Sept 18 2010 WB TransAtlantic Pirates/Capt Jacks Re-Repoing Repossession Cruise Pt.9

[Candy Apple]

Someone mentioned Hurricane Danielle, so I went to weather.com and noticed that one of the upcoming names is Gaston. If Gaston is active during our cruise, or any other Disney cruise, the Beast (from Beauty and the Beast) will have to take care of it.

 

[su_kraft]

A couple hours later, with no interruptions, and I am caught up! I am having to read at night and actually WORK (GASP!!) while at my office! Can you believe the nerve of my company? Sheesh!

It's Monday morning here again folks....my weigh in day.....
21 lbs lost in 6 weeks!


....and dh has lost 28 lb in just 7 weeks!
The hard work at the gym is paying off!

AWESOME!!! You should be very proud!! Heck - I am proud for you!!!

Well done, but youre depressing me

It was pretty horrible, everywhere, scraping banging and painting smelly varnish,the gym was shut, now if you know me you would know I had a fit when I got to port and they told me no gym, its not fair really.

Oh yes, Id love to know how much

UUGH! I really hope that they are not tearing our ship apart while we are still onboard! I can deal with the normal maintenance stuff that you see on an y voyage, but much more than that...

Ok, Im having a coffee and trying to calm myself by chatting to you peeps, I had the whole day planned out until Ruby Miss Two shoes, bogged off up the forrest, Its ridik, I went for a run on my own(6miles) because I cant concentrate on watching them and running, THEN I took them for a 4 mile walk, 5 mins from home she took off, the bloody toad that she is, I come home to get phone and bike and leave the porch open and by the time I went back she was on her way home, an hour wasted standing around in the pouring rain wasted!!!
Now I have a sore head, stress does that to me in around 3 minutes flat! and Ive missed my spinning class! beagles! who would have them!!!!

Thanks for that , I feel bit better now!

Bad Beagles!! (Ill take them both!!)

3 weeks , are you kidding we leave in 2 from today

Hope that this is a sign of the visa situation improving!!

I know all of us have had those days where we feel shot down, stepped on and worthless - that is me today! Question for the women - I just got a call from my doctor and was told that I have to come back in next week because they noticed a "density" on my squishy test. What does that mean and has anyone ever had it?????? Why can't the few weeks before the cruise not have any bumps. I know there are quite a few of us asking the same question - Todd, Angie and the list goes on and on.

Please don't stress. Call and ask to be fit in - tell them that you are going over seas soon - push for an appointment this week. I can tell you that I have known many ladies that had 'density' and it was nothing. For your own sanity, be firm and tell them to "squeeze" you in!

Okay, I never thought I would have to say this but after living in this house for 32 years, there is a Manhunt going on in our neighborhood!!!

Thank goodness Hubby is home!!!

Stay safe! Hope it is all for not!

All of the excitement has calmed down. Nothing on the news, but we have to think everything is okay.

And it seems as though it was!!

I really hope the gym isn't closed ... why on earth would they do that ???
We really want to use the gym if we can. I will be really if we can't and DH will be gutted.

Funnily enough, I was thinking the same thing, I cant mind if there were scales in the gym, surely though there must be, usually there always are?

If the gym being closed was me that started that, I said our first cruise was just OUT of dry dock and the gym was unopend the entire crusie, IT BETTER BE OPEN THIS CRUISE
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If the gym being closed was me that started that, I said our first cruise was just OUT of dry dock and the gym was unopend the entire crusie, IT BETTER BE OPEN THIS CRUISE.sorry, think that was my fault
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If the gym being closed was me that started that, I said our first cruise was just OUT of dry dock and the gym was unopend the entire crusie, IT BETTER BE OPEN THIS CRUISE.sorry once again, I think that may have been a rumour kinda started by me.

Bad Lynn starting rumors! LOL, now we know where the Beagles get it!!

