Hello everyone!
I'm the new kid (I'm doing myself a favor with 'kid') on the block and am very grateful to Judy for directing me to this wonderful website.
My name is Barbara, my husband Volker and I cruised on the Mariner last summer to Alaska to celebrate our youngest son's high school graduation (we have 5 boys) and apparently we created a monster since before we left the ship he put down a deposit on another cruise (which we're taking in the baltics with judy in august) and he swears he's going to do it again so that we cruise next year with radisson too. no complaints here! I have a pin that one of my son's gave me as a gift around the end of october, it says 'nothing can scare me, I have kids!' Now watch those famous last words come back to bite me! :)
My husband was a divisonal and subsequently general manager for Bayer AG in Latinamerica and now retired, we're living in Florida. Golf is big on the agenda and of course a love for traveling.
The wealth of information and the warmth of the posters on this website is like a family, very inviting and we're grateful now to form part of this family. And speaking of family, I know this sounds lame but we have a black bunny, Spike, who has the run of the house, (he's litter trained) who knew one could so totally fall in love with a bunny! We can't have a dog or cat since we live on a golf course with an open back yard (outside of the lanai) and gators that come and go in the pond out back.
I hope I can contribute in some small way to this site and perhaps can help someone with info on any trip to the Tampa Bay area and to some extent with Orlando! (or Guatemala or Chile where we lived many years.)