Ngaire: Marcie and I took care of our "homework" with cruise consultant in the first day or two - yesterday Todd led us on a tour of Barcelona. It is a gorgeous city. Todd, John, Carla, Frank, Tom, Marcie, Tony, Karen, Mark and Joanna - left ship at 10 am, saw the sights, ate a very good lunch at oldest restaurant in Barcelona - they put us in private room I think they size us up and decide better to separate us from other people- Todd used his water bottle held high in the air to round up his little chickies when they would stray - rode the tram over the city loved it - Karen and I opted to head back to ship at 3 pm for nap - the others drifted back - Mark and Tony not till 6:15 pm - Mondaes and Matassas ate with Olivia and family last night table of 8 and then into VL - I headed to my cabin around 11 pm and think many others went to casino - lots of action in casino but I can't stay up till 2 am!! We spoofed on Todd I think Marcie is telling you about it right now as we are both on computer - many laughs had by all and Todd was good sport but he had some nervous moments - Menorca was a wonderful port but we just left at 2 PM wish we had more time to explore - hard to believe tonight is last night for so many - we will miss everyone! The food has been outstanding and the staff so hard working and helpful. Tony and I are not ready to get off so glad we have another week. Being with the Matassas is similar to being with "celebrities" as the staff adore them and remember them from WC- "Oh you are Mrs Matassa's friend how lucky you are etc etc" - the sail away this afternoon was very pretty, weather grogeous, and we all ate at pool grill - now everyone is headed out on the ship to do different things - I caught a glimpse of a couple and I am sure we cruised with them on the Diamond in Sept 2003 so trying to find them to say hello - I wonder if everyone will behave tonight???? Check back and I'll keep you posted - we keep bumping into Sue and family and they are all so nice - her Dad, Bill, is a doll - I haven't seen Macy in past couple of days but ship is full - Joanna

Hello from beautiful Menorca! What a great port this was…just charming. Last night was hilarious. I’ll try my best to begin to describe the joke we played on Todd.

Todd had organized a tour of Barcelona for any of the 007ers since he’s been there several times and knows it well. Last night at dinner Joanna and Tony thought it would be fun to act like Todd was in deep doo doo because of “organizing/conducting a tour without a license”. Olivia’s son Brice is a master of voice disguises so we elected him to call and leave a message in Todd’s room (Todd was at a different table then us at dinner). Brice used a heavy Spanish accent and left a message that he was Mr. so and so (long Spanish name) from immigrations/port authority and it was imperative that Todd contact him immediately about operating illegal tours etc. Of course Todd was sitting at dinner when all this was going on so Joanna walked over to Todd, Frank and Carla’s table acting like she had received a very alarming message about the tour she had done with Todd earlier that day. Joanna did a great job acting very upset about such an alarming message. At first Todd was pretty blasé – “oh I am not worried” – Joanna told him he’d be worried once he heard the message – she hoped he wouldn’t be fined too heavily and, of course, jail was out of the question – she hoped !! He is getting stressed at this point -

Well about 45 minutes later Brice left a 2nd message on Todd’s phone even more stern saying that this incident was of the utmost importance that it needed to be resolved and that this could delay our 11pm departure from Barcelona if it wasn’t resolved. By this time Joanna, Tony, Olivia and her daughter Joanna, Brice and his wife, Tom and me are all in the Voyager lounge. Todd comes in with Frank and Carla and walks up to Joanna whispering (and stressing out) something about the TWO messages he’s now received and what to do blah, blah, blah. We all got involved in the conversation trying to make suggestions such as “just pay the fine if the fine is really outrageous $$$ maybe we can all chip in” etc. The best line of the night was when I said with a straight face “So Todd, you could end up in jail huh???” Todd says back “MARCIE, you are NOT helping!!!” Just then @ 11pm the ship starts sailing. Todd is so excited. He keeps looking out the window over and over saying VERY RELIEVED “We’re moving”. Every 2 seconds he looks out the window again and say’s “We’re moving” Joanna the ship is moving – Joanna said “yes but they could be waiting for you at the next port” - By this time it was all we could do to keep a straight face. Tom then takes it upon himself to tell Todd the truth (we were having such fun we would have kept the joke going a bit longer). We had so much fun with Todd and he was a great sport (probably wanting to kill us!). We were actually considering a 3rd phone call to Todd’s room informing him that Homeland Security had been notified etc. Anyway………it was all so funny! One of those “You had to have been there” nights!

This will be my last seamail! We’ll be departing tomorrow morning (sob sob) and on to Dublin for a few days! We will sure miss everyone! Deciding to come on this cruise was one of the BEST decisions we ever made!

Seamail from Joanna and Marcie, plus my cup of coffee. Great start to the morning again! What will I do when you guys get off? My morning will be so boring!

What a joke you played on Todd. Glad he is a good sport. Loved reading about it.

Marcie, have fun in Dublin and safe travels home.

Joanna, it's up to you to keep this seamail going. I think you will have help from Betty. Enjoy another week on the Voyager.

Thanks, Girls, for the seamail. What a cute joke you all successfully played on poor Todd. Sounds as if the fun continues. I have, so, enjoyed all the reports. What a great time you've all had.
Safe trip home for those leaving, and continue having fun, for those who aren't.

Betty

Well, I am glad Todd was a good sport. All my son Brice needs is to be around a couple of guys about his Dad's age to turn him into a prankster. You all should have heard the planning stages of this caper at the dinner table. So much laughter! I must say Brice has got me before with his accents. He once left me a message on my phone that was a heavily accented Indian telling me that my daughter had kicked his dog. He was imitating something that was going around the internet at the time. Scared me to death.

Well, this will be my last post as well, and I hope Joanna and Betty and Priscilla will keep us up to date next week. It has been such a pleasure to cruise once again with lct'ers. I am off to find Macy to invite her for dinner!

WOW what a wonderful and fun filled week you'all have had. Thanks so much for sharing with us, Marcie, Olivia, and Joanna. Thank goodness that Joanna will be able to keep posting for another week and will have "new blood" to get into trouble with. Looking forward to it.

Can't wait for MUSH, with all you partiers on, and all the crazy things you do.

Safe travels home everyone.

Wishing all of you a safe trip home or to your next destination. I'm so happy we'll still have seamail from Joanna, Betty and Pricilla.

Thanks for all the wonderful posts, we really enjoy them.

Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. Safe travels to all the 007's returning home or on to other destinations.

Tomorrow Priscilla, John and Betty come aboard. Is this cruise 008? More seamail, please!

Safe trip home, everyone. May your luggage arrive with you. I know we all look forward to your stories and photos.

Safe travels home. Thank you for including us in your adventure. I can totally see Todd in that scenario. He's such a good sport.

I'd love to hear Todd's side of the story! :D Have a safe trip, those that are leaving ... and how envious of Tony and Joanna that they're staying on another week!

Masaki

Have a safe trip home for those who are leaving today. Joanna & Tony, I'm sure you're up to the task of initiating Betty, Priscilla & John into the 008 cruise!

Cheers, Anne

Marcie called at 8 am to say good bye and Tony and I had farewell 9:15 am b'fast in La Veranda with Carla and Frank - we walked into town and got caught in rainstorm so stopped for expresso and shelter - back to ship and had lunch in Compass Rose - I ran up and booked spa appointment for our only sea day - just came down to computer room not a soul in the room - then a gal walked in I looked at her she looked at me...Betty??? Joanna???? We were happy to meet after all our fun conversations on LCT - I told Betty we were dragging a little after being with the partiers last week - tonight we are having dinner with friends from California who arrive today - they are wonderful people but not the type to do shooters or some of the other wonderful antics last week - we all said good bye last night in VL - Karen and Mark and Olivia's group and Todd and John, too, I think all went to meet Betty and then they had a tour - Todd was a great sport about his illegal tour operation - it helps to have a sense of humor with this group - more later - Joanna

Greetings from 007 and (1/2?) here in Dublin. What a great city this is! We're at the Westin right across from Trinity College and certainly in the middle of all the action! We ate at a local pub and now doing the hop on and off bus. Tonight we're going out to some local pub for some Irish music. Maybe Tom will do the jig again like he did on the Voyager in March. I love listening to the people talk, they're so fun and jovial. We will sure miss the other 007ers and wish they could have all come here with us. We'd have a rip-roaring fun time i'm sure! It was tough saying all the good byes last night but what a FUN WEEK we had! I know Joanna and Tony will finally get some rest....well maybe! Hugs to all from Lassie here!

Marcie, we were at the Westin last spring for a few days, and found that our room got so hot at night we could not sleep and the staff was most disinterested in the situation. Have they fixed that problem? Other than that, what a sweet location.

If you take the Jameson distillery tour, sit up front and the INSTANT they ask for volunteers, shoot your hand up in the air. You can be an official taster at the end of the tour. You'll get a nice certificate and a little drunk.

Marcie, you are a woman after my own heart. I loved the joke!! I am not sure if I would have been such a good sport!!! I wish I were there.

Last night we had dinner with our friends from CA and their friends - sat next to Betty, John and Priscilla - went to sailaway at 9:30 PM and MC is beautiful at night. We met our friends at 7PM in VL and there were 2 people in the lounge - far cry from last week! We actually went to bed at 10:30 - a first for us! This morning got off ship in (after breakfast on outside deck of La Veranda) Livorno and walked around for 3 hrs - since it is Sunday all shops closed but we enjoyed our walk - stopped at the Cathedral of Livorno and stayed for high Catholic Mass with incense - two young girls sang had voices of angels - wonderful experience - we are having dinner tonight with Betty and gang and chilling this afternoon - no agenda which is great!! Maybe our livers will get a break this week -

Joanna - so glad you enjoyed the walk in Livorno & the chilling this afternoon. Enjoy dinner with the LCT gang! Cheers, Anne

PS - did Betty find Tony in the laundry room with a Rowenta? Almost sounds like a solution for the game of Clue.

Yes Betty and Tony discussed laundry last night but he advised her he is only doing ladies "personal" items on this second week - Priscilla, Betty and I are all together chatting and typing on LCT right this minute - Priscilla looks like Meryl Streep -

I’m glad to hear that Betty, Priscilla and John all made it there safely. I sure wish we could have gone to the casino with Karen, Mark and Olivia to meet you all but we had an 11:00am flight to Dublin. I know you'll have a fun dinner tonight together. Last night we had fun in the Temple Bar area, which is a very happening, place, especially on a Saturday night. Reminded me of Bourbon Street in New Orleans. After we returned to the Westin we had espresso and Sambuca in the lounge with live entertainment. Tom is suffering major “Tony withdrawals” I swear they must have been brothers in a previous life! We all missed Lawrence though! We’re so happy we’ll all be together in January on the “Sambuca” cruise in South America. BTW, Frank and Carla have now signed up for segment 2 as well (barring that everything is OK when they return to Boston). I sure hope it works out for them to join us.....such a fun couple!!

MarnaLou, no problem with the heating or air conditioning at the Westin for us. The weather has been cool so the last thing we’ve needed is AC. We sure love the location of this hotel! The staff has been fine, even delivered a bottle of champagne to our room last night. We’re bringing home approximately 12 bottles of Sambuca and Italian wine we picked up for Cheap Cheap in Rome that’s packed in our suitcases already.

So happy we finally are getting to see Dublin....GREAT city and the Irish people are so much fun! We just ate lunch in a cute Irish pub (O’Neils) ....off to keep exploring!

Marcie, you are like the energizer bunny. You just keep on going and going and going. I envy all that energy! Have a great time on your Ireland stopover.

Joanna, enjoy chilling out. What better place to do that than on the Voyager.

Joanna - Gary wanted to let Tony know he does "ladies personal items" ANY week.

So glad you had an LCT computer room reunion! Cheers, Anne

We're still boppin around Dublin and having a ball. Yesterday afternoon we got massages in our hotel room. It was cool and a first for us....very convenient.
Last night we ate at an Italian restaurant and then went to O'Neil's Pub for live Irish music. It was such fun. My Mom (Irish) was very good at doing the jig, She even won contests so it brought back lots of happy memories. She tried to teach me but I didn't get it (like trying to teach a baby elephant!)

It's so green here. They say "if you can see the mountains it's going to rain. If you can't see the mountains, it's already raining!"

Hi Marcie,

So glad you're enjoying Dublin; have you been to the countryside at all? Powerscourt Gardens is not too far from the city and is really beautiful with mountains nearby.

Are you EVER coming home? :D

Have a fabulous time Marcie! Do you like Guiness??
Cindy

Marcie, so glad you and Tom are enjoying Dublin. I've been there twice and it's such a great and friendly city. Nancy

I'm just now getting around to reading this! I'm sorry I didn't post from the ship - watched over Joanna's shoulder once with Marcie - but it was a wonderful trip! And the highlight was meeting the folks from this board! If I could get Dad to have a computer he'd be here all the time.

Haven't heard much from you 007'ers, or is it 008'ers now? Where is everyone???? Those of us at home need to hear from you'all so we can pretend we are there.

And, for those of you from Florida, hope all is well at your homes. Please keep us updated. :hug:

JoAnn, 007'ers, or at least most of us, are now home getting back to work, doing laundry, running errands, collecting lost baggaqge, you know...hitting the skids of the reality that comes after a cruise is over. Our "Seamail" work is DONE! I, too, would love to hear from Betty and Priscilla. I'll give Joanna a couple of days respite as she was pretty good about reporting antics on 007. Hope you all on board are having a great time getting to know each other!

It's hard to get back to day to day reality, when you've just returned from a wonderful cruise!

I was just wondering how the 008's are doing, as it's been a few days since they last posted.

I guess they are too busy touring and having fun to stop by the computer room!

Priscilla, Joanna and Betty - Hope you guys are having a great time...but...we sure miss the seamail!

Olivia - you are of course right, I forgot its been named 008 for those who stayed on/boarded in Monte Carlo.

Like Denise, will hope the 008 gang will stop by the computer room soon and update us on their trip.

Joanna may too busy recuperating from last week to even find the computer room!

You would think that Betty would find a minute to post! Those 008ers are keeping us in the dark!!

My guess is that the Internet is down on board ship....

Well thats possible Kathy - if not they are either having way tooooo muchhhh fun to post, or are recuperating, or at least Joanna is!!! Sure do miss those posts. :p

H E L L O.... ANYONE HOME?

I bet the internet is down....Joanna is an internet junkie (like me) and probably suffering withdrawls! Hopefully we'll hear from her, Betty and Priscilla soon :3smile:

Today is a sea day, so maybe we will get some sea mail if the server is up and running. If they have access I'm sure they'll post.

I can't imagine that the internet has been down ALL week! Joanna, we will tar and feather you if you don't check in soon!!

Today was a sea day......I'm sure Joanna would have gone to the spa for a massage, then her afternoon nap, those are definites! But where are Betty and Priscilla?

I guess they broke ALL their fingers....all 30 of them!!

I agree, Karen. I can't imagine that the Internet has been down for this long. I think they've made a very hefty bet on who can hold out from posting the longest. They're all probably reading this thread and getting a good laugh, watching us go through seamail withdrawal.