• Not Likely to Happen

    7/31/20099:33:33 AM Link 0 comments | Add comment

    I don’t quite understand the idea of scrapbooking. You start with a regular photo frame . . . . . and make available certain items . . . . . like photos, ribbon, stickers, souvenirs and glue. You then combine all of these items into a photo album and decorate.

     
    Now, I would guess . . . . . . . that if you are on a cruise vacation . . . . . and you would like to make a scrapbook album . . . . . . for the trip you are currently on, you would want to collect things from this cruise . . . . . . . things such as photos, announcements, information, or any other item as it relates to the vacation. You might grab a bar menu with your favorite drink on it . . . . . . a dining card signed by your wait staff . . . . . . . an activity sheet showing the days events . . . . . . assorted items from shore . . . . . . and then wrap it all up with stickers, ribbons and glue. That would be my guess.
     
    I was wrong.                    During a recent cruise, there was a scrapbooker’s club or maybe it was a group of people which met on board. I don’t know. What I do know is . . . . . . I don’t get it.
     
    There must have been 40 people or so . . . . . . . all female, but one . . . . . . . . spending their day . . . . . every day . . . . . in the library working on their scrapbook. I wondered as to why they would spend the majority of their vacation in this room.
     
    They are on vacation . . . collecting things from their vacation . . .  so that they can always remember . . . their vacation. But aren’t those memories artificial? They hardly left the room. The only experience’s they have from their cruise are in that scrapbook with photos and other items brought to them by their husbands or family. It’s like they never experienced the ship firsthand. They were not at the deck party when Betty Sue’s grandson won the limbo contest. They were not around when Aunt Lorraine won a bingo jackpot or Uncle Bill went surf riding. They have no visualization of their kids racing down the waterslide. What they do have is all of those memories . . . . wrapped up into a pretty book . . . . . with information brought to them by others.
     
    Do these scrapbooker’s get the full value for their vacation . . . . . or could they have saved the money and put the book together at home. Same result. With me . . . . . I suppose it falls into the same category as spending my day in the gymnasium . . . . defining my abs. It’s not likely to happen. But, the books are pretty . . . . my abs are fine . . . . . and I am on my way to check out the activities at the bar.
     
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