May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 3

[amesmom]

Tonight is the service of the crucifixion at church.

One of the most moving hymns is sung tonight as the priest carries a cross around the church in a procession, while chanting the hymn that is at this link:

http://www.newbyz.org/todayishung.pdf

Twelve Gospel readings are read tonight detailing the passion, and after the Gospel of the crucifixion, the congregation files up to the cross (which is about 1/3 life size, with Christ on it) and lights a candle and venerates the cross.

I probably mentioned this already, but the Orthodox Church is often called the church of the Resurrection, and our word for Easter is Pascha, which in Greek means Passover.

Hope you are all enjoying the Greek Orthodoxy lessons!

Off to get the kids ready for church also. Our service is called Maundy Thursday. The service always involves communion, signifying the last supper. We're doing a readers' theater with men from our church portraying the twelve disciples at the last supper. There's your lesson on what the Presbyterians are up to tonight.

 

[been2marceline]

My health is fine but have had some family issues related to inheritance etc. to deal with the lawyers and my surviving siblings etc. We had to deal with some issues regarding my deceased sister's surving son which were not properly handled in my father's trust. Resolution is not what we wanted but my father did not want to pay large legal fees so many of the contingencies that are in my DH and my personal trust were not covered in my father's trust.

Needless to say, it sure would have been less expensive in the long run if my father would have spent the money on the front end with my lawyer instead of the one he used really did not even want to administer the trust. My sister made eleven phone calls to her after my father's death which were not returned. Her only response was an acknowledgement of the transfer via letter from the new trust attorney of the transfer.

Lesson learned by my siblings is making a very basic trust with an attorney who makes basic trusts without considering ramfications has cost our family several hundred thousand dollars in legal and tax fees. Basic mistake the attorney made is not properly advising us to deal with the issues of money and property that my sisters minor son would inherit as a minor in the year before my fathers death.

On top of that stressful situation, I had to help my middle DD by taking care of her children while they deal with some medical issues related to her husband. With that and Easter this weekend, I may be on and off the computer through the weekend.

Noel,

I hope that you can relax a bit and enjoy the Easter holiday, even with all the family legal B*** to contend with. We went through some tought stuff with both my dad and moms passing. We have definitely taken all of the proper legal steps to insure that doesn't happen with our DD.

Take care of yourself!

Karen

 

[MrsMork]

So, I am not the only crazy one. Oh, but you did say whenever you drive to CA not drive to Costco just for an alcohol run Really, I will probably pick up some bottles, but they will last us a year.

Ours last us for a very long time too. Now my DBIL is another story! His filled up most of my cart!

 

[fourmcds]

just got this in my DVC newsletter. Don't know if any of the DL visitors are planning a trip around this time. It might be on soft openings around the time of the dismeet though.

Opening date surfaces for Nemo subs
Leaders at Disneyland® Park in California have targeted June 11 as the official opening date for the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.
The new attraction, detailed without an opening date in the spring edition of Vacation Magic magazine (which began mailing in February), will lead Guests on an expedition to the site of an erupting undersea volcano. Along the way, groundbreaking animation technology will let characters from the hit Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo swim alongside the extensively refurbished submarines, appearing exactly as they do in the film (only in a real, three-dimensional underwater setting).

"We are literally bringing the undersea world of Finding Nemo off the screen and into the submarine lagoon," said Tom Fitzgerald, Executive Vice President and Senior Creative Executive for Walt Disney Imagineering. "We are going to immerse our Guests in an adventure that will leave them in disbelief. They will want to experience this new attraction over and over to find out, 'How did they do that?'"

The new attraction marks the highly anticipated rebirth of the Park's original "E-ticket ride," as the Tomorrowland® lagoon was home to the original Submarine Voyage, which accepted the first "E-tickets" for admission on June 6, 1959. The attraction closed in 1998, and Internet chat rooms have buzzed with speculation ever since.

If everything remains on schedule, that speculation can give way to reviews on June 11!

 

[HollyTyler]

Slept for over 4 hours! Will watch Survivor, take more Nyquil, and head back to bed.

feel better Holly.....I love Nyquil when I have a cold....knocks me right out.

