kingLouiethe1
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Rob and Scott's Big Fat Gay Disney Wedding-TR Pg 92; Photo Update pg 133
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DVC~OKW~96
<font color=green>I'm not big on gold as a color.
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Hmmmmm, lessee...
Miss Manners would say that you and your handsome husband are far more socially responsible than those people who attended your wedding without an invitation. They did bring a gift, but what is more important is that you accepted the gift. (You did, right)?
Therefore, a gift proffered, a gift accepted...is a gift that warrants a thank you note.
"We aren't sure if we were more surprised by your unexpected appearance or the lovely gift..."
LOL! OK. So you aren't the tacky sort, but it would be sort of fun...
Miss Manners would say that you and your handsome husband are far more socially responsible than those people who attended your wedding without an invitation. They did bring a gift, but what is more important is that you accepted the gift. (You did, right)?
Therefore, a gift proffered, a gift accepted...is a gift that warrants a thank you note.
"We aren't sure if we were more surprised by your unexpected appearance or the lovely gift..."
LOL! OK. So you aren't the tacky sort, but it would be sort of fun...
OrlandoMike
<font color=red>all I can say is beer hurts when i
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"We aren't sure if we were more surprised by your unexpected appearance or the lovely gift..."
LOL! OK. So you aren't the tacky sort, but it would be sort of fun...
Oh I think we have a winner!
turkygurl
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Hey Rob,
I just caught up with the thread. All the pictures are WONDERFUL, and I love your story-telling. The little "crisis" times are the ones you'll remember for years, and laugh about with friends. Trust me.
It's been a crazy couple of months for me, so I'm sorry it's taken this long to catch up on everything. I'm so glad everything turned out beautifully for you.
(And just so you know, you didn't look like hell in the cruise picture-you both looked great!)
I just caught up with the thread. All the pictures are WONDERFUL, and I love your story-telling. The little "crisis" times are the ones you'll remember for years, and laugh about with friends. Trust me.
It's been a crazy couple of months for me, so I'm sorry it's taken this long to catch up on everything. I'm so glad everything turned out beautifully for you.
(And just so you know, you didn't look like hell in the cruise picture-you both looked great!)
rpmdfw
<font color=red>I feel similarly about the cha-cha
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Hey Rob,
I just caught up with the thread. All the pictures are WONDERFUL, and I love your story-telling. The little "crisis" times are the ones you'll remember for years, and laugh about with friends. Trust me.
It's been a crazy couple of months for me, so I'm sorry it's taken this long to catch up on everything. I'm so glad everything turned out beautifully for you.
Hey there! Glad you made it back! I've been wondering where you were! Glad you liked the pictures.
Speaking of pictures, Randy has put them up on his website!
I know it's been a while since I posted a recap. hopefully these pictures will make up for that a little bit.
And now that we're FINALLY completely done sending out Thank You notes, I'll start recapping again soon. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow.
DVC~OKW~96
<font color=green>I'm not big on gold as a color.
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Well, you could call or email them and ask for their address.
After all, they went to the trouble to attend, dontcha' know. :lol:
After all, they went to the trouble to attend, dontcha' know. :lol:
rpmdfw
<font color=red>I feel similarly about the cha-cha
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Well, you could call or email them and ask for their address.
After all, they went to the trouble to attend, dontcha' know. :lol:
And they COULD have caught the multiple hints to not crash . . .
DVC~OKW~96
<font color=green>I'm not big on gold as a color.
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My point exactly...
I am still so totally impressed that you didn't insist they leave! Super class, Man. Super class.
I am still so totally impressed that you didn't insist they leave! Super class, Man. Super class.
rpmdfw
<font color=red>I feel similarly about the cha-cha
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My point exactly...
I am still so totally impressed that you didn't insist they leave! Super class, Man. Super class.
Class?
Nah.
I just didn't want to deal with the scene that she would have made if we hadn't let them stay.
No doubt she'd have thrown a fit and caused a major scene, and that would have been MUCH more stressful for us than just letting them stay.
And even with all their antics, we have stories to tell for YEARS!
OrlandoMike
<font color=red>all I can say is beer hurts when i
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FWIW
I went to a wedding about a month ago that was crashed by complete strangers!
It was worn as a badge of honor by the bride and groom!
