for me a vacation is to get away from the ordinary, the same people (even though I love my friends), the same routines, etc... so for me a cruise is... well basicly what RCL's little phrase is "Get out there" and for me that means leaving my friends behind... and as far as getting phone numbers... I like to bring on the latest of high tech inovations along for that... pen and paper baby! but for some people its routine, get up to the vibration of a phone in your pants, peiodicly whip out their phone and go "hmm... about that time agian"... or something along those lines... so I think I pretty much just forgot what I was talking about... cherio chap!