Me too! I so seldom get sick, so the timing usually doesn't work out for me to be able to take Nyquil....meaning it's rare that it works out that I just happen to be sick when Tyler's at his dad's. So this is great timing.

Enjoy Lost if you can stay awake!! Whilst it was lovely chatting with you in the middle of your night, I hope you aren't around tomorrow at the same time! Have a great night's sleep.

I didn't manage to watch much of Lost before falling asleep, so I finished watching after I woke up, before checking in here. Loved it, as always.

Tonight is the service of the crucifixion at church.

One of the most moving hymns is sung tonight as the priest carries a cross around the church in a procession, while chanting the hymn that is at this link:

http://www.newbyz.org/todayishung.pdf

Twelve Gospel readings are read tonight detailing the passion, and after the Gospel of the crucifixion, the congregation files up to the cross (which is about 1/3 life size, with Christ on it) and lights a candle and venerates the cross.

I probably mentioned this already, but the Orthodox Church is often called the church of the Resurrection, and our word for Easter is Pascha, which in Greek means Passover.

Hope you are all enjoying the Greek Orthodoxy lessons!

I think it's all very interesting John! Thanks for sharing!

 

[HollyTyler]

NO!!!! Don't forget that us brits see it way after you so you'll spoil it for us!!!! I have 3 episodes to watch over easter, but I ahve no idea how far behind you we are!


Hope you start to feel better tomorrow Holly

I'm so sorry! I did forget you see it much later than us. I promise not to spoil it!

 

[HollyTyler]

Too fuzzy in the head to post coherently, so I probably won't remember anything I read or posted here during my short 1/2 hour or so awake! No appetite, but had a couple crackers, more Nyquil, and am now headed to bed to finish watching Survivor there and off to sleep again for the night. I hope everybody who went to church tonight had an enjoyable service.

 

[fourmcds]

Holly, hope all the rest (and nyquil) has you waking up tomorrow feeling fabulous!

I am signing off now for my whirlwind trip to Cali. Hope everyone has a great Easter weekend. Sounds like everyone will be busy this weekend, so maybe there won't be too many pages to catch up on.

 

[disneylover5]

Nope....this is just the start. Since the congestion started breaking up, I'll probably be couging it up for 2 or 3 days. Wonderful. But at least this is happening before school starts back up. That's the good part! And Tyler left for his dad's house last night and won't be home until Saturday at 5pm, so that gives me plenty of sleep time after work.

Probably won't see me much here today. Feeling very fuzzy-headed and groggy. Too grumpy to chat because of feeling lousy. Wish I could afford to leave work and go home to bed. Have a great day everybody!

I am sorry you feel so yucky. I hate being sick. With Annie getting so sick and then DH and Gretchen getting it, I do not know how I have stayed well. I guess I will get sick when everyone else is all better.

Drink lots of Nyquil (and Dayquil as well)...sleep as much as you can. You will feel better soon!!

My health is fine but have had some family issues related to inheritance etc. to deal with the lawyers and my surviving siblings etc. We had to deal with some issues regarding my deceased sister's surving son which were not properly handled in my father's trust. Resolution is not what we wanted but my father did not want to pay large legal fees so many of the contingencies that are in my DH and my personal trust were not covered in my father's trust.

Needless to say, it sure would have been less expensive in the long run if my father would have spent the money on the front end with my lawyer instead of the one he used really did not even want to administer the trust. My sister made eleven phone calls to her after my father's death which were not returned. Her only response was an acknowledgement of the transfer via letter from the new trust attorney of the transfer.

Lesson learned by my siblings is making a very basic trust with an attorney who makes basic trusts without considering ramfications has cost our family several hundred thousand dollars in legal and tax fees. Basic mistake the attorney made is not properly advising us to deal with the issues of money and property that my sisters minor son would inherit as a minor in the year before my fathers death.

On top of that stressful situation, I had to help my middle DD by taking care of her children while they deal with some medical issues related to her husband. With that and Easter this weekend, I may be on and off the computer through the weekend.

This sounds like a nightmare. I am so sorry. Our tax system really needs to be reformed from the ground up.