My TA just called and our documents are in. She'll bring them by the house tonight. She indicated they aren't as nice as they use to be but way better then those Princess uses. Everything from Princess is sent electronically, including the luggage tags. The positive is everyone gets theirs at the same time and you don't have to wait. The negative is you have to print everything including the paper luggage tags that you are told not to put on until you pickup your luggage at the airport. Then you need to hunt down a stapler or tape to attach so I guess Disney's to still better.

Our corrected CCs also came in the mail today. Things are looking up.

The replacement fabric for my FE's came too. The first shipment they cut it to short but charged me for the correct amount. Problem is this replacement is not the correct stuff. It has a tag on it that is correct but it is something else. It is so ugly I can't use it but it did give me a good laugh. It says it is the Pilgram Father's Olive clipper ships I ordered but instead it is pink, orange and purple partridges from the start of a 60's movie. Time for plan B. They were very nice when I called Fabrics.com but I told them I didn't think the third time would be the charm and to just cancel the order.
val

Yeah for the docs! I actually really like them. The ones we got last year were cheap, generic and "rubbish" as some would say.

You and Glen have done a fabulous job with all your planning, your spreadsheets and of course, the Transatlanatic Pirates website. You deserve a special thanks from us all!1

Well you may not think you deserve it but we all appreciate everything that you and Glenn have done. You've helped make this so much more enjoyable and we can't wait to meet you!!!!

Okay. I get it. So it was a selfish thing to do, and 400 other people got to take advantage of it. We all win!! You and Glenn really HAVE made this cruise very special in many ways, and I can't wait to hug you with my perfume-free being!

I am really looking forward to meeting you all as well! This is such a great group. To think that many of us have been chatting for a year!!! (well, 10.5 months for me...)

I was just flipping through the television channels to find some good background noise and heard a Spanx conversation. I looked up to see if any of you were there, but it was just QVC!

Kimberly - you crack me up!!!

I did register. : ) Well, actually, RE-registered. I'll figure it out. It doesn't look like the events I plan on attending require much pre-planning.

OK - I have looked on the Roll Call for you and I don't see you. Did you do a new cruiser registration? You will need to complete that BEFORE you can signe up for events.

 

[disneypilots]

She was planning on doing a little wachoppin' this weekend

You GO GIRL !!!!!

 

[su_kraft]

Someone mentioned Hurricane Danielle, so I went to weather.com and noticed that one of the upcoming names is Gaston. If Gaston is active during our cruise, or any other Disney cruise, the Beast (from Beauty and the Beast) will have to take care of it.

Indeed!!

 

[Buckeye Gal]

....The replacement fabric for my FE's came too....Problem is this replacement is not the correct stuff.....It is so ugly I can't use it but it did give me a good laugh. It says it is the Pilgram Father's Olive clipper ships I ordered but instead it is pink, orange and purple partridges from the start of a 60's movie.....

Okay....that visual totally has me laughing out loud!

Someone mentioned Hurricane Danielle, so I went to weather.com and noticed that one of the upcoming names is Gaston. If Gaston is active during our cruise, or any other Disney cruise, the Beast (from Beauty and the Beast) will have to take care of it.

That's right! Too bad King Triton won't be with us, too. They collectively could do some damage to Gaston with a simple whisper.

 

[paulcrsb]

Corn Hole is basically a tossing game. It fills up time at tailgates and family reunions! You stand a distance away from the "hole" with a beverage of choice in one hand, and the corn bag in the other and toss away. In some cases, the more you sip your beverage, the further away you get from the target. I don't think it's an Ohio thing....although it is called "corn".

Thanks for the explanation! I had never heard of this before.

Paul

 

[nacho1337]

Someone mentioned Hurricane Danielle, so I went to weather.com and noticed that one of the upcoming names is Gaston. If Gaston is active during our cruise, or any other Disney cruise, the Beast (from Beauty and the Beast) will have to take care of it.

Well since the rest of the my cruise tradition are coming true for this cruise to. I been on 4 cruise and no upgrade, paying the fuel surcharge on one that apply and hitting hurricane or tropical storms and depressions. I have been on 4 cruises and hit 6. In Sept, 18 2005 4 day, Hurricane Rita, Sept 15 2007 Western, Hurricane Humberto, Sept 22, 2007 Eastern, tropical depression, August 17 2008, EBPC Tropical Storm Julio, Hurricane Gustav, and Hurricane Hanna.

