Lynn and Paul’s 15th Anniversary cruise

Who are these people?

This is my first blog with AllEarsNet so I thought I’d introduce myself.

My name is Lynn and my husband Paul & I met when we were both Cast members at EPCOT. We were married in 1992 and left Orlando for Atlanta in 1994. We have no children by choice. Even though I grew up in GA WDW feels like going home, and I still visit a couple of times a year. Paul visits once a year for the Food & Wine festival.

On port days during our early cruises we felt we had to ‘DO’ everything, and I had a need to buy lots of tacky souvenirs. Somewhere around cruise number 3 I started to realize that I could get a lot of the Caribbean ‘stuff’ at Wal-Mart, and my family really didn’t need t-shirts from somewhere they’d never even been.

Around cruise 4 or 5 I started to buy mostly locally made products. I especially try to find local artwork or photography; frameable postcards are my favorite ‘cheap’ souvenir. On our last two cruises we lost the ‘need’ to have to do and see everything available in port, and started to appreciate the days at sea more. During our 2005 DCL cruise I remember telling Paul “This is the ship I want to do a Trans Atlantic cruise on. Well … Lo and behold just a year later the announcement came out that DCL was taking the Magic to the Med! That meant they had to get it over there and back right ?!?! It was like Tinkerbelle had swooped over our world spewing Pixie Dust !!!!

With a mixture of excitement and apprehension that there’s no way we could afford this I contacted our wonderful TA Vickie from MouseFanTravel.com, who as it turns out will be on the same cruise. On April 4, 2006 we were booked on the Westbound cruise August 18 – September 1, 2007 !!!!!

I chose the Westbound for several reasons, 1) we get the really long flight over and done with at the beginning of the trip 2) we do the active part of our journey at the beginning, then get 6 blissful days at sea 3) Best of all we get to sail back in to our own time zone, which I hope will be an easier acclimation, AND we GAIN an hour every day on the Trans Atlantic part of our voyage! Every day will be an hour longer !! WoooHoo! 4) Also a big bonus we get home on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, so we have two full days before returning to work. It wasn’t until months later that I realized that our 15th Anniversary is within the same month hence the title of our blog.

I’ll let Vickie & Mike introduce themselves.

The four of us Me, Paul, Vickie, and Mike will be blogging both jointly and separately, that is Mike and I will be blogging , most of Vickie’s on line time will be spent working, and I expect only minor input from Paul.

Did I mention that I talk too much, usually about myself or Disney! LOL!!

Lynn Behr