“At first, we were all like, we are going on this trip, we paid for it, the media is blowing this all out of proportion. Then, just like that, we were like.”
The cruise ship in Japan happened in very early Feb. and by Feb 10th, the world knew of the disaster there. So pretty much anyone going on a cruise after that knew they were rolling the dice. In this case, their cruise left on March 7, and by then there were a bunch of other cruise ship stories. It should not have been a difficult decision to skip out.