Princess to appoint New World Cruise Port Lecturer!!

Well with all the research that I have been doing that statement could be true.

With the current World Cruise 2010 well and truly underway there is a large contingent of my Cruise Critic family following their every nautical mile. We spend hours copying bridge cams, searching for port cams, hanging on to every word they write in their blogs.

We can no longer walk past an ABC Shop without calling in to see if there is another DVD on somewhere we are visiting...

It is funny the different reactions you get from people when you tell them that you are going on a world cruise.... Obviously when you mention it to a fellow CCer they turn green with envy, but when you mention it to others they sceptically look at you and say ...” Gee that is a long time on a boat “ . When you talk about all the cities that you visit they say “how many days do you spend there?” when you say just one.... they once again give you that look....

That is the cue for my spiel on all exotic and amazing places that we will visit ... some that you would never have imagined visiting if planning your own trip... the fact that we can pack as much as we like, unpack once and repack only when we arrive home.... oooh I go goosy just thinking about it.... a la carte food and entertainment each night for no extra cost!!! Gosh I want to go in 2012 too .......

Anyway we still 334 days out from our cruise... and we have already started that “hmm I should buy that, it would be good for the cruise!! “ Well guys, if you are down at Wharf 5 on Wednesday 25th May 2011..... those 2 people with the big grins on their faces and 20 bags ... WILL BE US!!

Travel Trivia Challenge Update

The Game was played by myself, Garry and Carly (our 18 year old who is midway through her travel and tourism course!! )

All I can say is that the game board looks easier than the actual game... LOL...

As I mentioned in my earlier post there are 6 continents. The first being Asia.... I should have realised when I had already used up my first 20 days before moving to the next continent I was in trouble, though we were all neck to neck...

Next was Africa..... that is where I died in the pants... Garry had a much better idea and Carly was currently studying it... 50 days gone for me and I am only a third of the way around.

Ahh Oceania.... yippee flew through this one but so did everyone else...

Oh ooh South America!! This continent saw me kicked out of the game not so much cause I couldn’t answer all the questions but I kept getting the penalty cards ( baggage handlers strike add 3 days or plane delay add 2 .... I knew we sailed for a reason LOL ). Carly was ok as she just finished studying the area and Garry just answered every question with Bolivia or the Andes and he got the questions right!!

The battle continued into North America but the winner only won by default as the other player reached the 80 days first!!

Shows you what tragic I am ... if princess Australia doesn’t sail there, then I don’t know the answers LOL .... unless asked a true or false... we found 95% of the answers were true...

We decided next time we will play back to front as we think that Europe and North America would be easier to start with....

Joanne .... Off to do some studying...

We are Such Dags!

Just had to share our little purchase from yesterday....

Whilst wandering around Borders yesterday looking at Kobo’s , as you do! We spotto’d a game called “Travel Trivia Challenge”. The object of the game is to travel around the world covering the 6 continents within 80 days.

Each continent has 6 spaces and to move forward you have to answer a question right about that continent. Each time you are asked a question it is counted as 1 day ... so on and so on.... we couldn’t resist ..... so we bought it!!

The only disappointing thing for me was that the little Tors are aeroplanes.... I think they should be boats !!

Joanne