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

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Sorry I had to jump out of chat yesterday, a visitor turned up then we ended up going out for the evening.

This past week has been a little eventful to say the least...

My aunt (Mum's sister) in the UK has been unwell for sometime and was diagnosed with anorexia - she's in her 70's, they couldn't find anything physically wrong. They finally admitted her to a psychiatric facility and gave her another batch of tests and found it actually wasn't all in her head, she has pancreatic cancer which had already spread to her liver. This was last weekend they finally diagnosed that... and by this stage she was so weak and sick they couldn't even move her to a hospice - they gave her 2 months max to live.

I was then working away in Auckland, Monday-Thursday, and once I arrived in Auckland, one of the first emails from Mum was that she was catching the first flight to the UK on Monday evening - she always said she'd never go back to the UK for a funeral but was hoping she could at least see her sister before she passed.

I then got promoted at work on Friday - finally - good news!

I also on Friday spoke to my brother and he said the title for the property is now done so we should hear from the lawyers this week about buying the land in the country - only been waiting since Christmas for this.

Mum emailed to say she would be coming home next Thursday but we got another message this morning saying that she was at her sister's bedside as at this stage they were talking hours to live.

If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.

A real week of ups and downs.

Paula I am so sorry and your aunt will be in our prayers.

 

[LITTLEKID58]

Sorry I had to jump out of chat yesterday, a visitor turned up then we ended up going out for the evening.

This past week has been a little eventful to say the least...

My aunt (Mum's sister) in the UK has been unwell for sometime and was diagnosed with anorexia - she's in her 70's, they couldn't find anything physically wrong. They finally admitted her to a psychiatric facility and gave her another batch of tests and found it actually wasn't all in her head, she has pancreatic cancer which had already spread to her liver. This was last weekend they finally diagnosed that... and by this stage she was so weak and sick they couldn't even move her to a hospice - they gave her 2 months max to live.

I was then working away in Auckland, Monday-Thursday, and once I arrived in Auckland, one of the first emails from Mum was that she was catching the first flight to the UK on Monday evening - she always said she'd never go back to the UK for a funeral but was hoping she could at least see her sister before she passed.

I then got promoted at work on Friday - finally - good news!
I also on Friday spoke to my brother and he said the title for the property is now done so we should hear from the lawyers this week about buying the land in the country - only been waiting since Christmas for this.

Mum emailed to say she would be coming home next Thursday but we got another message this morning saying that she was at her sister's bedside as at this stage they were talking hours to live.

If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.

A real week of ups and downs.

Paula..
Our prayers are with you and your family

 

[m&m's mom]

CONGRATS!!! Joel and I have been together for 16 years, but it will be our 12th anniv in Sept (he was on the slow plan for asking someone to marry him he he )

I got you beat. We lived together for 11 years before we got married.
We had bought a house, had 2 kids-and then remembered we forgot to get married along the way. That was 8 years ago so we have been together almost 20 years now.

 

[cbjfan61]

sounds like fun but I think we'll pass becasue it will be too hard! I honestly wouldn't have known where to find a paintbrush.. or atleast I wouldn't have thought of it. and if it's harder than that... we'll just watch everyone else having fun. LOL We're not well-versed enough with the ship to do this, I don't think.

If you feel you are "too inexperienced" to do the hunt, consider doing it by yourself with your family. Then you get the opp. to find the items you can without the pressure to compete with others sooooo much better at knowingn the ship than us rookies Still could be a fun family activity to find things together as a group.

 

[cbjfan61]

I got you beat. We lived together for 11 years before we got married.
We had bought a house, had 2 kids-and then remembered we forgot to get married along the way. That was 8 years ago so we have been together almost 20 years now.

Ok....so if I was on the "slow plan" then you were on the "really slow plan"

 

[Joel110]

Rob and I reached that mark this year. We met and started dating in Jan 1988, so this past Jan, we celebrated 20 years together. We will both turn 40 this year, so we have officially been together more than half our lives.

In June, we will celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary!

We've been together for 19 years, going on 14 years married. I'm 38 and Linda's 37, so we just passed the halfway point. And she's even willing to marry me again!

Congrats on the milestones.

DH is the one that always remembers the date of our first date.....
We first *met* when I had already had a crush on him for a year....I went up to him in the hall (we were in HS) during our lunch hour and stuck my hand out and said *Hi, my name is Stephanie_____, I hear your name is Jon ______. I see you like Hockey. (he was wearing his jacket covered in Hockey patches)*

DH is very shy and if there had been a hole to crawl in he would have! LOL! But, the next night he came up to where I worked (his best friend lived next door to me) and asked me out.

We've been married since we graduated HS.

I was stalked. I was on actually on another date and DW managed to invite herself in on it.

So..to make this work..do I have to carry the 1???

I live on the border of Seminole and Orange cty and Seminole is OK on Sundays. They drop the tarp over the alcohol on Sundays in Orange.

