A Christmas Ship Comes Sailing In (A Cam and Luke TR) Completed 2/18 - Page 13 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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I too am not a fan of Key West, while I am happy we went I do not have any desire to go back. It sounds like not much has changed since our visit many, many years ago. I have had those Truffle Purseitte's - yum! Hoping they will be offered on our upcoming cruise. DD has a Pandora bracelet and is looking forward to adding a Pandora Charm. I am interested in starting one now too. I think I know the answer to this, but do you know if would it be cheaper for me to start the bracelet at home and then just purchase charms on the boat or are they the same price regardless of where you buy?
LOVE those truffle pursettes! I've had them as my entree on past cruises.
Glad you found your sweater, and knew where the memory card was!
We have found some purse like pasta at Kroger that are delicious, but they are filled with chicken and bacon, slightly different from truffles and cheese.
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What a lovely evening on board. I'm glad all your missing items were easily found!
It is quite helpful that aboard ship most things are fairly close, so it wasn't hassle to return to the room for the camera. Luke actually picked the camera up and closed the memory card door. If I'd picked it the open door would have reminded me to retrieve the card before we left. But not a big problem.
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Glad you found your sweater! Dinner sounds wonderful!
Dinners quickly became a favorite part of the day for me.
Sounds like a great night! I have a love/hate with truffles. While I really dislike shaved truffles , I don't mind a truffle oil drizzle. Weird, I know.
Happy for you on the Pandora purchases, our Magic sailing doing the TA they didn't have any, and I was bummed about that.
Can't wait to see your pics from the photo shoot tonight.
None of my charms are Pandora as those were sold out on board, but at least they still have some of the special DCL Chamilia charms. I really wanted some charms as a reminder of the cruise.
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Dinner sounds perfect!
It was!
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I too am not a fan of Key West, while I am happy we went I do not have any desire to go back. It sounds like not much has changed since our visit many, many years ago. I have had those Truffle Purseitte's - yum! Hoping they will be offered on our upcoming cruise. DD has a Pandora bracelet and is looking forward to adding a Pandora Charm. I am interested in starting one now too. I think I know the answer to this, but do you know if would it be cheaper for me to start the bracelet at home and then just purchase charms on the boat or are they the same price regardless of where you buy?
The Pandora charms and bracelets are the same price wherever you buy them.
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I didn't know that Pandora was now going to have Disney charms instead of Chamilia. I have a Chamilia bracelet, but now maybe I'll need a Pandora one .
I thought truffles were chocolate... I feel like a complete idiot now!!
Aside from the forgetfulness, it sounds like you had a great time at dinner! The pictures came out beautifully as well... I just wish they could have jazzed up the props some.
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