8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #5

[Stepht5]

Wow, I skip a weekend of posts and have nearly 50 pages of ketchup between the old and new threads. Loved the April fool's posts in particular as the humor is needed after driving back and forth across Kansas this past weekend.





We got hit with a huge bill when getting a new roof after our insurance claim last year. We put our house up for sale about two months after a hail storm last year and didn't know it was damaged. When the buyer did their inspection, they said we hail damage. We had our agent find someone independent and they agreed that their was hail damage. After deducting the "depreciation" on the existing roof, we were stuck paying nearly $5,000 for a new roof for the buyers. You think you have coverage and the insurance company pulls something like this. They claimed that it was standard to do that in our area as we were hail prone. This after the insurance company kept warning me that if we submit a claim, we'll have higher insurance premiums in the future.

OUCH! We've never had that happen to us! Of course my county has the most hail/tornado/storm/flooding damage of any other county in the entire US. Every few years the Insurance companies try to get out of writing new insurance policies here........

There was an article in the paper either this weekend or Monday about all of last years damages -- there is actually a neighborhood that was condemned because of 2 floods in one season and now no one can live there. I think a couple of people died in the 1st flood through the neighborhood last Spring.

 

[Stepht5]

Please can we slow down I just cannot keep up and the dust and washing are mounting up.

Anyone got a room assignment yet?

Also not happy with having to surrender our passports yet again on this trip it would appear
Brenda

We do! I was glad to see that when I checked our ressies this weekend.

 

[bellelinus]

Good Morning everyone! I hope Tuesday is a lot better for those that had a rotten Monday.

This is the email I received from my TA:

I called and your Castaway Club numbers were on the reservation but you weren’t marked as repeats guests (still can’t figure that out). I made sure it was corrected so you can now make your shore excursions and Palo at 12:00 midnight on May 19th.

I also asked DCL to send you a new calendar.



Penny

Penny, just to reassure you about this, when I got my packet for the med cruise last summer, the date listed for making online ressies showed that they didn't count me as a CC member, and my TA called to clear it up . . . everything was fine and I made the reservations at 90 days with no problems. So don't worry -- now that they have been contacted, I'm sure it will be fine.

 

[bellelinus]

All during dinner...over and over and over again... a different language with each course...

Does everyone have their international outfit picked out yet? I think we all need to PM Todd so he can keep track of who is representing which country.

I don't know what country it's from, but I want to be the kid in the last, all-white room riding the carousel with what looks to be a tuba covered in white fabric on his/her head . . . my girls and I always love to look for the "tuba hat" when we ride . . .

 

[Joan1]

We do! I was glad to see that when I checked our ressies this weekend.

What category are you in? We have friends waiting for category 4 room assignments

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

We do! I was glad to see that when I checked our ressies this weekend.

Congrats

 

[bellelinus]

I have that all the time, I go to the pool and fall asleep and when I wake, everyone has gone?

. . . and you discover you are wearing no clothes?

Yes, Andrew, you have mentioned this dream often and it reveals MUCH (in both senses of the phrase) . . .

 

[goofyforlife]

Tom is going to show us how it is done off the back of the boat!

Hey Isn't M's DH a rescue diver...? Someone will have to save Tom...

Ps. we may not be able to afford the shirts -for all of us it would be pretty costly. Are we gonna be like outcasts if we don't have the shirts? *cry*

There's a way to do shirts on the cheap with iron-ons.... (They wouldn't be screened on the same as the one's we're ordering but workable....) i did iron on's for my thing1/thing2 shirts for halloween and i think Todd has done some before.

I can get white and/or black shirts usually for $2 or 2.50 each . Now the shirt transfers are a little more $$ though. (probably under $25 for as many as your shirts will need.)

or is that out of budget too?

Just though we could discuss and vote like everything else.

Not everything gets a vote... (ie 6:00)

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

. . . and you discover you are wearing no clothes?

Yes, Andrew, you have mentioned this dream often and it reveals MUCH (in both senses of the phrase) . . .

No I have never, said NO CLOTHES, sorry thats your dream I am in!

 

[Bets19]

I've enjoyed the creative talent we have with our April Fool's writers and all the comments to follow. Alas, lunch is almost over and I have to go back to work. It's tough keeping up with all of you. I need to check at night more often...
Thanks for the laughs!

 

[bellelinus]

No I have never, said NO CLOTHES, sorry thats your dream I am in!

Luckily in my dream your diet has been spectacularly successful . . . You look exactly like the cute waiter I met in Florence . . .

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

What category are you in? We have friends waiting for category 4 room assignments

So few of them, might take time, when they upgrade me to Cat 3, you can have mine!

Luckily in my dream your diet has been spectacularly successful . . .

Thats called reality.

Look me on the right now, against my picture in December on the left.

See my belt its about six holes in now!

 

[bellelinus]

Thats called reality.

Well, we'll see about that, won't we?

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Luckily in my dream your diet has been spectacularly successful . . . You look exactly like the cute waiter I met in Florence . . .

You added a bit, I do not bat the other way like him!!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Well, we'll see about that, won't we?

What ''naked'' on the cruise, is that instead of pajama's in Lumière's for breakfast?

 

[tom31b]

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

CRUISE TRAVEL KIT

Question,

In the Shore trips bit, did you have something in it with details of the actual trips, it seems like just a cover on mine? I know they are on the DCL site, but for the Med we had a shore trips overview of each trip.

DW likes to read it on paper rather than by PC.

Ta,

 

[mousehouseman]

So few of them, might take time, when they upgrade me to Cat 3, you can have mine!


Thats called reality.

Look me on the right now, against my picture in December on the left.

See my belt its about six holes in now!

Wow looking good Andrew


John

 

[bellelinus]

What ''naked'' on the cruise, is that instead of pajama's in Lumière's for breakfast?

With you, one never knows, n'est-ce pas?

 

[mousehouseman]

John,

Thanks. That was worth it!

No problem, if you could have heard her, she was already dialing DCL. I tell you I was in tears just listening to her.

John