Somehow, I lost this thread for awhile. Kristen, what great pix you take! You remind me of Todd; you may not know him from the board as he has been very busy lately with a new career, but he would always come home with all those detailed photos of the cabins which are SO helpful to those who have not sailed on either line! Don remembers I said if my eyes were closed I could not see the difference between the lines at the end of my one and only SS cruise. I had too critical an eye in the beginning. Loved your Silver Suite. Can't let myself do that, and Anthony, just get ready for more of the same in the future, once you experience it! Paige is worth it!

Jan, can't wait to hear about your cruise on SS! I am "full-up" and more for 2006 with PARTY, ROAR, MUSH, and two land trips, one with my Jes in Harbor Island for our birthdays (big 60 for me, she's still in the early 20's) and a family destination wedding in St. John's in June with all the kids. Life is good, and I feel blessed with family and good cruise buddies from this board! But stressed lately to have to pay for them!

One nice thing here on this board, nobody is "picking sides" for one cruise line over the other, as naturally occurs on cc. I think it is wonderful that Ngaire has not only branched out beyond RSSC and SS and Residensea(now we don't hear much about that line here), to Oceana and wonderful land trips/cruises and no one is trying to push one above the other. We just all love traveling, and trust that "if he/she liked this, then I think I would like that". No need to get ourselves polarized, just too much good stuff out there in a competitive market.