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Kathy, can you have her get you a blender and plastic cups also, since our cruise won't be AI yet! Let's see. One person orders Tequila and margarita mix, and another Rum and Pina Colada mix. I wonder if there is a place that we can plug the blender in at out by the pool! LOL

Don, I like your blender idea! I hope the pool bar makes their banana daiquiris as good as the other ships do!

Hey, Don - don't put it past me. She asked me what I wanted for my birthday! I will need a sherpa to help load up when we get to the ship!

Karen, have you ever had a BBC? If not, you need to try one onboard. It is Bailey's Irish Cream, bananas, cream of coconut, pineapple juice, and ice. Mmmmm! Are we there yet?

Hey Kathy, I'm stopping at Costco in Palm Beach Gardens to get our champagne before we board. Do you want me to pick you up one? BTW, when is your BD? Mine is a couple of weeks before we board (11/27). I turn 39 again! LOL

Don, Chester's birthday is 11/29. We might have to have a belated birthday party....

Kathy and I were discussing door signs. Does everyone want to use them this trip? I just fooled around a bit and came up with this design:

Karen,
Door signs look great!
Kathy, when is your birthday?

My birthday is 11/15 and I think I will have to try a BBC, that sounds delicious Don!!!!

Rockin' sign, Karen!!!! You're the best!!

Oh Wow - Don - Yes, Please Veuve for us - 2 bottles, Please!!!!

I will get a blender. :eek: BBC's will be great. We can get bananas on board! Who's ordering Bailey's? Here's the recipe:

Bailey's irish cream
1 Banana
Banana liqueur
Ice
Pina colada mix
Dark rum
Mixing instructions:
Put banana and liquer into blender until it is a thick paste then add bailey's to taste and pina colada mix and rum. Blend well then add ice blend untill smooth and enjoy!

We can really have a good Birthday celebration - Nov 5th is my birthday but Frank and I are celebrating our Anniversary - 11/29.

Karen, if you send me the signs via email in JPG I will print them on photo paper and laminate them.

Could everyone who isn't fully identified in the roll call please give me the names of both people in your cabin, please?
For example:

Tina and friends cabin 722-724

Karen, I updated the Roll call on page one with as much info as I have.

For the signs we had for PIP, John put our real names big and board names smaller below in paratheses, If we're not LCT he did not make them. It was to identify the LCT'ers to each other originally.

The signs look great, I think you have our names, Karen.

Kathy, I will bring the plastic cocktail shaker. Not sure if we will do the cosmo-thing or not, but will bring the shaker anyways. What are the chances of there being a liquor store close to our hotel? A place to buy cranberry juice?

I'm personally looking forward to having a Gombay Smash somewhere in the Bahamas!

Don and Diane, I think it will be a bit longer for the docs. They usually arrive about 3 weeks before the cruise, in my experience. 6 weeks from tonight, we'll be in Florida!!

Kathy, I think John made them for Joanna's group on MUSH and they weren't LCT.
Do you really think we need our board names? (I just made 6 signs without them, lol)

Editing yet again to add:
I need info from these people if they would like a sign.

Tina and friends cabin 722-724

The lovetocountthedays cabin 717

The Sheik, Erica and Gretchen - Tent unknown--Marty, what is your tent number and is Gretchen in your room?

I will ask Ngaire if Clay and Brooke will have a cabin number before we sail.

Kathy, after the wedding, all we'll be able to afford is Andre! LOL

I'm sure that they will give us Clicquot for our bar setup though, right? ;)

Karen, I love the sign!

I will give my friend, Donna, a grocery list or she will take me to the store before we board. I will get cranberry juice for you Wendy.

Maybe a lime or two, some Cointreau, Sweet and Sour Mix, Triple Sec, Cream of Coconut and Banana liquor AND A BLENDER! They usually sell Rum onboard in the Carribbean.

Karen, I LOVE your door sign! Great job!

I think for Bar set up you get one Veuve or you can get Regent label. Not bad but not Veuve.

Karen, I can photoshop the names in if we decide to add them later.

Kathy are you talking about the non LCTers? I think we should include them now, it will be easier.

WOW!!!! Karen what talent!!! Yes you are correct John did do signs for my group and none post on LCT - I don't think Gretchen posts on LCT either nor Erica's sister -

Kathy, since we're in adjoining cabins, if you want to be the Cosmo maven, then go girl. But yes, I can get a shopping list together for you before we leave, that would be great!

I'm Phyllis - Cabin 717

I would love my accronym "lovetocountthedays" but I guess that would be too long :)

Thanks for revealing yourself - I edited the roll call!

Not that long Phyllis. Only 42 more to count! LOL

See, that's what happens when you reveal yourself. :eek: You get erdited, or is it indicted? :D

Hi Phyllis :)

So, anybody else chose the Catamaran to Honeymoon Beach in St. Thomas, and if so, why?

By the way, this time 6 weeks from now, we'll likely be aboard, waiting for our cabins to be ready!!

Nope - we're going on the Photography excursion. And then we're going SHOPPING! I already have some things to shop for on my list. I love St. Thomas.

Wish we were there for two days. The excursion to St. Johns would be top on my list if they did not have the photo excursion. The beach at Maegan's Bay is rated as one of the top beaches in the world and has some nice snorkeling. You can take a cab there. Then a day for shopping.

Yeh, but it's kind of a short day, so we're sticking with a ship's tour, since it's our first trip.

And I just went ahead and changed us to the Honeymoon Beach cat trip.

Karen
My Precious !! I really like your door design -
most restful and will look just great on my fridge
when we get back.

Here are the rooms:
Erika and Marty Knight - room 615
Gretchen Moskos rooom 613
Charlotte and Leo Ressa room 617
Kathy and Mickey Collette room 611
Ed "lucky" Likeness &
Joan Houston room 1012

Looking forward to seeing you and Mark again = we'll have a ball
Marty

Karen and Chatkat,
If you good folk are going to do the name signs
for just LCTers, I'm going to be caught in the middle - some of my people don't read/do LCT, and yet they would feel left out if not included in the door signs - Please do them for all our people, otherwise large embarrassment all the way around.

Marty,

We already made that decision - you're all in! Signs for everybody! Would we DARE embarrass the Sheik? I would hate to be banished from the harem!

Fantastic !!
Chatkat, however, you must make formal application for harem status once on the ship -
this time the "Prima inter Primas" will be Karen, so her decision as to admission is vital. Hope you and the Charismatic Karen are good buddies !!

Remember many goodies - including BLING reside upon one's harem status. I, unfortunately, have
had to cull many of the previous members from the lists, but rest assured, you will be given every opportunity to join !!! (My own wife resides outside the harem walls due to irreverence and unwanted critical brayings !!) She and most of her motley friends will not be receiving goodies this year...

Let all present and future harem members be warned !!!

I can see those of us on Deck 6 are in for a really fun time. Maybe we ought to plan a block party one night.

Wendy, if I weren't going to be diving that was the one that I was going to go with. I love the snorkeling on St. Johns better than on St. Thomas, IMHO. We normally go to Trunk Bay when we go, but Honeymoon Bay is close by though and should be very clear as well.

Sheik: So happy Karen has decided to include you "all" - sorry we will miss your gang - kisses to Gretchen, Erika and Charlotte!!!! You too!

Wow, Debbie just sent me email to say that the cruis e documents are in! I'm amazed that they could be this early, it's always been 3-4 weeks before!