Cruise Momentos

[SS Cruise Lady]

What momentos do you have from past cruises that you are glad you bought?

[Leela]

I bought a shot glass with a medallion of Horizon on the side. I'm glad I got that, now that she's gone.

[Ma Bell]

Wherever we go, I usually try to buy a small piece of original art from a local artist as a memento.

[ocngypz]

Since I've sailed so often, I don't buy the usual stuff.

 

I buy original watercolors.

[mason525]

I have a Celebrity martini shaker -all I have to is look at it in my liquor cabinet & I smile remembering a great cruise. Meg (PS great question!)

[Leela]

I usually buy hot sauces or jellies or liquers or something unique to the spots we are visiting, so I also have a fridge full of crazy carribbean hot sauces. I like to make fried plantains and eat them with the sauces.

 

Also, I was so impressed with the Martini Bar on my first X cruise that I kept one of the menus. I went home and stocked my liquor cabinet according to the menu. On that trip I bought a couple of Orrefors crystal martini glasses on super-special at Little Switzerland in St. Maarten. So, my martini hobby is a major memento of all my X trips!

[chasetf]

I always buy hats (ball caps). I started buying one from every port we visited but that got out of hand. Now I usually buy just a couple... including one of the ship or cruise line.... I do wear lots of hats.....:)

[JimnKaren]

We always seem to get carried away when we arrive at a new port. The local paper will give us a sense of what is happening and what is important. I always check out the real estate for sale ads. Wow, if I followed my heart, we would own property on 15 islands in the Caribbean. Thankfully, we did not buy any, but we kept the papers to look at occasionally.

 

Jim

[shonuf]

Jewelry, of course!

 

41 days and counting.

[drfun48]

What momentos do you have from past cruises that you are glad you got

 

Celebrity silverware,glasswear,dishes and towels.

[howard6933]

I always buy a "refrigerator magnet" with the name of the ship on it. Since I've been on 42 cruises, you can imagine what the side of my refrigerator looks like. ;)

[drfun48]

I always buy a "refrigerator magnet" with the name of the ship on it. Since I've been on 42 cruises, you can imagine what the side of my refrigerator looks like. ;)

Me too,and between all the magnets and my large number of metal fillings,it's no wonder that I am "drawn" to the refrigerator.

[stacey75]

My boy-friend started me a charm bracelet and now whenever we go anywhere I always get a new charm for my bracelet. The last one I added was a sterling silver charm of mickey mouse's ears from Florida.

[dmarch@islc.net]

We always seem to get carried away when we arrive at a new port. The local paper will give us a sense of what is happening and what is important. I always check out the real estate for sale ads. Wow, if I followed my heart, we would own property on 15 islands in the Caribbean. Thankfully, we did not buy any, but we kept the papers to look at occasionally.

 

Jim

I'm the same way. Real estate nut. Grew up listening to stories about Castro stealing sugar plantations and I always chicken out. Usually end up with Cuban coffee and rum cake. LOL

[SS Cruise Lady]

We always seem to get carried away when we arrive at a new port. The local paper will give us a sense of what is happening and what is important. I always check out the real estate for sale ads. Wow, if I followed my heart, we would own property on 15 islands in the Caribbean. Thankfully, we did not buy any, but we kept the papers to look at occasionally.

 

Jim

 

I owned a real estate appraisal business for years. Even though I am now a retired appraiser, real estate is still in my blood, so I also check out real estate whenever we are on vacation :)

[KBC73]

I also like to buy hats but the best thing we get is a Christmas ornament from all the ports we visit. It's alot of fun this time of year when we put up the tree and have these as reminders of the places we have visited.

I also have a menu from the martini bar and the kids restock my liquor cabinet at Christmas.

 

Kevin

[Qmadam]

Menus!!! Definitely menus. We have a sample of the menus from an eleven night cruise to Central America. I read them over periodically and salivate just remembering!!!!

[Longboysfan]

Celebrity silverware,glasswear,dishes and towels.

 

I got a lamp, tv, fridge and a side table. ;)

 

Packing to go home is tough.

[hermang]

But they frown on the weight going through baggage <g>

 

Seriously I have been buying hat pins

[constantcruiser]

CD's of local music.

[chasetf]

My boy-friend started me a charm bracelet and now whenever we go anywhere I always get a new charm for my bracelet. The last one I added was a sterling silver charm of mickey mouse's ears from Florida.

My wife has one too. Our first cruise was with my Mother and Step Father. My mom bought my wife a charm on the cruise as a memento, and we have added to it each cruise. She is ready for another chain at this point.....:)

 

By the time we are done, in our wheel chairs, I hope it weights twenty pounds....:D

[fllady]

We are big coffee drinkers, so coffee mugs are our thing! Always nice having coffee and looking at the different places we've been to and ships we have been on.

[canderson]

What momentos do you have from past cruises that you are glad you bought?

The white Celebrity "golf shirts" that have POCKETS! Why glad? Sometime after our 4/05 cruise, they discontinued them! The new ones (12/05) don't have pockets.

 

A good chuckle from this last Galaxy trip: wearing one of these for boarding, and as it happened, wearing it with a pair of khakis, I was mistaken for someone from Celebrity twice by fellow passengers. One wanted to know what day they were selling the shirts at a discount, and the other wanted directions to the Savoy.:D

[canderson]

Wherever we go, I usually try to buy a small piece of original art from a local artist as a memento.

If you get to Panama, the Embera tribe makes some very nice cocobolo wood sculptures of hummingbirds hovering over a flower (among other things). We've been there three times, and purchased a slightly different version of the hummingbird each time. You'll find them if you take the tour that lands you at the village, or you can even get these right at the port from their tribal art table at Cristobal before you reboard the ship.

[wvufan]

In retrospect, we wish we had collected some sand, pebble, etc. from each place. Oh well, guess we'll just have to go back;)

 

OOOEEE:D :D Bob and Phyl