Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[A&L_Ont]

Mom is now in post care at the retirement ho e for the last 24 hours. Things seem to be going well. She did some physio today and they are coming to see here 7 days a week for 1 hour each day. She 24 hour care for the beginning and it will reduce shifts over the next month.  
 

She is looking bright and has minimal pain. 

[George C]

Just was way Jimmy Kimmel show from last night he showed Cowboys fans throwing there cowboys jerseys in the trash , but the best was one guy took his huge big screen tv and threw it in his driveway then ran it over with his truck. I will not rub this in too much tonight when I go to our favorite restaurant which has lots of cowboys fans . 

[voyager70]

1 minute ago, George C said:

Just was way Jimmy Kimmel show from last night he showed Cowboys fans throwing there cowboys jerseys in the trash , but the best was one guy took his huge big screen tv and threw it in his driveway then ran it over with his truck. I will not rub this in too much tonight when I go to our favorite restaurant which has lots of cowboys fans . 

As a huge football fan I totally understand the disappointment/ devastation of a big loss, especially in the playoffs, but this kind of stuff is ridiculous. In this grand scheme of things the outcome of a football game is pretty insignificant. Sure it sucks, but get over it and get on with life.

[lenquixote66]

Many native New Yorkers have never been to some of the wonderful places in Manhattan.

In 2007 I was the organizer for a school reunion .The school was in NYC .I polled the alumni and asked what they would like to visit .The majority had never been to the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.

Our reunion was three days.I attempted to arrange to see as much a possible.

[lenquixote66]

2 hours ago, DaniDanielle said:

My grandson, my older daughters’s son,

was accepted to all the Catholic high Schools he applied for. Scholarships to all. We are very proud of him.  His dad would have been over the moon.  The school he wants is home of the Vikings, his father was Norwegian!  My son’s daughter also did well and made the honors programs in the high schools she applied to!  Such happy grandparents here😃

Congratulations to your grandkids and to you and Charlie,Marietta.

[lenquixote66]

 My 15 year old granddaughter just called to tell us that she got a part time job today in an ice cream store .She is very excited.

[Arzeena]

@h20skibum

 

Mark,

 When you went on the Symphony, which Terminal did it leave from, and where did you park?

[h20skibum]

15 minutes ago, Arzeena said:

@h20skibum

 

Mark,

 When you went on the Symphony, which Terminal did it leave from, and where did you park?

Symphony leaves from terminal 18.  We dropped our luggage with the porters, then parked at the surface lot next to terminal 18

 

[Sunshine3601]

3 hours ago, DaniDanielle said:

My grandson, my older daughters’s son,

was accepted to all the Catholic high Schools he applied for. Scholarships to all. We are very proud of him.  His dad would have been over the moon.  The school he wants is home of the Vikings, his father was Norwegian!  My son’s daughter also did well and made the honors programs in the high schools she applied to!  Such happy grandparents here😃

Awesome news!!   Congratulations to everyone❤️

[Coralc]

2 hours ago, Keksie said:

We picked out the granite for the kitchen today.

 

 

I'm curious. If granite is a natural stone, how can they tell that your countertop will look like the showroom sample? It is really pretty. Do they just have a lot of quarried pieces with the same brown veining in them? We just went with quartz, so I'm not sure how it works with stone. Yours almost looks like marble. 

Edited January 18 by Coralc

[BonTexasNY]

4 hours ago, Luckynana said:

@bobmaclibertyBob, you mentioned that Central Park must be beautiful in the Spring..I can tell you that it was beautiful when our daughter got married at Poet's Walk in Central Park in June years ago.

@Luckynana Maryann, what a beautiful, special place for a wedding!

 

@bobmacliberty Billy Joel is one of my favorites.  I would be hard pressed to choose my favorite song.  I love them all but...maybe "A Matter of Trust".(I love the video)..or "Piano Man"...or "Uptown Girl"... you get the picture.

