When your long-retired parents invite you (and family and sibs) on a Mediterranean cruise, do you<\/p>\n
(a) jump at the opportunity,<\/p>\n
(b) graciously accept (realizing, for instance, that this may be one of the last opportunities for us to reconnect with the full nuclear-plus family, or what’s left of it),<\/p>\n
(c) bite your tongue (knowing, for instance, what a jet-lagged toddler will be like on one of those mega-crowd eating-and-gawking extravaganzas), then graciously accept, or<\/p>\n
(d) politely decline?<\/p>\n
We graciously accepted. This blog will most likely be on hiatus until the second week of June.<\/p>\n
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