December 2007

If you are lucky enough to be cruising during the month, please list your cruise and the date and we will do our best to stalk you along your journey to get a glimpse of your ship. Please list your dates and ports.

Woo hoo, I get to reply to one of my own posts finally!

December 3rd to the 21st. Auckland to LA on the Mariner with a bunch of my good friends!

Tom and I, along with 4 of our friends, will be sailing on the Navigator(our very first voyage on her):
Dec 14 Friday Ft Lauderdale, FL
Dec 15 Saturday Key West, FL
Dec 16 Sunday Nassau
Dec 17 Monday Ft Lauderdale, FL

We are looking forward to the cruise as well as meeting Wes & Ida from LCT!!! :app:

I get to post here too!!!!
We will be sailing on the Voyager Dec.14-21 to the western Caribbean.

Sue, I just realized that your Navigator cruise leaves out of FL the same day, and the following day the ships are together in Key West. Let's keep that in mind....perhaps we could plan for a "hi there" sometime.

Betty, I can only think of one thing that would make me more excited about LAMB and that is if you were going, too! :hug:

Hi Betty I sure didn't realize that our cruises would have ports in common - that is great! We would love to be able to meet and say HI! We are staying at the Hyatt Pier 66 the night before the cruise.

In Key West we are signed up for the Orchids & Hidden Gardens tour - by chance are you doing that one? Then, we plan to just window shop for a few hours before heading back to the ship.

Thanks, Karen. You are sweet. I too, wish we could be with you, and all those other FINE folks on LAMB, but the good news is....I don't have to stay home, all the while you're there and pout!!

Sue, we are probably not doing a tour in Key West. We'll work on trying to meet up, as time draws closer and plans are more firm, o.k.

We're on the December 14th Voyager western Caribbean (with Betty K.)

The itinerary will be changing (I am pretty well certain), since Costa Maya suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Dean, but the new itinerary has not been announced.

Cool that we're in Key West same day as Navigator, I did not know that! Here's the itinerary as it stands:

Dec 14 Friday Ft Lauderdale, FL
Dec 15 Saturday Key West, FL
Dec 16 Sunday Cozumel
Dec 17 Monday Belize City
Dec 18 Tuesday Santo Tomas de Castilla
Dec 19 Wednesday Costa Maya
Dec 20 Thursday At Sea
Dec 21 Friday Ft Lauderdale, FL

We don't have excursions planned in Key West either, we'll probably just wander a bit.

Sounds good to us Betty! Wendy I hope we run in to you and your hubby, too! That would make a great LCT photo op!!! We can get Wes and Ida in there, too! :banana: :lct:

We will be on the Voyager from Dec 21st to Jan 6th. Anyone joining us......

Dec 21 Friday Ft Lauderdale, FL
Dec 22 Saturday At Sea Formal
Dec 23 Sunday At Sea
Dec 24 Monday Cartagena
Dec 25 Tuesday Panama Canal Transit
Dec 25 Tuesday Panama Canal - Gatun Yacht Club
Dec 25 Tuesday Panama Canal Transit
Dec 26 Wednesday At Sea
Dec 27 Thursday Puntarenas
Dec 28 Friday At Sea
Dec 29 Saturday Puerto Chiapas
Dec 30 Sunday Huatulco
Dec 31 Monday Acapulco
Jan 1 Tuesday At Sea
Jan 2 Wednesday Cabo San Lucas
Jan 3 Thursday At Sea
Jan 4 Friday Los Angeles, CA
Jan 5 Saturday San Francisco, CA
Jan 6 Sunday San Francisco, CA Disembarks

Great itineraries for you all! Sue, I am glad you're trying the Navigator - we enjoyed our time on that ship VERY much.

Doris, I am jealous - we would love to do a Panama Canal transit. What a wonderful way to spend Christmas!

Thanks Kristin...I am sure if you and Greg loved it, we will too! :cool:

Betty I know Karen will miss you very much on Lamb - I will try and keep her entertained but I know I can't replace you!!! :hug: :hug:

You are tooooo cute Joanna! I made Karen promise to miss me just a little. You are all going to have so much fun! Hope you all will have a little drink for your friend, who'd love to be there with you.

You've got it Betty!! We all will miss you on LAMB!

Thanks Marcie!!

Betty - Since I will also be on Joanna's cruise, I will try to live up to your name and reputation. :D

Betty better yet - we'll have a drink and call you!!! Promise it'll be a good Fl time - Betty from TX: Betty from FL has NO reputation - we'll be struggling to contain ours :rolleyes: :rolleyes: <img border="0" alt="[vhappy]" title="" src="graemlins/icon_vhappy.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[vhappy]" title="" src="graemlins/icon_vhappy.gif" /> :D

I'm sure you will do a super job of that, Betty. I hear tell, you have tricks up your sleeve that I could never attempt! ;)

Joanna, YES to that, drink & call!!

We'll be on LAMB too. Looking forward to having fun with the flock. Baaa-baaa-baaa.

