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

[Ocean Boy]

1 minute ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

Yup, he's a hard pass for me but I'll take the spiders over the snakes.  At least I think I would, until faced with one. 

Better chance of seeing and avoiding a snake. That spider could be anywhere. Looking at it gives me the creeps.

[A&L_Ont]

2 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Better chance of seeing and avoiding a snake. That spider could be anywhere. Looking at it gives me the creeps.

 

Imagine if the spider was riding the snake. 

[Ocean Boy]

Just now, A&L_Ont said:

 

Imagine if the spider was riding the snake. 

Nightmare.

[grapau27]

Good afternoon.

It is currently 46°F and sunny at home.

We were in York today.

Graham.

[h20skibum]

It is 3°F here this morning. Missed a lot in the last couple days. Happy birthday wishes to those who were celebrating.  

 

Continued smooth sailing to those currently onboard, and to those sailing this weekend.  

 

Hope those with family battling Covid, see some improvement soon.  My daughter, SIL, and both grandkids here had it.  Daughter and SIL, just had a mild cough, and both had been boosted.  Granddaughter had no symptoms at all, but still tested positive.  Grandson had it the worst. High temperature for nearly a week, and he ended up at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital with some IVs to replenish fluids.  Thankfully they are all better now and back to school and work. 

 

It looks like we picked the right days for our road trip home, since some of the southern states are expecting ice storms now.  

 

Today, we are off to the grocery store and getting rid of all the food in the refrigerator that expired last year.  I am almost afraid to open some of those containers to see what we left in them. 

[aussielozzie18]

19 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

Yup, he's a hard pass for me but I'll take the spiders over the snakes.  At least I think I would, until faced with one. 

My brother in Sydney has a non-venomous python is his backyard that they see from time to time.  They leave it alone and it doesn’t bother them.  A work colleague realised he had a python in his yard in Sydney when he discovered a rather long snake skin.

This wet weather is also bringing out the leeches.  Daughter & friend did an enjoyable 4K bushwalk last weekend until they looked at their legs & feet towards the end of the hike and discovered multiple leeches. Ugh. Thankfully they were wearing long pants & enclosed shoes.

[Sea Dog]

20 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

Today is not my day.My Parkinsons therapy session was cancelled this morning.

I was scheduled to have the Pneumonia vaccine this afternoon but I cancelled a few minutes ago because it was snowing very heavily.Of course as soon as I got the confirmation of the cancellation it stopped snowing.

 

 

Sorry it was missed due to weather. Hopefully it will be rescheduled soon.

 

 

5 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Meatloaf RIP.

We are really sorry to hear Meatloaf passed away yesterday.

We saw him twice in concert and he was amazing.

Graham.

 

 

RIP Thanks for the hits. Loved Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

 

41 minutes ago, molly361 said:

It was a bit lonely but nice.  I have to get used to it.  Got to put some faces to names of a couple of cc members.   Met a nice guy who turned Pinnacle on this cruise and he was my happy hour drinking buddy in the Schooner Lounge.  He was also sailing solo (married but sailing without wife)

 

I know it was tough but I'm so happy you were able to have some fun. Future cruises will get easier.

 

 

24 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

Seems so strange doesn't it. Owen just stood outside at -10F for near ten minutes waiting for the bus to get him. He didn't want a ride down in the car.  

 

I have a lot of respect for a kid that will do that.

 

 

[Ken at the beach]

5 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Meatloaf RIP.

We are really sorry to hear Meatloaf passed away yesterday.

We saw him twice in concert and he was amazing.

Graham.

Saw him back in the early to mid 80's.  Fantastic show.  Did you go see "Bat out of Hell" when it was in London several years ago.  We saw it in Toronto.  Great show.

[A&L_Ont]

4 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

I have a lot of respect for a kid that will do that.

 

And to got to SCHOOL of all things. LOL

[aussielozzie18]

Lovely photos as always Graham but you look a bit chilled.  I know you sold chocolates (still do?) are you doing something work related for the chocolate museum in your photo?

[aussielozzie18]

10 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

It is 3°F here this morning. Missed a lot in the last couple days. Happy birthday wishes to those who were celebrating.  

 

Continued smooth sailing to those currently onboard, and to those sailing this weekend.  

 

Hope those with family battling Covid, see some improvement soon.  My daughter, SIL, and both grandkids here had it.  Daughter and SIL, just had a mild cough, and both had been boosted.  Granddaughter had no symptoms at all, but still tested positive.  Grandson had it the worst. High temperature for nearly a week, and he ended up at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital with some IVs to replenish fluids.  Thankfully they are all better now and back to school and work. 