I went to a wedding about a month ago that was crashed by complete strangers!
It was worn as a badge of honor by the bride and groom!
DVC~OKW~96
<font color=green>I'm not big on gold as a color.
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Dismiss it as you will... I still say it was uber class, so there!! 
(Although, I must say that I can't fathom crashing a wedding THEN being nasty if I were told to leave)! Just don't get that sort of thinking...
I still say it was uber class, so there!! (Although, I must say that I can't fathom crashing a wedding THEN being nasty if I were told to leave)! Just don't get that sort of thinking...
rpmdfw
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You're not so self-absorbed as to think that people who didn't invite you wouldn't be thrilled for you to just "show up" either.
DVC~OKW~96
<font color=green>I'm not big on gold as a color.
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Actually, it's more like I'm not into public humiliation. I would find showing up at any event that I wasn't invited to (where an invitation was required) completely embarrassing! It would never cross my mind to do so. 
I didn't get it when you first wrote about it, and I still don't get it.
May I ask (and of course feel free to not answer) are you still friends with those folks? I mean, so you still see them or spend time with them in a social setting?
I didn't get it when you first wrote about it, and I still don't get it.
May I ask (and of course feel free to not answer) are you still friends with those folks? I mean, so you still see them or spend time with them in a social setting?
rpmdfw
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We used to see them about once a week at the Adventurers Club. We have seen them only once since the club closed and that was at a concert where one of the former AC performers was playing.
They were never really in our social circle. They were just other people that went to the club every week.
It's possible (especially now that we're in holiday party season) that we might see them at informal gatherings or at performances where former AC CMs are performing, but our interaction will probably limited to a short exchange of "hello, how are you" which is about what it was before.
Could we snub them publicly? Sure. But what would that accomplish? Especially after we let them stay at the wedding. It would just make us look like rude, petulant children. Easier to be pleasant and move on to the next group of people to mingle with.
that seems nice..
rpmdfw
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Day Nine - Friday, October 3rd, Part One
Despite having felt poorly, I slept really well our first night on the boat. My only real issue was with the pillows. I'm used to sleeping on two king sized pillows at home. The pillows on the bed in our stateroom were easily half the size of my normal pillows. So I played a stacking, smashing, layering game with four of them each time I lay down, and never got it quite right. To be fair, though, I often play this same game with pillows in hotel rooms that aren't on a boat, so it's not really anything new.
I woke up feeling MUCH better. I figured that the ship must already be in port and have stopped moving. So I peeked through the curtains without waking Scott and discovered we were still at sea. A change in position (and my face against the window) allowed me to see Atlantis off in the distance, so we were close to Nassau at any rate.
I went ahead to the bathroom and took my shower before waking Scott up for his. Once Scott was in the shower and I was dressed, I opened the curtains and watched parts of Nassau go by as we prepared to dock. It was a grey, overcast, drizzly day.
Scott finished getting ready and dodged the rain as we headed up to the Beach Blanket Buffet for breakfast as the boat finished it's docking procedures. Breakfast was delicious.
After breakfast we headed down to the gangplank, for our day in Nassau. We had no plan, and no goal other than buying a "Hard Rock Cafe" shot glass for a friend of ours who collects them.
As we disembarked, the drizzle eased up a bit and we started to catch glimpses of blue sky here and there. We made our way through the port building and past the hordes of locals trying to get us to go on their tour, or take us in thier taxi around the Island.
As we walked around Nassau, it struck me how much it reminded of Juarez, Mexico. (Not that Juarez didn't have it's charms back when I was a 19 year old college student from Las Cruces looking for for alcohol) But it was like the worst touristy parts of Juarez.
We walked around a bit. Found the Hard Rock Cafe, bought the shot glass, and walked around a bit more. And with that, the appeal of Nassau was gone. We didn't want to go to the "straw market", we didn't want to visit the rum cake factory, we didn't want to eat at "Senor Frogs" (it was not even 11am yet ).
So we headed back to the port building and caught a taxi over to the Atlantis resort.
