February 5, 2011 Western Carribean **Cruise Meet **

[sdjen]

Hi everyone! I am starting this cruise meet thread since I just booked this trip today!! So excited for my first Disney cruise - it is going to be a long wait until February of 2011!!

Hope you hear from lots of you and that we have a really fun group to sail with. I will post more about me on the next thread :goodvibes

Happy planning to everyone!!

I stole this from another thread so we can get to know one another!

Roll Call
DIS Name
First Name of Those Sailing
Ages of children at time of sailing
Stateroom(s)

Here is a current list for everyone that has responded so far.



4happybogles
Tara, Rich, Jonathan, Ethan
Boys will be 4 and 6 when we sail
6612
2nd Disney Cruise
Ethan's 5th Birthday as it will take place just a few days after our cruise is over.


SDJen
Jen (40 something ) and my daughter Amanda
She will be 5 at time of sailing
5520 - secret porthole room!
I have done one Carnival cruise w/girlfriends This will be our first Disney cruise or Disney anything! I have never been to either Disney park either if you can beleive that!
We will be celebrating Amanda's 5th birthday - she turns 5 on Feb 3rd!

Canadian Disney Dad
Nigel, Cindi, Haille (13) & Amy (10)
This is our second Disney cruise.
We'll be celebrating the fact that we aren't in freezing and shovelling snow in Calgary that week!
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DIS Name: Presentation
First Name of Those Sailing: Lisa, Doug, Natasha, Nathan, Anya
Ages of children at time of sailing 14, 10, 7
Stateroom(s) We got the secret porthole rooms 5522 & 5524
Cruised Before? Yes
Celebrating anything special? nope
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Yankeegal64
Hi everyone! My daughter just became engaged on New Year's Eve and is getting married on the February 5, 2011 cruise. We will have a wide range of ages in our group from 5 years to 68 years. We have family that have booked from Korea, Las Vegas, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, & Hawaii. My 3 kids are in the military and we have been very blessed to be upgraded when the military rates were released our last couple of times so I am going to be keeping my fingers crossed this go around. I know it's over a year away but I am so excited!


DIS Name: dunbarfamily
Names of those sailing: Jeff, Brandy and our four children
Ages of children at time of sailing: 9, 6, almost 4, and 19 months
Staterooms: can't remember right now, will look at paperwork and update later, but I know it's two connecting inside staterooms. Since we have more than the Disney standard issue family of 2 adults and 2 children, we had to get two rooms....so we're going cheap as we can on the staterooms!
Cruised before: Yep, January 2008 and Feb 2010
Celebrating: No, but I'm always up for helping others celebrate!

erbrhenderson
Erin, Brandon, Cooper, Gabby
as well as my in-laws Al and Mary
will be 8 and 6


Luvstocruise
My wife and I and our 11 year old boy(he will be 12 when we sail) will be on this cruise in 2011. Am looking forward to a great cruise. We got a outside porthole stateroom on deck 2 midships. Will also be travelling with a friend of ours (three adults and 1 child in the room, should be cosy!!).

DIS Name: JennLK
Rob, Jenn and kids: Acadia (Cate - who will be 10 but 2 weeks shy of 11) and Jackson (who will just have turned 2 in Jan)
Stateroom 2116
Cruised Before? NO
Celebrating anything special? Originally planned the cruise to celebrate my 30th but my birthday isn't until after the cruise - March 6. Cate's birthday is also Feb 21
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Joybiz
Hi I'm Joy from Ireland, Myself, Gemma, Niamh and Noreen have just booked our cruise and can't wait The age of the children coming with us are 28, 40, 28 & 27 I can't remember our staterooms right now so I'll have to get back ye on that. 2 of us have been on a meditarian cruise before but none of us have ever cruised with Disney. A friend of ours recommended Disney, said it's the only way her family cruises and seeing as we are going for Gemma's 40th Birthday we wanted it to be the best


Dis name: ltzol
It will be me (Laura) my DH (Tom) and our children Hannah (10) and
Nathan (6)
We will be joined by our friends who have a 8 year old boy and an 11 year old girl.
Not sure about our rooms right now...
This will be our second Disney Cruise, we were on the Eastern last January and it really was our BEST family vacation ever...

kshaffer
It'll be me (Kendra), my husband (****) our son Jaton and daughter Gracie
Jaton will be 8 and Gracie will be 5
Not completely sure of our stateroom at this time
Very 1st Cruise!!!

Com op 2000
it will be just the two of us and you will probably not even know we are on the boat. We are very private people. (DW n me)

Dizzy
My DS will be 17 on the cruise and turns 18 on Feb 26th
My DD will be 14 on the cruise.

Eeyoresbestfriend
Marybeth Darren, Deanna (14) and Darren Jr. (12)
not sure of stateroom yet, maybe upgrading when military discounts come out

DIS Name: MoserFamily
First Name of Those Sailing: Sandi (me), James (him), Maddie and Otto
Ages of children at time of sailing: Maddie will just have turned 5, Otto will almost be 2
Stateroom(s): 2128
Cruised Before? Once, but not on Disney
Celebrating anything special? Possibly using it as a celebration for birthdays (Maddie's on January 12, mine January 13 and Otto's February 21)

Purplepeg
Connie, Greg,Shanleigh, Arianna, Amelia
kids are 10 and 6, niece will be 18
not celebrating anything
I think we're on deck 6, can't remember numbers but we're two cabins
This is our 2nd cruise with Disney and last cruise didn't participate in anything as we didn't have an active chat thread.
Probably up for participating in most things.

PTMax
Paula (Me)
Chris (Husband)
Celeste (9)
Alicia (7)
Marshall (2)
11B GTY
1st Cruise

Travelers: Kim, Sean, Hunter (10) and Mackenzie (9)
My husband and myself have cruised with Disney before without the kids, but we have been on several other cruise lines as a family.
I will have to relook at our cabin assignment, but we have a verandah on deck seven midship.
My husband and I will be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary onboard!

BERRYFAM
Steve, Connie, Madison
DD will turn 8 while on cruise.
2nd disney cruise

DIS Name: Mommy Poppins
Names of those sailing: Jim, Tina and our three children
Ages of children at time of sailing: DD15, DS12 and DS8.5
Staterooms: #5020 and #5022--two side by side secret porthole staterooms
Cruised Before?: Yes, 4 night Wonder in January, 2010 when DH returned from Iraq
Celebrating: DD15's birthday is the week before the cruise, but really we are cruising with 40 other people from our church!
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[4happybogles]

We just switched our cruise to this one, we can't wait until Feb 2011.. wow that is a long time away, but it will so be worth it once we get on the boat!!! Excited to have friends join us on this one!

4happybogles
Tara, Rich, Jonathan, Ethan
Boys will be 4 and 6 when we sail
6612
2nd Disney Cruise
Ethan's 5th Birthday as it will take place just a few days after our cruise is over.

Can't wait to meet everyone and have lots of fun planning and getting ready for an amazing cruise!!!:dance3:

[sdjen]

I am so excited to have someone else to wait with! Here is hoping that the next 16 months fly by!!!

SDJen
Jen (40 something :cool2:) and my daughter Amanda
She will be 5 at time of sailing
5520 - secret porthole room!
I have done one Carnival cruise w/girlfriends This will be our first Disney cruise or Disney anything! I have never been to either Disney park either if you can beleive that!
We will be celebrating Amanda's 5th birthday - she turns 5 on Feb 3rd!

How cool that our little ones are both celebrating their 5th birthdays with this trip! I figured that i would do this trip before she is in school so i dont have to pull her out of kindergarten for a week. This way she will only miss a couple of days of preschool - no big deal. We live in South Dakota where the February weather is quite unpredictable so i am planning on flying out on the Thursday before the cruise just to make sure we get there in time.

Cant wait to chat more and hopefully get some more people to join also. I am hoping that we have a really fun group :thumbsup2 I have been reading about the FE exchanges - that sounds really fun!

Happy planning and cant wait for the Magical cruise!

[4happybogles]

We would love to do the fish extender again. did it on our first cruise and just loved it!
We can't wait to go, sure wish it was closer! We are cruising with some friends this time around and we all wish we could take a 14 day one. They are so much fun :-) I am sure we will share a lot of information as the year goes on!

[IrishCowboy]

I have added a link to your thread on the main index page. Have a great cruise!:thumbsup2

[CanadianDisneyDad]

We just switched our Jan 2010 cruise to this one and now the wait is even longer than before. Can't wait to get on the Magic again.

We are:
Nigel, Cindi, Haille (13) & Amy (10)
This is our second Disney cruise.
We'll be celebrating the fact that we aren't in freezing and shovelling snow in Calgary that week!

[Presentation]

Hi all,

sdjen asked me to post here.


DIS Name: Presentation
First Name of Those Sailing: Lisa, Doug, Natasha, Nathan, Anya
Ages of children at time of sailing 14, 10, 7
Stateroom(s) We got the secret porthole rooms 5522 & 5524
Cruised Before? Yes
Celebrating anything special? nope

[sdjen]

;)Hi to the new posters. We are now up to 15 whole people :cool1:

Cant wait to chat more throughout the next year plus. Luckily, we have lots of time to get to know each other!

Does anyone have a good idea for a group name?? I am not very creative

[IrishCowboy]

subscribing

[yankeegal64]

Hi everyone! My daughter just became engaged on New Year's Eve and is getting married on the February 5, 2011 cruise. We will have a wide range of ages in our group from 5 years to 68 years. We have family that have booked from Korea, Las Vegas, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, & Hawaii. My 3 kids are in the military and we have been very blessed to be upgraded when the military rates were released our last couple of times so I am going to be keeping my fingers crossed this go around. I know it's over a year away but I am so excited!

[4happybogles]

A wedding, how much fun! Congrats to you and your daughter! I think getting married on a cruise would be a lot of fun! :-) Sounds like it's going to be a bit of a family reunion as well. I am sure you will really enjoy yourself, we loved our first cruise and can't wait for this one :-)

[sdjen]

Yes - Congrats to your daughter and your family! A cruise wedding sounds like so much fun! And it sounds like you have a great family also - you will have a lot of fun with everyone there.

Here is to dreaming about some warm Carribbean weather - it is about 10 below here today (wind chill is -40) and i am really ready for some warm weather and a vacation. Too bad it it still over a year away :rotfl:

[dunbarfamily]

[QUOTE=sdjen;33748541
Roll Call
DIS Name
First Name of Those Sailing
Ages of children at time of sailing
Stateroom(s)
Cruised Before?
Celebrating anything special?
A photo if you'd like[/QUOTE]

Hi everyone! Woo hoo! I'm the first to post to this thread in two months! We just booked this cruise while on our last cruise Feb 28-March 4th. We are very excited!

DIS Name: dunbarfamily
Names of those sailing: Jeff, Brandy and our four children
Ages of children at time of sailing: 9, 6, almost 4, and 19 months
Staterooms: can't remember right now, will look at paperwork and update later, but I know it's two connecting inside staterooms. Since we have more than the Disney standard issue family of 2 adults and 2 children, we had to get two rooms....so we're going cheap as we can on the staterooms! :)
Cruised before: Yep, January 2008 and Feb 2010
Celebrating: No, but I'm always up for helping others celebrate! :banana:

Can't wait for this thread to get going again!!

[sdjen]

Welcome! Glad to have another family to join the meet thread. So far we do not have a big group but I am sure we will have a good time. Only 11 more months to wait! Since you have cruised before i am sure you will be able to provide some good advice to us "newbies". Have you done a FE exchange on your previous cruises? Looking forward to that too. :cool1:

[dunbarfamily]

Welcome! Glad to have another family to join the meet thread. So far we do not have a big group but I am sure we will have a good time. Only 11 more months to wait! Since you have cruised before i am sure you will be able to provide some good advice to us "newbies". Have you done a FE exchange on your previous cruises? Looking forward to that too. :cool1:

I'll try to help however I can, but there are way more experienced cruisers here than we are! :) We have picked up a few tips and tricks along the way though, and I'm happy to report that on our last cruise, I was able to tell aft apart from forward, and ended up where I wanted to be most of the time on my very first try! One wouldn't think a boat would be hard to navigate, but it is!

We just did a FE on this last cruise. (I can't believe a week ago at this time we were on the ship, probably eating at late dining!) The FE was a lot of fun, and my children really enjoyed "sneaking" to other participants' doors with our gifts, and of course, they loved racing back to our rooms to see if they received anything!

11 months seems so far away!

[sdjen]

only 325 more days to wait :laughing:

any one else having a hard time being patient??

[erbrhenderson]

Hi everyone! I am starting this cruise meet thread since I just booked this trip today!! So excited for my first Disney cruise - it is going to be a long wait until February of 2011!!

Hope you hear from lots of you and that we have a really fun group to sail with. I will post more about me on the next thread :goodvibes

Happy planning to everyone!!

I stole this from another thread so we can get to know one another!

