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THURSDAY AUGUST 16 TH

Yesterday as I was getting ready for work I got a text message with a picture from our friends Shelly, Scott & Dylan, who we met on our 2005 DCL Cruise. They are on a Med cruise on 'another' cruise line and were having pizza in Venice. How wonderful!

Today when I got to work, I've got an email from Vickie, and one from Deb Wills. Vickie & Mike have arrived safetly in Barcelona, and Deb reports from where ever she is enjoying her Disney Adventure that our blog is ready to go.

So how am I supposed to get through the rest of my work day with out exploding from excitement?! After all I've been waiting for this for 16 months and in about 26 hours the car will be here to pick us up ! Luckily I work for a Dentist and he only sees patient till 1:00 On Thursday. By 1:45 I had everything I had to do finished up and was on my way next door to get my nails done, with well wishes from my boss and co-workers. As my nail tech 'Son' told the lady who was doing my pedicure "She's on vacation!"

So nails done, stop at Petsmart for cat food, Kmart for perscription, and Trader Joe's for 2 1/2 buck Chuck for the wine coolers I'll be having later. Yes Folks we pay $2.49 for 2 buck Chuck in Georgia! I had just gotten home when who should arrive but Paul ! Much to the astonishment of his co-workers Cynthia & Gary who are our close friends, he left work early on a Thursday and HE was on VACATION too !!!.

Since we did most of our packing on Sunday we didn't have that much to do, just some last minute odds and ends and a full out search for the only pair of cuff links in existance, which BTW, I (if that "I" could be bigger it would be) found. Right on the shelf in his closet buried under sweatshirts that he swears he had already looked under. That's why Indiana Jones, and Hans Solo always had a girl with them, they might look good but they can't find stuff on their own.

Over the last couple of days we've debated where to have dinner tonight and decided on our favorite pizza joint Mellow Mushroom. Back home to watch a movie, Zoom, which we already had from Netflix, (mildly entertaining, but it tries hard) and I came upstairs under the pretext that I was going to shower and go to bed. How does anyone sleep on the night before vacation?

I always told my Mother, the night before Disney is far worse then the night before Christmas. So I snuck out to the livingroom to get the laptop to write down the blog that keeps playing in my head (somehow it sounds much better there) and I can hear NASCAR 07 coming from the XBox in our home theater in the basement. Paul wont' be to bed for hours!