How to Take the Most Out of a Cruise

How to Take the Most Out of a Cruise

By Potko Potev

If you are on a cruise, you should know how to appreciate it and make the best out of it. You can do so by making yourself ready for fun activities on board of the cruise ship.

Plan your activities onboard. Take the time to explore the cruise ship. Go and check out restaurants, bars, gym facilities, swimming pools and internet services. The walk along and inside the cruise ship is itself a wonderful travel and you would be amazed that this is a one-in-all venue that you can enjoy.

Check out the activities on the cruise ship. You can ask the information desk for the activity list so you can sign up for fun activities that you like to do on a daily basis and for the entire trip.

Try to be adventurous and enjoy everything on your cruise. Have a great gourmet dinner in a restaurant or have it on the deck if you wish, go watch a live show Broadway-style or watch concerts. You can play bingo or go to the casino. You can go swimming, have a spa therapy, play tennis, do aerobics and listen to lectures, learn crafts or attend dance lessons.

When your cruise is on port call, you can explore the place on your own or go with a group. Join exploration trips on shore and have fun visiting restaurants, souvenir shops and major local sights of the place.

Grab the opportunity to enjoy good customer service. On a cruise, you are the pampered passenger whom the crew would like to please.

In case you have some kind of seasickness condition just be ready with your medication. The cruise ship has good medications for seasickness and you can always ask for assistance just in case. It would be good to check out the child care facilities of the cruise ship if you are traveling with young children. You can have the option of using them in case you would have an activity on your own. Your children would have fun and would meet new friends. You would also be able to spend more quality time with your partner knowing that your kids are safe and having fun on board.

Be ready to capture happy memories on your cruise travel. You are a tourist and it just makes sense that you have plenty of pictures to show when you get back home. You can take a picture of the entire cruise ship if you want; better yet include pictures when you, family members and new friends are doing activities, having fun or when you are out on port exploring places. A video cam would be a good accessory to bring along on your cruise to record every moment.

When you decide to take a cruise, keep in mind that you are going to take advantage of all the good things it could offer. This is what your money paid for - pampered service, convenience and worry-free kind of travel and an experience you would want to remember for lifetime.

Even more about cruises you can read here. If you are interested in other transportation methods like bus tours for example, visit this website.

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Apples Outside the Classroom

I just posted grades for the shortest summer session known to man and am celebrating by spending time with my family in Vermont. While I've posted before about how Vermont is more fashion friendly than one might expect, there are still places you're not supposed to wear your classroom gear . One such place is the pick your own apple and peach farm we visited earlier today. I wore a floral blouse with a zippered back and an above the knee skirt (photos coming soon!). At least I didn't wear Steve Maddens like the ones above, though they may have come in handy for knocking those hard to reach apples out of the tree.....

And here's the thing. I didn't expect that my students would appear at the orchard asking for further insights on The God of Small Things, thus potentially (at least partially)justifying skirt and blouse ensemble, but I honestly didn't pack anything casual and it's not cool enough for jeans (even if I had remembered to pack them, which I did not). What are your favorite late summer casual outfits that you feel still look stylish?

Our Vacation

Well let me first give you a little history! We have gone to the beach 2 other times with families once to the Outer Banks and then last year to LBI. This by far was the best of them all. Outer Banks I now realize had a lot of tension between families never a good thing on a vacation. Last year we got rained out, it rained from Saturday night when we got there to Wednesday morning when we left because we couldn't take it anymore.

This year it rained only the night we arrive monsoon rains, I thought to myself oh no here we go again. We woke up Sunday morning to the sun beaming in our window. Could it be that the curse was broken? Yes it was and we had 6 glorious days!

We shared a house with 2 other families, in total there were 6 adults and 5 kids which consisted of 3 16 year olds and my 6 and 4 year old. Quite the age range. The teens of course were on the late to bed late to rise program and my kids were on the late to bed early to rise program. It really worked out ok.

As for our house it was one of those homes that grow on you, at first I was not impressed by what I saw but as the hours then days went on it grew on me. It was a house that was built in 1954 and had been renovated in 1974 with the needed improvement such as microwave, tv, etc. Why you are thinking do I care about how old the house was? Well at Long Beach Island (LBI) ocean front beach homes typically are million plus homes ridiculous sized homes! Some of them rent as high as 15K a week.Way out of our range even with 2 other families. So if you were out on the beach and looked at the houses down the beach all you saw were mc mansion after mc mansion. I came to love our little house, it felt inviting warm and most of all comfortable. Ok with the exception of the bed we had which had mattress with two huge dips in it where it looked like two elephants had slept for 15 years! Other then that it was a quaint house and I loved it!

This isn't a great picture but at the very top it shows our house next to the big one on the other side, then if you look down the coast line here are all the other houses.

Every morning we would get up get my kids some breakfast then head out to the beach for morning playtime. The best part of this is that our house was right on the beach! all we had to do was walk over the sand dune and bam there you were. It made going back and forth with fickle kids a breeze. That was pretty much our day back and forth to the beach finally coming home at 5 for cocktails, showers and dinner and yes in that order.

Each night we had a theme night for dinner One night was Polish night we made perogies and they were to die for think of dumplings only better. Then there was Italian night Seafood night yum my mouth is watering thinking about it. I put on 5 lbs because all I seemed to do was eat drink and sit on the beach. Ah the life.

I told Dan that since we live a fast paced double career life that we need to do this kind of vacation every 6 months. First it was inexpensive as far as family vacations for 4 are concerned and it was totally low stress just the right environment to relax regroup and recharge. He agreed so next year LBI here we come now I need to come up with a winter plan I am sure I will find something.

I took a ton of pictures some of which I have included in this post the others can be seen below. Enjoy!

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A few words to sum up my vacation.......

Enjoyable, excellent, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, grand, incredible, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, phenomenal, sensational, stupendous, superb, surprising, terrific, wondrous!!!! whew I think that about covers it!

I hope you all enjoyed the guest bloggers I lined up last week, thanks again to Leah, Steph and Elaine. You ladies rock!!!

So I have tons of pictures, some stories, a google reader that is about to explode and a limited amount of time, what's a girl to do????

Well, I will give you a sneak peak at some photos!!!

Stories will need to come later this week as I am still trying to get myself back in the work mode. That google reader well it is going to be marked all read and I will start anew. If there is a post that you really think I need to see please email me and I will go check it out.

I missed you all a ton and I am very happy to be back!