lmhall2000
May the road rise to meet you....May God hold you
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2002
Love your booklets!! Great job!!! Keep the reports coming!
Tara
Tara
So, I have been updating every day, REALLY, tring to keep you May 5 sailers in mind. However, I have not been able to post any of it. I have been emailing myself on my phone with the intentions of copying and pasting onboard, the internet connection onboard is TERRIBLE, even when in port. I hope to try again tomorrow on our At Sea day, and boy are we ready for an At Sea Day. The last three days have bee unbelievable, PERFECT weather, Dicedawg keeps conratulating me on the good weather scheduling. Italy is the most fantastic country...Naples and the Amalfi Coast are spectacularly breathtaking...Rome is, well, probably the most magnificent place on the planet...and Florence, just WOW.
My best qucik pieces of advice on my drive back to the ship are:
*if you are going to Florence, go see the original David and definitely make a reservation, we walked right past a very long line. He is stunning and the two copies pale in comparison.
*in Tunis, use good humor in the Medina or you will get very aggravated at the high pressure sales tactics. Try to remember these people feed their families this way, that is why they are so persistent. With bargaining, start with 75% of the asking price and if you get around half that is normally good.
*the blue grotto in Malta is absolutely gorgeous. And altho I like to try things from the area skip the soft drink Kinney, just yuck.
*In Naples, prepared to be terrified by the driving, and take motion sickness medicine before Amalfi Coast drive. In Pompeii don't miss the brothels.
I will try to post more completely about each day tomorrow.
*the blue grotto in Malta is absolutely gorgeous. And altho I like to try things from the area skip the soft drink Kinney, just yuck.
Thanks for this post!!! I keep checking everyday, to see if you have been able to update. I really wanted to know what you thought of the Blue Grotto tour in Malta....if you didn't think it was worth it, I was going to cancel our ressies. Sounds as though you liked it
Thanks so much for thinking of us May 5ers....I'm hoping we get some of the great weather you have had. Enjoy the rest of your cruise, may the next few days go by really sloooooooowly (I don't mind, I have tons of packing and things to do before I'm ready to board!!)
If it's anything like Beverly at the Epcot Coke drink station, I will stay away
Awww well at least you had a great trip! That is so crazy about the winds. In corsic they speak French? I hope so...at least then I can get along Now Italy forget it, Buono? Thats really all I know
It has been amazing...tonight is our last night onboard, and it was sad to say goodbye to everyone...Grisell, Trevis, Shaka, Pio, Dobi...all of our favorite people onboard! Tomorrow we have a pretty horrid day ahead...Debarking at 6 AM for the first bus to the airport, and a 10:25 AM flight.
Enjoyed reading! Thanks!
Any chance you know Shaka's upcoming work schedule? We've got something for him and hope he's on in November. He's great, isn't he? Funny thing is, he's never been our room host - got to know him when next door to his section.
debg
It has been amazing...tonight is our last night onboard, and it was sad to say goodbye to everyone...Grisell, Trevis, Shaka, Pio, Dobi...all of our favorite people onboard! Tomorrow we have a pretty horrid day ahead...Debarking at 6 AM for the first bus to the airport, and a 10:25 AM flight.
Enjoyed reading! Thanks!
Any chance you know Shaka's upcoming work schedule? We've got something for him and hope he's on in November. He's great, isn't he? Funny thing is, he's never been our room host - got to know him when next door to his section.
debg
No, I don't, but I gave him my email address and asked him to email me, apparently he collects coins and I wanted to give him some from Egypt so if he emails me, I'll find out!
We are back, and woke up at 5 AM, feeling like it was noon.
So, yesterday was the single most "interesting" flying day I've ever experienced. It was like everyone had just been let out of a cage (or a mental institution) and went totally beserk. Between the crabby elderly bullies behind me yelling at us for putting our seat backs back (even though their own were back too) the whole 9 hours and telling me to shut up when I tried to explain I couldn't just put the seat back "a little instead of all the way", requiring me to involve the flight attendents who looked completely shocked that these people were harrassing us in such a manor.
Then, on the flight from Philly to STL, there was a guy who at first glance didn't appear to be a nut, but spent over 2 hours clicking glass beads together. Loudly. The WHOLE flight. Then, when it was my turn to get out of the seat, when I reached up to get my bag from above he said "c'mon c'mon c'mon" pretty aggressively. At that point my husband stood up and got in his face and said "back off, do not talk to my wife like that" and kind of with his body made the guy back off since he was nearly on top of me. I said to the guy (keep in mind I am NOT a rude or aggressive person, I have a smile on my face most of the time) "you are the most annoying man I've ever seen. You just spent 2 hours annoying the hell out of everyone on this airplane with your freaking beads." He said "oh, is that right?" and I said "yes, what else do you do with those beads, Jacka*s?" And walked off. Later at baggage claim he was still twirling and clicking the beads. Seriously, what the heck? All the crazies were out in full force. Those were just the two most agressive incidents, they were many more, including those folks who decided to do stretching exercises with their heads in front of the television screen and their rear ends sticking out. I said "those folks" because there were SEVERAL of them, completely obvlious to the fact that instead of watching "two and a half men" on the screen, we were all watching their backsides stretch. All day, my favorite phrase was "are you kidding me?". Just completely oblivious. I told my husband if he ever gets that annoying, I will tell him, and he must promise me the same