Sailing from Stockholm to Tallin
A special day on a special ship with a special family.
For background on our family’s trip, read our precruise notes on the cruise board under “Bon Voyage Luke and family.†This is our third 3-generation cruise on Regent, and this time we’re celebrating our kids graduations from college (Meredith from The University of Texas at Austin) and high school (Oz will be a freshman at Belmont University in Nashville). My parents are with us and they are once again loving the Regent experience. FJORDS was a special “group†cruise among friends and we look forward to traveling with an LCT group in the future. Our cruise, however, is a “family†cruise and, for us, there is no focus beyond the fun, caring, and relationship among 6 Davises.
We surprised our kids with business class travel to Europe (thanks AAdvantage program) and then with our Voyager suites. We were on the Voyager in 2004 and the kids were excited to return to the regular suites. But just over a week ago, Julie in Ngaire’s office wrote that Regent was offering us FREE UPGRADES to a Penthouse Suite (955) for Mother, Dad, and Meredith and a Seven Seas Aft Suite (674) for Paula, Oz., and me. We jumped on the offer because (1) we could never afford those suites, (2) hey, we wanted to experience butler service, (3) the aft balcony would provide great opportunities for our family to visit, (4) we’re well aware of the vibration issues, but figured (a) we can sleep through anything and we’re only at se for 5 days due to our St. :Petersburg itineraries. And, of course, our suite tours were full of “oh my†and “are you kiddingâ€â€ It was another dream come true.
We’ll continue with updates, but it’s 2:04 a.m. and it’s about time to break the trance induced by the ship’s wake as I type from the aft balcony. We’ll save logistics and details for a travelogue.
Until next time,
Luke
