V's Bad Girl Guide to 15 Nights of Partying through Panama! Updated ~ 6/14!

[miztigg]

hope you are having a awesome time!!!

 

[lillygator]

Friday May 9th, 2008 ~ Pirate Law #20 ~ No pirate shall attend a movie with less than an Arrrr rating.

I’ll make a confession. Since the end of November I have not been able to concentrate on anything, except the cruise. I have researched the ports until my keyboard actually felt like an appendage. Now, the time has come for the journey to get underway. Will it live up to the hype? Arrr, I do believe it will.

The day started as any other. Charming, giving me a quick kiss and a “goodbye beautiful”, was gone by 5:30 am. I had to cattle prod the girls from their slumber and argue with Samantha about what she was going to wear and then off to school and work, early for a change. Yes, I had to work today…see I am an accountant and we have this pesky thing called month end close that I can never seem to get out of.

Do employers really think employees about to go on vacation are productive? I mean, really, what am I thinking about today?

CRUISE, CRUISE, CRUISE!

Never the less, I went about my day. I called Charming so often I think he was starting to get annoyed with me. What was wrong with him? We are going on VACATION soon…!


I was calm in the fact that the bags were packed and we would be leaving soon, very soon. Although, it doesn’t seem soon enough. All the plans were in place. The car to WDW, over night stay at Saratoga Springs, car to the port, car to Disneyland, two night stay at the Candy Cane Inn, flight back to Florida and a pick up and ride home from the airport. Can it really be that simple? Will everything go as planned?

I moved through the day as any soon to be vacationer would….clock watching. It taunted me with every tick….almost gleefully knowing that I could not yet escape the confines of my office. After what seemed to be a torturously long day, I shut down my PC, locked the door and floated out of the office with a grin that would rival the Cheshire Cat….

I convinced Charming to get the girls and since my long day at the office was really only until noon, I went to Walgreens to pick up my color print cartridge.....you know, so I could print my magnets that I have had 462 days to be working on. So I walk into to the store and my shoe breaks....not the heel of the high heel, the front strap making it impossible to even cover my foot....luckily this is Walgreens and Florida, there were $1.99 flip flops right by the register.

So if the camers guy wasn't already laughing enough, once I told him my name, he was shaking his head, "Lady, you've refilled this one too many times." Who knew print cartridges had a shelf life?

Rather dejected, I took my recyclable cartridge and new designer flops over to Office Depot to purchase a new one. $32.99 later I am on my way home to print magnets....so $15.99 for magnet sheets, $32.99 for a cartridge, you do the math!

Finally Charming arrived home and then all we had to do was sit and wait....wait, wait, wait for my mom to pick us up.

“Mom, are we going to the cruise now?” Yes girls, this is it – really I promise. I have been talking about this cruise for over a year so I am sure they think it is some pipe dream. They have dutifully stayed out of the cruise box and away from the surprises. And Samantha has even managed to keep her fashion loving fingers off her new clothes for the better part of a year! That’s some kind of feat I tell you.

My mom arrives and here's what has to fit in her car...

After 62 “are we there yet”’s, 2 rounds of 99 bottles of beer on the wall, finding the alphabet on license plates, and a few pokes and pinches later we drive passed the big Mickey ears, which always signals our arrival to the World, and right up to Goodings. We had to get breakfast stuff....OMG, there is nothing under $3.79 in the whole place - a 1/2 gallon of ice cream was $6.89!

Yowzer, after a small forture we were finished and heading over to Saratoga Springs.

This is our first time staying here, and boy were we stylin’, Bad Girls dream about the Grand Villa!

John and Sophie are outside waiting for us and then starts the luggage train.

We finally made it!

Our Geek friends were there and we sat and chatted and waited for more Geek friends to arrive. I finally hit the hay around 1, not sure about the rest of the crew!

Tomorrow, the boat awaits!

 

[TiggersPal]

Have a great time!!! please extend a huge hello to all from me, sitting at my desk awaiting some on-line reports while you are all gone and having a great time!!!! Remember me??? TiggersPal - ????


HAVE AN AWESOME SAFE TRIP!!!

 

[SplashMountainManiac]

I just found this thread today and became hooked the moment you mentioned the Gators , my school starting in the fall. We're on the june 1st mexico cruise, so take good care of the Magic for us. Hope you have an awesome trip.

 

[Verandah Man]

Some pics of the Magic today from Port Canaveral to sailing past the Two Palms cam............Bon Voyage have a MAGICal time.......

 

[Michelle2]

How exciting! Have a magical time!! Can't wait to hear about your adventures.

 

[Marypoppinsiam]

I can't wait to hear more. Have a great trip!!

 

[lbgraves]

from the eastbound thread...

I got some nice shots of the Magic.We got there at 4:30 and she blew her horn at 4:45. didn't as she sailed past us I spoke to Laura while the ship started out and she told me she and Steve were wearing Green and on the 10th deck by the basketball cts. Well if you look reallly closely, you can see 2 figures in green and 1 has the camera fixed to her face We then drove out to the beach to catch her sailing out to sea. If the video comes out ok, I will post the youtube link. Enjoy.BYW, the timestamp is an hour behind

The port was crazy with small boats trying to get out of the water. There had to be over 30 waiting. The Coast Guard came thru blowing their siren to get them to move over. I don't know. If I saw a very very large ship heading straight for me, I wouldn't need a siren..............


We stopped by the terminal

Here she comes........

Deck 10. See those in green?? It is much clearer on my computer. Here let me blow it up a bit

If you look closely, you will see the camera in Lauras face. Would be funny if it wasn't them...........

going

Out to sea. Bon Voyage......................

 

[Verandah Man]

Nice pics Arlene!!!

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Awesome Pics!!!

 

[Joan1]

I would love to know how it goes with the car rental in Aruba as we are looking on doing the same thing

Hope you are having a MAGICAL time

 

[TiggersPal]

Hey Miss V - how did the DIS meet go on Sail day???? How is it going??? Who is posting live??? ENJOY EACH AND EVERY MOMENT@!!! TPLEASE IF YOU SEE HER - TELL MY SIS I SAID HELLO!!!

 

[lillygator]

not much time to post having a balst though! Panama tomorrow! I had fun in Aruba, not sure about the rest of the group! Hope to post more soon!

 

[TiggersPal]

Glad you are having a good time. How could you not? Your on the MAGIC!!!

Safe trip thru the canal...

 

[lillygator]

I missed the meet and just about everything I signed up for.....too much stuff going on! Prince Caspien is on tonight and we are going thru the canal right now. DH has probably taken 400+ pictures today.
East meets West dinner tonight. I think we are going to hit match your mate.....

 

[DMMarla07860]

who are some of the cruise staff members on board? can you find out who will be CD in July?

Hope the cruise is going great and stays great

 

[brack]

Glad to see you're having fun V! Tell the other Geeks that Annette and I send our love.

 

[lillygator]

Acapulco today, we pick up the boat pilot at 10:30....Palo brunch yesterday, dinner the night before, yum!
They played the Cavs game on the Ariel tv yesterday, too bad they lost, I have been keeping a written journal daily as well as getting menus daily so I will have lots of detail when I update my report!
I have to say, DCL needs more longer cruises, I can't go back to a 7 day after this!

 

[UKANGEL]

Loving your report V Wish we hadn't had to cancel Looking forward to all the reports from you

 

[jns]

really enjoying your pre trip report
Hope you are having a ball
looking forward to hearing all about it

thanks for sharing