Oh no, I didn't realize this about that movie! Yesterday was my son's 13th b-day party, which consisted of taking him and 6 buds to see that movie, followed by pizza and a sleepover (AAAAUUUGHHH!!! My house will never be the same!). I let my DH stay with the boys for the movie so I could do a little shopping at the mall. Now I'm bummed out I didn't see it! And since the rest of the family already saw it, I guess I'll have to wait till it comes out on video. :(

Anyway, back to the topic at hand -- I wanted to mention that one of the (many) things I find appealing about RSSC is that they have no problem with you bringing your own alcohol on board, and drinking it in your room if you wish -- as any adult on vacation should be able to do. I have such a problem with the other line's policies, which I find to be rediculous, paternalistic and designed strictly for the purpose of squeezing every last buck they can out of passengers. I mean really, how would you feel about a resort telling you that you can't bring wine or liquor into your room to enjoy on your balcony?

I always enjoy reading the other cruise line's CC boards when they get the "booze smuggling" threads going. Somebody will post asking what the rules are, or what the corkage fee is (which is always a crack-up, because if the lines out-and-out forbade bringing our own booze onboard, why on earth do they have a corkage fee policy that allows us to drink our outlawed wine at dinner?) Invariably, in these threads, there will be some outraged person posting about how horrible the "rule breakers" are to be smuggling booze on board, and comparing them to formal-night slobs and pool chair hogs. Then there's this back-and-forth where the rule-breakers accuse the booze police of being ignorant lemmings who never question authority, and the rule-followers accuse the booze smugglers of being inconsiderate, classless dolts with a criminalistic bent. Then they start getting ugly, until the board host shuts the thread down. I always find it quite entertaining.

Sometimes I can't help myself from joining in the fun. Not too long ago, on the Celebrity board, I posted the following in a thread called "Booze Secrets", in which that exact exchange was raging:

"Gosh, I've learned so much from this board! Last time I cruised, my Boone's Farm bottle broke and spilled all over the tuxedo-t-shirt that my husband, Bubba, wears on Formal nights. Now y'all taught me I can just dump out some plastic grape-soda bottles and fill them up. This should also help with Bubba's alcohol odor at dinnertime, so maybe they won't make us sit off in the corner with the dude in flip-flops.

"As for licker, they just don't serve the kinda stuff Bubba and I are used to. In fact, I've never seen it served anywhere but my Uncle's cabin in the woods. So I'll be sure to put that in an Evian bottle, just to give it that touch of class.

"My question now is, how best to smuggle our...um..."other" favorite substances on board. Last time Bubba dumped out my face powder container and refilled it. Unfortunately, I didn't discover this until after I applied my makeup and went to dinner. My face got so numb I couldn't even move it. This prompted a nice plastic surgeon to give me his card, telling me that whoever did my Botox must have botched the job but good. Trouble is, it musta soaked in by osmosis, because I got so stoned I ended up booking appointments for a dozen nips, tucks and implants, and now Bubba doesn't recognize me." :D :D :D

There were some mighty unhappy people after that. I guess I should've left them alone, eh? :p