"Gateway Cruiser"
CABIN: 6142
Ron and Brenda were both born, raised, and still live in St. Louis, Missouri. After teaching school for several years, Ron (54) has worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers for the past 26 years (4 more to go) and is currently a supervisory IT specialist (specializing in video and still photography). Brenda (54) also worked for the Corps for 16 years, opted to be a stay at home mom for about 15 years, worked as a state certified massage therapist for a few years, and is currently trying out retirement. Ron and Brenda have 2 children. Jennifer (24) is a graduate of the University of Missouri where she is currently a student in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Stephen (21) is a junior at Webster University (in St. Louis) where he is majoring in film production. Ron and Brenda have a pet dog, a one-year old female Cavachon named Bones. The "Summit to Hawaii" will be their first cruise together, Brenda having cruised the Caribbean once in her younger days. Ron and Brenda are both TV and movie buffs with current favorite TV shows including House, Bones, and Lost. Ron is a big sports fan, music lover, and sci-fi fan (especially the old stuff). Brenda also loves music and is a big sci-fi fan (especially all things related to Star Trek and Star Wars). Brenda is also very active in her church. Ron and Brenda have both discovered that the secret to life is finding something enjoyable about each and every day. ronjones52@earthlink.net
"Mr. Dave"
SEATING: EARLY
Dave and Ruth live in Chandler Arizona. She works with Autistic children and he is an electrical power plant operator. They have traveled around for a while because he was starting up new power plants. Lived in vegas before coming here. Ruth is from New Jersey. they booked this cruise to celebrate our 30th anniversary. They have 2 twin daughters that were born in Bremerton, WA in 1978
"Stacky"
SEATING: LATE
CABIN: 7201
We live in Oley, PA, a rural farm village listed on the National Historic Register. We are both retired from the local school district and I also retired as church organist. We love traveling - this will be our 35th cruise. We are also into trains, both for traveling and also models. We always enjoy meeting new people and sharing experience
"Mizzounut"
I am a Small Group Pastor at Canyonridge Christian Church in Las Vegas, Nevada. Should tell you how crazy I am. I grew up in Columbia, Missouri (Home of the University of Missouri Tigers). I spent a year teaching at a School in Haiti. I met my wife and graduated from Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri. We have been in Las Vegas for a little over 4 years. We will be married 5 years on September 7th this year. She also works at the church. She works with elementary kids. She grew up in Tulsa, OK. She is a big Oklahoma State University fan. She is very smart and to prove it she has actually translated the whole New Testament of the bible herself (She is working on the Old Testament now). She also loves to work with flowers. She actually just did the wedding for a friend of ours
"tlawson"
SEATING: LATE
Bert & Terry Lawson are 60 and 55, respectively. They are both originally from Lexington, Kentucky, home of the Kentucky Wildcats. The Lawson's presently live about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta in Dawsonville, GA with their three white miniature schnauzers. Bert is employed by a telecom company as Regional VP of Sales for the Southeast and Latin America. Terry, although retired 6 years ago after working more than 25 years for the federal government (Dept. of Veterans Affairs), is once again working full time as the administrator of a music conservatory with 400+ students. The Lawson's have three children (two girls and a boy) and one darling granddaughter. They are expecting their second granddaughter in early October. Bert is a Vietnam veteran, having flown F-4 Phantom jets during his two tours there. He left the Air Force as a Lt. Col. and received several medals during his tour of duty, including a Purple Heart. He is an avid history buff, enjoys classical music and people watching. Terry is a vocalist with her church and directs the children's choir as well. She enjoys reading, music, her family and friends and people watching. The Lawson's especially enjoy cruising and meeting and making new friends.
