A bit of explanation to start. DH and I are both boat nerds, and I got hooked on passenger ships when I was about 7 years old and watched "A Night to Remember" with my dad. I read lots of books on ocean liners, visited the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA and always said to myself that someday I'd do a Transatlantic crossing. However, life got in the way - college, law school, marriage, kids, etc. We took our first cruise, a 5-day on Carnival Victory, with our 3 sons (then 13, 8 and 4) in 2004. The