Hogladyrider Posted December 26, 2021 #301 Share Posted December 26, 2021 @KmomChicago...sorry to see your review come to an end....it was GREAT! I can so relate to being anxious and ready to get home to see the fur kids....unconditional love all the way around. Hope to see you over on the TRIBE thread! Thanks for sharing your cruise with us! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balcony bound Posted December 26, 2021 #302 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Thanks for taking me with you Kmom, I enjoyed your review and thoughts. Safe travels home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvilleCruiser Posted December 26, 2021 #303 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Thanks for an always great review Kmom. Safe travels home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabyJacks17 Posted December 26, 2021 #304 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Thoroughly enjoyed your review @KmomChicago - thank you so much for taking us all on your Christmas Cruise with the family. Wishing you safest of travels back home! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwest898 Posted December 26, 2021 #305 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Thank you for the review I really enjoyed it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhinoMomIL Posted December 26, 2021 #306 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Thank you! Enjoyed it very much. Safe drive back! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monykalyn Posted December 26, 2021 #307 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Very much enjoyed the review and musings. Safe travels home to your furry babies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 26, 2021 Author #308 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Again since this is a live one, we have settled in to a nice, very new and sleek Holiday Inn Express just off I-80 in Ohio. Road conditions were excellent, dry and sunny, mostly light traffic, with just a few miles of construction zones on the Penn Turnpike. Picked up Subway and I’m just having a veggie delight salad. Need to detox a bit!! Truly I plan to do OMAD for a few days next week which I have found to be pretty easy (for a short time) and extraordinarily helpful in easing my digestive issues. Should be with the kitties tomorrow early afternoon. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 27, 2021 Author #309 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Soooo I have seen a few of these overly sensationalized tales of passenger outrage related to the small surge of cases on some cruises this week and cancellation of ports. I am not amused by this, folks. Not one little bit. I get that those ABC islands are something special and that people absolutely book based on that itinerary and that it would be disappointing, perhaps extremely so, to lose that. Aaaaaaand none of us WANTS to pick up the ‘Rona breakthrough on our voyage. But this running to the press to cry foul is NOT COOL. We ALL know, or SHOULD know, both the risk of port cancellations and the risk of, you know, CATCHING COVID. This is the world we live in. This is like complaining the CASINO STOLE YOUR MONEY. We cruisers should be united in reasonable logic, if nothing else. That logic says you take intelligent risks and then you accept the results of your gamble. I’m sorry people are catching this disease on ships and that everyone still bears possible disappointments related to it. Now SHUT UP. 22 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogladyrider Posted December 27, 2021 #310 Share Posted December 27, 2021 @KmomChicago....great post......the key is "we cruisers should be united in reasonable logic"......that's the problem in society today.....logic has left the building......we've become the society of entitlement....I paid my money I want what I paid for.....very sad. I refuse to fall into that rabbit hole. Safe travels home tomorrow! 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 27, 2021 Author #311 Share Posted December 27, 2021 (edited) Our overnight hotel has a single cup Keurig which is nice and fine and everything. So why am I instead wanting to get dressed and schlep all the way up to deck 9 like exactly one week ago and also yesterday? Seriously that fresh brewed strong Americano is YUM! 👍☕️Needs real cream to cut it. Also yum. Edited December 27, 2021 by KmomChicago 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 27, 2021 Author #312 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Monday normally could mean busy conditions on I 80 but I think most of the 9-5 world has today off. My goal was to get past Cleveland yesterday just in case there might be any morning rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ninjacat123 Posted December 27, 2021 #313 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Awesome review!! Safe travels and I hope you are feeling better (fever, chills) and ready to welcome in 2022! Whenever I go away, my kitties are mad (ignore, hide) at me then about an hour later all is forgiven. 😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcwalker Posted December 27, 2021 #314 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Yeah, about that. The casino stealing my money. That has happened to me more than once. Who DO I complain to? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 27, 2021 Author #315 Share Posted December 27, 2021 1 hour ago, ninjacat123 said: Awesome review!! Safe travels and I hope you are feeling better (fever, chills) and ready to welcome in 2022! Whenever I go away, my kitties are mad (ignore, hide) at me then about an hour later all is forgiven. 😉 Thanks Ninjacat. I seem to be about normal. It could easily have been stress or something I ate. I’m interested to see how the cats behave. They are both vocal so we expect lectures with a lot of tone! 1 hour ago, dcwalker said: Yeah, about that. The casino stealing my money. That has happened to me more than once. Who DO I complain to? You needa go on the social media machine of your choice and publicly Declare Your Outrage. And someone needs to develop torch and pitchfork emojis for this purpose. Hear ye, hear ye!!! I have a complaint and you shall all pity me, in the manner of Mr. T. Commence pitying NOW! