May 13.2006 Eastern

[cass'mom]

You have triplets!? God bless you! I have two dd's 5 & 2 and I love them to absolute pieces but they are making me go gray!!! I think it's so nice your friends are going too and that your daughter will have a friend onboard!

 

[TMTIP]

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[SQUIGGLE]

Hi everyone! Isn't it great how our group is growing?
Are most of you planning on coming in the day before?

fran

 

[DrCavin]

Hi everyone! Isn't it great how our group is growing?
Are most of you planning on coming in the day before?

fran

We will be coming in the day before, have not decided if we will stay a few days after or not.

Less than 300 days to go!!!

 

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi everyone! Hope all are well. How is everyone up North doing in the hot weather? Almost aother month gone. We need to get this thread back on the first page.
fran

 

[huey duey & luey]

Hi Fran,
I can't believe how hot it is, it is suppossed to break tonight. I keep counting down the months too. I already said to my dh that when summer was over I was going to put our nicer summer clothes in a seperate tote for the cruise. He literally looked at me as if I lost my mind

I was just wondering what dinner seating everyone has. Right now we are waitlisted for the main, but I am not too hopeful. It is going to be interesting trying to hold my kids off until 8:30 to eat. That is already 1 hour past their regular bedtime.
Tara

 

[cass'mom]

Hi guys

Here in Ohio the weather broke last night after some nasty storms. It was only 73 degrees today and rainy. I hope it breaks for you too! We had no a/c as it broke 2 weeks ago so I am so happy to see the 70's!

We have main seating and thank God as I have no idea what my 2 little ones would do. When we cruised for our first time we were waitlisted for the main but ended up getting it when we boarded and did the change at Cadillac lounge. I couldn't believe it was that simple. I hope it is for you too huey, luey.

My husband thinks I'm totally insane constantly watching the cruise DVD over and over. I just can't wait!

 

[DrCavin]

The storms were pretty nasty last night. Lots of lightening & lost power 3 times, longest outage about 30 minutes. Hall Of Fame festivities start Friday, hot air balloons, fireworks all the stuff that will be cancelled when it rains, course no rain for a month & now we get bad weather for 3 days or so..

Heading to Sunset Beach, NC about 20 minutes north of Myrtle Beach in 2 weeks - hope it is about 95 degrees when we get down there *hehe.....

 

[cass'mom]

I know what you mean about the storms. We lost power for a few minutes but I was convinced we were going to be without it for a long time.

Is that the Football Hall of Fame you are talking about? That's already? Where is the time going!? I'm not complaining as every day brings us closer to our cruise!

Have fun in NC and I hope it's nice weather for you!

How's everyone else doing?

 

[DeeCeeSW]

Lost power the Sunday before last for 6 hours!!! Of course, the sump pumps were not working, so we had a nice little flood in the basement and crawlspace. If it's not 100 degrees here, it's raining. Huey, Duey & Luey, what part of NJ are you from (amd please don't give me a Turnpike exit, LOL!). We're in Middlesex.

Can't wait till next May!!!!

 

[Piglet_Pooh99]

I am so misserable in this heat. And what makes it worse is we are hotter then the inlaws in NC, hotter then the sister in law in Texas, Hotter then family in Atlanta. We are north of them all it just isn't fair that here in Virginia we have to suffer like this. The last two days it has been 100 with the humidity putting the temp up to 114! Just way to hot especially with little ones. Thank goodness for air conditioning.

We have the late dining. We had that last time and we really enjoyed it. What we ended up doing was ordering room service at about 330 or 4 in the afternoon and getting something silly like a peanut butter and jelly sandwitch or chicken fingers and then this tided us over till dinner. It worked wonderfully, however we also found oursleves usually ordering more room service at midnight. So needless to say after eating 5 meals a day I had gained 5 lbs by the time we got home, I can only imagine what this 7 night cruise is going to do to be. hehe. Its so worth it though. I'm going nuts for this cruise to come. It will have been 4 years since we had done it last. And far to long as far as i'm concerned. Two babies later though i'm good to go again. hehe!

Katie

 

[DrCavin]

Is that the Football Hall of Fame you are talking about? That's already? Where is the time going!? I'm not complaining as every day brings us closer to our cruise!

Yes that is the one....

Anyone start packing yet?? We still have not applied for passports, something tells me this is going to end up being a last minute fiasco for us!! Our luck we would send in the birth certificates & would then need one for something *hehe

 

[DeeCeeSW]

We still have not applied for passports, something tells me this is going to end up being a last minute fiasco for us!! Our luck we would send in the birth certificates & would then need one for something *hehe

I sent in my renewal form this past Saturday, so I'll let you know how long it took to process. My DS's passport expires in July of 2006, so he's safe. DH's passport expires in Feb., so we are waiting until January to send his out.

 

[cass'mom]

I was just thinking about the passport thing today while I was at the Post Office! I'm wondering when I should start that whole process as my entire family needs one. I guess more importantly, I should try to come up with the $360 or so first!

Thinking ahead for 10 years, how much is a renewal?

 

[DrCavin]

Currently it would be $67 to renew

 

[Piglet_Pooh99]

I have our forms all filled out. I just need to wait till we have the money to pay for them. One question though, do they return your birth certificate? We had gotten a certified copy of my husbands but we had to mail that in for something else and so all we have is his original and the raised seal isn't exactly raised anymore even though you can tell the thing is real. Should i not worry about it or send in for another copy. I was really hoping i didn't have to do that but I will if it comes down to it. Just trying to get some advice before I start the crazy process.

Katie

 

[huey duey & luey]

Lost power the Sunday before last for 6 hours!!! Of course, the sump pumps were not working, so we had a nice little flood in the basement and crawlspace. If it's not 100 degrees here, it's raining. Huey, Duey & Luey, what part of NJ are you from (amd please don't give me a Turnpike exit, LOL!). We're in Middlesex.

Can't wait till next May!!!!

can I give you a parkway exit we are also in Middlesex, Old bridge

 

[DeeCeeSW]

Tara, we are also in Old Bridge. Now you're going to tell me that you have kids in Tot & Blocks...do you, LOL??

Katie-I believe that all of your documents are returned with your passport.

 

[cass'mom]

So if you go to the post office and do your passports, all you do is present your bc and they look at it and then give it back? I guess I never realized that I may not get them back so I'd have to order copies.

 

[DeeCeeSW]

No, they do take it and send it in with your application and you get it back with your passport. Did I say something other than that? If I did, sorry. It does need to have a raised seal. When I went to my local library for my renewal, a man had just come back with his BC because the copy he brought with his original application was not acceptable.