Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[Ozark_Kid]

1 hour ago, Arzeena said:

No obligations. I wear jeans with a top most nights. Not torn jeans but normal ones. I dress them up or down. I do wear sundresses sometimes but I don't think you will look good in a sundress and may end up on facebook! LOL😉😁. Sharon on the other hand will carry that out well. No formal nights, they call it Chic night, and you can dress to kill or you can be casual. No compulsions on tie and jacket.

 

 

😂 Me wearing a sundress would be awkward.  On the other hand you say you wear jeans with a top most nights.  Your not saying there are jeans only nights are you?  🤔 😆.  The more casual dress code sounds more appealing.  Now I need to review the ships.  
 

I never understand buying torn up jeans.  I like new jeans.  Actual worn out jeans can look nice, but torn up jeans from the factory are no way appealing to me.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Ozark_Kid

[reallyitsmema]

Anyone still need a turkey for thanksgiving?  There were eleven of them out there today. 
 

 

[molly361]

Dan just a few short years ago😇

[dani negreanu]

21 minutes ago, molly361 said:

Dan just a few short years ago

 

Handsome guy.

 

You can easily cut a cake with those sharp ironed trousers 😉

[dani negreanu]

27 minutes ago, reallyitsmema said:

Anyone still need a turkey for thanksgiving?

 

Are you allowed to, like, catch them, and, like, eat them? ☹️

[Luckynana]

1 hour ago, ReneeFLL said:

 

Here are a few pictures of the courtyard area. I wished I had more but can't find them. Your room rate is charged by your rank which sucks for us, but it's still cheaper than the surrounding hotels. We will be there again next October. They book up very quickly so we have to make reservations as soon as they open for the time we want

 

 

Beautiful hotel!  I'll have to ask my daughter and son-in-law if they are aware of this hotel?  We've stayed at the Shades of Green hotel in Orlando with them several years ago.  Tom just retired as a Lieutenant in the Coast Guard.

1 hour ago, OnTheJourney said:

Wow! That was a whole mini-photo album there, Graham. So the Holiday continues....

+1  Totally agree.  Graham, your pictures are beautiful!

48 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

My granddaughter just called to tell me that she received a second college acceptance letter.

She applied to 7

More congrats, Lenny!

40 minutes ago, ReneeFLL said:

I love anything coconut. Coconut ice cream and Baileys sounds good. 😁

Yes, yes, yes!

37 minutes ago, Ozark_Kid said:

  

I never understand buying torn up jeans.  I like new jeans.  Actual worn out jeans can look nice, but torn up jeans from the factory are no way appealing to me.

Nor to me...  

[reallyitsmema]

5 minutes ago, dani negreanu said:

 

Are you allowed to, like, catch them, and, like, eat them? ☹️

 

No, not these, they are just neighborhood pests passing through.  There are times and areas that you can hunt wild turkeys, but not in my area as we are really suburban. 🙂 

[Maitaivegas]

Waiting for DD to deliver my Panda Express, not sure when it will arrive.

 

[mets07]

2 hours ago, OnTheJourney said:

My Dad was captured the first day of the Bulge and spent the rest of WWII in German prison camp.

Wow, @OnTheJourney My uncle, one of my mother's brothers, was killed in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a very young man.  Of course I never knew him. 

 

God bless all veterans for their sacrifices. 

[derorim]

2 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Dinner tonight.

Chestnut mushroom soup.

Fillet steak.

Coconut Ice Cream.

 

Speaking of Ice Cream @lenquixote66, Graham you had my favorite flavor!

[Sunshine3601]

2 hours ago, h20skibum said:

Actually, I was looking at that same itinerary for the 7th.   Also looking at the Edge and Apex sailings.

 

We liked pour Odyssey sailing to A and C, and they have one in March also.  Odyssey is so expensive then, that the Silhouette was ending up less on a per day basis, plus we would get 3 extra days.

 

Cartagena can be brutally hot then.  Although we were there in April one year, I remember the “feels like” temperature was 120°.

You are right about that!    I was in Cartagena Jan 2020 and did the mistake of  closing the casino the night before (or morning of) and had to get up 3 hours later for our excursion/tour of the Old Walled City.  I believe we were still drunk when we woke up.  We definitely sweat out alcohol that day.     Very hot and very Humid and they sure do bug you buy their souvenirs as you walk around town.

[ReneeFLL]

For the casino players I have a question. We were talking to someone last night and I thought I heard him say in order to get a free cruise you need 800 points. For every dollar you spend you get 5 points. This doesn't sound right to me because that would only be $160.00. Maybe I misunderstood him. It was noisy last night.

[mafig]

5 minutes ago, ReneeFLL said:

For the casino players I have a question. We were talking to someone last night and I thought I heard him say in order to get a free cruise you need 800 points. For every dollar you spend you get 5 points. This doesn't sound right to me because that would only be $160.00. Maybe I misunderstood him. It was noisy last night.

 

I always heard the opposite.  For every $5 you get 1 point.

[dani negreanu]

5 minutes ago, mafig said:

I always heard the opposite.  For every $5 you get 1 point.

