RE MINT

Okay, most of this I will fill in with my cruise journal, but:

- The Sheraton San Pedro was $99 a night on club level (free breakfast) with a free shuttle to the pier. It's not at swanky as the Westin (I used to be a Platinum Starwood so I've slept in a few Starwood properties of varying poshness) but it is VERY convenient! It is a lot closer to the Pier than the Westin...literally 5 minutes away.

- The Canopy tour is MUST! We did it and it was the experience of a lifetime!!!

BTW now my sister in law (who lives in Rancho Palos Verdes) wants to go cruising with us and wants to do Mexican Riviera...if I can figure the time off (I'm going back to work Monday after 9 months of maternity leave!!), we just MAY join you guys for that week! She wants to treat, which makes it even sweeter! BTW no dibs on "our" suite, 738 (that is if it is not taken already!!). Yes Marcie, you are right...no reason to go up a floor unless you start doing the penthouse thing, which in our case, we won't do until we are going to cruise with the girls. We knew a couple who went from an H to a D (I believe it was a D, on deck 10??) and sometimes they heard table noise from deck 11. We did not hear a thing (plus, nobody on either side!!)

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends ~~M. Angelou~~