Luckily we made it to all the ports.They just had to take it another way to get there

So if my streak continuous we will be reroute due to a hurricane.

 

[valbob89]

Pretty dresses.

Thank you for all the good wishes for my surgery. I have to be there at 10am and surgery is a noon. I have a pile of books, magazines and DVD's to keep me occupied. There is also trip planning to keep me occupied.

I'll be thinking about you and sending only good thoughts. val

 

[valbob89]

Just got my docs and I agree they are very nice. They seem to be moving away for the "cute" image (which I found endearing) to the more classic look. I am I remembering correctly that some of you had an area in your book that mentioned on-board credits? I don't have any indication of the booking credit nor the credits for using the Disney Rewards Visa. Maybe I was just dreaming that I read that. Val

 

[valbob89]

Well since the rest of the my cruise tradition are coming true for this cruise to. I been on 4 cruise and no upgrade, paying the fuel surcharge on one that apply and hitting hurricane or tropical storms and depressions. I have been on 4 cruises and hit 6. In Sept, 18 2005 4 day, Hurricane Rita, Sept 15 2007 Western, Hurricane Humberto, Sept 22, 2007 Eastern, tropical depression, August 17 2008, EBPC Tropical Storm Julio, Hurricane Gustav, and Hurricane Hanna.

Luckily we made it to all the ports.They just had to take it another way to get there

So if my streak continuous we will be reroute due to a hurricane.

Maybe we will be stuck on CC for days and days - We can only hope. val

 

[Buckeye Goofy]

Hi Val,

They were added about a half hour ago, as 'Madeira Daniel Taxi Tour' and 'Private St Maarten tour' respectively. I'm working with Noel to try to import most of the people that are signed up to ease the burden of everyone trying to keep up.

I think the hosting company is doing maintenance on their servers because it is currently slower than DISboards or the DCL site.

Glenn

Yes, he is going to do this directly from my spreadsheet sans the children's names on the Madeira tour.

I will also give him the St Maarten names for the tour.

After a call with tech support to get the problems with the site not responding repaired, I was able to import almost everyone. To avoid any issues with listing kids that were not already listed on the website, I simply didn't import names, only the DISname and number in the party; so any names that appear are the names I already had in the database. This may lead to something weird like having one name and showing 2 people, but it looks pretty close.

The only DISnames I could not match, thus did not import are:

Madeira Daniel Taxi Tour Leisurely to Funchal [1]

Wow 98 people signed up for Noel's Madeira trip; Disney could make a killing if Noel did their excursion planning.

 

[vakamalua]

It's coming up as "Article has not yet been archived", so I don't know what this means.
.

It comes up for me; here it is again:

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Gibraltar#Gibraltar_in_popular_culture

Andrea

 

[vakamalua]

It comes up for me; here it is again:

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Gibraltar#Gibraltar_in_popular_culture

Andrea

Or just google "world lingo gibraltar"

Andrea

 

[birkner]

After a call with tech support to get the problems with the site not responding repaired, I was able to import almost everyone. To avoid any issues with listing kids that were not already listed on the website, I simply didn't import names, only the DISname and number in the party; so any names that appear are the names I already had in the database. This may lead to something weird like having one name and showing 2 people, but it looks pretty close.

The only DISnames I could not match, thus did not import are:

Madeira Daniel Taxi Tour Leisurely to Funchal [1]

Wow 98 people signed up for Noel's Madeira trip; Disney could make a killing if Noel did their excursion planning.

The above must be an error in how I input it you as that is what I called the tour.

 

[paulasillars]

Well since the rest of the my cruise tradition are coming true for this cruise to. I been on 4 cruise and no upgrade, paying the fuel surcharge on one that apply and hitting hurricane or tropical storms and depressions. I have been on 4 cruises and hit 6. In Sept, 18 2005 4 day, Hurricane Rita, Sept 15 2007 Western, Hurricane Humberto, Sept 22, 2007 Eastern, tropical depression, August 17 2008, EBPC Tropical Storm Julio, Hurricane Gustav, and Hurricane Hanna.

