Sept 18 2010 WB TransAtlantic Pirates/Capt Jacks Re-Repoing Repossession Cruise Pt.2

[granmaz]

Thanks!
I should say... we're Cal-Zonies!!!

And suddenly.....I'm hungry for some LUNCH.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

There will be 2 more joining this crew!
DH- Howard
Me- Ann
Cabin-5128
Late Dining
# Cruise-14
Special Day- 40th Anniversary

Anything else needed at this time?

See ya on the ship

Welcome everyone, nice to meet you. I am Kathy and DH is Greg.
Congrats on the 40th anniversary.
By cruise time we will be close to our 37th, so you beat us by a few years but not much.

Looking forward to getting to know you over the next few months.
Kathy

 

[epcot1stfave]

http://www.bluebook.co.nz - oops you said not to tempt you... sorry

You could get a very nice 3-4 bedroom bungalow style home in a very nice neighbourhood with a big garden for about 150,000 pounds around here - you could easy get something for less too. House prices are also starting to fall a little as well (finally!).

Hi Paula,
prices in Kiwi have always been good for us Brits.
I was a frequent visitor to the land of the long white cloud many years ago and have visited Christchurch, although only once. I used to find it hard to pass the British Bar in Lytlleton , dont suppose its there now, must admit my favourite port was Auckland.
N Z is a lovely country, especially the South Island, a lot like the U K, I have many happy memories of my visits and hope to make it back one day.

 

[MagicMe]

There will be 2 more joining this crew!
DH- Howard
Me- Ann
Cabin-5128
Late Dining
# Cruise-14
Special Day- 40th Anniversary

Anything else needed at this time?

See ya on the ship

WELCOME ABOARD!!!!

GO EAGLES!!!

 

[BoosGram]

Welcome everyone, nice to meet you. I am Kathy and DH is Greg.
Congrats on the 40th anniversary.
By cruise time we will be close to our 37th, so you beat us by a few years but not much.

Looking forward to getting to know you over the next few months.
Kathy

Wow, there are quite a few of us in this anniversary range! We'll be celebrating our 37th on the cruise .

 

[YodaMouse]

There will be 2 more joining this crew!
DH- Howard
Me- Ann
Cabin-5128
Late Dining
# Cruise-14
Special Day- 40th Anniversary

Anything else needed at this time?

See ya on the ship

Hi and welcome. We are newcomers too!!! Our 40th wedding anniversary is this year!!!

Welcome everyone, nice to meet you. I am Kathy and DH is Greg.
Congrats on the 40th anniversary.
By cruise time we will be close to our 37th, so you beat us by a few years but not much.

Looking forward to getting to know you over the next few months.
Kathy

Wow, there are quite a few of us in this anniversary range! We'll be celebrating our 37th on the cruise .

everyone who has just joined us. My DH and I will be celebrating our 30th anniversary next year and plan to do it up in style on the cruise. I thought we were doing great, but y'all make us seem like pups!

 

[BoosGram]

everyone who has just joined us. My DH and I will be celebrating our 30th anniversary next year and plan to do it up in style on the cruise. I thought we were doing great, but y'all make us seem like pups!

30 years is still pretty impressive! Many people seem to have trouble making 10.

 

[scoutsmom99]

So once again we are surpising our DDs with this trip for their birthdays!!! That is the good thing about having their birthdays on the same day. We can plan one BIG family vacation and say it is for both their birthdays!!!

How exciting! I always wanted a surprise WDW trip. Cute signature as well.

Hi. We have today cancelled our 2010 Baltic cruise and transferred to this one instead. Hope we can overcome the airfare issue.

We know some of you, having been on the WB Panama Canal cruise last May.

Just me Marilyn and my husband John.

Welcome aboard Marilyn

Ok, I just spent the last 3 hours or so updating the roll call page. I Made it larger and put the pictures 3 across. Basically everyones picture got a little larger and the page itself is larger. I had to do this to fit all of our new people and to create room for all those to come!!!

I have decided I am going to make the website larger for all of the pages. That however is not going to be able to be done overnight! I will work on it over the next few days.

Ok back to work on the site.....

Thanks for all your hard work on the site. It is so nice to have it as a reference.

Hi folks! You all are an active bunch! I booked this cruise while we were on the Magic Christmas cruise. I didn't expect to find the first thread closed and 80 pages of a second thread for this cruise meet. .

Welcome aboard

WOW, $340 was great! Thanks for the info. I'll be watching SwissAir too!

That is a super deal! I'm going to have to keep an eye out too. the airfare prices are so high right now!

well i start my rccl cruise tomorrow. it leaves from my state of new jersey about a 2 hour drive. it figures 4 months of no overtime as soon as i leave the overtime starts again. going down to the carribean it will be my fourth cruise but i never been to the carribean.three cruises with dcl been to special western, transatlantic, and panama cruise. the dcl cruises i was more excited for.

