There are hotels for $58 a night. Orcas Island is 74 miles away. We could make our adventure trips on the ferry to a whale watch. Two or three pods live there year 'round so you're pretty much guaranteed to see them.
I spent my second honeymoon at Rosario Resort. Amazing place but probably too expensive for some of us and, they have no rooms the second week in May.
(I have no idea when you are actually setting a date. 🙂
A shipbuilder from Seattle built an incredible Mansion on Orcas Island.
Robert Moran (shipbuilder) - Wikipedia
We could take a side trip to the mansions to look for the ghost. 🙂
Look at the music room in the mansion!
This is the view from the dining room
Or we could set up a tent camp in my daughters yard in Seattle. They're in an unincorporated area. 🙂 Just kidding Jessie.. 🙂
I really like the cruise idea too. I've only been on one in my entire life. In March of 2003 my girlfriend called me and asked if I'd like to join her and 6-7 other family members for the little four day Carnival cruise out of Cape Canaveral to the Bahamas. The cruise dates were in mid-December of that year, right before Christmas, but if we booked it by the end of March, we got $50.00 off the price, and if and she paid for the tickets with her Mastercard, we got another $50.00 off EACH ticket. Doing it that way brought our inside cabin, double occupancy to only $198.00 each! I took my dying mother, and it was a trip neither one of us ever forgot. We got there a few days ahead of time and stayed on International Blvd. in Orlando where there are tons of attractions and restaurants. We went to Seaworld too. We did a shore excursion in the Bahamas where we went underwater in little "bicycle submarines" and fed the fish, and snorkled. It was fun fun fun. I would love to do something like that again. Cruise ships have Vegas caliber shows, parties on the lido deck in the evenings, bingo, casinos, just tons of stuff to do. I'm sure things have changed quite a bit in the last 14 years, but hey! We've got Tommy to help us with the planning and insider tips. I'd love to leave out of NOLA, again getting there a day or two in advance so that we can enjoy a bit of New Orleans first or after. Those ships go to the western Caribbean, you know, Cozumel and Belize. Beautiful places. Think about it. 
