Time is getting close! 14 days from right now (10:21 am) we should be in LA and getting ready to head to the terminal for our cruise. After what seems forever since we made our plans in January 2007, it’s so close, yet we are so distracted!

We’ve been distracted by…
Patrick finished another successful year with da Vinci Days a couple of weeks ago…
My trip to Colorado for the reunion…
At work, for the transfer project I’m leading, schedule is coming down to the wire…
Organizational changes are also starting to happen at work, I already have a new boss…
Waiting for the announcement on the Italy job and being able to get on with our lives…

All of this and, oh yeah, we have an amazing cruise vacation in two weeks. It almost seems a background thing right now! Funny how life happens this way.

It seems like forever we’ve been waiting for the cruise, and now we are down to 41 days! We leave August 17th. It’s getting down to the point where even Patrick is thinking about clothes for the cruise – I had mine all planned several months ago! (Which is kind of a bummer because it’s always fun to shop and there are so many cute sundresses out there!)

Since we gave the early 90’s plum double breasted suit to Goodwill a couple of years ago, Patrick was in need of some nice clothes for the semi-formal nights. A jacket is required at a minimum.

Yesterday Patrick decided was the day to shop. We had the best shopping day ever for Patrick at, of all places, Goodwill! We found a very nice sportcoat, 3 dress shirts, dress pants and a tie for <$40. OK, so my family is laughing right now because I am such a miser, but these are very nice clothes that fit him well, and we were both pretty excited.

Check one more thing off of the list…