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    formerly from St. Louis but now Georgia
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    Seabourn, Princess, Holland America, Disney
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    Norway and Antarctica

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  1. I'm back from the hair appointment and our yard is once again being dug up because they need to run the fiber optic under the street. They're digging up all the yards that have the large electrical boxes at the side of them. They didn't have the proper permit last Friday for that job and apparently do now. What a mess! At least the streets don't need to be torn up. They have some piece of equipment that forces the lines from one hole to the next. And yes, we have lots of colorful spray paint on the lawns and street showing all the utilities. I will always be a St. Louis Cardinals fan!!⚾ Gerry, prayers said for Maurice's panel approval. πŸ™ Also for your family as they travel to you for their visit. Enjoy your time together. Vanessa, it's heartbreaking to hear of the pain that's returned. I wish the surgery was sooner! I believe Alex and Jordan are 20 weeks along now. Due date is Aug. 15 but they will be considered full term on July 25, 3 weeks earlier. Provided all goes as planned that will be the birthdate. Karen, my thoughts and prayers are with you as you think back on your DD DH's last weeks and months. And to you too Terry. It's only been a short time ago for you. Jacqui @kazu I'm sorry to hear of the stress on you with the financial issue and the sudden need for a new place to keep Ivan while you're away. I hope things turn around and look better very soon. Tony @sailingdutchy thank you for your wonderful photos of Zadar. Looks like a great tour.
  2. Good morning friends! It is a fair morning with a temp of 49F. Today will be a high of 67 with sun and clouds mixed. I have a morning hair appointment and expect DD to arrive by 2 pm. Thank you Jacqui @kazu and Roy @rafinmd for posting the Fleet Report and Daily as well as fleet location maps. Always interesting! Today we celebrate Holy Thursday and the opening day of ML Baseball. I have nothing against hot tubs but have no interest in using one. I wonder what the salad has in it besides radishes and carrots? Not interested in the cocktail as usual and haven't a clue about the wine so will have to wait for the report on it. 1910 was pretty early to have a seaplane with aviation so new. Thank you Debbie @dfish, Dixie @summer slope and Ann @cat shepard for the F&B reports! Prayers have been said for you all on the Daily care list. I'm sorry to hear you had an uncomfortable night Dixie @summer slope and are covered in bruises. Let's pray you don't have any lasting damage due to that woman's bad driving skills. I hope everyone here shows some improvement in your situations. πŸ™ Prayers too for DB, great nephew Alex's twin boys, friends Scott, Susan and Sandy, those lost this week during the bridge collapse and attacks against first responders, the people of Israel and Ukraine, the hostages still held and our military in the war zones. πŸ™ But for those cruising and with special events to celebrate, three cheers for you all!πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‚πŸš’ Thank you Vanessa @JazzyV for your hard work keeping up our lists. I hope you got a few more hours rest last night and have a easy day with your household chores. The port today is Zadar, Croatia. It sounds like an interesting place and I would love to go there sometime. This was our port only once before on March 2, 2022. Here's the link: I hope you all have a great day! Stay safe and keep well!
  3. My goodness, Dixie, that is terrible! You could have been badly hurt especially hitting your head on the pavement. Thank goodness tests were negative. You should have quite a variety of colorful bruises tomorrow. Hope it doesn't hurt too much! My friend Susan and DH Scott got hit by a car while on their golf cart in the Villages. Apparently that's pretty common down there. I think a spot on the care list is deserved for you! Wow, that's exciting news Annie! I'm happy for you. It will be fun to get together with Gerry and Maurice. Congratulations! DD spent 3 hours at the Florida Aquarium today watching Morgan do her job. It's an interesting place to work and she has many varied jobs. She enjoyed it a lot. I saw a video of Morgan's co-worker in one of the tanks cleaning algae with all the turtles crawling all over her. I think they like people! DD Facetimed us and showed us all the new furnishings at Morgan's apartment and it's really all set up and cozy for her. DD will cook dinner tonight for Morgan since she worked all day. They went to a fab Mexican restaurant this week and we plan on going back when we all go down for graduation. The taco salad she tried was especially good, she said. DD drives back up here tomorrow to spend the night and we will prepare one of the favorite dishes from back in the day when we had kids to feed every night. Can't wait!