"jncruisebums"
I'm 67 and Jim is 60 and this is a 60th birthday cruise! Jim is a CPA and has been comptroller at Mullinssquare here in Austin for the last 24 years. Mullinssquare manufactures original appliquéd items for babies! I have been with BIBBERO SYSTEMS, Inc. for 20 years, and I sell charts, dividers, biz cards, letterhead, Rx pads and all printed materials Doctors use. We also sell them Electronic Medical record systems. We have lived in Austin the last 24 years and before that we were in Portland Oregon. We love to play bridge! We love to take pictures and I love scrapbooking. And we LOVE to cruise!
"Mama, Papa & Babypickle"
SEATING: EARLY
Wayne is 70, retired from Santa Fe Railroad; Pat is 57 and works for the County Attorney's Office. We live in Kingman, AZ, have two sons, ages 22 and 26. We cruised to Mexican Riviera in November, '03, Alaska in August '05, Panama Canal in February '06 and anxiously looking forward to Hawaii and meeting everyone on board. Brian has been in the NAVY for 8 years as an Aviation Electronics Technician. He has been stationed in Jacksonville, fl; Rota, Spain; and Oak Harbor, WA. He enjoys many activities from playing cribbage to skydiving.
"AJD"
SEATING: LATE
New to cruising, our first was on the Century in January and we were hooked. We are retired, in our sixties and celebrating our 40th Wedding Anniversary this trip. Originally from Scotland we have been in the U.S. for 25 years and currently live in the woods of New York State. We have one daughter who lives nearby, she and her husband have two children, the elder, a 2 year old is in the photo taken last Christmas. We like travel, dining, dancing and play Bridge and Mah-Jong.
"Texas Travelers"
CABIN: 9153
SEATING: EARLY
E-mail:; nkbracewell@airmail.net
We are both born Texans. We have a farm out in the Hill Country that we tried to retire to 4 years ago. But, we really missed Austin, so we bought a condo last year and now split our time between the two places. I was a Distribution Manager for Tokyo Electron; I took a medical retirement at 54. I play cards with 3 clubs each month, I like to scrapbook, read, sew, swim and shop. Carey taught business management at ACC and he was trainer for the Post Office. He is a genealogist, history buff, interested in languages and is now writing his first book. We have 5 children and 9 grandchildren between us. We love to travel and like to go somewhere every month or so. This will be our 15th cruise and I am just as excited about it as I was for our first.We will be celebrating our 25 anniversary, so it will be extra special. It will be great to get to meet you all in person.
"t-toes"
SEATING: LATE
I'm Jerry, fairly active at a young 85 living in Sarasota, Florida. Born in Brooklyn, served on Guam during WWII, worked for General foods for 37 years, lived in Illinois, New York, Delaware, and Connecticut and have been retired since 1985. I enjoy theater, gardening, oil painting, and spend a great deal of time cruising. Been on about 50 cruises. Earlier this year I was on a 16 night cruise around South America and a 15 night transatlantic cruise to Barcelona. I find people on cruises to be very congenial.
"Mandy W"
SEATING: LATE
We are Mandy (26) and Mark (27-will be celebrating his 28th b-day onboard) oficially sailing for our honeymoon. I am from Wichita, KS and Mark is from San Diego - we both currently live in KS. We are leaving in two weeks on a cruise to Caribbean to be married in Cozumel on 08/28/07. We have been together for almost 5 years - engaged for 2. No children yet! We are adventurous and cannot wait to experience Hawaii. Help on excursions please! So far the only one we have nailed down is the Old Lahaina Luau!
"jojun24"
SEATING: LATE
We are both in our mid-sixties and are enjoying retirement. This will be our twelfth cruise, our ninth on Celebrity. This is our fourth M-class cruise. The first three were on the Infinity. We do limited excursions and like the emptiness of the ship when everyone else is on shore. While cruising we enjoy sea days, reading and playing bridge. We just joined a bridge club and try to play once a week. We are originally from New York City. For the last thirty years we have lived in Southwest Ohio between Dayton and Cincinnati. The picture if from a Hawaii land tour last March. We are looking forward to seeing and experiencing the islands one more time.
