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Your kids made better towel animals than the cabin steward! ;)

You don't look like a grandma at all. How rude of that person.

Please continue the good review.

At first I thought this person was just being really cranky, but I thought I would post the two situations on the board. A mother was travelling with her son in a wheel chair. I ran into her twice while on a cruise while she was complaining to staff and escalating to management.

 

Situation 1 - At Nassau the angle of the boarding ramp was steep. With in the first two seconds of her pushing the wheelchair up the ramp a crew member offered her assistance and helped her make it up the ramp.

Just for clarification for those who didn't know who was pushing who, it sounds like the mother was pushing the son.

Does Carnival still give refunds if you're unhappy and get off at the first port?

With three kids and you can take three cruises in four months, your husband must have a great job - lucky you! :D

Even our local Wal-Mart has an Asian cashier that speaks very broken English with the name tag "Matt". Highly doubt that's his real name.

Your cruise date must be wrong. It's not even June 18th yet.

Anything new to report, Cherbear?

Beautiful pictures!

Maybe some of you like feeling like big shots flipping $100.00 around like it's nothing. Not everyone can afford that, nor is it necessary, to get great service.

I'm exhausted just hearing about your Las Vegas itinerary-LOL. Will there be any time for gambling?

Personally, I would leave the Adventure Dome and Circus Circus in general out of your plans. It's run down and full of unruly kids.

It sounds like you are only doing exercise to build your biceps. You need to build your triceps as well. Those are the muscles under your arms. Exercise the builds lat muscles can also help.

I do regularly include exercises for triceps, but when you lose that much weight there's simply too much flesh dangling down under the arms. If I haven't lost it by now, I never will. :o

This isn't a "fun" activity but after the first cruise I learned to pack lighter and utilize the self-service laundry.

Very nice pictures!

I'm convinced that nothing short of surgery will get rid of it, which I'm not willing to do. I lost 75+ pounds, not rapidly. I work out doing arm exercises daily and have been doing so for several years. I have big muscles in the front/top but underneath my arms the thin wrinkly skin just sags.

Your sons are very handsome.

Did SJ Happy Tours take you to the forts? How long was the tour? Did you eat in San Juan?

Looks delicious but if I drank that before dinner I wouldn't even be hungry.

I hope not. The filth of the money would be spread around a food prep area.

This.

Plus they're included in the tip pool anyway.

Our daughter at 9 years old on her first cruise had more freedom than the op wishes to give a 19 year old.

That's not necessarily a good thing....

Nothing wrong with your sticking to your guns. If she starts catching a buzz on the ship she may want to continue doing it when she gets back home...so no reason to encourage it.

Right? To be clear "SconnieMom" in this case is actually the Sconnie DAD (me) posting on wife's account he set up for her. So it's an over protective father here...don't blame the, likely, much more lenient/rational mom.

 

I didn't book either of them "SPRING BREAK!" cruise. I booked us/them a family vacation on a cruise. If they get some "away from parents" time, that's cool, we'll want some away from kids time as well. But the point of the trip isn't to have 3 vacations, the 2 of us, the 16 year old's and the 19 year old's.

 

That and IMO many (not all) complaints you hear about teens/children roaming the ship and "where are their parents?" is contributed to someone not caring where their kids were and what they were doing, while presuming they "raised them right". I was raised right, but I still made dumb decisions at that age (slightly less of them now that I'm older :rolleyes: ). And they could make friends on board with kids NOT raised right. If they aren't doing anything they aren't supposed to, there is no reason a simple check in every 2 hours to say "I'm alive. I'm not getting intimate with someone in our, or their, stateroom. I've not snuck alcohol (or worse)." should be an issue.

 

Personally I think the drinking age should be 19 (you're an adult, but should be out of high school so as not to have someone in high school old enough to buy for others). BUT it isn't, so until it is, which it won't be....WI was one of the last hold outs, it isn't going to be something I allow either. Illegal is illegal. And I'm not going to allow it for 4 days and then try to tell you on day 5 and beyond we're back to "This is not for you.".

 

Thanks for the replies. I believe that all were with good intentions, even if not in agreement with my line of thinking.

Does the Divina have daily bingo?

Is it an "older" clientele (60+)?

Your food/drink pictures look so yummy!

Your 19 year old would probably enjoy the nightly shows and bingo is fun at any age! She may even win a quick $100.00+. I don't blame you for wanting her to stay out of the clubs. They will be full of 40-50 year old men who would look at a solo 19 year old like she's dinner!

The no-show should do the right thing and reimburse you for the money you're out.

Dad is changing jobs. We need to find a new house and we want you to help choose a new house.

The thought of changing schools and neighborhoods would probably be upsetting to a child. Why start out his vacation on that note? I say forget all these crazy stories...

I'd say forget all the drama and just tell him when you're on your way. He'll be excited enough.