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcvtmom Posted December 27, 2021 #316 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Well-written, informative, and entertaining review!! Thanks for taking time to do this for us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmklade Posted December 27, 2021 #317 Share Posted December 27, 2021 16 hours ago, KmomChicago said: Soooo I have seen a few of these overly sensationalized tales of passenger outrage related to the small surge of cases on some cruises this week and cancellation of ports. I am not amused by this, folks. Not one little bit. I get that those ABC islands are something special and that people absolutely book based on that itinerary and that it would be disappointing, perhaps extremely so, to lose that. Aaaaaaand none of us WANTS to pick up the ‘Rona breakthrough on our voyage. But this running to the press to cry foul is NOT COOL. We ALL know, or SHOULD know, both the risk of port cancellations and the risk of, you know, CATCHING COVID. This is the world we live in. This is like complaining the CASINO STOLE YOUR MONEY. We cruisers should be united in reasonable logic, if nothing else. That logic says you take intelligent risks and then you accept the results of your gamble. I’m sorry people are catching this disease on ships and that everyone still bears possible disappointments related to it. Now SHUT UP. I agree 100% with this. My wife and I just got off Oasis of the Seas on the 19th. Anyone who has ever been to the ABC islands know they have to be careful because their medical systems are not capable of handling what ours can in the U.S. They also know that tourism is their lifeline. I know we and almost everyone travelling in the world today, know this risks. If ports get changed...big deal! This cruise industry, their employees and all of the island are doing what they have to do to survive. If is changes our stops, oh well, we all knew the risks when we chose to travel at this time. Also, thank you KMom for a great review. It was appreciated. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothFlying Posted December 27, 2021 #318 Share Posted December 27, 2021 6 hours ago, KmomChicago said: Our overnight hotel has a single cup Keurig which is nice and fine and everything. So why am I instead wanting to get dressed and schlep all the way up to deck 9 like exactly one week ago and also yesterday? Seriously that fresh brewed strong Americano is YUM! 👍☕️Needs real cream to cut it. Also yum. 6 hours ago, KmomChicago said: Our overnight hotel has a single cup Keurig which is nice and fine and everything. So why am I instead wanting to get dressed and schlep all the way up to deck 9 like exactly one week ago and also yesterday LOLLLL ! that was my wife's very first comment the first morning as we were sitting in the living room after her first cruise in 2007 (which, I reminded her, she did NOT want to go on) she thought it'd be like 'Love Boat' a bunch of tux/evening wearing rude snobs. Till she ACTUALLY got on one and 15 minutes later she was SOLD ! Now 20 something cruises later she's a diehard cruise fan So glad you're feeling better and just hours away from home. Loved your review. Thank you so much for the review. and your heat warming comments about my years as a D/S crime scene tech.. Mac 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 27, 2021 Author #319 Share Posted December 27, 2021 We’re still live. Just crossed into Illinois on I 80. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothFlying Posted December 27, 2021 #320 Share Posted December 27, 2021 28 minutes ago, KmomChicago said: We’re still live. Just crossed into Illinois on I 80. Just a few hours and you'll be HOME !! I know it'll be nice to sleep in your own bed ! I spent a week every other month traveling/sight seeing around the U.S. anywhere Delta flew the last 6-7 years of my job. sooo I kinda got used to sleeping in hotels/motel. The wife would go w/me IF she had vacation time but she only got 2 weeks a year and she made it CLEAR, one of those weeks was for a cruise !! Besides she never slept well in a motel. I know your 'fur babies' will greet you with their 'singing' (soft meowing) as I call it which will sound like ' AMEN ! AMEN!) to your ears. Rest and sleep well, tonight. Welcome home weary traveler, Mac 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 27, 2021 Author #321 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Be it ever so humble. . . . 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothFlying Posted December 27, 2021 #322 Share Posted December 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, KmomChicago said: Be it ever so humble. . . . As I call 'unconditional LOVE ' As my Dad used to say 'They NEVER judge, They just love' Mac 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelGirlinDallas Posted December 27, 2021 #323 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Glad you made it home safely! Love the kitty pic. I'm off to read your Adventure review now... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenatorsFan Posted December 27, 2021 #324 Share Posted December 27, 2021 2 hours ago, KmomChicago said: Be it ever so humble. . . . Oh that adorable face! 😻 I'm glad to hear that you are home. Thanks for another great review. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted December 27, 2021 Author #325 Share Posted December 27, 2021 1 hour ago, SenatorsFan said: Oh that adorable face! 😻 I'm glad to hear that you are home. Thanks for another great review. Thank you! He is a nearly perfect specimen with a sweet personality and only 2-3 years old so I’m not sure how we ended up with him. Normally I’m drawn to the most hopeless cases. We absolutely adore him. He’s very glad we’re here and has completely forgiven us. Our old white female chonk is happy too but definitely has more attitude about the whole thing. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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