Verandah Man
09-03-2003, 07:18 AM
*Saturday August 30 2003 The Final Day*
The saddest day of all has arrived, it is 5:00am, and I just stepped out onto the verandah to see the Magic has just turned up the Port Canaveral channel. In a few short hours, we will have to disembark this "MAGICal" ship. I have to finish putting the last minute items into my back pack, and wake my girls up shortly so we can get ready for our last meal on the August 23-30, 2003 Cruise. I have had the best time this past week, and have met some of the most "WONDERful" people, and "ALL" the "DCL CM's" have been "MAGICal" as well!!! A special thanks to all my "DIS'ers" who helped to make this cruise so enjoyable, now if only Travis (mostyn17) would have come forward, so that I could have met him, that would have been icing on the cake!!!
We got to say a final farewell to our tablemates Ian, Tina, and Grace Parkes.
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20422.jpg
and to our serving team: Head Server - Tommy from Norway
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20092.jpg
Server Roberto - Roberto from Peru, and Assistant Server - Prudence from Jamaica
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20341.jpg
With one final salute from "Captian Verandah"
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20420.jpg
we headed for the gangway,
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20429.jpg
and left the ship at 8:55am, it was reported that screams were heard from one "Captain Verandah" as he was leaving the ship, "Heck no. I won't go! Heck no, I won't go!
*The Trip Home*
After picking up our Avis rental car, we stopped and visited Shirley of "The Perfect Gift" for a few minutes at her store, then it was on to "DIXIE CROSSROADS" for some "ROCK SHRIMP." Upon arriving we found Lynn (moosysmom) already waiting for us. The Rock Shrimp tasted as good as ever, and we shared some laughs around the table, Lynn is such a sweetie!!! After lunch we headed for the Orlando Airport for our flight home.
At the airport, my DD found an internet computer, since we had over two hours until our flight, I had to get on and make a few posts to the DISboards, fancy that!!! I found the "Welcome Home Verandah Man" thread and made a post, then headed back to sit with my family while we waited for our flight.
While my DW was headed to the Mc Donald's in the airport for a soda and some fries for our DD, I headed towards the restrooms. Remember now, I can't see very well without my glasses, I walked into the restroom, and thought to myself, this is very strange, there aren't any urinals, only stalls. As I started to go into one of the stalls, my DD comes running into the restroom screaming, "Dad, you're in the Ladies Room!!!" As I walked out and headed towards the Men's Room, I could see my family was nearly on the floor, in a fit of laughter!!!
I sure hope I have an old pair of glasses at home, or I can be in "BIG TROUBLE!!!"
We boarded the plane at 6:00pm and headed for the runway, our take off was delayed for a few minutes, because we had to wait for a large "turtle" to cross the runway ahead of us. We finally took off at 6:25 and were on our way home. We were only about a half an hour from touching down when we ran into some severe thunderstorms, the turbulance is so bad, I can't even write my final notes. We landed safely at 8:23pm. We then collected our bags, got in our cars, and headed for home, where we arrived safe and sound at 10:15pm.
*A Final Word of Thanks*
I just wanted to take a brief second or two to thank some very special DIS'ers out there. When we were checking out on the ship, we noticed that some onboard ship credits had been made to our account, there were no names with these credits, but you know who you are, and in behalf of my family, I just wanted to say "THANKS" this indeed was the most "MAGICal" vacation we had ever taken!!!
THE END!!!