Roll Call
DIS Name
First Name of Those Sailing
Ages of children at time of sailing
Stateroom(s)
Cruised Before?
Celebrating anything special?
A photo if you'd like

We will be on our first Disney Cruise!!

erbrhenderson
Erin, Brandon, Cooper, Gabby
as well as my in-laws Al and Mary
will be 8 and 6


Looking forward to looking ahead with all of you!

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[sdjen]

Hi, everyone! Welcome to the new family too - glad to have you with us! Looks like our daughters are close in age - maybe they will be friends :hug:

I am so excited! i know it is really early but I got our airline tickets today for the cruise. I had enough miles to get one free ticket so I just had to buy one for my daughter. So, i got both tickets for under $400 total! I know some of you pay a lot less than that but for travel from South Dakota, i am really happy with that. We are pretty limited here for carriers and flights so I went ahead and booked them now. We are arriving on the Thursday night before the cruise about 9:30 PM. i am planning on taking Amanda to Seaworld on Friday and then sailing on Saturday. Cannot wait!!!

The other exciting thing that happened today is that we adopted a puppy from the animal shelter. A cute little black and white lab mix - i am hoping to get a good nite's sleep tonite - wish me luck ;)

[Luvstocruise]

Hi all,

My wife and I and our 11 year old boy(he will be 12 when we sail) will be on this cruise in 2011. Am looking forward to a great cruise. We got a outside porthole stateroom on deck 2 midships. Will also be travelling with a friend of ours (three adults and 1 child in the room, should be cosy!!).

Am sure to have some questions for the boards, even though I have done other cruises in the past (ancient history - 1989 and 1995!!) as well as being one of the few that did trans pacific and transatlantic crossing back in the sixties (I was a teen on the last one! - I;m 54 now...just showing my age I guess.

My friend of 30+ years is going on his first cruise. I am breaking him in on what to expect, but I am sure he will have a blast. He likes kids a lot,so won't be overwhelmed with the whole disney-kid thing! He is my driver helper, as planning on driving to Port Canaveral arriving a day before the cruise. (Long way from Toronto area of Canada to there, but I did WDW with him the wife and my son 2 years ago, and it was fine!

Luvstocruise

[CanadianDisneyDad]

G'day

Well currently we have had a couple weeks of snow.....YES snow.....in May!!
:confused3
None of it has stayed long but makes the countdown (8 months...5days...) way too long

cheers!!

[sdjen]

Hi everyone!!! Welcome to the newcomers! The more the merrier.

As of tomorrow only 8 more months to wait :cool1:

Happy planning to everyone!

[JennLK]

Hey!

We just booked our very first ever Disney Cruise(first cruise ever actually)! It is so exciting and intimidating at the same time.


DIS Name: JennLK

Rob, Jenn and kids: Acadia (Cate - who will be 10 but 2 weeks shy of 11) and Jackson (who will just have turned 2 in Jan)

Stateroom 2116
Cruised Before? NO
Celebrating anything special? Originally planned the cruise to celebrate my 30th but my birthday isn't until after the cruise - March 6. Cate's birthday is also Feb 21

[Joybiz]

Joybiz
Hi I'm Joy from Ireland, Myself, Gemma, Niamh and Noreen have just booked our cruise and can't wait:banana: The age of the children coming with us are 28, 40, 28 & 27:laughing: I can't remember our staterooms right now so I'll have to get back ye on that. 2 of us have been on a meditarian cruise before but none of us have ever cruised with Disney. A friend of ours recommended Disney, said it's the only way her family cruises and seeing as we are going for Gemma's 40th Birthday we wanted it to be the best:thumbsup2
So now we have over 8 months to wait and we only think about that every minute of every day knowing full well that when the cruise time finally arrives it will go all too fast. Being an adult (and I use that term loosely) I can only imagine the excitement all the kids must be feeling. Niamh even has her own Jack Sparrow wigg and sword that she's bringing with her and we've already decided that one of the highlights of the trip will be the pirates of the Carribean ship at Castaway:cloud9:

[ltzol]

Hi everyone, we just booked this date and I am so happy to join in!:banana:

Dis name: ltzol

It will be me (Laura) my DH (Tom) and our children Hannah (10) and
Nathan (6)

We will be joined by our friends who have a 8 year old boy and an 11 year old girl.

Not sure about our rooms right now...

This will be our second Disney Cruise, we were on the Eastern last January and it really was our BEST family vacation ever...:)

[sdjen]

Welcome to all of the new people! Our group is growing slowly but surely! Just think - we now have under 7 months to go :cool1:

Cant wait to meet you all and chat more in the coming months!

Jen

[kshaffer]

I just booked our cruise- I am SO excited...I might burst before February!!!

This is our first cruise ever so I have been reading all the great tips and tricks.

kshaffer
It'll be me (Kendra), my husband (****) our son Jaton and daughter Gracie
Jaton will be 8 and Gracie will be 5
Not completely sure of our stateroom at this time
Very 1st Cruise!!!

[JennLK]

Hi everyone, we just booked this date and I am so happy to join in!:banana:

Dis name: ltzol

It will be me (Laura) my DH (Tom) and our children Hannah (10) and
Nathan (6)

We will be joined by our friends who have a 8 year old boy and an 11 year old girl.

Not sure about our rooms right now...

This will be our second Disney Cruise, we were on the Eastern last January and it really was our BEST family vacation ever...:)

Hey Laura ! Maybe our girls will be friends on board.
Cant wait 6+ more mos !!!

[JennLK]

Do you all realize we are on the SUPERBOWL cruise... How do you feel about that ? when hubby realized he thought about changing our cruise date ....

[sdjen]

I just booked our cruise- I am SO excited...I might burst before February!!!

This is our first cruise ever so I have been reading all the great tips and tricks.

kshaffer
It'll be me (Kendra), my husband (****) our son Jaton and daughter Gracie
Jaton will be 8 and Gracie will be 5
Not completely sure of our stateroom at this time
Very 1st Cruise!!!

I am sailing with my 5 year old DD Amanda. Maybe our girls will be able to hang out :woohoo:

Welcome!

[sdjen]

I think being on the ship for the superbowl might be really fun!! There is not much of a chance that my team will be playing in the game :rolleyes: (I happen to be a Kansas City Chiefs fan)

[kshaffer]

sdjen- that would be great! I am a little worried that my daughter might get a little clingy and not want to do the club things on her own.

[JennLK]

I think being on the ship for the superbowl might be really fun!! There is not much of a chance that my team will be playing in the game :rolleyes: (I happen to be a Kansas City Chiefs fan)

Eagles Fan here - We have gotten close in the past few years so you never know ! I doubt it though.

[com_op_2000]

This is our 8th Disney Cruise. :yay:

[JennLK]

This is our 8th Disney Cruise. :yay:

Well then you are a good person to know!!

[JennLK]

This is our 8th Disney Cruise. :yay:

Well then you are a good person to know!!

[sdjen]

This is our 8th Disney Cruise. :yay:

Congrats on your anniversary! What a fun way to celebrate - will it just be the two of you?

[sdjen]

sdjen- that would be great! I am a little worried that my daughter might get a little clingy and not want to do the club things on her own.


Mine is sometimes clingy for about 5 minutes and then she is fine ;) If she has a friend to hang out with that would make it even easier! I am sure they will have a great time :thumbsup2 Kids that age make friends to fast! I am more worried about me - just kidding! I am a single mom travelling alone with DD so I am hoping to find some adults to hang out with too. I am fine by myself but it would be fun to make some new friends too.

Maybe once the date gets closer they can Skype or chat on the phone to get to know each other before we sail.

[com_op_2000]

Yes, it will be just the two of us and you will probably not even know we are on the boat. We are very private people. :love2: (DW n me)

[sdjen]

6 months from today and we will be on our Magical journey!!! :cool1:

Can't wait!!! :banana:

[JennLK]

6 months from today and we will be on our Magical journey!!! :cool1:

Can't wait!!! :banana:

Can't wait - just got my passporters guide in the mail a few days ago too !

[dizzi]

Hey guys thinking about joining in on your cruise.

My first choice was Feb 19, but there is a large savings for this one....so it will most likley be this one.
This is the same itenerary just 2 weeks earlier....not sure why the big savings.

We wanted to do it on my DS birthday but it will just have to be an early presentl

WE most likely wont officially book for awhile as i want to wait to see if any special promos come up.

We just got off the WONDER and we got a great Florida resident rate for that.

Hope to chat with you til cruise time.

Lynn

[dizzi]

Unless something unforseen comes up we will be doing this cruise.

This will be my fourth Disney Cruise.....

SO excited already and just got off the Wonder

There are a few ports that each of us has not done so we are looking forward to that, but honestly i am looking forward to the sea days the most.
And most likely making KEY WEST more like a sea day for us too!

We did Key West on our last cruise and we also go to Key West sometimes on our Bike (we go Sept 17th for Bike week.) And it just really isnt that "KID" friendly so i think we will mostlikely get off do just a little shopping and take a few pics.

We Plan to be the FIRST ONES OFF THE BOAT FOR CASTAWAY CAY!!!!
Want to get a Hammock and not move for most of the day!!!!

[dizzi]

I know there is ALOT of time before the cruise....

BUT WHERE IS EVERY ONE????????????????????????????????

W definitly want to do the FEs, we have one from a couple years ago and we will use that one...

But if you dont have one you can use alot of different things

I have seen people use, purses, disney gift bags, a treasure box, you can be creative and use what ever you like.

Will someone come and talk to me.................:thumbsup2

[dizzi]

Hope you guys had a great weekend.

I guess i am going to go ahead and book i dont want to miss out on the cruise and i the cost may go up instead of down so i will be booking when i get home tonight from work.

HOPEFULLY i can get around the same area as we did On the Wonder.

We were on Deck 2 but right under Topsiders and it was just a quick elevator ride up to get drinks etc.

So i want to check that out tonight.

HOPE YOU GUYS COME BACK SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JennLK]

Hey Lynn!
We are on deck two for this cruise - room 2116 - wanna be our neighbor ?!
I am excited and it has been way too quiet over here.
I am a newbie on this cruise thing and I wanna get the full experience - FE'S and all!

[dizzi]

we had room 2686 on the WONDER very nice spot!!!

So i definitley want to be down that way.

I will have to look at a layout of the ship and see what rooms are available and see what i can get.

Would would like to be a little closer to a laundry room....I dont usually do laundry but i do a bit of ironing.

There are so many fun things that can be done.

Fish Extenders
TAG GAME
First Day Meet and Greet
Pirate Picture
Pajama Breakfast
Sea Day get together
I guess we could have a SUPERBOWL PARTY!!!
I have seen groups do there own t shirts
there own lanyards
there own bracelets

:cool1::cool1::cool1:
Cant wait to get this party started!!

[JennLK]

we had room 2686 on the WONDER very nice spot!!!

So i definitley want to be down that way.

I will have to look at a layout of the ship and see what rooms are available and see what i can get.

Would would like to be a little closer to a laundry room....I dont usually do laundry but i do a bit of ironing.

There are so many fun things that can be done.

Fish Extenders
TAG GAME
First Day Meet and Greet
Pirate Picture
Pajama Breakfast
Sea Day get together
I guess we could have a SUPERBOWL PARTY!!!
I have seen groups do there own t shirts
there own lanyards
there own bracelets

:cool1::cool1::cool1:
Cant wait to get this party started!!



That all sounds like so much fun !! Like I wasn't amped up enough about this cruise already :banana:

[JennLK]

Dizzi when is your ds birthday. We wanted to do either mine (Mar 6) or dd's (Feb 21) on the ship but schedules (in my case) or money (in dd's case) wouldn't allow.

How old are your kiddos ?

[dizzi]

My DS will be 17 on the cruise and turns 18 on Feb 26th
My DD will be 14 on the cruise.

[dizzi]

I read that your children are 11 and 2 wow.........

Have your kids sailed before?

The 11 year old should LOVE THE CLUBS???

My DD was 10 or 11 our first Disney Cruise and she really enjoyed them.
They do alot of cool things.

Is your 11 year old shy or will she participate in the kids clubs??:banana:

[dizzi]

On my First DCL cruise our meet thread did just about all of the events i listeds.

We also had a lot of scrap bookers (all ladies) and we all brought a srapbook grab bag with us and we meet in one of the bars had a drink and chatted and each took another grab bag it only took about 45 minutes on a sea day.

We had matching LIME GREEN MICKEY TEES

We did bracelets that had our cruise name and date.

It was a Halloween Cruise and a pretty large group/

[JennLK]

My 11 y/o gets a twinge of apprehension before meeting new people but I would never call her shy. Here at home she does cheerleading, dance, and a local pageant so there is no room for shyness !! She will be nervous about being without me on a ship of course but will get over that once she has met her first friend.

This is actually the first time sailing for ALL 4 of us ! It should be exciting

[dizzi]

Oh it will be very exciting............

My DD does cheer too this will be her 6 year of competition cheer.

Just last month when we did our 3rd DCL i got excited just seeing the ship when we turned the corner in the bus that took us over.

Make sure you study the lay out of the ship.

Even though i think the MAGIC is pretty easy to get around, knowing where you are right away, will help out with not wasting time and not missing events, or being late for events.

Are you guys going to the port area early or will you be arriving the day of?