Have a good time

I'm figuring DCL will book me on air from MCO to PHL or JFK then onto BCN. I don't care so much about which airline but I'm hoping for a short layover since I'm worried about my service dog and her comfort. Plus I breathe on batteries so have to bring a gazillion portable battery packs just so I'm sure I won't run out. Each one lasts about 3-4 hours. I've heard the flights aren't bad though once you're on your way from the US even though they're all red-eye. Are most of you coming in for a few days before the cruise or are most just flying in the day of? I added the two prenights so I could recover from getting there before we set sail. I didn't want to spend my first days onboard sleeping!---Kathy

I'm thinking about doing at least one night if not 2 ahead of time.

There will be 2 more joining this crew!
DH- Howard
Me- Ann
Cabin-5128
Late Dining
# Cruise-14
Special Day- 40th Anniversary

Anything else needed at this time?

See ya on the ship

Welcome aboard

 

[NHdisneylover]

We will be leaving from San Antonio, so good flights are hard to come by. We will probably have to fly to a major hub on Southwest and then get a decent flight from there to Barcelona.

That is exactly what my inlaws did on the first TA. They flew into Boston with us, spent a night at a hotel by the airport (we would have had them over, but it would have been another 3 hours in a car roundtrip on top of all the flights ) and then took Southwest flights on to Denver the next morning. All that was still nearly $1000 less than staying with the same airline and booking some sort of continuous trip.

Are most of you coming in for a few days before the cruise or are most just flying in the day of? I added the two prenights so I could recover from getting there before we set sail. I didn't want to spend my first days onboard sleeping!---Kathy

My advivce for dealing with the jet lag is to make yourself stay up until after dinner on that first day when you land (if you can and want to take a MORNING nap in order to do so then good, but do not sleep in the afternoon or you will never get a full nights sleep and adjust). Then go to bed a bit early (say around 8:00 pm) and set an alarm to get up for whatever time you want to be getting up for normally the next day. We did that in Germany last month and even the kids adjusted with no problems whatsoever. It makes for a loooong first/travel day, but the rest of the trip goes so much mroe smoothly

We keep going back and forth on flying in ahead of time or not. The reason we would not is that the hotels in BCN are SOOOOOO expensive! We shall see though as time gets closer.

Have you looked into aparthotels? They are basically rental apartments which are generally bigger, and much less expensive. Europeans commonly use them. We rented a great two bedroom which comfortably slept all 6 of us (my inlaws were along) and had a kitchen (nice with a picky boy in a foriegn country) right in the gothic quarter. I want to say it was 120 euros a night (with a 2 night minumum--we stayed 3).

There will be 2 more joining this crew!
DH- Howard
Me- Ann
Cabin-5128
Late Dining
# Cruise-14
Special Day- 40th Anniversary

Anything else needed at this time?

See ya on the ship

Welcome Nice to "meet" ya


Has anybody heard from Amy??? I am starting to worry about her. I thought by now she would be feeling up to posting but still stuck in bed and we would be seeing lots from her.

We haven't had a Question of the Week in a while. So, being a librarian and all, what is a book you have enjoyed (old or new--kids or adult, whatever) enough to recomend it to others????

 

[scoutsmom99]

We haven't had a Question of the Week in a while. So, being a librarian and all, what is a book you have enjoyed (old or new--kids or adult, whatever) enough to recomend it to others????

One of my favorite books is To Kill a Mocking Bird By Harper Lee it is a wonderful read

 

[NHdisneylover]

One of my favorite books is To Kill a Mocking Bird By Harper Lee it is a wonderful read

Oh Lisa that is a good one

I forgot to post my answers:

For me: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein is one of my all time favs. For something more recent I liked Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. I am currently reading a really good kids book called The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart I figure I am a librarian I can list more than one, right

Dave likes: The Goal by Eliyahu Goldrat or Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintnence

Marika is going by authors to avoid narrowing it down too much :
Cornelia Funke
Christopher Paoloni
Phillip Pullman
Sharon Creech
Robin McKinnley
Robert Heinlein
oh, and the Sherlock Holmes stories
(did I mention she is always reading???)

Rio likes Disney after Dark and Disney at Dawn by Ridely Pearson

 

[MickeyAddict]

Marilyn and Sarah,

Have either of you flown with AirLingus? If is what was the service like? Right now, using '09 dates, they have what seems like reasonable rates. They fly from Orlando to Heathrow, Gatewick, Manchester or Brimingham, on Tuesday/Thursday and Saturdays. All go via Dublin then branch off.

Pj

I have flown AerLingus twice -- once from Dulles to Barcelona for the WB Disney TA in August '07, and then from Alicante, Spain to Dulles after a Princess TA in May '08. I used points for both, but each trip would have cost under $500 pp.

