It seems the luggage handlers in the UK have been not doing their jobs either. There was an article the other day telling how the airports are so overwhelmed with lost luggage that they sent over 1000 pcs of luggage by ship to the US. Laura said her familys whole planes luggage didn't make it homeThe insurance Cos said they had more luggage claims than they ever did. Hope they all get there ok.
It looks like the ferry/cruise ship indeed is a regional one. Ine wuth a very interesting color scheme. To say it's big is an understatement! And it's big.
Poor BIP. As I understand the information flood, because we're calling at a South American country the government will require us to have passports - even though there's some doubt about Mexico & the Carribean. Unless DCL cancels our stop at Cartagena, Colombia we MUST have passports.
You may now resume banging your head against the wall.
That's 'causeDreams Rocks
Thanks ladies
Glad to score one for the wenches...Those swabbies are catching up
Letter arrived from DCL they are paying the $100 Panama Canal fee as a good will gesture for all those who booked the Cruise, East & West. All charges will be removed within 10 to 14 days.
M,try this one on for size. Several years back our accountant did our taxes and sent them off for us. A few days later he called and asked if I had anything to tell him."Are you an escaped con living under an alias?"
It seem the Federal Gov't. in their infinate wisdom, gave me a divorce! They decided that I was not married and I had to go back and resign my papers with my maiden name and then had to send copies of my BC amd marriage license to prove who I was. I could understand if this happened the first year after we were married,but we had been together well over 10yrs at this point and had always filed jointly.
Do I sense a Rocky Horror fan in the room?
TA DA! ANOTHER ONE FOR THE WENCHES!!!!!
Oh he needs to take you a few days early! 30yrs is far too long!OK, I promised DH I wouldn't obsess about this cruise until at least 1 year before it left. Well, the time has come.I am now trying to talk him in to going to CA a few days early to visit Disneyland. I haven't been there in almost 30 years.
Me either. How do you KNOW it's a fake magazine subscription? I wouldn't know if it's real or not- but either way it gets trashed. LOL
Ohmy, that's horrible!It seems the luggage handlers in the UK have been not doing their jobs either. There was an article the other day telling how the airports are so overwhelmed with lost luggage that they sent over 1000 pcs of luggage by ship to the US. Laura said her familys whole planes luggage didn't make it home
so glad you didn't cancel the cruise and waited it out for it to be reversed. i know how you feel- the additional $500 for us was about to send me over the top. LOLHi everyone,
Sorry I have not posted on this thread for awhile. Other trips take me to other threads, but then I always find my way back here.
Thank you Tom for the great newsletter and your work. Thanks so much!
And also, I was so close to cancelling this cruise after they added on that stupid extra tax. With 6 in my family, that is 600 bucks! It was just about enough to break this camel's back, not like the trip was almost too expensive enough for us as it was! I was disappointed, my kids were disappointed.
But then I saw in the email that it was reversed thanks to all of you, (I was about to call DCL and complain myself) and I was ecstatic. I went to DCL site to look up my reservation, and sure enough it was back to where it was. It probably saved the trip for us. So thank you everyone!!!
My DD is 11 today, and will have her 12th birthday while we are on the TOAL. So it will be a special kick off for us. We will be in Disneyland a few days before the cruise too. I (we) have never been to DL in the summer after my numerous trips there, so I am a little nervous, but glad to be getting to go at all.
And thanks so much for the 2005 PC pics!! It gets me so happy. I know this year will FLY by!!!! Especially since the money is due in May...LOL
Hi everyone,
Sorry I have not posted on this thread for awhile. Other trips take me to other threads, but then I always find my way back here.
Thank you Tom for the great newsletter and your work. Thanks so much!
And also, I was so close to cancelling this cruise after they added on that stupid extra tax. With 6 in my family, that is 600 bucks! It was just about enough to break this camel's back, not like the trip was almost too expensive enough for us as it was! I was disappointed, my kids were disappointed.
But then I saw in the email that it was reversed thanks to all of you, (I was about to call DCL and complain myself) and I was ecstatic. I went to DCL site to look up my reservation, and sure enough it was back to where it was. It probably saved the trip for us. So thank you everyone!!!
My DD is 11 today, and will have her 12th birthday while we are on the TOAL. So it will be a special kick off for us. We will be in Disneyland a few days before the cruise too. I (we) have never been to DL in the summer after my numerous trips there, so I am a little nervous, but glad to be getting to go at all.
