Alaskan Cruise

Believe it or not, I really am a very busy person and don't have to sleep, much less have any fun, but....NOW I GET TO DO BOTH!!!! HA!!!!!!.........It's all starting to hit me. We leave TOMORROW. Is this happening to me?? Oh, yeh, I forgot to even tell you, we are going on an Alaskan Cruise. We got an inside stateroom way at the bottom of the boat for a really cheap price, but IT'S ALL OURS...he,he. Here's the amazing part. My father-in-law, a seventy something year old man and his spry wife were committed to take care of our 4 kids ages 10,5,3,1 until he got a chance to spend a few days with them. Then he politely said he didn't really think he was up to it. Meanwhile, we had already purchased the tickets with no travel insurance (what could happen? -4 kids, lots of variables, nothing's going to happen right?) Well, I offered the tickets to our friends from MT (we were staying at their house a few days) who I thought could use a vacation, but they insisted we keep them and offered to watch our kids. Now that might sound simple to most people, but we live in WA and they had to drive all that way to come and stay at our house for a week and watch our roudy ones AND bring FOUR of their own!!! There is alot of noise in our house right now. The excitement level is so high for all (except for my friends I'm sure, but they are SO gracious, they would never say anything but lovely things.) I even think the baby is sick (he threw up last night, but seems fine today) Are these people amazing. I'm speechless. Why are they here? I think they really love us. Or maybe they are just crazy.... Either way, I'm very grateful. Thank you, thank you Rebecca and Dan from the bottom of my heart. God bless you both.