Luckily we made it to all the ports.They just had to take it another way to get there

So if my streak continuous we will be reroute due to a hurricane.

And I thought we had airport strikes to worry about!

 

[Buckeye Goofy]

The above must be an error in how I input it you as that is what I called the tour.

Where's the Homer Simpson DOH smilie? I just cut and pasted and missed noting that was a header and not a name in the list. I think I need a beer.

That means we got them all imported - woohooooo!!!!!

 

[TA2]

Here's what I just put on the website. I can change the wording if you like (I'm just the tech guy, not the wordsmith)

Wear your team jersey for football and beer
Register via website

Sat 9/25 3:00 pm Diversions Buckeye Goofy
Reg Open

Show your team spirit by wearing your favorite football* jersey and joining your fellow DISers for football and beer. 3:00 should be just in time for noon kickoff for games in eastern time zone. We'll make sure to get a few 'team pictures' of the gang in our jerseys (before and after a few beers)

* Football from either side of the pond​

Glenn

Glenn, please sign us up.
Football and beer life is good

Joe and Connie
AKA-TA2
Go Pats

 

[birkner]

Where's the Homer Simpson DOH smilie? I just cut and pasted and missed noting that was a header and not a name in the list. I think I need a beer.

That means we got them all imported - woohooooo!!!!!

You are the man!!

 

[Buckeye Goofy]

Glenn, please sign us up.
Football and beer life is good

Joe and Connie
AKA-TA2
Go Pats

Glad to hear you'll be there, hopefully you'll be wearing Pats jerseys. To sign up, could you enroll yourself on the website? If you haven't seen the posts on doing that, just go to the login page, and once you have entered your disname and password, you should get a link that says 'events'; from there you can sign up for many events, and also note which excursions you'll be on.

Thanks,
Glenn

 

[HallsofVA]

So if my streak continuous we will be reroute due to a hurricane.

In January I sailed with a family who had never made it to CC in 5 tries. Luckily we were able to overcome her streak and we had a great day on the island. Hopefully we can overcome your streak as well!

Wow 98 people signed up for Noel's Madeira trip; Disney could make a killing if Noel did their excursion planning.

Watch it now. DCL may get wind of this large private booking and next thing you know, we'll get to Madeira a day early, a day late or not at all! The Mouse doesn't like to lose too much of it's money!

Do any of you know if there is a scale on board? I half-way looked in the gym the last time I was there but didn't see one.

About the scale, if there isn't one, I may pack one in hubby's suit case. I'll go insane without one.

I cant mind if there were scales in the gym, surely though there must be, usually there always are?

there IS a scale (a nice big doctor's office type) in the ladies changing area.

If for some reason you can't get to the gym, Sue and Glenn should have a scale in their room, along with the person in the H/C Cat 3. Every suite we've stayed in on the Magic has had a scale in the master bath, even the H/C one we were in on our 1st cruise.

While I was out, I also headed over to Costco (warehouse club retailer for those who don't know). and Halloween costumes for the munchkins.

Did your Costco have the fab Disney Princess costumes with the tiaras and wands? Luckily I went shopping with DS on Saturday, as I wouldn't have made it out of there alive if DD had been with me. As it was, I had 5 costumes in my cart at one point, then ended up only buying Tinkerbell, which is the only costume we don't already have (in a size that fits DD that is.) If you have a princess who needs a dress for the cruise, the ones at Costco are beautiful and $20ish including the tiara and wand. (Tink came with Tiara and wings.)

Do not forget about your shoes, the Spanish love shoes, and for them a pair of shabby shoes can let down a whole outfit.

This sentence cracked me up and brought back memories. When DH and I were flying back from our honeymoon, we had quite a bit of time to kill in the Madrid airport, so we sat on or near the floor in these very low chairs and people watched. At that level, what we saw mostly was shoes. And some very bizarre ones and others that were quite ugly. We still joke about Madrid being the city of ugly shoes!