MS Noordam Sail-Away, Dec. 16, 2013

Your reminder to join us today at 4:00 PM EST and give a hearty Bon Voyage to all sailing on the MS Noordam.

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Special thanks to Sheila for keeping the addicts happy during my absence.

I will try to be here.

Welcome back, Chief! Glad you, too, enjoyed the Nieuw Amsterdam! Who was the Captain, Hotel Director, and Cruise Director? Just curious if the same ones are still there.

Check the cute ship, Explorer, that just arrived at #21!

I should be here today.

Welcome back, Chief! Glad you, too, enjoyed the Nieuw Amsterdam! Who was the Captain, Hotel Director, and Cruise Director? Just curious if the same ones are still there.

Check the cute ship, Explorer, that just arrived at #21!

I should be here today.

Capt Van Zaan, Stan Kuppins HD, CD Dave. Excuse spellings, there names are still packed!

Capt Van Zaan, Stan Kuppins HD, CD Dave. Excuse spellings, there names are still packed!

Dave Shea was on our CD too. He told me he is going to the Eurodam next year. His girlfriend is one of the dancers so I wonder if she is jumping ship, too. He seemed to get along quite well with Marco Van Belleghem, the HD when we were on board, and he mentioned that he is going to Eurodam as well. He's an avid photographer (some of his stuff is for sale on the HAL on line shop), and he loves photographing the Baltic.

I'll be here until 5pm. Hopefully, Noordam will sail on time. At 5, I have to leave to go to my grandson's holiday concert at his school.:)

I missed yesterday for another grandson's birthday party.:)

Welcome back, Chief! Hope to join you later.

Hope I can watch... in just 3 short weeks I'll be on board! Dh and I can hardly wait for our 1st HAL cruise. Retirement is wonderful :D

Welcome back, Chief! Glad you, too, enjoyed the Nieuw Amsterdam! Who was the Captain, Hotel Director, and Cruise Director? Just curious if the same ones are still there.

Check the cute ship, Explorer, that just arrived at #21!

I should be here today.

ms Explorer was built in 2001 for then Royal Olympic Cruises from Greece as their Olympic Explorer . ROC went belly up at the end of 2003. She's very fast, able to do 27 knots, and is/has been working as a floating university for an outfit called Institute for Shipboard Education under their Semester at Sea program

The Bosun and his sailors are busy on NODM by the sounds of it

[/size]541]Hope I can watch... in just 3 short weeks I'll be on board! Dh and I can hardly wait for our 1st HAL cruise. Retirement is wonderful :D

Enjoy, ENJOY, ENJOY!

All I'll have here is some rattling of the anchor chain but I'll take it.

Roy

Hope I can watch... in just 3 short weeks I'll be on board! Dh and I can hardly wait for our 1st HAL cruise. Retirement is wonderful :D

I have to agree that retirement is fantastic! Are you going to be waving to us on the 6th? Let us know and we'll wave back!

Your reminder to join us today at 4:00 PM EST and give a hearty Bon Voyage to all sailing on the MS Noordam.

 

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Special thanks to Sheila for keeping the addicts happy during my absence.

Chief,

Glad you had a great cruise. We were waving back as you sailed away. Sheila did a wonderful job keeping us informed.

Going out with friends this afternoon so will have to miss today's sailaway. See everyone on Wednesday.

Chief,

 

Glad you had a great cruise. We were waving back as you sailed away. Sheila did a wonderful job keeping us informed.

 

Going out with friends this afternoon so will have to miss today's sailaway. See everyone on Wednesday.

Why, thank you, Scrapnana!

And, thank you, John, for the info about Explorer. Interesting indeed.

I will be here, I hope. We were out running some errands this morning, but in for the rest of the day. The sun is shining here, for a change. Our winters can be pretty dreary..

Good afternoon fellow addicts. Hope Noordam sails on time. Have a Board Of Directors meeting at 4:00 PM Central.

It's been a busy day getting the house restocked, sort a ton of mail, and still not fully unpacked.

Where is Harris our room steward?:confused:

Checking in! I see you're back to cold hard reality, Chief.:D

Checking in.

Any changes in the sailing time for the Noordam?

Welcome home to the real world, Chief!

Last I heard on the chatter, Noordam was planning to leave around 4:15....

Welcome home to the real world, Chief!

 

Last I heard on the chatter, Noordam was planning to leave around 4:15....

Thank you!!

Welcome home Chief :)

If you scroll down a bit on the PE screen, the "Tweets" has a list of the departure times for all their ports - interesting.

Checking in. :)

Looks like Liberty may be leaving first.

According to the "Tweets", Noordam is due to leave before Liberty of the Seas. She will have to squeeze past!