In 2005 we signed up for the Royal Caribbean credit card.  In less than a year and a half we earned enough points to qualify for $500 cruise discount.  We decided we wanted a cheap cruise that wouldn't use up a lot of vacation days to just break up the cold winter.  We shopped around and found a 5 night cruise out of Galveston TX.  The airfare from Chicago was ½ the price of that to Florida at the same time.  The cruise left on A Saturday, which most 5 day cruises out of Florida left in the...