Good Evevning Everyone
I am so sorry that I didn’t have the time to write a full blog today. I will however write on tomorrow as usual. Instead I hope you enjoy these three brief videos from tonight’s welcome aboard show.
Goodnight
Your friends
John and Heidi
Tune in later this evening to see a video of me and some special guests.
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I LOVE the video blogs!! Brilliant!
Thanks, John, Heidi and Stephanie!!!
Host Mach from Cruise Critic
Ahhh John! You don’t really know how much this family wishes to be there on the Splendor with you and Heidi and the wonderful crew. You look great and without a doubt you are going to be perfect as always.
Love;
Nanni
oh and btw we are not really but we got to be backstage.
Thanks! I can’t wait for Eugenio to see it. He is going to love it! We miss you too.
very nice videos. wished i was there sailing with you.
John and Heidi…
We wish we were there as well! Good luck with the “shakedown”.
John & Susan in Frisco, Tx.
Heidi…Heidi…Heidi…
You are so funny!
Thanks for the quick, video blogs! Always fun to watch what is going on instead of just reading. Wish I was there too!
Karen
We aren’t there because our invitation got lost in the mail.
( That must be the reason. It couldn’t be because we weren’t invited. Sniff. I have got to find my hankies and blow my nose. I am OK now. The tears have stopped.
Jo
John I loved the videos.I do wish we were there.I’m sure it will be a great show.Best wishes Gary and Bug
I love hearing your voice, I watched these videos 3 times, and Mike watched them with me too, we both said we wished we were there with you and Heidi. I can’t wait to see the Splendor in November and hope you will be there too. I can’t believe Heidi will be leaving the ship in October. You two are inseparable, how will you manage without her and she without you? You two are like Lucy & Ricky Ricardo! Thanks for the videos, love them, do them more often. Linda & Mike (your faithful bloggers)!
FROM THE CARNIVAL SPLENDOR
IT’S JOHN HEALD LIVE , ALMOST
John, I just love these little videos. We get to see you live, ALMOST, in action. Wish we were there to support you but you will start getting a steady stream of bloggers soon joining you on the Carnival Splendor.
All ready have a bunch of the Krewe booking on the Carnival Dream for the cruises out of New York.
Only 220 more days till the 2nd Blogger Cruise on the Carnival Fantasy. ARE YOU BOOKED YET????
BIG ED
King of The Evil Krewe
so funny! Thanks for sharing the videos. Wish we were there with you.
Jan
OMG!!! It’s the very best of live from the Splendor!! We are so there with you John, can’t you and Heidi feel the hugs??) We know ya can!!
LOVE the video!! More please, we need more!! And turn that thingy around for a shout out from Heidi!!
Love you all!
Eva
Best wishes getting “back on the boards”. As you Brits like to say, “keep your pecker up” (or is that “zipper”?)
John,
Listened to the audio part as I was typing this! Wow, it is going to be great! Can hardly wait to get across “the big pond” and get to the ship!
See you soon!
Ruth
Oh man, I love the band. I wish I could be out there in the audience listening.
Thanks for giving us a backstage pass! I love the video blogs.
OK, this one takes the cake. A video blog checking your fly.
Amazing.
John,
Your wish is our command and we will be with you all on the Splendor in just 23 short days! ! !
PS. Keep up the good work, looks like the diet is working, “you look marvelous my friend”!(quote Fernando Lama)
Dom & Linda
New York
Great videos today John…that was a whole new perspective…both on the welcome aboard show and “other” things – LOL
Zydecocruiser has been posting all his pics day by day from his trip so I got to see the welcome aboard show from that perspective as well. Brilliant which ever way you see it!
Cheers,
Dawn (Who is almost to single digits before the inaugural cruise on the Splendor)
Heidi!!!
LOL!!! Thank you for panning!!! We love the fly shot!!! LOL!!!!
John,
Your video blogs are WONDERFUL… never apologize for them!! Keep them coming!!!
Best Regards!
Lambie
You are the best my friend. Excellent, excellent,excellent . Mr. Heald, you are truly a brilliant human being. Thank you.
Paul F. Pietrangelo
The diet is working! I can see it in your face
Love the Video Blogs as well! I smile comes over my face when I hear your lovely voice John ,you were my first……..Cruise Director that Ive ever seen Live
,Your wit and timing is what sold me on Carnival back in the Glory Days ….Carnival Glory that is 
Thanks! Our Family is Carnival all the Way.
You just don’t know how much watching the videos makes me want to be there. I can hardly wait to see you both again.
Also, I have seen Jim Hansen on several cruises and I must say that he is the best Carnival has to offer.
Take care, keep up the awesome work and I can hardly wait to see you and Heidi again in either November or February on the BC v.2.
