Quick fly-by What a beautiful weekend. Hopefully everyone is enjoying their weekend.
Donna I hope Mark's sister is doing well after her surgery.
Slo Yes we are very excited. I have everything out waiting to be put in the suitcase. Still to early. I spent the whole morning yesterday cleaning so all I will have to do on saturday is a quick clean then try to sleep. Yeh right. We get picked up at 4:00 am, Starbuck's better have coffee waiting for me.
Hopefully Bunchkin Is having good weather It's hard to tell from the weather sites.
Slo I forgot is this your first cruise with the kids? 30 days yeh
Donna I hope Mark's sister is doing well after her surgery.
Slo Yes we are very excited. I have everything out waiting to be put in the suitcase. Still to early. I spent the whole morning yesterday cleaning so all I will have to do on saturday is a quick clean then try to sleep. Yeh right. We get picked up at 4:00 am, Starbuck's better have coffee waiting for me.
Hopefully Bunchkin Is having good weather It's hard to tell from the weather sites.
Slo I forgot is this your first cruise with the kids? 30 days yeh
Kevin uses an inhaler too - I hope this helps her 
I ended up booking a party though -- mostly because DD really wanted the necklace they were offering as the incentive to book plus SHE wants a bunch of jewelry (don't ever tell a teenager to go through a catalog & make a wish list!!! That's what the consultant told her to do before our party. She didn't hold back.) 
The worst part is though she *really, really, really, really* wanted a ring and I ended up sneaking it since it was cash & carry if the consultant had it or you could order out of the catalog if she didn't. I managed to finagle the ring without DD noticing. I was planning to give it to her for Christmas. As far as DD knows, I only bought myself a bracelet. So...she is insistant that she wants to get that ring free as her choice from our party, I said something about "oh we know she had it there so we don't need to put it on our list" DD told me "No, it was gone at the end of the party, I looked, I had my friend look, it was NOT there". I was hoping she wouldn't notice it had disappeared. So, I just played dumb as she had moved it around the ring tray at various times but had always found it again. Unfortunately, I have a feeling I may just *have* to end up giving her the ring before Christmas or we will end up with 2 of them! I know she's going to insist on getting that ring.
Luckily, it was minor but I was still called to come pick her up because she couldn't do anything on it and it was on something she has done a million times so I gave her a bit of a hard time since "if you are going to get hurt can't you at least make it a good story". 
, He didn't have to turn all the lights in Bloomingdale out
(I really paid for it later with some indigestion, but it was worth it). For the never ending pasta bowl, they had a new sauce which was smoked mozzerella alfredo - and it was heavenly!!!!
We are starting to get excited - I can't believe we are leaving in less than a month
that would be a real drag!!!!! Yes, Halloween around here can sometimes be really nice, and then there are other years where it can be cold or nasty. Last year was chilly by my house - I had to shove a winter coat under Katie's Cinderella dress - it wasn't easy 
gotta work as it is the last wek of the qtr and I need to sell some software.. be back later
