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Yes! Im first to post! love it!
I better make this quick before someone else sneaks in... lol!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE your Tortola and Antigua excursions! Right up my alley! Sounds great! And of course I love beautiful beaches so the St. Thomas excursion also sounds wonderful! I believe I remember some of your pics from last time you guys were there and the beaches were fab! Also, I am SO HAPPY you are visiting Atlantis! What a great resort- you will have a ball! Kudos! Great choices!! ; )
Atlantis is incredible!! We went there when our excursion to Blue Lagoon Island got canceled, and we just loved it there. It's absolutely gorgeous and one day I really want to stay there!!
Your other excursions and plans sound wonderful, too! I can't wait to hear more! I'm so excited for you!!
WOW!!! Those excursions sound amazing!! And how cool Eric's mom & dad are paying for one of them. Bonus! I think Turner's Beach is where Craig and I went when we went to Antigua...say Hi for us. (I mean it's only been 10 years ) So excited you are going to Atlantis. You totally have to do the tube slide into the water with the fish (or whatever it is that swims by in the commercial...I can't remember ).
omg... and now you cant totally annoy eric like i did to rob... i sang the first verse of that stupid moldy peaches cover from the atlantis commercial for weeks before our honeymoon! but u can sing the other half.... just in case you dont remember it, it goes like this...
Let's go ride a couple of dolphins
or maybe play tennis
or do some golfin'
oh what a wonder, a wonderful world can be
we'll float a lazy river
and walk with sharks and shiver
and glide with a manna
the size of Alabama
oh what a wonder a wonderful world can be
Those ports look great and your excursions sound like a lot of fun. I really can't wait to hear about it, especially Nassau, since I'm deciding what excursion I'll do there on my cruise in December.
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It's great to have a little help with the excursions, that allows for some good times! It sounds like you're putting it to good use. It sounds like you have some really fun plans, Crissy, I can't wait to read all about it!
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Yes! Im first to post! love it!
I better make this quick before someone else sneaks in... lol!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE your Tortola and Antigua excursions! Right up my alley! Sounds great! And of course I love beautiful beaches so the St. Thomas excursion also sounds wonderful! I believe I remember some of your pics from last time you guys were there and the beaches were fab! Also, I am SO HAPPY you are visiting Atlantis! What a great resort- you will have a ball! Kudos! Great choices!! ; )
You were the first to post last time too LOL too funny! We are thinking of those beaches about right now with the weather being so cold and snowy I am really excited to see the new ports and Atlantis! I really hope it is as fun as the commercial shows
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Your excursions sound great! I can't wait to hear about Atlantis, as I'm trying to decide what to do in Nassau on my DCL cruise.
I hope I can provide some good feedback for those going later this year. I will try to take some detailed notes for that
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Your excursion choices sound great.
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Great plans for excursions!
Thanks guys! I am really excited about them too!
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Atlantis is incredible!! We went there when our excursion to Blue Lagoon Island got canceled, and we just loved it there. It's absolutely gorgeous and one day I really want to stay there!!
Your other excursions and plans sound wonderful, too! I can't wait to hear more! I'm so excited for you!!
Im so glad to hear from someone who has been to Atlantis. yay! I'm thinking I will be on the lazy river the majority of the time and they will have to come fish me out
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WOW!!! Those excursions sound amazing!! And how cool Eric's mom & dad are paying for one of them. Bonus! I think Turner's Beach is where Craig and I went when we went to Antigua...say Hi for us. (I mean it's only been 10 years ) So excited you are going to Atlantis. You totally have to do the tube slide into the water with the fish (or whatever it is that swims by in the commercial...I can't remember ).
His parents really helped us out with that too
I was wondering if you guys went to Turner's Beach!!! I will say Hi and in fact I may take a pic just for you with me saying hi
I might do the water slide but Eric has been talking nonstop about that water slide. The other day he was looking at water cameras for the water slide
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Originally Posted by MyRapunzal
omg... and now you cant totally annoy eric like i did to rob... i sang the first verse of that stupid moldy peaches cover from the atlantis commercial for weeks before our honeymoon! but u can sing the other half.... just in case you dont remember it, it goes like this...
Let's go ride a couple of dolphins
or maybe play tennis
or do some golfin'
oh what a wonder, a wonderful world can be
we'll float a lazy river
and walk with sharks and shiver
and glide with a manna
the size of Alabama
oh what a wonder a wonderful world can be
see? the 2nd verse is perfect! lol!
love it!!! He actually pauses that commercial now when we see it....he keeps saying he's going down that slide and look at this and look at that But, you've totally give me a new way to aggrivate him...I've been following him around saying "poo poo platter" I dunno saw it on a commercial years ago or a year ago and now I love to annoy him with that...I will say "hey do you know what I want for dinner? Poopoo platter" LOL he HATES it !!
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Those ports look great and your excursions sound like a lot of fun. I really can't wait to hear about it, especially Nassau, since I'm deciding what excursion I'll do there on my cruise in December.
I hope that I can take some great pics and notes for you to show you what to expect there ohhhhhh you are going on a cruise in december???? I cannot wait to read all about that! how fun! are you doing a passporter or mousefest cruise?
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It's great to have a little help with the excursions, that allows for some good times! It sounds like you're putting it to good use. It sounds like you have some really fun plans, Crissy, I can't wait to read all about it!
It was really nice of his parents to pay for those for our christmas gift considering they also bought us a wireless printer and a digital photo frame on top of it
I really am excited about all the excursions because even though we have been to a few of the ports already it gives us something new to look forward to
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The excursions look great!!! I love Cruisecritic too!! It makes it so much easier to pick cruises and excursions when you can read what others have done. Getting close!!!
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Atlantis was somewhere my brother & his fiancee wanted to get married, but because of $$$$ they looked elsewhere. How cool you'll get to enjoy it for a few hours!
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) So excited you are going to Atlantis. You totally have to do the tube slide into the water with the fish (or whatever it is that swims by in the commercial...I can't remember 
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I cannot wait to read all about that! how fun! are you doing a passporter or mousefest cruise? 
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