It's Snowing Again Here On The Outer Banks Of North Carolina

The snow started falling about 1/2 hour ago. It was coming down pretty heavy for a while there. Here are some photos and videos of the snowfall:

Surgery Is Scheduled For Tomorrow Morning

I have to be at the Outer Banks Hospital tomorrow morning at 9AM. My surgery is scheduled for 10AM. I will be getting the torn meniscus in my left knee repaired along with getting my left hand middle finger fixed due to what they call "trigger finger".  
I had put the knee surgery off for just over a year now and the trigger finger has been an ongoing issue for 3-4 years now. The finger gets worse in the Winter time.  I will be glad when I have them both done.
I am looking forward to the time when I can get back in the swing of things pain free.
See you on the flip side.

Another Change In Travel Adventure Plans

First off....our verification process through Airbnb has been completed and we have been accepted by our host in Paris. Information about the place we will be renting was discussed in the previous blog post that was written yesterday.
Last night I was goofing off on the internet just checking some things out.
I just happened to go the Norwegian Cruise Line web site. I stumbled upon a cruise that I had missed previously, when I had booked our reservations for our upcoming Ireland & Scotland cruise in September of 2015.
I found a 10 day cruise leaving and returning to Rome in March of 2015. Veronica and I had flown out of Rome last year while returning from our great Venice and other cities in Italy adventure. Veronica has wanted to see Rome. The price for this 10 Rome to Rome cruise was a lot cheaper than the one   that we had already booked for Ireland and Scotland. So I ended up changing our cruise to the Rome to Rome cruise and one really nice thing is that I was able to get the very last Aft facing balcony that was available on this cruise. Veronica and I fell in love with our very first cruise and the cabin that we had. It was an Alaska cruise and we had balcony cabin that was all the way in the back of the boat. It was great at night listening to the ships engines and the sounds of the ships  wake and the ocean. Plus we could go out and sit on the balcony and see all kinds of sites that we would have missed had we done an inside room.
So for this upcoming cruise we will be on the deck 8 in a balcony cabin in the back of the ship. I will be checking into the possibilities of going to Rome a day or two early so that Veronica and I will have some time to see Rome itself.
The itinerary for this cruise is a little different and for the most part, the ports of call are ones we have never been to. We will be on the Jade for this cruise...the same ship that we were on for last years Venice and Italy cruise. Below is our itinerary for this upcoming cruise: