I'm supposed to change the room number on my luggage tags. Congrats and all that! Too bad it's the one I already got 2 weeks ago!!! 
Oh, well, they're a little late!
we leave 2 weeks from tomorrow!!! WOOOO HOOOOO!!!
Well she's the one that catches colds here and there but otherwise has no medical issues (Ruby did- ADHD/ODD and all that). Rita's the one with dental issues- like father like daughter on that one! LOL (which btw- I digress but Rita lost her other front tooth day before yesterday so now she's missing BOTH front teeth! The first one was pulled at age 5 and the permanent tooth is there in the gumline visibly pushing out the gumline but refusing to break thru- so we're way used to her missing one front tooth FOREVER but now she's missing both!) 
We're doing the trolley with coupon. I think I already said that a long time ago though so you probably already knew that.Anyone is WELCOME to join in on any or all of the following activities!!
Friday Night Meet & Greet Dinner - 7:30 p.m. at Florida's Seafood on W. Cocoa Beach Causeway....final head count by May 25 for those of you wanting to join us.
Key West - Trolley using coupon to explore the island
Grand Cayman - Native Way Water Sports (owners are friends of mine) - there are 2 different groups of us that have booked excursions with them.....one group is doing Rays/Reef/Rum Point and the other group is doing Rays/Reef/Star Fish
Cozumel - Eagle Ray Divers (again, owners are friends of mine) - 2-reef snorkeling excursion - AWESOME way to see the island, too, from the GORGEOUS water...we enjoy the boat ride equally as the kids LOVE jumping in off the top!
Just email me at suzepoo@yahoo.com if you want to join in any of the above activities and I will give more info! Have a GREAT day everyone!!
HEY...if the Radisson has a shuttle that will take us, then I'm all for that!!! COOL...didn't know about any shuttle....I will ask when we check in on that Friday and I guess we can all just plan to meet in the lobby at say 7:00 p.m. and go from there??? Sound ok? Shuttle or drive, whichever it ends up being....
OMG we leave a week from tomorrow!
I have to take Rita to the dr today and get this.... I'd just called to make her well check visit the same time as Robert's (cause he'll need a physical filled out for Boy Scouts camp this summer) -in June. HE's had many appts for well check visits as well as his asthma/allergy issues (like father like son! LOL) but I found out when I made that appt that little Rita hadn't been to the dr since literally 2004. They even had a hard time finding her file.
ANYWAY..... I made that well check visit, her first in almost 5yrs, the other day (for June) and now I have to take her to the dr today. I pray it's nothing serious. What happened is a few days ago she showed me a knot she had on the lower back of her head- you know where those bones kinda stick out on both sides right above the neck on the back of your head? She had a small goosegg there- I thought she must have hit her head when swimming and just didn't remember it. I thought it would go away quickly right? Well it didn't and the next day she was complaining about it and when I felt it to see if it was getting smaller- it wasn't and I felt another one right next to it. Still on the bony head part- so I thought well that's another "bump" -smaller- so from the same "bumping of the head" maybe? Again thinking nothing of it. Then yesterday she complained more about those knots hurting and when I felt to see if they were going down- I noticed ANOTHER "knot" in a place there shouldn't be a knot- further down the back/sorta on side of her neck. But not in the normal place you'd think like it's swollen glands (ie: NOT under the jaw or ear- further back but halfway down the neck but not all the way in the back like on the spine. KWiM?) and that one was smaller still but movable and no bone there- there's no way she bumped her neck there and made a knot. Last night she was stuffed up nose- not quite as bad today but she was completely stuffed up last night. She says her throat doesn't hurt at all, she doesn't have tonsils but I looked anyway and her throat looks fine. She says her ears don't hurt either- so I'm not sure what is going on.
Google searches last night say it might just be a cold and the lymph nodes swollen to fight the infection but might need antibiotics if it's a bacterial infection? Today she's saying she can't put her head back or it hurts where those knots are. So I made her an appt this afternoon and I sure hope it's nothing serious...... praying!
I didn't know you had lymph nodes like up on the back of your head? But what other explanation can there be? I can't find any other explanation thru searching online and it appears we have lymph glands in a whole lot more places than just under the jaw/under arms- which I didn't know!
We're doing the trolley with coupon. I think I already said that a long time ago though so you probably already knew that.
As for the meet and greet dinner- about how long of a drive would that be from FW there and back? I'm wondering if we might be able to do that or if it took too much time since we'll have to pre-pack up our campsite that night to be ready to go first thing in the morning. ? We're still planning on meeting up at the port before boarding too?
Looking forward to them meeting 
Robert is 11.5 at time of cruise- he's just crossing over to Boy Scouts from Webelos like right now LOL and he's excited about finallly getting to go to "real" camp (vs camping weekends with the den plus DH, etc.) Oh I'm sure they'll have a lot to talk about- Robert will probably want to pick your son's brain about everything. LOLI had the same thing as your daughter as a child. It would flare up when I got a cold and it seemed it was always there, just larger when I had a cold. When I went through puberty it vanished-- go figure. Hoping it's nothing to worry about but it's good your checking it out.
