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RNSANE

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About RNSANE

  • Birthday October 3

Personal Info

  • First Name
    Carmen
  • Last Name
    Henesy
  • Gender
    Female
  • State
    California
  • Country
    United States

Cruising

  • First Cruise Year
    1974
  • Cruises Sailed
    84
  • Favorite Cruise Line
    Royal Carib
  • Favorite Shipboard Activity
    Meeting people
  • Favorite Itinerary
    Mediterranean - Western
  • Favorite Port of Call
    Barcelona
  • Favorite Port Activity
    Walking & sightseeing
  • Places I've Cruised To
    Bahamas, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Mexican Riviera, Transatlantic, Pacific to Hawaii, Eastern & Western Mediterranean, Australia & New Zealand, Capitals of Scandinavia & St. Petersburg, Russia, Colonial America, Southeast Asia, Southern - Eastern - and Western Caribbean, Baja - many several times over!
  • Last Cruise Date
    2009-05-10
  • Next Cruise Date
    2009

Details

  • Hobbies & Interests
    Too many to list but travel is at the top - cruising and otherwise - Travel every chance I get. Have done 74 Royal Caribbean cruises, world wide, in the last 14 years -photography, reading, writing poetry, cooking ( though I do much less of it now ), crafts ( again, that's sort of gone by the wayside in my "senior" years ), music, computers ( people will NOT believe I'm saying that!!, anything forensic and good wine!!!
  • Music
    Absolutely love jazz singer, Sony Holland and the songs of her husband, Jerry Holland, Il Divo ( can even make my heart beat faster ), music of my youth ( 50's, 60's, 70's ), country music, Dixieland jazz ( from my nursing school days in New Orleans and my mother's influence ), other jazz, Nancy Wilson, most things, at various times but not heavy metal and don't really like most rap.
  • Movies
    Gone With the Wind, Shirley Valentine, Kama Sutra, An Affair to Remember, anything with Grace Kelly, lots of others but I rarely remember movie names...my friend Sherry Arndt, remembers every movie, song, artist - my brain is fried! .. love foreign films.
  • TV Shows
    CSI Miami, Bones, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Forensic Files, Gray's Anatomy, the Golden Girls ( I'm one now ), reruns of Star Trek and Mash, don't really watch that much t.v.
  • Sports
    Really not that into sports though I will occasionally watch the 49ers. I do love the Olympics and got into track and field when my youngest was a decathlete ( he graduated from Cal Poly last year ). I like tennis and figure skating.
  • Food
    Love food and wine! When I was younger, I catered for awhile. Have about 500 cookbooks, collected during my worldwide travels. I enjoy all kinds of cooking...least favorite, though, is Mexican...I love French, Indian and enjoy wine, not sweet, except with dessert.
  • Pets
    Have none now, like dogs
  • Books
    Anything written by my colleague and friend, former ER nurse, Eileen Dreyer, ie, Saints and Sinners, James Patterson, Jeffrey Deaver - all that forensic stuff...but I like Maeve Binchey, Barbara Kingsolver , Nicholas Sparks, Lisa See and so many other authors as well
  • Quotes
    "The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." St. Augustine

    "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it." Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Occupation
    Registered nurse, forensics

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  1. Happy Birthday RNSANE!

  2. Hope you are having a wonderful time on your birthday!!!

  3. Happy Birthday, Carmen. Wishing you a great day.

  4. Hi Everybody....I've been missing the last few days. In the ER with kidney stones and off to Temecula tomorrow, if I make that flight to San Diego to visit Werner Zurcher for two nights. He is a wonderful Swiss teddy bear, one of the F & B directors for Royal Caribbean, then I will spend two nights in San Diego with my beloved "Queens", nurse colleagues with whom I often cruise.

