Florida and the
Caribbean Cruise! March 6-17, 2008!
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What a fun tour! Gee! I’ve done so many tours and it keeps getting better! I loved it even more with all of you!
Thank you all for joining us! Our group had about 9 states including California! These other states were the PLUS people! But I think all of us were “PLUS” people! Loved our sign: California PLUS loves Florida!
From start
to finish,
The Lord helped us greatly! Wow! About 30 or 40 other people with
the Stardust group could not make their flights due to bad weather
and missed the complete cruise! AJ arrived several days late due to
same airline problems but thank God he made it! Bless you AJ!
Our first dance together that evening was fun! Bus took us to the Island Bar & Grill where I played my ipod music through their system! Great music, great dance and great get together! Love seeing everyone again and meeting new faces! Then our bus took us back to our nearby hotel.
Special Thanks to our bus driver Barry! He was so great and such a fun guy too! We were lucky to have him for almost every transfer!
Friday’s Jungle Queen Riverboat was thrilling! Wow! Beautiful multi-million dollar homes along the riverbank! Fantastic island visit with beautiful tropical birds, huge monkey and exciting alligators! Anybody pet one? That evening we had more great dancing at the Bar & Grill!
Saturday was our Festival Market Mall! What a great flea market! Everybody loved it! Gee, we got great discounts too! Saturday night was great at the Gold Coast Ballroom! Nice studio and good music! Glad they ran a mixer for us!
Sunday! All Aboard! Barry helped us and our luggage board the bus for the ride to our ship. I also had 2 shuttles for the extra people so no one had to walk! Loved the Costa Fortuna!
Great Cruise! Everyone aboard loved our sign! Even one of the great singers during the show took it up on stage with him to show everybody! Of course we had changed the sign and taken off FLORIDA and added COSTA FORTUNA!
Wow! The shows were great! Loved the many meals too! And the many dance classes too! They had some great teachers! Especially Jon! I love teaching! However, they almost killed me with their schedule! Classes all day! Show at night! More dancing! Midnight Buffet! Then they had me teaching at 830am! I told Stardust for any future cruise classes do not start me before 11am!
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Sightseeing was Beautiful! Loved all the Islands! Did not take any tours but went ashore to enjoy! Loved San Juan, St Thomas, Dominican Republic, and Nassau! Saw Catalina Island! Did not go ashore because we have one here in California!
We disembarked on Sunday and waved goodbye to our beautiful ship and some of our beautiful dance friends! Some flew out Sunday. The rest of us bussed back to our Ramada Plaza for more fun! Monday we were up very early and Barry helped load our luggage and get us all aboard so we didn’t miss our flight! Jetblue had a great flight back to Long Beach! I tried to hug and kiss everyone goodbye and thank you all!
Nothing is perfect but most all was smooth running. But it was certainly a great bargain for all that was included! Praise the Lord!
I love the camaraderie we share! Keep it up! It’s so good to see all of our special friends from all over the country. It’s like a wonderful family reunion with fun dancing thrown in! Special thanks to Mardi Ruyle from Springfield who even dances with our ladies! I love to dance with her too! Wow! She has been with us for about 38 tours!
Pictures? Video? I took many great pictures and videos! But, in all the excitement of looking after you all, I forgot my video/still camera on the ship! However, Costa found my camera and mailed it back to me! Isn’t that wonderful! Praise the Lord! It will take me awhile to get the pictures on the website and edit the video. If you have any pictures to share, please send them to me or directly to a tour friend. I would certainly enjoy seeing the pictures and perhaps I could put them on our web site: www.invitation.to/dance/tour-cruz08-pictures.htm
Copy of our video @ $27. RSVP and I will mail a copy of our thrilling Cruise Adventure! Not sure when it will be finished? Will let you know. The Movie Actor or Actress is YOU! All of you were great, but some were exceptional!
Enclosed is a Liability Agreement for those who still have a balance due. Please mail me a check since I had to pay this in advance.
I thank the Lord for another wonderful tour with all of you! I loved it! And we had beautiful weather in Florida and on the cruise! I thank you for joining us. God bless you all. Love being your host and guide! JON J
PS: Don’t miss NEW YORK & THE CATSKILLS!! You know we have wonderful tours with great sightseeing and good dancing. Received many deposits already! So HURRY! Only $10 deposit holds space & best seat on bus!
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