SueseaQ

hello sue, i hear you about our physical attributes at a younger age, and i certainly agree, my time machine would have to be equipped with a board certified plastic surgeon;) but, i'm sure our handsome men of home lines past, have done some changing themselves:p do you know the song "brandy" by the looking glass? that reminds of those home lines cruising days, i remember they played it on the doric, it was almost like those guys were hinting to us, listen carefully to the words, if you already haven't, at the end of the song it states, "my life and my lady is the sea".

 

p.s. who cares? i enjoyed the ride while it lasted!!!! LMAO - me too!!!!

 

take care

nonnie58

Hi Nonnie 58 I sure do agree with you That song "Brandy" fit our days to the max It was a joy ride that I will never forget I still get goose bumps when I think back to those times the best ever. Sue

How true!!!!!!!!Funny flashback came to me re: music. I remember on the 1982 cruise being at Disco 40 (What a blast we had there!!:D:rolleyes:) And the song "Everybody's Working for the Weekend" came on, well the guys all got crazy for that song, like it was their theme song, and were dancing and singing it on the dance floor.....My girlfriends and I stood back in amazement and enjoyed the show....:D

The time machine would have to take me back to 1982 & 1983, my cruises on the Atlantic!;););)

....and lets not forget my 1982-1983 weight and naturally brunette hair color!!!!:D

Just wanted to put it out there that I spoke to Jimmy at Mulinos in White Plains, NY this week and he is trying to get a reunion of Home Lines crew and passengers this October/November.

Yep, it looks like they are tyring to get the crew also.....Can you just imagine it :D:D:rolleyes:

a good theme song for all those handsome and charming home lines men, would be the julio iglasias, and willy nelson song of the early 1980's "TO ALL THE GIRLS I LOVED BEFORE":rolleyes:

How true!!!!! LOL:D

hello sueseaQ, and marge 106, i haven't been posting on this site for quite a while, but i do log onto it at times. i'm surprised no-one out there ever thought of writing a book or making a movie out of home lines cruises, i wish i had the talent to do that, i remember on my july 1980 cruise,on the doric, our room steward "franco" said he would one day "write a book about home lines" i guess it never took place, hope all is well with you:)

take care

nonnie58

Hi Nonnie, long time, no hear. Hope all is well with you. Did you see that they are trying to get a reunion together this fall at Mulino's in White Plains? I hope I can attend. I think it would be so much fun to meet all the other Home Lines girls. Oh, the stories!!!! I too am surprised that no one ever wrote a book about it, what a Hoot n' Holler (in Marge106's words) that would be. I'm sure there'd be a movie deal from it in no time. LOL:D Take care.

Hi CruiseShipLove, Thanks so much for posting about the upcomming reunion. I hope I will be able to attend. Anybody else out there that would be comming from Central NJ area?

Hi Sue, That must have been fun cruising on the original "Love Boat". I believe that series gave the cruising industry the biggest and best advertisement. I used to love it myself! But I must say the cruises on our dear Home Lines outdid any of the story lines on the show...LOL :eek::p;):rolleyes:

Hi Sue, We were on the Crown July 28th to Aug 7th 2006. Although it is nice to see different ports, my first 7 cruises were all to Bermuda from NYC and of course the last one I took was the 2006 cruise on the Crown. I absolutely love Bermuda best of all the islands but, that being said, having lived in Brooklyn till 2 years ago, those cruises were a no-brainer. NOt having to fly anywhere to pick up a ship is VERY important to me :).

The Crown cruise was my first Princess cruise and I wasn't even aware of the Chef's Table experience. It sounds great. I hope you get picked again. The Ultimate ship tour also sounds great, you'll have to let us knwo how that goes.

I really enjoyed the Princess cruise. Celebrity was nice, I didn't like NCL at all. I think I liked Princess because I noticed alot of the people in charge were Italian and I heard them speaking Italian, and, well, you know where I'm leading with this one don't you??:D:p LOL

I wish Princess would take one of their smaller ships and start a NYC to Bermuda cruise again (Hamilton and St. George preferably - not too fussy, am I ;)) . It looks like HAL has realized (again) there is a market for it for those who do not prefer the NCL experience. It looks like their 2010 cruises are booking up pretty quickly this far out in advance. Have you ever sailed on HAL? I hear the service and food are very good.

