8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #4

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Happy Birthday Julianna!!!
Hope your day was fit for a princess!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Diet coke will take paint off cars and you're drinking lots of it?

Diet colas in general should be a no no as the chemicals in them are a diuretic and if your body is dehydrated it doesn't function properly (ie lose weight)

I Know what you mean, just I cant stand water all the time and it fills me up, when I havent eaten.

 

[dahuffy]

Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper is my one real vice. I know what it is "free" of, I really don't want to know what it has in it, though!

I do Unleaded Diet Coke myself!

 

[ga9497]

Received this information for the WB sailing

5:30/8:00pm PLAPLAPLAPLAPLA
5:45/8:15pm LAPLAPLAPLAPLAP
6:00/8:30pm APLAPLAPLAPLAPL


No information on the EB on anything yet, waiting not so patiently

 

[tom31b]

Received this information for the WB sailing

5:30/8:00pm PLAPLAPLAPLAPLA
5:45/8:15pm LAPLAPLAPLAPLAP
6:00/8:30pm APLAPLAPLAPLAPL


No information on the EB on anything yet, waiting not so patiently

You do a great job getting info, hang in there!!!

 

[lillygator]

Received this information for the WB sailing

5:30/8:00pm PLAPLAPLAPLAPLA
5:45/8:15pm LAPLAPLAPLAPLAP
6:00/8:30pm APLAPLAPLAPLAPL


No information on the EB on anything yet, waiting not so patiently

Oh my - where did you get that?

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Oh man, Roger....that is rough! Poor Austyn. I am so sorry the vote didn't go your way.

But, I have to tell you....your dad is adorable!!! Happy 90th Birthday to him!!!! He looks like he is feeling better!

I guess not the best time to have relatives visiting but I am sure you will be glad to see them.

So sorry about your school closing. That was our main objective when we moved 36 years ago. We picked one of the best in the state for a great school system. What is the reason for your school closing. Seems like there would be schools not as distinguished as your to close!! Politics and government do not always work together hand in hand.

OMG! Your Dad is adorable. That is definitely something I would take my kids out for as well. Family is the most important thing to me.
That stinks about Austyn's school. They are closing a good performing school in favor or a low performing one? That is crazy. One of my very good friends lives in Dallas proper ( NOT known for their school system) and she happened to find a pocket of good schools but once her DD gets out of Elementary, she has not good options.
Remember you are the best advocate for your child.

Great pic of you & your Dad!

I can really relate to the school closing thing. We had a few schools closed & the ones that remained opened were redistricted. The reason being that we had a couple of schools in the downtown area that had a very high percentage of free/reduced lunch. Not that there is anything wrong with having low-income, but the schools were performing at a much lower rate than the other districts for a multitude of reasons. So they tried to even things out by moving neighborhoods around to different schools. Which I think is the right thing to do all around, but now our neighborhood school has about 40% free/reduced & the others schools are all around 12-16% so they weren't very successful in making things even. The school committee states that they don't know how the disparity happened, but they will look into in 2010!

Thanks for DFs birthday wishes! Our school district is projecting declining elementary enrollment over the next few years. This is debatable and have seen sources that it might actually be increasing over the same time frame. The school district has targeted our school because it is the smallest (in kids) in the district. They feel that closing the smallest school will cause the least disruption. But to take a top school and scatter us into 3 of the bottom schools really sinks as far as us parents are concerned. We have had in the past, an option of school choice. You can apply for your child to attend another school in the district other than the one your are assigned to. Funny thing happened yesterday morning, they rescinded the school choice option from our school district prior to the board meeting last night. Now only the kids from the two closing schools can school choice (sounds good so far) BUT you can only school choice to the school you are slated to move to in 2009. So basically they are allowing us to move to a school that we are assigned to a year earlier. Anyway, tonight we are having a grass roots meeting to form a charter school. We already have people working on this, so today I am reading about charter schools. Thanks again for all of your words of encouragement.

 

[tom31b]

JR, move on to the next post....

Here's my dumb question for day, I saw something similar on another thread, but figured since I won't ever go back to that one, I would ask it here....

If you rebook on board, can you transfer the ressie to another ship? Probably more specifically, is it possible now to transfer a Wonder ressie to the Magic? What about a Magic to Wonder?

Yes, thinking ahead to new ships and just wondering how DCL handles it now...

BTW, one of the Meyer Werft webcams is showing an empty bay... wonder if the Dreams or whatever the other one will be called will be there next?

 

[tom31b]

Oh my - where did you get that?

We have our secrets over here too.....

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Received this information for the WB sailing

5:30/8:00pm PLAPLAPLAPLAPLA
5:45/8:15pm LAPLAPLAPLAPLAP
6:00/8:30pm APLAPLAPLAPLAPL


No information on the EB on anything yet, waiting not so patiently

Thanks so much!! Won't be too much longer until we start getting details on ours.

