Helloooo out there.  I am still in this world and have not passed on to the next yet.  I am feeling fine, my voice is about 90% normal and I will gladly take that, and the only remaining problem is the post thoracotomy pain syndrome and even that is better.  I will have cataracts removed next month but that is just great.  Mot of you will recall that I am constantly taking my glasses off to look glamorous and then I can’t see a thing and I lose my glasses.  I will only need glasses for reading.  The other plus is that I have met my co-pay and  the surgeries will not cost me a dime.

Only two and a half more months give or take a couple of days and I am really getting excited.  My luggage is out on my bed in a guest bedroom (I call this room my packing  room.)  I have all the clothes I need and everything I might take is in the closet in that room.  Nothing more to buy except when I get to Florida I will get some of the bigger items like hair spray and mouth wash.  It is so nice that CSI  provides  a bus that  takes us to a drug store and a grocery store so we can pick up those items the day before we board.
the ship.

I have chosen my tours that I will take with CSI but I never book HAL tours until I am on board and close to the day of that the tour I want to take.

So, I am now waiting for the visa information and , of course, the package so I will know what to pack for formal nights.

HAL did transfer my $800 shipboard credit from the Prinsendam to the Amsterdam so I will have a hefty credit in my account.  I believe it will be about $1,500   I can easily spend that during the cruise.Check in from time to time as I will post again when I get the package.