May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 9

[waltsgirl]

Seems a strange decision doesn't it? I also thought they would have the Pirate party whilst we were in the Caribbean actually. I would write to DCL as I don't think you will be the only passengers annoyed.

Every cruise we have been on with a "pirate night" it has been held on a day that we have been in port.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

He actually never said when he'd call, he just told my friend he wished he could get in touch with me and she gave him my number...he said he'd call soon, but I never expected him to call the next day! Sure, I was hoping, but didn't think he would. And he's not as much older as I'd thought. He's 48, so that's 11 years older and that's not bad.

When you're 20 and 31 it matters.....but when you're 30 and 41 it no longer matters.....it depends on what age you are.....which is why it didn't work last time but so very well could now.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

For me and John, I knew within the first 24 hours of our first date that he would be in my life forever. I wasn't even thinking of marriage....just being in each other's lives for all of our lives. Of course, since we felt that way.....we did get married.

Is Blake a mouse lover? How old is his daughter?

 

[EllaEnchanted]

OK how long did it take from first date to knowing that you had met your lifemate? It took me and John 24 hours. How long did it take everyone else? Who is the shortest and who is the longest? Just curious!

 

[waltsgirl]

John and I would love to do the zipline...but we really don't want to leave the girls on the ship. Maybe one day!

V-John and I will be on the ship so the girls can stay with us!

 

[lillygator]

I think I ordered one of everything China Palace offers....and John hates Chinese food.....ooops!

 

[lillygator]

OK how long did it take from first date to knowing that you had met your lifemate? It took me and John 24 hours. How long did it take everyone else? Who is the shortest and who is the longest? Just curious!

John ran down the aisle at Albertson's - I hadn;'t even met him and I called Grandma and said I met the man I am going to marry. Wild and weird....

V-John and I will be on the ship so the girls can stay with us!

I am sure that is what you guys want to do...John John, hold me, hold me!! What's funny, now, Haley keeps talking about Amy, Sophie, John John, they are coming to Disney soon....yeah Haley soon....

 

[lillygator]

a couple of newbies joined and I haven't gone back to see if it is on page one. I am organizing the Aruba Jeep tour....the more people (jeeps) the less it will be. I have a great touring plan from the people on Cruise Critic and I am going to copy it for everyone and give out before we hit land. It is not a large island by any means so we should be able to see a lot...the one thing I am hesitant on is the natural pool. Personally I want to skip it, but who ever else wants to go is fine...the locals say the best way to see it is by horseback, the road is really rough and the pool itself is very very slick, they don't recommend young children to climb near there at all.

If we leave early 8-9 or so I think we can see most everything by 1 and then we would like to hit the beach, anyone who wants to come with us is welcome and those who want to see anything can go their own way.

I have 8=9 jeeps so far and it's about $75 for 4 (per jeep) which includes insurance and gas and they are right at the cruise terminal.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

John ran down the aisle at Albertson's - I hadn;'t even met him and I called Grandma and said I met the man I am going to marry. Wild and weird....

I'd love to hear this whole story someday....V you win hands down for the shortest time.....I would say that was instantaneous.....zero seconds!!!!

Eagles 7 Cowboys 3 top of the third quarter....but this game is LONG from over....the Cowboys always win in the last 2 mins of the game. I hope they lose to the Eagles today.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

a couple of newbies joined and I haven't gone back to see if it is on page one. I am organizing the Aruba Jeep tour....the more people (jeeps) the less it will be. I have a great touring plan from the people on Cruise Critic and I am going to copy it for everyone and give out before we hit land. It is not a large island by any means so we should be able to see a lot...the one thing I am hesitant on is the natural pool. Personally I want to skip it, but who ever else wants to go is fine...the locals say the best way to see it is by horseback, the road is really rough and the pool itself is very very slick, they don't recommend young children to climb near there at all.

If we leave early 8-9 or so I think we can see most everything by 1 and then we would like to hit the beach, anyone who wants to come with us is welcome and those who want to see anything can go their own way.

I have 8=9 jeeps so far and it's about $75 for 4 (per jeep) which includes insurance and gas and they are right at the cruise terminal.

I'm so psyched to do this and John can't wait to drive....John, me and Cheri are in one jeep so far. We'll probably snorkel off the beach afterwards so we'll follow you. I hope that's ok with Cheri. She's a beach person so it should be good.

 

[gydell]

a couple of newbies joined and I haven't gone back to see if it is on page one. I am organizing the Aruba Jeep tour....the more people (jeeps) the less it will be. I have a great touring plan from the people on Cruise Critic and I am going to copy it for everyone and give out before we hit land. It is not a large island by any means so we should be able to see a lot...the one thing I am hesitant on is the natural pool. Personally I want to skip it, but who ever else wants to go is fine...the locals say the best way to see it is by horseback, the road is really rough and the pool itself is very very slick, they don't recommend young children to climb near there at all.

