Itinerary Update Dear Valued Guests and Travel Agent Partner, We would like to advise you of an update to your cruise itinerary aboard Riviera on January 12, 2019. Due to a berthing conflict, please note the calls to St. George’s and Roseau have been swapped. Below is the revised portion of the schedule, which includes arrival and departure time changes:  DATE DAY PORT ARRIVAL DEPARTURE ORIGINAL PORT 19-Jan-19 SAT SCARBOROUGH, TOBAGO 7:00 AM 4:00 PM 20-Jan-19 SUN ROSEAU, DOMINICA 10:00 AM 7:00 PM ST. GEORGE'S, GRENADA 21-Jan-19 MON ST. GEORGE'S, GRENADA 7:00 AM 4:00 PM ROSEAU, DOMINICA 22-Jan-19 TUE PHILIPSBURG, ST. MAARTEN 12:00 PM 8:00 PM Shore excursions will automatically be adjusted once the date changes have been finalized with our tour operators, which may include operating time and/or duration for tours that are affected. We look forward to providing you with a memorable cruise experience. Warmest Regards, Carlos Ortega Vice President, Passenger Services Oceania Cruises

Hello Terri,

I just received the below itinerary update, let me know if you have questions.

Itinerary Update

Dear Valued Guests and Travel Agent Partners,

We would like to advise you of an update to your cruise itinerary aboard Riviera. To avoid port congestion, please note the calls to Santorini and Mykonos have been swapped.

DATE	DAY	PORT	TYPE	ARRIVAL	DEPARTURE	ORIGINAL PORT
23-Jul-18	MON	SANTORINI, GREECE	ANCHOR	8:00 AM	6:00 PM	MYKONOS, GREECE
25-Jul-18	WED	MYKONOS, GREECE	ANCHOR	8:00 AM	6:00 PM	SANTORINI, GREECE

We look forward to providing you with a memorable cruise experience.

Warmest Regards,

Carlos Ortega

Vice President, Passenger Services

Oceania Cruises

We are traveling on the Zuiderdam for a 10 day Panama Canal Sunfarer Cruise.
We are renting a family Cabana in the retreat.  Here is the information about the cabanas:

St Lucia

Update on our situation

My brother-in-law, Eugene has some severe kidney problems.  He has a kidney stone that the doctor described as a "boulder".  He will have surgery on Thursday morning to have it manually removed because it is the only way.

He was in the hospital from Friday, January 2 to Sunday January 4 for emergency intervention to drain his right kidney which swelled to three times its size.

There is still another procedure that needs to be done to remove the remaining stones in both kidneys so that we do not have a repeat situation.  This will be done sometime in the future when he is strong enough to tolerate it.

Please say a prayer for him that he pulls through these next few days.
Terri and Jim

We cancelled our cruise at the last minute

Unfortunately Jim's brother became ill and we have to return home.  We cancelled our cruise.  We cannot have peace of mind being away from home for such a length of time while decisions must be made for his care.

So I will not continue with this blog for now.

I will post an update on his health when I have more information.
Terri and Jim

I'm doing a Happy Dance!

A quick update:  Tonight I’m doing a happy dance

I lost a lot of sleep last night--mostly from anger, but also trying to figure out how to get to the places we wanted to see from the port of Coquimbo.

I wasted more time than I should have today, but we do have a tour set up in Coquimbo. We will be using Patagonia Shore Excursions. Deposit paid with PayPal to ensure that we will be accommodated.

They will customize the tour to go to the towns of Vicuna and Monte Grande and also the Archaeological Museum in La Serena to see the Moai statues from Easter Island. We have no problem skipping the Pisco factory or the Puclaro Reservoir (where it's too windy anyway) to see the places that are on my bucket list.

So we're happy cruiser's again.

One more day at home and then we head to Fort Lauderdale.

More later