Edited January 18 by BonTexasNY

[Keksie]

29 minutes ago, Coralc said:

 

I'm curious. If granite is a natural stone, how can they tell that your countertop will look like the showroom sample? It is really pretty. Do they just have a lot of quarried pieces with the same brown veining in them? We just went with quartz, so I'm not sure how it works with stone. Yours almost looks like marble. 

I am not really sure.  Maybe it is a cultured granite?  He had a computer program that showed the veining in each slab which was different for each, and how each counter piece will be laid out.  He could move the pieces around to capture most of the veining and have everything run the same way.  It will use most of 2 slabs to get all the pieces.  I have a table made from a marble slab that my parents got from Marble Colorado.  I still remember going with them to pick it out.

[Keksie]

The table.  It weighs about 500 lbs. and has been moved from Colorado to New Jersey, to Texas, to California, to Texas, and finally to Florida.

 

[Coralc]

7 minutes ago, Keksie said:

The table.  It weighs about 500 lbs. and has been moved from Colorado to New Jersey, to Texas, to California, to Texas, and finally to Florida.

 

Wow! That is beautiful. And heavy. 😊 (Your curtains look like our curtains...with kitty rub marks all over them 😄)   That is interesting about the granite. Amazing how they can do that. Thanks. 

Edited January 18 by Coralc

[Keksie]

7 minutes ago, Coralc said:

Wow! That is beautiful. And heavy. 😊 (Your curtains look like our curtains...with kitty rub marks all over them 😄)   That is interesting about the granite. Amazing how they can do that. Thanks. 

The cats love the table to sit and watch outside.  

[HBE4]

2 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

Many native New Yorkers have never been to some of the wonderful places in Manhattan.

In 2007 I was the organizer for a school reunion .The school was in NYC .I polled the alumni and asked what they would like to visit .The majority had never been to the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.

.

 

I've never been to the Statue of Liberty. Tried once, about 30+ years ago, hottest day of the summer. Made it to the island but the line to get into the Statue was 2+ hours long & there were stories of people fainting inside due to the heat.  Decided I'd come back in the fall when it'd be cooler & less crowded.

 

I guess I'm still deciding fall of which year. 😏

 

[HBE4]

1 hour ago, BonTexasNY said:

@bobmacliberty Billy Joel is one of my favorites.  I would be hard pressed to choose my favorite song.  I love them all but...maybe "A Matter of Trust".(I love the video)..or "Piano Man"...or "Uptown Girl"... you get the picture.

 

Same.

 

\Billy Joel is one of my favorite and love just about all of his songs. Some of my favorite are "Moving Out", "Big Shot", "Goodnight Saigon", "Only the Good Die Young". I guess 70's & early 80's Billy.

[HBE4]

6 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

Billionaire's Row, from a peasant's perspective.

 

 

 

 

I'm not a big fan of the tall, skinny skyscrapers. From the distance, they look like smoke stacks & give the NYC skyline an "industrial look", and not in a cool, hip way.

[lenquixote66]

27 minutes ago, HBE4 said:

 

I've never been to the Statue of Liberty. Tried once, about 30+ years ago, hottest day of the summer. Made it to the island but the line to get into the Statue was 2+ hours long & there were stories of people fainting inside due to the heat.  Decided I'd come back in the fall when it'd be cooler & less crowded.

 

I guess I'm still deciding fall of which year. 😏

 

I was there at age 6,age 20 and age 64.

[lenquixote66]

13 minutes ago, HBE4 said:

 

I'm not a big fan of the tall, skinny skyscrapers. From the distance, they look like smoke stacks & give the NYC skyline an "industrial look", and not in a cool, hip way.

I worked briefly in the Empire State Building and looking out a window every day from a high floor was enough for me.

[lenquixote66]

20 minutes ago, HBE4 said:

 

Same.

 

\Billy Joel is one of my favorite and love just about all of his songs. Some of my favorite are "Moving Out", "Big Shot", "Goodnight Saigon", "Only the Good Die Young". I guess 70's & early 80's Billy.

In 1971 a co worker asked a group of us to go with her to see her long time friend ,a singer.We never heard of Billy Joel but we went with her.

