Nice positive spin Gary! I'm more than happy with the line-up on our cruise. We have at least one Cars nut in the house.
We caught the trailer for Planes from Pixar. I can't wait for that and the boys are so excited. I also saw a new Tinkerbell movie coming out too, which looks beautiful.
Sandra - that's a heck of a long time to be in a splint without casting. I hope he's not in too much pain and they immoblised it well for him. You can get all sorts of waterproof contraptions these days for casts. Fingers crossed your grandson is way too busy with all the other activities onboard to want to get in a pool anyway.
JSG - I told Oli about the ray gun and he was most statified but cautioned it just had to kill the thing, not blow it apart as it could be good eating.
Gail - what was the final count for the postcards please? I'm hoping to get to the shops this weekend.
Okay people - we got a little sidetracked here with giant prawn attacks... is there a postbox and place to buy stamps to all nations on the Wonder?
Small people problem 8 sleeps out from flying... both boys have swollen tonsils, bunged up ears and swollen glands.They have been put on anti-biotics and are getting checked again next week. I hope it's not what I had, that took over 15 days to come right from. They look and sound completely normal but I knew that they weren't 'right'.
That's fine, that will keep all the last minute stalkers on the other cruise
Hum, I don't remember there being a mailbox (postbox) on the ship. And if they do take the mail, it would still probably be postmarked from CA. I would suggest they buy postcards on the ship (they have a lot to choose from) and then mail them from San Francisco to get that postmark
Certainly means Alex won't be sending his girlfriend a postcard every day on holiday!! 
I raised my eyebrows so they almost shot off the top of my head. DH pokes the notes and says 'well I guess we are going to be ordering a lot of room service on the cruise'. 
socababy said:
JSG - thanks, we are loading the kids with antibiotics and they 'seem' okay but I don't want the tonsils or ears getting any worse than they are.
Atmail35, JSG and socababy - thank you kindly for all that great postal information.
Gail - perfect timing, I'm heading to the shops and will get the kids involved in picking cards.
Well on the back of the tipping converstation last week I sent DH out to get some more US cash. I asked for a grand and asked him to get some small bills for tipping. He came back with a pile of notes the thickness of half a house brick... 100 in $1 bills, $500 in $10's and $400 in $5's. 100 one dollar bills?!
If they talked he would stop and stare at them. Matthew is such a kick......
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