I was looking at cruises that leave from San Francisco. I would love a little short jaunt to like Vancouver or Seattle and then a return back on the ship. I haven't managed to find a round trip cruise that travels that route.
I hope you are able to work out a way to take your MIL on a cruise so that she can enjoy it.
I'm not sure that any of them go back and forth, but as it gets closer, check out the May and September coastal trips on Holland America Line. Well, who knows if we'll see the same itineraries or the same prices, but they were very reasonable for this year.
Ach, too much time spent in hospitals, around nurses, and yesterday, at a medical center with MIL has caught up with me! Over the last 6 hours a cold has caught me, sunk its little fangs into me, and won't let go! My throat is so sore, ouchie, and the sneezes are not helping it one little bit! This is the kind of nasty FAST cold that makes even me seek out the OTC western drugs, but I think I dumped 'em all a few months back. Dagnabit! Here I am, just me and E (Robert's on a trip until mid-next-week, darn him), and I do not want to sneeze and whine all night! Harumph.
Even worse, tomorrow is MIL's second Home Health visit, and I have committed to be there. Maybe I'll be there, but wait in the hallway. Or get a face mask. She really doesn't need to be sick on top of everything else. Then again, maybe she gave it to me. She was really really REALLY tired yesterday, after all.
Ah, the fave part of illness...singing "I feel icky, oh so icky"...
And on top of that, the last two early mornings have been highly disturbed by really cruddy dreams. Falling off of bridges two days ago, and this morning awoken by full on physical awareness (or what I thought was actual awareness) of a poisonous snake behind my head. My skin was crawling; it truly felt like something was there. Waking up was terrifying! And, of course, nothing there. Jeez, I live in a condo; would be hard for a Black Mamba to get in to my place. (but I'd been reading a short story where those snakes were mentioned a few nights ago)
Anyway, long story short (ha!), both sets of dreams supposedly mean change, transition, and that sort of thing. MIL's mom used to say that dreaming of falling off bridges (I was not aware that this sort of dream would have featured so prominently in rural Korea to the point where MIL would actually remember this?) means "growth", which is pretty much what the dream websites say!
I know, I know...other peoples' dreams are the most boring thing on earth to talk about, but I thought that the meanings, and how a rural-born Korean woman would know just what bridge dreams would mean, were something to think about.
If I'm feeling up to it tomorrow, I'll get in to this upcoming trip.
ETA, yikes! I described this cold as having sunk its fangs into me? In light of those dreams this morning, eek!