Dixielady908
Grandma's Little Princess
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2003
Great updates....you have me really thinking about doing Remy...it looked really good. Have to give it some serious thought.
I have always taken a great interest and pleasure in noting the various names people give their vessels ... my favorite from St. Thomas?
Fishizzle.
So smart!You may notice in the picture below that the glow cubes are missing. That is not a mistake. We don't like glow cubes; they are a waste of valuable alcoholic space in a glass that has limited capacity. Jay and I asked Novak to replace our respective glow cubes with more alcohol and he charmingly obliged us. Now that's service!
WAHAHAHAAA!!!! You know I don't have a rulebook ... I just like messing with you guys!
History lesson at sea!
I love being fought over.
B, great update! I loved the pics of you "captaining" the boat. There's just never a dull moment with you guys.
We did the couples treatment also and similar to you we enjoyed but weren't sure if we would do it again. We just told them when they kept trying to sell stuff to just write it all down on a piece of paper and we would think about it and buy it later if we wanted and that got them to quiet down haha
Oh and regarding the Remy menu, not a problem, I should be able to get a few pictures tonight!
Thank you for another great instalment! We were disappointed you didn't make dinner as we were forced to drink the bottle of Rosa Regale we took ourselves!
Never even met you yet, but I just love you!
Keep up the great work!
Great updates....you have me really thinking about doing Remy...it looked really good. Have to give it some serious thought.
DH & I did the Couples Villa on our honeymoon and I have to agree, although it was a great experience, we wouldn't do it again, too pricey.
So smart!
I love being fought over.
B, great update! I loved the pics of you "captaining" the boat. There's just never a dull moment with you guys.
Subbing to follow along.... How I missed a TR that has all the vital ingredients of food, booze, booze, booze...and naps is beyond me....but I'm here now. Loving it so far.
We had the same crew (or at least this guy) on this excursion while sailing on Carnival Miracle (I know, I know, we were onboard for a wedding) this past June. He was awesome!
Love you both!
We did the couples treatment also and similar to you we enjoyed but weren't sure if we would do it again. We just told them when they kept trying to sell stuff to just write it all down on a piece of paper and we would think about it and buy it later if we wanted and that got them to quiet down haha
Oh and regarding the Remy menu, not a problem, I should be able to get a few pictures tonight!
omg... finally found people who enjoy drinking on vaca as much as we do. it makes the trip.... can't wait to try some of these drinks you mention
the rest of the report is great too... its not all about the drinks
To avoid this, you need to have them mark ahead of time that "you do not want any sales pitches".
Just letting you know I've been quietly reading. Loving it as always!
Just read your TR. This is the perfect cruise. Thank you for sharing
Just to one up Abby.. (she knows I love her...) I'm quietly stalking you too...
I really wish that DCL included the weather channel in its broadcast lineup - it's a good way for guests who want to be informed about weather conditions to have a sense about what's happening without waiting for bridge announcements. And to be frank, the information provided by the senior staff about the weather situation was pretty scarce, both Thursday and Friday. I can understand why people were taken aback by the deteriorating weather conditions Thursday night into Friday and Friday night because there was precious little concrete information being shared. Unless they went looking for it, most cruisers probably had no clue that Sandy had morphed overnight on Thursday into a monster storm that DCL couldn't have done much to avoid.
Now, before anyone reading decides to set their hair on fire with a flaming condemnation of that last sentence, please bear with me for a moment. I am no Disney apologist and I certainly don't fart pixie dust and I am no romantic when it comes to the Walt Disney Company - they exist to make money. But they don't make money for long without maintaining their reputation for stellar customer service; maintenance of said reputation does not include purposefully sailing a cruise ship full of thousands of guests and crew into a mega-storm.
Counted among our many geeky interests is a fascination with the weather; no doubt this stems in part from living in tornado country - you don't spend the better part of your life living in an area that is prone to violent and changeable weather without learning to pay attention to the atmospheric conditions. Thursday morning's hurricane update included the following information for anyone paying attention:
*Sandy was a strong Category 2 Hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph; tropical force winds extended out 140 miles from the eye.
*Sandy was NOT forecast to rapidly intensify in the 125 miles of ocean between Jamaica and Cuba.
*And yet, Sandy not only intensified in the 12-16 hours after DCL made its decision to sail north back to Port Canaveral, it expanded to enormous size with a circulation of about 1,500 miles. To put it another way, locations more than 700 miles away from the center of the storm were measuring Sandy-related atmospheric pressure drops and feeling Sandy-related winds.
People who know Jay and me well know that we are cynics of the highest order; we suspect everyone of ulterior motives, including our cat. But we both firmly believe that DCL made the best decisions they could with the most current information at hand in an extremely challenging and volatile situation. No one can predict how and when a "typical" hurricane may change and morph into something monstrous - and that is exactly what happened with Sandy.
Eventually we get restless and start looking for alternate sources of entertainment ... bars get visited ... drinks are drunk ... balloons are popped ... sand castles crumble mysteriously ... hammocks are untied ... someone yells, "SHARK!!!"
Now, before anyone reading decides to set their hair on fire with a flaming condemnation of that last sentence, please bear with me for a moment. I am no Disney apologist and I certainly don't fart pixie dust and I am no romantic when it comes to the Walt Disney Company - they exist to make money.
BTW ... here's that tropical storm playlist we came up with on the fly; feel free to add your suggestions if we missed something good!
Stormy Weather
Rock the Boat
Riding the Storm Out
Riders on the Storm
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Rock You Like a Hurricane