Another Addiction

When I first went overseas to France, I became addicted to traveling. When I moved to Australia it became a whole other beast. Then, after 15 minutes aboard the Millennium, I am addicted to cruising! How cool. Yeah, we are the scum bags of the ship, but we are scum bags in a whole lot fancier class than Nikki and me are used to. Our lowest end cabin would rank as one of the nicest hotels we have ever stayed in. Our every need is catered to before you can even think of it. And talk about “sport eating”… we have done nothing but eat for two days straight. We go to the fancy pants restaurant for our meals and hit the buffet for all our “in between meal” meals. As if the 20 pounds I’ve gained in Melbourne wasn’t enough. I’m hoping I’ll only gain 10 on this trip.

We are now on our second day at sea. We are out in the middle of nowhere between Australia and New Zealand. There is absolutely no land in sight, but it feels like you should just be able to walk across the boat and see the land. There is plenty to do aboard though. At night they put the next day’s schedule on your pillow and we go through and underline everything we want to do. Yesterday the only thing we did was eat and walk around the ship. Today, so far, we are eating and hitting the pool and working out. The pool is amazing. The boat rocks, so the pool has waves in it. And it is salt water in the pools so you float. We just floated around “starfish” style and rocked with the waves.

Probably the only downer on the cruise is American dollars. The Aussie dollar has dropped from about $.97 to around $.65 so we really don’t have much spending power. Good thing the only expense is booze, and we had $200 onboard credit from Travelocity. We’ll be alright.