A year or so ago, my parents booked us all on a 10-day cruise around the Caribbean. I’ve been looking forward to it and it’s finally here. Kinda. I’m not sure that a frantic 24 hours of packing up, tying up loose ends and flying to Miami counts as ‘vacation’ – especially since I went to work for a few hours in the morning and did more work in the airport and on the plane.

The week was more stressful than I can remember having in a long time. Tomorrow simultaneously brings the start of my vacation and an important deadline at work. We worked through the weekend and most nights. On top of that there were a few crazy firedrills at work this week which I really didn’t want to have to punt to others. I suppose I’m going to get my money’s worth out of this vacation.

We were psyched to get a nonstop flight to Miami (though it was expensive) and even happier when we found the plane’s seats were in a 2-3-2 configuration. That means we get a window seat AND we have to fight only with eachother to get out of our seats. I’m dead in the middle of the wing though so it’s difficult to check out the view. I brought my copy of Window Seat and everything.

Two hours in the battery on my laptop died, so I’m resorting to tapping out a blog on my Treo. I think there’s something wrong with my secondary battery; it doesn’t seem to hold a charge for long anymore.

I was happy to finally get all the pieces of my iGo together so I only need to bring one power adapter on the trip. This plane doesn’t seem to have seat power though, so I can’t try out that feature. It should power my laptop, PSP, Treo and iPod with one power brick. I hope the latter 3 converge someday soon along with my digital camera and GPS. All of them do one thing well and at least one more thing, but none do all of the things I need well enough. The rest of the flight was uneventful. We ended up waiting for over an hour for the hotel shuttle with a stop to pick up other guests at Wal-mart(!) along the way. We watched skating from the hotel and failed at going to bed at the right time for this timezone. The cruise should be fun. We’re hitting Aruba first, the Panama Canal, Costa Rica and finally Grand Cayman before returning to Miami. I’ve only been to Aruba before. Sadly there are only 54 caches total in all the 4 countries we’re visiting!

I think mostly looking forward to just relaxing on the boat. Tomorrow…