  4. No need to apologize Graham! We love Weymouth too. In fact we love most all the English ports, if not all of them. What horrific news about that fatal accident! I really, really hate road trips and any drive on a highway. Too much dangerous driving out there. I'm sorry to hear about your 3.5 hours of sleep last night. I hope the ibuprofen helps with the pain in the left leg.
  5. I was just going to post my confusion too on Weymouth. We visited Weymouth from nearby Portland, but Falmouth is far from Weymouth and Portland. 162 miles by car to be exact!
  6. I think I need to update my lists with regards to cruises taken since 2020. I remembered we went to Falmouth on the Island Princess in 2022, and a few days later is when we discovered ourselves positive for Covid. So since we went out and about that day I have a few more photos to show you. It was a bit cloudy that day but we didn't get rain. The day before we had missed Cobh, Ireland due to bad weather. This is what the hallways were looking like that morning when we went back to our room after breakfast. These two cabins were quarantined since the Covid ward was full. I guess room service didn't have time to pick up trays nor was trash being picked up. Since our Covid tests were negative we were free to roam. A couple days later that would change. Here's some photos of places we saw along the way. A place to eat behind the restaurants. They're proud of their pastys. Love this seagull! Little did we know this would be our last port for quite a while due to quarantine!
  7. On May 8, 2019 we enjoyed a little visit to Falmouth, England. It was cloudy with a chance of rain but we had found if we took our Prinsendam umbrella (which was conveniently placed in the walk-in closet) the raindrops stayed away. That's what happened this day, too. I was surprised to see an American flag on the dock. We walked downtown enjoying the scenes along the main street of town. According to the sign on the window, this shop had award-winning pasties They looked good to me! At the far end of the street we came upon a lovely little wharf area. Across the water was this view which I just loved. The varying colors of green on the hillside, the large homes along the water, and all the beautiful sailboats made a very pleasing picture. I used this photo as the cover of my Shutterfly photo book of this cruise. And here we have a local ferry! Not so big, is it? I wonder how far the ride was? We walked around a little further. I noticed this little fella had a band around his leg. They're keeping track of seagulls? We went up to this point in town and turned back towards our home away from home, the Prinsendam. Nearer the ship was this line of row homes, all of different colors. They really caught your eye. And a boat full of rowers Leaving port that evening we sailed by this manor. And this lighthouse. An enjoyable day was had by all!
  8. Good morning friends! Here we have a temperature of 52F and the rain is over however it looks misty and wet outside. Today will be 73, partly cloudy this morning and full sun this afternoon. Yesterday we had some heavy wind at times which broke a large branch off our next door neighbor's tree. That tree has been in distress for some time now and he may have to take it down and plant a new one.🌳 Thanks to Jacqui @kazu and Roy @rafinmd for the Fleet Report and Daily as well as the fleet location maps today. A good day to give to the American Red Cross. Let's get creative and scribble! For the whiskey lovers you have your own day. The quote is funny, and it's interesting our "meal" is Greek Yogurt Hollandaise! No idea if I'd like the drink but the wine might be pretty good. It was a long time ago that Ponce de LeΓ³n discovered Florida. A huge day in the medical world with that blood transfusion in 1914. Thank you Debbie @dfish, Dixie @summer slope and Ann @cat shepard for your reports today. Prayers for our Care list folks, first responders around the world, Israel and Ukraine, hostages held since October 7, the men and women of our military in war zones, my DB, great nephew Alex's twin boys and my friends coping with illness and caretaking. Hoping for improvement in all your health issues and worries! πŸ™ For those cruising and celebrating special events I wish you a very good day. πŸ₯‚ Enjoy! 🚒 Thank you Vanessa @JazzyV for keeping the lists for us all. Praying for you each day! The port today is Falmouth, England. We stopped there on our final Prinsendam voyage in May 2019. This was the port of the day three prior times on Dec. 20, 2021, May 11, 2022 and April 22, 2023. Here are the links. Photos will follow afterwards. March is rushing by so try to enjoy your final Wednesday of the month. Stay safe and keep well everyone!