Good luck ... try and enjoy this AWESOME weekend!!

 

[birkner]

Noel-it sounds like you guys have a lot hitting you at one time. I'm sure it will all be better soon.

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I sure hope things will be better soon. Have a very nice Easter weekend with your family.

Noel

 

[disneylover5]

I have told you guys my DH is a minister. He has for years run a sunrise service at the Bull Run Cemetary. (we live right in the middle of Civil War History) This year the sun rises at 6:44am. Two years ago, DH's mom passed away and she is buried there.

Anyway, many have been talking about the cold weather for the weekend. At sunrise Sunday, it is supposed to be 20 degrees here. I told DH...sorry....I'm not going this year!!

 

[birkner]

Noel,

I hope that you can relax a bit and enjoy the Easter holiday, even with all the family legal B*** to contend with. We went through some tought stuff with both my dad and moms passing. We have definitely taken all of the proper legal steps to insure that doesn't happen with our DD.

Take care of yourself!

Karen

Thank you for your kind words. I am hopeful things will work out also. Glad to hear you have taken steps. Just be sure you have dealt with the muti-generational issues.

Noel

 

[birkner]

I agree totally. I am going to try to forget these issues and just enjoy the weekend. You and your family have a wonderful Easter weekend.

Noel

 

[Jhalkias]

You know for a couple of years there's been all this controversy over retailers going out of their way not to mention "Christmas" during the Christmas season? Everything is "Holiday" sales and "Holiday" trees and "Happy Holidays." Anyway, I saw a new one today: our local library is having a Spring egg hunt...not an Easter egg hunt. Oh, brother. Now I know that eggs don't really have a darn thing to do with the Christian Easter, but what is a spring egg hunt?

Ahhhhh . . . but of course Eggs do have a lot to do with Easter . . .

We give out red eggs at the conclusion of our midnight resurrection service, the "Anastasi" - here is an explanation in better words than mine:

"Even though the Easter egg is obviously not an exclusive Christian introduction, its significance relates to the birth not of material life but to that spiritual experience enjoyed only in the life in Christ. Its symbolic adaptation to the events of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, His entombment, and finally His breaking of the bondage of death by His Resurrection, all find a fitting expression in the Easter egg. The red colour of the Orthodox Easter egg signifies the blood of Christ, its shell His three-day entombment, and its breaking His Resurrection by which the 'egg of life' brought forth a life, up to then unknown. The cracking of the red eggs among Orthodox symbolises a mutual wish for breaking one's bonds of sin and misery and for entering the new life issuing from Christ's Resurrection."

 

[Jhalkias]

Off to get the kids ready for church also. Our service is called Maundy Thursday. The service always involves communion, signifying the last supper. We're doing a readers' theater with men from our church portraying the twelve disciples at the last supper. There's your lesson on what the Presbyterians are up to tonight.

Amy was raised Lutheran, so very similar traditions.

I got home about 10:00 from church - very moving service. I went to the church in town I was baptized at - not the one we are currently members at. There are two Greek Orthodox churches in town, about 5 miles from each other. Long story on all of this, but these days I am not feeling as much at home at the church where we are members - some politics within the church.

 

[mexican-mouseketeers]

Last but not least, this is our favorite photo from the whole trip:

Kayla brought a little Disney to the island

Great trip report and your dd´s are beautiful!

: - thanks!
My problem is my DH will take pictures of me and I'm the smallest item in the picture. But the pictures I take of him are much more close up. So all of our character meal pictures are pretty funny when I scrapbook them - I'm an inch tall and he's like 3 inches tall. We are going to work on picture taking before the crusie.

Same here. Dh could live without a camera and withoug pix, last time we had about 700 pix from our WDW trip, and I was in about 10 of them. Of course we have beautiful pictures of DH with DD, but only one or good pictures of DD and me
Maybe we could get the guys a photography course at the beginning of the cruise. Anyone volunteer to make the list?

Good morning everyone----can I just say how glad I am that today is Wednesday! Almost Friday! (yes, I know I'm wishing my life away).



