thanks a bunch Falina and Debbie..  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blush:" border="0" alt="blush.gif" />   as my computer cooperates I will get some more on-line.<br /><br />we did have a good time.  It just wasn&#39;t as good as the first cruise... I guess you can never get the &quot;first cruise feeling&quot; back...but then again, any cruise is a good cruise.  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cool2:" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> <br /><br />Debbie - the cake was good, but this year between the layers there was a strawberry filling and I don&#39;t remember that from last year - but it could had been there.  there was wine involved... LOL...<br /><br />We just had soo much of it.  I ordered a cake for 8 and we ended up at a table for 6 and then the dining room must had just put us by ourselves because no one ever showed up at our table. <br /><br />but we did have a fun time on the cruise and will do it again.  Probably next time on the Conquest during Spring Break (heaven help me) and I do want to save up and go to Hawaii in 2012 if at all possible.