Big Cats Prowl the Mariner...the Sequel 9/14/08

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baby love Jim

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Hi All,
George I know what you are saying, My department is having to
Take a 20% cut in pay starting July 14th. I am not happy right now. I just passed up another job in Grand Cayman I just should have applied for. I am not sure I will be able to cruise next year and I live in Florida.:( We will see what happens. But I am set for this year :) and that is all I am thinking about now.
 
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Tired2000

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Hey all!!! I can't wait until Sat. June 28th!!! We are having a party introducing Zoey to family and friends!!! We didn't have a baby shower before Zoey was born! We are having a sip & see party!
 
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oriolesfan22

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I know what you guys are saying about the prices and whether or not it will be affordable. We were talking about airfares in our office yesterday. I was saying that the only airline that I want to fly is Southwest, because of their recent marketing about no fees for baggage or extra surcharges for fuel. We can cruise out of Baltimore or NY/NJ if we drive for a day, so that looks more appealing. I don't know how the higher cruise fares and the higher airfares will impact our ability to cruise.....we may have to decide on Las Vegas OR Cruising, unless prices stay where they are right now. Also, one of my friends e-mailed me about her excitement over the Oasis and I realized that I am not as excited about the Oasis as I was about new ships in the past. What I don't like is the extra charges that are starting to creep up even more on cruises, like Ben and Jerry's, charges for Sushi, etc. We don't mind paying for Chops at all, but when there are so many extra fees, it takes away from that all-inclusive bargain that we have been attracted to.

All that said....11 weeks until we are all together!!!!

Sheree
 
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oriolesfan22

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Oh - sorry - Jim, I forgot to say that I am sorry to hear about the pay cut issue. That's horrible.....
 
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oriolesfan22

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Bad kitties.....no posts in almost 24 hours!

We went to see Greg Behrendt, the comedian, last night. It was a great show. Of course, there were a couple of opening comics that weren't so hot, but Greg was hysterical.

No plans this weekend for us. Greg works Saturday. I am going to try to stay away from the mall. We'll see how that goes.

Sheree
 
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Tired2000

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Greg Behrendt(spelling?) had a talkshow on tv but it got cancelled! I liked his show!!!
 
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oriolesfan22

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Just playing......on the RCCL website....the Freedom or the Liberty of the Seas is running $898 for a balcony for the same week we are cruising this year. Not counting fuel supplement, of course....but still, not bad.
 
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oriolesfan22

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Oh, 11 weeks from today we'll be in Florida. Greg didn't seem as excited as me when I just mentioned it to him!
 
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oriolesfan22

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No....sorry.....my post is probably the reason you posted that question, Tomgina.....I was looking at cruises for the same week in '09 just to see how the pricing is looking. On the RCCL website, our '08 mariner cruise shows the cheapest balcony at $1099, and next years rates for the Libery and Freedom are at $898 for the cheapest balcony. I was just dreaming about cruising yet again! Sorry to make you think something was up!!!

Well, here's a way you don't want to start your day.....with a call from the fraud department of Chase Card Services. At about 8:02 this morning, I heard my cell phone ringing in the kitchen, and sure enough, there has been unusual activity on my card. I haven't used the card since I put a "small" purchase on it in March at my favorite leather purse store.....then someone decided to make a few recent unusual online purchases so they called me. It's the second time someone has gotten ahold of my credit info. The first time was 9 years ago this month. I guess I should be happy that the folks at Chase were watching out for me. I barely use this card any more since I have my Royal Carribean visa card.

Ok,...11 weeks from now we'll be at the Radisson together. Anyone else excited? Come on, I need someone to reply since Greg's enthusiam level is disappointing me!

Sheree
 
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oriolesfan22

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Hmmmm.....few words usually = Tommy, but the sarcasm (I think) makes me think Regina......

I bought flamingo flip flops at the Dollar Store. (Yeah, Dollar Store - right Randy????) Anyways, they are really cute, and for a dollar, they came home with me!

Humid and stormy here today. GREAT.

