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The bar bill will be a good start! Howard, you have a bar bill? On all my cruises they give me a card when I get on the ship and when I want a drink I just show the card and the drinks are free!!!! Ha, Ha, Ha - Now that's a good one. I get one of those cards too and I never thought about how free those drinks are.

Pierside Bar doesn't sound bad at all in a rain storm - LOL!!! That gets my vote.

The port that I'm looking the most forward to visiting is Willemstad Curacao. For a number of years, I taught a reading class of 7th grade students. One of the books that I used in the class was a book called "The Cay" written by Theadore Taylor. It's the story of Phillip Enright an 11-year-old boy living on the Dutch island of Curaçao with his family during World War II. Curacao was threatened by German U-Boats interested in a path to the Panama Canal. Phillip and his mother boarded a ship to return to the US and their ship was sunk by a German Submarine. He is separated from his mother and floats ashore on a cay on a raft with an old black man, Timothy, who pulled Phillip onboard the raft after Philiip was hit in the head as the ship was sinking. The story is about how Timothy and Phillip live together on the island and develop an unbreakable bond as the two get to know each other. After being rescued from the cay and returning to Curaçao, Phillip gets his sight restored by surgery. Afterwards, he spends a lot of time talking to the black people of the island, for he feels close to them. Some of them had even known old Timothy of Charlotte Amalie. There was a lot of description of Willemstad and I'm looking forward to actually being on the site of this story.

I'll still skip them - LOL!! How's everyone doing today. It was a beautiful dry sunny day in Georgia.

We are going on this cruise in April 27/2009. We were ont he Fascination last June and had a wonderful time. i will be sure to post a review wen we return as its been a loooong time since a review has been done. Kim and Michael Thanks I will look forward to your review as I'm doing this cruise in June of 2009. Judson

I'll stick to the MARTINIS.

I have it every cruise. I love it. Cruises are the only time I have it though. Cinndy won't eat them. David says Celebrity has the best and he has compared carnival hal and princess I have never had the desire to eat one but if David says they are the best looks like I had better give it a try. I've never done this one either.

JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!! At 5 pages a day and 220 more days to go - I hate to think of the number of pages we're going to have for our cruise on this site - LOL!!! How is everyone doing? Today was a non-rainy day in Georgia - Yeaaaaaaaaaaa - and I actually got to lay on my lounge chair pool side this afternoon. But the rain is coming back by Sunday. We've had a lot lot of rain. All the plans look so exciting - I can hardly wait. Looking at the catalogues now for Summer clothes - LOL!!!

shhh don't tell all my disco secrets...LOL or Before David how do you think i attracted the menz OK NOW THAT'S FUNNY!! Ok how does that sound? Fun ? No? Yes? YES - THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF FUN.

that will be a fun table .. i may come early just to harass Joey - Just come right on. I'll be in the Martini Bar for my pre-dinner Martini. I can't believe that I got here ahead of Andrea's 5 pages today - LOL!!!

Main (early dining) Jim & Mary Lou (cruisetarp) large table Judson & Louise large table James & Donna medium table This looks like one table for 6 so far. John - This is fine with me.

I could do a sea day scavenger hunt. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!!! Andrea - slow down girl - you leave me breathless each day trying to get through the pages.

It doesn't matter what you do - these guys and girls move so fast that you can get pages behind no matter what you do - LOL!!!

Please do - I haven't done anything about Antigua yet. I just looked over the site again for the St Thomas day of sailing - I can hardly wait - LOL!!!

ANDREA - YOU ARE A TRIP, TRIP, TRIP - LOL!!! Louise and I have pre-planned the days at St Thomas and St Lucia with members of our group. I'm looking at tours arranged from the ship for the other ports but haven't made up my mind on any of them yet. I'm looking at "A Flavor of Barbados," "Best of Antigua," City Highlights East" (Curacao), "The Best of Aruba," and St Maarten Island Tour." Louise can't spend the day in the sun or on a beach so our tours are mainly tours of the various islands EXCEPT St Thomas and that's going to be a day aboard a sailing yacht (LOL) and we're going to play like millionnaires and sing "MONEY, MONEY, MONEY" from "Mamma Mia" as we cruise around St Thomas.

It might be a bit early to start packing Judson but it is never too early to start SHOPPING! You're right on that. Louise does good at that - LOL!!! WELCOME TO TUESDAY EVERYONE - I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY.

JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!! AND DOUBLE JEEEEEEEEEEESH!! JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!! You guys and girls are really getting into the chatty mode. Since yesterday, you have talked your way through so many pages. I hope everyone had a good Monday. Andrea -I knew someone had to be helping you on FaceBook - I don't see how you could be keeping up with all that fishes, plants, etc - LOL!!! Is it time to start packing???

OMYGOODNESS!!!! I go away for a few days without my computer and look what happens. Andrea and Debbie happens. Andrea, I kinda thought you might be getting ready to jump into this cruise. I don't know how you're going to have time to keep up with the Cruise Crazies postings and FaceBook too. You keep me in stitches with all your FaceBook activity - LOL!!! I'm glad that you two have joined our little - getting bigger all the time - group. A BIG WELCOME!!!

Andrea Are you on this cruise with us? Judson

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Andrea - My FaceBook Buddy How's it going? Hope all is well. Judson

Well - it's not because anyone that was interested hasn't had plenty or opportunity to book under today's prices.

Yeah - A day without cruisecrazies - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo Packing??? Oh my - yep, got to start thinking about that - LOL!!!

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!!!

LOL!! I guess I'm dragging my feet. I'm still waiting until I can see what tours are being offered from the ship for the places that I've made no plans.

Yep - I think he will LOL!!!