If we leave early 8-9 or so I think we can see most everything by 1 and then we would like to hit the beach, anyone who wants to come with us is welcome and those who want to see anything can go their own way.

I have 8=9 jeeps so far and it's about $75 for 4 (per jeep) which includes insurance and gas and they are right at the cruise terminal.

We're still on the list for a jeep aren't we? I would not do the natural pool with kids. Where are you planning on going? Are you climing the lighthouse or just looking? We would like to maybe have lunch there. What about the natural bridge? The big one fell but there is a small one. The chapel? Just wondering what you have in mind. Oh and what beach?

 

[HollyTyler]

How exciting Holly!!!

Blake remet Holly at Christmastime....how perfect. I can see us doing cheers on the Magic yet!!!

I just can't believe he called me so quick and wants to go out right away! I told him after the holidays when things have calmed down for everybody, but he said, "even before Christmas works for me", which is this week!

 

[waltsgirl]

Thank you for al the birthday wishes! I have finally go up!

V- We would really have no problems watching the girls. Sophia would love it!

 

[HollyTyler]

more mature that way!!

Definitely! And he still loves to travel....we talked about that. I told him he needs to take his daughter on a Disney cruise! He's taken her to WDW, DL, Manhattan, and tons of other places, so a cruise should be next. Hmmm.....maybe I can talk him into nabbing one of the open rooms on this cruise. I suspect he can afford it.

 

[Ginamarie]

My Darling Husband left the tree outside last night in the truck....ya know, in the OPEN bed in the back. Well we got a huge ice storm here, no snow. My tree was frozen....like a treecycle. It's now in the bathtub defrosting. If you open the bathroom door it smells like EVERGREEN even though the tree is a blue spruce. After it defrosts we'll have to wait for it to dry off before we can put the lights on. Usually, water and electricity don't mix very well.

We've got more ice falling now and we don't have any level land on our property. It's all falling on top of the snow that we already had on the ground. It's slick and dangerous out there. The kid fell as he was getting the tree out of the truck this morning.

Oh winter wonderland.....I wish it was snow instead of ice. All the news reports were wrong. We were supposed to be in the snow belt and not the ice belt. Wrong!

I wonder how John and Alex are doing in the snow at the Browns game. It must be bitingly cold. Hope the Browns win.

Oh Deb, I had to laugh about the frozen tree. It sounds like something my DH would do. We got the same freezing rain around here. It turned to rain after awhile, and it's a big slushy mess.

Good Morning everyone!! OMG, what a fun night we had last night. We did a progressive dinner with two other couples...one lives on the street behind us and the other a few streets away. Very fun. I had the dinner part, so I did a standing rib roast, creamy horseradish, scalloped potates and green beens almondine and french bread. I tried a recipe for the roast that I've never done before and it turned out perfect, I think I'll make it for Christmas dinner. All you do is have the rib roast come to room temp (which took about 3 hours for an almost 7 lb, 3 rib roast), and preheat the oven to 500 degrees. You roast it for 5 minutes per pound, then shut the oven off and leave it in there for 2 hours....WITHOUT opening the door. It was perfect. Fortunately I have two ovens so I was able to delay start the potatoes in the lower oven, and didn't have to worry about coming home until dinner time. It was so much fun and less stressful because you didn't have to worry about the cradle to grave components of a meal, that we all agreed we had to do it more often. Oh...and we also had pomegranite margs....YUMMY!!!!

YUMMY! That sounds heavenly!

So we didn't go to McDonald's or Burger King. Tyler told me he's too tired to go anywhere! All that playing in the snow made him tired! My body is very stiff now and difficult to move from all the shoveling. But, such a great workout! I found some frozen pizzas in the freezer to bake. We each ate almost a whole pizza! He's dying to get back outside, so maybe after my food settles.

Awww, I wish we could have gotten some snow here, because my siblings would have loved running around in it. We never seem to get enough to do cool forts like you guys did.

I made pulled pork for dinner tonight and not one person (except my mom) will be here for dinner.

I am off to the hospital
Annie and Daniel are at the Chick-Fil-A Christmas party
Gretchen and Don are at Footloose practice
Vanessa is in NY (well she is on her way back)

Does anyone make pulled pork? It is so easy and it tastes so yummy.

I buy about 5 pound of pork shoulder (I buy it at costco for about $9)
Then there is McCormick spice package called PULLED PORK.

I put both in the crock pot with catsup, vinagar, and brown sugar (right off the McCormick Package) and cook it all day long. The house does smell heavenly!!

