Another change of plans

Our house was built in 1975.  When we bought it in 1992, the kitchen was still the original and already in need of overhaul. 
It's now 2017, of course it's still the same kitchen, and it really can't wait any longer.  Talk about a horseshoe nail - the plumber can no longer replace the washer in the tap, as there's no metal left to seat it on.  To replace the pipe, the wall needs to be knocked out. And to do that, almost all the cabinets in that part of the kitchen have to be removed.  There's no way to remove them without destroying them, and once you remove them half the kitchen is gone.  And, really, renovating half of a 42 year old kitchen??? 
So, we'll be renovating the entire kitchen, back to the bare walls and starting from scratch, because we can't replace the washer in the tap :-)
And, it hasn't take us much time to realise that next year's big holiday has now become an extravagance we probably can't afford on top of the big unknown that the kitchen renovation is already becoming.
So, that cruise will be cancelled - no money lost, we had only paid a small deposit and we'll transfer it to another cruise.
We'll still probably have a smaller holiday; in fact I've already paid a deposit on a cruise on a different ship I'm also really keen to see - so, we're already booked on a 14 day re-positioning cruise on the Ovation of the Seas, leaving Singapore on 19 October 2018 and coming back to Sydney via Perth, Adelaide and Hobart.