I have another TA scheduled on the Celebrity Equinox from Rome in November. Air from Dulles to Rome on AerLingus was about $380 pp for one-way, when I checked yesterday. I haven't booked it yet because I am trying to find another TA this Spring or Summer so I can get a RT ticket. But I probably won't do better than this AerLingus price!

The flight and service on AerLingus were fine - nothing to complain about. They have a TV screen at each seat with lots of channels and games. Both flights stopped in Dublin, which is a nice airport with a very good food court. We had an 8-hour layover the first trip, so we left the airport and took the Hop-on Hop-off bus around the city. It was a good overview of Dublin, and beat sitting in an airport all day....

Marilyn

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

Just dropping by really quickly to say hi to everyone! Thank you for the well wishes...I'm getting better...slowly...but at least I'm going in the right directions.

Welcome to all of the newcomers!

Hopefully I'll be back online and posting strong soon!

 

[BoosGram]

Oh Lisa that is a good one

I forgot to post my answers:

For me: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein is one of my all time favs. For something more recent I liked Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. I am currently reading a really good kids book called The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart I figure I am a librarian I can list more than one, right

Dave likes: The Goal by Eliyahu Goldrat or Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintnence

Marika is going by authors to avoid narrowing it down too much :
Cornelia Funke
Christopher Paoloni
Phillip Pullman
Sharon Creech
Robin McKinnley
Robert Heinlein
oh, and the Sherlock Holmes stories
(did I mention she is always reading???)

Rio likes Disney after Dark and Disney at Dawn by Ridely Pearson

Heinlein's TMIAHM is one of my all-time favorite books. But I can't stop at one. Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford is a wonderful coming-of-age story that we quote all the time. And the lovely No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith are charming and delightful. I could go on, but that's probably already more than you wanted .

 

[BoosGram]

Just dropping by really quickly to say hi to everyone! Thank you for the well wishes...I'm getting better...slowly...but at least I'm going in the right directions.

Welcome to all of the newcomers!

Hopefully I'll be back online and posting strong soon!

Yay! So glad you're well enough to "talk" to us. PD for a quick recovery.

 

[Bareacuda]

Thanks for all the s.

Anyone passed 10 years is a real accomplishment now.

And for the Book post... To Kill a Mockingbird is my old time fav!

I just finished For One More Day by Mitch Ablom
But during the summer I read Shakespeare... sounds dull huh???

Ann

 

[tig82174]

Some of my favorite books include (in no particular order):

A Mermaid's Tale by Alida Van Gores
The Harry Potter Series
The Twilight Series
Wicked (I'm actually reading the sequel "Son of a Witch" now and I got the third in the trilogy, "A Lion Among Men" for Xmas so that will be next)

 

[NHdisneylover]

Just dropping by really quickly to say hi to everyone! Thank you for the well wishes...I'm getting better...slowly...but at least I'm going in the right directions.

Welcome to all of the newcomers!

Hopefully I'll be back online and posting strong soon!

AMy, I a mso glad you posted something because I really was worried. OKay, now just keep restig up and getting better. Here's a little pixie dust to speed the recovery along

Heinlein's TMIAHM is one of my all-time favorite books. But I can't stop at one. Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford is a wonderful coming-of-age story that we quote all the time. And the lovely No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith are charming and delightful. I could go on, but that's probably already more than you wanted .

Not too many at all. I will have to give your otehr picks a try since we both like TMIAHM

Thanks for all the s.

Anyone passed 10 years is a real accomplishment now.

And for the Book post... To Kill a Mockingbird is my old time fav!

I just finished For One More Day by Mitch Ablom
But during the summer I read Shakespeare... sounds dull huh???

Ann

Shakespeare is absolutely not boring

Some of my favorite books include (in no particular order):

A Mermaid's Tale by Alida Van Gores
The Harry Potter Series
The Twilight Series
Wicked (I'm actually reading the sequel "Son of a Witch" now and I got the third in the trilogy, "A Lion Among Men" for Xmas so that will be next)

Erik, I am still looking for a copy of A Mermaid's Tale. You hadn't told me the author before--now maybe I can find it in interlibrary loan and get it here in time for Marika to read before we leave


Ooooh, I just love seeing what everyone reads--I think it tells a lot about someone's personality

 

[tig82174]

Erik, I am still looking for a copy of A Mermaid's Tale. You hadn't told me the author before--now maybe I can find it in interlibrary loan and get it here in time for Marika to read before we leave

Yeah it's hard to find. My copy was borrowed by a friend who moved to Boston and then dropped out of touch...so even I don't have a copy anymore! You can sometimes find used copies of it on amazon.com though.

 

[tig82174]

OOPS! i can't believe I forgot the correct name of one of my own favorite books. After my last post I thought I'd look on amazon and the title of the book is "Mermaid's Song" by Alida Van Gores....not Mermaid's Tale.

It's a fantastic book....even if I CAN'T remember the correct title!!! LOL