Gotta love Travelocity!!!!

Ok so something other than twilight today!
Dan works for the Gnome ( Travelocity!), and loves his job!!! The Senior V.P. Called him while he was on a business trip to Monatana two weeks ago. He asked how things were and than asked if he would like two tickets for a cruise for Dan and myself! Of course he said yes! The only catch was he told us on Wednesday and the cruise was for that Friday! Dan called my mom and asked if she would be willing to watch the kids for four days ( Friday- Monday) she said yes! So dan flew her up on Thur, while he flew from Montana to seattle on friday and I flew to seattle Friday Morning! Daniel almost missed the trip. In Montana they were ready to take off when they unloaded all the passengers beacuse of some mecahnical problems. Daniel thought there was hope until he saw the mechanic shrug and give up. Thats when He called to tell us he might not make it! Luckily the brought another plane ( I know it never happens like this!) And picked them up and flew them to seattle! Yeah!!!!
The Ship Mercury Boarded in Seattle and then went to Victoria and also Nanimo ( home of Nanimo bars! Divine!!!) in Canada and than back to seattle! The only other Travelocity peps on the cruise was a coworker of Dan's and his wife! We only saw them a little, but had a great time talking and eating with them when we did!!
We had a great time just the two of us! We realized we can still carry on a conversation that is not always about our kids or work! We like spending time together hanging out! We have the same taste in almost everything! And we love Dan's Job!!
I will say we missed our kids. But had a great time just being us! Here our some of our Pic's!

Dan next to the ship! our window was the one to the right of his hand!
My flight over! I have only flown once before this! I was a little nervous if I would get sick! But I loved flying, and the views!
Dan found this onesie and and wished he had a baby boy to buy it for! Too funny!!!
The wax museum! We thought it was way neat!

Boarding the ship
One of Dan's favorite hotels in the back ground, The Edge Water! It looks big until you compare it to the ship!
On thw way to the cruise in our taxi! the cabi got us there in record time!
cab fare on the window!
A view of seattle while landing!

Daniel on deck for the practice run!
You have to have a drill of life jackets and life boats on your first day on the cruise! I could not stop laughing! Welcome to the Titanic!!!
The whole audiance was filled with orange life jackets! I asked Dan if he still thought going into open seas was a good idea!?!
Our life boats!
Our dorm room! J/K They didn't have two people scheduled for the room. so we had two twin beds! I thought it was fun! Later they did fix the beds for us!

Bonvoyage Party!
Great view of Seattle ( And yes they are NON- alcohollic drinks!!!!)
Party on deck 11!!
Great view of the space needle!

Ok so obviously it was waaaaaaay to cold for this but we had to laugh!!!
Cheeeeeessssyyyyyy!!!!

Seattle sky line

Dan's relatives! ( Princess Diana's maiden name is Spencer!)
Provincial Legislature Hall

The Fairmont Empress Hotel

Double decker tour bus!

Marilyn

"Look ma, It's a real mounty!!"
Sea sick on the small life rafts! Yeah!
Ok so this guy was funny! Daniel posed for a picture for Dallin! He was darth vader playing the fiddle! Gotta love Canada!

A Castle! Just so you know, there isn't a moat!

The trip home!!!
Having to say good bye! Dan had already planned a trip for seattle for Mon-wed before we were given the tickets! So he stayed in Seattle while I flew home! He was gone from the kids for 9 days! Yuck!!!
I don't get the dolphins! But the men inside were Philipino, so dan would tell them in Tagalog that they had big heads! They would always ripe the head of the costume off to see who said that! It was funny!