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Happy Hanukkah to my Cruise Critic friends!

Thanks Dave! I for one always love your reviews and your humor. If you feel like you can do it please do I will be following along.

Boy can I relate. Wishing the best. It does get better.

Thank you Graham. Tell her Sea dog wishes for her get better and soon be free of pain.

Luckily our cat Kylar has never shown interest in exploring the outside world. He did venture out in the garage one time and got scared and hid for awhile under a storage rack. It took several hours to convince him to come out. Hopefully he won’t do that again.

Let the fun begin. Great feeling isn’t it? That was my fear. Wait on hernia surgery after the cruise and then something happen during the cruise. I don’t want to risk that. Wow I’m glad there was a happy ending.

I hope Crystal is doing well and hope she is doing a reset. I hope she will come back here but I also know of people who have gone through divorce and needing to start over on everything. I hope her being on here does not remind her of her past so much as k owing she has friends here who wish her the best and want to see her moving forward. Thank you . I’m already looking for future Celebrity sailings. I believe Rory, M8 still views here but is still banned. Thank you Sue. love the smelt pics and Ricky’s card is adorable. Thank you!

How was she feeling after hernia surgery? That’s next on my list.

Helen is @FromSea2ShiningSea

Thank you! Thanks Bonnie, I hope Crystal is ok too. Yep getting older sucks but better to take care of oneself now than wait.

Thank you Mark! Great news! Thank you Sue!

Absolutely. I figure skipping a cruise will help get my liver in shape too. 😉

Thank you! That’s the way we are looking at it.

Thanks Lenny!

Thanks Bob!

Thank you Graham! Thank you Maryann. Yes it does help to have an excellent TA who took care of everything and was very understanding. 😉

I’d like to sail on Ascent. Looks like a beautiful ship. Thanks John! Good to know Valerie, thank you.

Yes I know I would and that’s what makes it so tough. But we will reschedule.

The surgeon thought she could go but my therapist who also does rotator cuff surgery rehabs says no way will she be ready. Also I need to get this hernia fixed and usually you can’t lift anything heavy for 8 weeks and I can’t schedule surgery till after 3 months of my knee replacement which would put surgery around mid February. That would be cutting it close.

A couple of things. Happy Birthday wishes to all those having birthdays coming up. As far as the comments on Live reviews I am not going to respond as to say a lot of us work hard in time to provide readers of this forum our experiences out at sea on a ship. We can’t control all the other comments and side chatter that people including those here post. I would hope that people would respect the original poster’s intention and not turn a live review into a free for all. Sad to report that Linda and I have cancelled our April 1st Beyond 11 night Southern Caribbean cruise. We angonized over it but feel with Linda’s shoulder surgery on December 26th and me scheduling a hernia surgery will not give us enough time in rehab to really do this physically. It’s not like we don’t have cruises coming up. Navigator in October, Bella 2, Bella 2.5 in February of 2025 and Bella 3 in January of 2026. We will try again and book Beyond but I’m sure the prices will be more expensive by then. Oh well.

It is always fun to see what entertains a cat. Here Kyler found a holiday twisty tie and was playing with it. IMG_3866.mov

Just saw that too. Travis Kelce should be named “Luckiest Man of the Year.”

Looks great!

Linda’s new decoration she made for the front porch. It has lights on it but aren’t on till dusk.

Sorry to hear. I hope her symptoms get better and you stay fine.