10/02/04 Antigua Cruise

[jeanniec]

Re Survivor -- I can't believe that Jenna actually agreed to participate in this season of Survivor when her mother was so sick (which she obviously was since she died 8 days after Jenna left the island). Maybe the first million and the fame weren't enough for her. Never did like her and can't believe she won. And what was with her getting information that her mother was getting worse? Was that really her intuition? As Jeff said, "it sounds like you are getting updates on her condition" to which Jenna replied "they are my family". Was there some way she could possibly have gotten news from home? Very confusing (or maybe I am making it confusing). Sad to lose your mother at such an young age. And how about Richard biting the shark back. Too much. He was pretty cool last night. If he would only put some clothes on. Jeanneg -- I know you're delighted that Ethan is still around and so am I.

 

[RellingTwin]

WELCOME to DisneyCruiseCazy89 (I'll call you DCC89 for short )Glad to have you with us!
Laura, I'll ask around and see if I know anyone who knows Angel, or your docs. It is a small world, and the internet keeps making it smaller!

I've got to get the packing finished as we head to HH this morning. Since it is only a short 2 hour drive we don't have to leave too early, but we like to get there about 12 noon, so if the room is not ready the kids can have a swim. Yippee...I'm on vacation!

 

[@GoofyNut]

Survivor ... I really can't understand why Jenna came back to the game knowing her Mom was so close to leaving her. Especially since she alrady had the $ from her first game. I was wondering if somehow the Survivor Staff got the message and had her swear to secrecy not to let on she found out. Then there's RICHARD ... geez put some clothes on already. Thank God the shark didn't latch on somewhere else ... just how would they explain that to the TV audience! RUPERT, I love how you play, BUT digging a hole to make your "house" DUH it's on a beach in the sand. The winning house was actually awsome ... they must watch more "Trading Spaces" than the other teams (hehe).

Let me be the first to wish everyone
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Back to work..........

 

[jeanneg]

DCC89: Welcome to the party! Once you do the 7-day, you'll never want to do anything less!

GoofyNut: Oh, we think so much alike. I was so wishing that the shark would do a "bobbit" on him! I can't believe he actually bit the shark! I still can't stand him but it proves he has what he's always showing!

Not much Ethan on last night's show.....at least he's still around! Anybody else notice that Josh Groban looks like a younger version of him.......love 'em both!

Eric: I just thought of something......we do have an event to celebrate on the cruise: I just realized it will be the first vacation my husband and I will be making as "empty-nesters"!

 

[Viking]

Jeannec, congratulations pn post #1200

Jeanneg,
I'll put it on the List. But for the future: Please send all changes to our mail-account. This has two reasons: I won't forget it til the next update is due, and it is to much work to scan the thread for new info which has to be 'listed'. Thanks

So far no mail from DisneyCruiseCrazy89 But there's still more than 24 hours left.

OK, that's it for now. We just came home from the gym and have to leave for the Captains Meeting soon.
Tomorrow at 10am we have an appointment with our travelagent to book the flights for September/October and to make ressies for the car We hope to get a good price for USAirways, because the have the best in-flight entertainment with indiviual screens and freely selectable starting times for all movies, which is a big advantage on an 9-10 hour-flight.

 

[cdnmickeylover]

I too couldn't believe that Jenna even started the game since her Mom died 8 days after she got home. I was wondering if the other players found out during the game or not.

Thought Richard and the shark was funny. I also thought that Colby's remark about can you call a gay man a stud was funny too. It was an interesting survivor that's for sure.

Dozed off during The Apprentice so missed what Omarosa said but did hear Donald talking about it and was sure that Omarosa would be gone but really Jeannie (?) deserved to go. Donald's obviously looking for someone who can stand up for themselves and she just didn't -- she could have taken the hint from what happened to Kristi the week before when she didn't defend herself either.

Friday night is JAG night -- I keep wondering about the Admiral and Meredith and whether they are going to do anything or if I just missed it. Am also watching reruns of JAG on the Cnd history television which is great -- last night was the first time that Bud and Harriette met which was funny.

Back to work. Reading yet another agreement -- can someone say boring???

Fiona

 

[ARLO1]

fiona:

dont forget it was jeannie who coached kristi last week....

arlene

 

[padisneyfan]

Thanks everyone for all the updates. They sound like they both were great episodes. Wonder because of the situation at home, that a deal was made prior to her returning for All Star Survivor that is the situation deteriorated at home she would be notified. At least she did get to spend time with her mom prior to her dying. So the 2 girls left in Protegy are the ones I don't like Omarosa and Heidi. It does look like Donald doesn't like women who get trampled over by others.

