We’ve Been Away

For a very long time. We spent Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and Valentine’s Day on our favorite cruise ship, the Seabourn Sojourn. It technically wasn’t a world cruise because it didn’t circumnavigate the globe. It was billed as an Extended Exploration that sailed from Los Angeles to Cape Town, visiting 26 countries and 4 continents. Everything after Tahiti was brand new for us. We’ve been home just a week and are both still suffering from jet lag. I’m going to try to do a few posts over the next little while about the wonderful things we saw and did while we were away, starting with Hawaii. We had three stops there; Honolulu, Kona and Kauai. We were in Hawaii last year so it wasn’t super exciting to visit. Our first order of business in Honolulu was to hoof it over to WalMart to stock up on Christmas stocking stuffers, toothpaste, shampoo, sunscreen and all of the other things we would need over the next 4+ months and didn’t want to pack. We each took two suitcases and a carry on each (and that’s the same amount of luggage we brought home with us, although much heavier!)