Atlantis was nice, but it was also too touristy. In all the ways that the part of Nassau right off the port isn't. We'd dealt with the cheap "5 t-shirts for $10" touristy first, and now we had the "that'll be $20 for a beer" touristy. We bummed around the resort. We went out to the beach, looked at a the water park a little bit, wandered around the aquarium for a while (apparently there is a charge to visit the aquarium (called "The Dig") but we never saw anyone taking tickets, and no one stopped us.) It was enjoyable, but I doubt we'd have paid for it. After that we headed over to the casino and played the slots until we'd each lost $25 and then we headed back to the boat in time to have a 1 o'clock lunch at Tritons.
After lunch, we spent some time near the adult pool, but it was drizzling again, so we headed to our room for a nap and some "chill out time" before the planned evening activities.
Which we'll discuss in the next installment . . .
Despite having felt poorly, I slept really well our first night on the boat. My only real issue was with the pillows. I'm used to sleeping on two king sized pillows at home. The pillows on the bed in our stateroom were easily half the size of my normal pillows. So I played a stacking, smashing, layering game with four of them each time I lay down, and never got it quite right. To be fair, though, I often play this same game with pillows in hotel rooms that aren't on a boat, so it's not really anything new.
I woke up feeling MUCH better. I figured that the ship must already be in port and have stopped moving. So I peeked through the curtains without waking Scott and discovered we were still at sea. A change in position (and my face against the window) allowed me to see Atlantis off in the distance, so we were close to Nassau at any rate.
I went ahead to the bathroom and took my shower before waking Scott up for his. Once Scott was in the shower and I was dressed, I opened the curtains and watched parts of Nassau go by as we prepared to dock. It was a grey, overcast, drizzly day.
Scott finished getting ready and dodged the rain as we headed up to the Beach Blanket Buffet for breakfast as the boat finished it's docking procedures. Breakfast was delicious.
After breakfast we headed down to the gangplank, for our day in Nassau. We had no plan, and no goal other than buying a "Hard Rock Cafe" shot glass for a friend of ours who collects them.
As we disembarked, the drizzle eased up a bit and we started to catch glimpses of blue sky here and there. We made our way through the port building and past the hordes of locals trying to get us to go on their tour, or take us in thier taxi around the Island.
As we walked around Nassau, it struck me how much it reminded of Juarez, Mexico. (Not that Juarez didn't have it's charms back when I was a 19 year old college student from Las Cruces looking for for alcohol) But it was like the worst touristy parts of Juarez.
We walked around a bit. Found the Hard Rock Cafe, bought the shot glass, and walked around a bit more. And with that, the appeal of Nassau was gone. We didn't want to go to the "straw market", we didn't want to visit the rum cake factory, we didn't want to eat at "Senor Frogs" (it was not even 11am yet
). So we headed back to the port building and caught a taxi over to the Atlantis resort.
Atlantis was nice, but it was also too touristy. In all the ways that the part of Nassau right off the port isn't. We'd dealt with the cheap "5 t-shirts for $10" touristy first, and now we had the "that'll be $20 for a beer" touristy. We bummed around the resort. We went out to the beach, looked at a the water park a little bit, wandered around the aquarium for a while (apparently there is a charge to visit the aquarium (called "The Dig") but we never saw anyone taking tickets, and no one stopped us.) It was enjoyable, but I doubt we'd have paid for it. After that we headed over to the casino and played the slots until we'd each lost $25 and then we headed back to the boat in time to have a 1 o'clock lunch at Tritons.
After lunch, we spent some time near the adult pool, but it was drizzling again, so we headed to our room for a nap and some "chill out time" before the planned evening activities.
Which we'll discuss in the next installment . . .
OrlandoMike
<font color=red>all I can say is beer hurts when i
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yeah, Nassau is kind of a waste of a stop.
I'm at the point now that I rarely ever get off a ship, unless its the cruise lines private island. And there is no way in heck I am spending any money in Nassau after what they did to Rosie and all of those kids!
rpmdfw
<font color=red>I feel similarly about the cha-cha
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I'm at the point now that I rarely ever get off a ship, unless its the cruise lines private island. And there is no way in heck I am spending any money in Nassau after what they did to Rosie and all of those kids!
Huh? What did they do to Rosie and all those kids?
Honestly, other than the shot glass, we only bought a couple of the small rum cakes at the port building before heading back to the boat.
Maybe spent $20 there total. And only about $50 at the casino at Atlantis.
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