HEY IS ANYONE ELSE CRUISING WITH US????????????

[JennLK]

I think that we are definitely going down at least 1 day prior. We will either fly down early Friday or maybe even Thursday evening. We have had some major storms up here last few winters do I really don't want to miss my cruise because of snow !

[dizzi]

Have you guys done the parks before?

WE will probablly go up one day bfore just to be up there.

We went up 2 days before and just chilled and did a little shopping before our last cruise.

WE stay at the Radison, and even though it was a VERY NICE HOTEL....they offer the leave your car.....(which i guess you wont have if your flying)

But we had a great ride over to the port but coming back was a real problem and we ended up having to get a taxi back to the car.

In the long run it was still less expensive than parking the car at the terminal but just wish i had known i would have just went straight for the taxi instead of waiting for and hour for a pick up and then get a taxi.

Live and learn.

But there pool area is relly nice.

WELL OFF TO WORK!!!!!!!!!

[CanadianDisneyDad]

sdjen- that would be great! I am a little worried that my daughter might get a little clingy and not want to do the club things on her own.

Once your daughter sees all the action going on the clubs she won't mind being away from you. Our youngest daughter is very shy and usually sticks with us but once she was in the clubs she never wanted to leave. We went to pick her up at midnight one night and had to return later because she was still in the middle of eating pizza and ice cream and painting a pillowcase and didn't want to leave yet.

[CanadianDisneyDad]

we had room 2686 on the WONDER very nice spot!!!

So i definitley want to be down that way.

I will have to look at a layout of the ship and see what rooms are available and see what i can get.

Would would like to be a little closer to a laundry room....I dont usually do laundry but i do a bit of ironing.

There are so many fun things that can be done.

Fish Extenders
TAG GAME
First Day Meet and Greet
Pirate Picture
Pajama Breakfast
Sea Day get together
I guess we could have a SUPERBOWL PARTY!!!
I have seen groups do there own t shirts
there own lanyards
there own bracelets

:cool1::cool1::cool1:
Cant wait to get this party started!!

What about Door Magnets too? We did that on our first cruise and had so much fun going around to all of the different participant doors and slapping on our magnet that we had created. It was so much fun for us and our girls to see the new magnets that kept appearing on our door as well.

[dizzi]

HA....
I love the door Magnets...
But we just made door magnets to put on our door and I made door magnets as FE gifts

What did you do.....set up a magnet swap....THATS SO COOL!

[CanadianDisneyDad]

HA....
I love the door Magnets...
But we just made door magnets to put on our door and I made door magnets as FE gifts

What did you do.....set up a magnet swap....THATS SO COOL!

That's exactly what we did, we had one person organize it and if anyone wanted to participate they just sent that person a PM by a certain date with their stateroom number. Then everyone created their own magnet and duplicated them for as many staterooms that were participating and then just before the cruise we were sent a map of all of the staterooms that were participating and the only rule was that you had to deliver your magnets before the 4th day or something like that. TONS of fun and we never actually saw anyone deliver a magnet to our door, they just appeared like magic!

[dizzi]

oh we soooooo have to do that

[dizzi]

funny...

I have this thing i say "its a sad sad sad day" tomy employees when something isnt going quite their way...

And i just said it to myself when i went to my usercp and there were no posts from any one else since me.................

:lmao::lmao::lmao:.........addicted again.........:lmao::lmao::lmao:

[sdjen]

So exicted to have more people and lots of posts!! I am totally in for the magnets, FE and tshirts.

Anyone else?? Only 6 more months to go :yay:

For those of you who have done those things before, how soon should we get that set up and how do you do it :confused:

Thanks!

[dizzi]

As far as Tshirts.......

Our first cruise, there was actually a tshirt on Disney online that we decided on as a group and purchased and wore the first day in the terminal....made us easy to spot and it was a blast to have all of us in our lime green mickey shirts.

Our second cruise, several people submitted pictures they made on there computers and we voted on them and then that person sent us an email of the picture we down loaded it and made it into an iron on that we could iron onto any shirt we had or liked. I believe we also voted on colors of shirt but most every one went with white t shirts.

You need to start any kind of process for that about i would say 3 months away

FE's just have to have someone organize who when and where :fish:

Magnets i would assume the same but i will let DAD handle that one.....never done but sounds FUNFUNFUN!!!!

[dizzi]

DH just reminded me that As a group on our first sailing as well.....we did a PALO BRUNCH in a private room.

It is was pretty cool.

[JennLK]

Okay this all sounds like way too much fun and I certainly cant wait 6 mos

[dizzi]

We do have a lot to keep us going through the months.

August.........school starts
Sept............Bike weekend Key West
Oct..............4 day vaca to San Diego
Nov..............5 day trip to West Virginia for Thanksgiving
Dec..............Christmas no plans
Jan...............Noplans
FEB..............CRUISE!!!!!!

[dizzi]

Do we Have a FE list yet?

[eeyoresbestfriend]

Hi everyone it looks like a great group so far! We are also on this cruise, we booked last year on our Eastern Caribbean. We booked this cruise specifically because it is superbowl week. 2 years ago we went during the superbowl and had such a great time, my husband requested to go again! This will be our 5th Disney Cruise, and we can't wait! We are in for anything, and can't wait until it is time to go!

Eeyoresbestfriend
Marybeth Darren, Deanna (14) and Darren Jr. (12)
not sure of stateroom yet, maybe upgrading when military discounts come out.

[CanadianDisneyDad]

here is picture of our stateroom door at the end of the cruise, we made the ears above the room number. I did make a few for our door and I think 2 for each other doors (DW will need to confirm :) ) They are currenty still on our garage door in the back entry!!!

:dance3:

Stateroom Door Top
http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt47/candiandisneydad/IMG_8536.jpg

Stateroom Door Bottom
http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt47/candiandisneydad/IMG_8538.jpg

[JennLK]

I don't think we have any kind of list going for anything. Does someone want to dub themselves the organiser ? If not I can certainly make lists and do sign ups or whatever BUT since this is my first cruise someone will have to guide me! I need to know what I would be making lists for - HAHA

[CanadianDisneyDad]

G'day

Well....we can (ok really mainly my wife who posts as me half the time anyways :worship:) organize the magnet exchange for all participating staterooms.

I wil check to see if we want to start a new thread or keep it under this thread (less threads to watch)

will update soonest!!!!

cheers :goofy:

[JennLK]

For those who need to book airfare - southwest is supposed to release their Feb 11 fares tomorrow !!

[dizzi]

eyeore...............where are you from GE.....guess...GERMANY???

Dad.....................Love the magnets........and i think you guys should do the Magnet door exchange list.....that would be awesome.....
You know you could just put a link in your signature to the post that you make the list in and the lasy that has the first post could put it in her post too makes it easier for everyone to find.

Jenn...................you could do the FE list...all you need to do is have everyones room#age and gender of kids in room and if we are doing on certain days or any time we want to.

GETTING READY TO BOOK AIRFARE to california............really excited.....just DH and I are going. And he will be working for 2 days so i get to spend some nice quiet time looking around CALI!!!!

"CALIFORNIA GIRLS WE'RE UNFORGETABLE...DAISY DUKES BIKINIS ON TOP"
:love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love::l ove::love::love::love:

[CanadianDisneyDad]

:welcome:
to the
Disney Magic Feb 5 Cruise
Door Magnet Exchange

Ok we will organize the door magnet exchange!!!! :goofy:

If you are interested send me a private message with the following information:

DIS Username: Cabin ####
Names of people in cabin (please add ages [adults not required:)] and gender [some names are unisex] of kids)

Some people did customize door magnets with names and colours (blue for boys pink for girls hence the gender clarification)

I will keep the list updated via private message with all participants!!

see you in 171 days (nope not counting yet :rolleyes1)

[CanadianDisneyDad]

dad.....................Love the magnets........and i think you guys should do the Magnet door exchange list.....that would be awesome.....
You know you could just put a link in your signature to the post that you make the list in and the lasy that has the first post could put it in her post too makes it easier for everyone to find.

yup we will organize see above post, last time we did it all via private messgae to keep it more confidential with names and staterooms.



"CALIFORNIA GIRLS WE'RE UNFORGETABLE...DAISY DUKES BIKINIS ON TOP"

this was my oldests daughters and her friends summer theme, not great for dads though :confused3

[dizzi]

yeah my dd too

But i cant wait to go to California.....

We have been once and went to Disney land and then on the mexican rivierra cruise with DCL.
But i love seein new places.

it will be a short trip but hoping to see alot of the sights california has to offer.
Even though DH goes there alot for business, i rarley get the time off to go anywhere he goes.

And NO KIDS going so that is a plus too:lmao:

[sdjen]

HI everyone!!

Just wondering if anyone has given any thought to what excursions they are going to do? I know we have awhile before we can book them but I am excited to think about them!

I am thinking about a dolphin swim in Cozumel, Botswains in Grand Caymen, the trolley tour in Key West and stingrays at CC.

Anybody else??

Also, would anyone be interested in sharing a limo to the port? i just think it would be fun but not very cost effective for just the two of us :thumbsup2

[MoserFamily]

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to introduce ourselves. We just booked our first Disney cruise yesterday, so I've been spending the last week researching as much as possible. Of course, that research didn't extend to finding out that we booked for Superbowl weekend until I found this board - uh oh! But, hubby doesn't seem to mind much. He has said that if the Lions win the first six games of the season, we may need to reconsider - I'm not holding my breath on that one :)

I'm still trying to figure out all these magnet/fish extender stuff, but I'm sure my daughter would love to be involved somehow. She's beside herself with excitement over not only sleeping on a big boat, but that Mickey Mouse and *gasp* possibly some princesses will be on it as well!

DIS Name: MoserFamily
First Name of Those Sailing: Sandi (me), James (him), Maddie and Otto
Ages of children at time of sailing: Maddie will just have turned 5, Otto will almost be 2
Stateroom(s): 2128
Cruised Before? Once, but not on Disney
Celebrating anything special? Possibly using it as a celebration for birthdays (Maddie's on January 12, mine January 13 and Otto's February 21)

Looking forward to sharing planning excitement with everyone!

Sandi

[sdjen]

Welcome Moser Family!

Looks like our little girls will be the same age. I think there are now 3 or 4 girls right about the same age. I am sure they will be friend!!

Happy planning! :)

[com_op_2000]

Check out this thread:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2545361

This cruise now has this as a promotion.

[CanadianDisneyDad]

wow that sounds like a GREAT deal.....not sure if that applies to paid cruises or not but will check!!


so...ummm....anyone else counting the days till the cruise.... :goofy:

cheers

[sdjen]

I am counting :cool1: we are leaving in 5 months and two day!!!

Have you decided about excursions yet?? I have them narrowed down at least!

[CanadianDisneyDad]

We have looked at a few excursions not 100% sure yet. Have some recommendations from friends from previous cruises but so far nothing confirmed....

yeah :goofy: another day closer

[Luvstocruise]

Oops , forgot to check into this thread
I posted in here earlier, but forgot to check in. Thanks to SDjen for setting this thread up. Thanks for the welcome CanadianDisneyDad, I think you mentioned you are from Calgary area?? We are from Oakville, ON.

Anyway, CanadianDisneyDad, were you able to take advantage of the Canadian Residents 25% discount offer on the cruise package???, We did and it saved us $906.50 US Dollars. I'm thrilled to say the least.

So, not sure if any families will have a boy around 11, 12 or 13 yo- I think I saw a family from Georgia?. My son Andre, will be 12 at the time of sailing, and I know will surely find someone to hang with as he is an easy going kid (a bit wild sometimes-just likes to be on the go, but easygoing!!-We picked this Itinerary partly for him- he wants to skateboard at the Black Pearl Skatepark in the Cayman Islands on that Portstop). With the KSF promotion now on as well as Canadian Rates promo, we should not have any problems sailing with a good sized group.

Updated info for you all about us:

4 in the Young party:
New cabin # assigned due to Canadian Promo: 2136 (deck 2)
Me - Dan
My DW: Karen
My 12 yo son - Andre
My lifetime friend - Gord (his first cruise ever...)
Dining = waitlisted for Early Dining - the ressie change screwed that up
Night before Hotel: Country Inn & Suites (as we are driving from Ontario)

Till later...

