My feet (and obviously my body) at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria

So… obviously there was a hitch in my plan to blog about the cruise everyday… I guess I should start with a breakdown of why the lack of posts, catch up as to what’s up, and the contest details.

• So, why didn’t you blog everyday you lazy slob?
  Funny story, that. We were told going into the cruise that we’d have Wifi available on the ship. Oh the excitement I felt and anticipation! Made hauling my laptop around airports and hotels totally worth it equipped with that knowledge! Unfortunately what they didn’t tell us was that it was satellite internet connection which meant that if a) we weren’t docked and b) you looked at it funny or c) there were mountains over a foot tall you were pretty much screwed internet wise. Also, totally ageist of me to say, but the old people totally hogged the internet. I mean, I felt mildly bad about trying to upload a few small pictures and doing blog posts. I came to find out, through various discussions with people on the boat, that some people were emailing full size images back to the states. This, of course, meant I was S.O.L. if I wanted to do anything. What limited internet I was able to get (usually really early in the morning or late at night) I used to chat or email Mack. I’m sorry but my boyfriend means more to me then the negative ten (since I’m convinced the number of people who read this blog reach into the negative numbers) people who might have read the blog who could wait until I got back to the states.
• How was the trip?
  Awesome!  Lots of stories to tell and pictures to show. I have four memory cards (one of which is 8GB) full of pictures I need to download and process. Trust me that you’ll see them here on the blog in the near future… once I have a chance to catch my breath that is.
• I saw you complain about jetlag on twitter. Seriously, it’s probably not as bad as you made it out to be.
  I’m weak! What can I say? My body didn’t handle the nine-hour time difference well. You should have seen me with the seveteen-hour time difference shock when I got back from Japan. My Mom still laughs about it to this day. Last week I went immediately back to work the following day and, erm, women stuff came up. Needless to say I fell asleep at 7pm and was usually up at 5am and my body was angry. Angry I tell you!  I also didn’t sleep well on the trip for some reason. Lots of weird dreams including, but not limited to, a dream I was a greek goddess who had to choke the life out of one of her possessed horses. I blame all the beef goulash I ate.
• You sure offer a lot of excuses.
  I’m really good at that. I think it comes from being the youngest child.
• What about that contest you were running?
  I decided to axe it. There was just no interest what-so-ever. Two of the comments submitted were my godmothers who I love dearly and made me feel loved. So yes, obviously next time have to figure out better prizes to see if anyone would care that way.

So that’s it. You’ll see posts about the cruise slowly get posted. I have two I wrote while on the cruise that, frustrated, I gave up on attempting to post. The photos being posted with them will still be SOOC (straight out of camera) to create the full superior glory of it all.

In the words of Scar from the Disney movie “Lion King” (I grew up on it, shut up): Be Prepared!