09/28/2002 Cruise

[RellingTwin]

OK....another list is in your mailboxes. It WILL be the last one (for tonight ) because I'm going to bed!

Thanks to everyone for proof reading it.

 

[papa]

Tons of pd for Shelley and Vonda~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*. Forgot to include 2 carnaval cruises prior to DCL. Both of them left from new orleans and we went to tampa, grand cayman and cozumel, then back to new orleans.

Kathy is working tonight and I am babysitting overnight. Sleep is going to be hard to come by tonight Still I am very happy to keep her and give the kids some rest.

Jul our cruise last year with Mary, Cathy and the rest was the very best as we felt like we were with family. We would wave and nod ,say hello to our fellow dis friends when we ran into them on the ship or shore.

There were about 20 of us cruisetoberfesters that manned one of the 12 meter regatta boats at st marteen last year. We had a ball and after the race everyone went their own way and did whatever.

Mike

 

[Tulirose]

Originally posted by RellingTwin
.......So tell your spouses, RELAX! There is not a single Ax murderer among us ..........

Oh GOSH! I had forgotten about the ax murderer bit we had going on prior to the cruise last year. That was SO FUNNY!!

Lurker now leaving the thread......

 

[Kimber1963]

Mary-

Please know how much we all appreciate your effort with "THE LIST". I keep checking it to see who's where on the ship, who has kids around the same age as mine, etc...

Speaking of which, the 9 to 10 year old girls really have the email going back and forth. If any other little "Discruisears" want to be included in that group, let me know. It will be so nice for them to already have friends on the ship.

Kimber

 

[#1EeyoreFan]

I know! I almost had to to take the computer back by force!

Kim in So. Cal.

 

[power_alaska]

Health, Happiness & God's Blessings to all in need this fine evening and to everyone else, just for general principles. Sprinkle some pixie dust on that for good measure. Entirely crap day BUT an evening run, Type B Bachelor dinner, and a few prayers and all is well again. Addicted to endorphines!!!

Mary - Speaking of axe murderers, you haven't told George that Chrystina & I are eating dinner with you guys have you?! She's a real nutcase (not nice like me!). Anyhow, even the anti-social big strong manly types (like me)have a desire to be part of the crowd but don't want to be crowded. Mark it down as a "guy thing".

HH&GB to all

 

[power_alaska]

GoofyNut

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, & Yes to answer your fishing questions.
Alaska synopsis as follows: Catch & release all rainbow trout, grayling, dolly varden, northen pike, etc. Catch & eat halibut, silver salmon, red salmon, and king salmon that are fresh and have not yet "turned" Release pinks & chums. My rule of conservation and sustainment - keep only that which you plan to eat, release all the others or donate to folks with large families.

Use spincast and/or flyfish but prefer flyfishing and ultralight spinning rods. What I use depends on whether we are fishing from a boat, raft, float tube, or wading. Generally, only thing that I have not caught on a flyrod is a halibut. Difficut to sink the fly down into 200-250 feet of water!!! Also difficult to hang onto halibut greater than 100#'s with that itsy bitsy hook & fly.

Warning!!! Will talk for hours about fishing & golfing!!! Permanent member of the exaggerated liars club!!!! Love that stuff...

HH&GB to all

 

[power_alaska]

Mary

Just looked at the list ~ 84 people!!! WOW!
Will have Chrystina send send cabin info next week. Thanks

Dennis

 

[donnaMD]

I know it is easy to get cynical about people. Every once and a while it is nice to meet new folks who will give you confidence in the human race! My husband is shy so meeting all these people the first time will be difficult for him, but he really likes comaderie and once he gets to know everyone, he will open up.
Before we went to China to adopt Chloe we became close friends with other people who were adopting with our group of 13 families. We got to know them through e-mails. It made it so easy to feel like we knew them when we met them. We were also able to help them out before they left with things we found out; many of us used different agencies. I know I helped one woman (single) go ahead and adopt the baby she almost decided against adopting because she thought the baby was too old (18 months). It took many conversations--I ended up speaking to her on the phone a lot, to convince her. And you know what--she now has the perfect daughter for her; as we do. Her baby was 18 months when adopted and Chloe was 20 months; we had both requested infants.
I am sure I will like everyone and I think this is a great way to break the ice and help one another!

 

[@GoofyNut]

WOW ... You Guys had really busy fingers after I last checked yesterday.

Mary ... Art also loves the STAPLES add with the singing father. Only problem is that he is on the school end receiving and counting/logging in all the pencils, paperclips, books, etc! Our cruise is at the perfect time for him cause by then all of the supplies are in and he can relax a bit.

Elaine ... Where is the article on the Starfish and the Pin? I love starfish.

Tiiiigergirl and Vonda ... Back up that truck of pixie dust and dump some on your girls. Hope all is better today and keep thinking ... gonna cruise, gonna cruise, gonna cruise!

Jul & EyoreFan ... Have your husbands read the post by Mary (RellingTwin) about last year and her husband George ... DITO for my DH Art. Now he calls me at work and says "don't forget to printout the latest posts and bring them home for me" He loves to read them and every-once-in-a-while says "hey is that the guy that fishes, is the Packer or Eagle Fan". It really makes the Cruise.
I definitely agree that last year was the most fun we have ever had with a bunch of supposedly strangers.

Well back to work .....