It is so easy and so good and feeds my large family for 2 meals for about $12.

Since no one will be here tonight, I already have dinner done for tomorrow!!

MMmm, yes I love making pulled pork. I have a couple of different recipes for it, and it's always slow cooked in the crock pot.
Good luck with your FIL tonight- I'm so glad he's recovering well

BLAKE CALLED ME ALREADY! We just talked for 1/2 hour giving each other a brief summary of the past 13 years, but every time I'd partially tell him about something, he'd cut me off to ask even more! It's like we couldn't tell each other everything fast enough. SO......he wants to go out really soon, maybe this week! I told him I already have plans on Thursday but that Wed & Fri are open. He says he'll call me in a few days when he has a better handle on his workload and whether he'll have to work late either of those days. But he told me to definitely feel free to call him before he calls me back.

OOoooooooh! So sweet!

OK how long did it take from first date to knowing that you had met your lifemate? It took me and John 24 hours. How long did it take everyone else? Who is the shortest and who is the longest? Just curious!

Hmmm, I can't say that I knew Josh and I were going to be lifemates after our first date. I didn't even give him a kiss- just a friendly hug. I think it was about a week later when I knew for sure. This is going to sound insane-- but Giuliette was potty training, and by mistake, she was sitting on Josh's lap and peed all over him. Instead of freaking out or acting like a jerk, he was so calm and understanding.. I knew he was perfect for me.


We're still on the fence about the excursions. Definately we're looking at a group of us doing zip lining in Puerto Vallerta. Mom may take the girls (and possibly Grant) to see dolphins in either Acapulco or Cabo San Lucas. We might do the beach/water park tour in Aruba, but I'm thinking about just taking a taxi to one of the beaches instead (cheaper!) I was contemplating if it pays to get a jeep with you guys, but we'd have more than 4 people, and I'm not sure if it pays to get two jeeps.. oh choices choices!!

Oh, and I'm pretty sure we'll have more theme nights. I wish they'd give us some more information about that stuff!!

 

[HollyTyler]

When you're 20 and 31 it matters.....but when you're 30 and 41 it no longer matters.....it depends on what age you are.....which is why it didn't work last time but so very well could now.

Very true! I agree 100%. Keep your fingers crossed!

For me and John, I knew within the first 24 hours of our first date that he would be in my life forever. I wasn't even thinking of marriage....just being in each other's lives for all of our lives. Of course, since we felt that way.....we did get married.

Is Blake a mouse lover? How old is his daughter?

Very sweet about you and John! From what I remember, I doubt Blake would be inti Disney too much, but a lot could have changed in all these years, so I'll sure find out soon. His daughter is 11.

 

[HollyTyler]

a couple of newbies joined and I haven't gone back to see if it is on page one. I am organizing the Aruba Jeep tour....the more people (jeeps) the less it will be. I have a great touring plan from the people on Cruise Critic and I am going to copy it for everyone and give out before we hit land. It is not a large island by any means so we should be able to see a lot...the one thing I am hesitant on is the natural pool. Personally I want to skip it, but who ever else wants to go is fine...the locals say the best way to see it is by horseback, the road is really rough and the pool itself is very very slick, they don't recommend young children to climb near there at all.

If we leave early 8-9 or so I think we can see most everything by 1 and then we would like to hit the beach, anyone who wants to come with us is welcome and those who want to see anything can go their own way.

I have 8=9 jeeps so far and it's about $75 for 4 (per jeep) which includes insurance and gas and they are right at the cruise terminal.

No jeep for me. I had originally wanted to do it, but that was when I was cruising without Tyler. Now I want to do something else (but I can't remember what I decided on for that day....my list is in the other room).

 

[HollyTyler]

Off to make Tyler finish his homework, then get him into bed. Have to call a couple friends too and share my exciting news....maybe my dad too! Back later!

 

[lillygator]

We're still on the list for a jeep aren't we? I would not do the natural pool with kids. Where are you planning on going? Are you climing the lighthouse or just looking? We would like to maybe have lunch there. What about the natural bridge? The big one fell but there is a small one. The chapel? Just wondering what you have in mind. Oh and what beach?

yep I have you down....have you been before? any recommendations on beaches? I have the "tour" in a word doc at work so I will post what I have so far tomorrow......

Thank you for al the birthday wishes! I have finally go up!

V- We would really have no problems watching the girls. Sophia would love it!

How about the John's watch the girls and we get crazy on the island!! Just kidding, but I do think we deserve a spa afternoon (or week), or a nap on deck 4 or SOMETHING!

 

[lillygator]

it's finally getting cold....cold enough that my air is off, windows open and electric blankets are on.....(which could very well mean temp are 70)