Thanks for the prayers for the job, I hope something full time comes up very soon, I really need a vacation too. Even thought I'm currently only working per diem, I'm caring for my Dad who has several health issues and can't be left alone.

I'm sure ArubaGal is having a great time, lucky her!

Take care, we'll chat again soon.

Hi ArubaGal and Cruisinsue, I am sooo jealous, you both have great vacations to look forward to. No vacations for me this year thanks to still not having been able to get a full time job :mad::(.

I keep looking at a cruise to Bermuda on the Veendam in 2010 and so wish I could book it and honestly, though it sounds crazy I am very tempted to do so with the hope that by then, I will be employed full time. I've never sailed on HAL before but I hear their cruises are very nice. Do you remember how the Home Lines ships used to sail to Bermuda and the HAL ship would be sailing right along with us? I really could use some Bermuda right now, but that will have to wait.

ArubaGal, if you happen to visit this thread before you leave, have a wonderful time. It sounds like it will be a blast. Let us know how everything goes.

Cruisinsue, I'm sure we will be chatting before your cruise. Are you going on the 9 day from Brooklyn to Bermuda, San Juan, St. Thomas and Grand Turk? I did that itinerary on the Crown in 2006 and it was a great cruise. My neice is going on the Caribbean Princess for that cruise on June 29 of this year, she is so excited, counting down the days. It was her choice for a 21st Birthday celebration.

Ciao ciao

Hi Arubagal, What a great find but C'mon now I'm sure that towel is priceless to you, no amount high enough !?! LOL

I found all my cruise documents from my second cruise on the Atlantic, including boarding passes, daily newsletters, passager list (remember those?) Learn to speak Italian little booklet thingy all neatly tucked away in the Home Lines folder that was on the desk in my cabin....AHHH yes, memories indeed. Now if I can only find a brochure for the Homeric from 1987, then I would really be happy.

Hope all is well with you.

Crusinsue if you are out there hope all is well and that your Mom is doing much better.

Yes, it would be nice to all meet up. It's a sisterhood of sorts!

hope both of you are doing well and yes I would love to meet all of you it would be awesome yes yes yes we are the sisterhood of Home Line Cruises:p Thank you both so much for your kind wishes for my Mom I really do appreciate it very much Chat with you soon

LOL I would have to agree "sisterhood " is a good description....Sisterhood of Home Lines Cruises... definitely more intriguing that the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.....:D

Sue

Hi SueseaQ thank you so much for you thoughts and your prayers for my Mom she is doing much better and is starting to walk alot more on her own I hope someday we can meet it would be awesome :) Susan

Hi Susan (Great name ;)!) and Arubagal. It really would be nice if we could get together some time. There has been so much talk about doing so on this thread, but never seemed to come to fruition. We should try to set a date and place and whoever can come , comes. The GG saga really blows my mind. Those guys really got away with so much "stuff" what with their very charming ways and adorable faces :cool:.

And Susan, glad to hear your Mom's doing better. Moms are very special. My Mom passed almost 3yrs ago and I still miss her so much.

Sue

A little FYI This is the 3rd most viewed thread with over 18,000 hits, on thie title "Whatever happened to...." Wow! Good reading!

LOL, I'm not surprised...;):p:rolleyes:

Thank you so much SueseaQ for your wishes for my Mom it is really appreciated she is doing much better and is now walking in rehab of course with some help. :o

Hi crusinsue, I'm glad your Mom is doing better. My prayers are with you for her continued recovery.

Sue

CrusinSue, so sorry to hear about your Mom. Hope she is on the mend.

 

I have not been on in quite awhile also. There have been alot of major changes going on at work...excessing of employees, job restructuring, schedule changes etc. I have been there 25 years, and no one felt secure in their job per se. Long story very short..I no longer have Saturdays off (thank goodness I don't need to be in NYC every Sat! LOL ) and my hours have been changed a little bit. Most of us are very unhappy, but at least we still have jobs. It's been a very stressful month and I've been pretty upset and depressed. Not in the most sociable of moods. Anyways, The dust has settled, and it is what it is. Time to move on.

 

So, imagine my surprise when I finally stopped by here last night! WOW. This saga just keeps getting better! Gals, we need to write a book...you can't make this stuff up!

Hi ArubaGal, sorry to hear about the strife at your work place. Please, I have not had a full time job in over a year and not for lack of trying. I hope that changes very soon, COBRA is very expensive and soon to end.. Oh well...like you said it is what it is....

