10/02/04 Antigua Cruise

[The Adams Family]

twinave...we have not received our docs yet either. was told i will have them saturday. its making me nervous.

my grandmother died on tuesday. it was a day filled with mixed emotion. we will miss her but so happy she is no longer suffering.

well i have one child packed 3 more and hubby to go ohhh and i can not forget myself.

take care all
jill

 

[usetheforceluke]

another hurricane is headed for the east coast of florida

I've been watching this one because all of the plottings that I've seen show it going 'somewhere' up the Eastern Seaboard, roughly parallel to or right on the route that we'll be taking to get to Port Canaveral. We'll be leaving in six days so I'm fairly certain that she'll impact the drive somewhere along the line. I'm thrilled.

We're down to final detailing. The Grouch Factor has been slowly rising for the past couple of days... it should peak some time this weekend, so I've been practising a small selection of witty and charming verbal repartee, most of them not exceeding three words.

The Jays announced yesterday that for last home stand of the year against the Yankees the upper level of the stadium tickets will be sold for $2.00CAD (roughly $1.50USD) PER ticket. We would normally avoid any Yankee series but this would guarantee that every a-word than usual will show up. We'll be cruising for this series, fortuately.

Getting a hair cut tomorrow.

Santa.

 

[Laurarn]

Hi Everyone!
Happy Belated Birthday Ciara! Hope you had a great one! My DS13 (Chris) hasn't had a chance to email you. Are the teens meeting somewhere the 1st day? If so, I'll let him know.
Happy Anniversary Jeanne! How are you liking our Charlotte weather lately? I love it!
My goodness, I tried to start packing yesterday and what an ordeal! I pack for 4 of us, and my DH does his own. I just hand him a suitcase and a list of "must haves" (like dinner clothes).
I went through my DD10's closet last night to find some dinner clothes, and she went through a growth spurt since last spring. Now she needs shoes and dresses...ugh! Have to shop this weekend now. The only dressier dresses she has is velour that she wears at Christmas. But I think that's too wintery for a caribbean cruise. The suitcases are getting really full. Do you all pack 7 sets of daywear and 7 dinner outfits? I'm hoping my family can wear a few things twice and hopefully I won't have to resort to doing laundry on my vacation.
Well, bye for now! I can't believe we are in single digits! Yikes! We'll see you all at the port
Laura

 

[Sarah'sMomfrom PA]

Jean and Sam...HAPPY ANNIVERSARY...sorry it is belated!

Jill (Adams Family)--sympathy on the loss of your grandmother.

papa...thanks for the phone call yesterday...tell Kathy that I will look out for those snakes!!!

Crazy at work since we just started construction of a new floor for the new OB/GYN group that we are getting. I am the only one in the office so you can imagine the mess that I will come back to.

DD friend has been sick all week at school (her father doesn't believe in keeping them home when they are sick) so DD came home yesterday with sore throat and all stuffed up--I couldn't keep her home today because she had a presentation to do..we figure that we will be the next ones to get sick...just what we need!!

Beautiful and sunny here today!! Indian summer...bring it on!!

 

[padisneyfan]

Gosh Ivan just won't go away, he has now resurfaced in the Gulf as a Tropical Storm. I have no idea how he got there, I thought he went out to sea after he drenched most of the East Coast. Central Pa was really hit hard from flooding. One of our friends house was flooded up to their roof just abouve Harrisburg.

Jim (usetheforceluke)--- Your posting are so funny. Hope you have a safe drive to the port. Hopefully Hurricane Jeanne won't cause any problems for any of us to get there.

I got the suitcases out. I tend to be a last minute packer so am aiming to get most things packed by Wed.
Laura the more I have cruised the lighter I packed. My first 7 day cruise I had enough clothing to sail around the world and not have to do laundry. Now I take 2 skirts (black and navy blue) and wear them to dinner with various tops including fancy ones for formal nights. The other tops can go with my shorts. I only take 3-4 shorts or capri pants, as the rest of the time I just run around in my bathing suit or umbro type shorts and T shirts. Plus I most have my hoodie as I am always cold. I am like the only person on the cruise who is always wearing a sweatshirt.

Back to work.

Nancy

 

[padisneyfan]

Jill--- Forgot to add that I am sorry to hear about your grandmother.

Arlene--- Are you flying down?

Nancy

 

[ARLO1]

Jill: Sorry to hear about your grandmother...

Nancy: We are flying down on 10/1 on JetBlue. Our flight leaves at 7:05 am. We are hoping to go to Kennedy during the day and then meet up with others that night. Are you guys flying? When are you leaving?

Arlene

 

[jeanniec]

Laura -- Yes, I am truly enjoying our Charlotte weather this week. Warm (but not hot) during the day -- down into the 50's at night. No humidity anywhere -- at least not much.

As for packing, you have two children to pack up and they tend to go thru more clothes than adults, but at least your DH does his own packing! That would never work in our house. Heaven only knows what Sam would drag with him. I ALWAY overpack, but will try to pack less this time. A couple of pair of long pants for Sam will do it since he will change out of them after dinner most of the time. I am going to try really hard not to pack extra clothes "in case I need them" which I never do. And I doubt that anyone will even notice if you wear an outfit twice and I'm sure that it they did notice, they wouldn't care in the least.

Renee' -- where did all the extra Antigua beach day people come from? The Tennessee group? What a blast it will be with a big group of DISer's on the beach!!