Ok - here are my stressers for this week - chunk of the company I work for got sold so no clue what is happening w/ my job; best friend has just been told she needs a hysterectomy due to fibroids (remember the last hysterectomy I had to deal with (sister)? needless to say not looking forward to this one); and father just got diagnosed w/ prostate cancer (which I realize is one of the best cancers to get if you're going to get cancer but still!). OK - I'm done for this week!

and I hope that your dad´s cancer goes away soon.

Holly.......you sure it's not YOU on the champagne, sweetie?
Julie, we'll all feel like we've known each other forever by the time next May comes around!
aw Karen...of course you exist! Otherwise I'd be talking to myself!

Definetly the cruise is not coming soon enough!

Karen took your address off of her shipping area

So I'm all alone now. One more hour of work left. Or I guess I should say: One more hour of sitting here bored.

Here's a joke posted on my other meet thread:

GAMES FOR WHEN WE ARE OLDER
1. Sag, you're It.

2. Hide and go pee.

3. 20 questions shouted into your good ear.

4. Kick the bucket

5. Red Rover, Red Rover, the nurse says Bend Over.

6. Musical recliners.

7. Simon says something incoherent.

8. Pin the Toupee on the bald guy

I was working on a door magnet for my october cruise, might do it as business card size magnets for each DIS cabin, check it out...

That is so cool! I love your logos.

Yeah, I'll wear some really short shorts, some Uggs, and a beer boy t-shirt to the deck sailaway party, and they can put the gangplank back for everyone who will then abandon ship.
Night all.

It rocked her little world. She was fine though. She is actually a big help. The hardest part was starting over with a new baby but it has been great also.

My pregnancy was a heterotopic one, so DD was a twin. I have high probabilities of having an ectopic pregnancy, and that is what has us mostly decided on one child only, but I know that DH would give almost anything to have another baby.

GREAT ONE .... PJ...now I wonder who will volunteer to be the mascot and do peter in blue??? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!! !!! !!! !!! And will they wear baseball caps with blue peters on it??? HA HA HA !!! And everyone dress in blue for your picture above the bar in a blue frame. !!! HA HA HA HA HA !!! !!! !!! [/COLOR

Congrats on catching up! Are you going to WDW in September? Are you still going this month? Sounds great...2 trips to keep you occupied until May 08. By the way, we booked our hotel for next year in Zihuatenejo...March 08 So excited to go back there, this time for 10 days!!!

Yes, we are going from april 28th until may 5th, just DD and I with friends, and then from sept. 27th until oct. 6th DH, DD and I will rent a vacation home at Windsor Hills with another family.

You will have a great time in Zihuatanejo. I just hope you are not going Easter week or the week before, because that is when we have our holidays (the entire country at the same time) and the beaches like Acapulco, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo and Cancún are mobbed. Of course if you are staying at the same place you won´t have much trouble if you stay most of the time at the hotel.

 

[mexican-mouseketeers]

I have absolutely no idea. I just clicked on favorites, then click add, and whenever I click on the link there, it goes back to the last page I was on. But when I leave, I do have to re-add the link under favorites so it will be on the page I left off at next time I click the link.

Good idea, thanks!

I will defiently try this tonight.

 

[mexican-mouseketeers]

Well I have had my blood test and have eaten some lovely seeded bread toast and a home made cappuccino!!! Yum.

I hope you get your results soon and that they are good.

Oh, the suspense! Took me an hour to get caught up here, so I didn't see your questions until just now. Well, I went to bed really early....feeling lousy today. I coughed all night long last night and was lightheaded and stuffy all day, with a huge lump of congestion in my chest all day. Work was the last place I wanted to be today. Yup, Tyler's cold finally caught up with me. I've been really sleep and run down for almost a week, so I knew it was trying to get me. So I was asleep tonight by 9pm I think. Woke up around 3:30am because that lump of congestion decided to finally break up and is creating tons of yucky coughing. Took some more cold meds and figured I'd see what's going on here while waiting for it to take effect.

I hope you are feeling better now Holly. Take care of yourself.

It's lovely out and we are in for a mini heatwave this weekend and next week - 18-20deg Celsius(sorry, can't convert!).

