My son and I went on our cruise. I wish my husband could have gone but he didn't have the vacation days. It left out of Mobile, and because of Hurricane Ida ripping past LA (Lower Alabama), the cruise was postponed a day, changed from three ports to two, and one of those two was changed. But all in all, we had a really good time.
My son had frequent flyer miles so we decided to fly to Mobile. When the cruise got postponed, we didn't want to change our airline tickets and pay that fee, so we decided to go on and spend one night at a hotel. Our plane went from Huntsville to Memphis, and from Memphis to Mobile. (How crazy is that?) Anyway, it was one of those itty bitty planes that almost doesn't qualify as a passenger plane, and the turbulance had me really freaked out. Because of the hurricane winds, we bounced all over the sky and for awhile, I thought we were going down for sure.
I enjoyed getting to talk to my son. Hanging out with mom is not usually their favorite thing to do at his age, but he was great about it. One night in the theatre they had a show featuring Beatles music, which he now knows because of Guitar Hero (ha!) and during the show, neon green light sticks were passed out through the audience. It was really neat to see all those lights waving to Eleanor Rigsby. :-)
My son went up on stage to play trivia jeopardy, and did great but did not win, but the next day he played another game and won. He got the famous Carnival Solid Golden Plastic Ship on a Stick. He loved it.
We went to a origami class and made paper frogs that you can jump. We went to a towel animal class, and we watched (but did not participate in) a disco dance class (very Saturday Night Feverish).
I enjoyed the food but did a lot of walking and am happy to report my doctor said yesterday my weight stayed the same. No loss but no gain, so I was happy.
We went shopping in Cozumel and I bought a Coach bag. Ok, so for the price it might be a fake, but I wasn't sure. If I couldn't tell, no one else probably can either.
Now that I'm home, I am cleaning the house for Thanksgiving. Two of my children, one son-in-law, my granddaughter, and my mom are coming. I started making a shopping list today, and it got longer and longer. So I did a radical thing. I called Cracker Barrel and ordered a Thanksgiving Dinner for Six for take out. I pick it up Thanksgiving morning. I had them throw in a pumpkin pie. So I buy Cool Whip, make tea and we're good to go. And I won't be too tired to play with my grandbaby. I also got out of Christmas this year, and my sweet daughter volunteered to do it at her house. So I'm actually looking forward to the holiday season, almost. (Still have the mother-in-law to contend with.)
