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One of my comfy shoes that I use for traveling - a slip on type - stayed at a hotel the night before so we can park our car and was in a hurry packing for that one night's stay that I forgot my favorite shoes - good thing I packed an extra in my hand carry cuz my other luggages were already strapped, etc. I also forgot a hairbrush once and bought one on board -- paid 4 times more ! Corkey

I'm thinking about bringing an Iris case for all the Capers and small souvineers. And this year I'm definitely going to write in a journal.. I scrapbook and I would have loved to have my written words to scrap when I did my last cruise album... but I wasn't an avid scrapper at the time! :)

AmberMarie: You have the cutest pics!! your scrapbook is nice - I do not scrapbook like that - I just merely put 2 or 3 pics (cuz of the sizes I have) per page, label and that's it - I will add stickers if I have the appropo one - I used to scrapbook when I was younger and it wasn't popular as it is today ( I am 57 ) but these days, I want to make it compact and easy and simple for myself. AS I want to do with the rest of my pics that I have accummulated all these years - and believe me, I have lots and lots! since we have a lot of parties, clubs we belong to, get togethers, etc.

It's my #1 proj right now, my photos -- Carol

I have been trying to keep journals, start and don't finish - I bought several of the journals from the Logo shop of RCCL ships - I have all 20 photo albums of my cruises and want to redo them all - they are the regular photo albums with 4 x 6 size pictures and have not included any of the 5 x 7 or 8 x 10's that I buy separately from the photo gallery of the pics taken by the pro's of the ship -- so I want to redo each cruise so I can include all the different size pics I have of each cruise... and since 2002, I have been ordering 5 x 7 sizes of all my pics. They have albums that accommodate 5 x 7's but limited to 200 per album and I take about 500 shots and again, have the stray 8 x 10's and other pages that I save from each cruise. Lately, I have been glueing with photo glue each pic on a separate heavy matt paper then putting them in avery plastic protector sheets that are acid free/archival safe -- then buying photo binders to put the pages in - making each album more uniform and able to put all my different size photos in one album in stead of the pocket 4 x 6 or pocket 5 x 7 albums that are strictly limited to those sizes... ok, it's more or less like scrapbooking ... but I do each page from scratch instead of an attached page in a binder. It's a lot of work, taking each pic, glueing it, slipping it in plastic sheet but at least all my large photos are in the same photo binder. Most of the albums these days are so cute but limited to 200 photos per binder and I can't keep within that limit for my cruises -- then on my 4 day sailings, I take 100 or 150 - so I can't fill the album!! and I definitely want to do ONE album PER trip. Carol