bob_and_dawn
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I have decided most men, given the chance, would be quite happy wearing the same clothes all week!
Bob ceratinly would


Off to Wallmart for him in the morning lol,
Dawn
I have decided most men, given the chance, would be quite happy wearing the same clothes all week!
I searched back through part 8 of this meet thread, and found that 7 people had expressed interest in doing yoga. As i recall, the "hidden deck" at 7 aft is more than big enough for that many, and more, so I think we should try to make this work. Cynthia (elderfam) has volunteered to lead, and I can lead in a pinch (I'd call myself an "experienced beginner"). As well, the professional fitness people on board (as I recall) offer yoga sessions every 2-3 days, although their sessions tend to be short, only about 30 minutes.
Here are the names of the people who have expressed interest in yoga that I could find in the thread:
su_kraft
Custard tart
elderfam + husband
Hoagie pie
tink,too
Futurist
For others who haven't done yoga and are curious, it's a wonderful way to increase your flexibility, strengthen core muscles, and help you stay active and healthy as you age. There's a yogic saying that "You're as young as your spine", and yoga is all about the spine and breathing. I do it once a week as a counterpoint to walking and weight lifting (not at the same time!) the rest of the week, and always feel both relaxed and energized afterwards. Try it, you might like it! As Cynthia has said, we won't be doing super-bendy stuff. And if there's a qualified instructor or an experienced yogi or yogini in our midst - please step forward and help us! It doesn't have to be every day, even just once or twice would be helpful.
Should we ask gismo (Sarah) to add yoga, deck 7 aft ("secret deck") at 7:30 a.m. on sea days to the DIS navigator?
Namaste, and See You Real Soon!
Richard
Hi Woody ... welcome to the UK. Good to hear you are enjoying London.
Glad you made it to London safe and sound!
Glad to see you made it to London safely. Sounds like you are having a great time! Keep in touch - we want to hear about all the fun activities!!!
Hope you and Mrs. Woody have been having a lovely time!! Great to hear from you!!
Here is a link to all the menus from the Med cruise we came off of yesterday - just to give an idea of what might be on offer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40285840@N03/sets/72157624762416612/
On a really early post I had copies of the menus attached from the last TA. The themes mainly relate to food. The Villians night however is a themed night as well so there may be other Villian stuff going on. The others are just menu nights.
Here's the menus
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28718645&postcount=3004
Farewell to the Caribbean (similar to the Welcome to Caribbean)
Transatlantic Menu
Prince & Princess Menu
There are more if you want them but these were the ones I think that differ from those shown!
I really need to nail down my plans for Gibraltar because it's bugging me that it's not settled yet! I want to go to the Rock without the help of DCL, but I'm not sure how I want to go about doing it. I see so many options, but what I think would be easiest for my back is a "taxi tour". I would love to go up the cable car too, though, to film. See! I'm so undecided!
I fear the taxi tour won't be an option going single. I've read where you can go into town where there's a taxi line. For those of you who have been there before, do you know if they have like mini-vans that will take multiple people up and down the Rock?
For anyone else who's still researching their options for Gibraltar, I did find this informative post on Trip-Advisor that started with a DCL 2010 EBTA cruiser!
John and I are going to do the Skywalk Combo. I am quoting from I think mdwoodman's post.
Cable Car ticket (options single or return and child or adult)
Multimedia Tour (hand held guide included in adult ticket only and for use exclusively within the Cable Car Top Station)
Apes (The apes are wild animals and roam freely throughout the Upper Rock area. However they are usually seen at both the Cable Car Top and Middle Station otherwise known as Apes Den.)
Nature Reserve entrance ticket - Entrance to: St Michael's Cave, Great Siege Tunnels, City Under Siege Exhibition, Moorish Castle and 100 Ton Gun. (this ticket must be redeemed at the Cable Cart ticket office BEFORE entering any of the sights.) The Nature Reserve ticket must be used on the same day as the Cable Car ticket, see below.)
FREE Gibraltar Bus Pass (adult or child one day bus pass). This must be collected from the Gibraltarinfo kiosk on the Spanish side of the Gibraltar/Spanish land frontier.
(Note that the Bus Pass isn't really worthwhile, since we won't be going to the land frontier. However, cruise ships normally provide shuttle buses or it's only £1 each for the public bus.)
John and I decided e are going to take a taxi to collect the tickets. You are welcome to take the taxi with us to the border pick up the tour tickets if you are interested. Check it out and let us know.