 

Spending 4K for a "free cruise"? Must be in Star Class 😁

[OnTheJourney]

48 minutes ago, mets07 said:

was killed in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a very young man

Yep...lots of them were, for sure. My Dad was only 22. Always believed that he'd come home from the war, and he did. Probably a mixed blessing that he was captured since he was at least off the front lines, although the one time they were being moved by train to a different camp and the train was strafed by American forces. The guy sitting next to him was killed by a bullet that came through the roof. They stopped the train, and the prisoners got out and quickly formed the letters "POW". That way the pilots knew it was Americans, and so tipped their wings and flew off.

 

His division, the 99th infantry, was highly decorated - also the first to cross the Rhine. In a strange twist of fate, he was actually liberated by his own division. He described it as a "tearful reunion of alot of good buddies".  

 

When he retired, he and my Mom started attending the army reunions all over the US. We went along for one of them. Those guys had a bond that is hard to describe. It was really a moving experience to be part of the reunion events. Unfortunately, my Dad was already in the throes of dementia and so wasn't always sure of what was going on. He only went to one more after that. 

Edited November 12, 2021 by OnTheJourney

[Coralc]

1 hour ago, dani negreanu said:

 

Are you allowed to, like, catch them, and, like, eat them? ☹️

You could. But not legally without a hunting license.  It would be pretty easy to hit one with your car. <just kidding. > The problem is that they would probably be tough and dry. The supermarket turkeys are well fed and just a few months old and more tender. 

Edited November 12, 2021 by Coralc

[bobmacliberty]

3 hours ago, grapau27 said:

We were in Mijas Pueblo today.

A lovely place to visit if you are staying near Malaga.

Graham.

 

Graham - This may sound like a strange question, but was Pauline a dancer?  I see her turned out in many of her pictures.  DD23 was a dancer for many years and naturally stands and walks that way from years of practice.

[OnTheJourney]

So on a lighter topic...yesterday was a great fall day for some 'yaking'! Took my inflatable to the lake that's within 20 minutes walking distance of my house. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2021 by OnTheJourney

[George C]

1 hour ago, mets07 said:

Wow, @OnTheJourney My uncle, one of my mother's brothers, was killed in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a very young man.  Of course I never knew him. 

 

God bless all veterans for their sacrifices. 

I had a uncle who was killed in France in WW1 in 1917,  my dad was born the same year and served in WW2. 

[mets07]

4 minutes ago, OnTheJourney said:

ep...lots of them were, for sure. My Dad was only 22. Always believed that he'd come home from the war, and he did. Probably a mixed blessing that he was captured since he was at least off the front lines, although the one time they were being moved by train to a different camp and the train was strafed by American forces. The guy sitting next to him was killed by a bullet that came through the roof. They stopped the train, and the prisoners got out and quickly formed the letters "POW". That way the pilots knew it was Americans, and so tipped their wings and flew off.

 

His division, the 99th infantry, was highly decorated - also the first to cross the Rhine. In a strange twist of fate, he was actually liberated by his own division. He described it as a "tearful reunion of alot of good buddies".

 

I am so glad your Dad got home. 

 

My uncle was in the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, "Hell on Wheels" ...  he was killed just before his 22nd birthday in 1945.  He and 3 others are honored on a plaque in Samree, Belgium. 

 

[OnTheJourney]

24 minutes ago, mets07 said:

He and 3 others are honored on a plaque in Samree, Belgium. 

 

The 'greatest generation'...for sure. 

[A&L_Ont]

On 11/8/2021 at 11:28 AM, OnTheJourney said:

Sorry...not sure what you mean???  1995 buick riviera - coup. Final design for the car that GM came up with - discontinued around '99. 

My mom had one.  I loved it.  It was fun to drive, especially as a teen. 😁

[lenquixote66]

3 hours ago, Luckynana said:

Beautiful hotel!  I'll have to ask my daughter and son-in-law if they are aware of this hotel?  We've stayed at the Shades of Green hotel in Orlando with them several years ago.  Tom just retired as a Lieutenant in the Coast Guard.

+1  Totally agree.  Graham, your pictures are beautiful!

More congrats, Lenny!

Yes, yes, yes!

Nor to me...  

Thanks,MaryAnn

[A&L_Ont]

On 11/8/2021 at 8:43 PM, Ocean Boy said:

Below Deck tonight, anyone?

 

Just watching now. 

 

On 11/9/2021 at 8:42 AM, John&amp;LaLa said:

 

Family OV and the inside across the hall

Is that extra cabin for when I come to visit?😂

[Lionesss]

For those of you who used to follow one of the original posters of live cruise threads (Trainman), his second wife Judith recently passed away.

 

Copied this from a cruise blog that gave updates.

 

 

 

 

ed Monday at 08:28 PM (edited)

 

 

I was able to talk with Ron. Judith passed in early Oct. Of natural causes. She hadn't been verbal for a few months. She passed quietly of natural causes. She is missed.

 

I am so thankful for all the friends this blog has brought together. 

 

On Dec. 13 I will start a new thread in memory of both Jim and Judith if that is OK with everyone. 

Edited Monday at 08:34 PM by Aboat1