I know some county's in Kentucky are completely dry, or were...we would vacation at some of the parks down there when we were growing up...my dad was frustrated trying to find some beer. He saw a guy carrying a 12 pack and asked the guy "where did you get the beer?". The guy responded, "What beer? I don't know what you're talking about." and kept walking. He went into a convenience store and was pleading with the guy to help him locate some beer. I guess the guy finally said, "Leave a $20 on the front seat of you car and take a long walk." When he got back from his walk, there was a 12 pack.

I then got promoted at work on Friday - finally - good news!

I also on Friday spoke to my brother and he said the title for the property is now done so we should hear from the lawyers this week about buying the land in the country - only been waiting since Christmas for this.

Mum emailed to say she would be coming home next Thursday but we got another message this morning saying that she was at her sister's bedside as at this stage they were talking hours to live.

If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.

A real week of ups and downs.

Prayers for your Aunt and congrats on the job promotion.

 

[Stepht5]

We're off to shop for DD9 (10 tomorrow) birthday gifts. Not doing much else this weekend. He wants to go to a local family fun center for go-carts, games, etc. His party is next weekend. 9 boys, but we are taking them to a climbing gym to burn up all that boy energy. I hope everyone has a wonderful day. This thread is a lot of fun. We usually aren't "group" people and this is new for us, but I am having fun lurking and some of you really crack me up. We are really looking forward to this trip!

Have fun! I hope your son is posting on the kids thread -- I have a 10ds on the thread! He turned 10 in Feb.

 

[danfromca]

Sorry I had to jump out of chat yesterday, a visitor turned up then we ended up going out for the evening.

This past week has been a little eventful to say the least...

My aunt (Mum's sister) in the UK has been unwell for sometime and was diagnosed with anorexia - she's in her 70's, they couldn't find anything physically wrong. They finally admitted her to a psychiatric facility and gave her another batch of tests and found it actually wasn't all in her head, she has pancreatic cancer which had already spread to her liver. This was last weekend they finally diagnosed that... and by this stage she was so weak and sick they couldn't even move her to a hospice - they gave her 2 months max to live.

I was then working away in Auckland, Monday-Thursday, and once I arrived in Auckland, one of the first emails from Mum was that she was catching the first flight to the UK on Monday evening - she always said she'd never go back to the UK for a funeral but was hoping she could at least see her sister before she passed.

I then got promoted at work on Friday - finally - good news!

I also on Friday spoke to my brother and he said the title for the property is now done so we should hear from the lawyers this week about buying the land in the country - only been waiting since Christmas for this.

Mum emailed to say she would be coming home next Thursday but we got another message this morning saying that she was at her sister's bedside as at this stage they were talking hours to live.

If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.

A real week of ups and downs.

My condolences regarding your Aunt - that's always a tough thing to face. And congratulations on the job. Sometimes I think it's particularly hard to deal with weeks where the highs and lows come so closely together...

 

[Stepht5]

More accuarate yes, but not nearly as much fun to contemplate....


Just for fun, assuming there were enough category 4 cabins available, to bring 20 kids you'd need 4 cabins. At today's price that's $73,695 with insurance and transfers.

Yes but, 1st day pricing (with airfare & transfers) was around $12,000 for 5 (2A & 3kids -- 17dd, 10ds & 7dd).

That would make it around $48,000...... Sounds like a bargain!

 

[m&m's mom]

Since we have to have a mixture of banter and cruise related information, I have finally gotten this activity off the ground. I have wanted to do a scavenger hunt on the boat since last year. In the past I have made pirate maps for the kids and hid them around the house with clues leading to the next map. I tried to think of a way to transfer this idea to the Magic but I would really need to be on the Magic to come up with really good clues. Also having people stationed around the ship handing out the next map seems to be way to involved. So I did some research and discussed with Cherie and I think I have come up with a workable idea. I am open to comments, suggestions and help on making this a lot of fun. So here goes my idea.

• We will make up teams out of those that sign up to participate. Depending on the interest the size of the teams may vary.

• Each team will need one digital camera/team.

• Each team will be will be given a list of items/places on the Magic that must be photographed with one of the team members in the photo.

• First team that collects all of the designated photos and returns to the starting point will be deemed the winner.

• The list of items/places may require some thought and knowledge of the ship.

Example: Paintbrush
Since this would be an easy one, the team would head off to Animators Palette and take a picture of the paintbrush outside the restaurant with one of the team members in the pictures. Trust me the actual list will not be this easy and will require all of your cunning pirate skills.

I would love to have a few volunteers that would be interested in coming up with items/places on the Magic for the list. Also help at the end to verify the winner. If you volunteer for this you will not be able to participate in the actual scavenger hunt.

I am thinking that this activity would be great on the sea day following Aruba. By that time people will have spent enough time around the ship to be familiar with most of areas.

Sounds like a lot of fun. We most assuredly will not win as we have never set foot on the Magic before- but it does sould like fun.

Sorry I had to jump out of chat yesterday, a visitor turned up then we ended up going out for the evening.

This past week has been a little eventful to say the least...

