BeagleOne

I searched to see if this had been posted and didn't find anything. Looks like two of the smugglers will be in Australia for a looooong time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5434317/Canadian-cocaine-smugglers-plead-guilty-drug-charges.html

The source article is behind a paywall.

It sounds like Harri knew her family weren't going to take her cruising so she decided to go on one herself!

We know that the earth is not flat because if it were, cats would have knocked everything off the edges already.

Curse of the Narrows is a good book on the explosion.

Or if that fails maybe I can talk our local pharmacy to make us up some bottles with labels to use. Vitamins and supplements could be a problem though.

You could put the vitamins and supplements in your checked baggage. I suspect your local pharmacy would help with smaller containers if you tell them why you need them.

According to this, TSA does not require meds to be in prescription bottles.

https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2014/09/05/tsa-travel-tips-traveling-medication

Here is what is in effect at Heathrow.

http://www.heathrow.com/more/help-with-this-website/faqs/security-and-baggage

In 1982 I did a summer study program in Coventry, England, and spent a few days in London beforehand. While walking around Regent's Park I heard a man say to his wife "Jane, it's over this way" and turned to look; the lady was my childhood neighbor from four doors down.

In 2000 I was on a TA on the QE2 and saw a couple who looked familiar. We had all volunteered at the same humane society on Guam in the 1990s.

In 2003 I was at Narita airport on a layover. In the same lounge was a gal from my home state, whom I had met on Guam in 1993 when she volunteered at the underwater archaeology lab I was running. She had moved to China and was teaching there.

This thread is all about fun. Any cruise line, any location, any which way.

 

Have you ever had an instance of "Boy, it's a small world, isn't it?" I've had two, one involving me directly, and one I got to watch unfold.

 

The first one was on our first RCI cruise on Splendour of the Seas. We went to the Love and Marriage game show (still one of my favorites) and the middle couple turned out to be from my, and my wife's hometown, Appleton WI. (We now live just south of Appleton in Neenah). The next day we saw the couple and congratulated them on their win. We talked a bit, and their daughter was attending the same private high school that I had attended.

And to top it off, on the 4th of July we went to Neenah's fireworks, and who should we see just a few feet away, but this same couple. They were sure shocked to see us!!!

 

The 2nd happened just last year in the Cayman's. I was on a 3rd party scuba excursion (cuz Royal didn't offer one), and the group was composed of a couple of other cruisers and some others that were staying at various resorts on the islands. Between dives, I was talking to a mother and her daughter. The daughter was going to be attending UW Madison for the summer and she wanted to find an apartment in a good neighborhood. So I put her in touch with my nephew who has lived in Madison for years. But while we were doing that, the mom was talking to another diver. It turns out he went to the same high school as her brothers (who were a few years older than her as I recall), and he even had worked at the same business as her dad and one of her brothers! He had left that place a while ago, but still remember their names.

 

I'm waiting for the next one.

 

Now, who's next?......

Well, here's one straight from your post! I was born and raised in Neenah, my mom is still there, I am planning to move up there in the next few months, my brother and his family live in Appleton, and I currently live in Madison!

Go Rockets!

Please consider very carefully where any monetary donations go. Some charities are notorious for paying their executives exorbitant salaries and redirecting donations for specific disasters into a general fund instead. Some entities, particularly sports leagues, make it very easy to donate to some big charities via text message. But it might be better to do a bit of research and donate to local charities in the affected areas instead.

Dump them off the booking and get whatever money you can get refunded. Your other choice is to let them go and lose all of the money you've paid, and cruise with two deadbeats.

I think the blast deflector is a good idea. But here, I think it would be in the way of jets landing. They come in awfully low. No one is to blame here. People do stupid stuff all the time.

No, it wouldn't get in the way of the landing aircraft. There is plenty of space between the fence and the end of the runway to put a deflector. And someone is to blame here, the woman who died. There are signs warning of the hazards, and she was an adult. She chose to risk her life by hanging onto the fence, knowing she could have been blown onto the road, into the wall, or onto the rocks, and she did it anyway, and sadly, she is now dead.

I'm not sure what the Royal excursion offers, but if you are really interested in the early years, the Cape Canaveral Early Space Tour is fascinating. Off the beaten track and takes you to to the early launch and launch control sites. Highly recommended!