Luvstocruise aka Dan

[myelton01]

Hey all! We just decided today to take advantage of this wonderful offer of kids sailing free so we are going to be coming along for the trip also! We were going to be on the Halloween Dream cruise, but decided this cruise suits us better and is a shorter wait time. :thumbsup2

Roll Call
myelton01
Adam = DH, Morgan = Me, Aly = DD7 Matthias = DS4
Stateroom(s) Not Quite Sure Yet.
Cruised Before? Disney, no. Carnival with DH. Kids haven't cruised before though.
Celebrating anything special? Nope, not really. Just celebrating our kids and being the fun age that we can do this with them. :cloud9:

[myelton01]

Also, forgot to say we would like to be in on the FE and any other things going on. :) I can't wait to get going in 5m 3d!!!!! I will be putting the deposit down on the cruise on Sept 9th (a week from today). I'm excited to meet everyone and sail! We are going to be staying at the Days Inn Cocoa Beach the night before and just taking the shuttle. If there is something I can help plan, please let me know. I'm a stay at home mom with too much time to plan!:rotfl: I'm also planning on buying out plane tickets on the 16th of Sept. Hope someone starts chatting soon! This thread needs to liven up some! :goodvibes

[eeyoresbestfriend]

Hi again everyone! I have been in the process of moving, and it is always a lot of work. (We do it a lot as my husband is in the Army!) Dizzi- you were right, we were in Germany, however we have just moved to GA, not far from the Alabama border, as my husband has been assigned to Fort Benning! Luvstocruise- my son is 12, and he will be thrilled that there is someone else his age to spend time with. Darren is also one who rarely sits still, so it seems they should get along great!

This will be our 5th Disney cruise, and we all can't wait!

We were able to upgrade to a verandah room with the kids sail free promo, so we are now going to be in stateroom # 7550.

As far as port excursions, we have been looking and discussing, and we might be doing some different excursions through a different company, we have used this company before for excursions on one of the Eastern cruises we took about 2 years ago. The ones we are looking at include a horseback ride along the beach in Grand Cayman, not sure what the other choices will be tbhere yet. for Cozumel we may do an ATV tour with beach and snorkel time, or maybe an off road tour of the mayan ruins with a mexican lunch and beach resort time. There are so many different choices.:love:

On our last Western we did the beach day at Cozumel, and it was great, if anyone is thinking about that!

the next few months are going to fly by, and ion just a couple of months we can book Palo and all the fun stuff! Can't wait!:cheer2:

[myelton01]

Well, sorry to drop in and run, but plans had to change this weekend, and we will not be sailing with you all. Have a great time though!

[purplepeg]

Hi all, we will be sailing with you as well. Did the Canadian residents savings.
we will be 5 (3 adults and 2 kids)
Purplepeg
kids are 10 and 6, niece will be 18
not celebrating anything
I think we're on deck 6, can't remember numbers but we're two cabins
This is our 2nd cruise with Disney and last cruise didn't participate in anything as we didn't have an active chat thread.
Probably up for participating in most things.
So excited:woohoo:

[PTMax]

We just booked this cruise. We have been thinking about a cruise since our last Disney trip in December 2007. This is my first Dis post I have been reading since 2007 just never posted before.

PTMax

Paula (Me)
Chris (Husband)
Celeste (9)
Alicia (7)
Marshall (2)

11B GTY

1st Cruise

[sdjen]

Welcome to the new families = glad to have everyone!

Please see the first post on this thread - I have updated it to include everyone who has responded so far. Please let me know if I missed anyone ;)

[Mommy Poppins]

Hi everyone!

I have tentatively booked this cruise--although DH is not firmly in the "yes" column yet. There is a group of friends from our old church going on this cruise and they invited us to go as well. Hoping to convince DH in the next couple weeks, but wanted to get a cabin reserved with the kids sail free promo. Our kids will be 15, 12 and 8 at the time of the cruise.

We sailed on the Wonder in January when DH returned from Iraq and had an awesome time--well everyone but DH--he said he was bored. Hoping the lure of a longer cruise with more ports, as well as lots of his buddies will convince him to go again.

We did the FE last trip and it was awesome. Kids were excited to come back each day and see what was there.

Just wanted to say "Hi!"

[cougar242]

Hello everyone! I just switched our reservation this morning form the M.R. cruise the same week to this one.

Travelers: Kim, Sean, Hunter (10) and Mackenzie (9)
My husband and myself have cruised with Disney before without the kids, but we have been on several other cruise lines as a family.
I will have to relook at our cabin assignment, but we have a verandah on deck seven midship.
My husband and I will be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary onboard!

The kids are really excited about going on a Disney cruise!

Kim

[BERRYFAM]

Hi All,

We were planning on using our DVC pts but came to find out that we couldn't use them. My wife really wanted to cruise again with Disney after our great experience on the Disney Wonder in 2007. Thanks to a 25% discount for Canadians we booked and are very excited.

BERRYFAM
Steve, Connie, Madison
DD will turn 8 while on cruise.
2nd disney cruise

Looking forward to getting away from the frozen tundra for a few weeks. Can't wait till Feb. 5th.

[Mommy Poppins]

Wow! This thread has been really quiet! Almost at the 4 month mark. Final payment is about 58 days away......

Changed from one category 4 to two secret porthole rooms on Deck 5. Its a little more $$, but on our 4 night we felt so cramped in one room that I think we will enjoy the extra space more than the verandah on a 7 night.

DIS Name: Mommy Poppins
Names of those sailing: Jim, Tina and our three children
Ages of children at time of sailing: DD15, DS12 and DS8.5
Staterooms: #5020 and #5022--two side by side secret porthole staterooms
Cruised Before?: Yes, 4 night Wonder in January, 2010 when DH returned from Iraq
Celebrating: DD15's birthday is the week before the cruise, but really we are cruising with 40 other people from our church!

[CanadianDisneyDad]

:confused3

yeah it is pretty quiet

:goofy:

[Mommy Poppins]

Has anyone set up the FE exchange for our cruise yet??

[sdjen]

Hi everyone. I have updated the first post in this thread with the new families that have joined.

We are now less than 4 months away from sailing on the Magic :cool1: Counting the days!!!

JennLK - are you still interested in doing the FE list for everyone?

CanadianDisneyDad - how is the magnet exchange going? Are there many participants? I would love to do it but dont even know where to start with printing magnets :confused3

Is anyone else interested in group T Shirts, bracelets, Palo dinner etc... any of the other fun ideas???

If everyone would be able to respond what they would be interested in we can see what we can get organized.

Sorry I havent been responding much - I have been super busy at work but I know that February will be here before we know it (wishful thinking, right??)

I also think it would be fun if we can talk about which excursions we are thinking about. I am still trying to decide what to do and it would be super fun to have some other families on the same ones.

Hope to hear from you all soon!! We need to get this meet thread hopping to help pass the next few months!!! :thumbsup2

[Mommy Poppins]

We need to come up with a name or theme for our cruise group??? Anyone have any ideas?

"The Superbowl Cruisers"????

"Cruisin' to the Superbowl"??

Anyone else????

[sdjen]

I like both group names suggested, lets hope more people come to vote! We are only a little more than 3 months away. We need to get going on more planning :thumbsup2

[cougar242]

Sorry I havent posted in awhile.

I am starting to look now into the shore excursions, not sure if I want to stick with the ship excursions or do some on our own. Interested in seeing what others are doing. I know the kids would love to swim with the dolphins!

Would be interested in a dinner at Palo's, shirts etc..

lol... I didnt realize that we were cruising during the Super Bowl.

My husband and I were talking today about the cruise not being that far away!

Hope everyone had an awesome weekend!
Kim

[CanadianDisneyDad]

g'day

we have a couple families joined the magnet exchange so far....

it's really quite easy, just go to any office supply store nd by the magnet paper you can print on. Last time i did 3 magnets per family and some extras for our door!!

if you need more info PVT MSG me

cheers
:goofy:

[cougar242]

CanadianDisneyDad--sent you a pm

[sdjen]

I think i have narrowed down the excursions for our trip.

Here are my plans so far

Thursday - fly to Orlando and hopefully arrive about 7:30 pm. We will be staying at the Embassy Suites by the airport since I had enough points for two free nights.

Friday - go to Seaworld for the day. I will probably rent a car to get us there and back but not sure 100% yet.

Saturday - i am leaning towards doing a car service to and from the port. I just really dont want to hassle with luggage, directions or driving since it will just be the two of us. Anyone want to share a limo?? :)

Key West - after researching, i think we will probably do the trolley with on off privleges rather than the Disney excursion. Will definitely hit the aquarium and probably the butterfly place. I also want to make it to the southermost point marker and figure this would be an easy way to get everything done. If the rates dont change, I can get a pass for me for $29 and Amanda would be free!

Grand Cayman - I am leaning towards doing Botswains here. I would love to do the stingrays but in reading about other's trips, it seems like the water can be deep and rough and I am worried about trying to manage a 5 year old in that. So, i think we will do this instead. Looks like a neat place.

Cozumel - I think we will probably do a dolphin excursion here at Chakannaab. Looks really neat and we can spend pretty much the whole day there.

Castway Cay - want to do the stingray excursion here (looks a lot more controlled) and then just have beach time. This trip will be the first time I have ever really been in an ocean so I am looking forward to that.

ANyone else want to share their plans??? We need to get this thread going again !!! Again, i apologize for not being more involved ;)

[Geodoc]

Hi everyone. I'm Purplepegs DH she posted in Sept. We are looking forward to sailing again on the Magic!!!! I wanted to know if there are any geocachers in the group????

You will soon discover I don't venture far without GPS in hand!!!! :cool1:

[Thnlk]

My wife and I will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary. This will be our 1st cruise and 1st vacation without the kids. Will be spending 5 night in Disney World after the cruise. Looking forward to doing some Geocaching during the cruise.

[Geodoc]

My wife and I will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary. This will be our 1st cruise and 1st vacation without the kids. Will be spending 5 night in Disney World after the cruise. Looking forward to doing some Geocaching during the cruise.

Hey Thnlk you are going to have a great Anniversary.....cruise, WDW and no kids!!!!:cool1: any other geocachers out there? If so maybe we can plan a cache run at one of the ports???? Who knows!!!!

[sdjen]

My wife and I will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary. This will be our 1st cruise and 1st vacation without the kids. Will be spending 5 night in Disney World after the cruise. Looking forward to doing some Geocaching during the cruise.

Congrats on your anniversary!! What a fun way to celebrate - hope you have a wonderful cruise!

[sdjen]

We are almost to the single digits :cool1: :cool1:

How many of us are interested in doing the following:

1. Fish Extender exchange
2. DIS meet on first day
3. PALO dinner
4. Any other fun ideas??

We need to get started on planning a little more before we run out of time ;)

Hope to hear from everyone!

[Thnlk]

Being new I was wounding what a couple of things are
What is a FE exchange/list
What is a fish extender exchange.
I've looked around but haven't found them defined.

[purplepeg]

we (and I mean I because I'll be doing all the work!:rotfl2:) would be up for FE although I guess that means I better get going on making one. Always up for Palo, yum yum.
We always love meeting new people so we'd be up for a meet.
Who else has ideas?
I don't think we will be doing any excursions, just wandering, shopping, Geodoc will be geocaching......

[Mommy Poppins]

We're very interested in the FE---kids loved it on our cruise in January. Would love to do a meet as well!


100 DAYS!!!!:banana::banana:

[sdjen]

Being new I was wounding what a couple of things are
What is a FE exchange/list
What is a fish extender exchange.
I've looked around but haven't found them defined.

I am copying this from the tips thread. Happy reading!!

So just what exactly is a “fish” and just why does it need “extending”? Well… The “fish” is a combination wall decoration/ornament and message clip that is attached to the wall outside every cabin on the Magic & Wonder. The CMs (that’s “Cast Members” for the newbies) use them to leave messages, official forms or invitations for the occupants of the cabin as needed. It’s kind of like a glorified fridge-magnet and it looks like this: (click on the image to enlarge)

A “Fish Extender” is any thing that you care to hang on the fish. Literally anything will qualify, but in general, they are usually some type pocket organizer similar to a shoe caddy or mail organizer. They can be as simple as a canvass bag or as complex as your imagination cares to stretch. Here are a couple from our last cruise: (click to enlarge)

We’re are not very good with a needle and thread, so we engineered ours out of a couple of small cotton bags, a Disney themed bandana and some chain from a light fixture and ended up with this variation on the idea: (click to enlarge)

So, what’s it for? Well… It’s become a kind of “Secret Santa” game played by the folks who roam the DIS Boards. The idea is that every DIS Member who is on the same cruise will go around the ship and leave a little “nick-nack” or “whats-it” in the pouches for the other members that are playing along. The generally agreed rules are that you give out gifts to each participant once per cruise, and that the gifts should be very inexpensive trinkets that either fit a cruise or holiday theme and/or show off a little taste of who you are or the place that you call home. Here’s a link to a continuing thread on the boards that discusses the subject at length:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1219607

[sdjen]

I sent you a PM ;)

[cougar242]

We would be interested in the FE exchange, meet and greet and Palos!

[sdjen]

Here is what i managed to find out so far. We need to have between 12-14 people to get the private room for this.

Also, just to let you know, if we do a group dinner, any other reservations that were made online for Palo will be cancelled if this dinner gets "approved" by Disney. However, you can try to get a second dinner reserved when you get on the Magic in February. Here is what someone told me:

List date of cruise, names and reservation numbers of people for the reservation, first and second choice of date and time (either 6 or 8:30 p.m. for dinner). Then, list where you can be contacted during the day by telephone.

Then, 30 days prior to cruise, you will be contacted by DCL to let you know when (and if) you get the private dining room. If anyone in your party has made separate Palo's reservations, they will be cancelled when this reservation takes its' place. So make sure everyone knows that if they want another dinner separately, they have to wait until they get on the ship to try to make a second booking.

