Originally posted by two-foxes
Eric-
The eco-tour excursion we booked in Antigua can be found at www.adventureantigua.com It is a snorkling tour that includes a buffet lunch on a beach and some hiking (although is seems like some very light hiking...no Colorado Mountains on this one). Pick up is at 10 am, drop off at 4:15. It is $90 pp, with a $20 deposit due at booking, the remainder due in cash or travellers checks the date of the tour. I read through the cancellation policy and you will be refunded your deposit if the ship fails to make it to Antigua, you will also be refunded your deposit should you choose to cancel, however, 24 hour notice must be given or you will lose your deposit. No shows will lose deposit.
I must say, I am pretty excited for this one. They will book a max of 25 people per excursion (so it won't be too crowded), and the lunch sounds yummy! Oh, and you get at 10% discount if you book through their web site.
Since DCL has not released any excursions for Antigua yet, we may end up switching if we see something we like better, but I doubt it.
Gotta go and vacuum....getting our carpets cleaned today. Having a 95 lb dog and two cats is not nice to your carpets. 
Sounds great,
how can we make sure that we're in a group with the other DISers? And how many of our group have already booked? I think I'm going to book it tomorrow or during the weekend.
Hiking shouldn't be a problem for us, we run between 20 and 30 miles a week.
I know what you mean when talking about hiking in CO. During my stay in Denver last year we went to Rocky Mountain National Park with my boss, who already has done more than 20 of your 50 or so 14,000 ft+ peaks - intending to conquer them all. We drove there with our rental and only walked about two or three miles at both of our stops. But walking in the 12,000 feet + range was like running at full pace in Frankfurt (Elev 364 ft). The next weekend when our boss was gone, we took the Cog Railway up Pikes Peak, and we both had some wobbly knees during our first steps up there
I also went for a run every other morning before breakfast, just 3 or 4 miles around our hotel in Englewood, but it felt like 6 or 8 in Frankfurt.
My PC at work got fixed shortly before I left, but I'll have to work on Saturday anyway. It's no problem as Anja has to work too, and I'll give her the usual weekend-lift to the hospital
And the weekend after next I'll probably there again - But more overtime also means more cocktails and more souvenirs during the cruise
BTW, this month I'll get my annual tax-shock: In April we get an extra monthly payment, which is usually paid before xmas (Called xmas-money in Germany, but our company pays it in April. Then we get an annual subsidiary for vacations, lunch and commuting cost, and then there is our success-sharing- All added to our regular salary, which then drives our tax-quota into the highest regions
But as our CEO once said: 'I'd rather pay lots of taxes on a high inccome, than no taxes on no income!'
But I'm also filing my IRS-report within the next weeks, which should give us a nice refund shortly before the cruise.
Bed-time now, we had our usual Thursday-workout: 5miles and an hour of The Pump - Now we're wasted and need some sleep.
See Y'all tomorrow on the Boards
Our IT-guys killed my 'puter. They wanted to upgrade it from Windows NT to XP (Most of our PCs have to stay on NT as our CAD-system doesn't yet work on XP) and it worked fin. Then they wanted to do me a favour 
In case you want to learn some of those really cool facts about WDW food, the Food Channel is having a special to be broadcast Saturday at 4 PM and Sunday at 5 PM.
