Just found this great place and found it really interesting

Looking to have some good fun with you guys!

Regards

Jim

Just one more reason to go to Grand Turk – even though you’ll never catch me on one of those things.

I love the photos of the Splendor. Even with some of the construction materials still around, you can see how beautiful she is.

Later, dude.

Carol

I, too, am a fan of really useful and helpful inventions. In the last week I have heard about some sort of contraption that allows vehicles (but it may just be diesel vehicles) to run on vegetable oil! Those that have made these conversions to their vehicle go to the local MacDonald’s and offer to take the used vegetable oil off their hands. Apparently the fast-food restaurants are happy to be rid of the problem of disposing it, and the new users filter it in some way and then run their cars on it! Of course, I’ve heard they smell like french fries (chips to you English dudes!) as they travedl down the streets!

There is one invention that I believe should have earned it’s inventor a Nobel Prize (because it certainly has helped the cause of peace in our family when we travel)….I hereby salute the man or woman that invented wheels and telescoping handles for luggage!

Terri

Wide screen edition, right?

>>hold the phone against a speaker and within 30 seconds, for just 50 eurcents, you’ll be sent a text saying what the song is and who it’s by.

We have a similar service here in the United States – it’s called satellite radio.

Actually, I think satellite radio is great. I got it for myself for Christmas to be able to listen to baseball games at work.

On our trip to Florida for our recent Carnival Liberty cruise, it came in very helpful in keeping track of what was going on with the Celtics – Lakers game. Our rule is that whomever is driving gets to pick the music. The Mrs. does not like the radio on, so I would turn the actual radio turned off, but the satellite receiver, which broadcasts through the car’s radio, could stay on and I could follow the score.

Now, onto the diet news. I, too, am looking to lose a few pounds and have found the ideal way to lose weight fast – it’s a new supplement invented by Sal Monella. It is developed from tomatoes that have not been properly raised and washed.

So far, I have lost eleven pounds in just six days. How is that for results!!!!!!

Of course, there are side effects. First of all, you do need a seat on the toilet, so it won’t work for you with the cabin in it’s current condition. Second, just about any food will cause your stomach to twist in knots. Bananas and applesauce suddenly become your diet of choice. I have no idea about sugar-free jelly beans, as I am not willing to risk that food supplement.

Keep up the good work on your diet, John, and I will work hard to lose weight as well. It would not do for a slim, trim John Heald to be standing besides a not so svelte Jon for Essex Junction on the Blogger’s Cruise.

My first goal is to get the forty pounds I have gained in the last two years to vanish. Then, I will need to work on those twenty pounds that I gained since coming to Philadelphia in 1994. After that, its the sixty pounds I gained since leaving the Navy.

Realistically, if I can lose 80-100 pounds overall, I would be ecstatic. It won’t be in time for the Blogger’s Cruise, but I would love to be on the low side of 250 for the Blogger’s Cruise, which means I still need to lose another 44 pounds.

Keep blogging, whether by lap top dancing computer or raspberry beret – we love it.

Jon, Kathy and the newest past cruiser, Stacy