 

[eshannon]

Cathy, I hope I get all this right. this is the place you go to see the pins and read the story.www.imakeadifference.com/starfish/prod/starfishsample.htm
if i made a mistake, just search for starfish pins and this wil come up first.

Vonda and Tiiiiigergirl, lots of sparkly, shiny pixie dust for you.

I am so relieved to hear all your tales of your husbands. I was worried you would all think Bill was antisocial. He too just takes a while to get comfortable. I keep finding him reading over my shoulder on the boards and saying tell them this or tell them that. I guess that is a good sign. ;-)

So funny you mentioned the Staples add. We were roaring with laughter last night watching it. I am tempted to do the same thing with the cart when we go buy school supplies today LOL

 

[eshannon]

sorry, somehow it left our part of the address

www.imakeadifference.com/starfish/prod/starfishsample.htm

elaine

 

[Rikersmom]

It is really nice to be able to meet people on the cruise and already have a bit of background. We met some wonderful DIS-ers on the cruise we were on last February and last September--some of them will be with us again this time. We also met some great folks on previous cruises (non DIS-ers), but it takes a bit longer to start conversations.

To all my fellow Pennsylvanians--isn't this weather absolutely perfect!!!!!

Mary--thank you again for all your hard work and organization with THE LIST.

Is it possible for one of us with the Amex deal to pre-book the brunch? I understand if it's not, but I just wondered. (Sorry, we're Mastercard folks ourselves!)

Also, since we'll be at WDW a few days ahead--is there anything I can bring anyone from the Parks?

Karen

 

[@GoofyNut]

Elaine ... Not to be a pest, but could you recheck the web address cause it's coming up as no such address.

Dennis ... So are you going to try and do any fishing while on the Cruise? You'll need a lot of line to get from the deck to the water level hehehe! We have a bass boat and usually feed & release, I mean catch & release (actually do more feeding of the fish than catching them )

Mike ... How are things going today?

Karen ... How's Riker doing?

Anyone hear of any Shuttle Launch updates?

Dumb Joke I heard today ... Did you hear what really killed Captain Hook? He bleed to death. (Hewipedwiththewronghand). Hope I didn't offend anyone but it was so dumb it was funny.

Check back later....

 

[eshannon]

Cathy, check your private message. I noticed that the whole address wasn't on my post so I sent you the entire thing again. Didn't want to make another post. I tried it and it worked. Let me know. Elaine

 

[@GoofyNut]

Elaine ... Able to get in to the Starfish site this time....Thanks. Nice little story to boot.

 

[RellingTwin]

did you see the post??? A 9/8 cruiser got their docs!!!!

Loved the Star Fish thingy. I sent the lnk to Ave. I was thinking she may want to buy one for each of her team members.
Dennis...my count is 74. Who am I missing??

Donna, how long were you in China? So glad it all worked out for you and Chloe.

Shelly and Vonda, hope you both had better days today!

Cathy, thanks for the joke. I needed a laugh!

Weather here FINALLY cooled a bit. We are back to mid to high 80's. Downright COLD compared to what the last week weeks have been. Thank goodness we have the budget plan with the power company. I would HATE to see a power bill for the month of JULY!

 

[@GoofyNut]

Did I forget to mention ... there are no axe murderers in our group cause you couldn't get the axe past security LOL Heck it's hard enought to get my needlepoint sissors and needles on board thru my checked luggage. SPEAKING OF WHICH .. I usually seal my luggage with those nylon wire ties (that way you know if anyone tampered with your luggage), Just how the heck are we supposed to be able to get into it without a sissors to cut off the darned nyon ties?

Any of you have any unique ways of identifying your luggage, since these days most if it comes in black and they all seem to look alike (I swear)?

Since we are having a nice cool spell, I think I'll get out the luggage and start packing some of the stuff that is designated
"cruise only"... not to mention that new underwear we all buy to take (Girls, you know what I mean - easier to just grab a 6-pack of new gotchies than to try and fold the broken-in ones into a neat small pack).

Last year's CRUISETOBERFEST'ers going on this cruise ... PaPa, RellingTwin and @GoofyNut.

Check back later ... have to figure out something for supper.

Cathy

 

[donnaMD]

After reading about fishing, I am ready to move to Alaska. Imagine living there instead of in MD when we have had all these hot days this Summer. Yesterday and today were beautiful, finally.
I really appreciate gettting the list of people in this chat group!
I looked for light blue tee shirts today to no avail - to put the insignas on.
Wondering if anyone is planning on taking the taxi to HolidayINN beach in Grand Cayman and if anyone is taking a taxi to Mr Sanchos beach in Cozumel. That sounds best for me! I know Key West will offer enough to entertain us if we walk in town!
Anyone into going to the talks about metabolism, body fat or going to the gym working out? I know I want to do a wine tasting and perhaps do some reflexology thing, have a manicure and pedicure and have my hair done. John would not be into the mud spa thing I think. I only worked out in the Magic gym once last year; but I thought it was impressive. I ate a lot of fish on last years cruise, so did not gain weight. I am trying to lose weight now; I have gained so much in the last 10 years--any gym mates out there? I am afraid when I put my bathing suit on I will scare you all! John is on a diet too, as are our dogs, ha ha.

 

[thesorcerer1]

Karen (rikersmom) I agree 100% what a glorious week we are having so far a litle rain and it would be perfect. Cathy(GoofyNut) Barbara did the underwear thing this past weekend and I did the new sneaker thing 2 weeks ago,have to have nice clean ones to go on vacation (Barbara's family thing).