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A month or so passed and we were busy doing our everyday routines.  Finally a question came up on a Sunday morning about our cabin on the upcoming Hawaii Cruise. So I went on line to pull up our reservation.  It came up as an unrecognized reservation. The travel agency was closed  on Sunday, so I decided to just pull up the ship and look at the room we had booked. It was an Ocean View. I could not pull up the ship. Finally I called Norwegian Cruise Lines directly. They informed me that the ship had been renamed Norwegian Sky and was reallocated to an Asian itinerary. I was  dumbfounded. Needless to say, the first thing to do on Monday morning was to get ahold of the travel agent.

This last February we took out 8th cruise. It was an 8 Day Mexican Riviera Cruise sailing out of San Diego.   This cruise was a first for us in several ways. We had always cruised alone in the past, on this cruise there were 15 of us.  We had started out with a couple of couples from our Elks Lodge 326 and then expanded from there. This was our first cruise with an inside cabin. We had previously had either an ocean view or a balcony. This was our first cruise on Carnival Cruise Line. Previous we had cruised on Royal Carribbean, Princess, Holand American and Norwegian Cruise Line. It was also our first 8 day cruise; most of the others were 7 day cruises, the one exception being a 3 day coastal. Just a note, a three day cruise is too short. About the time you remember which drawer you stores your underwear in, it is time to pack up and leave. The ship was the Carnival Spirit. The Carnival Spirit was built in 2001 and is 88,500 Gross Tons.  It carries 2124 passengers a...