[harryfat1]

9 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

A few more posts about our NYC trip and then I'll be quiet (at least about NYC that is).  On Friday, we visited the Intrepid Museum.  I wanted to do that the last time we were there, but I was overruled by my wife and 2 daughters.  Without our daughters this time, Micheline said that she also wanted to go.  For those who don't know, the Intrepid is an aircraft carrier commissioned during WWII.  It's permanently docked at Pier 86 on the Hudson River as a museum.  There are several aircraft on the flight deck and in the hangar deck, plus the Space Shuttle Enterprise, and the Growler Submarine (a cruise missile submarine from the early 60s).  You can walk through many of the working areas of the Intrepid. We both enjoyed it greatly.  

 

I won't bore you with pictures of planes, but I will include several pictures of lines for @harryfat1 and @Sea Dog

 

 

 

 

 

 

And some bonus pictures...anchor chain.  You can get an idea of the size of the chain links when compared to my size 10 sneaker.

 

 

 

OK...maybe just one plane picture.  Maverick's F-14 Tomcat.  How could I not show that?

 

 

And since this is Cruise Critic and not City Travel Critic, here's a shot of the Norwegian Getaway docked next door.

 

Bob,

 

Hope you are enjoying your vacation.

 

Thanks for the shoutout and the Line photos.  Let me share my line picture that I just uploaded last week for the start of my trip report on the Odyssey.  Whenever you are done with your trip, swing by the trip report and we can talk donuts or whatever else pops up.

 

Although you better hurry as I'm moving at a super fast clip in getting to day 1 of the trip report in less than a week after starting it...🤪

 

 

Since you have bonus coverage, let me throw in a few pictures and a quick story that a select few of us will appreciate:

 

This happened the morning we were docking in Curacao and I was going to cafe 270 on deck 5 from our cabin on deck 6 via the "secret door" to get the morning coffee at 7:30 as it was a much faster path.  As I was walking from deck 6 to 5 from 270, I saw the tug boat next to the Odyssey and the dude was just standing there hanging out on the tug boat.

 

OK.  What's he doing?  Turns out they gave him the line and the boat took off away from my view.  So instead of getting coffee on deck 5 at Cafe 270, I had to rush out to the Promenade deck area to try to see what he was doing with it.

 

By the time I got there, it was too late as he already tied the line.

 

In looking at the picture, I think what happened was the butt of the Odyssey stuck out so much past the pier that they needed a tug boat to take the line in the water and then secure it to the pier.  I don't cruise much so this was a new thing to me as I just assumed the land-based workers would tie the line but had never seen them use a tug boat to do the relay to get the rope...

 

 

 

Rushing past 270 to go outside to see the boat

 

 

The dude was too fast for me

 

[Ocean Boy]

8 hours ago, BonTexasNY said:

@Luckynana Maryann, what a beautiful, special place for a wedding!

 

@bobmacliberty Billy Joel is one of my favorites.  I would be hard pressed to choose my favorite song.  I love them all but...maybe "A Matter of Trust".(I love the video)..or "Piano Man"...or "Uptown Girl"... you get the picture.

I always liked Piano Man. I wonder if it has anything to do with me playing the piano??🤔😊

[bobmacliberty]

54 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

I always liked Piano Man. I wonder if it has anything to do with me playing the piano??🤔😊

 

I saw a couple of lists showing Piano Man as his #1 fan favorite.  I think everyone in MSG was singing along to Piano Man.  At one point, the band stopped playing and the crowd sang the entire verse. I remember being at a Springsteen concert MANY years ago when the crowd sang the entire first verse of Hungry Heart (Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack...) to open the second set, back when the Springsteen concerts were so long that they'd take a break in the middle.

 

I really like a couple of Billy Joel's slower songs...New York State of Mind and Vienna.

[brillohead]

Hey @Ocean Boy, check out these Lighthouse Gummies!!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/NovaScotia/comments/17jcvnn/bought_these_lighthouse_gummies_at_the_airport_as/?force_seo=1

 

Note that I am NOT posting the picture myself, to hopefully stay in the good graces of The Powers That Be and avoid playing Monopoly this time!