So, i need anyone intersted to let me know soon so I can see if we have the correct number to get this reserved. Also, when you do respond, please let m me know if you have a preference for which night or time.

Thanks everyone!!

ps _ so excited - I made the final payment for our cruise today :cool1:

[cougar242]

We would be interested in Palos, time really doesnt matter, however would prefer it not to be on the 10th of February since that is our 10 year anniversary! Thanks so much for looking into this for us!

[Thnlk]

My wife and I would like to do the FE exchange,meet and greet, and the Palo

[Garrica]

I'm so happy to have found this forum! It's been a long time dream of mine to take my kids on a Disney cruise. I went on one of the first, so called Disney cruises back in 1993 on the Big Red Boat. This year, my hubby granted my wish and we are booked on this trip. First we're headed to WDW for a few days, to stay at the All Star Music Resort. I'm so excited I can hardly sleep! The rest of the family has never cruised before. We aren't telling the kids until Christmas.

Here are our details:

Username: Garrica
Garrett & Jessica
Along with 4 kids:
Ethan 15, Kalista 10, Seth almost 9 (bday 2/14), Griffin almost 7 (bday2/25)
We're split between 2 staterooms (not connected) on deck 5. This is the only bummer to the whole trip so far, but at least they both have verandahs.

We are very interested in participating in the FE exchange, t-shirts and magnets. I can't wait!:cheer2:

[Garrica]

Update: I was able to change our reservation to 2 adjoining rooms on deck 6 (6516 & 6518). I had to give up our "kids sail free" discount and in the end we paid more for category 9 rooms than we had booked the category 6 for, but I feel better about staying together as a family, so it was well worth it. Looking forward to more planning!

[sdjen]

Hi everyone!

I have added our new families and condensed the list. Please review and let me know if anything needs to be changed or added. Also, please respond if you would or would not like to participate in the FE exchange, Dis meet or Palo dinner.. We need to get a list together for the FE pretty soon to give people time to purchase items. Thanks!!



4happybogles
Tara, Rich, Jonathan (4) Ethan (6)
# 6612
FE yes Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

SDJen
Jen and Amanda (5)
# 5520 –
FE yes Palo yes DIS Meet yes

Canadian Disney Dad
Nigel, Cindi, Haille (13) & Amy (10)
#??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet yes

Presentation
Lisa, Doug, Natasha (14), Nathan (10), Anya (7)
# 5522 & 5524
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

Yankeegal64
?? names
# ??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

dunbarfamily
Jeff, Brandy and our four children (9, 6, almost 4, and 19 months)
#??
FE yes Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

erbrhenderson
Erin, Brandon, Cooper (8), Gabby (6)
as well as my in-laws Al and Mary
#??
FE yes Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

Luvstocruise
3 adults and one 12 year old boy
# ??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

Joybiz
Joy, Gemma, Niamh and Noreen (all adults)
# ??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

ltzol
Laura, Tom, Hannah(10)and Nathan (6) and friends ?? 2 adults, 8 yo boy and 11 yo girl??
# ??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

kshaffer
Kendra, my husband (****), Jaton (8) and Gracie (5)
# ??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

Com op 2000
2 adults
#??
FE no Palo no DIS Meet no

Eeyoresbestfriend
Marybeth Darren, Deanna (14) and Darren Jr. (12)
# ??
FE yes Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

MoserFamily
Sandi , James, Maddie (5) and Otto (2)
# 2128
FE yes Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

Purplepeg
2 adults and 3 kids three children dd(10)dd(6) and dniece(18
# ??
FE yes Palo no DIS Meet yes

PTMax
Paula, Chris, Celeste (9) Alicia (7) Marshall (2)
# ??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

Cougar 242
Kim, Sean, Hunter (10) and Mackenzie (9)
# ??
FE yes Palo yes DIS Meet yes

BERRYFAM
Steve, Connie, Madison (8)
# ??
FE ?? Palo ?? DIS Meet ??

Mommy Poppins
Jim, Tina and DD15, DS12 and DS8.5
#5020 and #5022--
FE yes Palo no DIS Meet ??

Thnlk
Tracy and Heather
#6586
FE yes Palo yes DIS Meet yes

Garrica
Garrett & Jessica, Ethan (15), Kalista (10), Seth (9), Griffin (7)
# 6516 and 6518
FE yes Palo no DIS Meet ??

[Mommy Poppins]

Hi everyone!

Mommy Poppins
Jim, Tina and DD15, DS12 and DS8.5
#5020 and #5022--




Jim, Tina, Lauren (15), Jacob (12) and Matthew (8.5)

[Thnlk]

THNLK
Tracy 45
Heather
Room 6586
1st cruise
20th anniversary
Graham Washington

[sdjen]

Mommy Poppins and Thnlk I have updated your info.

Would you like to participate in the FE Exchange??

Thanks!

[Mommy Poppins]

Mommy Poppins and Thnlk I have updated your info.

Would you like to participate in the FE Exchange??

Thanks!

Not sure which of us you are asking, but I've already indicated about 3 times on this thread that we would love to do the FE again.

Thanks!

[sdjen]

Not sure which of us you are asking, but I've already indicated about 3 times on this thread that we would love to do the FE again.

Thanks!

You are right - so sorry! I have gone back and added the three options to each family to try to keep track better. ;) I havent done this before so I am learning as I go;)

[sdjen]

I have updated the list again after going back through all of the past posts on this thread. I have indicated if you have said you would like to participate in the FE Exchange, DIS meet and Palo dinner. I am sure by the posts that more of you are up for them but unless you specifically said so, I did not want to assume ;)

So, please review and let me know which fun things you would like to participate in. Right now we have 9 families for the FE Exchange, 4 families said they would do a DIS meet and 5 adults for the Palo dinner. There are a total of 21 families that have posted to this thread.

I have never done this so if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please let me know. :thumbsup2

Getting so excited for the cruise!!!

Jen

Thanks everyone!!

[com_op_2000]

Com op 2000
2 adults
#??
FE-no Palo-no DIS Meet-no

[Thnlk]

Thnlk yes to all

[CanadianDisneyDad]

and dont forget the magnet exchange, send me a PM is your interested!!!

cheers
:goofy:

[purplepeg]

yes to FE, Magnet, Dis Meet, I think we'll decline Palo.
Some kids ages are wrong I'll Pm you.

[sdjen]

and dont forget the magnet exchange, send me a PM is your interested!!!

cheers
:goofy:

Sorry I forgot to mention this!!! THanks for the reminder.

I sent you a PM too.

[Garrica]

We are in for the FE, Magnets and DIS Meet (I will also PM for magnets). I think we will pass on Palo. Thanks to those who are organizing these events!!!

[sdjen]

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far.

For the Palo private room, the most we can have are 14 people. Right now, there are 5 adults who have said they would like to participate. We have room for 9 more - so the first 9 who respond will be able to join us :) I will try my best to get this set up but there are no guarantees Disney will say yes ;)

[sdjen]

I forgot to mention that JennLK had orginally said she would do the FE list for our group. But, she had to change her trip and will not be sailing with us :sad1:

So, unless someone else with more experience would like to volunteer ;) , I will take care of this. Those of you that have participated in a FE exchange before, any advice or tips would be appreciated. Do you think that a cut off to "register" needs to be set? If so, how far in advance would work?

Hope to hear from everyone soon!

Jen

[Mommy Poppins]

When we cruised in January, we did have a cutoff for participating in the FE. That way we could get our items ready and not have people jumping into the exchange at the last minute and then us having to rush around trying to get extra items. I think we should have a deadline for the FE since the holidays will take a major bite out of our time to get ready. Our cruise is exactly 6 weeks from Christmas Day!

Maybe a deadline of Dec. 15 to indicate if you'd like to particpate in the FE????

[sdjen]

I think that sounds like a good cutoff time.

Does everyone else agree??

Where is everyone :confused3

Counting the days until February :)

[Thnlk]

I think that is a good date.

[Garrica]

Agreed. I've already started on my FE and gifts, the time is going to start flying any minute now! :santa:

[Mommy Poppins]

So far, we have the following 12 families for FE, I think….:


4happybogles
Tara, Rich, Jonathan (4) Ethan (6)
# 6612

SDJen
Jen and Amanda (5)
# 5520

dunbarfamily
Jeff, Brandy and our four children (9, 6, almost 4, and 19 months)
#??

erbrhenderson
Erin, Brandon, Cooper (8), Gabby (6)
#??

as well as my in-laws Al and Mary
#??

MoserFamily
Sandi , James, Maddie (5) and Otto (2)
# 2128

Purplepeg
2 adults and 3 kids three children dd(10)dd(6) and dniece(18
# ??

Cougar 242
Kim, Sean, Hunter (10) and Mackenzie (9)
# ??

Mommy Poppins
Jim & Tina, Lauren (15), Jacob (12) and Matthew (8.5)
#5020 and #5022

Thnlk
Tracy and Heather
#6586

Garrica
Garrett & Jessica, Ethan (15), Kalista (10), Seth (9), Griffin (7)
# 6516 and 6518

Eeyoresbestfriend
Marybeth & Darren, Deanna (14) and Darren Jr. (12)
# ??


I have this set up in a Word Document that I will be happy to send to anyone that wants it once we have our FE list finalized.

[Mommy Poppins]

Jen:

Forgot to add, we are a yes for the DIS meet and a No for Palo. We are already doing Palo with our group of 20 from our church.

Thanks

[Thnlk]

On 11/22 I can start booking. So can you start booking at 1201 am Florida time? If not what time can I book?

[Mommy Poppins]

On 11/22 I can start booking. So can you start booking at 1201 am Florida time? If not what time can I book?

Yes, you should be able to book at 12:01am! Have fun!

[Mommy Poppins]

Anyone else have a pile of stuff in a corner (or spare room) for "the cruise" and you keep adding to so that it is slowly taking over!!!! LOL I DO!!!
Or, I run to Target for something else and pick up something for the cruise (so I don't have to buy stuff all at once) and now Target bags are taking over my cruise "pile". Today it was a pop-up hamper for the kids' cabin!

[eeyoresbestfriend]

Mommy Poppins, I didn't see us on the latest fish extender list. We are my husband and I and our two kids Darren 12 and Deanna 14. Won't be at Palo though, and probably not magnet exchange either, mostly because I am not sure how to make a magnet!

We were able to book on Sunday and it was working fine at 1230AM when I went to book. I booked Palo for dinner and Brunch and a couple's massage for my husband and I. We are still trying to decide about excursions. SO excited for the trip!

[Mommy Poppins]

Mommy Poppins, I didn't see us on the latest fish extender list. We are my husband and I and our two kids Darren 12 and Deanna 14. Won't be at Palo though, and probably not magnet exchange either, mostly because I am not sure how to make a magnet!

We were able to book on Sunday and it was working fine at 1230AM when I went to book. I booked Palo for dinner and Brunch and a couple's massage for my husband and I. We are still trying to decide about excursions. SO excited for the trip!


Sorry about that! I added you to the FE list posted above.

[Thnlk]

Yes, you should be able to book at 12:01am! Have fun!

Thanks for the info

[sdjen]

Hi again everyone!!

Just an update on possibly booking a Palo group brunch/dinner.

So far, there have only been 7 adults that have said they would be interested. I believe we need to have 12 to be able to book as a group. So, if we dont have some additional people interested, we may not be able to book it.

It is also my understanding that if you have booked a Palo dinner for yourself, once you have been added to the group reservation, your individual prebooked Palo would be cancelled.

I am thinking that everyone should try to make whatever Palo reservations they would like on the 22nd (except for those lucky ones that have already booked!). Then we can reevaluate in December to see if there is enough interested in trying to add a group Palo event.

I would just hate for someone to count on a group Palo and not be able to make a reservation if we do not get enough people.

What does everyone think??

[Garrica]

Anyone else have a pile of stuff in a corner (or spare room) for "the cruise" and you keep adding to so that it is slowly taking over!!!! LOL I DO!!!
Or, I run to Target for something else and pick up something for the cruise (so I don't have to buy stuff all at once) and now Target bags are taking over my cruise "pile". Today it was a pop-up hamper for the kids' cabin!

Too funny! This is happening to me as well. Only, we haven't told the kids about the cruise yet, so I have to be a bit more secretive. Our closet is full of boxes on the top shelf that they can't reach and under our bed too. The other day my daughter opened a package that came to the door because she was expecting something. It was snorkel gear, she said "Mom, Amazon sent us someone else's stuff!" I played along and pretended to send it back. Not sure how much longer I can keep it up. I had pirate costumes in the trunk of my car from when Walmart put their Halloween items on sale. She also found those when helping me with groceries, I told her they belonged to my coworker who had forgotten to take them with her. So far she has no clue, but I'm running out of excuses and places to hide things! Can't wait to tell them.

