DON'T THESE ITEMS MAKE YOU EXCITED ABOUT TAKING A CRUISE (NOT TOM, EITHER!)

It used to be that going on a cruise for one or two weeks was a great idea for a vacation or honeymoon. Crusing the seas and visiting wonderful points of call would be stories to be shared forever. Not the headlines we've seen recently, nor the two in today's newspapers:

--- Authorities are investigating the disappearance of a Naples woman, 22 year old Elizabeth Kay Galeana, but would not confirm that air and sea searches for her have been called off.

Ms. Galeana, daughter of a prominent Fort Myers-area automotive dealer, went missing from Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' Voyager of the Seas off the coast of Italy Tuesday.

--- And nearly 230 passengers on another Royal Caribbean ship, Mariner of the Seas, became ill with a gastrointestinal condition during a weeklong Caribbean cruise, according to a Saturday statement from the cruise line. The release said the illness was thought to be due to a norovirus brought aboard by a passenger.