Hi, my name is Lisa and many know me from a few other Cruise Chat Boards. My husband Tom and I took our first cruise in March 2002 after I won a cruise thru work. Since then we have taken 24 cruises,(all but two have been on Holland America) numerous Alaska, Mexican Riviera, a B2B Caribbean and even a 2 week Panama Canal. I was fortunate to be able to do 8 cruises this past year after the misfortune of my 14 year job working at a car dealship in finance was eliminated. I took advantage of the time off and we used up Tom's vacation time in his 25 year job to cruise.

After getting back from our Alaska cruise in June I decided I needed to get serious about working again and since I could find nothing in banking or finance of the auto industry I decided it was time to find a new career and was fortunate enough to get hired by the travel agency I have used for years that also owns an on line travel agency and I became a Cruise Specialist for the on line division. Of course when they hired me I told them I must be able to continue to cruise frequently  So we are now broadening our cruise experience and will be going on a NCL Cruise to No Where next weekend and will be on the Crown Princess in January. I look forward to trying Celebrity and maybe even the QM2 in the future. 

Both Tom and I pretty much get excited about anything ship related.