Momof3gurlz

I’m so sorry for the loss of your son’s Dad. Your son is fortunate to have you and his fiancé by his side. I wish him luck straightening out the financial situation, it can be daunting. Especially the Italian ones 😉 🇮🇹!

Great news! Looking forward to your next update.

Nothing wrong with some down time and relaxing after the past what is it, year and a half? you’ve had.

Same here Debbie. Andy thinks he would go stir crazy with that many sea days. Which means he’d be driving me nuts so I don’t see one in our future.

Too funny Renee! Stunning! And a bonus rainbow 🌈!

So very sad. My condolences to you and Eric.

🙂. We’re only in port from 8-5. This will be our first time in Aruba. I researched quickly this morning and more than likely we’ll spend a couple of hours at Eagle Beach, then explore the town a little bit (which will include a little shopping, naturally 😉) and probably get a drink somewhere before boarding. It’s a long way off but depending on what you end up doing for the day, maybe we can meet somewhere for a cold beverage. I’m curious to know if we really have met on a prior cruise!

I’ll have to look, I wonder if we’re in Aruba the same day? I didn’t know you could combine offers. I may need to spend more than my usual $20/two minutes in the casino in the future 😂!

The last few days I’ve been focused on planning out our days in Venice & Rome, then Barcelona post cruise. For our port stops, we’re doing excursions two of the days and DIY’ing the other days. Also, I don’t know if I mentioned it but Andy received another casino cruise certificate while we were on Independence a couple of weeks ago. We figured this would work perfectly into our usual 3 weeks in FL next Feb/March. Looking at the list, we narrowed down the cruises that interested us, deciding we would go with an Inside cabin to make this truly a free cruise (other than taxes & port fees). When Andy called the casino line to get information, he was informed that his offer had been upgraded. We logged in to review the upgraded offer list and were surprised to see many more options with the majority of them balcony cabins. Bottom line is we booked an 8 night cruise on Adventure out of PC on 3/1, going to Labadee, Aruba and Bonaire, in a balcony cabin for $185.26 in port fees & taxes! He only spent a little time, maybe 2 hours total, at the slots and ended up about $1,200 ahead. I have no idea what their matrix is for these offers, but I’ll take it!

@singinalot +1!

I guess I missed an earlier post about this. I wish her a successful surgery and easy recovery. And thank goodness it had not metastasized.

I would love to do that May 30, 2024 Jewel itinerary but just took a peek at balcony prices - yikes!

Happy Birthday to Sharon! Absolutely gorgeous flowers.

I have two pairs, one I love and another older pair I’m no longer crazy about the style so they’ve become my ‘beaters’, just to wear working in the yard or whatever. I wasn’t aware of the built in readers option. I’m going to have to look into those.

We had a couple of fantastic 9 night sailings on Explorer out of Bayonne back in March 2013 & Jan 2014. We also sailed NCL Gem 10 night from NYC in Feb 2017. During that cruise there was a big snowstorm in NY and we arrived to our car snowed and iced in at the Manhattan terminal parking. It took Andy forever to dig us out with a hand shovel, in his boat shoes no less!

Whichever version you decide on, I’m sure it’ll be great. As for being videotaped on the JVD trip, I guess that’ll depend on how many Painkillers I have 😉😂. Just kidding, I’m good with it. Agree. You’re the professional Greg but I think we’ll all be happy to assist and make it a joint effort.

I’ll be happy too! Also on this sailing are @jmh2006 @Sea Dog @Husky1987 and @mo&fran so you should be able to get multiple points of view. I believe Greg plans on doing an ‘as if’ Live review.

Less than that. We leave Sept 24th for our Med cruise, return on Oct 9th and we’re home for a whole 10 days before heading to Ft Lauderdale and Adventure.

We are finally home. Sorry for any birthdays, anniversaries, illnesses, etc I may have missed. It was my intention to keep up with at least reading the thread each night before bed, but I ended up just crashing every night. We flew home from Orlando yesterday and were pleasantly surprised to find a cloudy, 70 degree day. What a welcome relief after 14 straight days of mid-90’s and sunny with very little rain. I know mid-90’s is nothing compared to what others are experiencing around the country, but it was tough walking around amusement parks all day in that heat. My activity data shows we averaged about 8 miles per day walking. It was a great family vacation though and after eating out every single meal, plus wine or cocktails every night, I really need to detox! I’m looking forward to some healthy, home cooked dinners. And keeping up with the thread 🙂!

We’re currently in Walt Disney World with the family, sheltering indoors at the moment from a severe t-storm. We live in Coventry but very close to the Hope Village/Scituate line. Our neighbor checked and no damage for us. Thanks for asking. It never ceases to amaze me how we check-in in each other here 🙂.

Maybe you can convince her to try a 3 or 4 nighter to give it another go, and combine it with a land vacation. (Sorry, Marietta, I didn’t mean to quote you but couldn’t remove it!)

@Luckynana Wishing you the happiest of birthdays Maryann!!

Explorer in March is one of the possibilities for our free Prime cruise in March. We haven’t sailed her since 2014 so I’m sure she’s been refurbished since then. Waiting until we get home to research further, but if you end up on Explorer perhaps we’ll see you!

We are back from our Indy cruise with the two grandsons. I have to say it was an excellent cruise although verrry different than the relaxing ones we’re used to. It was go, go, go with them and these three nights coming up at the Polynesian are well deserved by us! We had a car service (GearFusion) pick us up at the port this morning. The driver made two drop stops, one at Coronado Springs Resort to drop the boys with their Mom, then on to Polynesian to drop us off. If anyone wants info on this car service, just ask, I highly recommend them. As I said in an earlier post Indy was great. A couple of sourpuss pool bartenders and our room steward was just ok. But so many friendly, smiling faces among the crew. Food in both the MDR and Windjammer was very, very good. We also had a fantastic waiter, the same one all three nights, who just doted on the boys. They loved CocoCay, the ice show, unlimited snacks at Cafe Promenade, Sorrento’s and Fish & Ships. Splashaway Bay was a big hit but their favorite was unlimited rides on the Flowrider. I’ll also say Nassau has come quite a way since our last visit. We just walked Bay Street, then over to the area with the new Margaritaville and we used the beach in front of the resort for a quick swim for the two boys. We had two side by side balcony cabins on deck 8. Not connecting but we opened the divider between the two and could easily go back & forth. Andrew & I shared one cabin with Will & Andy in the other. I was quite fanatical about not letting them stay in the balcony without one of us there too. They’re 12 & 10 and good kids, but….boys will be boys. A few pictures below. Time for some R & R, before the rest of the family arrives and we move over to OKW.

@dani negreanu I’m so glad to read your ‘kids’ have found more permanent housing. Even if it’s not ideal, it must be a relief. @ReneeFLL and @FromSea2ShiningSea hard to keep it straight between this thread and Bella’s but it looks like you’re cruising together. Hope you all have a great trip and share lots of pictures with us!