Sugar train, Brimstone Hill, and Caribelle Batik/Romney Gardens. Plenty to do on St. Kitts that you can't find on other islands.

The driver of the other PWC is an idiot too, driving the overloaded machine in circles with a cruise ship approaching instead of getting the heck out of the way.

That deputy was a real hero in stopping those idiots from winning a Darwin Award. Thanks to chengkp75 for another informative, polite post. And I can't be the only one who sees the irony in an ignorant, judgemental post about the captain of the ship, followed shortly by the same poster's castigating others for alleged "judgement".

bUU:

 

Oh yeah... One more anecdote. A personal friend who I worked with (Many many years ago) was a gate agent on a flight out of Hartford that had an emotional support pig on board... No, a REAL pig who screached, sh*t, and struggled until the crew finally rebelled and kicked her off... And she sued... and she won. Dont believe me? read here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/30/travel/emotional-support-pig-booted-flight/

 

 

It has to change... and will if this sort of stuff continues.

While I agree with you that the fake service/emotional support animal BS has gotten out of hand, do you have a link about her lawsuit? I couldn't find anything about an actual lawsuit from the incident, which was just over two years ago.

It wasn't that close, and what in the world did the homeowner think he was going to do by waving at the ship? Idiotic.

I don't remember if these were mentioned before but I came across these two facts in some research. One, while service dogs can certainly be in stores and while merchants let in "emotion support animals" to avoid confrontation, the ADA clearly states they cannot be in shopping carts. Two, diabetic alert dogs need to be worn in harnesses next to your mouth so they can detect the changes in your breath.

The ADA states no such thing about shopping carts. And diabetic alert dogs do NOT need to be worn in harnesses. Please reread the section you posted. Do you know what "generally" and "may" mean? Your advice to call 911 if you suspect a handicapped parking placard is being misused, is absolutely ridiculous. That's an abuse of the 911 system. Please stop, you're embarrassing yourself.

And LOL at your example of a blind person hopping out of the driver's seat!

Why the not so subtle knock on cell phones. They tell time just like a watch. I am sure that the reason a person misses the ship doesn't typically have anything to do with their timing device. It usually has to do with alcohol, poor planning, and nonship sponsored excursions. Did I mention alcohol?

Um...cell phones do NOT tell time just like a watch. If the cell phone picks up a local signal, it may/will switch to local time, which may be different from ship's time. And the ship leaves on ship's time, not local time.

IMO the "party" part of sailaway is a waste of time, especially if there are waitstaff bringing around tempting drinks that you didn't order, and then they are not free, LOL. I like to stand on deck at every sailaway from every port, just to see the sights. You may never get back to those places again, so why not take some time and appreciate them?

Of course I'm not a big MDR fan either. I like to eat on deck.

The obvious answer is: me!

I would like to see a water slide that extends over the side of the ship, for annoying passengers, combined with skeet shooting. ;)

Wow, that's stupid, even by the incredibly low standards of MSN.

You have what is by far the most important at the bottom of your list: HANDWASHING! Not touching your hands to your face unless right after washing them is job number one.

 

And far more important than not touching handrails, elevator buttons, and buffet utensils is: public restrooms. Don't. Just don't. Go back to your cabin bathroom as often as you can.

 

And save yourself the effort of wiping down your cabin: Clorox wipes kill bacteria, not germs. So a little exposure to said bacteria will keep your immune system alert. Plus don't forget your cabin steward will be traipsing in at least twice a day carrying the detritus of two dozen other cabins on his uniform.

Bacteria ARE a form of germ. And Clorox wipes are supposed to kill viruses too. The problem with wet wipes is, they don't keep the surface wet long enough to kill as much as you think they might. Contact time is key; a quick wipe won't do much except maybe pick up some stuff from the surface.

Wiping down the cabin won't really achieve anything. The most important thing to do is thorough and frequent hand-washing.

The shooter was an American who flew on Delta (NOT a Canadian airline), from an American state (Alaska). Your sarcastic remark is aimed at the wrong country.....maybe check your facts before posting nonsense that you represent as fact.

 

 

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How was the comment you referenced sarcastic? And the "nonsense" that was passed on was reported by every.major.news.network.

Hard to predict how someone might react in such a situation. Inappropriate to criticize those who were there, fearing for their lives, for how they reacted.