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Question for those who book through a TA
h20skibum replied to Ocean Boy's topic in Royal Caribbean International
We got that same email, and I think it was to remind you to book dining and excursions and other things. You still do your check in as normal. No need to go through a TA for that. -
Those scheduling people at Southwest have been busy trying to annoy me. Yesterday, they made two changes to our flight to San Francisco. The first change, they moved our departure time up by about 10 minutes. I thought, ok, I can live with that. Then, about 2 hours later, they send this. New times, new plane, new flight! So now, instead of a change in Chicago, we have one in Denver. And that new departure time got moved to 5am, which would mean getting up at 2am to be ready for a drive to the airport. Not happening, so we booked a hotel at the airport. Now, I wake up this morning to see that our flights to and from Myrtle Beach this summer were changed. Differences of 10 minutes to 1.5 hours. Can’t wait to see if they change again later today. I am fairly confident they will change our flights to and from our Utopia cruise. Maybe they are reshuffling the fleet to find planes that haven’t had parts fall off.
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I don’t think 315 miles for a one day drive is bad. When we make our drive to Florida each winter, we break it into three 400 mile segments. Of course, depending on how bad traffic is, even short distances could take a long time. I was just reading about the 12 hour traffic backups on the interstate in New Hampshire after the eclipse. Sounded like people faced some challenges with that.
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Smooth finishes seem to show imperfections. Our house, built in 1970 has plaster walls with a swirl finish. What I didn’t know, until we did a full kitchen remodel in the 90’s, was that the kitchen designer could tell who did the plaster work by looking at the swirl pattern. We dropped the ceilings over the new cabinets and put in can lights. We said we wanted the dropped part to have the same swirl pattern as the rest of the house. They said “Oh, so and so is still working, so we can have him in to match it.” When we had a guy redo our small bath a couple years ago. We had him do the same finish. Our next project is just a repainting of our master bath. Took the wallpaper border off last week, and the new one arrived yesterday. New curtains are here, so now we are looking at paint colors to go with all of it. This is the swirl pattern that will get a new color.
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We just had our total eclipse here. Clouds cleared and it was a good view. Got dark as night and dropped probably 10 degrees. Traffic was pretty crazy when I was out earlier. I went to Walmart about a half hour before, and there was hardly anyone in the store. I guess good things can happen during an eclipse.
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PA has the second highest gas taxes, just behind California. They also say that our higher prices is due to our stations being supplied by the New York market vs. Ohio getting theirs from the Chicago market. Our local stations try to keep their prices a little lower than stations in our county that are not as close to the border. For us, it makes sense to make a short drive and save.
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That looks similar to the layout of the Cabana Cabins on deck 9 of the new Sun Princess. This is a portion of Iona deck 8 plan It looks like the promenade in front of those cabins On Sun Princess, it is similar, but it is a cabana deck where anyone in a cabana on that deck could be in front of your cabin. That was one reason we didn’t book there.
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We have had the Alltrails app for a few years. When we are traveling, we will use it to find walking trails near where we are staying. The extreme trail was only 0.2 miles long, so I guess we figured if it got too bad, we would just turn and go back. I think the only extreme portion was getting to the end, and realizing we had to climb the rock face to get out.
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It was a beautiful day for hiking today, so we traveled to Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park in Ohio. They had four short trails. One listed as easy, two listed as moderate, and one listed as extreme. There were quite a few large sandstone rock formations that made for an interesting hike. We hadn’t watched any videos or researched the trails prior to jumping in. On the extreme trail, we made it through the fat man’s peril. The trail kept getting narrower, and we got to the portion appropriately named “the squeeze”. When you got through the squeeze, you ended up in the devil’s ice box. The way out is straight up the rock wall where you can see a little daylight about 15-20 feet up. I had to climb up to a ledge, help Susan up, and repeat until we made the top. There were a couple waterfalls along the trails. This one was at the end of an easy trail. Our last trail at this park took us on a moderate path. Through the “dwarf’s pass” And on to find the waterfall at the end of this trail. If you look at the top right of the photo, you can see someone sitting at the top of the rock, so it gives an idea of scale. One neat thing was the the gold miner’s cave that was behind those falls. IMG_0924.mp4
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Now, for the important question. Has anyone done the “Swimming with Pigs…” excursion at Nassau? I just booked it this morning for the seven of us. I already have an idea how this will go. My granddaughter will probably try to latch on to one and ride it like a dolphin. Her brother will be a little more cautious and will wait to see if one eats his sister before getting close to one. My CA grandson will probably try to keep away from them at all costs As for the four adults, who knows how that will go? At least it didn’t say I was too old to book this one. So, has anyone done it, and how was it?
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Oh, we will be getting medallions for our January cruise. Our last sailing on Princess was 2017, and they were just introducing them on one ship but not the one we were on. I am looking forward to seeing if they can really do everything they advertise they can do. I would hope so, especially since we will be on their newest ship. Sitting by the pool and ordering a drink or food with it, and them delivering it to your lounger sounds fantastic. Speaking of medallions, evidently they will be giving out Pioneer Medallions at my 50 year college reunion this summer.
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Unfortunately, they do not have pet insurance. Now the question becomes if they can get some going forward. Or, do they charge higher rates for pre existing conditions. From what I read, there are several things that can cause anemia in cats. They were of the opinion that it was something he had picked up at the shelter that got worse over time. They thought probably from worms, that he had been treated for, and maybe that was contributing to him being such a docile cat. I don’t know yet if they have any instructions, diet or otherwise. They did tell them what to look for though. Ricky was the perfect therapy for all of them, after the passing of Lucy. (The only cat my grandkids knew before Ricky) That seems to have been the case, so hopefully they have things addressed going forward. We were over at their house this morning, when Ricky made his triumphant return. My granddaughter was worried his fur would not grow back on his front legs that had been shaved. They must have given him the high octane blood, because we was zooming around the house.