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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.olivia.com/Connect/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Topics</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/150442/ShowForum.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>Olivia Connect Community Beta (Version: 1.7 Build: 2)</generator><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176723.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:28:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176723</guid><dc:creator>prprincess1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176723.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176723</wfw:commentRss><description>Thanks Sleddog for the&amp;nbsp; cruise counter!! I was waiting for your fabulous post's..</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176682.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:05:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176682</guid><dc:creator>kathndeb</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176682.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176682</wfw:commentRss><description>Love your counter Sleddog!!! Looking forward to seeing you and yours on the trip!!!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Big hugs from us!!!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Kath and Debi</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176581.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:17:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176581</guid><dc:creator>butterfly</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176581.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176581</wfw:commentRss><description>Luv the cruise clock, thanks sleddog&lt;img src="http://www.olivia.com/Connect/emoticons/emotion-58.gif" alt="Travel" /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176501.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:50:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176501</guid><dc:creator>GreenEyez</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176501.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176501</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Love the count down clock Jana! 393 days as of today... But really, who's counting!?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;~ Marcia }|{&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176347.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:16:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176347</guid><dc:creator>sleddog</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176347.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176347</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Never too early to start counting!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cruiseclocks.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.cruiseclocks.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cruiseclocks.com/ticker/8561365097/ticker.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176344.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:13:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176344</guid><dc:creator>CGT</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176344.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176344</wfw:commentRss><description>Count away FlaGirl it never to early to enjoy Olivia's magic.&amp;nbsp; We went to Alaska on a straight cruise and loved Alaska but the company was well not to our liking.&amp;nbsp; I am looking forward to this trip some 400+ days away.&amp;nbsp; Hope to see you there.</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176331.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:20:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176331</guid><dc:creator>FlaGirl</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176331.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176331</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I agree that 404 days is probably too early....(not that I'm counting)....giggles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.olivia.com/Connect/emoticons/emotion-59.gif" alt="Paradise" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176327.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:26:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176327</guid><dc:creator>Soraya-Tami</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176327.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176327</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Think'in we should probably pass the one year mark before we start count'in&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;But hey, September is next month YEAH!!!!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;S &amp;amp; T&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ps waiting for that magicial 100 members&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src="http://www.olivia.com/Connect/emoticons/emotion-2.gif" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176088.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:12:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176088</guid><dc:creator>FlaGirl</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176088.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176088</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Reading the previous posts has given me loads of information, but it has also made me even more eager to go. Is it too early to start counting the days?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.olivia.com/Connect/emoticons/emotion-59.gif" alt="Paradise" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176059.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:15:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176059</guid><dc:creator>rojo92</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176059.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176059</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks FlaGirl for the link...It will be nice to be prepared, glad you like to do research..I'll check out your link&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176055.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:28:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176055</guid><dc:creator>butterfly</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176055.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176055</wfw:commentRss><description>Thanks for the link, I wondered if we could view postings from previous connect groups. , Jayne&amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176049.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:46:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176049</guid><dc:creator>FlaGirl</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176049.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176049</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;This will be my first cruise and first time to Alaska. I have been busy doing research on the ship, the places we will visit, etc.(I can't help it, it's how I'm wired....giggles). I found a group called Olivia's Alaskan Trips. It doesn't have any recent posts, but has loads of information from several previous trips. I've enjoyed perusing it, and have seen a couple of names that are on the group for our trip. Here's the link. http://www.olivia.com/Connect/groups/77/default.aspx. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176044.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:49:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176044</guid><dc:creator>rojo92</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176044.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176044</wfw:commentRss><description>Thank you...so fun being retired...we just relocated to midwest and enjoying every day....really looking forward to the cruise...hoping to get some tips on how to prepare for this...</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176037.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:13:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176037</guid><dc:creator>Tami-Soraya</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176037.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176037</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;rojo92&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Congrats on the booking &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;for retiring TOO!!!!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ps I'm jealous....wish we could retire.....&lt;/P&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Just retired and ready to travel...</title><link>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176033.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:44:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2a00cdb7-9c37-4fce-9fab-0b523f4ffc3b:176033</guid><dc:creator>FlaGirl</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/thread/176033.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.olivia.com/Connect/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=150442&amp;PostID=176033</wfw:commentRss><description>Yay to retiring and to going on the cruise! &lt;br&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>