Wonderful Panama Canal Sept 2014

[kerstfan1]

I also would like to send my congratulations on your stateroom savings and booking the cruise!!! Now all you have to do is..................like us...........wait for just over 1 year to go by until the cruise!!! (It'll go by faster then we think......................SURE IT WILL!!!)

yes it will be hard even because i dont have officaly got the time off yet

 

[Va-NanaTink]

yes it will be hard even because i dont have officaly got the time off yet

Most of us don't. Kind of hard to request time off that is more than a year away! My boss doesn't approve until the month of. Yeah, it makes it crazy...but she KNOWS well in advance and she's never said no. I don't abuse my leave so it's all good!

 

[kerstfan1]

On nu team lots of people frequent september but i did asked them of they were oke with it and they were. Vacation time had to approved no later tv en feb 1.

 

[kerstfan1]

sorry for the bad typing it is the phone and its auto words

 

[Va-NanaTink]

sorry for the bad typing it is the phone and its auto words

Don't worry, we've all had issues with autocorrect!
Sometimes it is so far from what you meant to say...you wonder how it got there!

 

[OMD13]

kerstfan1 This is going to be an awesome cruise There are some fun people signed up and we still have a year to go.

 

[kdeans1010]

yes it will be hard even because i dont have officaly got the time off yet

Congrats on booking! Don't worry about not even getting the time off yet. I currently have 60 hours of PTO, but possibly taking time off in December (maybe. Depending on my work schedule, I'm going on the first weekend of December to Port Orchard/where all the Debbie MacComber books are set.), and I have sister's wedding- so PTO there. I have told my boss, along with my friend Leannda and Em... "Heads up one third of your aides are going to be gone for almost 3 weeks!"

I swear I think my group is doing this totally different than everyone else. We're not going to Disneyland or Hollywood before. We're going to Rancho Cucamonga, California- my hometown. We're going to Miguel Jr's and my friends are going to see where I grew up. Going to see my grandparents and my brother, rent a car, and see the fabulous smog filled Inland Empire. Y'all are missing out on Miguel Junior's and Tommy Burgers and Del Taco and In and Out.

 

[kerstfan1]

Congrats on booking! Don't worry about not even getting the time off yet. I currently have 60 hours of PTO, but possibly taking time off in December (maybe. Depending on my work schedule, I'm going on the first weekend of December to Port Orchard/where all the Debbie MacComber books are set.), and I have sister's wedding- so PTO there. I have told my boss, along with my friend Leannda and Em... "Heads up one third of your aides are going to be gone for almost 3 weeks!"

I swear I think my group is doing this totally different than everyone else. We're not going to Disneyland or Hollywood before. We're going to Rancho Cucamonga, California- my hometown. We're going to Miguel Jr's and my friends are going to see where I grew up. Going to see my grandparents and my brother, rent a car, and see the fabulous smog filled Inland Empire. Y'all are missing out on Miguel Junior's and Tommy Burgers and Del Taco and In and Out.

that sounds like fun im planing to fly in on the 11th depending on the flight times when i go book the flight but im am planing to do epcot and magic kingdom after the cruise got to get my disney park fix and try and do some food and wine

were not allowed to leave all at once how would our clients get dressed and washed and fed but the second week of september is mostly calm as in vacation time

 

[Va-NanaTink]

Congrats on booking! Don't worry about not even getting the time off yet. I currently have 60 hours of PTO, but possibly taking time off in December (maybe. Depending on my work schedule, I'm going on the first weekend of December to Port Orchard/where all the Debbie MacComber books are set.), and I have sister's wedding- so PTO there. I have told my boss, along with my friend Leannda and Em... "Heads up one third of your aides are going to be gone for almost 3 weeks!"

I swear I think my group is doing this totally different than everyone else. We're not going to Disneyland or Hollywood before. We're going to Rancho Cucamonga, California- my hometown. We're going to Miguel Jr's and my friends are going to see where I grew up. Going to see my grandparents and my brother, rent a car, and see the fabulous smog filled Inland Empire. Y'all are missing out on Miguel Junior's and Tommy Burgers and Del Taco and In and Out.

No Disneyland for us this trip either...going to spend the day before wandering in San Diego while Sulley relives his misspent youth when he was stationed at the Naval Hospital, aka Balboa. We are talking 38 years ago...think things might be different?

but we go back and forth about a couple of days post cruise at WDW....

