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Martita B.

Martita B.

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Granny,

'Hang in there and keep your wonderful sense of humor~~we know,, "humor and attitude" is KING!

Besides planning for the Pride March PLAID affair, please keep in mind the Sky Bar contest: "World's Ugliest Necktie!":confused: Your Hubby will want to enter!

Know we're all "cheering you on"~~~~:p

Martita B.

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blackbird71

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Granny,

 

I was thinking of you yesterday. The local zoo just got loan of three Roos and me and three ankle biters went to see them . :)

 

I know there is train service between Perth and the east coast, could you do that over air and get home sooner. :confused:

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GrannyLorr

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we would love to do the train trip the "Indian-Pacific" and have considered getting home that way, but its about 4 days from here to Brisbane...versus 4.5 hours by plane.....and at this stage I just want to GO HOME......I cant actually travel by ANY means until clearance by the docs.....cardiologist on 10th. and surgeon on 20th. so hope to escape WA on 21st or 22nd......hubby has just decided to become my personal trainer so I am fit for my first appointment! I am a lazy old bugger and me and physio stuff is as bad as that torture room called "The Gym" on the ships......:confused: who knows I might even enjoy exercise after all this! Maybe we can arrange a marathon on the Crossing?:eek:

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we would love to do the train trip the "Indian-Pacific" and have considered getting home that way, but its about 4 days from here to Brisbane...versus 4.5 hours by plane.....and at this stage I just want to GO HOME......I cant actually travel by ANY means until clearance by the docs.....cardiologist on 10th. and surgeon on 20th. so hope to escape WA on 21st or 22nd......hubby has just decided to become my personal trainer so I am fit for my first appointment! I am a lazy old bugger and me and physio stuff is as bad as that torture room called "The Gym" on the ships......:confused: who knows I might even enjoy exercise after all this! Maybe we can arrange a marathon on the Crossing?:eek:

 

 

I am so impressed by you Granny. I am 72..and am always challenged to try to keep up with my friends who are 10 to 14 years younger. Sounds like you could do that with your hand tied behind your back. I envy your fortitude. Get well soon..Lola

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GrannyLorr

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Thanks Lola....oh dear....maybe Granny is a bit of a fraud......I'm a ~youngish~ Granny (not quite 60 yet) at the moment I wouldn't be able to keep up with a snail, but am determined NOTHING will spoil my next cruise....I certainly hope I will still be getting "escorted" onto the ships and "DRAGGED" off again at 72!

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norm2002

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Oh Granny! Sorry, I've been away from the forum a little while. I do hope you are completely on the mend. By the sound of it you are! Maybe you should be leading the aerobics class on your next cruise. Personally, I find Tai Chi a little too strenuous! But we know what you Aussies are like!

 

I've been busy the last few days trying to arrange the wedding details. Hopefully, subject to Home Office approval, we will be getting married on Sunday 14 October at 12 noon BST on the London Eye! I wanted to get married on the Pride on her last visit to London before the Transatlantic but for some reason marriages on ships are not allowed in the UK :(. So we will be in a pod in the London Eye and apparently they time it so the wedding vows are spoken when the pod reaches the top - so we will be married at 135 metres above the River Thames! I hope the weather in October will be better than this week when it's been continually raining with floods in many parts of Britain. We will fly off the next morning - 6am flight ugh! - to Colombia. And it'll be next year before our first cruise. Strange, I used to be very worked up about the loss of the really good sole traveller rates on Seabourn. Now I'm not really bothered!

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PeaSea8ch

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GrannyLorr,

So glad you are on the mend and posting! Your spunk, humor and upbeat attitude will have you in fine cruising on Seabourn form in no time at all!! If running marathons around Deck 8 seems a bit much, I will gladly be your personal trainer on the crossing to give Hubby a break after the 72 day circumnavigation of South America and we will go deck walking assuming King Neptune wants Granny to get some good exercise. We'll start out slow and then work your way up to faster and longer duration walks. It will be great fun and all the Deck 8 loving passengers will know you!