Anyone else realize that it is Friday the 13th. I didn't until someone said something about it at lunch time.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Nancy

 

[@GoofyNut]

Just had a real nice lunch with Sarah'sMom - MaryJo ... we got caught up with who's who and what's up.

Sarah is on the Honors List again ... report cards just came out and her algebra is a way up. Good Grades always help out when it's time for college scholarships. WAY TO GO SARAH!

It's really nice here today ... Sun is shining and not too cold out. BUT then Sunday the morning temp is supposed to be 5 ... At that I may just stay in bed!

Back to work ....

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Congrats to Sarah

Arlene -- did think that it was somewhat poetic justice about Jeannie. Wish Heidi would go as she just bugs me. Omarosa does too but Heidi does more.

Sun is shining here and it's ok out but not warm. Looked at the temp for Orlando and it was supposed to be 76F there. Hope you have a great, warm time there Ave.

Mary - Hope you have/had a great time at HH. Haven't been there yet but would like to one day.

Fiona

 

[jeanniec]

Sure is quiet around here all of a sudden. Another rainy day in Charlotte.

Fiona- I think you would love HH. A very different, but wonderful Disney resort.

Off to do my grocery shopping, library visit, etc. Hope you all have a good weekend. I know the twins will!

 

[Viking]

Folks,
edition #6 of The List is in your mailboxes. We have two additions: Laurarn and Videoman (Cruisetoberfest2-veteran ), but no mail from DisneyCruiseCrazy89 so far - Perhaps next weekend

This morning we spent 2 hours with our travel agent (30 minutes booking and 90 minutes chatting ) and now we're completely set for Cruisetoberfest3 and the three weeks before it. We'll fly USAirways via Pittsburgh both ways using an Airbus 330 with fully individual entertainment-system. This is such a great way to fight the boredom of a 8 to 10 hour flight across the Pond, because you can start/stop/pause any of the up to eight movies they will show whenever you want. And flying via Pittsburgh is especially important to us as there are so many great shopping opportunities ion the AirMall.
The German travel companies already adjusted their prices to adapt to the low Dollar, which resulted in a 10%-reduction for our rental-car and the airfare was also OK.

 

[DisneyCruiseCrazy89]

Sorry it took so long, but I just sent my e-mail in from Lepercaun2001@Aol.com we have been busy all weekend!!

 

[padisneyfan]

Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. I got flowers, dinner and a movie. We went to see Miracle. Even though you know the outcome of the movie, it still was very good. It is more about the Coach Herb Brooks and how he put together the team. Herb did help with the production of the fame, but was killed in a car accident last summer before he got to view the final product. Plus all the players had to be able to skate to play the part. So they aren't really actors. There was a huge write up in USA hockey magazine about the making of the movie. One of the players (I think it is Johnson) is actually played by his nephew. It is a Disney movie so may get to see it again while on the cruise.

Hope the weather is good for the Twins vacations.

Jenneg--- Our first 7 day cruise in Sept 2002 was our celebration of being empty nesters.

Eric--- It must be a good feeling to have all your vacation plans taken care of.

Congratulations to Sarah for making Honors.

Both sons came home for the weekend. DS#1 doesn't have to go back until Monday as they are off for President's Day. DS#2 leaves this afternoon. He has the girlfriend back here so had to come home to spend Valentine's Day with her.

Suppose to be cold the next couple of days. Just when I was getting used to the warm 40's.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone.

Nancy

 

[Viking]

I just sent another update incorporating DisneyCruiseCrazy89's info - Check it out

Nancy,
we may have booked everything for our four weeks in the US/Caribbean, but now I have to work on the sightseeing schedule for our week in London in March/April.
I'm still trying to convince Anja to ride the London Eye with me. For those who don't know it: It's the world's largest Ferris Wheel, extending to a height of 135m/443'. The Cabins are fixed to the outer rim and are 90% glass. Thus they don't call it a ride, but a flight and as Anja isn't completely free of high anxiety she is not exactly willing to ride it But it gives you a view of as far as 40km/25mls on clear days and should be great.
For the nurses: We'll go to the Florence-Nightingale-Museum on our first day. So if anyone of you needs something from there, just send us a mail.
Planning vacations is nearly as much fun as being on vacation

 

[Viking]

After downloading some new software I'm able to produce PDFs again. Everybody who can't open The List in WordXP please send me a short notice requesting the PDF.