I always thought that the UK used farenheight degrees too. Do you use the metric system or the same as the US?

My health is fine but have had some family issues related to inheritance etc. to deal with the lawyers and my surviving siblings etc. We had to deal with some issues regarding my deceased sister's surving son which were not properly handled in my father's trust. Resolution is not what we wanted but my father did not want to pay large legal fees so many of the contingencies that are in my DH and my personal trust were not covered in my father's trust.

Needless to say, it sure would have been less expensive in the long run if my father would have spent the money on the front end with my lawyer instead of the one he used really did not even want to administer the trust. My sister made eleven phone calls to her after my father's death which were not returned. Her only response was an acknowledgement of the transfer via letter from the new trust attorney of the transfer.

Lesson learned by my siblings is making a very basic trust with an attorney who makes basic trusts without considering ramfications has cost our family several hundred thousand dollars in legal and tax fees. Basic mistake the attorney made is not properly advising us to deal with the issues of money and property that my sisters minor son would inherit as a minor in the year before my fathers death.

On top of that stressful situation, I had to help my middle DD by taking care of her children while they deal with some medical issues related to her husband. With that and Easter this weekend, I may be on and off the computer through the weekend.

I hate when that happens to people. We see it all the time at my office.

I hope everything can be resolved soon without much more stress Noel.

Tonight is the service of the crucifixion at church.

One of the most moving hymns is sung tonight as the priest carries a cross around the church in a procession, while chanting the hymn that is at this link:

http://www.newbyz.org/todayishung.pdf

Twelve Gospel readings are read tonight detailing the passion, and after the Gospel of the crucifixion, the congregation files up to the cross (which is about 1/3 life size, with Christ on it) and lights a candle and venerates the cross.

I probably mentioned this already, but the Orthodox Church is often called the church of the Resurrection, and our word for Easter is Pascha, which in Greek means Passover.

Hope you are all enjoying the Greek Orthodoxy lessons!

Our word for Easter is Pascua, and our traditions are a lot like yours John. Only we do the Viacrucis (the Godspell readings) on Friday.

 

[mexican-mouseketeers]

DH might be changing jobs the next year, and if he does, he would most probably won´t have more than one week or 10 days permission to go on vacation so soon, so we have talked about it and agreed that if necessary, he would leave the ship in Acapulco and fly home the day the Magic docks there, and that DD and I will remain in the ship until the end of the cruise.

Have you ever known of someone doing something similar?

TIA

 

[LiserAnn]

You know for a couple of years there's been all this controversy over retailers going out of their way not to mention "Christmas" during the Christmas season? Everything is "Holiday" sales and "Holiday" trees and "Happy Holidays." Anyway, I saw a new one today: our local library is having a Spring egg hunt...not an Easter egg hunt. Oh, brother. Now I know that eggs don't really have a darn thing to do with the Christian Easter, but what is a spring egg hunt?

I know, give me a break......that's all I can say on the issue. Can you imagine walking into someone's house looking at their Christmas tree (which really, has nothing to do with Jesus, but it is a signifier of the season) and saying, "oh, your HOLIDAY tree is just lovely"................

Off to get the kids ready for church also. Our service is called Maundy Thursday. The service always involves communion, signifying the last supper. We're doing a readers' theater with men from our church portraying the twelve disciples at the last supper. There's your lesson on what the Presbyterians are up to tonight.

That sounds really cool!

I am signing off now for my whirlwind trip to Cali. Hope everyone has a great Easter weekend. Sounds like everyone will be busy this weekend, so maybe there won't be too many pages to catch up on.

Drive safe...sounds like a fun trip!

I got home about 10:00 from church - very moving service. I went to the church in town I was baptized at - not the one we are currently members at. There are two Greek Orthodox churches in town, about 5 miles from each other. Long story on all of this, but these days I am not feeling as much at home at the church where we are members - some politics within the church.

That's the reason we (my mom and I) ended up leaving the Greek Orthodox Church. They seemed to have issue with the fact that my mom was divorced, yet she is 100% Greek and was VERY involved with the Philoptihos (sp) and the church building board. So those ridiculous politics drove her and then me out (shortly after my marriage).