The cruise decision

Today, we woke to a strange and alarming sound from Princeton. Certain that something horrible was wrong with him, I felt around frantically for him as Mark was calling him. I couldn't find him so I flipped on the bedside lamp only to see him stand slowly up and look at us as if to say "What?" The sound he made can only be described as a sort of howl. Now, in ANY other dog, that might be a semi-normal sound, but not in a five pound Papillon. No, he screams and cries like a little girl and barks like some out of control dime store toy, but he has never howled. I don't know what it was unless perhaps he was dreaming...
So, wide awake way too early on our day off; we watched a little bit of the news on Fox and then decided that we really need a coffee maker in our bedroom. The lure of a steaming cup of coffee was too much to resist, so down the stairs we went. Over coffee and breakfast we decided that today would be the day that we shoveled out Mark's office. I think the word shovel is a bit optimistic, but we will go with it for now. We goofed off on our computers and talked with the girls as they got up for their days; Lindsay off to work and Chelsea to do her song writing and recording. The sounds of her music are the background of our daily lives; I only realized that when she wasn't here last week. Then, Mark says to me "So do you want to research cruises and pick something?" Well, duh! of course I do. Now I have to ask you; how distractable can two people be? We had discussed the Panama Canal when the idea of a cruise was first discussed, but then decided we really didn't want to venture into Mexico; so we were considering Alaska. From that point on we bounced from one location to another, from Alaska to TransAtlantic cruises! We looked at the standard cruise offerings and we looked at small ship cruising (something I think I would love because it is so specialized) discussed maybe just flying to England, went back to the idea of cruising the Panama Canal. WHEW. Then, once we settled on the fact that was truly what we wanted to do; we had to begin the tedious search for which cruise line and then.....the big question; When?
Well, we are pretty certain we have settled on Holland America Cruises and we will travel in November. I think.

Now, we realize we have literally sat in our kitchen the entire day, taking a short break to talk to Brittany about computer problems, talk to Mark's mom and dad as they travel today and to walk the dog. That is about it. Soon, we will leave to meet Steve and Alex at Don Pepe's for dinner and Dos Equis, then off to the bowling center to hopefully bowl better than I did last week.
So much for getting the office cleaned up.