Hi all - this is Laura here - have returned from the ends of the earth and have finally logged on to see if anyone remembers me.
Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone at our table (tables 2 & 3 were online) and others were checking this board. Lots has happened (and not all good) since the ship but things are looking up - baby steps really work. LOL
Anyway, for those that were not aware of just one MAJOR mishap that occurred to me while on ship was that I happened to lose over 385 pictures on my new digital SLR camera. Major catastrophe to say the least! Thanks to Capt Crash (Tom - thank you so much for your help that day) Anyway, I'd lost everything from the day I boarded the ship on the 17th to the day we visited Barbados (I believe) especially one Mastercard priceless moment. Well, thanks to my table mates (you all know who you were) and their advice I saved the compactflash and waited until I got home to see if I could have restore it - I couldn't and neither could some of 'experts' at the camera store. However,
continued (either that or the gods must have REALLY felt sorry for me) and I was able to recover the majority of the pixs due to a VERY WELL connected friend in low places (or is it high?) not sure but I just received my disk with my pics that were saved. After all the torture, I only lost about 15 pics and about 25 were partial pics. Didn't matter as I got the only ones that I REALLY wanted. The mastercard moment. Well, I'll sign off for now - just wanted to say hi to all.
Anyway, reason for the whole scenario above - the lesson I learned was that my camera either got mojoed somewhere in the Caribbean or it was damaged going thru x-ray at the port. I've never experienced anything like that and the person who managed to restore my pics said that it looked like it had been played with. As I am a fanatic with my camera I can only assume that I may have placed it down somewhere and someone got a hold of it - well NEVER again will it be left alone upon threat of loss of life - it now ranks the same as my jewelry and will hold that position whenever I travel or place it in my children's hands.
As if they needed any more threats - now they'll really think I've gone of the edge! LOL - ta ta for now.