 

During the crossings I am deck walking for hours on end, sometimes more than once a day. I walk from predawn (my favorite time of the day) before the deck boyz have the deck set up for the daytime activities and also during the day. You will get the best workout (both for your legs and aerobic benefits) while the sun bathers are out in force - not bumping into them or the attentive wait staff. I will also do my best to recruit East Coast "JaneBP" to join us on the crossing. On the '04 Legend November crossing, Jane was demurely perched at her spot on the port bench of the Sky Bar sipping BBCs, Mojitos and other assorted libations making certain the Legendary bartenders were maintaining the high level of Seabourn mixicology excellence on a daily basis. She also had a stop watch and was timing my laps. Occasionally she would give me a report on my lap times. But, I f started to slow down or goof off by visiting with the sun worshipers, she let me know about it straight away! :p

 

I find that I sleep better at night on Seabourn when I am deck walking. It is a good kind of tired. Add cross-trainer shoes to your packing list right after PLAID! ;)

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JaneBP

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LOL! You think it was easy keeping track of you? Your pace was quite swift and barely left me time to sip my drinks. Since I shall be with Granny Lorr in SA, perhaps I can help her train for your deck sprints.

 

When I went to Alaska last summer on Cruise West, my suite was on the deck that circumnavigated the perimeter. But there wasn't room to sit out and watch, so the walkers would pass by my window and I would hold up some encouraging signs. One man commented that I had better get my suite made up as it was quite messy. I told him to MYOB. Cheeky devil.

 

Jane (Lap-counter to the st*rs)

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GrannyLorr

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ummmm just a quick question for you Paul....as I don't have my dictionary with me......just what is "pre-dawn".....is it one of those new fangled words the younguns use these days? Not a word I am at all familiar with??

 

 

maybe it would be better if I just brought another stopwatch and Jane and I could ~compare~ your laps from the Sky Bar?

 

Actually I think I have our *shudder* "exercise routine" *shudder* all worked out.........

 

WALK down the stairs to the Restaurant for Breakfast.

order Lamb Chops and all the things to go with them......

placate our waiter by eating a doughnut, while waiting on the chops.

CHEW SLOWLY (chewing is a very good aerobic exercise!!)

WALK up the stairs at the conclusion of Breakfast.

(all this walking up and down stairs is assuming we are only on Deck 4)

 

 

 

 

 

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PeaSea8ch

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GrannyLorr,

 

I reread my post and realized that I should have done a better job of proofreading. Oh my, when Paul does not proofread his posts, he tends to misuse The King’s English. “Pre-dawn” means literally, in US English, before the first appearance of light in the sky as the sun rises at the beginning of a new day. What I should have written: I like to start my walking in the darkness before dawn and continue walking at least through the early stages of the sunrise.

 

Exercise is always better if you are a participant as opposed to being an observer. Your “exercise routine” looks pretty good but if you walk from your suite up to the Constellation Lounge for Trivia and down to the restaurant for lunch on the sea days, you can reward yourself with dessert that night!

 

The following photo sequence of my favorite time of day was taken during the Legend’s November 2005 crossing the morning of the last sea day before arriving at FLL.

 

 

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blackbird71

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BEHAVE BB.......I am a ~sick woman~ I need all the sleep I can get! boy am I going to milk the excuses now!:D

 

Moi be good... :D the favorite words from my neighbor is "Why do I even talk to you" -- I keep telling her, she will love Zip Lining on her first cruise. :eek:

 

Question has your DH moved the car/trailer back to the east coast???

 

 

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GrannyLorr

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Car and trailer are still with us......hubby is transporting food and clothes etc. back and forth to the cabin as we need them. He just tried to set up our DVD player in the cabin, but all sorts of alarms and bells and whistles went off.....police will probably arrive soon to see who is trying to steal the 1970's television!! Hopefully the insurance company will load up the car and trailer a day or so before we fly out of here.......(around 20th.) we will be in trouble soon for being "off topic":eek:

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blackbird71

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Car and trailer are still with us......hubby is transporting food and clothes etc. back and forth to the cabin as we need them. He just tried to set up our DVD player in the cabin, but all sorts of alarms and bells and whistles went off...

 

Cabin, does that mean you are out of the Hospital. :) If so please take a picture of your 6 Star cabin (staying OT :D).

 

 

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GrannyLorr

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I have been out of the hospital for a WHOLE week BB!! They only kept me for 6 days after they performed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! I am busy walking marathons (like a few feet at a time) around the trailer park............oh oh Hubby is at the DVD player again.....might be time to hide under the bed!

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