Noel
If you want to split the taxi let us know as this looks like something we were planning to do. I want to see the monkeys and Bob wants to go through the caves. Val
We simply walk to the coach park (about 1/2 mile) and catch the #4 bus to the cable car station. I think it's 65 cents one way or 90 cents return (Euro cents). I don't plan to take the cable car back down, so I'll be getting the one-way ticket. Here's a Google Earth image:
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Anyone needing to fly back from Orlando to San Francisco Oct 6-Nov 17, take note:
From the Travelzoo Newsdesk:
SAN FRANCISCO--AUGUST 20, 2010-- This morning, Virgin
America reduced fares on nonstop fall flights to Orlando
from San Francisco to $129 each way. This is an additional
$50 off already-discounted prices on this new route.
Travel Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday from Oct. 6, when
service begins, through Nov. 17. Flights on Fridays and
Sundays are $20 more.
The sale ends at 11:59 p.m. PT Aug. 30.
For all of you who are coming to San Francisco on the LA to Vancouver DCL next year, or just coming on your own to visit, we would love to help you plan your visit or perhaps take you on a tour. We don't have a van, just a buick, so can't take more then 2-3 in our car but our bus system takes you almost anywhere you would want to go. I know some people aren't comfortable in a strange city using the bus system but we would be happy to advise or maybe meet you and go with you. We can also send you trip tiks and other info we can pickup from the hotel lobbys here in the city. Although we live in the residential area of the city we are often in the areas where alot of tourists are. Our medical building is in Union Square, on the cable car line, and we shop in the Haight Ashbury area. Basically, our city is only 49 square miles. We often stop and offer help to tourists we see pouring over the maps in tourist books that are often not to scale. Two warnings I give friends coming to the city - 1. bring layered clothes and be prepared for rain like fog in the morning and warm (not hot) sun in the afternoon and then wind and fog in the evening (before the Spanish came, the Indians hunted here but didn't live here - the weather sucked to much). 2. Although we are a small city anticipate climbing hills if you plan to walk around. My in shape friends from the East couldn't believe how many and steep our hills are. I live on a 15% hill and some of the streets around us have stairs for sidewalks because they are so steep. One street we take every day has a city sign "hill" at the top that someone has crossed out and wrote "CLIFF!".
PM me if anyone wants info. Val
I haven't even thought about clothes yet, I haven't even been through my wardrobe to see what still fits, probably not muchI have however been sorting much more important things like door magnets
I might go shopping the week before we go and pick up a few bits and then pack the night before
I can't believe I haven't checked the thread for about 2 days and already the old one has been closed and your all nearly 30 pages into a new one![]()
HI everyone
Well its not so long now 26 days (i leave on the 16th!) so have to be packed soon
I know i would find it useful to have some packing tips
oh yeah still need to buy a suit case i need one for carry on and one for main luggage
I am going for the cruise then going straight to Disney world for 10 days so need alot of clothes
formal and casual so lots of T shirts, swim wear etc
well i can only carry 20 KG as easy jet only allows in hold luggage that amount (virgin is a little over)
well came up with a pretty neat solution
for those in the UK asda are selling those vacumn style space saving clothes bags 2 for £5 but the neat thing is THEY DO NOT NEED a vacum you fill then up seal the one end (they are reusable) then you roll them up and the air is expelled from the bottom .. ITS ACE it really works and its easyit really drops the space you take with t shirts, jeans and casual trousers or shirt or even swimming shorts not the formal wear though
hay they are also waterproof but they will crease everything
so does any one else have any packing tips ?
jason
I was at the airport once and this poor lady was trying to redistribute her packing because she was way over the weight limit. The problem was she had used all those space savers and assumed she would be ok because everything fit. She didn't seem to realize getting rid of the air didn't reduce the weight of the clothes. She was in tears and I really felt bad for her. Kinda reminded me of when I got a great deal on books in Hawaii, hardbacks for .25 at a library sale. It wasn't such a great deal when I had to pay the over weight charge at the airport. Oh well, live and learn. Val
Bob ceratinly wouldHe is into his 3rd week in Virginia and only now realising that 2 pairs of trousers was not enough
Off to Wallmart for him in the morning lol,
Dawn
I was at the airport once and this poor lady was trying to redistribute her packing because she was way over the weight limit. The problem was she had used all those space savers and assumed she would be ok because everything fit. She didn't seem to realize getting rid of the air didn't reduce the weight of the clothes. She was in tears and I really felt bad for her. Kinda reminded me of when I got a great deal on books in Hawaii, hardbacks for .25 at a library sale. It wasn't such a great deal when I had to pay the over weight charge at the airport. Oh well, live and learn. Val
Yesterday we went on a daytrip to Canterbury. Had a tasty lunch of pies and pasties. We then went to the Canterbury Cathedral, which is amazing.
Today we went on a daytrip to Cambridge. It's been donkey years since we've been there, and there are so many new shopping centers and stores. The highlight was an outdoor performance of Twelfth Night.