Thank you John, Heidi and Stephanie for all you do to keep us in the loop.
Gloria aka Sue
Hi John,
How we wish we were on that ship right now. We have to wait till next March to sail again (on the Miracle). We were with you on your last cruise on the Freedom last March. Hearing you announce the show brought it all back to us. Good luck and I know all went well. Keep up the video blogs. It’s almost (I said almost) like being there.
Margie Tracy from NJ
Enjoyed the video’s. You look like you are back in the swing of things. Can’t wait to be there Aug. 30th. Enjoying your blog, and everything Splendor keep it coming.
Carol
Great Blog! Only 46 more days and we will join you on the Spendor.
Wonderful videos! Wish I was there *sigh*
Smooth sailing, John & Heidi!
John:
We were there “in spirit” … as we always are with you and Heidi!!!
Linda (Mom of your friend DJ)
hi john
what hotel are you staying at in New Orleans????
your getting in on the 6th?
have a good time ,,,hi to all
see you in N O L A
tom & jane
laissez les bons temp rouller
What a great blog, and to think I would’nt have known about it had I not seen your picture and read the article in the Miami Herald. I’ve been reading every day since then. John, you were the best cd on the Freedom in October of 2006. That was the most wonderful cruise. Now we are booked on the Spendor for July 25th cruise and can’t wait to see the ship and you again. Keep up the good work — we are reading everyday and have enjoyed every one.
Mary Lou
Good evening John and Heidi,
I think it will soon be time to shop for some new clothes in a much smaller size judging by what I just saw in the videos.
Hearing your intro for the band was great…………my bags are almost packed just have a few loose ends to tie up and I will be on my way to join you on the Splendor. I was listening to “Time to say goodbye” in the car this morning and imagining what it must have been like to finally sail away from the shipyard, WOW.
Kersplott
Like everyone else, we really enjoyed the video blogs.
Next best thing to being there!
John,
I love the videos!!!
It’s so great to see you back in action!
Wish I was there!
Go and do what you do best!!!
Thanks Hedi for filming!
Princess Susan
Hi Stephanie!
WooHoo – nine days and a wake-up! Loved seeing you again – you look FABULOUS! very inspiring.
Steph Martin
John and Heidi, Love the video blogs! Hope they are easy for Stephanie, ‘ause we want more.
The Welcome Aboard Show, wow, that just makes the memories flood back, and the excitement of being there! Can’t wait for the Bloggers2! Trying to get a sailing with the family booked before then.
Oh boy are you loosing weight, that shirt is just way big on your neck – yipee, all your clothes will be too big soon, then you’ll have to take a day off to go shopping for SMALLER SIZES!! WOOOHOOO!
Now I have to go read your next blog, I’m getting behind!
Diane
oooooh these vids brought back fab memories of both my time as dancer and host. As I watched, I felt that little bit of old adrenalin rush that used to be and, then, as I bounced 6mth old Hattie up and down on my knee watching Jim and the guys, I was swiftly bought back down to reality with a resounding burp followed by baby sick trickling onto mt not-so-thin-anymore thighs!!!!! aah, great times though. Let me know the deal with Dover; I’d love to try to get there for the day. Be in touch via Facebook. Much love to you and to Heidi and anyone else that I may know on there. xxxxx Sam ‘the mac’ Sim xxxxxxx
John, I’m still looking for number 3.
BIG ED
LOVE the video blog…
It was like I was sitting in the audience again. THANK YOU all for posting!!
John – you’re looking good!!
Debs
Hi John and Heidi
We love the Video Blogs
ALmost Like Being There
It leaves us wanting more
The “fly” thing was too funny..
We wish we were there with you too
Looking Good!
Take Care
The Tuckers
Elizabeth & Arnold
Heidi,
You’re turning into quite the videographer! Nice, steady arm. No foolish zooms. Plus a great sense of humour (spelt correctly) with your editorializing move down south.
Good work! And much fun!
John,
We ( Hubster and I ) would have been there…but somehow our invitation never reached us
I love the videos…it is almost like we are there! Keep them coming! I have to wait til December to get on the beautiful Splendor.
Kudo’s to Stephanie and Heidi…love, love, love you! ( Ummm, Love you too John!)
Julie
Hi John/Heidi:
Great to see a Welcome Aboard show.
Congrats on getting things back to normal.
Hope Mr. Diet is going ok.
Big holiday over here so the firm is closed the rest of the week. I will catch up with you next week.
Take care,
David
SIGH!!!!!
I REALLY wish I was there!
John, you look GREAT!
The videos are no longer available.
See you on the 13th!
John, I was laughing out loud in my office, the nurses came running to see what was happening!
I loved the video of your announcement going into the welcome aboard show!!! I love it!