Today we had a cruise critic luncheon where we asked MaryAnn to circulate sheets of paper labeled Things We Are Glad We Brought, Things We Wish We Brought, Things That Were a Waste to Bring and How We Made Our Cabin Like Home. The answers were very interesting and could be useful to you if you take a long trip.
In the evening, Lu and Mike invited MaryAnn, John and us to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with them at dinner in the Steakhouse on Deck 10. What a delicious dinner and what incredible cuts of beef! On February 14, MaryAnn and John had invited us to their 45th wedding anniversary dinner at Sabatini's Italian Restaurant. We will host our group of six at the Steakhouse on either April 9 or 10 because we will be off the ship on our wedding anniversary on April 4, which also is Easter. We are taking a six-day overland tour from Beijing to Xian to see the Terracotta Warriors to Hong Kong. We will provide you with our itinerary before we depart.
Following are the lists of valuable and not so valuable items for long trips:
THINGS WE ARE GLAD WE BROUGHT
1. Large white clothes pins
2. Packing tape
3. Duck tape (it can fix anything!)
4. Magic marker
5. Double clothes hangers
6. Clothes line
7. Shoe bag to hang over bathroom door
8. Removable small hooks
9. Favorite toothpaste
10. Favorite soap
11. Favorite shampoo
12. Ginger root tablets (for sea sickness)
13. Own pharmacy in bead container from JoAnn's Fabrics
14. Tupperware for breakables
15. Pop up hamper (also useful for carting laundry to laundry room)
16. Ziplock bags
17. Glad wrap
18. Scissors
19. Glue
20. Computer
21. Wii
22. DVD player and DVDs
23. Steeler shirts (couple from Pittsburgh)
24. Soda
25. Cocktail fixings and mixers
26. Sugar-free candies
27. Case of wine
28. Mugs
29. Wife (how nice!)
30. Punxsutawney Phil (yes, you know who contributed that!)
THINGS WE WISH WE HAD BROUGHT
1. Small Swiss Army Knife for cutting fruit in room
2. More money
3. Another hard drive for my computer
4. Flashlight
5. Snorkeling gear
6. Extra camera
7. More toothpaste and deodorant (only brought one of each)
8. More shirts
9. Different shoes
10. My dog
11. Our cat
12. More pens and mechanical pencils
13. Another case of wine
THINGS THAT WERE A WASTE TO BRING
1. Too many clothes
2. Too much make-up
3. Plastic bags for taking lunch off ship (Most countries won't let you)
4. Power strip
5. Towel
6. Sports coat
HOW WE MADE OUR CABIN FEEL LIKE HOME
1. Magnetic wall hooks
2. Large laminated world map
3. Pictures we bought on the ship or in ports
4. Pictures of family members, grandchildren and pets
5. Small pillow
6. Had refrigerator moved from closet to under desk for more closet space
7. Rearranged furniture
8. Asked for wine glasses
9. Asked for Princess robes
10. Why would we want to do such a thing?
We too celebrate our wedding anniversary on the 4th April. We will have been married for 46 happy years. I hope you have an exciting anniversary - how many years?
ReplyDeleteWe visited the Terracotta warriors this time last year. They are incredible. We went from Beijing and then on to Guillin and up the River Li to Yangshou before flying back to Shanghai. An fantastic and most interesting journey.
Enjoy.
Jennie