Woody
HI everyone
Well its not so long now 26 days (i leave on the 16th!) so have to be packed soon
I know i would find it useful to have some packing tips
oh yeah still need to buy a suit case i need one for carry on and one for main luggage
I am going for the cruise then going straight to Disney world for 10 days so need alot of clothes
formal and casual so lots of T shirts, swim wear etc
well i can only carry 20 KG as easy jet only allows in hold luggage that amount (virgin is a little over)
well came up with a pretty neat solution
for those in the UK asda are selling those vacumn style space saving clothes bags 2 for £5 but the neat thing is THEY DO NOT NEED a vacum you fill then up seal the one end (they are reusable) then you roll them up and the air is expelled from the bottom .. ITS ACE it really works and its easyit really drops the space you take with t shirts, jeans and casual trousers or shirt or even swimming shorts not the formal wear though
hay they are also waterproof but they will crease everything
so does any one else have any packing tips ?
jason
Should I mention I've already put it in there lol! Added it when it was suggested before incase this was later confirmed and I assume this is the confirmation so its all good!
Canterbury Cathedral is lovely - my eldest son had his graduation ceremony there...Yesterday we went on a daytrip to Canterbury. Had a tasty lunch of pies and pasties. We then went to the Canterbury Cathedral, which is amazing.
The idea of Becca loosing her tooth while we are cruising reminds me of a story that I read here on the DIS some time ago that had may of the readers tearing up over. A DD had lost her tooth while they were sailing, and the DW happened to mention it to the stateroom host/hostess simply as a topic of conversation telling him/her that her DD was just so excited the tooth fairy was going to visit her that night. When they got back from dinner, there was a trail of shimmery pixie dust that led from the veranda door to the bed and nightstand. There was a signed picture of Tinkerbell for the DD sitting on the bed along with something else (I don't remember what though). Anyways, that was incredibly special and absolutely unprovoked! That's the best pixie dust one can get!
For now anyway , Please include me wife Helen as she does Bikram Yoga 3 times a week here in Vegas and she expressed interest in doing Yoga on the ship ...
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Just refer him to us all here!!!![]()
I haven't even thought about clothes yet, I haven't even been through my wardrobe to see what still fits, probably not muchI have however been sorting much more important things like door magnets
I might go shopping the week before we go and pick up a few bits and then pack the night before
I can't believe I haven't checked the thread for about 2 days and already the old one has been closed and your all nearly 30 pages into a new one![]()
Bob ceratinly wouldHe is into his 3rd week in Virginia and only now realising that 2 pairs of trousers was not enough
Off to Wallmart for him in the morning lol,
Dawn
Yesterday we went on a daytrip to Canterbury. Had a tasty lunch of pies and pasties. We then went to the Canterbury Cathedral, which is amazing.
Today we went on a daytrip to Cambridge. It's been donkey years since we've been there, and there are so many new shopping centers and stores. The highlight was an outdoor performance of Twelfth Night.
Woody
Thanks for the feedback on my suggestion of having all the events and excursions online for everyone to note what they are doing. Except for adding events, Im pretty much finished as I have added all the DCL excursions that I could locate, and also created events for each port for 'Doing my own thing' and 'Staying on the ship', as well as the final event on October 2, 'Leaving the Magic, we're headed to '.
There is now an events page that has links to all the individual events in greater detail. A couple things to note:
A. Registration is closed for this event - this is also noted at signup.
B. Registration is done via the website - you don't need to contact anyone
C. Registration is done via 3rd party (in this case DCL) Please register before noting it on the website
D. Counts of people and parties signed up. In this case 6 people from 2 parties.
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On the event details page, it will give a more thorough description of the event, and show all parties signed up. There is also a note field when you register, and the notes will also appear on this page. This is mostly for events such as 'Doing my own thing..', Staying on the ship..' and 'Leaving the ship, heading to...'
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For events you can register online, you will see:
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For events you must register with a 3rd party, you will see:
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For events that are closed, you will see:
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Id like to get more events added to this list, if you would like to have me add your event to the list, I need the following:
Event name:
Organizer:
Date:
Time:
Short Description: (appears on Events page and sign up page)
Long Description: (appears on Event Detail page) This can be formatted, see Stateroom tour
Location:
Registration via: (Website or Organizer)
Reg Status: (Open or Closed)
OK, temporarily caught up.
Only hole in our travel arrangements is getting from the airport to Le Meridien the day before. Can't use DCL because booked independently.
Has anyone pre-booked direct transport, which can cope with excessive cruise baggage, to a Barcelona hotel![]()
I know just what you mean, yesterday at the gym, I counted I used 6 different products, none of them makeup, after all the stuff I used in the shower. I was wondering if I think I need this stuff because I'm older and falling a part or because I've believe all the junk I hear on television. With the length of this cruise you can't bring travel size stuff. I'll need a darn suitcase just for this stuff!!
val