  9. The Carnival Legend left Baltimore on a 7 day Bahamas cruise Sunday. They were supposed to return to Baltimore this Sunday, March 31st but it looks like they'll have to find a new port for a while. Plans need to be made for all the passengers who left cars parked there or had flights from Baltimore this coming weekend. On April 15 the Legend was supposed to make a transatlantic from Baltimore to Barcelona. Turmoil for many people on Carnival Legend for a good long while.
  10. Good morning friends! Weather here is a temp of 55F with rain and thunderstorms expected on and off today and a high of 66. Originally rain was supposed to arrive around 7 am but radar reports show rain showing up around noon. Thanks to Jacqui @kazu and Roy @rafinmd for posting the Fleet Report and Daily as well as the fleet location maps for today. As soon as I got up this morning and turned on the TV I saw the news about the Baltimore bridge collapse. Comcast was having issues with video interruption for the first 45 minutes so it was very frustrating getting the information, but that seems to have been corrected. After the treadmill I turned on my laptop and went to vesselfinder.com to look up the container ship Dali but when the page opened that is the ship that was shown on the screen without me having to even search for it. I'm assuming that was because so many people were searching for that ship at the moment. Surprising though they did that. This bridge collapse is such a tragedy and I send prayers to all the families of victims involved. It will be a long time before this bridge can be rebuilt. The people of Baltimore and all travelers along this corridor will have their patience tested in the months ahead. Very good days to recognize and celebrate today. Diabetes and epilepsy are conditions that deserve awareness and understanding. My hairdresser's 15 year old son has epilepsy and experiences varying degrees of severity so it hasn't been easy to manage. Enjoy Live, Long and Prosper Day. The quote is interesting, will be curious to hear about the meal, say no to the drink and don't know about the wine. The Salk vaccine was a major breakthrough in the threat from polio. Thank you Debbie @dfish, Dixie @summer slope, and Ann @cat shepard for the F&B reports. Prayers for everyone involved today in the horrific bridge collapse, the people of Israel and Ukraine, the hostages still held, and troops in the region. Also for my DB, great nephew Alex's twin sons, friends Scott, Susan and Sandy. And my many fellow Dailyites on the Care list who are in need of them. I pray for improvement and healing every day. And for our Celebration list, congrats to all who have special events and cruises to enjoy. All the best to you! Thanks to Vanessa @JazzyV for your list keeping skills. We are so appreciative of the hard work you put into it. The destination today is Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. This was the port before on Aug. 14, 2021 and April 2, 2022. I have not been there before but it sounds like a unique spot to see. Here are the links if you need them. DD made it safely to Clearwater and enjoyed a fun afternoon putting together a TV stand for Morgan, then she took Morgan and her boyfriend out for dinner. I saw a photo this morning of them taking a selfie next to the lake outside the apartment. All looked happy to be there. ❀️ Hoping you all have a wonderful day today! Stay safe and keep well!
  11. I saw there were 50 from January to May but then filtered out all but Southern Caribbean for Annie since that is what she asked about. Maybe they will even add some more as time goes by but from what I read here they just opened them up for booking. I noticed the Miami ones were Zuiderdam like you said.
  12. That's odd. It certainly is a verified city because we stayed at a hotel overnight there before and the address contains Port Canaveral, FL in it.
  13. Google maps shows Cruise Terminal Drive, Port Canaveral, FL 32920 for the parking area, and gives directions directly to that parking lot. Would Cruise Terminal Drive work as an address?
  14. Annie @marshhawk I just looked and they have 8 southern Caribbean cruises posted from January through March, 2026. The March ones are out of Miami.
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