[CanadianDisneyDad]

Magnet Exchange
Final List - 1 week Notice

1. CanadianDisneyDad
Nigel, Cindi, Haille (13) Amy (10)
# 6540

2. SDJen
Jen and Amanda (5)
# 5520

3. Purplepeg
2 adults and 3 kids three children dd(10)dd(6) and dniece(18
# 6620

4. Mommy Poppins
Jim & Tina, Lauren (15), Jacob (12) and Matthew (8.5)
#5020 and #5022

5. Garrica
Garrett & Jessica, Ethan (15), Kalista (10), Seth (9), Griffin (7)
# 6516 and 6518

6. THNLK
Tracy 45, Heather
# 6586
1st cruise
20th anniversary

We will be circulating a Travelling Mickey Magnet as well :cool2:. There will be a list of rooms on the back and the idea is to have everyone sign the magnet and once completed end up back on our door (#6540). We will take pictures of the completed magnet and send a copy to everyone.


cheers
:goofy:

[CanadianDisneyDad]

We are in for the DIS meet too!!

cheers

:goofy:

[purplepeg]

I managed to get Palo dinner and a brunch! So excited. I, unlike some of you, have not been very good about getting cruise items bought and stored. I should do what one poster did and pick something up every time I go to the store. Getting more excited!

[ellebasi75]

Hi everyone,

I was looking for a place to share my joy and excitement and I've found you!

Ellebasi75
Isabelle, Jean-René, Zachary, Éloïse

Zachary 4 years old (almost 5, Feb.18th) and Eloïse will be 3 on January 10th.

This is our first cruise and I can't wait! Looking for information and for excursions, planning the trip to get to Orlando...It's very exciting.

I'd like to know if there's any other kids between 2 and 6 years old speaking French. My kids only speak French and it would be great if they could have other children to talk to. At the same time, it will be a good opportunity for them to learn some English.


Thanks

[MoserFamily]

Bonjour Isabelle,

I started to write in French, then decided that might be a bit rude for everyone else. We are from Ottawa, so not that far away. We have two kids, my daughter will have just turned 5 and my son will almost be 2. Unfortunately, while I understand French and can speak passably (I work in Gatineau for the federal government, so I get by), my husband doesn't speak a lick (he grew up in Florida and knows more Spanish). My daughter is in her first year of school and does one week of English followed by a week of French, so she does have a tiny bit - she'll be able to sing "Tete, epaules, genoux, orteilles" with your kids, and sing songs about the days of the week. While not really set for conversation, she might be able to say a few familiar words. It would probably be a good learning experience for her to actually speak with other French children, though.

Welcome, and it will be exciting to have someone from close to home onboard!

Sandi

[Thnlk]

You can count us in on the magnet exchange.

[com_op_2000]

Additional information added at 22:00 - DCL Web site is down for night. You can not log on until 08:00 11/22/10.

Just checked the :surfweb:
Brunch:
Day 2: 10 10:30 11
Day 3: 11 11:30
Day 6: 11 11:30

High Tea:
Day 6: 15:00

Dinner:
Day 1: 6:30 7 7:30 8 8:30
Day 2: 6 6:30 7 7:30 8 8:30
Day 4: 6 6:30 7 7:30 8 8:30
Day 5: 6 6:30 7 7:30 8 8:30
Day 6: 7 7:30 8 8:30
Day 7: 6 6:30 7 7:30 8 8:30

These are all available for booking as of right now. Just posted to help you with your planning. Good Luck and much pixiedust:

[Thnlk]

I've been waiting all day to start booking reservation for the cruise. The DLC reservation website is down. I hope it comes up soon.

[sdjen]

This is so frustrating!! I have been waiting all day too and the site is closed for maintenance. I am also hoping it comes back up!

com_op_2000 - Thanks so much for posting what was open for Palo times. Here's hoping we can get on tonight to book anything!:thumbsup2

[Garrica]

We're obviously in the same boat. I read on another thread that the site would be down nil 8am Eastern time to load info for the Dream. I feel a bit short changed, but plan to make the 6:45am wake up call to get the booking done MST here in the Rockies. Thanks again for the Palo time listings! Good luck to all and Goodnight. :sad2:

[sdjen]

Hope everyone was able to get on and get what bookings they wanted! I was pretty frustrated with the site being down.

I got up early (6 AM) my time and was able to get a Palo Dinner (night 4) and a Palo Brunch (Day 6) but couldnt get into reserve any excursions at all! The site kept kicking me out - :headache:

So, i called the phone number and after about 15 minutes of them trying to figure out what was going on and having me reset about 4 different things on my computer they finally just booked two excursions for me!

I got the Castaway Stingray at 10 AM and the Dolphin Swim at Dolphinaris in Cozumal at 9:15 AM :woohoo: SO EXCITED!!

I would love to hear how everyone else did and what you all booked :yay:

[Thnlk]

Didn't sleep very well. Woke up at 0100 and still nothing. Woke up at 0345 and could finally get in. Got a Palo brunch on day 2 and a Palo dinner on day 7. Got every excursion we wanted also. My only concern is the deck parties. What time do they happen at? When will we find out our dinner schedule for the cruise?

[com_op_2000]

When will we find out our dinner schedule for the cruise?

You will not know until you check-in at PC, get your navigator, and either get into your room or go to the dining change location and have them look it up for you.

[com_op_2000]

Just checked the :surfweb:
Brunch:
Day 6: 11

High Tea:
None available

Dinner:
Day 1: 6:30 7 7:30 8 8:30
Day 2: 6 6:30 7:30 8:30
Day 4: 6:30
Day 5: 6:30 8:30
Day 7: 6 6:30 7 7:30 8 8:30

These are all available for booking as of right now.

[Garrica]

I would love to hear how everyone else did and what you all booked :yay:[/QUOTE]

I think the site is still having trouble:furious:

I've made several attempts as well the first success I had was at 5:30AM Although it was not a complete success, I was able to secure a Palo dinner (not sure if it will be a convenient time or not yet) and most of the excursions we had hoped for.

The site kicked me out before I could print our itinerary so I'm having a hard time recalling our picks from memory. I just tried to log back in to print, but was unsuccessful once again...ugh.

I know we are swimming with the dolphins at Dolphinaris in Cozumel also, but I can't recall the time.

[Muskegon78]

If anyone plans to cancel a mornign spa treatment on one of the sea day please let me know first. I planned to srprise my wife with one and couldn't access it before all the times that would work were gone. Thanks

[Thnlk]

Only two more months until the cruise. This board has been pretty quiet. Let's see if we can start some topics. We have our fe gift design all done. My brother who is a graphic artist just sent me a magnet design. How big should they be for the exchange? NASA just bumped the shuttle launch to 2/3. How cool would it be if it got delayed a little more and we got to see it.

[Geodoc]

Only two more months until the cruise. This board has been pretty quiet. Let's see if we can start some topics. We have our fe gift design all done. My brother who is a graphic artist just sent me a magnet design. How big should they be for the exchange? NASA just bumped the shuttle launch to 2/3. How cool would it be if it got delayed a little more and we got to see it.

Now Thnlk....you bring up a good point!!! Perhaps with a little luck the launch might get bumped to the 5th. It would be awesome to see that from the deck of the Magic.

[com_op_2000]

I'm driving to the port. I hope the shuttle does not get delayed again, else I will have an all-day trip just to get to the ship.
Yes, I agree it would be nice to view from the top deck; but the traffic for everyone will be a nightmare (Including those using Disney transportation or coming from OIA).
It might be time to consider getting a room the night before the cruise in the port area.

[Geodoc]

Well it looks like the tentative launch time is 0134 on the 3rd.....if the launch is delayed a day or two, the launch time usually only changes by a few minutes......so maybe will need to stay up late and view the launch from the hotel. That should solve the traffic problem I guess!

[MoserFamily]

Just had to share our excitement. My sister-in-law had been living in Grand Cayman this year, but moved back in September to tie up some loose ends she left back in Canada. I was disappointed, because I was excited for her to show us around and to spend the day visiting. Well, she's tied up all her loose ends and is now moving back right after Christmas. Yahoo! Now our day will be spent visiting on the beach, with an extra babysitter :)

Planning has been going slow - I totally know how to plan a Disney vacation, but seem to be out of my element with the cruise. I'm hoping once Christmas passes, I'll be able to focus more.

Looking forward to it!!!

Sandi

[sdjen]

Just checking in to say hi everyone! I have been super busy at work - have had to travel the last two weeks and am leaving town again tomorrow for 2 nites. Sorry I havent been on more often

Just finished my christmas shopping today and also picked up a few FE items. Getting so excited for the trip. Good thing we have Christmas to keep us busy for a couple more weeks, right?

We are getting close to the cut off date for signing up for the FE, right? Also, did everyone manage to get the excursions they wanted? Sure hope so :thumbsup2

Hope everyone posts soon - we are getting closer to our magical trip!

Jen

[PTMax]

PTMax
Paula, Chris, Celeste (9) Alicia (7) Marshall (2)
Rooms 5133 and 5135
FE Yes /Palo No /DIS Meet Yes

[PTMax]

I'm sure everyone is busy with holiday prep. I know we are. I work 12 hour nights all weekend and then am off until New Years Eve. We still have some shopping to do and all the wrapping too. Time is flying and we'll be cruising in no time so I'm trying to get vacation prep fit in too.

We visited Disney World in 2005 and 2007 with our daughters but our son has never been. This is our first cruise.

Our plans so far
Feb 2nd-Morning Flight Buffalo to Orlando and stay at Pop, Boma for supper
3rd- Hollywood Studios with Sci Fi Diner booked for supper
4th- Epcot with Akershus booked for Breakfast
5th- drive to the Port in a rental van
Key West- Hop on Hop off Trolley
Grand Cayman- ??
Cozumel- ??
Castaway Cay- Snorkeling and maybe Rental Bikes
Feb 12th- Evening Flight Orlando to Buffalo

We're really unsure about excursions and with our little guy we can't book much through Disney if we plan to include him. On board we want to some of the tastings (beer, tequila) and the Tea for the kids). We aren't planning on doing Palo or the Spa.

[CanadianDisneyDad]

PTmax

are you in for the magnet exchange too?

[Thnlk]

Our plans so far
Feb 2nd-Morning Flight Buffalo to Orlando and stay at Pop, Boma for supper
3rd- Hollywood Studios with Sci Fi Diner booked for supper
4th- Epcot with Akershus booked for Breakfast
5th- drive to the Port in a rental van
Key West- Hop on Hop off Trolley
Grand Cayman- ??
Cozumel- ??
Castaway Cay- Snorkeling and maybe Rental Bikes
Feb 12th- Evening Flight Orlando to Buffalo

We fly in on the 4th and are spending the night at Cocoa Beach
Key West we have brunch at the Palo and then we plan on geocaching and exploring.
Grand Cayman - Island tour
Cozumel - Atlantis submarine
Castaway Cay - Castaway 5k , Stingrays, and then dinner at Palo
After the cruise we spend 5 days in Disney World.

[sdjen]

Hello everyone! Counting the days until we are on the Magic!

I am asking our experienced cruisers about the DIS meet on the first day. I have done some research and it seems to be that the Promenade Lounge is a popular place to meet as a group.

Can you guys confirm that would be okay? Also, what time would you suggest that we all get together??

I think it will be really fun to meet on the first day so we can all see some familiar faces throughout the trip!

Jen

[sdjen]

Here are our plans - hoping to have some company on our excursion!

Thursday - fly in from South Dakota about 8 PM (hopefully) and check into the Embassy Suites by the airport

Friday - pick up rental car and go to Seaworld for the day

Saturday - car service picks us up at the hotel at 9:30 for the trip to port

Sunday - Key West - do the on/off trolley and try to hit the butterfly place and the aquarium with the Southernmost Point stop too

Monday - relax

Tuesday - Disney excursion to Botswains Park at 9:15 AM and Palo dinner for me at 7 PM

Wednesday - excursion to Dolphinaris in Cozumel at 9:15 AM

Thursday - Palo Brunch at 11:30 AM

Friday - Stingray excursion at CC at 10 AM and the rest of the day playing on the beach!

Anyone else on these excursion?? Would love to hear everyone else's plans :cool1::cool1:

[PTMax]

PTmax

are you in for the magnet exchange too?

I forgot about the magnet exchange. I think we`ll skip it for this time!

[Mommy Poppins]

Final call for the Fish Exchange! So far, we have the following 13 families for FE, I think….: Several of you have not provided names or cabin numbers. We will definitely need the cabin numbers for the FE. If you would rather not post on the board, please PM me and I will compile the list and PM it to everyone.


MoserFamily
DH, DW, DD(5) and DS(2)

Mommy Poppins
DH, DW, DD(15), DS(12) and DS(8.5)

PTMax
DH, DW, DD(9), DD(7) and DS(2)

SDJen
Me & DD(5)

Garrica
DH, DW, DS(15), DD(10), DS(9), DS(7)

Ltzol
DH, DW, DD(10) AND DS(6)

Thnlk
DH & DW

Purplepeg
DW, DH, Niece(18), DD(10) and DD(6)

Eeyoresbestfriend
DW, DH, DD(14) and DS(12)

Centralontfamily
DH, DW, DS(12), DD(11), DD(9)

Cougar 242
DH, DW, DS(10) AND DD(9)
Sent PM for cabin #

[Thnlk]

Merry Christmas everyone. Did anybody get cruise related Christmas presents?:santa:

[sdjen]

A belated Merry Christmas to everyone!

