LemurCat

What goes around comes around for all you that think death is a joke

I'm pretty sure death comes around even for those who don't think it's a joke.

I can honestly say that the only reason I have a favorite waitress is because I remembered her name. I'm not the type to get friendly with the wait staff. Not that I've some bias against them, just that I don't want to get in the way of them doing their job. I'd hate for my socializing with them to delay the next table down from getting their meals in a timely manner.

Oksana the bar waittress on the Imagination. Never have I had such good bar service in the MDR. She must have checked on me 5 times every meal, and she made fantastic recommendations for mixed drinks to go with various meals.

The main rule I live by is:

 

I don't purchase bedding or furniture from a cruiseline and I don't purchase cruises from a furniture or bedding store.

That's a rather odd main rule. I would think you were more of the Thou Shall Not Kill type. ;)

That's actually not a bad price for the box and spring. Though to be honest, for that money I'd go with Temperpedic or Sleep Number. But that's just me. ;)

Tape tampons to it. That will guarantee that no guy will ever touch it.

I think he is flipping the bird while jumping!

Naah, he's just throwing some devil horns out there. :D

huh????:eek:

 

Mach...isn't there something in the rules about talking in English, where we can all understand?:confused::D

He broke it down nicely in the last line ...

iPhone appy no worky. ;)

Really? I never saw it in ours.. will look again.. Never felt one either!!

 

OHHH WAIT>> they did have those electric mosquito killing machines along the paths... The ones that kill 'em for 1000's of feet/yards around.. and cost like $2000g

Maybe thats why ...

!!!:D

You know what, I just realized it was actually NCL that posted that in their daily about Great Stirrup Cay. And yeah, I still have my can of bug spray.

My friend just returned from her cruise and was at HMC. She complained that she got alot of mosquitoe bites while at the bar b Q. Has anyone else had this problem.

 

Ill just bring along some Off when Im there.

There was actually a warning in the Capers about the skeeters. They directed people who were concerned to buy Off from the front desk. It was $10 a can. If you're concerned, bring your own.

Two points.

 

First you do not need a passport to cross into Canada just valid ID. However US customs now requires you to have a Passport to enter the US. So any problem you have will be with US customs and Air carriers.

Yeah, I know. I got to Canada several times a year.

Second You do not need passport on shore but if you have any problems miss boat illness you could have problems.

You don't know that. You never know when you're going to need a passport in a foreign country. You don't know what's going to happen, if you're going to have to fly home in a hurry, if you're going to need legal representation, whatever. I don't worry about losing my passport, because I'm pretty good at holding onto important things. I worry more about something happening where I need the Department of State to intervene on my behalf -- quick -- and not being able to get that help because my passport is on a cruise ship.

As I said earlier on most of the cruise lines we are on they hold our passport for us so we don't take it with us anyway.

Out of curiousity, which lines have you experienced this on?

We take the passport with us because we have to. If we fly to Europe we can't leave the USA, enter Europe, or return to the USA with out it. But, when we arrive in Europe or any other place we keep it in the safe. We do so because we think there is a far greater chance that we will lose it or it will be stolen than say missing the cruise ship or anything like that.

What uncivilized parts of the world are you visiting in which this is so high a risk? I kid. I get that. I understand it, but I don't agree with it.

Again, personal choice but my wife and I have been on two Full World Cruises in 2007 and 2008 visiiting visiting over 30+ countries on each cruise and we only had the passport off the ship once. And that is because the local country required we take it with us.

Sound like a heckuva trip Keith.

THeer is no right or wrong here. Each person does what they think is best.

 

When we go across the border we have our passport. But then when we get to the hotel we don't carry it with us.

 

You obviously do.

 

Each person should do as they think is best for them.

 

Keith

True enough, but I don't understand the logic of getting said passport just to leave it in a safe in a hotel or a cruiseship. One of the the reasons for having the passport is to identify yourself as a US citizen in a foreign land, you can't very well do that if it's not on you.

I think it was like $5. It wasn't very expensive.

I don't so much as set foot across the border into Canada without it in my pocket. Why? Because if something stupid happens, I want all the weight of international treaty law behind me. How am I supposed to prove am an American citizen and demand consular services if I don't have my passport?

What happens if you .... say ... accidentally get in a bar fight? You don't know the local justice system. You don't know your rights. Without a passport, you can't demand someone from the American Embassy come hold your hand because you can't prove you're a US citizen.

Hubby and I decided on a clamshell since it is too much money for just the two of us (if we meet another couple that want to split it, maybe....)

Where do we book a clamshell? On the ship also?

Nah, get on the beach, grab a shell and send your hubby up to the beach rental shack and then after "the pole guy". A tip for "the pole guy" expedites matters.

I will warn you though, if there isn't a breezy, you can really back under one of those things. My dad ended up dropping the top before abandoning it entirely and heading for shade.

Can you snorkel off the beach at HMC?

It's not very good, but you you can. Saw a couple of small stingrays. There's apparently a better place on the other side of the island (heard rumors, can't confirm) that's got a rockier bottom and much better snorkeling.

It's also a great place to do the stingray excursion. No boat involved, just steps down into the water.

Wow..so many people like Twilight. I'm on book 3 right now. Only 80 pages in so far. I wanted to read the last book on the cruise, but we don't cruise until April so I won't make it. I'm sure I'll be done by then. I also read all the Harry Potter books. Yes I'm an adult! I just find these books easy reading. If a book doesn't catch my interest, I wind up not reading it through. The Twilight series catches you from book one and doesn't stop. I love them! Anyone have any ideas for a book that can be compared to Twilight? I mean easy reading...locks you right in and you don't want to put it down...

See, and I found them to be poorly written and poorly edited, well at least the first one, I didn't see a point in reading the others. I prefer Anne Rice's early Vampire Chronicles books, as well as her Mayfair Witches trilogy.

Anything by Erik Larson or Tony Horowitz. Larson's Thunderstruck!is a true-life murder tale intertwined with Marconi's invention of the radio (sounds odd, but it's really good) and involves a Trans-Atlantic crossing. His Devil and the White City is about the 1893 World's Fair and a serial killer who was active at the time. Isaac's Storm is about the the 1900 Galveston Hurricane which was one of the most devastating storms in US history. Horowitz does this whole history-through-travel thing which is really great too. Confederates in the Attic is a meditation on the legacy and rememberance of the US Civil War as looked at through various people. It's funny, insiteful, but not too thinky. His Blue Lattitudes is a partial retracing of Captain James Cook's sailings around the world, from Tahiti to Alaska and his place in history and impact on the current cultures he touched.

ETA: If you're looking for fiction, there is always the Aubrey/Maturin series of nautical novels. 20 in total (the 21st was never finished before Patrick O'Brien's death). First book in the series is Post Captain. You might remember the characters from the movie "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the Ocean".

I've requested a medical fridge in the past (half the family is on an injectable of some sort) and they usually produce a mini-fridge (think college dorm room) that get's the job done nicely. I wouldn't trust a mini-bar with insulin.

The one in nassau is on the main street with all the little shops, close to where the hard rock is......also here's a tip, don't lose your little card because if you do then you'll have to start all over again and they'll give you another bracelet instead of the charm like they did at your first port.

 

Does anyone know where the shop is in Key west and cozumel?

Key West, I believe, is around Sloppy Joe's Bar.