Did you get booked on the QM2?

No, prices come out in March /April so cannot book until then. I work in the cruise business so I'm checking all the time.

Hi Lorry1,

I'm hoping to go on the May sailing just waiting for tickets to be released! That would be great if we're both on the same cruise!!!!!! Would you let me know when they release the dates (seeing as you work in the cruise business!!!)

We will be going in July as daughter will finish school in June.
I will post the release dates as soon as I hear

Sorry I havent read the whole thread but are you returning 2012 or 2013? I tried to book for late Spring/early summer 2012(that was back in 2011) and they said it had all been sold out for months I will have to fly our old pooch back

SEe you're based in LA, we had the chance to go there - what didn't you like?

Back in July 2013
I will be straight on the phone as soon as I see the prices come out!

Hi,

Well I've been here for over 10 years. The weather is great. The beach is great. The mountains are great. But.....it's a pretty empty place IMHO. Some people love it, I just don't. I like proper cities (with a proper public transport system) If you like sun and celebrity spotting then LA is the place for you!!!

Love the sun , celebs. not so much wish I had their money tho'. We declined the offer to relocate.

Unless you're in the entertainment industry there's really no reason to move here.

Well given my husband is George Clooney if only

I feel exactly the same way Lorry! I usually head back to the UK every summer (regularly since I was 16/17, and before that, only once when I was 11.) The year before last, I stopped going. I refused to go and spend my summer loving every minute of it, and then have to come back here. I think I told my auntie at the time that I wasn't going back until I wouldn't have to leave anymore. I've got 18 months now as well. I'm aiming to get through grad school as quickly as possible and then go start building my life there. My parents will always stay here, and it's already hard knowing where my heart is, but I haven't given up hope that it'll come right in the end. I feel for everyone who is trying to make things fit when they know they belong somewhere else- I can only imagine how hard it must be when you've had a life there already! At least I can fall back on this being an "experiment" etc. if things should fall over. It also helps justify to my parents. Still, hang in there!!! You can do it! Keep planning, watch British TV, stalk this forum- it's all helpful! Anything to take your mind off how much you want to click your heels and see the back of wonderland forever.

Tel8-Yes the hardest thing is knowing what we have left behind...the people, the lifestyle, the experiences, all that knowledge of a much simpler life etc....yet it must be quite hard for you also as you have not had much of an opportunity to spend time in the UK, but you have such a pull to the country...the feelings must be overwhelming and confusing.

My mother in law told me today to forget about my past in the UK and just get on with life here, plus she keeps telling me how her life was so hard over there, for the 3 short yrs my inlaws family was in the UK for, back in the 1960's!! no washing machines, no heating etc etc!!! which I truly understand...I told her it is pretty tough for us here right now also....fear of growing old in the US, sending 4 kids to uni-- health insurance issues, still can't deal with thevinyl siding homes, horrible strip mall life compared to the lovely high street walkabilty and villages of UK etc etc!!!
She told me I should have married a guy in the UK so I would not have these issues about living here!!!

That is a horrible thing to say to a homesick person.
You know what? My Dh's uncle turned up at my Moms in UK when I was there and said the same thing to me. He said make up your mind you can't have both. Dh wanted back here so off we went back to US.
But hypocrite couldn't even make up his own mind, he went back and forth to UK with his wife and daughter and then alone after a divorce, and since we moved back to US he's moved back again twice!
We aren't even sure what country he's in now we lost touch.
And what is the point in telling you you should have married a UK guy? Does she have a time machine so you can go back and change things, she's really trying to wind you up.
Does your Dh even know all this stuff? What is he saying about moving? Is he coming around to the idea?

That is horrible usoruk!! I'm so sorry that you had to put up with that. It's difficult though when people care about you and feel that they know best.
My mum feels like there's no way she'd have ever managed to be as successful as she is now if she'd stayed in the UK and tells me so whenever I explain how much I want to live there. She says essentially the same thing as your inlaws- how life is so much harder there and how I'll "get it out of my system and come back home". *sigh* We'll see. It makes me absolutely petrified though- she grew up there and came her in her mid 20s, so I'm awfully afraid she might be right. I end up coming on here to read about people being happy when they've gone back to give myself back some confidence. Hang in there. Don't let others get in your head- if you know how you feel then you know how you feel!