Ahoy all FReepers! Join the Fun!
FReeps Ahoy 4A fun-filled, Sun-Filled Caribbean Cruise!
May 13 - 20, 2006
Posted on 03/05/2006 8:33:11 AM PST by DoughtyOne
Oh, wow, what a great memory that is. Jamaica, mon.
Thanks for posting these great pics, hoosiermama....love ya.
Molly, BahBah and all viewers out there in Freeperland.......there's still over a month till the cruise on May 13. There's still a few good cabins left. Freepmail me at "MinuteGal" if you are thinking about this getaway trip to the tropics.
Or phone our travel mermaid, Wanda at toll-free 1-800-266-1167. See what's available within your budget. This is just about last call.
BTW, to those who have talked with Wanda, she had two sons (Marine and Navy) on active duty in Iraq. One came home about a month ago and the other came home last week, so she's one happy lady. Great military family. Wanda loves freepers and will work patiently with you in reserving a nice stateroom.
BTW, Wanda's last name begins with FR.....I knew it, I knew it......she's one of us FReeper pod people.
Hey, fer cryin' out loud get out of the pod and sail with us!
Bahama Mama
LOL. They are out there. I just know they are.
The only time I was ever on a horse we both fell into a deep hole. It killed the horse outright and I layed in that deep hole for two weeks wondering how I was going to get out.
Eventually the horse started to smell and that attracted the buzzards. While they were munching on his carcass I took my belt and cut it into thin strips and tied one each to a buzzards leg. I took out my revolver and fired one shot into the air, it scared the buzzards and they took off with me holding on to those strips.
When I got clear of the hole and was about 15 feet above ground, I let go of the strips. Just my luck I landed in some very soft mud and was buried up to my neck.
I had to walk 10 miles to borrow a shovel to dig myself out.
No more horse riding for me, thank you.
I grew up in Wisconsin. I had to walk a mile to and from school, most times in the snow, both ways up hill. Really.
We're a lucky group of cruisers. Looks like we've got an entertainer in our midst for FReeps Ahoy 4. Brush up on your repetoire for the cruise, GB.
Last cruise we had Interesting Times, song writer, pianist and singer extraordinaire who put on a great private show for our group.
FR is blessed with such talent!
I used to play the xylophone in Melody Band in 7th grade.
Bahama Mama
My wife and I went winter camping in Wisconsin once, lovely place but it was so cold that when we went to bed that night and chatted a little before going to sleep, our words froze solid and we had to build a fire the next morning and throw the words in that fire to thaw, to hear what we had been talking about.
Bahama Mama
I hope that everyone reads post 74 of this thread. It is the after cruise report for Freeps Ahoy 3. Many good pics. Also the group picture that was made on the staircase is on it.
And many good replies from Freepers as they arrived home, tired but happy.
They really show the relaxation and sheer pleasure everyone enjoyed on FReeps Ahoy 3.
Folks, if you do read some of the comments, note how many of our cruisers iterated over and over again what a fantastic time they had. You can't make this stuff up.
Fellow freepers, there's still a window of opportunity for YOU.....or you and your pardner.....or you and a friend.......to sign on.
Place your own winter-weary self in some of these sand and sea photos. Think about it, YOU can be right in the same millieu having the time of your life with just a phone call tomorrow to Wanda at 1-800-266-1167.
She'll find the right cabin for you at just the right price.
Thanks for posting this FReeps Ahoy 3 cruise thread, Apple Pan Dowdy. It made my eyes light up and my tummy say "howdy".
I never get enough of this wonderful (cruise) stuff.
Bahama Mama
I'll see you freepers on board!
Britney Spears
(Cabin 574)
Great pictures. The only thing missing from them was Graybeard58 (And Mrs.) We'll remedy that with this cruise.
As some already know Mrs. Graybeard and I live in central Illinois. I am an old retired guy but she still works. Her job requires her to be in far off and exotic places from time to time and for the few weeks preceding the cruise she will be in the exotic city of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
On the morning of May 10th. she will leave that fair city at 7:00AM. with the destination of St. Louis, Missouri being her immediate goal, a distance of 500 miles, she will be traveling at 70 miles per hour.
I will be traveling toward St. Louis on that same day, a distance of 172 miles at 70 miles per hour with the goal being to meet her there. Then we will travel together southward towards Ft.Lauderdale, Florida.
I need to know what time I should leave here to meet her in St. Louis as she arrives there.
I've been mulling this over for several days and cursing the inadequate public education I received but with the knowledge that when I learned about similar problems when I was in the 6th grade it was in another century and the problems given us always involved trains converging, not cars. If my wife and I were traveling on trains, I reckon I could do this as easy as pie.
We had cars in those days too, though I think they were called horse-less carriages but could they ever use cars as examples? Noooo. It had to be trains.
So if anybody reading this has a modern day 6th. grader handy, please present him/her with my problem but don't tell them about my abysmal education. Tell them instead that old Graybeard would solve it himself but he fell down yesterday and hurt his leg.
Hmmmmm.This one will require advanced new-new math. You are in luck because being the geek I am, I did my 5th grade science/math fair project on this very subject and that was back when geeks were not yet in vogue. If you don’t believe me about the “project” just ask BizzyBugz, she’s my mom and she had to rummage around in shops for two weeks to find the little ceramic tortoise and hare I needed for the visual on the project.
Anyway, I digress….. the solution involves an ancient equation devised after that epic race between above mentioned tortoise and hare. Now understand that even though they were traveling at different speeds (and one would think that would make it more difficult to calculate their equations as apposed to yours) there are actually many more variables involved with yours which makes it infinitely more difficult to solve. But I will have a go at it.
Uh, time = distance ÷ rate, minus frequent pit stops (assuming Mrs Graybeard is as old as you). Then factor in e=mc² which is iffy at most considering your e may not be as good as it used to be and god-only-knows what your m is these days! Then one must round off the total number of McDonalds (or Cracker Barrels for true southern travelers) or round up as the case may be. Then apply the D.O.T. algorithm which will cover construction work, accident backups and 18-wheelers and be sure and divide that number by the square root of the type of music you listen to on the car radio. So quickly doing the calculations for all that in my lightening quick mind……. you need to leave at 11: 29 a.m. unless you drive a Buick in which case I would say leave around 4 a.m. to be on the safe side.
But then there’s always Gödel's theorem which will blow all of the above away and which when applied to this problem will result in you both arriving in Albuquerque at midnight.
It will take her around 8 hours. It will take you a around two and a half hours. You can sleep late!
Bahama Mama
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