Are You Deck 13 Material?

Back in October 2003 ten members of my family took a cruise vacation on the Carnival Triumph. We had several teens/pre-teens in our group including my son Ryan, my nephews Brandon and Armani, and my cousin Candace. One of the greatest assets Carnival makes available to its younger passengers is access to their Carnival Kids Club. Shortly after our cruise began, these younger members of my family were asked to follow one of the Kids Club chaperones up to Deck 12 where they were to participate in a planned activity. Like the wonderfully well-behaved children they are known to be throughout the entire carribean (*smh*), they did as they were asked and followed the chaperone. Here's where the story gets a bit fuzzy as there are many explanations for what happened, none of which make much sense, but to make a long story shorter, suffice it to say that instead of stopping at Deck 12 as planned the chaperone continued on to Deck 13 instead. Followed by her young charges, the poor chaperone did not realize the error she had made until she swung open the doorway to Deck 13 only to find to her horror (and before she could shield her young charges' eyes) that she had somehow brought children to the nude sun bathing deck! So to those of you who will be joining us on the cruise of a lifetime I ask the following question:

ARE YOU DECK 13 MATERIAL?

I can assure you that I am most definitely not Deck 13 Material, so I'll just hang out on the other 12 decks with Grandma thank you very much! LOL!!

In the hope of avoiding situations like the infamous DECK 13 INCIDENT, this blog has been created to keep track of all the things that need to happen to make this cruise go as smoothly as possible. I plan to post all the relevant information on this site as it becomes available, thereby making it available to you 24 hours a day whether you are able to reach me or not. You will be able to access any forms, paperwork, or anything else you may need by cutting and pasting it from this site or simply by clicking the appropriate link which will take you directly to wherever it is you need to be.

As we move closer and closer to our departure date, you will be able to come here to find the answers to everything I've already told you in my email updates that you failed to save as requested when they were sent ;b

Additionally, I plan to provide links to this site to those family members and friends who are not currently booked to travel with us in the hopes of making them jealous enough to get off their butts and join us before it is too late...hahahaha!

Finally, once we have actually gone on our vacation of a lifetime and returned home, I will post stories, pictures, and video of our exploits here and any of us will be able to drop in here any time we wish we were back there on the CRUISE OF A LIFETIME!

So join me as I launch this wonderful electronic memory bank of our journey to our journey and beyond!

FIVE MONTHS AND COUNTING...are you cruise-ready yet? ;)