I can not imagine what went through your mind when you read Bermudablueeyes' post. I was wondering when we were going to hear from you. It really is so true, a book, a Life Time movie...something....I never heard such goings on on any other cruise lines...leave it to those Italian guys...LOL

Sue

Hi everyone haven been on line for a few weeks my mom fell and fractured her hip so I have been really busy Im really amazed by what I just read from Bermudablueyes I use to get weekly phone calls too but I was not that involved with GG like ArubaGal and Bermudablueyes only on my yearly cruises to Bermuda. I'm really for feeling for you girls but what was in the past is gone and just think of the good times and memories and Im sure we will all laugh abt our adventures with home lines some day. Hope everyone is doing well.:)

Hi crusinsue, So sorry to hear about your Mom, I hope she's on the mend and feeling better soon

SueseaQ

OK - ArubaGal - I actually know who you are! I came upon this thread quite by accident. I don't know why I typed Giuseppe's name into the computer - but I guess it was meant for me to set the record straight on a few things. Giuseppe had only two serious girl friends while working for Home Lines. Those two would be you and me! I knew about your history with GG (except for the fact that you still occasionally would see him). I began seeing Giuseppe in 1981. He was the love of my life! This lasted steady until 1986. I too went on more cruises than I can remember. We would also rent a cottage in Bermuda many times during the summer. I was also in New York almost every single Saturday. The only Saturdays that I was not there was when I would be getting off a cruise or still in Bermuda. I guess that is when he had the opportunity to cheat. I never wanted to believe that he would cheat on me during those times, but considering the surroundings, the lifestyle and all the available girls, it was inevitable. I basically preferred to keep my head in the sand about that because I knew how he felt about me. Giuseppe stayed in my home more times than I can count. He called me on a weekly basis from Bermuda, or from the Carribean. He also called me quite frequently from Italy, though I never got to go there like you did. He used to bring me back beautiful shoes from Milan. I did get to spend an uninterrupted week with him in Florida. He flew in early from Italy and we spent the week in Ft. Lauderdale before he had to board the ship. I still have a box filled with all the Valentines day cards and post cards from Italy.

 

So now here's the beginning of the end. One Saturday in October, right before Giuseppe went home to Italy, he asked me if I believed that a man could love two women. I told him NO!. He told me that he loved me and then quickly changed the subject. I didn't catch on. The week before Christmas, Giuseppe called me several times from Italy to tell me that he loved me and missed me....later to find out that Giuseppe was calling me while on his honeymoon! The day he got back to New York, he sat me down and said that he had something to tell me and that he did not want me to hear it from somebody else. He told me that he got married. Needless to say, the bottom dropped out of my world. I told him that I could no longer see him. He begged me not leave him! Needless to say, two weeks later I was back with him. We continued our relationship as if nothing changed, but I was truly devastated. Then came the birth of his first son. I was heartbroken. One year after that came the birth of his second son. This was more than I could handle......the end! Though I still carry that torch...and always will!

 

My best friend was Giuseppe Loria's girlfriend from 1982 through the end. They were absolutely inseperable. Giuseppe Loria also spent many overnights in my home.

 

Cousin Lilo tragically was killed in a car accident on one of his trips home to Italy. Giuseppe was devastated. If I remember correctly, Lilo left behind a young wife and son.

 

Sorry to be so long winded...but what I am really trying to say here is that ArubaGal, I know for a fact that you had a very special relationship with Giuseppe. So special, that every Saturday for years, when he was not looking, I would check the passenger list for your name. I even think one time we ended up on the same cruise. I think you were with your mother, but not sure. I did hear that you cruised with your husband!

 

I also had a very, very special relationship with Giuseppe and I will not let the fact that he occasionally cheated on me diminish what I had with him. In retrospect, that was the life!

 

I hope this answered the rest of your questions.

This is some story....amazing....:eek:

HI Aruba, The OP on that thread says he rarely eats in the dining room just picks up something or another at the buffet when he's hungry. I guess when you're on a ship for that long you can get a little tired of the fancy stuff after a while. (Although, I doubt I could get tired of Home Lines food LOL) I guess I'll never know as I doubt I'll ever have that opportunity :rolleyes:.

