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Congrats on the horns...I actually learned about your "victory" on my Roll call thread. Come join us on the April 6 sailing!! Look forward to photos of the horns in their new home at the ranch. Gotta tell you that there was some discussion among the OU fans here about getting those horns. I just think nobody could figure out just WHAT some imaginitive Sooners could do with them. I am personally so glad they remain in TEXAS...right where they should be! Congrats again! (From ex-texan)

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Rancher Dave

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Just curious,

 

when do you actually get the horns?

 

My assumption, details will be worked out over the next few days, it will be the Sunday that VOS leaves for Europe. I haven't looked to see which Sunday in April that is. (I am not riding the MS150 so there is not a time conflict.) My guess depending on how delivery is arranged it could be they are on the ranch that same afternoon or sometime that week.

 

Depending on how many folks it takes to move the bag around, and it is a possibility I'd like to see if neighbor from La Grange can get the delivery fee and help pick the stuff up and bring it up to the ranch. (Funny thing about wide open spaces up there my neighbor who is only 4-5 driveways down on the other side of the road...is about 2 miles away.) Personally I think it would be the fun way since I'd go to Galveston with him to get the horns, which would have us seeing some of the crew, maybe get some pics with the Captain etc...

 

I'd hope to have a Horns Welcome to the Ranch BBQ the following weekend or one weekend after. (Working to see if we can make it a second charity event, maybe an outing for some of the kids helped by the foundation benefiting from our contribution.) I'll definitely keep folks updated as plans come together. Not sure how to put the flags up out there since I don't know of anything tall enough right there, maybe the rural water tank...that would take a lot of coordination...

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when I opened the file it was very small so I just hit file' date=' print preview, and if it doesn't fit on the page the way you want, at the top (center) it says something about size (can't remember what) and I had mine on 150% and they printed out beautifully. I actually have them all highlighted and ready to go now:D. Hope that helps.

 

Thanks! That worked perrrrrfectly! ;)[/quote']

 

OK. I'm frustrated.

Yesterday this worked perfectly.

Now today when I came to try to print these (So I could start my highlighting!!!!) on TWO different computers now the page comes up larger than it did yesterday or for the past two weeks.

Now the Print Preview thing doesn't work....I can't get it all on one page.

It's like it's just medium and then large when you click on it....even the medium is too big for a page.

Z - did you re-size these or something?

I SO want to print these off and highlight them...I just can't get it to work. Sigh.

Maybe if I save the image to my computer I can find some way to re-size it???

Am I the only one having trouble?

:confused: :( :confused:

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wsantelope

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Ok. For some reason if I open the picture, save it to my computer, open it from my computer and print it from there it works right.

I can't tell you why and that's a round-about way to do it I guess but as long as I can print them out right that's all I care about! :p

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To print the pages, I right clicked on the small version of the page when it opened, I chose copy, and the pasted it into a blank word document.

 

I sized it up to what I wanted, and printed each one from Word. I didn't save them all, I just printed them from there.

 

That worked for me.

 

CM

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zantedeschia

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Some loose ends.

 

Monday the 21st is Jonathan's birthday so we had the candle in the cake thing on Saturday night.

 

Picked up a few last minute things from the gift shop. A hoodie for Alex, tshirt for Jonathan, tshirt for Eric, Alex's boyfriend.

 

Forgot to mention, one of our tour guides in Progresso said that week they'd had 4 ships visit which was a lot, usually it was only 2. Per week.

 

I'm gonna have to disagree with everyone, I found embarkation a lot more inconvenient than debarkation. Getting off the ship this time was very similar to all my other experiences with getting off the ship. The only difference was they were late calling the colors. We were supposed to be called at 9:30 but didn't get to go into 10:20. Whenever they called someone's name, I'd tell the kids that was someone who hadn't settled their seapass account and they were holding us up.

 

Bathroom on Deck 5 was crowded, so I took an elevator up to Deck 12 to find an empty bathroom.

 

When the color before ours was called, we moved to right in front of the exit. There were two, we were at the aft exit, which was less crowded than the fore exit. When our color did get called, we walked right out. They did "bing" the seapasses, something I haven't done on embarkation in at least 3 cruises.

 

Got down to the luggage area and they put us in 2 lines, people waiting for a porter and people who didn't need a porter. Not hard to figure out which line moved slower.