How old is your DS. Brian is 14 and he's a Boy Scout too--guess they'll have something to talk about. He been to camp 3 years in a row and this year he's going to Thunderbird leadership training -- they just happen to run at the same time this year. It will be nice for them to meet. Brian's a Life Scout and just finished his Eagle Project. He still have a few merit badges to complete before he applies for Eagle, but the big project is done
So ofcourse I showed everything to the dr, he looked her all over plus asked questions and basically she has folliculitis- somehow got infection at some of the follicles in one spot right above the "bumps" she has down her head and neck- and those are swollen lymph nodes from the infection of those follicles! gross! Best I can figure is she scratched there too hard when washing her hair (yes recently I finally relented and let her wash her hair for about the past 2wks or so and her nails aren't completely cut off since she's fighting me about that recently wanting to have "long nails") and PROBABLY they got infected because I'm a bad mom who spoils her rotten (ie: a few days ago I let them swim in the pool even though I"d shocked it the day before and the next day- the day I let her and Robert swim- it was still not showing anywhere near proper level of chlorine. But the water looked okay. KWIM? It wasn't nasty looking- just the test wasn't showing high enough chlorine. I let them swim a bit before I shocked the heck out of it again that evening. KWIM? It was the very next morning she told me about that one bump on the back of the head hence the reason I thought it was a goose-egg and she'd hit her head while swimming or something. KWIM? 
But I'm glad it's not something serious. I was kinda freaking out with lumps down her neck and her not being able to turn her neck or put her head back without it really hurting. Yanno? I can't believe you've been able to keep this a secret for so long! I never would have been able to. LOL They are going to be so excited I bet!
Robert is 11.5 at time of cruise- he's just crossing over to Boy Scouts from Webelos like right now LOL and he's excited about finallly getting to go to "real" camp (vs camping weekends with the den plus DH, etc.) Oh I'm sure they'll have a lot to talk about- Robert will probably want to pick your son's brain about everything. LOL
Back from the dr and thankfully it's nothing serious- but it is weird. Right when we got in the waiting room she told me she had ANOTHER bump further UP on the back of the head- but when I looked it wasn't a bump- it was a cluster of little red bumps right at the follicles!
But apparently it was bacteria got in her follicles or something which is totally gross and makes me feel bad for letting them swim. What else could have caused it? Maybe getting the scratch while washing her hair- then later messing with it or scratching it with maybe having dirt under her fingernails at the time? I guess that's a possiblity.
But anyway he prescribed some ointment to put on the infected follicles and an antibiotic to help fight it since obviously that's why her lymph nodes are going into overdrive to fight the infection. It's only a few little red spots in a cluster in one tiny area of her head right above where the first "knot" showed up on her head a few days ago. Seems like no big deal but apparently her body is having a hard time fighting it? I dunno. She's stuffy nose now and had a bit of a cough this morning- maybe she was coming down with a cold at the same time and that's why it's a big deal fighting this little infection of her follicles? No clue. She hasn't run fever and says she doesn't feel sick except difficulty breathing thru her nose.....
All I know is we gotta get her feeling well and this infection gone before our trip!
(ps. when I read about folliculitis just now when I got home- one article mentioned it can happen from too tight braids. her daddy did braid her hair kinda tight- which she thought was pretty LOL- last week. And I know when Ruby got her hair braided on the last cruise after a few days we had to take them out because she was getting little blister looking things at the edges of the rows of braids- that looked just like these few bumps Rita has in that one spot now! so it sounds like Ruby got folliculitis from the braids but it went away on it's own during the cruise when we removed the braids. From what I'm reading online they can go away/heal on their own -but apparently not for Rita since her lymph nodes are swelling up. KWIM? )
I can't believe you've been able to keep this a secret for so long! I never would have been able to. LOL They are going to be so excited I bet!
Now if only the CDC 
will change those recommendations. I really feel for the people in Cozumel unable to have any income because of this.
Wow that's weird your schools closing- ours opened back up and the CDC recommended that they open back up. They aren't recommending any to close right now- because this flu isn't found to be as serious as they previously thought. That school is being extremely cautious I guess. I hope your little guy doesn't get sick!
Robert adores his den chief that is crossing them over to his boy scouts troop.
We may be joining the Friday night meet & greet after all. DB (who we are staying with) just emailed me to tell me that they are leaving on the 29th to go to a graduation in Savannah. We may be staying in a motel the night before the cruise instead of at his house. He hasn't let us know for sure yet.
My concern is, if we have to stay in a motel, are we too late to make reservations & still get on the list for the shuttle if we stay at one of the motels that have the shuttle service.
DB told me that they have been planning to go to this graduation for a month. In which case, why is he just now telling us?!?! AAAGGHHH!
Karla
... this is a FAMILY cruise..... Just because I am known for having margarita's as my favorite cocktail, is merely a coincidence, I assure you.
We are booked to go to Mr. Sanchos too. We don't have the all inclusive booked, but we do have lunch and horseback riding booked that I am looking forward too. Hopefully we make it there and our girls will get along great that they will have a buddy to play with on the beach.Also wondering if anyone else is going to Mr. Sancho's in Cozumel (if we make it there). We have an all inclusive booked.
I will definitely write about their reactions. I am hoping after this weekend, they can start emailing some of the other DISers DD(12) (or around that age) so they can get to know some people before they cruise. I would say they could email the boys too, but they are still in the "I am too shy around boys to talk to them phase."Let us know how the girls react. I never could have kept the secret that long. Since my husband has finally returned to work as a truck driver, Natasha (DD) will sneak in my room some nights and we tell "bedtime stories" about each day of our cruise.
Natasha is really looking forward to meeting your girls in Ocean quest.