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I received some money for my trip and a handheld luggage scale ( I am worried about my bags being overweight for the trip ;))

Anyone else get anything fun?

Jen

[sdjen]

Magnet Exchange
I will keep this updated if more families let me know they are interested.

1. CanadianDisneyDad
Nigel, Cindi, Haille (13) Amy (10)
# ???? <= i will update once i find it.

2. SDJen
Jen and Amanda (5)
# 5520

3. Purplepeg
2 adults and 3 kids three children dd(10)dd(6) and dniece(18
# ??

4. Cougar 242
Kim, Sean, Hunter (10) and Mackenzie (9)
# ??

5. Mommy Poppins
Jim & Tina, Lauren (15), Jacob (12) and Matthew (8.5)
#5020 and #5022

6. Garrica
Garrett & Jessica, Ethan (15), Kalista (10), Seth (9), Griffin (7)
# 6516 and 6518

7. THNLK
Tracy 45, Heather
# 6586
1st cruise
20th anniversary


Remember the magnets are pretty easy to make, PM me if you need help!

Obviousy we will need stateroom numbers but if you dont want it public send me a PM, this included names as well incase some poeple want to customize the magnets.

cheers
:goofy:

ps: counting the days, we had snow flurries this week :(

Getting ready to get magnets done. Do you think this is the final list or will you set a final date? Just wondering?!

[Garrica]

Merry Christmas everyone. Did anybody get cruise related Christmas presents?:santa:

We're getting so excited. We told our 4 kids about the trip on Christmas Eve, they were elated. Now we're counting the days. Our whole Christmas was centered around the cruise from sand toys to walkie talkies, there was a purpose for each gift. I'm not too worried about space since we're flying Southwest & each get to check 2 bags, plus we have two staterooms. I hope it all fits and I'm not wrong.

[eeyoresbestfriend]

Hi everyone! Only 39 more days to go!! Our stateroom number is 7550 for the Fish extender. I have been getting some goodies together and can't wait til it's time to set sail!!

[CanadianDisneyDad]

Getting ready to get magnets done. Do you think this is the final list or will you set a final date? Just wondering?!

I'd say this is the final list!! Should make for a lot of magnets!!!

Do we have a confirmed time on the DIS meet???

cheers

:goofy:

[Thnlk]

I'd say this is the final list!! Should make for a lot of magnets!!!

:goofy:

Since this is our first cruise. Here is a newbie question. Do you make a magnet fo each room or for each person or both?

[ltzol]

Hi everyone,

I am so sorry that I have been MIA! We have had some health issues here with my Grandmother and since I don't work outside the home, I was called in to help.

That said, I just read the final call for the FE. On our last cruise final call was later and I am so sorry that I missed it!

If we can still get in - we would love to. I know that it was a highlight for us last year! If not, I completely understand.

I am ltzol and our room is 6560 (I have a DD 10 and a DS 7)

Thanks!

[sdjen]

Since this is our first cruise. Here is a newbie question. Do you make a magnet fo each room or for each person or both?

I am hoping it is okay but I am only doing one per family??:confused3 I have never done it either but so excited for our cruise :cool1:

Jen

[sdjen]

I'd say this is the final list!! Should make for a lot of magnets!!!

Do we have a confirmed time on the DIS meet???

cheers

:goofy:

I am not sure. I posted awhile ago for some tips on place and time but didnt get any responses. If you have done one before, what would you suggest?

Any other people that have done a Disney cruise before - please chime in :thumbsup2
Thanks!

[Thnlk]

Hi everyone,

I am so sorry that I have been MIA! We have had some health issues here with my Grandmother and since I don't work outside the home, I was called in to help.

That said, I just read the final call for the FE. On our last cruise final call was later and I am so sorry that I missed it!

If we can still get in - we would love to. I know that it was a highlight for us last year! If not, I completely understand.

I am ltzol and our room is 6560 (I have a DD 10 and a DS 7)

Thanks!

I'm not in charge but I would say the more the better

[CanadianDisneyDad]

I am hoping it is okay but I am only doing one per family??:confused3 I have never done it either but so excited for our cruise :cool1:

Jen

You can do one or more depends on how many you want to make. Some people on our first cruise personalized the names too.

cheets
:goofy:

[CanadianDisneyDad]

Hello everyone! Counting the days until we are on the Magic!

I am asking our experienced cruisers about the DIS meet on the first day. I have done some research and it seems to be that the Promenade Lounge is a popular place to meet as a group.

Can you guys confirm that would be okay? Also, what time would you suggest that we all get together??

I think it will be really fun to meet on the first day so we can all see some familiar faces throughout the trip!

Jen

Hi,

Did a little research on times for the first day.
The mandatory boat drill is from 3:30 to 4:30 and then the sail away party starts at 4:30.
What does everyone think about 2:30 in the Promenade Lounge to meet on Day 1? That should give everyone enough time to board, have lunch and wander the ship for a bit.

[Mommy Poppins]

Hi everyone,

I am so sorry that I have been MIA! We have had some health issues here with my Grandmother and since I don't work outside the home, I was called in to help.

That said, I just read the final call for the FE. On our last cruise final call was later and I am so sorry that I missed it!

If we can still get in - we would love to. I know that it was a highlight for us last year! If not, I completely understand.

I am ltzol and our room is 6560 (I have a DD 10 and a DS 7)

Thanks!



You're in!

[Mommy Poppins]

Hi,

Did a little research on times for the first day.
The mandatory boat drill is from 3:30 to 4:30 and then the sail away party starts at 4:30.
What does everyone think about 2:30 in the Promenade Lounge to meet on Day 1? That should give everyone enough time to board, have lunch and wander the ship for a bit.


Works for us!!

[Mommy Poppins]

Here is the final (almost.....) list for the Super Bowl Cruisers FE. There are ten (10) confirmed participants and one who I am not sure of as they have not posted since their initial post on our thread. I have PM'd them and hope to have a response soon. Participants are listed in order of cabin number for ease of planning out your delivery. We are still waiting for two cabin numbers and I will provide those as soon as I have them. Enjoy!!


MoserFamily
DH, DW, DD(5) and DS(2)

Mommy Poppins
DH, DW, DD(15), DS(12) and DS(8.5)

PTMax
DH, DW, DD(9), DD(7) and DS(2)

SDJen
Me & DD(5)

Garrica
DH, DW, DS(15), DD(10), DS(9), DS(7)

Ltzol
DH, DW, DD(10) AND DS(6)

Thnlk
DH & DW

Purplepeg
DW, DH, Niece(18), DD(10) and DD(6)

Eeyoresbestfriend
DW, DH, DD(14) and DS(12)

Centralontfamily
DH, DW, DS(12), DD(11), DD(9)

Cougar 242
DH, DW, DS(10) AND DD(9)
Sent PM for cabin #

[Thnlk]

Hi,

Did a little research on times for the first day.
The mandatory boat drill is from 3:30 to 4:30 and then the sail away party starts at 4:30.
What does everyone think about 2:30 in the Promenade Lounge to meet on Day 1? That should give everyone enough time to board, have lunch and wander the ship for a bit.

Works for us.

Question - should we be expecting paperwork to arrive in the mail from Disney soon?

[Mommy Poppins]

Works for us.

Question - should we be expecting paperwork to arrive in the mail from Disney soon?

Yep! We got our paperwork in today's mail!

[sdjen]

Yep! We got our paperwork in today's mail!

We got ours today too!!! SO excited! We fly out one month from today.

Also, the time for the Dis meet sounds good to me. What does everyone else think?

Jen

[Thnlk]

We just got home and there it was. Very exciting.

[Centralontfamily]

Any way to get on list? Newbie and I just came across your post.



Here is the final (almost.....) list for the Super Bowl Cruisers FE. There are ten (10) confirmed participants and one who I am not sure of as they have not posted since their initial post on our thread. I have PM'd them and hope to have a response soon. Participants are listed in order of cabin number for ease of planning out your delivery. We are still waiting for two cabin numbers and I will provide those as soon as I have them. Enjoy!!


MoserFamily
Sandi & James, Maddie (5) and Otto (2)
#2128

Mommy Poppins

Any way to get on list?



Jim & Tina, Lauren (15), Jacob (12) and Matthew (8.5)
#5020 & 5022

PTMax
Paula & Chris, Celeste (9) Alicia (7) Marshall (2)
#5133 and 5135

SDJen
Jen and Amanda (5)
#5520

Garrica
Garrett & Jessica, Ethan (15), Kalista (10), Seth (9), Griffin (7)
# 6516 and 6518

Ltzol
Laura & Tom, Hannah (10) & Nathan (6)
#6560

Thnlk
Tracy and Heather
#6586

Purplepeg
Connie & Greg, Shanleigh(10), Arianna(6) and Amelia(18)
#6602

Eeyoresbestfriend
Marybeth & Darren, Deanna (14) and Darren Jr. (12)
#7550

Cougar 242
Kim & Sean, Hunter (10) and Mackenzie (9)
Sent PM for cabin #

Erbrhenderson (Unconfirmed)
Erin & Brandon, Cooper (8), Gabby (6)
#?? (Sent PM to confirm participation and get cabin #)

[Garrica]

Yay were so close to the big event, my kids are checking the days off the calendar, only 29 to go. We have a few less because we plan on hanging out at Music and doing 2 days at WDW before we board the ship. We received our packet today, finished our handmade extender and gathered our prate costumes. Is anyone else dressing in pirate garb?

[Mommy Poppins]

Any way to get on list? Newbie and I just came across your post.

If you post your information, I will add you to the FE list. We had a few on the list up until yesterday that after checking I found out have moved to other cruises, so adding you shouldn't be an issue for anyone!

Welcome to the "Superbowl Cruisers"!!!:cool1:

[Mommy Poppins]

MoserFamily
DH, DW, DD(5) and DS(2)

Mommy Poppins
DH, DW, DD(15), DS(12) and DS(8.5)

PTMax
DH, DW, DD(9), DD(7) and DS(2)

SDJen
Me & DD(5)

Garrica
DH, DW, DS(15), DD(10), DS(9), DS(7)

Ltzol
DH, DW, DD(10) AND DS(6)

Thnlk
DH & DW

Purplepeg
DW, DH, Niece(18), DD(10) and DD(6)

Eeyoresbestfriend
DW, DH, DD(14) and DS(12)

Centralontfamily
DH, DW, DS(12), DD(11), DD(9)

Cougar 242
DH, DW, DS(10) AND DD(9)
Sent PM for cabin #

[PTMax]

We got our cruise documents via fad ex. We got one yesterday and one last week. Very exciting to have those luggage tags in hand! Our flight to Orlando is one month from today :banana: :banana: :banana: .

We decided against a few planned xmas things and are going to do a dolphin swim. I am leaning towards Cozumel but I'm not sure yet. My 7 year old is so worried about missing the boat while visiting a port that she even has me worried a bit about booking an excursion on our own! It's the only way to be able to book my youngest with us though.

We'll try to make it for the meet. I think that's a good time/place but have never cruised before.

[Centralontfamily]

Sorry was busy last night with ds at the walk in clinic.. Better to get sick now before the cruise. I think this is all you need:
Steve, Sandra, Mitchell (12), Paige (11), Brooke (9) stateroom 8038.

So a few pointers as our first cruise, can I buy a fish extenders or do I have to make it, ideas of what to get ..thought it was a great opportunity for the kids to see all the different levels of the ship.

Thanks

[purplepeg]

love the idea and time for the meet! We'll be there.

[Thnlk]

So a few pointers as our first cruise, can I buy a fish extenders or do I have to make it, ideas of what to get ..thought it was a great opportunity for the kids to see all the different levels of the ship.

Thanks

We got our FE on eBay. It cost about $35 delivered and took about 10 days to get it. Real impressed very well made.

[Mommy Poppins]

For those you doing the FE who have two cabins, which cabin # do you want listed for the FE, or will you have a FE at both cabins? Please let me know so that I can update the list so everyone knows where to look for your fish extender.

Thanks!

[CanadianDisneyDad]

whoohooooo

28 days from today we will be packing!!!!!!!

15+cm of snow expected here in Alberta the next few days with highs of -10

28 days.......

cheers

:goofy:

[Mommy Poppins]

whoohooooo

28 days from today we will be packing!!!!!!!

15+cm of snow expected here in Alberta the next few days with highs of -10

28 days.......

cheers

:goofy:

We got about an inch of snow over night--not nearly enough!!!

28 days from today we will be waking up at Hard Rock Hotel for a day with Harry Potter!