Sheree
 
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Tired2000

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Credit card fraud SUCKS!!!!!! It hasn't happened to me yet! THANK-GOODNESS!!!!!

We had our party for Zoey today!!! Everything went GREAT! Zoey met many people today and she was totally cool! No crying or anything!!!!!
 
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oriolesfan22

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11 weeks from right now we'll be getting ready to go to the port....yipppppeeeeee!

(If some of you don't start posting, I'll be posting this kind of counttdown every day.....come on, give me something to read when I check in here!)

Sheree
 
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oriolesfan22

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Need shopping info....where is the best Bealls in Orlando? I don't want to go too far out of the way - so I am looking for one between the airport and CrisDee's, or CrisDee's and the Florida Mall, or the Florida Mall and Cape Canaveral. I know there's one near the port that I might try to check out for a few minutes if I can slip away with the car keys, unnoticed, Saturday afternoon!

Sheree
 
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StudMuffin

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Good afternoon all.

Sorry it's been a few days since my last post...haven't really been home much this weekend.


Been there, done that on three occassions...twice with American Express and once with our BofA Royal rewards card. All three times the fraud depts have picked them up. On the down side...which is minor...new cards need to be processed. I'm just curious how someone in a different state/country end up with the number trying to make pucrchase.


On that topic, is there any Walmarts / Target nearby the airport TG Lee Blvd. With all the airline luggage / weight restrictions, we are buying all of our toiletries in Orlando instead of packing them.
 
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dutyfree4me

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Sheree,
The best Bealls is now by our house. West side of Orlando. There is another one about 7 miles from airport on John Young and Sandlake Road. The real best one is in Inverness by Jim though.

Walmart is a few miles on 436 near where you are staying George. Have you guys not ever heard of travel sizes? You can buy the airline approved bottles in a set and put your stuff in them. You can put them in a quart zip lock bag and carry them on in your luggage. You are allowed one quart zip lock per person. George there are three of you so that should be enough. There is also some stores a few miles from the Port. Like the huge Ron Jon's surf shop in Coco if you want to go shopping Sheree and Anne. It is a great store if you are looking for swim suits, flip flops t shirts, Tommy Bahama stuff. We usually go every year of we go out of Port Canaveral. I am sure there has got to be a Beall's somewhere over there too. I will check on line to see.

Randy so glad that you posted to let us know what is going on with you and Marg. Give her my best and we will keep her in our prayers. It would be great to cruise with you guys again.

Hey I had a cyst removed from my wrist once. I had my hand in a sling for 3 weeks to keep from moving it. I had to have surgery with the anesthesia and the whole bit. Was many years ago so I know what you all mean.

Hey Orlando girls. Hey Dan, glad Zoe's party was a success.

4th of July weekend is a camping weekend again.................... Wish me luck! That may be our new form of vacationing if cruising gets too expensive. UGH!!!!!!!! Oh well at least there is air conditioning and Tom does all the setting up, cooking and cleaning up after wards so that works for me.

Sheree what do you man the sarcasm lead you to believe that those were my posts and not Toms. It was Tom.

I was in Nashville last week. Went to the Jack Daniels distillery and to the Grand old Opry. YEE HA! ! ! ! ! ! had lots of fun. Almost as much fun as Jamaica. Nothing can be as thrilling as doing the zip line over a waterfall in a thunder, lightning and hail storm though. Needless to say it was quite scary but a rush at the same time. I have now learned to drink Appleton Rum, Southern Comfort and Jack Daniels. No more foo foo drinks for me on this cruise. Bring on the soco and lime, the Jack and Ginger and the Appleton Rum. If I can get my "Ting" that I am looking for I will bring the Appleton and Ting to drink the night before the cruise. For those of you who do not know what a "ting" is. It is a soda that they make in Jamaica that is really good with Appleton Rum. One of the ladies at work said she could get me the "ting". If not we can just use Fresca. It taste "someting" like Fresca any way.

As for St John, do not remember to much about that island as I was too worried about losing my body parts. Remember that was the one where we were with the lady that told me all the stories and scared me. I do remember like Tom said the ride we took was beautiful and the island was very pretty in most places. I am not a beach person as I burn to easy but if that is what everyone else wants to do then I will go but we will have to find me some shade. I may even get brave enough to snorkel if others want to do that too.