 

Picked up our bags, one was missing. I had to wrack my brains to recall which one so I could tell everyone what color bag to look for. Porter tells us that often bags are in the wrong area. Kids spread out to adjoining areas and found it.

 

Once we got the bags, took maybe 10-15 minutes waiting in line to reach customs/immigration and that only took about 3 minutes as usual.

 

Our ride came, I was elected to drive despite my protest of haven't land sickness. Here's where I really got ticked off. We were boxed in, car in front of us was unloading passengers who were embarking. Porter has a cart inbetween our car and theirs. They put many bags on it. THEN they pull out the luggage tags, start peeling them off and sticking them on their bags. I *almost* got out and gritched at them in frustration. This operation took about 10 minutes, didn't occur to anyone to pull the cart to the side and move the car. I don't understand it, we stopped our car for maybe a minute and some guy comes and tells us to move it. And here someone's holding up everyone behind them but no one says anything? They really need to figure out some sort of better plan to handle the cars coming and going.

 

Most of the Cozumel pictures are in a water camera, I need to take those somewhere to be developed.

 

I should be able to start posting the other pictures in a couple days.

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I enjoyed reading your review. We just got home yesterday and I can't believe I missed all the things you found to do. But then, I wasn't feeling very well, not seasickness, I just have COPD and it was really acting up. Our dining room waiter could not have been better. The service was the best I have ever seen. Same thing with our room attendant. We had one dinner at Portofinos. I am really not that much into Italian type food, but I have to say the beef tenderloin I had was about the most tender I have ever had. I, like you, was 180 degrees turned around on the ship. I think the reason for that was, we had an inside Promenade room, (I'll never do that again) and seeing the window there gave me the idea that we had an outside room. As a result, half the time I wound up going the wrong way. The room was a nice room but I just miss being able to see out. I also missed all the glass that was on the Rhapsody. We got to the ship about 11, and had to sit and wait for at least an hour before we were able to board. But we were one of the first on board the ship, so we headed right up to the windjammer and almost nobody there when we got there. Yesterday we didn't get in until about noon. Once we got off the ship, it went quite fast, that is until we were out waiting for the shuttle to the parking lot. That was quite a wait.

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Rancher Dave

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Some loose ends.

 

I should be able to start posting the other pictures in a couple days.

 

Very nice review. It is about as close as we can get to being on the cruise right now...with work to do. Just less than 7 weeks before I go on a VOS sister and I can't wait.

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o Yesterday we didn't get in until about noon.

 

Yikes! I saw the comments that the fog was bad, but wow. If that happens to us in March, we'll miss our flight out of Houston! Was there a mad scramble among the passengers to get off?

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zantedeschia

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The Texas flags and the horns:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/texflagport.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/horns.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/texflagsb.jpg

 

Voyager and Radiance in Cozumel:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/voy+rad-coz.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/voy+rad-coz2.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/voy-logo.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/side-by-side.jpg

 

The door decorations - Alex's half looked the same with a pink birthday girl ribbon and more stickers and bows:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/doordecs.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/doordecs2.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/doordecs3.jpg

 

The rainbow:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/rainbow.jpg

 

Pictures of the room and balcony:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/room.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/room2.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/balcony.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/lookfore.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/lookback.jpg

 

My kids:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/jon.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/alex.jpg

 

The promenade:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/prom.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/prom2.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/prom3.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/prom5.jpg

 

In the middle of this promenade picture, you can see the 2 levels of the library:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/prom4.jpg

 

This is the Cafe Promenade:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/prom6.jpg

 

The promenade is decorated for the parade. Unseen behind the partition is the Adventure Ocean circus:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/prom7.jpg

 

This display in is why some people thought Johnny Rockets was in the Promenade:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/jrockfood.jpg

 

Jonathan was intrigued Voyager had a 13th floor:

 

http://http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/deck13.jpg

 

Jonathan was instructed to seek this out which he found quite readily:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/urinal.jpg

 

Random pictures around Voyager:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/pooldeck.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/solarium.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/solarium2.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/rockwall.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/minigolf.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/sportsdeck.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/highnotes.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/lascala.jpg

 

The sunset leaving from Progresso:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/sunset.jpg

