8-27-07

Bradley:

How are you sweetie? I hope well! Guess what? My dad found us a great cruise to Acapulco. Tell me what you think... It is scheduled to leave out of LA on December 18th which is a Tuesday and it is an 8 day cruise so it goes through Christmas Day and gets back on the 26th which is a Wednesday. Here's the schedule: depart, day at sea, day at sea, Acapulco, Acapulco, Ixtapa, Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, day at sea, back to LA (see the map below). The cruise line is Norwegian (my dad has been on Norwegian and likes them) and this cruise costs $649 + taxes per person. That price is for an inside cabin or we could get an outside cabin (like a room with a port hole) for $699 + taxes per person. I think this cruise sounds great! It's a little more expensive than we were planning on and it's a little risky because it starts on the 18th, but 6 weeks from October 29th is December 10th so I think you will be back in plenty of time. I'm going to send an email to Sgt. Williamson asking him if he knows when you should be done with AIT so that we can know for sure if those dates work. Also, the price is ok because we are getting more than $400/month more per month (we were thinking $600/month for me, but we're actually going to get more than $1000/month). So that extra $ more than pays for our cruise. Also, it makes us gone over Christmas so Dan and Danni can come out. Plus we'll already be in California and we can leave the girls with my parents. Plus we'll be celebrating Christmas, our 3rd year wedding anniversary, and our reunion after being apart for so long! I think that calls for a rocking cruise with really fun stops. As far as having friends come with us, if we decide to do this cruise, we could just send out an email to the people who might potentially want to go with us and just say, “here's what we're thinking about doing. If you want to do it too then call this number and book your rooms and if you can get yourself to CA you'll have a place to stay and a ride to LA.” Truthfully, I think it would be fun to go with friends, but I also wouldn't be sad if no one could/wanted to come. Our other two options would be to either go on a 7 day cruise to Mazatlan, Cabo, and Puerto Vallarta for about $550. Or the same 4 day cruise that we did last year to San Diego, Catalina, and Ensanada for $200. Well, that's all I have to say about that right now. Next time we talk on the phone I'd like to get your opinion on all of this so I can book our tickets if you give me the go ahead.

Here is the song that has been stuck in my head today:

“Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket, never let it fade away! Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day!

For love may come an' tap you on the shoulder, some star-less night! Just in case you feel you wanna’ hold her, you’ll have a pocketful of starlight!

For when your troubles start multiplyin’, an' they just might! It’s easy to forget them without tryin’, with just a pocketful of starlight!

Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket, never let it fade away! Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day!”

I was able to take the laptop back to Costco with just a different pair of headphones thankfully. So now we were able to get our money back and we have our new one and it's all set up and working great, so we should be good to go in the computer department. This is really a great laptop. I downloaded something called Open Office which is like a free Microsoft Office so now we have a program like Word, Excel, Power Point, etc. Also, Heroes works on this machine, which is a bonus. I haven't tried any other games like War Craft, but I'm sure they'll work too.

I also went to Camp Pendleton and got my military ID and got enrolled in DEERS so now I can go to the doctor. We had to drive all through Pendleton because we had to go to a couple different buildings to get all of the paperwork done. Anyway, I got a good look at base life (at least a Marine base) and I got to see what the housing on base looked like at it was pretty good. I wonder if we will end up living on a base after we graduate from BYU and start working for the National Guard full time. Anyway, it was a fun eye opening experience and I thought of you the whole time of course. I wonder what Fort Sill looks like... I LOVE YOU!!!

Love-Your Sweetie

P.S. This is still on the DL so don't tell anyone, but guess what? Nicole is pregnant and due at the end of April! Isn't that so exciting!?!?