Oh by the way Tom extended an invitation to any one who wanted to save a bit of money to stay at our house on Friday night before going over to the Port on Saturday. We have room for a few. We have a guest room with its own bathroom and another room with a sleeper sofa in it and another bath room off that room.

We also have two couches that are quite comfortable too. So if any one wants to come over then let us know. George if you are only going to be in town one night then you guys could stay with us. We could pick you up at the airport and you would not even have to rent a car. Let us know as we do not mind helping out to keep your costs down. We also have a Walmart close to our house and a target. Actually you all could stay here, we'd give up our bedroom and sleep on the sofas if you all want to come have a post flight party. We could drink Rum and ting...................

Okay I think this is a couple of months worth of posting for me. :) :) :)


REGINA
 
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oriolesfan22

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Wow! Great post, Regina! No doubt who posted that one! You are so generous offering to let people stay at your house for a night. We are all set with our plans though- we've already prepaid our nighs so we are all set. This weekend I'll try to lay out our plans in the Orlando area. It's hard when you are in a city that you think you know, but you don't know as well as the natives! We land around 11am on Friday, and we want to get our car, head to CrisDees, stop for supplies (Diet Coke, tequila, etc.), go to Bealls, and stop at the Prime Outlets. I need to figure out if we can do that all Friday afternoon, or if some of that needs to be done Saturday morning before we head over to the port. Oh, and I do know there is a Bealls and a Bealls outlet on a1a near the port - I think it's in the same shopping cetner as Publix or Walgreens, south of the Radisson.From the outside, it didn't look like much. There is one on the way to the port from Orlando that I stopped at a couple of years ago. That one is pretty decent, but I wanted to see if one was closer to us on Friday. I did see the one on John Young when I was doing a store locator.

Sounds like touring Jack Daniels was fun....enjoy camping....I still don't get it guys. Oh, and my comment about the post was because Tommy posts such few words, but I thought maybe you were joking about being excited, since you usually tell us its not your favorite type of vacation. You know, I was looking at the all inclusive prices in the Sunday paper, and those prices seem to be way up. We always think about doing that, but it seems like cruising prices aren't going up as much as they are.

Oh well, off to work. Happy posting George.....you are off today, right? Enlighten us!
 
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DeckDiva

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Hey Big Cats, I know it has been months since I postesd and Dee has not even mentioned being on the boards, bad cat....

Anyway, first let me say i would give my left arm to cruise with you all. When Julie and I went on our short cruise in May we keep saying how much we missed cruising with you all....It really is fun and special. So if there is anyway we would be able to wiggle our way on the Mariner we would do it but as of this moment it does not look good.

We have been super busy trying to get the new studio space advertised. We are doing a bridal show in July and we will be dfeaturing a few bags in the runway show they are having so we are excited about that.

Julie and I have been re-doing our apartment and making it fabulous like it should be...lol

Marg, I am praying for you, thank God they got the cancer and we will continue to pray it never returns.

George, thanks for the review and photos, Arrielle still looks the same in the face, just growing into a beautiful woman.....

Regina, looks like you are loving your job, will we need to contact AA soon....lol

Dan, Glad to hear all is going so well in parenthood. Send my regards to Courtney and Zoey.

Sheree, sounds like you and Greg had a mini honeymoon in Vegas, I am dying to get there so I can hotel hop, I think that might have to be a trip in the near future.

Okay, so the Oasis looks insane and I want to sail her....That ship has it all and more, I think it will spoil us once we sail her for any other ship...I am so looking forward to the Central Park area.
If Dee gets to go on that ship with her cruise company I will lock her in a trunk and pretend to be her for the night and then unlock her when I return. If she were a real friend she would leave Doris at home and bring me don't you think...After all I am the one who has put up with her for 30 years its the least she can do....lol

Well Cats I can't wait to see you all and hang out!!!!!

Love and miss you all!!!!!

cris
 
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