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Well, we’re back from the canal and, well, we’re cold… The Panama Canal is everything that we hoped it would be; it is simply amazing that this engineering project was completed 97 years ago. Even by today’s standards it would be a feat. Next on the agenda: back to Celebrity Solstice..
We are still putting together the pictures from the cruise (Emily shot WELL OVER 1000 pics), however I have created a page for our cruisemates, Sydney and Jim. Here is the page SYD AND JIM’S PAGE.
Make sure that you check out the Karaoke links…. Trust me, you have never seen someone Karaoke like this before; I really was not prepared for what I witnessed.
The countdown is less than 1 week until we are in WARM weather. Acapulco is our first stop and we will end up in Fort Lauderdale a week and a half later. While I really don’t like packing, it is a means to an end (getting there.) We will probably have a really large number of pics so stay tuned.
This is great….. Our swim up junior suite at Excellence Playa Mujeres is amazing; I am sitting on the day bed on our patio to do a quick post to our site. The temperature is somewhere in the 80s and our piece of the pool is about 20 feet away. It doesn’t get much better than this… Actually, the scene would be complete with the pets hanging out next to me.
Nick, Donna, Nadia and Marcos, email to our tnewebmaster@gmail.com account and I will get you our personal email addresses. By the time you read this you will probably be back home as well…
I recently offered to post the daily newsletters from Celebrity Mercury Alaskan cruise. The ports visited are Seattle, Nanaimo and Victoria. Thanks to RonAndAnnette from CruiseCritic.com for sending these to me. Please note that these are somewhat big (1.1MB-2.6MB so they may not open immediately). You can right-click “Save As” to download them to your workstation. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader (or similar) installed to open these.
Monday, September 21, 2009: Seattle Page 1 | Page 2 & 3 | Page 4
Tuesday, September 22, 2009: Nanaimo Page 1 & 4 | Page 2 & 3
Wednesday, September 23, 2009: Victoria Page 1 & 4 | Page 2 & 3
Thursday, September 24, 2009: At Sea Page 1 & 4 | Page 2 & 3
We just couldn’t wait until our mid-October vacation to Excellence Playa Mujeres, so we decided to take the least expensive cruise we could to the Bahamas. We booked an inside stateroom guarantee on Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas for a 3 night cruise. We make stops in Nassau, Bahamas and Cococay, Bahamas (never been here) for a couple of nice relaxing beach days. If you have any suggestions or advice on the cruise or ship, please let us know.
It is safe to say that since the swap to Wordpress, our site (www.tomandemily.com) has been MUCH slower than it was before. This, however, was not the fault of the software, but rather my own inexperience with using the gallery software. Now that I have cropped the pictures down to something more reasonable, the site appears to be a lot faster. It was more of a bandwidth issue than anything else. In addition, I upgraded the server hardware and updated all of the plugins to their newest versions. I was also able to get all of the pictures migrated to the new site. I hope you like it.
I still have to get the videos posted so “Stay Tuned”.
We recently returned from an Eastern Caribbean cruise on Celebrity Solstice and we have nothing but good things to say about the ship. To be honest with you, we really questioned our favorite line’s decision to go with a large ship after we have enjoyed their M-class of ships so much; in short, they pulled it off VERY well. The ships designers and decorators managed to create a ship that never feels overly large and has a contemporary elegant feel. The service was unlike any other ship we have ever been on, every crew member was friendly and did their job in a way that made it obvious they were proud to have been selected for the cruiseline’s newest flagship. If you have any questions, please email us at tnewebmaster@gmail.com. Check out our pictures HERE and the daily newsletters HERE. In particular, check out the picture of Murano in THIS GALLERY. I will have a excerpts of a letter I am sending to Celebrity posted soon, but the long short is that the gentlemen Ismail and Giovanni at Murano did a wonderful job of making our cruise great. Thanks again guys!!
We are looking for ways to sail on her again. Most likely it will be next spring.
Well, I finally took the plunge and migrated the core of our web site from the old, time consuming way to Wordpress. There are still a lot of things (mainly the photos and the daily newsletters) that still point to the old site, but those will be migrated gradually. Let me know what you think of the new site and if you have any suggestions about what could be changed.
New pages, new pictures and a new way of doing things. Basically, things just started taking WAAAAY to long to do when it came to the web site so I changed over to using Wordpress. Hopefully, it will allow me to get pics out there more quickly now. You will probably notice (or not) that the site is a bit incomplete and, in some of the pictures areas, cobbled together with the old site. My initial goal is to get the new site up and working with some things pointing back to the old site and slowly move all of the content to the new. It is going to take some time.. So, enjoy!
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