 

The weather turns grey on Day 7:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/inclement.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/splash.jpg

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/splash2.jpg

 

Jonathan plays with the zoom on the camera:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/oilwell.jpg

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These musicians managed to stay in time with each other. Behind them you can see the open air market:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/musicians.jpg

 

 

The area adjacent to the market, just past the pier. You can see it is still very crude:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/market.jpg

 

 

One of the steep parts of the trail:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/trail.jpg

 

 

A view of Voyager from near the peak, around the place where I gave up:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/nearpeak.jpg

 

 

Everyone got excited when they spotted this shipwreck, a little dot in the distance. I used the maximum zoom on the camera, I think 12X to take this shot:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/shipwreck.jpg

 

 

When Jonathan spied the bananas, the guide told us that residents use farming to supplement their incomes:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/bananas.jpg

 

 

Voyager snapped on the way back down the way we came:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/voy-trail.jpg

 

 

The pictures didn't do West Bay Beach justice. It was a very pretty beach:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/westbaybeach.jpg

 

 

Alex wearing the coconut shell bracelet at the restaurant on the beach:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/alex-coco.jpg

 

 

A shot of the beach from the restaurant:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/beach-rest.jpg

 

 

On the way back to the ship, I had the driver pull over so I could get this shot of Voyager and the Mediterranea:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/voy+costa.jpg

 

 

A shot of Roatan from the ship:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/roatan.jpg

 

 

Another picture of Roatan showing Mt. Mariah right in the center. If you look a little down to the right of the peak, you'll see another bump. I gave up on the hike about halfway between the 2 bumps.

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/mariah.jpg

 

 

You can see how small the pier is. One of the Costa tenders is there, a second tender spot is on the opposite side of the triangle.

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/pier.jpg

 

 

The Mediterranea left about half an hour before we did:

 

http://www.taronga.com/~arielle/cruise/voyager/pics/mediterranea.jpg

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Yikes! I saw the comments that the fog was bad, but wow. If that happens to us in March, we'll miss our flight out of Houston! Was there a mad scramble among the passengers to get off?

 

Sorry about being so late answering this. Getting off wasn't very good. Of course, living in Houston, we were among the last to get off, we were color orange. I think there were about three colors after us. We got off about 3:00 P.M. Getting our luggage, and going through customs was pretty easy, not slow at all. Waiting for the bus to the parking lot was a bit of a pain. We moved our own luggage, and the people that were smart enough to get porters, well, the porters just moved through the line, set the luggage down toward the front of the line, and of course that put those people in front of a lot of us that were waiting. That, coupled with the people being dropped off in front of the terminal made for a bit of a mess. And the poor people trying to get into the parking lots must have had a lot of patience. Especially the ones coming in about 11:00 and having to wait till probably 3:30 before the first cars started to move out of the lot. I'm just glad I was on the ship rather than waiting to get on.

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In the Pink

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Z, I'm having trouble with the first 3 links... the photos with the horns and flags, but I've received the absolutely funniest dead link message I've ever seen! It says:

 

404 File not found

 

You take another step, confidently throwing your weight onto the next web page, and only realise there's nothing beneath your feet as you plummet helplessly into the starry void.

The last thing you hear is a hollow voice intoning, "File not found". Some time later, you realise that you're standing at the end of the Internet.

END OF THE INTERNET

 

> look

You have reached the edge of the Internet. From here you can see the scaffolding where the really cool cyberspace of the future, the one they show in films like Tron and The Matrix, is going to be built. It looks a lot like a movie backlot somewhere in southern California, with piles of lumber and the occasional hastily assembled set edged in flickering blue neon dotted here and there. The smoke machines and lasers have been turned off to save electricity.

There is a guardhouse here.

There is an old guy in a cheap suit sitting in the guardhouse.

He says, "If you tell me where you were trying to go, I'll see if I can help get you there".

>

[Enter keywords, and let's see what Google can find on this site]

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In the Pink

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Z, I'm having trouble with the first 3 links... the photos with the horns and flags, but I've received the absolutely funniest dead link message I've ever seen! It says:

 

I getting this message too and I'm Marla too.:rolleyes:

 

Now that's too damned funny!!

 

And actually, it's not just the first 3 links..... some pics open and some don't.

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