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You have once again completely changed things around!
This year's cruise sounds great, as do the surprise ones for next year! Your low-key cruising style seems to me what cruising is all about!
Thanks, Laurie!! We love it!! When we first started cruising we felt like we had to book an excursion in every port! Now, we are enjoying the ships more!!
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The cruise leaves from San Juan so that means we get to fly into San Juan. We flew into San Juan as a stop-over from St. Thomas a few years ago and the pilot had to try more than once to land the plane.
I may be asking you tons of really silly questions about cruising between now and June (Like what do we wear for the non-formal night dinners) so you may want to put me on ignore!
Ask away!!. I don't know much about a lot of stuff, Robin, but I know plenty about cruising and birthing babies!!
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Katie was quite a handful! Some of those things would be something my middle son would do. Maybe it's not such a good idea to take him on a cruise or let him roam the ship.
If your son is anything like Katie, I would keep him close at hand for a while!!. Definitely don't let him roam the ship!!
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The whole thing was quite something with your kids on that first cruise! I hope you can laugh about it now as I'm sure they all turned out well and grew up! Some more nice plans for this cruise ( we also had Cozumel and Grand Cayman for ports! )
Pretty cool as you've booked a Scandinavian cruise for next year.....another thing to look forward too, which is always good!
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The whole thing was quite something with your kids on that first cruise! I hope you can laugh about it now as I'm sure they all turned out well and grew up! Some more nice plans for this cruise ( we also had Cozumel and Grand Cayman for ports! )
Pretty cool as you've booked a Scandinavian cruise for next year.....another thing to look forward too, which is always good!
Thanks, Dave!!. We have sort of changed things up for next year's again! I know you are shocked!!
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Congrats on the Back to Back cruise for Muffin's 60th birthday. Your relaxed itinerary for this cruise sounds great.
We are so looking forward to this whole vacation for our Christmas trip! We are now doing something completely different for next year though!!
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Congrats on the B2B! Great plans for your upcoming cruise!
Thanks, Marnie!!. See above!!
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all caught up. plans sound great. you are very brave to go on another cruise after that first experience. I think I would have thrown the towel in.
Well, believe it or not, that cruise was wonderful and fueled our addiction to cruises!! This cruise in December will be our 12th one!!
Thanks, Dave!!. We have sort of changed things up for next year's again! I know you are shocked!!
I just can't believe it as I know that once you have a plan you stick to it!
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Oh my gosh, you guys!! So much has happened since I last updated this PTR. In order of importance to me:
I am still trying to deal with what happened to Bill. He was a dear friend and Logan and I just spent time with him in July. Thank goodness that Logan got to meet him! His loss is a hole in my heart.
Mike and Gabby got safely out to Spokane!! They have a lovely townhouse and they are settling in nicely.
We had a lovely trip to Niagra Falls with our best friends last week. It was amazing!! I did post a few pictures on Facebook. We did the Hornblower ride to the falls, the Behind the Falls tour, the whirlpool, the Butterfly Garden and the incline cars. The weather was perfect! We ate great food and guess what?!?!!?!? I hit another jackpot!! 2,500 Canadian which turned out to be about 1600 US!!
On the trip front, of course I did a little tweaking to our plans! The cruise remains the same but tomorrow, I can make my FP reservations, so I will update you then!!
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Now, we are enjoying the ships more!!
We flew into San Juan as a stop-over from St. Thomas a few years ago and the pilot had to try more than once to land the plane. 
. I don't know much about a lot of stuff, Robin, but I know plenty about cruising and birthing babies!!
Katie was quite a handful! Some of those things would be something my middle son would do. 
Maybe it's not such a good idea to take him on a cruise or let him roam the ship. 
. Definitely don't let him roam the ship!!
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Some more nice plans for this cruise ( we also had Cozumel and Grand Cayman for ports! 
Your relaxed itinerary for this cruise sounds great. 
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So much has happened since I last updated this PTR. In order of importance to me:
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