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^See, now I'm even more confused. How can they have different requirements for XP for levels? Or do you mean you're already ON level 27? Mine shows: Level 26 13605 / 111120

I don't understand how some people look like they're actually having fun on this compared to the people who are in the correct "oh my god, what is this ride doing to my body?" position. Poor Stacey in that wheel seat looks like she's going to die!

Yeah. Actually we yell at people all the time who talk about parks and rides they haven't been to! You should really tone it down a bit.

No issues so far here. I don't quite know how they converted the XP as I seem to have more than I did, but it went back down to only needed 111k for the next level!? Odd.

Who wants to start the conspiracy theory that they're delaying it on purpose? So it comes in AFTER the evening news.

I seriously can just sit and watch my escalator for five minutes at a time it's amazing. I only wish it had the sound effects from that episode, they were what truly made it.

And we're full! Thanks everyone! Stay tuned next month for trip reports!

Do to rooming configurations I have ONE spot open for Mexico that we must fill with a male participant! If you are interested in this spot email me NOW!!! Very last chance to get on this trip! It's shaping up awesome!!!!

^It's most likely being sold as two separate cruises and you just saw the link to the longer one. People love the little NE and Canada cruises. A lot of time they're in the fall and marketed as 'foliage' cruises. Anyway, the QM2 often only does transatlantics so this is another way to introduce the ship to some other ports, potential clients, and travel agents as well. Plus it's a way for people from England who don't like to fly to come to the US, see a few cities then sail back.

^^That story was just so wrong on so many levels. Glad the park can at least put it behind them and try to move on.

^I think my problem with Hong Kong is that I went to Tokyo first. I feel that Hong Kong would have impressed me a lot more had I gone there before Tokyo. It has a nicer setting sure, but a lot of the 'cool quirky Asian/British' stuff just isn't as cool compared to anything in Tokyo.

^I've always been one to get the bigger drives out of the way, then make your way back slowly so there's less that can go wrong.

^At least they're comfortable and work! I remember a bunch of us REALLY concerned about Gerstlauer Trains on a sort of wooden coaster. I mean, come on, think about the old G-Trains on CCI Woodies!!??

^LOL! Maybe they'll hit an iceberg!

^We should totally bring from the dead the awesome watermarking photos thread!!! Seriously though, I thought we would have seen a bit more progress at this point. To the 'not a crazy huge dork coaster enthusiast' I see nothing different in these pictures than the ones several weeks ago.

LOL! Best article title in a long time!!!! Everything about this is perfect.

Just watched the latest news. I also can't help but think the decision to keep everyone on the disgusting ship an extra 24 hours and bring them to Alabama instead of Mexico was driven entirely by $$$ and not by the poor passenger and crew conditions on the ship. They're saying it will be "easier" for those without passports then it would have been flying them out of Mexico. Yeah, easier and CHEAPER for Carnival, not for the passengers. Really find this whole situation completely wrong on so many levels.

Sunday - Drive from home to Kings Dominion Monday - Kings Dominion & Drive to Hershey Tuesday - Hershey all day Wednesday - Drive to CP, CP, Drive Home

Waiting in line for hours for bad food? Urine soaked carpet? We had these things on a NORMAL Carnival cruise! Can't imagine how much worse it is on this cruise though!

^That's an odd error, haven't had that one yet! Have you hard closed out of the app and restarted your device? If it still doesn't work I would do the thing where you delete the app, turn your device off, back on, redownload, sign into Origin and then hopefully it will work again.

Love the KidTums one...especially since it's HAPPENED BEFORE!!!!

Did you get any pictures of the REAL prostitute out front who kept harassing a lot of our male participants!?!?

^But that's like saying you don't want to visit theme parks anymore after vising SFMM. Trust me, there are MUCH better lines out there! Carnival just brings down the reputation of the entire industry. I do like the idea of marketing the Carnival Cruises as YOLO though!

^It was a news item on the Today Show this morning, but remember how much news Costa made last year, and the Carnival Ship in California two years ago when it did the same thing as this one today and people just keep booking them!

Reading some more now, I think Carnival's really going to be in trouble over this one. There are NUMEROUS reports from the sailings leading up to this one that the ship was suffering engine and propulsion issues that caused it to miss ports, delay into ports, and delay back to home port. It cannot be a coincidence that this was all going on in the weeks leading up to a big fire in the engine room and yet Carnival just kept putting duct tape on the problem and loading more passengers on. Wow.