  5. My budget doesn't usually allow massages on cruises although I would indulge if I could afford them. I think it is pure bliss. You are really not exposed unnecessarily and, being a nurse for over 44 years, I'm not all that modest anyway. I always indulge in ports that offer good deals on massage...the best I ever had was in Kusadasi, Turkey....$20 for two hours at a place recommended in the Cruise Compass...oh, my word, if we'd been there longer, I'd have done it again. Also, in Ensenada, we found a great place, highly recommend, that did two hours for $90 so I had mine there rather than on the ship.
  6. I agree with you about the lamb shanks...but they are on the menu on every Royal Caribbean ship and I really think they are delicious.....love the Indian offerings on the menu as well...have them in addition to my regular entree....yummy. It is going to be fun no doubt thanks for your tips... V8 juice in the windjammer huh..
  7. After forty + years as an RN, and eating in hospital cafeterias, I normally don't go to the Windjammer. I much prefer sitting down in the dining room and being served....but, of course, I have so many waiter friends in the Windjammer and, on this May 10th sailing, Sudhir Pillai, my Indian headwaiter friend, who showed me about Mumbai during my ten day stay in 1997, was assigned to breakfasts in the Windjammer so I HAD to go. He totally indulged me and many of my Monarch crew friends were there. Same, of course, in the dining room. We had dinner one night in Chops which was wonderful. Sudhir joined us for dinner as did our friend, the F & B director. I also love Portofino but we didn't dine there this cruise. I love Jade and have only eaten once at Johnny Rocket's - on the Navigator - thought it was fun. For some reason, I preferred the Navigator...maybe because it was the Transatlantic and Europe bound...very few children...not many, either, on this cruise. More international passengers, as well, and I always enjoy that mix.
  8. I think there are pluses and minuses to cruise ship employment - of course, I don't work for cruise lines but I do have friends in all departments and many give me the inside scoop. It is interesting that you will SELDOM find an American youngster working anywhere in the dining or bar departments. When I encouraged my own young college grad to sign on for six months, just for the experience, he exclaimed adamantly, "Do you think I want to work those long hours for so little pay?" The majority of the bar and wait staff are from third world countries who will work for very little monetary reimbursement from the cruise line and hope to get their gratuities from passengers who, sometimes, feel $3.50/person/day is too much to tip for their excellent service. Cruise staff, entertainers, gift shop staff, officers, etc, have it better, but I think you must really talk to those doing the work to get the real picture of what ship life is like. Some really enjoy it and do well. Others last only a few contracts. Some spend their entire lives on board a ship and I've even met their children when they join the company!
  9. Dear Dina, There are so many variables. I, pesonally, cruise mainly with Royal Caribbean since it offers a variety of ships - though it is certainly going to the large, megaships these days. You have to take into consideration the age of the passengers....the itinerary, the activities on board, etc. I have friends, in their late sixties, who really do not like Carnival that much - they prefer Royal Caribbean or Princess, my young friends only want to go on Carnvial! I think you can get some good deals in the Caribbean after school starts...but you didn't say if you have children. The two week period between Thanksgiving and mid Dec is often marked down a good deal if you have money to spare at that time...I was just looking at Royal Caribbean's website nad there are some unbelievable deals coming up at that time. Need a little more info...
  10. I always make my own tip envelopes before I leave home, put graphics appropriate to the sailing, coctails, etc, for the bartender's envelopes, and I try to personalize them in some way. I always tip extra...because, in 80 cruises, I've not yet had anyone who did not provide exemplary service. I had to laugh because, on Wednesday, when I took the matire d', assistant maitre d', and four of the Radiance head waiters out for lunch in Sausalito when the ship was in San Francisco, we had less than Royal Caribbean service at the Spinnaker. I was commenting to them about the difference between cruise line wait staff and shoreside service in most places. Our waitress was okay but she just wasn't very enthusiastic about taking care of us. It just made me realize how wonderfully I've been looked after in my 69 Royal Caribbean cruises!
  11. I feel so bad for that husband and his family. I cannot even fathom the trauma they are experiencing. It is difficult enough when one dies from natural causes but, an incident such as this, which should not have happened, is so overwhelming.
  12. [/url omaopa1942, so glad to have you with us!!!
  13. What a treat to see you here with you, merkelcg!!! Hope you are a regular visitor.
  14. HaliB, Happy to see you found your way here to this delight menagerie of wonderful folks. This is a great place to hang out and we hope to see you often.
  15. Nice having you in our crazie place, Pat2165....don't be a stranger now!!!!
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