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Cruisin’ world

Well, graduation has come and gone, so now it’s summer and it’s time to party. Seriously, I’ve been going to a lot of parties lately. But the best graduation gift I could receive is to go on a cruise. I’ve been on three cruises: to Key West and Cozumel in 2000, the Bahamas in 2002, and nowhere in 2003. So it’s been a while since the last one, which is a shame because they can be a lot of fun.

In my opinion, the best way to celebrate graduation is to go on a cruise. In fact, whether your tooth today, finally got an A, or starred in your school play, you should go on a cruise. For the uninitiated, cruise ships aren’t boring places where you’ll be rocking back and forth all the time and getting seasick. There’s so much to do that you might not even want to get off for the beautiful destinations. Since this is starting to sound like a third-grader’s “What I did over my summer vacation” essay or a brochure, I’ll just cut to the chase and say that we’re going on a cruise to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and we’re leaving tomorrow. It sounds spontaneous, but it’s been in the works for months now.

We’re taking the Carnival Imagination, which is the ship I went on for my first cruise. What’s nutty crackers is that this is my parents’ third time on the ship; they also went on it for their anniversary. And it’s not like Carnival has only a few ships, either. There are a lot. It’s kind of a shame that I threw away the deck plan of the ship whehn I was cleaning my room a few months or years ago. So you see, that’s why you don’t throw things away. I could have just whipped that out and said, “I know my way around. I was on this ship seven years ago.” I don’t actually remember where anything is, but it’ll probably all come back to me. That would be cool.

Since I’m pretty much an adult, I had to get a passport for this trip. My sister did too. We filled out the paperwork and had our pictures taken and stuff a few months ago, and they came a few weeks ago, about a month later than they were supposed to. I guess it’s a busy time for applying for passports, with everybody traveling over the summer. In their haste (they being the Department of State or whoever issues passports), they misspelled my first name, which I got very, very upset about. I wrote it the right way and everything, and then they went and spelled it wrong. I wanted to get my name corrected on the passport because I am carrying a passport that does not have my name on it, but it’s apparently too late to get it fixed, which, as they say, sucks. If I have kids, I will give them names that people can spell.

Anyway, I return on Saturday. In the meantime, you’ll be treated to a pre-written post from me and a guest. I’m not sure if I’ll have Internet access (it’s kind of expensive — or, at least, it was years ago), so I probably won’t be around to check my e-mail or anything until I get back on Saturday. So you guys will have to hold down the Internet while I’m gone, okay? Good. Have fun! I mean… I’ll have fun!

The American Heritage Dictionary presents 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know. I knew about 75 of them.

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