A Convention Haul Look Back | Board Game Quest

Thanks, and I'm sure we will. Hoping to see some ruins on this next one.

We do enjoy cruising, and this will be my fourth, my wife's fifth, and our son's third, and our first one getting a small suite.  We've had 'outside' cabins with views and with balconies.  My wife doesn't ever want to do an 'inside' cabin as she feels they'll be too dark and claustrophobic for her, although they are the cheapest room and can help one get on more cruises for the money.

We've been to the eastern Carribean just after getting pregnant with our son (work trip, actually!), on an Alaskan cruise when our son was 11 and took one of his friends along with us (adding a fourth person to the room was relatively inexpensive compared to the rest of us), and in 2019 did a three-night to Catalina Island and Ensanada, Mexico for my wife's 50th birthday. Her sisters, my sister, and some close friends joined us.

They are a lot of fun, have all kinds of food and activities available, shore excursions can be a blast (even for non-drinkers like ourselves), and are a good price when you consider you are paying for both room and board for the trip up front. (Our three-night last year would have cost us about the same amount or less as our five-night stay in Vegas this next week.)  There's always a quite place to find when you want one as well.  And the more you go, the better the deals you get on your next one.  The funniest thing we've heard about cruising is someone we met on the Alaska cruise actually put their mother-in-law on one for months on end because it was cheaper to cruise and get room-service and meals than it was to put her in even a minimally supported assisted living facility in their area.  She made new friends every week, and the staff took excellent care of her.

We've done dog-sledding and ocean kayaking in Alaska, snorkeling in the Bahamas, and hope to see some amazing things next summer.

I recommend a cruise. When you finally book one, it might be cheaper airfare to fly in/out a day early/late.  That was our finding years ago when we went out of Miami, anyway.  Spent the saved money on a rental car and toured the everglades and toured Miami.  It was money and time well spent!