<!--quoteo(post=317502:date=Sep 13 2008, 04&#58;16 PM:name=SCIROCCO)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SCIROCCO &#064; Sep 13 2008, 04&#58;16 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=317502">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=317493:date=Sep 13 2008, 02&#58;08 PM:name=RNSANE)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RNSANE &#064; Sep 13 2008, 02&#58;08 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=317493">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Hi Everyone,<br /><br />Robert, I think you should just keep your Carnival booking - they are bound to cancel it with all<br />the devastation, there is no way that cruise is going to happen.  You might as well get some benefit<br />from this horrible tragedy.  <br /><br />I am just so overwhelmed by the pictures, having done ten cruises in the past out of Galveston.  I<br />have many friends in the Houston area and a nursing colleague in both Beaumont and Galveston.<br />Patty is a professor of nursing at the University of Texas, Galveston, and owns a little beach cottage.<br />Fortunately, as she emailed last night, she&#39;s safe at her daughter&#39;s in Austin but she is dreading what<br />she will face when she gets home.  Our annual forensic nursing conference was to take place in<br />Dallas next week and, while I am not going this year, I am sure a few of our Texas members won&#39;t<br />be attending.<br /><br />Rose, how nice that you&#39;ll be on the Sovereign for OUR birthday.  Please have one of the bartenders page the bar manager, Wilson Gracias, and say you&#39;re a friend and say hello from both of us.  He knows I&#39;ll be there the 20th.  I will toast you from Rome that day&#33;<br /><br />Joey, I will also raise my glass in toast to you and David.  I&#39;ll be in Rome with one of the queens,<br />Jeannie Stephenson - you met her on the Monarch - and another good friend, Diane Huddleston, who is a retired UCLA PD detective.  We will have such fun on the Legend together...us old gals.  I am sorry to hear that you didn&#39;t get the child you wanted but there are so many out there who need good parents and you and David have so much to offer.  <br /><br />I am amazed at how many people are here nowadays...it&#39;s wonderful.  It&#39;ll take me awhile to catch up but, clearly, I can&#39;t be absent for so long.<br /><br />Tonia, I actually had to cancel a cruise.  Was book on the Voyager transatlantic after Thanksgiving but, with the Mediterranean on the Legend, it was too difficult.  I was on the Voyager alone and the <br />will have friends with me for my birthday instead...not too much thought went into that choice.<br /><br />On call all weekend...so far, things have been quiet and I even got to see my jazz singer friend, Sony<br />Holland, Friday night.  Joey, I hope you&#39;re playing her CD.<br /><br />Happy Saturday, folks and my prayers are with all the folks in Texas.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br /><b>Hiya Carmen welcome aboard and for the encourageing words, Ive just founfd out that the piers under 5 Feet of water, maybe they will load us from the rooftop&#33;&#33;&#33; <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":tongue:" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> </b><br /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Glad to see you haven&#39;t lost our sense of humor. <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":biggrin:" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />