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ImJustKCClone said:
We did a river cruise from Amsterdam to Vienna on the Rhine, the Main & the Danube (maybe one that your parents did, Birdy?) that PapaLew and I referred to as the "geriatric cruise". We had just turned fifty. Most of the passengers were 75-90 years old. We actually had a ball! We're pretty extroverted, so we had no trouble starting up conversations. It was a small passenger complement (only 120) so we really got to know each other pretty well. It might not be for everyone, but it worked for us. :)

Is there a link to the Alumni tours?
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http://www.isualum.org/en/travel/


Edit: Yeah, the pictures on there make me think that Bob Evans might be a little too spicy for some people on those trips.
 
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ImJustKCClone said:
We did a river cruise from Amsterdam to Vienna on the Rhine, the Main & the Danube (maybe one that your parents did, Birdy?) that PapaLew and I referred to as the "geriatric cruise". We had just turned fifty. Most of the passengers were 75-90 years old. We actually had a ball! We're pretty extroverted, so we had no trouble starting up conversations. It was a small passenger complement (only 120) so we really got to know each other pretty well. It might not be for everyone, but it worked for us. :)

Is there a link to the Alumni tours?
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They have done a Rhine river cruise, sounds pretty similar to one they have taken. They have always traveled, but now that they are in their 70's (well my mom will be later this year) and retired they go a lot more often. When we told them about baby #4, I had to make sure they would be home around the time we were due. I think they got home about a week before she was born. :) Grandma is our main baby sitter when a new baby comes along. But that is alllll done now.

http://www.isualum.org/en/travel/
 
Cybirdy said:
They cruise a lot--they've done a couple different European river cruises, did a cruise that was in Norway for the summer solstice, have cruised islands like Fiji and Bora Bora, have done an Alaska cruise, and now are cruising along the coast of South America. They travel at least 2-4 times a year and usually haven't had too many issues with air/transportation. Not much you can do about mechanical issues, but flying out of DSM and having to connect flights (their issue happened in Dallas) isn't as nice as flying out of MPLS and getting direct flights. They are only 1/2hr further to MPLS than DSM but the flights were included in this Alumni Association package--you were limited as to what you could use.
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Yeah - it's kind of tough when your options are dictated.

We went with the Cruise supplied transport for March because the flights land in Houston, and the ship docks in Galveston. If we went with them, airport to dock transport is included and routing is guaranteed (meaning, if you are delayed by flight issues or ground traffic issues, they guarantee that the ship will either a) wait for you (in the event of a short-term delay), or they will transport you to the first port of call...which in this case would suck because there are two "at sea" days before the first port. The other down side is that we live about 45-55 minutes from the airport. Figure wake up time, on the road time, minimum hour ahead of departure time, you've got about three hours. That wasn't too awful bad when our flight was to leave at 9.00am. However, the airline cancelled that flight. The other two options were 7.00pm (ship sails at 4.00pm, I think) or 5.30am. Yup. I'm gonna have to haul my grumpy *** out of bed at somewhere around 2.30am to catch the flight. Thank goodness for those two "at sea" days!!!
 
Why does tuco gotta tuco all over our board, I mean I have him on ignore but seeing 15 ignored posts per page is annoying.
 
Alarson and I were making a perfectly good Jurassic Park thread over on the basketball board and it went and got ruined by people wanting to have a constantly rehashed discussion.
 
Stayed late at work today. Got rewarded with a "three-day weekend." (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.)
 
ImJustKCClone said:
Yeah - it's kind of tough when your options are dictated.

We went with the Cruise supplied transport for March because the flights land in Houston, and the ship docks in Galveston. If we went with them, airport to dock transport is included and routing is guaranteed (meaning, if you are delayed by flight issues or ground traffic issues, they guarantee that the ship will either a) wait for you (in the event of a short-term delay), or they will transport you to the first port of call...which in this case would suck because there are two "at sea" days before the first port. The other down side is that we live about 45-55 minutes from the airport. Figure wake up time, on the road time, minimum hour ahead of departure time, you've got about three hours. That wasn't too awful bad when our flight was to leave at 9.00am. However, the airline cancelled that flight. The other two options were 7.00pm (ship sails at 4.00pm, I think) or 5.30am. Yup. I'm gonna have to haul my grumpy *** out of bed at somewhere around 2.30am to catch the flight. Thank goodness for those two "at sea" days!!!
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We had a 9am flight out of Chicago for Jamaica last fall. That was a 3:30 wakeup call. 2:30 for the 6am out of Milwaukee the summer before. Sucks when the alarm goes off but we appreciate being in the water by 3pm.
 
Watching my alma mater Nevada play a girls / boys home doubleheader with Gilbert.

Fred and rest of family is in building.
 
Bu4ISU said:
It's actually easier than giving blood I think. Basically it's the same but every couple minutes or so of blood going out it stops you and puts the blood back in
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Well, they must not do it cyclic any more unless you're typing with one one thumb. Back when I used to donate platelets, they took blood out of one arm, put it through a machine that spun out the platelets, added an anticoagulant to the remaining parts of the blood and pumped it back into the other arm...all continuous. One thing I remember is that it would make your lips & nose itch. They gave you Tums to suck on, not for your stomach, but for the calcium they contained. I'm not really sure of the science behind it but somehow the procedure depletes your calcium, which makes your nose & lips itch. The technicians would come by periodically to rub your nose with a towel if it itched too badly. with needles in both arms at the inner elbow, you couldn't do it for yourself!
 
Cooking a dish that called for 3 cloves of garlic minced. I stopped at one for my non-garlic loving family. It smells yummy in here.
 
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