I spend alot of time reading this board and rarely post but decided that I would introduce myself. My husband and I along with our 2 girls ages 12 and 15 and 2 dogs, a sheltie and shitzu live in Salt Lake City, Utah. We were "exciled" here over 20 years ago, just after we were married but have come to really love the area. I am 41, an engineer and my husband Al is 47 and is in sales. We began traveling before we had kids at my husbands insistance. I am now the travelholic and like to have at least one trip planned at all times to look forward too. We took our first cruise in '93 on the QE2 - a transatlantic crossing. While I didn't like the 5 days at sea thing (got sea sick one day) and the cabin was nothing to rave about the food was excellent - I fell in love with the cheese course. Not overly jazzed about the whole crusing thing we didn't take another cruise until '98 when we did a Med cruise with another couple on RCCL. This time the food was nothing to write home about but we fell in love with the Med itself. After several land based trips in the Med we decided to try the cruise thing again because our kids were hounding us to go on one. We decided to try Princess this time. We did a Western Caribbean - we had a mini-suite and the kids had a room across the hall. This trip was better - the food was good and the kids had a fabulous time but we hated the fact that everything was extra. We had been looking at RSSC but didn't think that it was really a kids cruise line. For our 20th anniversary last fall we decided to try Radisson. I had booked a 5 night Caribbean cruise through Linda at Brown & Keene. A couple months later I got an e-mail from them with some Tahiti specials for September. Well over the 4th of July weekend my husband and I decided that Tahiti was for us and switched cruises. Before we even left for Tahiti we booked the Diamond for Oct'04 with the same friends that we had traveled to the Med with previously. Tahiti and the PG were incredible. We worried that we had set our expectations too high but we where so impressed. We met a great group of couples on the cruise - one of which came out to Utah skiing last month and we met for dinner. We are looking forward to our Oct. Venice to Rome trip on the Diamond. I love reading these boards. The things that we learned and will learn really enhance our trips.