 

[kayaker35]

No Disneyland for us this trip either...going to spend the day before wandering in San Diego while Sulley relives his misspent youth when he was stationed at the Naval Hospital, aka Balboa. We are talking 38 years ago...think things might be different?

but we go back and forth about a couple of days post cruise at WDW....

My DH has an aunt and a cousin who live in San Diego, so we'll fly out a couple of days early and spend a day with them. It's been quite a few years since we've seen them.

 

[davidls]

yes it will be hard even because i dont have officaly got the time off yet

Most of us don't. Kind of hard to request time off that is more than a year away! My boss doesn't approve until the month of. Yeah, it makes it crazy...but she KNOWS well in advance and she's never said no. I don't abuse my leave so it's all good!

Not me gang!!! I put in for the time off about 3 months ago and it has been approved!!! (Course, I am part time...................work only 3 days a week.................6 hours a day...........I know, I know, I know..............that's a rough schedule..............but I can do it!!!)

 

[kayaker35]

Not me gang!!! I put in for the time off about 3 months ago and it has been approved!!! (Course, I am part time...................work only 3 days a week.................6 hours a day...........I know, I know, I know..............that's a rough schedule..............but I can do it!!!)

Rough, perhaps, but not as rough as being retired!

 

[Va-NanaTink]

Not me gang!!! I put in for the time off about 3 months ago and it has been approved!!! (Course, I am part time...................work only 3 days a week.................6 hours a day...........I know, I know, I know..............that's a rough schedule..............but I can do it!!!)

Rough, perhaps, but not as rough as being retired!

Hush, both of you!

I am just over 6 years from retirement! I hit 19 years this month...OH WAIT! I hit 19 years YESTERDAY
only 6 more to go!!!!

 

[kayaker35]

Hush, both of you!

I am just over 6 years from retirement! I hit 19 years this month...OH WAIT! I hit 19 years YESTERDAY
only 6 more to go!!!!

Of course, working people have more disposable income, but being retired we have more time to enjoy what we have to spend

A friend of ours said that when asked how long it took him to adjust to retirement, he replied, "About as long as it took me to get from the office to the parking lot!"

I saw a great magnet on one of our neighbor's state room door on our Alaska cruise last month: "Spending our children's inheritance, one cruise at a time." I need to make one of those magnets for our next cruise

 

[Va-NanaTink]

Of course, working people have more disposable income, but being retired we have more time to enjoy what we have to spend

A friend of ours said that when asked how long it took him to adjust to retirement, he replied, "About as long as it took me to get from the office to the parking lot!"

I saw a great magnet on one of our neighbor's state room door on our Alaska cruise last month: "Spending our children's inheritance, one cruise at a time." I need to make one of those magnets for our next cruise

Love that magnet!!!!!!

 

[kdeans1010]

Hush, both of you!

I am just over 6 years from retirement! I hit 19 years this month...OH WAIT! I hit 19 years YESTERDAY
only 6 more to go!!!!

If I retire when I'm 70....crap I have 38 more years of this! Does that mean I'm going to be the RN with the walker helping the patient to the BR?

 

[mmbl]

well i am booked i will be in room 2513 with the main dining

Welcome from us Texans as well! What part of Europe do you live in?
Check out PAGE 1 of this thread for lots of useful info, dinner groups, Fish Extender, etc.
We are not sure where we will fly into but we are planning on a couple of days at Disneyland and then we will also head to WDW following the cruise.

 

[mmbl]

Is it too late to go on a diet? I always gain weight on a cruise, can't figure out why this happens.

Gained 4 pounds on my last 5 day cruise, What will a 14 day cruise do?

We have more than a year, most of us can be underweight - so we can eat on the cruise- if we start now and diligently continue throughout the year! Yes, a stat I heard a long time ago is that on average, people gain about a pound a day on cruises!

 

[mmbl]

yes it will be hard even because i dont have officaly got the time off yet

I don't think anyone does yet; except for us very young retirees : )

 

[Va-NanaTink]

If I retire when I'm 70....crap I have 38 more years of this! Does that mean I'm going to be the RN with the walker helping the patient to the BR?

you are gonna work until 70
They would have to commit me to an asylum! My plan is 62---> skidoo! Move to Florida, somewhere on the gulf coast , close enough to drive either to WDW or Port Canaveral!