From Florida

We are still in Florida, with about two weeks to go before our cruise to Europe. Lots has happened: My parents put an offer on a house here in Sarasota (looks like they're going to stay...) and they have decided to come to Europe to visit us and Matthias' family in Germany and then join us for a Russian river cruise in June. Should be great fun!

Newsflash! 18 April: Our "favorite cousin" Andrew just informed us that we have been upgraded to a balcony cabin on the transatlantic cruise! (Top that one, Josh!) Not bad having a cousin who's an Assistant Cruise Director with NCL in Hawaii. Thanks Andrew - we're so psyched!!

I didn't realize that some people were waiting for an email update before checking the blog, so those that haven't been keeping up can go back in time to see what we've done. Now that I've sort of figured out how to upload pictures (which only works some of the time), there are photos included in the last few entries. Unfortunately, the entries start with the most recent, so there's no real good way to read them in order, unless you want to go back to December (under "archives" on the left of this page) and start reading from the bottom. That could be quite tedious, however.

Speaking of tedious...I cleaned up the photo gallery (link is to the left) by deleting tons of pictures, but there are still 260 photos in there, making for quite a long slide show.

Hope everyone is doing well. Cheers!