The Carnival Inspiration is beginning to feel like a home away from home, like your vacation house. Even though you spend just a few weeks out of the year there, you know where everything is, see familiar faces and get the same excited feeling every time you plan a trip back. This year we brought some new visitors to our vacation home, the Malt Shop Memories Cruise! And like a good host, especially one entertaining on vacation, we wanted to show our company the best time we’re capable of showing them.

Bringing a new guest into your home always has a fair share of exciting and anxious feelings; almost like the emotions you feel when you meet your new roommate freshman year. You hope you get along. You hope you have things in common. You hope you meet their friends and create a bigger group of friends. You hope you create memories that will last your lifetime.. You ultimately hope you were what they were hoping for. I REALLY hope we did this for our new friends this week and that they’ll go home with excitement and stories to share.  And most importantly I hope they leave us wanting to come visit us again, wanting to be our roommates’ sophomore year.

Tomorrow is Sunday, our last day on Malt Shop Memories Cruise 2010, we’re over the “getting to know you” part, and ready to spend the day with some great new friends before packing up the house. What a vacation we’ve taken together! Here’s to awesome houseguests and the luck of getting roommates that have the potential to be friends for life.