Bon Voyage

Despite my good intentions to get a few posts that have been rattling around in my head on paper (er, cyberspace...) I have spent most of my week frantically finishing articles so we had extra spending money for our trip and just generally trying to meet my children's incessant, selfish need for water/food/attention, etc.
So, blogging went out the window, but when I get back I look forward to presenting a 2008 recap, as well as introducing you to a special friend named Raffi who has taken over our lives (not the singer. You'll see) I have been compiling a pictoral diary of all of his adventures with Samuel over the last t months or so. There, now that those two goals are down on paper, I have to stick to them. I know faithful Kate at least will keep me to my word!
In the meantime, I am off with the fam and the extended fam to sail the mexican riviera on my very first cruise (not my first time to mexico though. We went on our honeymoon and got grounded to our rooms by Tropical Storm Chantal.) There is nothing more romantic than virgin daquiris on the beach, while resort workers behind you frantically tape up windows and then run for the hills calling back over their shoulders that we may need to evacuate inland in the middle of the night and they will let us know...) By the next morning, the pier had washed away and we were starving after our "room-service" dinner of a tuna fish sandwich and a banana (no, we didn't pick it. They closed all the restaurants and left that at our door.) It still ended up being a good trip, but since we didn't get to leave the resort at all, we didn't get to see much of the country. Cross your fingers that this storm will at least be less stormy! See you when we are all tan and hopefully well rested!