Oceania offers wonderful oppotunities to explore each port with several choices of excursions. It was our job to pick the ones we felt would give us the feel for the place as well as have a good time. Our travel agent sent us the .pdf file of the excursions offered. We printed it out and it is over 260 pages!
Printing it was the first hurdle.
Dividing them by months helped in the notebook we started.
I created a spreadsheet listing each port and underneath each excursion offered. I listed the amount of time, the start time, and the price. We wanted to have an idea how much this was all going to cost!
We found out that Oceania offers a 25% discount if you pre-purchase at least 25 excursions each. The catch is, they are non refundable after you board the ship. But you can switch them around, if you decide to, onboard ship.
We took several weeks, each week picking a month or two, to look at the descriptions and pick what we thought we would like. I eliminated things like the bus tour into town, or wine tours since we don't drink wine anymore. Also, no glass bottom boats. Although we ended up picking one in Scarborough, Tobago because they go to this cool nylon pool - sort of like the sandbar in Kaneohe Bay.
We ended up choosing 86 excursions! Sometimes, David and I go on different ones. Snorkling, kayaking, beaches, plantations, voodoo ceremonies, living desert trip, temples, folkloric shows, Mekong River cruise, "Good Morning Vietnam" tour, National Parks, Komodo Dragons, Great Barrier Reef adventure, Art tours, village way of life, sacred sights, jeep safaris, hiking, and the Sydney Bridge Climb! Of course there will be regular sight seeing, museums, colorful markets, distinctive architecture, and as little shopping as possible.
There are 5 special events for world cruisers:
Event: Open-Air Dinner At Swakop River Canyon in Walvis Bay, Namibia
Event: Traditional Thai Extravaganza in Bangkok
Event: Exclusive Tour & Lunch At the
Great Wall of China
Event:
1940s Patriotic Evening Aboard the Battleship Missouri on Oahu
Oceania also included for world cruisers an overnight trip in Myanmar (Burma) to the temples of Bagan.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Monday, September 24, 2012
The Girl with the Scissors Tattoo
The Girl with the Scissors Tattoo
Sept., 2012
Sunday we went to a picnic at Two Step in Honaunau, HI. As we were about to leave I noticed a lovely 30 something woman who had a large tattoo on her back - of a pair of scissors!
This grey scale drawing was almost like a photograph of the pair of scissors I use to cut fabric. It was about a foot long, the blades closed and correctly pointing down. For this reason, I felt safe asking her about her tattoo.
I began the conversation by asking if she liked to sew. Her answer, no she wasn't a sewer, was surprising. She said the reason she had this tattoo was because she thought that scissors were a beautiful shape and form. She said she collected scissors. Friends often give her scissors as gifts. I asked how she displayed her collection. She told me she kept them in a suitcase.
We discussed how scissors in Hawaii can quickly get rusty, and the various types of scissors. I told her about an expensive pair of scissors I bought specifically for flower arranging. The other day I got them out to use on flowers from the garden to make an arrangement, and found the blades were totally rusty.
I also told her that I have a beautiful Alaska Native beaded scissors case meant to be worn around your neck, that holds small scissors you might use for snipping yarn. She didn't seem to know about knitting. I asked her if she had the kind of thread and yarn cutter that is shaped like a rose that you wear as a necklace. The sharp blades are indented in the design allowing you to carry it on an airplane. She had never heard of that and didn't know people needed scissors on airplanes.
I began to realize that I, too, have a scissors collection. I have very expensive sharp, long scissors for cutting fabric, pinking shears, thread nippers, the round thread cutter, tiny scissors for a travel sewing kit, and several small scissors for knitting. I have a whole other collection of scissors for flower arranging, for crafts, and several clippers for the garden. Then there are my scissors used for cutting hair, and several different types of clippers for cutting fingernails and cuticles, and straight ones for trimming eyebrows.
The kitchen scissors are constantly in use. They are also the ones that gave me the stitches in my hand after I tried to use them to open a plastic package. I even have a pair of scissors on a Swiss Army knife kept in the car. There is a pair of blue scissors at my desk.
I don't know if I have enough scissors to fill a suitcase, but I wouldn't be keeping them there because I use them all the time.
The girl with the scissors tattoo, or: form vs. function.
This grey scale drawing was almost like a photograph of the pair of scissors I use to cut fabric. It was about a foot long, the blades closed and correctly pointing down. For this reason, I felt safe asking her about her tattoo.
I began the conversation by asking if she liked to sew. Her answer, no she wasn't a sewer, was surprising. She said the reason she had this tattoo was because she thought that scissors were a beautiful shape and form. She said she collected scissors. Friends often give her scissors as gifts. I asked how she displayed her collection. She told me she kept them in a suitcase.
We discussed how scissors in Hawaii can quickly get rusty, and the various types of scissors. I told her about an expensive pair of scissors I bought specifically for flower arranging. The other day I got them out to use on flowers from the garden to make an arrangement, and found the blades were totally rusty.
I also told her that I have a beautiful Alaska Native beaded scissors case meant to be worn around your neck, that holds small scissors you might use for snipping yarn. She didn't seem to know about knitting. I asked her if she had the kind of thread and yarn cutter that is shaped like a rose that you wear as a necklace. The sharp blades are indented in the design allowing you to carry it on an airplane. She had never heard of that and didn't know people needed scissors on airplanes.
I began to realize that I, too, have a scissors collection. I have very expensive sharp, long scissors for cutting fabric, pinking shears, thread nippers, the round thread cutter, tiny scissors for a travel sewing kit, and several small scissors for knitting. I have a whole other collection of scissors for flower arranging, for crafts, and several clippers for the garden. Then there are my scissors used for cutting hair, and several different types of clippers for cutting fingernails and cuticles, and straight ones for trimming eyebrows.
The kitchen scissors are constantly in use. They are also the ones that gave me the stitches in my hand after I tried to use them to open a plastic package. I even have a pair of scissors on a Swiss Army knife kept in the car. There is a pair of blue scissors at my desk.
I don't know if I have enough scissors to fill a suitcase, but I wouldn't be keeping them there because I use them all the time.
The girl with the scissors tattoo, or: form vs. function.
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