 

[ga9497]

Oh my - where did you get that?

I am a TA and we received this information for our guests that are booked for May to pass along

 

[ga9497]

JR, move on to the next post....

Here's my dumb question for day, I saw something similar on another thread, but figured since I won't ever go back to that one, I would ask it here....

If you rebook on board, can you transfer the ressie to another ship? Probably more specifically, is it possible now to transfer a Wonder ressie to the Magic? What about a Magic to Wonder?

Yes, thinking ahead to new ships and just wondering how DCL handles it now...

BTW, one of the Meyer Werft webcams is showing an empty bay... wonder if the Dreams or whatever the other one will be called will be there next?

Yes you can transfer - well you can right now with the Magic and the Wonder

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

JR, move on to the next post....

Here's my dumb question for day, I saw something similar on another thread, but figured since I won't ever go back to that one, I would ask it here....

If you rebook on board, can you transfer the ressie to another ship? Probably more specifically, is it possible now to transfer a Wonder ressie to the Magic? What about a Magic to Wonder?

Yes, thinking ahead to new ships and just wondering how DCL handles it now...

BTW, one of the Meyer Werft webcams is showing an empty bay... wonder if the Dreams or whatever the other one will be called will be there next?

I think that you can transfer it to any future sailing but I am not an expert. Don't know how they will handle the new ships.

 

[got2travel]

JR, move on to the next post....

Here's my dumb question for day, I saw something similar on another thread, but figured since I won't ever go back to that one, I would ask it here....

If you rebook on board, can you transfer the ressie to another ship? Probably more specifically, is it possible now to transfer a Wonder ressie to the Magic? What about a Magic to Wonder?

Yes, thinking ahead to new ships and just wondering how DCL handles it now...

BTW, one of the Meyer Werft webcams is showing an empty bay... wonder if the Dreams or whatever the other one will be called will be there next?

Interesting question. I just always assumed that you could. Haven't tested it though.

I would like to see if anyone has any first had experience with this. Maybe one of out TA's knows.

 

[got2travel]

Yes you can transfer - well you can right now with the Magic and the Wonder

see.....if I had just read down a little bit more I would have seen the answer

 

[lillygator]

I am a TA and we received this information for our guests that are booked for May to pass along

awesome! I posted in our meets thread!

 

[m&m's mom]

Received this information for the WB sailing

5:30/8:00pm PLAPLAPLAPLAPLA
5:45/8:15pm LAPLAPLAPLAPLAP
6:00/8:30pm APLAPLAPLAPLAPL


No information on the EB on anything yet, waiting not so patiently

Ohh! This would be so cool for us linked to get 6:00 and have AP be our 1st restaurant. My Mom and I are the only 2 who have been on DCL so it will be a surprise for DH, Dd's and my dad.

 

[PBader]

We finally have our flights!

I scored $10 tickets both ways with Skybus this morning. Thanks to a tip from Joel....Thanks again Joel!

I am so glad to scratch that one off of my list!

Deanna! I think that has to be the best bargain any of us have gotten!!!

 

[PBader]

No...thank you. Deanna's been so diligent in checking every morning and was great in sending me a text message this morning when she saw they were released. I've never been so happy for a 6AM text message on my phone and it simply said "Skybus NOW!". We scored $10 tickets too. Thanks again Deanna.

Congrats to you too!!!

 

[PBader]

I actually knew better but had too much time waiting for "surgery".
In 1996 when Megan was born we had the internet but it was not what it is today. Later I researched Megans Necrotizing Enercolitis. Thankfully the key word is later as I would have been worse off if I known the very high death rate. She beat the odds (again).

Ok here is your funny for the day. I was talking to my neighbor the other day and she casually mentioned when she took her shower that morning the cat was dirty so she .............took the cat in the shower with her For anyone that has cats this is probably shocking! She said she held him and washed him and then when finished with him she put him down in the shower and finished hers. She has no idea how odd it is for a cat to do that as this is her 1st cat.
My cat would scratch me to the bone if I tried that.

Snuggles used to get into the tub with me when he was a kitten. But when he decided he hated to get wet---he sure made sure he let me know it!

The internet can sometimes give you too much information. I had my mole operated on again yesterday. I was allergic to the Neosporin I was told to put on for the last three weeks. I was wondering why it was crimson colored. I thought it was infected and Dr. would not be able to operate to get the other bad cells. He just said to stop using the medicine and I need to put Aquaphor on the new stitches. This time insteat of 2 stitches.....I got 8 stitches. The good news is he said it was like having a line removed from my mouth without paying for plasctic surgery.

Hope this one heals better for you