• Bowlers and Beers . . . .

    4/22/200910:22:12 AM Link 0 comments | Add comment

    This coming year we will be celebrating our 20th year in business. 20 years of selling cruises . . . . . . . mostly to “first-timers” . . . . . . . . most became loyal customers . . . . . friends. We will be holding our celebration aboard one of the newest and most modern ships . . . . . the Carnival Dream . . . . . . . sailing from Port Canaveral on April 3, 2010.

     
    Over the years, we have arranged over 1000 groups of varying variety (a variety of variation?). Celebrations, such as ours; as well as . . . . family reunions . . . . Church gatherings . . . . . business meetings . . . . . incentive programs . . . . . weddings and wedding anniversary’s . . . . . . bowling leagues . . . . . golf tournaments . . . . . continued education seminars . . . . . high school reunions . . . . college reunions . . . . . birthday parties . . . . graduations . . . . tours of Europe, Hawaii, Alaska or Australia . . . . or any other get together you can think of.
     
    This reminds me of the first group we arranged. Some of you were on that first sailing . . . . . . which was planned in the summer of 1990, and hopefully, you can join us on our anniversary cruise. It was a bowling league . . . and every week, we would add $10.00 to the lane fees. At seasons end . . . . . . rather than have the normal bowling banquet . . . . . we boarded a bus and headed to Florida for a 3 night cruise. A 3 night banquet . . . . to the Bahamas.
     
    The weekend began with a pizza and beer party at the bowling center as we waited for the chartered bus to come and collect us. Departure time was midnight for the 10 hour drive . . . . . . . and after a night of beer and pizza . . . . . . . . we were happy to have a driver (and we were just plain happy), yet . . . . . . . we still managed to load a dozen coolers of beer and who knows how many snacks. It looked like it would be a night without sleep. It was.
     
    It was a noisy trip, but we learned something that night. Introduce people to the world of cruising . . . . . the first time cruiser . . . . . . . and mold our business around that idea. Most of those “first timers” continued cruising with us . . . . and some would form their own groups. They would return to us with their families . . . . . . replacing the beach vacation with a family cruise . . . . some would arrange a wedding aboard ship for their son or daughter . . . . . . and (for many) we became a part of their family. We watched their kids grow up . . . . . from preschool to adult . . . . . . and we watched as these kids had families of their own. Others became our good friends . . . . . and our best friends . . . . who would travel the world with us. Hopefully . . . . . they will all be with us for our 20th year celebration.
     
    We never could have gotten here without them.
     
     
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