Hi Everyone,

Stephanie here- Just wanted to let you know that www.carnival.com is undergoing scheduled maintenance tonight starting at 11 pm EST.  The site will be back up and running at 11 am EST, tomorrow, Saturday, April 26.  We apologize for any inconvenience.  Should you have any questions during the site downtime please call 1-888-CARNIVAL.

Because the site will be down, there may be a delay in John’s postings on Saturday, 4/26.  However, comment posting and post viewing will not be affected.

Regards,

Stephanie

I decided to sit down and write a blog due to the fact that maybe I will find doing so calming………..that’s because I just spent the last 20 minutes shouting, swearing and eventually physically assaulting…………..the dishwasher.

During the last few days I have gradually filled Mr. Bosh with various mugs, plates, knives and forks. Now, Heidi had taken me through the whole process of how to use this machine and I do believe I followed her instructions completely. So, why then does the thing keep beeping? It has finished washing the stuff; I know that because it makes more noise than a group of students from Kentucky and now the washing noise is finally over it keeps beeping. I was nodding off by the fire after a hard morning of having breakfast with Alan (more on that later) when the German beeping machine woke me up…….I ignored it at first but it just kept beeping………and it may have been my imagination but it was now beeping……..in German.

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