May 3 – “Penguin Port of Call”

Well, I think we are going to have to rethink our commitment to the Panama Canal cruise.  Oh, it’s not that we don’t want to go.  It’s just … Chris found another alternative that she was telling me about yesterday.  Instead of the four or five stops of our planned cruise, this one has no less than 113 ports of call.  And where we would go to two or three countries, this one has 59 countries on its list.  I was excited about the chance to say we had been part way through a canal in Central America.  But this new cruise goes all the way through a canal … something called the Suez.  Every continent on the face of the earth except Antarctica.  Not sure why they are skipping that one.  Guess they couldn’t arrange a port of call with the penguins.  Huh.  Penguin Port of Call.  Now that would have been an experience.  There were even opportunities for shore and on board discounts that were higher than the entire cost of our cruise. 

Now here are the real kickers.  Our cruise lasts right at two weeks and leaves out of Galveston.  This one lasts 265 days and I think it departs from England.  A business class flight to London is included in the cost, though.  Ah. The cost.  I know you have been waiting with bated breath for the cost.  A mere trifle, you see.  If we cashed in everything we owned we might be able to get one of us paid for.  Over $95,000.  Each.  Don’t have anything in particular going on for almost a year?  Have a little extra pocket change lying around?  Chris can hook you up with a website …

Psalms 57:9-10 says, “I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.  For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.”

Father, thank you for our little tropical island paradise right here.  It’s enough.  Amen.