Cruising! What better way to spend the Christmas season (or winter months) than with your toes dug into sifted flour-like sand and swimming in cool ocean water? This stuff is "in my blood" and being a native Floridian...well, let's say the beach gives me energy and is a part of who I am. So, those who know Rick and I tease us about being on the sea so much that we may get a ship named after us one day. Turns out, this will have been our 67th cruise since we were married in 1986. But, we are small fish in a big pond when it comes to cruising loyalty and by no means are we even close to that "christening".