cebii

finally, a post

It's been a long time, but I finally found a piece of time to post. The cruise was wonderful. In case you haven't visited Holly's blog, we got to meet Rosie. The picture is on my symetry blog She brought us up on stage to congratulate us for winning the cruise. She talked to Holly, then to Kaia, who won her heart by admitting that her birth family had kicked her out because she was gay. Actually, as we found out, this kicked quite a few people on the ship in the gut. Rosie was struck enough to give us cruises for life with r family. That blew us away. For the rest of the trip, people would stop us in hallways and on elevators and congratulate and tell us how moved they were by our family. Holly and I were concerned that there might be jealousy, but we didn't run in to any.

Most of our friends do foster care, so we don't see ourselves as all that special. As a matter of fact, we generally play down the good deed thing. Many of the families on the cruise had kids from foster care and they'd probably worked as hard as we have, but even they seemed happy for us.

It was so great to be able to relax and not worry about the mess the babies made or what to eat or anything. The entertainment was better than great - we saw Cyndi Lauper from the third row. Rosie brought a dozen or so Broadway stars to do their thing. Esera Tuolo moved us all to tears, with his beautiful voice, story and family. And, the icing on the cake was a surprise mini concert on the last night by Melissa Etheridge. She is still recovering from chemo, her hair was quite short, but she rocked. I've seen her a couple of times before, and this performance had more passion than ever.

The love on that ship was tangible. I think that people feel Rosie's generosity and extend it. I would definitely recommend the r family cruise to everyone, gay or straight.

posted by cebii @ 11:36 AM