20041218-cruise-friends-memories Part 6

[dobelover]

Sorry to be such a light weight. I may say hello in the am.

Won't be much longer.

nite all.

Booksw have a nice drive.

 

[WDWLVR]

Don't forget the daily briefing report!!


Have a safe trip! See ya Saturday.

Up, shower, get dressed, wake Mark, do daily briefing. See this morning since I had to go to the dentist I actually slept in a little and look what happened. Little

 

[justmestace]

My countdown timer is set for the time that I figured we'd get to port. I keep looking at it and have to remind myself that it is now only about 17 hours until we get to Mickey's house.
My brain is still not registering it.

 

[tinksdad]

Kevin....ditto what Mark said. Mine's 35mm......I'm one of the poor folk.....

Wait a minute........ which stateroom do you have?????

 

[justmestace]

Mary....glad you got your crown, and it doesn't hurt too awful bad. I think the part that is the most annoying is keeping my mouth open that long, it makes my jaw ache.

But I'm glad that's over for you!! Let the party start!!

 

[MarkRG]

I knew I read that somewhere.

I use a Olympus 4040Z with the Oly P-10 housing. It does a good job for the dollar.
Thinking about upgrading to the 5060Z or maybe a SLR type next. It only money.......

Originally we were thinking of just getting a housing for Mary's Olympus, but the only ones still available for it are third party housings and more money than the Sealife was for housing, camera and all.

 

[tinksdad]

My countdown timer is set for the time that I figured we'd get to port. I keep looking at it and have to remind myself that it is now only about 17 hours until we get to Mickey's house.
My brain is still not registering it.

How exciting is that????

We are ALL just so short that we have to have ladder to get out of bed in the morning!!

 

[sugaswim]

i have now converted to counting hours rather than days. i still can't believe it's finally here! tomorrow i have to make my last minute check and make sure i packed everything! i have so much to do and so little time! i have to run a promotion for work tomorrow night from 8:30 to 10:30 and then we're staying the night at a mariott near dulles so we don't have to get up as early in the morning to drive there. that and we don't have to pay as much for parking while we're away. geeze if i only could have gotten to have tomorrow off too! i felt like there was all the time in the world until yesterday and now it's all happening! weeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

[justmestace]

Wait a minute........ which stateroom do you have?????

Hey....there are FOUR of us.....and we are very BIG people.....and I only got it by default. Thanks to LeiLani! And I NEED a BIG verandah for medicinal purposes.

(Call your banker, the bridge is still for sale)

 

[WDWLVR]

Ok all - 4 am is going to come quick. Off to bed I go.


Sweet dreams all. We are about to start the adventure of a lifetime!

PS - you should have seen my boss's face today. She mentioned she couldn't believe this trip was finally here - she remembers last June when I walked in and asked if I could have this Christmas off. Then I mentioned - hey what about May 2006

 

[MarkRG]

Kevin....ditto what Mark said. Mine's 35mm......I'm one of the poor folk.....

Mark, my parents each have Regals....they are on their second set each, actually. Great cars. I love driving my mom's when I'm there. Not this next trip, though...it's been a long time since I've driven in snow. They haven't had any yet, but they will. It always snows when I'm there. Just a little reminder of why I moved here!

Bah! We didn't exactly get the expensive setup either yanno.

I've been wanting to do a 'street cruiser' of this particular model of car for a very long time. Since they were new back in the late 70's early 80's. Its rolling chassis is the same as a Chevy Malibu or an Olds Cutlass from that timeframe. But this car more or less dropped in my lap. It is still a very nice car, just enjoy doing the tinkering upgrading it.

 

[tinksdad]

Originally we were thinking of just getting a housing for Mary's Olympus, but the only ones still available for it are third party housings and more money than the Sealife was for housing, camera and all.

I know the scenario. My camera has been discontinued for awhile. I have a full risk rider insurance policy on it just in case. But if the housing flooded, I would have to upgrade because that model isn't made anymore.

 

[justmestace]

Did you guys catch that in gaRry's post about how "everyone looked taller on the boards"??? LOL.....he must have met Paul! (Sorry, Paul...love ya!)

Did he meet Virgil yet? Where is Virgil, anyway....they aren't gone yet, are they???

 

[tinksdad]

Did you guys catch that in gaRry's post about how "everyone looked taller on the boards"??? LOL.....he must have met Paul! (Sorry, Paul...love ya!)

Did he meet Virgil yet? Where is Virgil, anyway....they aren't gone yet, are they???

I didn't get that. But then, I have to really think about most of gaRry's post anyway!! and haven't had the pleasure to meet Paul yet.

Wonder if Paul brought his pirate costume? Can't wait for Pirate Night

Keep reading interesting posts about it.

 

[MarkRG]

Did you guys catch that in gaRry's post about how "everyone looked taller on the boards"??? LOL.....he must have met Paul! (Sorry, Paul...love ya!)

Did he meet Virgil yet? Where is Virgil, anyway....they aren't gone yet, are they???

The funny part is, I've already met GaRry, all 6'1" of me. Must've slipped his mind with all the other stuff he's doing.

 

[justmestace]

Don't forget...one of you guys has to give me lessons with the new camera.

AND...I've never been in the Internet Cafe, and I'm going to want to send some e-mails...I'll probably need help with that, too. Such a dope I am!

 

[MarkRG]

Don't forget...one of you guys has to give me lessons with the new camera.

AND...I've never been in the Internet Cafe, and I'm going to want to send some e-mails...I'll probably need help with that, too. Such a dope I am!

No biggie on the camera.. what internet provider - they have native support built in for most of the big name ones, and you're no dope at this.

 

[tinksdad]

Don't forget...one of you guys has to give me lessons with the new camera.

AND...I've never been in the Internet Cafe, and I'm going to want to send some e-mails...I'll probably need help with that, too. Such a dope I am!

Don't forget to bring you user name and password!! The rest is fairly easy.

 

[justmestace]

Well....I have been putting this off and putting this off. I know that I should go to bed....and I just don't want to. How odd is that? I want it to be tomorrow, so we can be on our way, but I'm going to miss this.

I really wish I had been able to come home this afternoon, maybe I would have felt like I had gotten my "fix".

I guess I'm a little nervous about finally meeting everyone.

 

[justmestace]

Don't forget to bring you user name and password!! The rest is fairly easy.

You mean the one I use to login to AOL? I guess that's easy enough. See, if just once I had gone to the business office at one of the hotels in Vegas, I would have known how to do it!