We gave our friends a Stuffed Pink Poodle as a gag gift when we met them for our Cruise to Tahiti on the Paul Gauguin. We dressed her in a pink bathing suit, flip flops and snorkel gear. The room attendants posed her every day and it was great for fun photo opportunities. We called her Madame Fifi after a play date I had the summer before where I taught my granddaugters so speak French.

We booked another cruise with some land travel attached since it added so much levity and I got her a can can outfit and a British Guard's outfit - they used her to as a part of a video story of the trip and it added some playfulness and fun to that trip too.

Her final trip was on the Alaska Group cruise last year in Parka and boots. She made her way to nice girl who fell in love with her somewhere up in Washington State.

It was fun and added some humor and levity to our three cruises. How could you not smile at a pink poodle dressed appropriately for her destinations?