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Marty Allen Feldman.  He was a comedian with strange looking eyes.  Anyway, our travel agent was related to him somehow and asked us to take a birthday gift to him.  We left it at the Purser's desk, no idea if he ever actually received it.

graphicguy:  the ship was still at the dock.

On 11/5/2019 at 8:45 PM, sweetgregoryps said:

I could possibly offend someone,,,, if I start to sing with headphones on,, feel free to give me a smack on the head 😂😂😂😂🤔🤔🤔

Oh, lordy.  I was at a customer site once listening to Rod Stewart with headphones and burst out singing one of his songs.  I was horribly embarassed.

After a frantic search, we found my husband's card in his shoe of all places.  You'd have thought he could feel it in there.  Not sure now why we even thought to look there.

It's been years ago.  We snorkeled just about every cruise.  I was quite comfortable doing it even though climbing the ladder back onto the boat became harder and harder.

But then one time in St. Thomas, I think it was, I got caught up in a current and was being carried out to sea.  No matter how hard I swam, I could not get any closer to the tour boat.  My husband tried to help, he couldn't.  Finally we got the attention of the crew and two men came out and towed me back to the boat.  So even experienced people can get into trouble.

I personally would feel insulted or at least uneasy if someone gave me toothpaste and a toothbrush.  It might hint that I had bad breath.

Didn't see them, but could sure hear the Howler Monkeys in the jungle while going through the Panama Canal locks.

I can't believe I didn't mention the Galapagos Islands.  Of course, most of the wildlife was seen on the various islands but there was plenty to see from the ship, too.

Whales in Alaska, Hawaii and Mexican Riviera.  Dozens of otters in Glacier Bay.  Sadly, never saw Orcas from a cruise ship but did during a great tour out of Vancouver.  Water Spout near Roatan.  Bears on the beach in Alaska.

Love watching flying fish.  

And a dead whale covered in sea birds.  Unfortunately I don't remember where.

Just now, gooch47 said:

We love cruising out of New Orleans.  You could do a day or so before and/or after and see the city.

 

When choosing a cabin be sure to look at the deck plans and see what is above and below your cabin.  Try to pick one that has cabins above and below to reduce the chance of noise.

 

I suffer from slight claustrophobia so I really need a balcony cabin.

 

Be careful of the "free" offers on NCL.  They sometimes have added on "gratuities" that makes them far from free.

Oops.  I don't think NCL offers anything less than 7 days out of NOLA.

We love cruising out of New Orleans.  You could do a day or so before and/or after and see the city.

When choosing a cabin be sure to look at the deck plans and see what is above and below your cabin.  Try to pick one that has cabins above and below to reduce the chance of noise.

I suffer from slight claustrophobia so I really need a balcony cabin.

Be careful of the "free" offers on NCL.  They sometimes have added on "gratuities" that makes them far from free.

We used our place of business back when we were still working.  Still use the same since our DIL works there now.

I unplug lots of things.

And I second the suggestion to turn off the water to the entire house.  My husband's parents had a water heater spring a leak during a long vacation.  Both a high water bill and gas bill to pay.

Not a real high roller on cruise ships.  On one cruise the slots seemed incredibly tight,  This was back in the day when you filled out a paper review of your cruise.  I whined about how the casino was so bad.  That night, after turning in the survey, I won what I had lost plus some.  I felt bad, LOL.

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I do know this wasn't a totally serious post, but I should like to point out that over the years I've ridden on quite a few "sun decks" on Princess lifeboats being used for tendering.

LOL.  I read this as "Free WiFi in HEAVEN."

This topic reminded me of something that happened on a Princess cruise quite a few years ago.  We pulled into the port at Monte Carlo surrounded by huge yachts.  The Captain came on the outside loudspeakers and said, "My boats bigger than your boat," in a singsong manner.  Cracked me up.

A relative has contracted sepsis.  They don't know what caused by infection but are suspicious it was from dental work.  It can happen to anyone at any time, I suppose.

When I see something about an accident on an "independently arranged" tour I always remember our  Princess sponsored tour in Patagonia that was cancelled at the last minute because Princess inspected the tour boat and found it "unsafe."  My speculation is that the tour went on as scheduled for non-Princess tourists. 

Yes, I realize that probably 999 times out of a thousand nothing would go wrong, and I also know we spend more for the ships' tours, but I consider that extra money to be insurance. 

I was really, really sick when we were in St. Petersburg, Russia.  There was just no way I could go to the dinner outing that night.  The cruise tour people couldn't refund my money but said they would try to find someone to "buy" it from me.  They did find someone and saved us a pretty good chunk of change.

I just learned that in the south, people decorate the doors of new mothers in the hospital.  I think the lady was from Alabama who said this.

Our record is 7 in one year.  Mostly "free" ones from casinos.  But we are having a dry spell due to advanced cancer suffered by our daughter-in-law.  We don't want to be too far away from home.  Haven't cruised since last February.

We attended a cocktail party at a casino a week or so ago and the woman sitting next to me told us she had just booked her 18th cruise for this year.  And it was only the end of July !!!  My guess is she is a high roller with both land based and shipboard casinos and gets most of them comped.

I'll admit to rolling my eyes sometimes at the door decorations, but they don't "ruin" my cruise.

But I guess I can see the cruise line being concerned about damage to the door.  I was really surprised to read about the guy who painted the door with chalkboard paint.  I suppose tape could conceivably pull paint off the door or magnets scratching it.

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