 

It looks like we picked the right days for our road trip home, since some of the southern states are expecting ice storms now.  

 

Today, we are off to the grocery store and getting rid of all the food in the refrigerator that expired last year.  I am almost afraid to open some of those containers to see what we left in them. 

Interesting to read the difference experiences of your family  members testing positive.  Sorry to hear your grandson was so ill.  Glad he has recovered well.

[aussielozzie18]

11 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

Saw him back in the early to mid 80's.  Fantastic show.  Did you go see "Bat out of Hell" when it was in London several years ago.  We saw it in Toronto.  Great show.

The Bat out of Hell musical was supposed to perform here in Nov just gone.  Due to Covid it got rescheduled to 2023.

[Sunshine3601]

13 hours ago, Ocean Boy said:

People on the role call for Allure this Saturday are reporting positive tests today. I feel badly for them.

That is a shame.  Any idea how many will be your sailing?   We had 1623 passengers on Anthem and that felt very comfortable.  

[Lionesss]

Ocean boy, have a safe trip.

 

To all those hit by COVID, continued healing.

 

To the cold weather coming, I hate it too, but be safe.

 

Andrew, I knew you had more interesting weather than us here in Ohio, but our schools close when the temp hits -1 or below.

That is now.

 

Schools back then  would only close in a weather emergency, that is more than 8-10 inches.

Or the temp was cold with a wind chill (cannot remember the exact temp).

When I was in HS. my brothers and I walked 2 miles to get to school.

We lived too close for the bus to pick us up,

Many a day, my legs were totally chapped from the cold air chillin them as I walked, we wore uniform skirts and then the shorter the better (we were stupid).

 

Now our district buses all students even if they live on  next property  to their school. That is if they want, they can walk when in HS.

 

Be safe

[Kathscof]

52 minutes ago, Keksie said:

Yup.  It is the freezing mix potential that did it.  This is Florida.  We don't close schools for covid just for cold.  LOL

 in NFla we had to close a few times when we were below 20, as the school's heaters weren't built for that much demand....

[Sunshine3601]

43 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

It is 3°F here this morning. Missed a lot in the last couple days. Happy birthday wishes to those who were celebrating.  

 

Continued smooth sailing to those currently onboard, and to those sailing this weekend.  

 

Hope those with family battling Covid, see some improvement soon.  My daughter, SIL, and both grandkids here had it.  Daughter and SIL, just had a mild cough, and both had been boosted.  Granddaughter had no symptoms at all, but still tested positive.  Grandson had it the worst. High temperature for nearly a week, and he ended up at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital with some IVs to replenish fluids.  Thankfully they are all better now and back to school and work. 

 

It looks like we picked the right days for our road trip home, since some of the southern states are expecting ice storms now.  

 

Today, we are off to the grocery store and getting rid of all the food in the refrigerator that expired last year.  I am almost afraid to open some of those containers to see what we left in them. 

Sorry to hear your Grandson had a rough time with covid but happy to hear everyone is better and back to school and work.  It is impossible to know where they contacted the virus.

 

That's great you had a wonderful b2b sailing and made it home safe and sound.

I'm not ready to deal with reality and go food shopping yet.  Will do tomorrow.

 

I sure do miss walking up to WJ for breakfast and my latte this morning.

 

 

 

[Sea Dog]

Night 2 of SAG awards viewing. Last night we watched "Power of the Dog." It is nominated in the category of Best Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Actress Kirsten Dunst, Best supporting Actor Kodi Schmidt-McPhee.

 

 

Film takes place in Montana though it was filmed in New Zealand. The cinematography of NZ was amazing but that is about the only thing I cared for.

 

Short synopsis taken from Google:

A domineering rancher responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass.

 

The acting was really good but I just did not care for the plot. It's a very slow moving character study. At one point Linda and I were trying to find a word that described the whole movie. In one scene we were watching with subtitles (as I'm hard of hearing) and there was some music and the subtitle said "Uneasy Music." We thought that describes the whole movie "Uneasy". The soundtrack has a lot of uneasy tense music that puts you on edge the whole time. You know something is not right and something is going to happen you just don't know what. The ending was very unexpected and I won't give it away but it took me awhile to realize what had happened.

 

So if you wanting an uneasy movie to watch this one might be for you.

 

[h20skibum]

2 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

It is impossible to know where they contacted the virus.

Not sure where they picked it up.  They were with us in the rental house in Florida, before we left on our cruise.  They tested positive a couple days after flying back to Pennsylvania. We tested negative for the cruise, and again for the second leg of the trip, and we still are negative.  
 