Links to my cruise photos have now been added below:
I have added my Webshots Cruise Photo Albums, only the first album has captions so far, I will be working on the other albums over the next several days, but I thought I would add all the photos together now. The first 3 albums were taken with my digital camera, the last album was taken with my underwater camera, other ship photos have been added in as well.
album #1 http://community.webshots.com/album/89355187PwIWJp
album #2 http://community.webshots.com/album/89357867LEwHVX
album #3 http://community.webshots.com/album/89361191MOWWCn
album #4 http://community.webshots.com/album/89365133GfcxZG
The saddest day of all has arrived, it is 5:00am, and I just stepped out onto the verandah to see the Magic has just turned up the Port Canaveral channel. In a few short hours, we will have to disembark this "MAGICal" ship. I have to finish putting the last minute items into my back pack, and wake my girls up shortly so we can get ready for our last meal on the August 23-30, 2003 Cruise. I have had the best time this past week, and have met some of the most "WONDERful" people, and "ALL" the "DCL CM's" have been "MAGICal" as well!!! A special thanks to all my "DIS'ers" who helped to make this cruise so enjoyable, now if only Travis (mostyn17) would have come forward, so that I could have met him, that would have been icing on the cake!!!
We got to say a final farewell to our tablemates Ian, Tina, and Grace Parkes.
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20422.jpg
and to our serving team: Head Server - Tommy from Norway
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20092.jpg
Server Roberto - Roberto from Peru, and Assistant Server - Prudence from Jamaica
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20341.jpg
With one final salute from "Captian Verandah"
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20420.jpg
we headed for the gangway,
http://www.verandahman.com/August%2023-30,%202003%20DCL%20Cruise%20photos%20429.jpg
and left the ship at 8:55am, it was reported that screams were heard from one "Captain Verandah" as he was leaving the ship, "Heck no. I won't go! Heck no, I won't go!
*The Trip Home*
After picking up our Avis rental car, we stopped and visited Shirley of "The Perfect Gift" for a few minutes at her store, then it was on to "DIXIE CROSSROADS" for some "ROCK SHRIMP." Upon arriving we found Lynn (moosysmom) already waiting for us. The Rock Shrimp tasted as good as ever, and we shared some laughs around the table, Lynn is such a sweetie!!! After lunch we headed for the Orlando Airport for our flight home.
At the airport, my DD found an internet computer, since we had over two hours until our flight, I had to get on and make a few posts to the DISboards, fancy that!!! I found the "Welcome Home Verandah Man" thread and made a post, then headed back to sit with my family while we waited for our flight.
While my DW was headed to the Mc Donald's in the airport for a soda and some fries for our DD, I headed towards the restrooms. Remember now, I can't see very well without my glasses, I walked into the restroom, and thought to myself, this is very strange, there aren't any urinals, only stalls. As I started to go into one of the stalls, my DD comes running into the restroom screaming, "Dad, you're in the Ladies Room!!!" As I walked out and headed towards the Men's Room, I could see my family was nearly on the floor, in a fit of laughter!!!
I sure hope I have an old pair of glasses at home, or I can be in "BIG TROUBLE!!!"
We boarded the plane at 6:00pm and headed for the runway, our take off was delayed for a few minutes, because we had to wait for a large "turtle" to cross the runway ahead of us. We finally took off at 6:25 and were on our way home. We were only about a half an hour from touching down when we ran into some severe thunderstorms, the turbulance is so bad, I can't even write my final notes. We landed safely at 8:23pm. We then collected our bags, got in our cars, and headed for home, where we arrived safe and sound at 10:15pm.
*A Final Word of Thanks*
I just wanted to take a brief second or two to thank some very special DIS'ers out there. When we were checking out on the ship, we noticed that some onboard ship credits had been made to our account, there were no names with these credits, but you know who you are, and in behalf of my family, I just wanted to say "THANKS" this indeed was the most "MAGICal" vacation we had ever taken!!!
THE END!!!
Links to my cruise photos have now been added below:
I have added my Webshots Cruise Photo Albums, only the first album has captions so far, I will be working on the other albums over the next several days, but I thought I would add all the photos together now. The first 3 albums were taken with my digital camera, the last album was taken with my underwater camera, other ship photos have been added in as well.
album #1 http://community.webshots.com/album/89355187PwIWJp
album #2 http://community.webshots.com/album/89357867LEwHVX
album #3 http://community.webshots.com/album/89361191MOWWCn
album #4 http://community.webshots.com/album/89365133GfcxZG