Hi Everybody!

Since I finally came out of "Lurkdom" yesterday, I thought I would post a proper introduction!

My name is Jen and my husband is Joe. We live with our nine (yes, you read that right) kids in North Idaho. Joe and I "do" ebay for a living and for the most part it is great. Joe is home most of the time, which is ok most of the time too, except ocassionally he kicks the laundry pile around and complains about not having clean socks! @@ So neways...My hobbies are collecting dustbunnies and kids...lol...but seriously...

My first cruise ever was back when I was 16 years old on Sitmar. My parents took me and my brother on a 12 day trip to Alaska with my elderly great aunt and uncle and my cousin. I had a good time, but totally was unable to appreciate Alaska. Hey, what can I say, I was 16, it was summer and I was cold! I grew up in So. California! I came back from that trip thinking that it was a total crock that bald eagles were on the endangered species list and that there was no such thing as the "world's tallest, oldest, whatever totem pole! But, I knew I wanted to cruise more because the sea days were so awesome! To heck with shore excursions! Fast forward oh about 20 years...My dh and I took our first cruise on...Carnival with my bil and sil. We went to the Mexican Riviera. We had a great time, but we didnt' know any better! In November 2004 Joe and I took our first (and only so far) Radisson cruise to FP on the PG! Now that was a CRUISE! OMG! So we got back and I have been planning our next cruise, but not knowing what we were going to do. We did a land trip to Europe with the kids last Easter time (3 weeks) so that kind of blew the vacation budget for 2006! 2007 is what we are planning and I was sooo glad when the schedule came out a few days ago! Anyway, thats us and I am so glad that this site is here! I have learned so much in the time I have been reading!

Jen