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  1. I took one swimsuit on my last cruise and never used it. Between the cold pool that looked like Times Square on New Years Eve and the hot tubs (or Giant Tub 'o Cream of Unmentionable Bodily Excretions Soup, as I call them), I didn't see the attraction. But then, I live in Florida, so it's not a novelty.
  2. If I wore heels in the evening (or any other time), I'd probably be taking a trip to the emergency room and I'd be wearing a cast.
  3. I love the hat AND the dress.....just not together.
  4. If it's on Facebook and it looks "too good to be true", well, run.... Run fast. Do not click go, you won't be collecting anything.
  5. I asked several employees for duct tape (since they didn't sell it in any of the shops) when my suitcase broke, but nobody could get me any. I always carry a small roll now. The flight attendants had duct tape once when I really needed it. I had broken a bone in my foot while on vacation and my foot swelled up so badly during a transatlantic flight that I couldn't get my shoe back on. They cut my shoe open and reconstructed it with duct tape so that it was big enough to accommodate my foot. Then they decorated the other shoe to make the two look more alike. Bless 'em! Duct tape is like The Force.....it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.
  6. Nobody pronounces my first name or middle name correctly. Nobody on earth CAN pronounce my last name correctly unless you're related. So I've learned to smile and answer to anything that vaguely resembles any of my names. It's easy enough to do. I may correct the pronunciation somewhere along the line or I may not. It's not that important.
  7. It was either Cape Canaveral Cruise Line or the Dolphin. I wish I could remember. I remember when one of the day-trip ships burned for weeks in Port Canaveral. They'd put out the fire and then it would burst out again. I believe it turned out that a young man who had been contracted as a firefighter (not associated with any local fire departments) had kept restarting the fire because he wanted to continue his employment.
  8. I need a memory jog. I remember taking a cruise out of Port Canaveral somewhere around 1990. I cannot remember the cruiseline or the name of the ship. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Premier Cruiselines (The Big Red Ship) because they joked about it being called Not The Big Red Ship. Or did Premier have two ships operating out of Canaveral? This ship was smaller than The Big Red Ship. If I remember correctly, Premier was branded with Disney at the time. This ship didn't have Disney characters, it had some other characters (maybe Universal Studios?). There was also another ship in the 1980's that did day cruises only out of Canaveral. You could get a cabin for the day or just mill around the ship. Can't remember the name of that one, either. Man, I'm getting old and the memory is fading. Can anyone help me out?
  9. 1967....the old Queen Elizabeth on one of its last sailings. My sister and I were teenagers, coming back from three months of bumming around Europe, first time ever off on our own. We had a dark little cabin in "tourist class" (steerage, in other words....) The old girl was getting pretty shabby but we thought it was the Ritz. Veddy, veddy British and proper, nothing like today's cruises. We had a great time.
  10. You do NOT want to be in the middle of any kind of disturbance in Istanbul. The police stop disturbances quickly and violently. When I was last there, I was told that if I hear any kind of singing, clapping, shouting, etc., to turn straight around IMMEDIATELY and make tracks as fast as possible in the opposite direction. We came across a rather peaceful demonstration by students concerning a professor at the university who had been fired. The police were gathering on one side of the square, with shields, riot guns, and armored vehicles mounted with guns. Believe me, we made tracks..... Istanbul is my favorite city on earth, but it's a place you have to be vigilant about your safety, just like any big city.
  11. I went on one Disney cruise. I went for free, even. They'd have to pay me to go on another one.
  12. I usually get up about 4 a.m. and watch the pilot boat arrive and enjoy watching the ship pull into port. If necessary, I'll get up even earlier. Then I grab a cup of tea and a pastry if available and go back to bed until a civilized hour....LOL. I love seeing the lights of the islands in the distance and watching us pulling closer. One time, I got up early enough pulling back into Tampa to watch the ship go under the bridge. It was like having a huge spaceship fly over just over the ship. I was looking up and got so disoriented by the sight that I fell down flat on my back on the deck. Didn't hurt myself, thank goodness.
  13. I figured they were afraid she was going to threaten to clip the captain's nails too short unless he skipped the Nassau stop.......
  14. My sister had her nail clippers confiscated a few years ago. So she had to buy another pair in the ship gift shop. Same clippers. What a great scheme to get you to have to buy stuff on board, huh?
  15. 1967. My sister and I, both teenagers, were returning from three months of bumming around Europe. We sailed home on the old Queen Elizabeth. It was an eye-opening experience.
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