AGENDA & TRIVIA

Bodies in the sand
Tropical drink melting in your hand
We'll be falling in love

To the rhythm of a steel drum band

And so it soon begins... but first 

ROLL CALL.

Those of you that remember MEDCRUISE 2008 may recall that we discovered a useful tool on the Cruise Critic website while searching for reviews of various cruises called Roll Call. This is like a chat room or users forum where folks taking a particular cruise can exchange info etc and hook up for excursions, meet and greet drink fests.  Roll Call is where we met the two Peripatetic schoolteachers from Ohio that we toured the Mediterranean with and with whom we still stay in touch.  

Soooo it was only natural to check out the Roll Call for the Carnival Freedom July 13 cruise and lo and behold, we found a really feisty bunch of experienced cruisers, just itching to make friends and share loads of useful details. And of course we're already getting involved with a particular group of Happy Sorts that will most likely get included in this NOWAT [Gawd help their reputations after this]

So here's the agenda so far, subject to adjustments:[click the blue links for details]

7/13  Ft Lauderdale, FL -4pm Embarkation
Meet & Greet Roll Call Mates
7/14  Fun Day At Sea
Just what it says - Drink & Dine - Hey...its a cruise!

7/15  Grand Turk - 7am - 2pm [Short day]
Nothing planned - beach day, Jack's Shak for drinks
7/16  La Romana, Dominican Republic - 9am - 4pm
Seavis Saona Island 
Boat tour, snorkeling, beach BBQ etc 

7/17  Curacao - 1pm - 11pm
Irie East Side Tour, 
Is;and Tour then a stroll 'round town-dinner with locals

7/18  Aruba - 8am - 4pm
Jolly Pirates 
[Dragon Lady Swings from the Yard Arm...Arrgh Matey]

7/19  Fun Day At Sea
Drink & Dine... Dine & Drink, Piano bar or maybe a show, drink... crash

7/20  Fun Day At Sea
More of the same

7/21  Ft Lauderdale, FL - 8am Get rolled off the Bloody Boat!

If you've checked out the Roll Call [I set it to start for you in the middle] you'll see that we have a hardy bunch set for the Seavis Saona Island tour, a smattering for Irie in Curacao and mixed bag for Aruba, although swinging from the Yard arm on Jolly Pirate Ships seems to be the draw for many. Dragon Chic is still skeptical about that one but they have a Bar on the Boat so there might be a little liquid courage involved- in her case… maybe a lot of Liquid Courage will be involved.

Even though I can’t get her to try scuba again - [she cant equalize pressure in her inner ear] - we’re looking forward to the several opportunities we’ll have for snorkeling.  She is a bit leery of using public gear so I broke down and picked us both up our own snorkel sets [my old gear was just that - old and ratty] Fortunately we’re not flying in for this so lugging extra gear isn't too bad and we'll have it when I think the GKids are ready for their own gear and can enjoy diving as well. [We’re already water proofing them at the YMCA] 

That’s about it for now… but you know the shopping saga is just about to begin.  Hopefully it wont be as painful as NOWAT-TOSCANA but hey… its all about the SHOES.

Ciao 4 Now,

Uncle Chuck & The Putting on her Shopping Hat

Dragon Lady