the planning I would probably get all the blame if things went wrong.
And as the date approached for our departure, things did go awfully wrong. But I'm going to show you how we turned all that "wrong" into "right" and had one of the best vacations of our life.