My aunt (Mum's sister) in the UK has been unwell for sometime and was diagnosed with anorexia - she's in her 70's, they couldn't find anything physically wrong. They finally admitted her to a psychiatric facility and gave her another batch of tests and found it actually wasn't all in her head, she has pancreatic cancer which had already spread to her liver. This was last weekend they finally diagnosed that... and by this stage she was so weak and sick they couldn't even move her to a hospice - they gave her 2 months max to live.

I was then working away in Auckland, Monday-Thursday, and once I arrived in Auckland, one of the first emails from Mum was that she was catching the first flight to the UK on Monday evening - she always said she'd never go back to the UK for a funeral but was hoping she could at least see her sister before she passed.

I then got promoted at work on Friday - finally - good news!

I also on Friday spoke to my brother and he said the title for the property is now done so we should hear from the lawyers this week about buying the land in the country - only been waiting since Christmas for this.

Mum emailed to say she would be coming home next Thursday but we got another message this morning saying that she was at her sister's bedside as at this stage they were talking hours to live.

If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.

A real week of ups and downs.

Ok....so if I was on the "slow plan" then you were on the "really slow plan"

My across the street neighbor's Mom is battling this too and she is in her 50's. Very sad and I absolutely pray for a peaceful passing as well.

 

[Enna]

If you had 20 something kids, your trip would be a TV special...just like when the Duggar clan went to DisneyLand.

 

[danfromca]

What the.. ?!?!?
listen here- no one told me about chocolate smoothies. NO ONE TOLD ME THEY HAD CHOCOLATE SMOOTHIES.
this is criminal.....

Okay how much are they? I gotta start budgeting for them... LOL

Hmm... now that you mention it, I don't recall seeing them on the bar menus last summer. But none of the bartenders had any problem getting them for us (from any bar on the ship), so I guess they kept the top-secret chocolate smoothie making machine operational even after taking it off the menu (probably the crew trying to keep it all to themselves).

I don't recall the exact price, but I see a bunch of bar charges of $4.50 and $5.00 charges from last summer (and in our group it would be either smoothies or tea) so that would likely be it - though that might include VAT taxes (did VAT apply to drinks?), so it might be less on our cruise.

 

[Stepht5]

This is a great idea, my kids would love to do this. When we were on RCCL in Nov 06 the clubs did this with the teens and with the 10 year olds and they had to go around the ship finding different things. On the 10 year olds hunt one part was that they had to find people that lived in or came from certain countries and they had to have them sign the paper next to that country.

They've done it on DCL with the teens -- I know because our now 17dd participated. SHe had a blast!

Roger, we would love to do this!

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

sounds like fun but I think we'll pass because it will be too hard! I honestly wouldn't have known where to find a paintbrush.. or at least I wouldn't have thought of it. and if it's harder than that... we'll just watch everyone else having fun. LOL We're not well-versed enough with the ship to do this, I don't think.

Shelley, this is a fun event an may I quote Brownie Olympics slogan "Everyone goes home a winner". This will all be for fun. I will probably tone down most of the clues based on your statement. I still intend to throw a couple in that will make you think. We are all on vacation to get away from thinking right. Its suppose to be a fun family event and I hope you will join us Shelley.

 

[Stepht5]

If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.

A real week of ups and downs.

We will keep her (and your mom!) in our family's prayers. I am so glad that your mom can be there with her sister.

 

[yargrnhoj]

you're from PA and not a Phillies fan?? hum....

I'm from PA and also not a Phillies fan. There is another baseball team in PA, although most of us have been trying to forget them for 15 years.

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

I don't think we have enough people who don't want to stop . . . also, it is the issue of breaking up by pickup location. The stop should only take about 10-15 minutes, and those not wanting to go in can stay in the bus (my girls probably will).



I'm worried from looking at the website that it is not a good enough stop for soda and water, which is what some people want (not the beer, wine, liquor). Are you sure it has this kind of things?

I looked it up...if you look under the "more" they have the following:

Alternative
Ciders
Coffee & Tea
Juice
Other
Soda Shop
Sparkling Water
Water & Ice


I looked and they do have soda. Both bottle and cans

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

Open Sunday at 10

I didn't know what time you were planning on getting to the port...usually the LA port will not allow in until 11AM to allow for those leaving.

 

[Stepht5]

I was stalked. I was on actually on another date and DW managed to invite herself in on it.

Now that is funny! I did know all about DH before I went up to him...... I had asked a couple of boys in my Biology class (that I had seen talking to him) what his name was, etc..... That was about a year before I finally got him alone!

 

[Stepht5]

If you had 20 something kids, your trip would be a TV special...just like when the Duggar clan went to DisneyLand.

Then DH would die. He hates people looking at him -- but, I guess if we had 20 kids he would have to get used to that! LOL!

Oldest dd (24) always laughs when she hears me say *I only have 5 children.* She has said to me *You know most people think more then 2 is ALOT.*
We have started adding *And they all have the same mom and dad* Because we found out that most people thought it was a yours/mine/ours type situation.... Until they saw everyone together!