John Heald's Blog

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  lizzielady
  November 12th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

  Please share this with John. It is an exit strategy!

  http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863793_1863807,00.html

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  Big Ed
  November 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

  Great job John. Good thing you didn’t get mugged for that bottle in New York.

  Thank You Stephanie and the gang for all you did to make this possible for us to watch. Hope to see you all again on BC3.

  BIG ED
  Only 21 more days
  3 weeks

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  Jack Waananen
  November 12th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

  From cruise-community.com:

  “In a hilarious introduction emceed by Carnival senior cruise director John Heald, the human-sized bottle of Moët played a starring role. Heald told of being dispatched to the airport to collect the bottle, flown in from France for the ceremony, and carrying it through the streets of Manhattan.

  Images on the theater’s giant screens showed Heald in various scenes — trying but failing to snag a cab, riding the subway, lugging the bottle across the Brooklyn Bridge and … getting arrested. Or so he claimed, for not having a permit to carry a big bottle and take photos.

  Heald maintained that nobody, apart from the cop, batted an eye during his pilgrimage. ‘This is New York. It’s just another fat guy with a big bottle of Champagne,’ he quipped.”

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  Linda (Mom of DJ)
  November 12th, 2009 at 8:29 pm

  John:

  We did a great job surprising Big Ed for his birthday today!!!!

  (and all this time, he thought it was the Christening Ceremony)

  Linda (Mom of your friend DJ)

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  James and Bobbi
  November 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

  Awesome!! Thanks to everyone involved in sharing it with all of us.

  Bobbi

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  bettyb00p1bigkahuna
  November 12th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

  IT WAS AWESOME!
  GREAT CELBRATION FOR MORE WAYS THAN ONE!

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  Kim Risley
  November 12th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

  Well my dad just called me telling me about this “BIG” cruise ship he is watching in New York that just came in. My dad is a Captain on a merchant marine ship and has cruised Carnival. He was very impressed by the size of the ship. He looked up some code to find out what ship it was. It was the Carnival Dream.

  He called me up to tell me about it. LOL Yea I said the Dream will be in Port Canaveral and I can’t WAIT..

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  Jaime from the Pride =)
  November 12th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

  Hi Stephanie and John,

  Cant wait to see the Dream next week when we are docked with them =)!!!

  PS: I am not engaged!

  Have a great week… see you soon.
  Jaime

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  Clair
  November 12th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

  Hi John – Wonderful job!

  Hi Stephanie – Thanks for all that you do that allowed us to watch the event today.

  Clair

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  Lexi
  November 13th, 2009 at 2:52 am

  I just saw the replay! It was awsome. Sail in 55 days! I know you will miss Monique! I am so glad I was able to see her in Malcafone in April and May.

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  Mr Derek
  November 13th, 2009 at 8:45 am

  John,
  Great Job, as always!
  I can’t believe how many e-mails I received from OurBigShipIsLate Of The Seas and her sister companies yesterday. Do you think they felt something was going on and felt nervous?? Could be!
  The ship looks great and Congrats on the naming ceremony.
  Cheers!
  Derek

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  Carolyn and Don
  November 13th, 2009 at 9:36 am

  Hi John, Stephanie, and Jaime.
  Stephanie thanks for the video of the christening. I could not get a signal where we are camping in time to watch it live. But was successful after the fact. We enjoyed the video.
  Jaime, I’m glad you cleared up the “rumour” that was started by an unknown person,;-) that you are engaged. I hope it isn’t just a rumor that you are going to be on the BC3 with us. Can’t wait to see you.
  John, it’s a good thing that you like myself, are a teetotaler, or that huge bottle of champagne might have been too much of a temptation to resist.
  Countess Carolyn….. counting the days until 12/3

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  Dan
  November 13th, 2009 at 10:27 am

  Thanks for allowing us to ‘be there’.

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  Ernie
  November 13th, 2009 at 11:38 am

  Thanks to all who made this possible, John, Stephanies and the “BEARDS”. :- )

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  Banji Ganchrow
  November 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

  My husband and I will be on the Dream in 7 days…CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!

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