Rikerbehr

We are also booked on the 11 day cruise, have not used the boards in awhile but decided to see if anyone mentioned the cruise. Hope to see you guys on board. We are travelling with family as well. But always pop into the LGBT mixers when on the schedule. If they do one the first night we try and plan a back up meeting time if HAL does not do it every night.

See you there Mike, Looking forward to our second Spring cruise with the Chumley group.

Any other couple doing the Southern Caribbean on the Noordam Nov 13th to the 24th?

:)

At the airport in Seattle! So looking forward to much warmer temperatures this week.

Hope you had a good flight, we got in at 9am Eastern and was able to get into the hotel early. Relaxing this evening and may rent a car tomorrow to look around. Going to have dinner in the hotel restaurant tonight.

:) It is over cast, but so much warmer then home.

I looked up the ports, but was not able to find the exact port in St. Thomas. Maybe your travel agent or calling HAL would get you the info.

Just got our room assignment, 3 more days until we fly out.

Ken

We are in an SC Guar, still no room assignment yet, but know we are getting close.

We have planned 4 meals in the Tamarind, 1 dinner in the Pinnacle Grill as for shore excursions we have pre-booked all of them via HAL. Still have not ventured to arrange one via another source.

Grand Turk - Cockburn Town & National Museum

San Juan - History & Cuisine of San Juan on Foot

St. Thomas - Peaks, Panoramas, Pirates and Plunder

First stop in Half Moon Cay we are planning a spa day.

FLL - Land & Sea Excursion

Second stop in Half Moon Cay - We are looking at doing something, have not decided yet.

Georgetown - A taste of Cayman

Cozumel - Chicken Itza

Key West - Ghosts & Gravestones

On board for the first leg, we will be at each of the wine tastings, we don't drink much so, we like to do these cause they are fun and cheap.

On the second leg we are going to do all the Mixology classes. That will be the bulk of what we spend on for alcohol. Plus if they do a pub crawl.

Any down time, will be on our verandah.. Have never down the ship tour of the kitchen on any of the pay ship tours. Just will depend on what is going on.

12 more days. :)

Ken

All good destinations, On our bucket list is the Med, Panama Canal, and Eastern Canada. We have done Mexico twice, it was fun, but I like the different islands of the Caribbean better.

I would also like to do Australia sometime. 9 days until we fly out.

But who's counting.

:)

Ken

Jami,

Hal is my favorite, we have not done RCL, but have been on Princess and enjoyed our experience. My first cruise was on the Amsterdam. Loved cruising right away. Since we live in Seatlle we have cruised Alaska 5 times. What is your favorite cruise destination?

Ken

Richard and Kevin,

Welcome to the group, hope you have a great cruise. The Eurodam is on my list of HAL ships I would like to cruise on. I am kinda of a Hal junkie, we are trying to cruise on there Vista class ships, and there Signature class ships. Also looking forward to the new Pinnacle Class ship coming out in 2016.

See you all soon, 16ish days and counting down.

Ken & Micah

Jami,

We are at the Sheraton FLL, chose it for the free ride to the port. :)

I use to be on another site, but it never seemed busy, I only use CC now.

If the other roll call does a meet and greet we will show up. I am also on the

Dec 1st Roll Call as we will be on that cruise as well, not really seeing much progress in a meet and greet as well.

Hope we have a good group at the LGBT socials, they are always hit an miss on Holland, but have met some nice people we still stay in touch with on Facebook.

I am ready to start packing, I check every day for our room assignment. :)

Ken/Micah

Howdy all

We always look forward to meeting people at the LGBT get together. On the last few HAL cruises they have been renamed LGBT or GLBT they have been in the Crows nest, and have been around 5pm. Each ship is different as the cruise director figures out the schedule. We try and go to as many as possible, depending on shore excursions and dinner reservations.

Jami, I have seen you on the HAL Roll call page as well, Are you planning to going to that meet & greet?

Depending on what is going on, we normally are up in the Crows Nest for sail away. So if there is nothing set up on the first day schedule you can find us up there.

We fly down from Seattle on Thursday the 21st and are staying 2 nights in FLL before the cruise.

We are also going to try and pack as light as possible, doing a suite so we will be using the laundry service as much as possible, have to save some bag space to bring some rum back home with us. :D

See you all soon.. Safe travels from your home port to the cruise port.

Ken and Micah

My partner and I are also booked on this cruise, are doing the back to back Nov 24 thru Dec 8th. Looking forward to meeting you all. This will be our first 14 day cruise, our second on the N. Amsterdam and our 14th on HAL.

A little over 30 days and counting down.

Ken and Micah