"C2C"
SEATING: LATE
We live in Chatham ON, 50 miles from Detroit. My log on name at Cruise Critic is C2C, short for From Sea to Sea, the motto on the Canadian Coat of Arms. For several years now we are true cruisenuts and have been spending over 100 days a year sailing Celebrity ships. We picked this cruise because it is a Captain's Club reunion cruise; Celebrity adds a few nice touches for members who have cruised before.This will be our 60th Celebrity "sailing". We have also cruised with HAL, Princess, RCL and NCL for a total exceeding 700 days at sea including X. After 33 years in the classroom, I took early retirement 8 years ago and enjoy travel, reading, trivia and playing "Civilization" on the computer.Joanne operates an independent video store which has been open since 1985. Joanne is an avid reader, especially of Fantasy and Murder Mysteries which she normally finishes at the rate of a book a day. We will be found daily dancing before and after dinner and at every dance class offered. We seldom miss trivia on board and enjoy the activities provided by Celebrity staff.
"Coquitlam Cruiser"
Coquitlam, BC
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"Travel Loving Texan"
SEATING: EARLY
Hi,
It's been a livelong dream to go to Hawaii and finally I'm GOING! I can't wait! When my friends Nada and Nancy told me they were going it was perfect time to go along. A friend, Carolyn Freitag agreed to bunk with me in stateroom # 7052 on Vista Deck. We are counting the days.I just recently lost my job as Senior Buyer, my company is moving to Italy and closing the Austin plant, so what better time to go to Hawaii I said! If I find a job before we go they'll just have to understand, I'm going! I found a house-sitter for my 2 dogs, Daisy, a Miniature Schnauzer and Killer, a cross between a Chihuahua and a Terrier so I am all set. I have only been on a couple of cruises, both to the Caribbean. I enjoyed them both a lot. When I'm not cruising I enjoy going to the movies, getting together with friends for dinner out, gardening (love flowers), dancing (learning Ballroom), swimming (or should I say playing in the water), and always have a book to read.
Can't wait to meet everyone!!!
"MHoward909"
SEATING: LATE
We are from Northport LI New York, Bob is a retired chief of Police, I am a hairdresser and have my own salon. We have 3 sons and 1 granddaughter. We are married 39 years. Love to cruise been on 15 never been to Hawaii. Looking foward to meeting everyone.
"sshaff"
SEATING: LATE
We met while working at Southwestern Bell Telephone about 28 years ago. Discovered cruising in 1987 during a trip to Alaska on Regency's Regent Sea; had an inside cabin because we didn't know any better. It was a fun and rough experience - we awoke one night after our head's hit the wall during heavy seas! Many sick folk on board. But we were hooked. We have taken 18 cruises to date. We took early retirement in 1991 and moved to Durango, CO. Donna said she was too young to play, so she went to work in a bank. After seven years of that (supervising 25 women with PMS!), she agreed to sell it all and go full time RVing. We've lived in RVs for almost seven years, and have just recently decided to pick a "home". Arizona won as the best place. The winters are great and the weather is usually accommodating. We make our home in Gold Canyon - at the base of the Superstition Mountains. During the Summer we travel in our 22' Pleasure Way Sprinter Van conversion to workamp. Donna's winter job is Assistant Activities Director at Gold Canyon RV & Golf Resort - our home. Steve spends his time helping guests with their personal confuser problems. We are looking forward to this particular cruise and hope that many of the negative reviews on the web about the Summit ARE JUST NOT TRUE! We'll be more than happy to trade cruise stories with you all.
"Honks"
SEATING: AS IF
This is my first cruise with the "X"(Quack!). Sounds like we have a lively bunch! I love to travel and meet new and exiciting people. I am the life of the party! I love to sing Karaoke and Dance the night away! Although, I end up regretting it in the morning!" C'est la vie" (Quack!). When I get on board you can usually find me lounging near the pool. I love water! I am really looking foward to meeting all of you and seeing Hawaii!