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OK, we made some changes to our vacation schedule…. It wasn’t easy to do, but we managed to find new vacations to fill the old spots…

We had to cancel the Silhouette Inaugural cruise in July for personal reasons, so we had an opening in the fall of 2011 (bummer). Around the same time [...]

We really only have good things to say about Celebrity’s Solstice and the ship felt like home. There were a few changes such as the Gallery Tastings bar has been changed to the Molecular Bar and the anytime dining in Blu. I do have to say that I was a bit annoyed by having [...]

About 2 more weeks before we board Solstice for our second voyage on the ship and we are really looking forward to seeing one of our favorite ships again. Just to see the differences between the room layouts, we decided to get the AquaClass room immediately nextdoor tot he one we were in last [...]

Well, we’re back from the canal and, well, we’re cold… The Panama Canal is everything that we hoped it would be; it is simply amazing that this engineering project was completed 97 years ago. Even by today’s standards it would be a feat. Next on the agenda: back to Celebrity Solstice..

We are still [...]

The countdown is less than 1 week until we are in WARM weather. Acapulco is our first stop and we will end up in Fort Lauderdale a week and a half later. While I really don’t like packing, it is a means to an end (getting there.) We will probably have a really large [...]

This is great….. Our swim up junior suite at Excellence Playa Mujeres is amazing; I am sitting on the day bed on our patio to do a quick post to our site. The temperature is somewhere in the 80s and our piece of the pool is about 20 feet away. It doesn’t get much [...]

I recently offered to post the daily newsletters from Celebrity Mercury Alaskan cruise. The ports visited are Seattle, Nanaimo and Victoria. Thanks to RonAndAnnette from CruiseCritic.com for sending these to me. Please note that these are somewhat big (1.1MB-2.6MB so they may not open immediately). You can right-click “Save As” to download them to [...]

We just couldn’t wait until our mid-October vacation to Excellence Playa Mujeres, so we decided to take the least expensive cruise we could to the Bahamas. We booked an inside stateroom guarantee on Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas for a 3 night cruise. We make stops in Nassau, Bahamas and Cococay, Bahamas (never [...]

It is safe to say that since the swap to WordPress, our site (www.tomandemily.com) has been MUCH slower than it was before. This, however, was not the fault of the software, but rather my own inexperience with using the gallery software. Now that I have cropped the pictures down to something more reasonable, the [...]