Palm Pre Plus Review

Okay, so, I've had my Palm Pre Plus (Verizon) for a couple of weeks now. Overall, I LOVE the phone! My two biggest complaints are that the battery life isn't very good. Fortunately, I do charge my phone every night when I go to bed but if I spend a significant amount of time playing around with it, it does go through the battery quickly. My other big complaint... There's not an app that does turn by turn directions... at least not that I've found. You can pay for VZ Navigator but I'm not about to pay extra for that. My brother has the Droid (also on Verizon) and that comes with a program that does turn by turn voice directions. I wish my Palm Pre did that. It's got Google Maps so I can see where I'm at and I can get directions but I can't have the phone "guide" me with directions. I'd like it if I could. I like the touch screen and the keyboard doesn't give me any problems. I do love having the keyboard. The keys are a little small, I have small hands and usually use my nails to type, but it's not a big deal. The size of the phone is good and I like the size of the screen. It's not too small. It would be nice if the phone had a miniSD slot but the phone itself has 16GB of space so it's not like I really need a miniSD slot. The camera works well and I like the flash feature on it. I downloaded a Twitter app and a free TwitPhoto app, which I do like using. I was able to sync the Palm Desktop software with my phone when I initially set it up but I did have to download something onto my computer to do it and the phone isn't designed to backup to your computer like my Palm Pilot Zire 31 did. It would be nice if I could back it up like that. You can set up a Palm Profile (which you do on your phone and can't really access through a regular website) where your information is backed up to online so at least there's a backup of everything if something does happen to your phone but it would be nice if I could backup everything easily right to my computer. All in all, I really like this phone and I'd definitely recommend it.

Cruise 2010

Sadly, I will not be going on the NKOTB Cruise in May of this year (and I didn't go last year either). However, I am still going on a cruise... for a longer period of time for the same price (and sooner). :-) Hubby and I are taking a cruise in March. I'm SO excited!!!! On March 20 we're flying down to Tampa, Florida where we'll stay at a hotel that night and then leave the next day to go on a 7 night cruise on Carnival Cruise lines. It's classified as an "Exotic" Western Caribbean Cruise. We're going to Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize and Honduras. I'm excited for Zac to experience a cruise since he's never been on one and I'm excited to take another cruise. Back when I graduated from college in 2000, my grandparents took the whole family on a cruise from Ft. Lauderdale to St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Princess Cay. That was a Princess Cruise lines cruise. It was fun. This cruise that Zac and I are taking is 2 nights longer. We won't do many shore excursions... maybe only one but we are definitely going to enjoy the chance to relax and take in the sun, sea and sand (when we do reach each destination). We plan on doing some reef snorkeling and then we'll play it by ear on other excursions. I'm also looking forward to the chance to enjoy some tropical weather and leave worries by the wayside (for a week or so). I'll try to remember to post some pictures when we return. It'll be a good time!

A Day in the Life of NKOTB

I found this video, thanks to a link from Joe on Twitter. Talk about a busy day.