Well, all FE gifts DONE! Now to get the FE themselves put together!
drinking a peppriment mocha ( yeah! I learned how to make this!) 
, and to my cousin and made plans for saturday night Jan 14th 
... cruising on Sunday .... 
just me and dh celebrating our 22nd anniversary..with of course several of our "internet friends"..
From what I have read on the boards, DCL used to change to local port time in PV but recently they have been staying on ship time. This means we will change time once before getting to PV and stay on that time throughout the cruise. \
I found this post in the all things MR thread: When I emailed DCL before our cruise to find out if ship time would be local time when in port I was assured that it would be but that information proved inaccurate when we sailed to Mexico on the Wonder last week. When we arrived in Puerto Vallarta, local time was CST but the ship stayed on MST while in port so when the itinerary said we would arrive in Puerto Vallarta at 7:30 a.m., it was already 8:30 a.m. in PV. I became suspicious when we didn't receive a notice in our cabin to move our clocks ahead one hour the night before our arrival in PV so I checked with Guest Services and was told that the ship stays on MST in PV. If I hadn't checked we would've missed a 9:15 a.m. excursion we pre-booked on our own thinking we had an hour and 45 minutes to get there when in reality, we only had 45 minutes. Some people on the ship did miss the excursion because of the confusion.
After returning home, I emailed DCL about the discrepancy. The itinerary should reflect the local time in each port, but on the Mexico cruise it did not. Cabo is on MST (ship time) but Puerto Vallarta is on CST. I wanted to give you a heads up to avoid time change confusion especially if you are booking your own excursions. [\i]
Marilyn - are you a nurse or physician? Just asking because not many other professions work 2-12's overnight. if so, very cool.
I got a good majority of me FE gifts done 2 nights ago. I still have a bunch that I have planned to do, I hope to be able to get it all done. I still have to make the FE itself - I really should get started on that or I'm gonna have a plastic bag hanging from my fish
So, last night was the first night of Hanukkah so we've been pretty busy and we had the kids out WAY too late. This morning should be fun...not. But what a crazy week. So for now, I'm just sitting and cuddling with our pup and waiting for the craziness to begin again.....would someone explain to me why I have to work, why can't I just sleep late and hang out at home watching TV all day???????
Here is the puzzle after the girls put it together. They were so excited. I had to give it early cause my nieces are coming for xmas and I didn't wanna make them feel bad that they aren't going. So now I have broken out my FE supplies to finish those....hopefully will have this done by New Years Eve.
griffic - Sounds like you are going to have a great pre-cruise weekend. Congrats on 22 years, that's so wonderful (makes my 10 years seem like nothing). You know, I've been handing out on here and talking to dh about my "internet friends." DH said to me last night, "Ummm, are we going to have any time alone on this cruise that we are taking, you know, alone...." LOL! which made me think about...
So, I started on the actual FE last night. You know, it would figure...I found no-sew directions and it tells me to cut the backing to 8" but it doesn't tell me how LONG to cut it - grrrrr. I have NEVER worked with fabric before, what the heck made me think that I could make this? So, a heads up for all of you participating in the FE - don't laugh when you pass Rm 7116
dont be surprised that you will see the same people over and over again..others you see at the DIS meets and than they "disappear".
thanks..same to you..
Merry Christmas everyone!
