9/24/09 3 Day Wonder - Cruise Meets, and FEs, and Goombays oh my!

[karentan]

i'm waiting for my prize for coming second in the quiz on here too!

well the other cruise is up to you guys, me and donna are both on the october 1st 2011 western caribbean cruise, you guys soooo need to come too

 

[jenny105]

Oct 1st huh? Hmmm...sounds like a birthday cruise for me may be in order...especially if they offer that 25/nt per person deal!

 

[karentan]

and you've got a year and a half to save up for it!!
it'd be freaking awesome if we could all cruise together again, especially as this is a 7 nighter, so we've got more time to relax!

 

[jenny105]

I may have to book this! That's the time I usually go to Disney anyway so it makes sense. Hmmmm...

 

[karentan]

go for it, at least you can put the deposit down on it and if you change your mind you can get your deposit back (as long as you dont do it in the penalty period), that way you can lock in the cheaper rates at the mo its only $1725 for a cat 11c for 2 people. its a darn good way to celebrate your 29th birthday!

come on lainey and mary, you guys too

 

[karentan]

how's everyone's weekend been? i had to get up at 6am to drive my parents to the airport, they've gone back to spain now for the summer, they're not back til october now.
but the 6am start means that its now 9.37pm and i want to go to bed! plus the fact that i'm on a 2pm-11pm shift tomorrow (getting home about midnight), and due to me messing up my rota, i'm back at work at 6am the day after. if i'm lucky i'll get 4 and a half hours sleep so its a week of sleep deprivation ahead for me!

 

[jenny105]

I'll look into the cruise more once I've got this upcoming trip sorted out. I still have to get airfare and a ticket. I'm hoping they come out with the TA deal they had last year so I can add on dining too. That was a steal cause everything was 50% off!

How do they do that to you with scheduling?? That doesn't seem fair at all!

 

[karentan]

its my own mistake, one of the CMs asked if i would swap shifts with them, i said yes without looking at my rota first, thought i finished at 6pm yesterday, but then realised i was on the close.
actually wasnt as bad as i thought, i'm surprisingly awake considering.....

 

[jenny105]

That usually happens with me too. When I think I'll get no sleep and be dragging, I somehow feel ok. Go figure.

 

[karentan]

yay i've got 2 days off! gotts take my car back to the garage tomorrow which is going to be a huge pain in the ***. it went in last week to get its brakes changed, and now there's a wierd noise and the brakes are still squeaking.
unfortunately it means i dont get a lie in, and have to either wait around all day for my car, or walk back into town (about 2 and a half miles) then get the bus back. either way its a pain. oh well.

 

[karentan]

gary went up to glasgow tuesday for a funeral yesterday, and was due to fly back this morning. not sure if you guys have heard yet but there's a volcano in iceland thats erupted, and the ash cloud is blowing this way, the whole of the UK airspace is closed right now. so he's stuck in glasgow.
so just me and the dog for the next few days til he can get back!

 

[jenny105]

Getting car work done is a pain. I need new front tires (badly) and I keep putting it off. I'm off next Monday so I need to get that done, plus an oil change. I think I'll throw in a haircut too because my hair is seriously getting on my nerves. Too long!

I didn't hear about the volcano. That's crazy! I didn't even know there were volcanoes on Iceland.

 

[karentan]

pretty much all of north west europe's airspace is closed. for the UK, the originally said it'd be closed from 12pm-6pm today, it then got moved back to midnight, and now its 7am tomorrow. garys going to get a coach back tomorrow night, but he's still got to get to the airport to go pick his car back up too. i dont think this is going to go away soon.

but i'm enjoying a day off and just chilling out

 

[jenny105]

Why do I feel like Gary is always getting stuck somewhere?

 

[karentan]

because he is!
if he's not stuck in a snow drift, he's stranded at the airport. you would have thought after all that he'd just give up travelling!

 

[jenny105]

I hope you guys never get stuck somewhere when traveling to Disney!

 

[karentan]

there's going to be a load of people from the USA that will be flying to europe in the next week or so for the first of the DCL med cruises. not sure if all of them will make it

has anyone seen donna's facebook? so sad, hope they're ok.

 

[jenny105]

No, what happened??

 

[karentan]

i dont want to post too much about it out of respect, but as most of us have her on our FB, i'll re-post her status

Hold the people you love tight, don't let a single day go by without telling them just how much they mean to you, because they can be gone in a heartbeat. Fate took my Bob away from me today. My heart is broken beyond repair, it feels like the other half of me was ripped away.

although we didnt spend too much time with them on the cruise, from the little i did, he seemed a really lovely guy. thoughts are with donna and kelly and the family

 

[jenny105]

I can't log on to facebook at work so I didn't see it. Oh my god. I'm so sorry to hear that. That's terrible. I didn't get to meet them on the cruise but from talking with her on DIS, they all seemed like such nice people.