Hi Aruba, glad your flight went smoohtly. That Celebrity cruise does have a great itinerary, sounds like a nice mix, and hey, a 10 nighter really sounds good. Yeah, I am definitely a cruise person, no doubt about it, and if the ship leaves from the NY, NJ area, all the better for me....NO PLANES :D

By any chance have you seen the "Live from" thread on Princess Cruise Line forum started by Witamut, world cruise 107 days Ft. Lauderdale to Venice on the Royal? If you haven't you should check it out, fantastic! The OP updates daily and sends fabulous photos. It's so interesting, I'm sure I'll never have the opportunity to do a World Cruise but am taking one vicariously by checking out that thread daily.

SueSeaQ...we were in Hollywood for the week. It was very windy and cloudy most of the week. Not your typical FL weather. Hope your weather was better. We enjoyed watching for the cruise ships leaving FTLauderdale in the evenings...wishing it was us!

Hi ArubaGal,

The weather for us was very windy too! Somewhat cloudy as well, but it was warm and it felt sooooo good not to have to wear a coat! We had a great time at the wedding and seeing alot of great cousins we don't get to see often, but not enough time to get to the beach. I don't know about you, but we had a terrible time flying home with delays, being in a holding pattern over Raleigh-Durham NC for nearly 1hr, having to land there to re-fuel, back in the air again, then back into a holding pattern for over 30 min before being able to get to Newark airport to land, wich was after 12AM this morning (the original flight arrival time was 6:30PM Sun). Too much stress for me.......:eek:. I'm not too fond of flying to begin with. Put me on a cruise ship anytime!!!!

Sue

Hi ArubaGal, my daughter and I will be in Florida next weekend for a wedding. Only a short visit though, Fri - Sun. Where in Florida will you be. We"ll be in the West Palm Beach, Jupiter area. Even though this is going to be a very rushed trip, I'm so looking forward to it as I haven't been away in almost 3 years!!:eek:

I remember that "underground" gangway. It was actually kind of nasty, wasn't it? :eek: Oh, the Saturdays spent driving into the city from Brooklyn, sometimes to pick up Mr. S only to drive back to Brooklyn so he could buy some godies he liked from the Italian deli in my neighborhood, have a quick lunch and drive back to the city in time for him to get back into uniform and get back on duty. Come to think about it I did a lot of chauffering him around, taking him to Kennedy airport when he was going home, picking him up from the airport when he came back and driving him and one of his friends from the airport to Bayonne NJ when the ship was in dry dock. Looking back sometimes I feel, "what the heck was I thinking" . But at the time I was enjoying every minute of this craziness :rolleyes:.

Sue

Hi Everyone:) Im at work reading all of this and laughing this is so much fun how crazy were we?. But I would not change anything abt those times just to go back in time and reminse abt it is great. Hope everyone is doing well

I Ditto that and hope everyone is well too! :)

Sue

Oh,girls this is waaaayyyy too good. Like I've said my 3 Home Lines cruises (and experiences it seems ;)) really do pale in comparison to what I've been reading here..LOL. I LOVE this. I don't know any of the guys you're talking about. I remember some of the waiters and one absolutely gorgeous officer from Florence. My "friend" was a waiter named Sergio who was also from Sicily. He had a friend that lived in the Bahamas and he stayed there once for a week on his vacation and gave me their home phone number to call him while he was there. Well, I did and his friends wife very nicely gave me the 411 on Mr. Sergio, without me even asking, God Bless her. She must have been thinking "this poor,dopey girl, let me set her straight about him"..."semi-naieve" is a good way of putting it ArubaGal... :rolleyes:. But thanks to her info, I was able to very sweetly "fix his wagon" when the opportunity presented itself :D

Sue

It was a crazy world unto itself, that outsiders could not understand. I'd love to relive one day too! Had a lot of great times and new and wonderful experiences I might not have had otherwise.....with no regrets.

Hi Arubagal, I haven't been here in a while and it's always very interesting when I catch up :rolleyes:.

What you say here is so true, "outsiders" really don't get it. When ever I speak of my Home Lines cruises, though it was only 3 of them, I have to smile from ear to ear, just remembering those special days and only those of us who have shared those experiences can appreciate why.

Sue

Hi All, Hope your holidays were nice. Does anyone know if there are any "official" Home Lines reunions to take place? Sometime before the holidays, some of us talked about getting together for our own reunion, possibly in NYC. Is anyone still interested? Cruisinsue, if we get one together hope you can join us!

Take Care,

Sue

Hi crusinsue, Thats too bad, but again thank you so much for your efforts. Have a great day!

Sue