My son and his family were there with us, so they tested and were all negative.  My daughter sent them some tests from Pennsylvania, because they couldn’t find any in California. Our grandson in CA has to test weekly for school, so he continues to be negative.  
 

It is strange how this affects people differently. 
 

[dani negreanu]

1 hour ago, aussielozzie18 said:

Another wet week here in Sydney. This week,  we have been warned we can except an increase in funnel web spiders .....

 

the Australian Reptile Park has asked that  a “responsible adult” (not going to be me!) catches them live and takes  them to the Reptile Park for their milking program for anti-venom.

 

1 hour ago, Ocean Boy said:

Damn that thing is ugly.

 

1 hour ago, A&L_Ont said:

Yup, he's a hard pass for me but I'll take the spiders over the snakes.  At least I think I would, until faced with one. 

 

1 hour ago, Keksie said:

Yikes. I would not be the responsible adult catching them either.  

 

+ 4 

 

1 hour ago, Keksie said:

Yup.  It is the freezing mix potential that did it.  This is Florida.  We don't close schools for covid just for cold.  LOL

 

1 hour ago, A&L_Ont said:

Seems so strange doesn't it. Owen just stood outside at -10F for near ten minutes waiting for the bus to get him. He didn't want a ride down in the car.  

 

THAT's cold... Day before yesterday, there was hope in Jerusalem that the temp will go below 32F, may be some snow will "keep". The schools were even supposed to open later.

 

1 hour ago, A&L_Ont said:

I can understand that. I would not want to be responsible for bussing kids when the drivers aren't used to freezing rain.  Even here it can be a school stopper.

 

@bobmacliberty

 

Freezing rain and Florida don't mix together in "my" book.... What happened to the "Sunshine State"?

 

 

[Ozark_Kid]

8 hours ago, ReneeFLL said:

Bell pepper, jalapeños, mushrooms, olives, artichokes, onion, cheese, tomatos and meat. Lots of garlic and anchovies would have to be tiny pieces and not to many. I want at least 3 of the ingredients above and 4 would be even better. 😀 🍕

A couple items not mentioned yet that I used a couple days  ago, pesto and roasted tomatoes. It was the first time for roasted tomatoes and it was great!  I make my own sauce so that is where plenty of garlic comes in.

 

8 hours ago, ReneeFLL said:

Can obc from a price reduction be turned into cash thru the casino?

 

Also is there an easy anyway to transfer pictures from my phone to my iPad? I much prefer posting from my iPad than my phone. That’s one of the reasons I don’t post to many pictures.

While on Symphony we had obc of $1,099 through price drops.  After using some I was able to cash out around $900 on a slot machine .  You transfer money from your regular account to the casino account.  There was a $500 limit per transfer but you are not limited to one transfer.  Once transferred to the casino you can cash out any time.  The money you transferred from your regular account will be covered by the obc.
 

6 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Good morning.

It is a frosty 32°F this morning.

I hope everyone has a lovely day.

Graham.

It was 12°f at 6am but but now at 9am it is already a hot 16°f .  😆 two days ago it was 56°f .

 

 

 

[Ozark_Kid]

1 hour ago, molly361 said:

It was a bit lonely but nice.  I have to get used to it.  Got to put some faces to names of a couple of cc members.   Met a nice guy who turned Pinnacle on this cruise and he was my happy hour drinking buddy in the Schooner Lounge.  He was also sailing solo (married but sailing without wife)

I heard some cute but married guy interrupted your dinner too.  😂 I wish we would of met up earlier.  I enjoyed our short visit. 

[molly361]

6 minutes ago, Ozark_Kid said:

I heard some cute but married guy interrupted your dinner too.  😂 I wish we would of met up earlier.  I enjoyed our short visit. 

He was quite a good looking man I have to say- I enjoyed our chat as well

[Ozark_Kid]

1 hour ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

Imagine if the spider was riding the snake. 

Or snake riding a spider.

[LucasLikesToCruise]

2 hours ago, Keksie said:

It is 32F here this morning too.  Way to cold, schools are closing.  Yikes we may even get freezing rain or gulp snow!

It was 30F and a bit breezy here this morning when I took Oliver for his walk.  Had to dig out  my thicker down puffer jacket with hood. 🥶 of course this was the morning that it took him an extra long time to find the perfect place to poop.  LOL

 

Also, you know it’s cold in Florida when the low air pressure warning light comes on for all four tires until you drive a few miles and the tires warm up. 🤔

[LucasLikesToCruise]

3 hours ago, Ocean Boy said:

Thank you. You will probably end up with more than two of my cents.😄

Looking forward to your review with your quick wit and carefully unfiltered comments. 🤪