SusieKIslandGirl

20 minutes ago, Lido deck main said:

Upon embarkation take a copy of your visa to customer service and have them make a note that you have pre-purchased your Indonesian visa.

But does it work to get the 2 separate single entrance visas instead of the other options?

And double cruise days if you originally book the Vista rather than an upgrade.

Does your cruise stop at more than 1 Indonesian port after another non-Indonesian port? Ours does so trying to figure out if we can do 2 of the B1 on Arrival visas.  That would be a lot less money than the multiple visit visa.

Woke up to rain this morning-well, maybe drizzle. But just enough to totally soak the car seats because I left the windows open yesterday. I hope the sun comes back to start drying them out. Guess I should have listened to the late news! Hope everyone has an easy, enjoyable week ahead.

Quite a few of us from our cruise are staying at the Clarke Quay Holiday Inn Express. The location looks fairly good and the price is good. Hope we made a good choice.

6 hours ago, kazu said:

Ugh Susie - bad enough the new freezer isn’t working right but now no good service?  How frustrating.  If it’s still under warranty, I’d be tempted to tell them to send you a new working one since they can’t send a service person and wasted your valuable time.

 

That’s what we went through with the last fridge.  We have had this one 5 months. It’s getting tiresome.

Today was a lesson in frustration. After replacing our old Samsung (Samsuck?) refrigerator in March because of a lousy ice maker, the new LG now has a different freezer problem. I called Customer Service last week and went through their suggestions for reset and changing the water pressure, but no luck. They scheduled a service call for today, arriving between 8 am and noon. At 1:30 I called and the agent said he'd send a text to the technician asking about the delay. At 6 pm I went online to LG chat. Went through everything again and then found out the service call had been cancelled. We live on an island. Sheesh! OK but why not call or email or some kind of notification. They finally offered a new ice cube unit for self-installation and we get a free water filter. This was after an hour of back and forth. Obviously, dinner was late. Luckily it was just reheating leftovers. I think I need ice cream!

I hope everyone has a good weekend and safe travels for those away from home.

A group of us booked with Iggy at Gentle Giant. It was great.

3 hours ago, Cruising-along said:

Thank you!  I'm excited.  We prefer aft too, and have a cabin on the 11th deck right on the aft.  It will be only 1 week, to see if we like Princess but also because any longer and we'd have to do laundry 😉  

 

At least Princess still has self-service laundry on each deck and this last cruise it was free. I love the cabin closet set-up. It's one long bar across from the bathroom door with a shelf above and floor space for shoes and suitcases. There is a tall narrow cabinet that is behind the bathroom door when the door is open-several shelves and the safe. The closet area even has room for a pop-up mesh hamper. It's a hard choice between Princess and HAL lately-like them both (although you're right, free laundry is nice!)  Breakfast is usually at the buffet and we enjoy eating outside-a good amount of the area is covered.

@Cruising-alongWe were on the Discovery Princess in April for the Solar Eclipse cruise. 2 months after booking opened we ended up with a guarantee cabin so we were in a forward cabin, rather than our preferred aft. We got a lot of steps in but it wasn't as bad as I had feared. The ship was totally booked for the total eclipse but really didn't seem overly crowded. It's a beautiful ship and the International Cafe is always wonderful. If you're lucky, you will have Cole Bockman from New Zealand, as cruise director. He is a riot-make sure you see his Wake Show on tv in the morning. And our medallions worked quite well. Love having the door unlock as I approach while holding morning lattes from the International Cafe.

1 minute ago, Cruzin Terri said:

If he did, I missed it.  He has been very invisible.

Terri

SOUTH CAROLINA (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — On Sunday, Gov. Henry McMaster declared a State of Emergency in preparation for the potential effects of Hurricane Debby this week.

Sunday’s executive order activates the South Carolina Emergency Operations Plan and enables all state agencies to coordinate resources in preparation for Hurricane Debby. 

1 hour ago, Haljo1935 said:

Printed boarding pass & luggage 🧳 tags today.

Hopefully you'll receive a small package in the mail before you leave😁.

19 minutes ago, Cruzin Terri said:

There has been no evacuation order.  The governor did not even declare a state of emergency.  Without those in place there is no one to notify.

i see that Jim Cantore is in Charleston. 

As I said before, there is no place to go.

Terri

I thought I read yesterday that the governor declared a state of emergency.

Erg! I really thought I had the photo resized, finally but guess not!

@Sharon in AZAugust is a good month for birthdays-Happy Day to Summer.

Another funny for the garden club. I wanted to replace the dirt in the bed where I plant zinnias every year. DH had a mixture of topsoil and compost so replaced about 6"-of course the only zinnias doing well are now under the volunteer plant. I am happy to report the thistle plant is no longer!

37 minutes ago, Haljo1935 said:

I would like the Northern Europe and the oval orange HAL one. Just let me know what you want for them. My email is TElizKing at yahoo dot com. Thanks so much ☺️

Email sent!

2 hours ago, Haljo1935 said:

I have several- would you share a picture of what you have? If I don't have them, I would love one of them.

My extras include Canada & New England, Panama Canal, Alaska, South America, Mediterranean, Northern Europe and Caribbean plus the oval orange one that says Holland America Line.

Has anyone been collecting the HAL port pins-before they discontinued them? I have a few duplicates if anyone is interested. Included is an orange oval pin that says Holland America in white script.

@Vict0riannI like your idea of taking a photo of a favorite item before donating it. And I know how mice get in our house-the cat brings them in! Twice I've caught him at the door and told him to turn around and go back outside. Amazingly, he did.

Take care everyone and hope better days are ahead.

DS is 52 today. Every year I wonder how he can be that old! Just wish he wasn’t so far away. Another hot, sunny day-I want some clouds. Positive thoughts for you @marshhawk. Take care of yourself.

@ger_77Boy did I read this wrong! You wrote-- I'm going to pass on the drink, have never liked the taste of the wine. I missed the "the" and thought what??

3 hours ago, Cruising-along said:

Good morning all!

Yes, we have rain!  Finally.  A nice gentle, steady rain and will go through tomorrow morning.  @SusieKIslandGirl I'm not sure where you are

We're on Vashon, directly across from Sea-Tac airport. And the rain we did have that reset our weather gauge was 0.015" so it barely counts. Sadly, the rain here didn't last and everything is dry again. I hope some more shows up. Everyone I spoke with this morning agreed it was a lovely, cloudy PNW day😅.

It’s raining-really raining!! After 24 days it’s finally raining and it’s more than 10 drops.

53 minutes ago, Overhead Fred said:

 

But the Goldfinch would love it!

Very true-I've seen several-the state bird of Washington!

DH's contribution to the Garden Club-and threats have been issued if it even looks like it might go to seed 😮😄.