And thanks so much for the 2005 PC pics!! It gets me so happy. I know this year will FLY by!!!! Especially since the money is due in May...LOL
Hi Everyone,
We just got back from our WDW trip this afternoon. Boy, do I have a lot of ketchup in front of me. I showed Zack all of his birthday wishes, and he was really excited. Thanks to all. Here's a picture of the kids with Goofy from Zack's birthday dinner at Chef Mickey's
We had a great time, even though it was hotter than hot. Here's wishing all of you going down in the next week or so a magical vacation, and hopefully either cooler weather or better air conditioning! Have fun at the mini-meet. Wish we could have made it, but we'll be there in spirit.
and prayers to everyone who is going to need it today
Hi everyone.
I'm posting from laptop in travel trailer.
man this evening went from bad to worse. We need y'all to send us a wee bit of pixie dust please! First we had some "issues" with the travel trailer after it having sit at my sister's property, unused, for so long. Had to get new battery/etc.
then we take off a wee bit late but still with plenty of time to get the travel trailer parked "near" the circus area and get to the circus in time. but alas, it was not to be... traffic was backed up for miles and miles and miles at a complete stop most of the time... just inching along. Finally came upon the wreck right about the time they cleared the vehicles away and meanwhile it took us almost an hour to get less than 5mi on the highway. So needless to say we ended up missing about most of the first half of the circus.
We had a good time anyway though- Rita was especially way more thrilled than I expected. I guess the last time we went to a circus she was 3 or 4yrs old maybe (she's 7 now) and boy was she thrilled. Every act was her "favorite". LOL
Then we left- took over 30min just to get out of the parking garage! Lovely.
Get to where we parked the trailer and someone parked in front of us and trapped us in... took awhile to get them to come out of the establishment (we had permission to park it in their parking lot as Jeff knows the owner) and FINALLY got to the RV park at around 1am.
They said we'd be close to the lake and pool- but we're about the furthest away you can be! the furthest pull thru from the pool and lake- and the only thing further is a line of back-in spots. ugh
And then it got worse.. Jeff was hooking up electricity and such and I was unpacking stuff and putting it where it belonged in the travel trailer (kids asleep in the still vehicle) and he hooked up the water and something busted underneath the sink and water just flooded all over the travel trailer.
A) now instead of going scuba diving with a buddy that will be waiting for him- he's going to have to go find a store to find the park that broke and if he can't find it- we're taking this travel trailer home. I'm sorry but we can't have 6 of us going without toilet, shower, water to drink/cook with, etc. until Sunday night! No way!
B) even if he is able to find the part and fix it- we'll stay but his buddy is not going to be able to dive until jeff gets there (late- no telling how long it will take to find the part... and hello that's just one more additional cost to this quickly becoming EXPENSIVE "camping" trip) and also I didn't expect to have to go somewhere and wash anything. I brought no detergent/etc. I brought enough towels and washcloths and beach towels for us all for 2 days.. all the towels were used to soak up the flooded water in here and the floors weren't all that clean. So the towels are dirty...
My wireless mouse isn't working anymore for some reason, I forgot batteries (among other things -I had a list and checked it a billion times... but somehow still forgot batteries, RUBY'S MEDICINE! YEAH ME HAVING TO DEAL WITH HER WITHOUT HER MEDS FOR 2 DAYS.. UGH, and a few other "won't die without them but sure would be nice to have them" items. Anyway, I hate laptops with the touch scroll/mouse thing. I can't function with it. I need a mouse. LOL
I'll update tomorrow but please send some pixie dust that we find the part for the plumbing QUICKLY in the morning so he can still scuba dive later today and that I can find a place NEARBY to purchase detergent and stuff and wash the towels so we can go ahead and stay till Sunday night.
Oh and the fridge doesn't seem to be working. We thought it was getting cold when we tested everything before we left but now it doesn't seem to be. The a/c works fine (thank you God!) but without a fridge- I have an awful lot of food in coolers with melted ice and no idea how far to buy more ice for 2 days to keep that food cold? come on fridge/freezer- please start working and get cold.
don't forget the pixie dust- we apparently need some!!!!
GM
Presently 73 going up to 93 here in Sunny Central Florida
Tom txs for the newsletter it is awesome
Have a great Saturday
as I am allowed by the DIS rules.