We'll also be on LAMB and looking forward to meeting everyone from LCT.
Does anyone remember the Whiffenpoof Song... It should become LAMBS official song..."We are poor little lambs who have gone astray....BAA,BAA,BAA.
as we raise our glasses in the Mariner Lounge all our worries melt away.

Sue, Ida and I also look fwd to sailing with Tom and your friends too...r/wes

Sue, I've never been to Key West via the cruise port before, hoping that it will be easy to spot people coming and going.

We're slumming in FLL this time; we're staying the night before at a funky little 3-star that's recommended on Tripadvisor, called Tropi Rock. I'm hoping for something approaching the older Florida that I grew to love in the 80's.

Karen, can you remind me of the website that lists all the ships in port on a given day? I want to check and see if we're the only ships in Key West that day.

Wendy; the one time I was in Key West on a cruise (the not so FUN ships)there was a little trolley you could hop on that would take you to the shopping area and back to the ship. I believe we were docked in a Naval yard, but it was so long ago I really don't recall for sure. ;)

We could all try to meet at a location - if it is still there. I remember the Tortuga Rum Cake shop area had a huge pirate statue outside maybe we could try to be there at a certain time once the excursions are finished for those of us on them. I think ours will be over with around noon or just before.

Wendy, Karen may be sleeping in this morning! :)
I think THIS may be the site you are looking for.
It shows the Voyager to be the only ship there on the 15th, but Regent's site does show the Navigator there also.

Edited to say: Sue & Wendy, We could all meet at Sloppy Joe's. There is a webcam there where we could wave at our LCT friends, but our Super Stalker, Karen will be away on Lamb, so we'd need another stalker. Robert???? Beth??? anyone???

Thanks Betty, could just not dredge the name out of my memory! A drink at Sloppy Joe's sounds feasible to me.

Yes we ARE! :banana:
Jan B and I are on "LAMB" 12/03 to 12/21 with a wonderful group. :lct:

Betty and Wendy wherever Sloppy Joes is sounds GREAT - you tell us where to find this place and we will be there!!! A webcam, eh, sounds like some LCT fun! ;)

Wes; I hope you and Ida can be there, too!

It's fairly close to the cruise port I think. There's also a HoHo trolley that we might consider, although it's pricey. I've been there twice, once with David. The whole city is walkable, but old feet get tired. I actually don't like the touristy area in the northwest part of town as much as walking through the nice neighbourhoods further south. Another argument for the HoHo.

When I look for Sloppy Joe's on Google Maps, I actually see two of them. So we'll have to specify the one on Duval Street, if we decide to meet there. Corner of Greene and Duval.

I just googled Sloppy Joes and I think I recall going by there when we did a trolley tour with the "other ship" years ago. It was not down by the main shops and so forth, it seemed to be off in a more residential and quiet neighborhood...is that correct? :)

That's not how I remember it.

Here's a decent map I found:
http://www.clubvacationkeywest.com/map-keywestmap.htm

According to Sloppy Joe's website, it's at the corner of Greene and Duval, right in the thick of it.

Who knows what bar I was thinking of - I will just go to the Duval and Greene Street location and we will be there! :banana: <img border="0" alt="[beer]" title="" src="graemlins/beer.gif" />

Perhaps we should set up a different thread for this meeting? Looks like you're in port longer than us, we leave at 2 p.m.

Sue, Wendy; Ida and I are game for drinks--we are currently signed up for the White Knuckle boat ride, but that ends at 1045 am..r/wes

We are finished at 11:30, so we could be to the bar by 12noon at the latest I would think. That would give us a good hour to meet and greet! If our tour is close enough we could be there right after 11;30.

Karen; if we should start a Key West thread just let us know. ;)

I'll make one.

Yep we're sailing on PEARLS and meeting up with the LAMBers in Tahiti.

Dec 12 Papeete, Tahiti
Dec 13 Papeete, Tahiti
Dec 13 Huahine
Dec 14 Raiatea
Dec 15 Rangiroa
Dec 16 Rangiroa,
Dec 17 Bora Bora
Dec 18 Bora Bora
Dec 19 Taha'a Motu Mahana
Dec 20 Moorea
Dec 21 Moorea
Dec 21 Papeete, Tahiti
Dec 22 Papeete, Tahiti

It won't be as much fun as LAMB, but at least I'll be cruising!!

Jerel and I are trying out Sea Dream roundtrip from San Juan:

16-DEC-2007 San Juan, Puerto Rico
17-DEC-2007 Jost van Dyke, BVI
18-DEC-2007 Little Bay, Montserrat
19-DEC-2007 Iles des Saintes, Guadeloupe
20-DEC-2007 Saba, Netherlands
20-DEC-2007 Gustavia, St. Barthelemy
21-DEC-2007 Gustavia, St. Barthelemy
22-DEC-2007 Saturday Virgin Gorda, BVI
23-DEC-2007 Sunday San Juan, Puerto Rico

Andrea - You are in for a real treat! You're an early riser, so grab your choice of balinese bed or sunchair on the bow end of the top deck ... life is sweet! Free bikes if you like at port stops and water platform will make workouts a breeze.

Cheers, Anne

Oooh! Andrea, I can't wait to hear about your Sea Dream experience!