 

[padisneyfan]

Thanks Eric for the list. I agree I think planning the vacation is part of the fun. I am still making preparations for our May cruise on NOS. I do have my airfares done and rental car post cruise. Still need to work out where we are staying the night before the cruise and how to get from Fort Lauderdale to the Miami pier. From my understanding it is about the same distance as from MCO to Port Carnival. We are also looking at a possible long weekend in Williamsburg end of April.

Nancy

 

[Viking]

Nancy,
we will enter the USA in your wonderful state as we're flying via Pittsburgh. This is apart from Denver the only non-floridian city in teh States we know. In the turmoil after 9-11-01 we were kind of stranded in Pittsburgh on our return-flight to Germany. We had a 9-hour-layover there on 10-13-01.
After some consultations with a very friendly lady from of the Tourist Info we took a shuttlebus downtown. It was a wonderful day with temps in the upper 70ies and the foliage was simply beautiful. We saw an Afro-American-Heritage-Parade, did some shopping, had some yummy bagels and went to that triangular park where the Allegheny and the Monongahela merge (Point State Park, if I remember it correctly) and had some icecream.
And at the airport I managed to buy a cute Pooh-Bear wearing a funny hat and carrying a 'Happy BD'-ballon - without Anja seeing it. Her BD is 10/14 and when she was in the plane, lavatory I gave it to a flight attendant, who then gave it to Anja the next morning with her breakfast.

Where will your May cruise go? Miami/Ft Lauderdale sounds great, I've been there in '88 for a week. Anja has never been to the AtlanticCoast apart from the Port, the Kennedy Space Center and a day trip to Daytona in '97. But this year we will spend 4 days in Charleston, visiting RellingTwin & family, and 6 days in St. Augustine. What I liked most in '88 at the beach, was the surf. There is usually no surf at the Gulf, where we usually go.

OK,
gotta sleep now, it's nearly 11pm over here

 

[Hygiene99]

Padisneyfan .... info on the NOS Cruise like what does Nos stand for
a couple of weeks ago we saw $wonder cruises for $350.00
for a 3 day one and recently we saw them advertised for
$399.00 so i got in touch with Sueellen from dreams and the first date we can the 399 rate is september.......

So lets just say we r looking to do a Cruise between now
and the end of May...... and i dont think it is going to be disney

we asked about moving our October date since we booked it on board so we could get the discount and onboard credit...
still does not help because then when we rebook the October date... the price comes out way higher....not woth all the switching around....... so It loks like we might try RCCL.....

i dont know still all up in the air......maybe we wll just go to disney ... Maybe DC any more on that ???

 

[padisneyfan]

NOS is RCCL Navigator of the Sea. It is one of the big Voyager Class ships (rock climbing, inline skating, ice rink, mini golf). We tried to get the Mariner of the Sea out of Port Canaveral but even though we tried to get it before Thanksgiving the only rooms available were suites at that time for the date we wanted in May. NOS and MOS are sister ships and do the same iternary only NOS leaves from Miami. This is a family cruise, so we were able to get connecting inside promenade rooms (they are inside rooms with a window that look out on the promenade deck were the parades and stores are). My 21 and 20 year old sons liked the idea of their own cabin. Since we booked in November the price has gone up. RCCL Voyager class ships are very popular. It will be interesting to see how Disney and RCCL Mariner of the Sea compete against each other at Port Canaveral. It would have been nearly $2000 more to have the 4 of us get the same accomandations on the Magic. We are doing their Western Caribbean (labadee, jamacia, caymen and cozumel) So doing 2 different ports. There should be enough activities to keep the young adults entertained.

Peter-- I get all these cruise emails that have some great prices like icruise.com and vacationstogo.com. There are some really good prices for 3 and 4 day cruise between now and May.

Now the only problem that we have right now is that DS#2 continues to have car problems despite numerous attempts to fix his car. It broke down again on his trip back to school last night. He doesn't have enough money to buy a new used car. So we may have to dip into the cruise fund to get the car. If that happens I'm not sure if we will still go on the family cruise. I hate to cancel since it will probably be our last family cruise. Well, I have a couple of weeks until final payment so have time to decide.

Eric--- I'm impressed that you were able to get into downtown Pittsburgh and back to finally catch your flight. I can get into Pittsuburgh, I just always have trouble getting back out of the city. There are just to many tunnels and bridges for me. It is not one of my favorite cities because of that.

Well, I must get to work.

Nancy