Well honestly since I've been delayed in ordering the actual lanyards because I'm waiting on some folks to confirm their info...I already HAVE been PMing folks who join the boards recently to ask if they want lanyards and some have been responding. I was also actually planning on ordering a set number of extra lanyards that are unspoken for....and allowing on a first come, first serve basis letting folks who sign up later or even closer to the sail date for those lanyards (and if there are extras, then usually you split them up amongst lanyard team members and let them give them to their favorite CM's on the ship, etc.)
So I have built in the ability to get some of the folks who get on at the last minute an opportunity to get lanyards. My biggest stress is that because I'm doing the B2B
AND we're going to Orlando for almost a week prior to that even...time is less on my side than it would normally be for a Sept. 18th cruise.
I need to have the lanyards in hand sooner rather than later because I still have to actually figure out exactly how we're getting them to Barcelona. My ideal is that they are not too bulky or heavy and we can fit them all in one backpack that jason carries as his carry-on. He never has a carry-on when we travel TO our trips---specifically so that he can have one on the return trip if we need an extra carry-on on the way home because we bought too much!
So my hope is that we can fill his carry on with lanyards (and dare I hope fish extender gifts, too??
), which we will be rid of once we're on the trip and then fill that carry on with souvenirs on the way home. If that plan doesn't work then we have to figure out what to do....finding room in our luggage (and I'm more likely to develop a cure for cancer to be honest
) or maybe splitting up the lanyards and sending small packages of them out to various volunteers from this thread who have generously offered to carry them over for us---or maybe even figuring out if I can ship them to myself at the hotel where we're staying prior to the cruise. These options are not my ideal because I'm a control freak and I feel more comfortable having the lanyards in my possession the whole time-----so that I"m sure they arrive and they are all there at the port and/or on deck when I need them to distribute.....
.....aaaaaaaah!! The stress of it all!
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