School Captain Cruise aboard the BB Riverboats!!!!!
Wednesday, May 10, 2006; 9:30am (Boarding time)
Location: 101 Riverboat Row; Newport, Kentucky, 41071
Price: $5.50 plus tax .33(6%) =$5.83 per person (babies in arms at all time no charge).
Organizer: Magdie

Magdie is no longer personally taking reservations for the cruise, but doesn't want anyone left out either. If you are still interested in cruising, call Angie (BB Riverboats) directly at (859) 261-8500. Let her know you would like to be added to Magdie Faul's group AND will be paying separately. (The "paying separately" part is really important because Magdie has already mailed in her contract and down payment based on the contract.) If you have Angie add you to the cruise, please contact Magdie at threestooges@fuse.net or (513) 752-3904 so she knows to be looking for you.

RSVP: Alper/Anikka (2, paid), Anderson (2, paid), Andrew/Light (2, paid), Basu (2), Bergdall (6, paid), Brenneman (2, paid), Conways (4, paid), Craigs (4, paid), Day (3, paid), Faul (2, paid), Foreman (2, paid), Freeson (3, paid), Hall-Cheryl (2, pay), Hardy (2, paid), Hensley (4, paid), Johnson (4, paid), Jones-Jenny (5, paid), Jones-Katherine (5, paid), Johns-Catherine (5,paid) Kappel (4, paid), Kennedy (5, paid), Leland (3, paid), Miranda (12 from 2 families, paid), Myer (2, paid), Riesenberg (8, paid), Richmond (4, paid), Romer (6, paid), Starr (3, paid), Steele (2, paid), Thorn (3, paid), Wallace (4, paid)

You should have heard the groan that rose from the backseat of the van as we pulled into the parking lot for the riverboats and saw SCHOOL BUSES lined up with children filing out of them. Nothing puts a damper on an otherwise fun outing than seeing a group of school kids. Then to realize that they will be crammed onto the same small boat with you...well the word perturbed is probably a bit too gentle.

The boat was crammed, luckily we got onto the upper deck first and were able to secure chairs. I would not have been happy if I had had to stand for the entire boat ride. The boat was so full, it made one wonder what the weight capacity of the vessel might be...it certainly didn't help that we had just watched a special on the making of Poseidon where the boat overturns! Believe me each of my kids knew where the life jackets were and who was responsible for getting jackets on whom.....

The captain was quite informative and the cruise itself wasn't all that bad, but it would have been so much nicer minus the school kids.

We stopped at Izzy's for lunch after the cruise, not really in the budget right now, but I just had to have a rueben and potato pancake!