 

[piglet33]

Originally posted by tigger24
I am more of a lurker than poster, but I can not wait to meet all of you. This will be our first trip with our daughter Hailey, she turned 8 months yesterday, according to Eric the youngest of the bunch! It will be so much fun. Safe trips to everyone, we had to fight with Isabelle last year to get to Florida from Maryland.

Bernadette

Hey Bernadette - how are you doing? Nice to see you finally posting instead of lurking, lol.

See you next week.

Reneé

 

[piglet33]

Originally posted by jeanniec
Renee' -- where did all the extra Antigua beach day people come from? The Tennessee group? What a blast it will be with a big group of DISer's on the beach!!

One of our lurkers - Bernadette aka tigger24 and her family and friends are joining us. We are definitely going to have a blast there with so many of us. I can't wait. 5 more days of work, yippee.

Reneé

 

[@GoofyNut]

Mary ... thought I was the only one that is having the Cruise Nightmares. OMG I can't wait to get in the car and start the drive already. Takes me a day to unwind and realize it's my VACATION!

Arlene and Andy ... Art & I and Mike & Kathy are also going to Kennedy Space Ctr on Friday. We are staying in Titusville Thursday night and then doing KSC before we check in to the Raddison on Friday. How you getting there .. maybe we can meet up somehow?

Well back to work ... the last week and a half it's just been me and the boss cause my co-worker is at WDW and won't be back till Tuesday and then I'm gone Friday ... can we say work up the Wazoo!

Did anyone see Lost last night? Is it me or were you lost after trying to watch it?

 

[ARLO1]

Cathy:

I sent you a PM.

Arlene

 

[piglet33]

@GoofyNut - I just sent you a PM.

Reneé

 

[@GoofyNut]

Guys ... FYI, this is the site to get the release to re-print any photos that DCL photographers take.

https://www.image.com/guest-postcruiseCopyrightReleaseForm.cfm

So in case you get home wish you had more copies of something they took or want to make something into the Christmas Photo, etc, etc, etc.

 

[piglet33]

Mary Jo,

I just sent you an email.

Reneé

 

[dsncruise lover]

Lauranrn: We are all going to meet at the sailaway party. I am going to put out an email now to let everyone know. Tell him he can email me anytime.

Thanks again everyone for the birthday wishes.

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Why is it that just as you are getting ready to go on vacation work seems to explode? Really thought that I'd made great progress last night by staying late but my desk sure doesn't look it now.

Can't wait til the weekend when I can start packing. Someone else in the household has to still do laundry but we won't mention names. We each pack ourselves but have to admit that I have a list and ask lots of questions about the contents of the 'other' suitcase. The tie will be packed. No one look at his feet on formal night though cause I'm betting the 'good' shoes will be packed but not worn as happened last year.

Only 3.5 work days til we leave -- unfortunately have to come into work on Wednesday.

Back to work and my attempt to once again clear off the desk.

Fiona

 

[Sarah'sMomfrom PA]

Fiona...next Thursday night before I leave for vacation, I stick all of the piles of my filing underneath my desk in a box that I marked "Empty" after 18 years of working with my boss, he still hasn't figured this out. On my evaluation one year, he told me that when he returned from vacation in January, my desk better be cleaned off--guess what...it was because they were all in the box under my desk!! He was thrilled and said what a good job I had done (little did he know)--half of the junk is stuff that is never referred to again anyway and if I have to find something, I just wait until he leaves the office and then search for it (can you tell that I hate to file!!)--actually, my important stuff does get filed but the rest is just junk!

The Orlando delegation is heading to P.F. Changs for dinner on Friday night!! Just hope that we don't have to bring an interpreter for Peter!!! We love you Peter!!

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Oh Mary Jo I would love to do that with some files (actually I just stick some into a file cabinet so it's the same thing). I just have to make sure that all the files that will be dealt with in some way while I'm gone are up to date. And unfortunately there seems to be a problem or delay or something on every one!!

Plus my office is a sauna so I'm dying of the heat -- although I'm pretending that I'm preparing for the heat in Florida.

I will get everything done though although it will probably take some late nights.

I'm slowly going but will recover as soon as we hit the road.

Fiona

 

[jeanneg]

Jill:My condolences on your loss.
Ciara: Happy belated Birthday! Now that you're a bonafide teenager, your mom is going to being aging rapidly! Be kind to her.....
Jean (with no "-ne"!) Happy Anniversary to you and Sam!
Laurarn: You must be joking....or just plain crazy! You CAN certainly take 7 outfits for daytime plus 7 outfits for evening, but why would you WANT to? My experience with previous DCL cruises is that most people really don't give a hoot what anybody else is wearing. I'm going for comfort and will do the same as Nancy and mix and match the same few articles of clothing. I have a black Chico's outfit I can wear 3 different ways for formal, semi-formal and Palo night) and a few pairs of capris that I alternate for the other nights. During the day, I'm pretty much shorts and t-shirts.
Usually, I'll make a little list so I'm sure the tops I take will pair well with the bottoms. It's so much easier when you travel light....esp. when you return home with a reasonable amount of laundry as opposed to mountains. And don't forget the "disposable" underwear: pack all the stuff that's ready to be thrown out and toss it away on the cruise....that really cuts down on the laundry! I keep a crate in my laundry room that's just for that purpose. Everytime something is ready to be tossed, I throw it into the "vacation" crate. That way we never have to travel with dirty underwear (Old,yes, but dirty, no!) And that's probably more than you really need to know.........(I just hope the tag fairies don't catch sight of this post!)