[Centralontfamily]

MoserFamily
DH, DW, DD(5) and DS(2)

Mommy Poppins
DH, DW, DD(15), DS(12) and DS(8.5)

PTMax
DH, DW, DD(9), DD(7) and DS(2)

SDJen
Me & DD(5)

Garrica
DH, DW, DS(15), DD(10), DS(9), DS(7)

Ltzol
DH, DW, DD(10) AND DS(6)

Thnlk
DH & DW

Purplepeg
DW, DH, Niece(18), DD(10) and DD(6)

Eeyoresbestfriend
DW, DH, DD(14) and DS(12)

Centralontfamily
DH, DW, DS(12), DD(11), DD(9)

Cougar 242
DH, DW, DS(10) AND DD(9)
Sent PM for cabin #
FE list...forgot to mention we have a peanut allergy in our family.

So do we have a final FE list now?

Going out today to buy stuff to try and make a fish extended that requires no sewing. We shall see how it goes

[Thnlk]

Just finished everything for th FE exchange this morning. Made extra just in case.

[Mommy Poppins]

MoserFamily
DH, DW, DD(5) and DS(2)

Mommy Poppins
DH, DW, DD(15), DS(12) and DS(8.5)

PTMax
DH, DW, DD(9), DD(7) and DS(2)

SDJen
Me & DD(5)

Garrica
DH, DW, DS(15), DD(10), DS(9), DS(7)

Ltzol
DH, DW, DD(10) AND DS(6)

Thnlk
DH & DW

Purplepeg
DW, DH, Niece(18), DD(10) and DD(6)

Eeyoresbestfriend
DW, DH, DD(14) and DS(12)

Centralontfamily (PEANUT ALLERGY)
DH, DW, DS(12), DD(11), DD(9)

Cougar 242
DH, DW, DS(10) AND DD(9)
Sent PM for cabin #

[Lake_Mary]

So excited!! We live in Central Florida, but have never been on any cruise, I don't know why we have waited so long. We go to the parks at least a couple times a month, and stay at the resorts a few times a year. We are definitely a Disney family!

The only thing that matters now is that we are going on the Superbowl Cruise! DH just booked it this morning :) yay!!!

[Centralontfamily]

MoserFamily
DH, DW, DD(5) and DS(2)

Mommy Poppins
DH, DW, DD(15), DS(12) and DS(8.5)

PTMax
DH, DW, DD(9), DD(7) and DS(2)

SDJen
Me & DD(5)

Garrica
DH, DW, DS(15), DD(10), DS(9), DS(7)

Ltzol
DH, DW, DD(10) AND DS(6)

Thnlk
DH & DW

Purplepeg
DW, DH, Niece(18), DD(10) and DD(6)

Eeyoresbestfriend
DW, DH, DD(14) and DS(12)

Centralontfamily (PEANUT ALLERGY)
DH, DW, DS(12), DD(11), DD(9)

Cougar 242
DH, DW, DS(10) AND DD(9)
Sent PM for cabin #
Is there a prev with cabin numbers?

[Mommy Poppins]

Is there a prev with cabin numbers?


Sent the list with names and cabin numbers via PM. If you didn't get it in your private messages, let me know.

Edit:

Oops, just realized that you probably don't have enough posts to use PM yet. If you post your email, I will send it to you via email.

[Lake_Mary]

We are so new to posting here, but have been reading the boards for years. Feel late to the party!

Can we still participate in the FE? Have heard a bit about it, but being new to cruising had no idea that something fun like this existed until after we booked and I searched for our cruise!

[Centralontfamily]

Thank you got it. I can't respond via pm but I have no problem with one more group

[Mommy Poppins]

We are so new to posting here, but have been reading the boards for years. Feel late to the party!

Can we still participate in the FE? Have heard a bit about it, but being new to cruising had no idea that something fun like this existed until after we booked and I searched for our cruise!


You are very welcome to join our FE. If you would please post your names, ages of kids and cabin # so that I can add you to the list. If you do not want it on a public board, you can email it to me at tlotto95@comcast.net.
Not sure what the post count needs to be for PMs (might be 10??), but I don't think you have enough posts for that yet. If you want to add some dummy posts to our thread, that would be fine so that I can PM the FE list with alll personal information back to you.

[Lake_Mary]

You are very welcome to join our FE. If you would please post your names, ages of kids and cabin # so that I can add you to the list. If you do not want it on a public board, you can email it.
Not sure what the post count needs to be for PMs (might be 10??), but I don't think you have enough posts for that yet. If you want to add some dummy posts to our thread, that would be fine so that I can PM the FE list with alll personal information back to you.

Great, thanks! Really looking forward to it.

[Lake_Mary]

Huge NFL fan... Even bigger Bears fan (anyone else?)

Is there a good place to watch the Superbowl on the ship? Any family friendly places, or should I plan to have babysitting for my 10 month old? First cruise so I'm clueless if there are any sports bar places or huge tvs on the Magic!

TIA for any help ;)

[Mommy Poppins]

The game will be shown on the Dumbotron TV on Deck 9. From what I understand there is also a buffet with Superbowl type snacks up there as well!

[com_op_2000]

Huge NFL fan... Even bigger Bears fan (anyone else?)
Is there a good place to watch the Superbowl on the ship? Any family friendly places, or should I plan to have babysitting for my 10 month old? First cruise so I'm clueless if there are any sports bar places or huge tvs on the Magic!
TIA for any help ;)

A special hi from the other side of the St Johns river.

There is Diversions Sports Bar on Deck 3 and the Promanade Lounge. I'm sure a lot of people will be coming back early from Key West excursions to watch the game.

[com_op_2000]

Everyone
Would you like a local weather report one week before sailing? So you can plan on what to wear on the Friday if coming in the day before or on Saturday to the ship? :happytv: :surfweb:

[paceyswife]

Everyone
Would you like a local weather report one week before sailing? So you can plan on what to wear on the Friday if coming in the day before or on Saturday to the ship? :happytv: :surfweb:

Would love a report! We are coming in on Thursday night and spending Friday at MK! I am assuming layers and praying that we can shed as the day progresses.

[Scoobie2]

Hi everyone,
Heading on our first 'Disney Cruise' on the 5th of February. 6 single ladies travelling from Ireland to celebrate Birthdays onboard the Disney Magic. We booked this about a year ago and at last its almost here. :rotfl2:

I'm the birthday girl - Gemma, celebrating my 40th - Yeppie

Travelling with me is my sister Joy, best friends Niamh and Noreen, and my cousins Kay and Marie. And we're all up for the Disney Party, we even have our pirates outfits pirate:

[CanadianDisneyDad]

....6 single ladies travelling from Ireland.....


OMG.......this could be trouble..... :rotfl:

Hope I dont forget to pack my wife...ohhh. crap she can read these.....

cheers
:goofy:

[sdjen]

Would love a report! We are coming in on Thursday night and spending Friday at MK! I am assuming layers and praying that we can shed as the day progresses.

I would love one also!! We are hoping to go to Seaworld on Friday! Thanks!

[Scoobie2]

....6 single ladies travelling from Ireland.....


OMG.......this could be trouble..... :rotfl:

Hope I dont forget to pack my wife...ohhh. crap she can read these.....

cheers
:goofy:

No worries, We're all good Irish Catholic girls :littleangel: just lookin for a good time and lots of sunshine and fun. You and your wife are safe, except during party time!!!!! YEPPIE :cheer2:

[Scoobie2]

Everyone
Would you like a local weather report one week before sailing? So you can plan on what to wear on the Friday if coming in the day before or on Saturday to the ship? :happytv: :surfweb:

Hey there, I'd love to know the weather report for that week as my friends and I are heading over from Ireland, where its raining heavily at the moment :mad: We are travelling across the Atlantic on the Thursday before and spending the Friday touring Cape Canaveral. Cannot wait. A weather update would mean alot to us - Cheers :thumbsup2

[com_op_2000]

Hey there, I'd love to know the weather report for that week as my friends and I are heading over from Ireland, where its raining heavily at the moment :mad: We are travelling across the Atlantic on the Thursday before and spending the Friday touring Cape Canaveral. Cannot wait. A weather update would mean alot to us - Cheers :thumbsup2

I will post the weather reports daily starting Thursday 1-27. For the days of 2-3 through 2-5.
popcorn:: :surfweb:

[iceman857]

Hi everyone. Looking forward to our first DC.

DIS Name: iceman857
First Name of Those Sailing: Kevin, Robin, Erica, Matt, Jessica
Ages of children at time of sailing: 14, 12, 8
Stateroom(s): Deck 2 somewhere near the elevators midship

[sdjen]

Hi everyone. Looking forward to our first DC.

DIS Name: iceman857
First Name of Those Sailing: Kevin, Robin, Erica, Matt, Jessica
Ages of children at time of sailing: 14, 12, 8
Stateroom(s): Deck 2 somewhere near the elevators midship

Welcome!! I dont think you can join the FE (we set a cut off date) but we are having a DIS meet on the first day of the cruise if you would like to join us. We can all meet one another and have some familiar faces throughout the cruise :thumbsup2

Getting so excited - we fly out 3 weeks from today!!!!

[Lake_Mary]

A special hi from the other side of the St Johns river.

There is Diversions Sports Bar on Deck 3 and the Promanade Lounge. I'm sure a lot of people will be coming back early from Key West excursions to watch the game.

Hello! You must be Debary/Deltona? I didn't peak at your user info, better to guess :)

The weather today is terrible in CFL... Kind of funny to say I need to get out of Florida to get some better weather!!

Thanks for reminding me about Key West. I'll have to set an alarm on my phone to get back on the ship early. I know a lot of frequent cruisers see KW as a ship day, but I've never been ;-0 it's the only reason I picked the Western Itinerary.

[com_op_2000]

Hello! You must be Debary/Deltona? I didn't peak at your user info, better to guess :)

The weather today is terrible in CFL... Kind of funny to say I need to get out of Florida to get some better weather!!

Thanks for reminding me about Key West. I'll have to set an alarm on my phone to get back on the ship early. I know a lot of frequent cruisers see KW as a ship day, but I've never been ;-0 it's the only reason I picked the Western Itinerary.

One of these days I am moving to that place they call Florida, where it stays warm all year. :yay: :lmao: :rotfl2: :laughing:

[PTMax]

I'm starting to feel like we'll be cruising in no time. I've got my fe stuff planned but still need to finalize. My biggest thing is the shopping I need to do! My girls and I all need new swimsuits. I think we have most clothing we need but I need to sort through and make sure everything fits everyone and finalize what items we still need to buy. Yikes!$$

[sdjen]

I am trying to get organized too! It is the wrong time of the year to try to find warm weather stuff though ;) I did find some tshirts and bought a pair of dress shoes for my formal dress yesterday though. I think next weekend I am going to make my daughter try on a bunch of stuff and make sure it still fits her!

Counting the days until we can all be on our Magical journey!!

[campbell4]

Al, Terri, Noah (12) & Sam (10)
Been to Disney World twice and this just seemed to be the next step for sure. Also looking forward to getting away from the snow in Nova Scotia for a while. :cool1:

[CanadianDisneyDad]

Welcome!! You'll love the Dinsey Cruise.

Keep seeing you guys getting blasted with winter....makes us in Alberta look blamy...only -20 with foot or so of snow!!!

cheers
:goofy:

[purplepeg]

I would love to get a weather report as well!
I feel so excited and yet overwhelmed with things to finish!:scared1:
We printed out our magnets yesterday and will be heading out to get the final things for our fish extender exchange.
I'm getting a bit worried, I ordered our fish extender in Nov from EBay and it still hasn't arrived :eek:although a shipping label was printed last week.
Hoping to get the suitcases out this weekend.
I also need to pick up some chocolates for the cast members. They really appreciated it from our last cruise and all the Valentines chocolates will be out before we leave.:woohoo:
I can't wait to meet everyone:thumbsup2

[DVCkidsMOM]

I used to be so organized...:confused3
I'm just now getting to the boards for our upcoming cruise. Count us in, please :goodvibes
I am DVCkidsMom aka Linda
travelling with DH Rob, DS Robbie (12), DD Jean (10) and in other stateroom my parents, Harry and Sally
we are in 7586 with my parents a few cabins over
Yes we've cruised before on DCL and other
I don't remember if this is all of the recommended info or not. Now I've got 16 pages to read to get caught up :scared1: Will post again when I'm up to date.

[Thnlk]

Looks like NASA moved the shuttle launch from Feb 3rd until the end of the month. There goes my hopes of seeing a shuttle launch before the cruise.

[Scoobie2]

We once were 4 and now we're 6. When Joybiz posted on this board there were only 4 friends travelling. Since then our 2 fantastic cousins are travelling with us. The ages of these children are 50 & 47.

We were wondering if there was a babysitting service on board. . .

OOUCH - One of the children just slapped me!! :laughing:

[com_op_2000]

For those who are planning what to wear.
Had some time today to do some research:
2/3 2/4 2/5
72 72 72 Average High
50 50 50 Average Low
88 86 85 Record High
35 29 29 Record Low

This is NOT the forcast for those days, only the averages and records.
:surfweb:

[DVCkidsMOM]

We once were 4 and now we're 6. When Joybiz posted on this board there were only 4 friends travelling. Since then our 2 fantastic cousins are travelling with us. The ages of these children are 50 & 47.

We were wondering if there was a babysitting service on board. . .

OOUCH - One of the children just slapped me!! :laughing:

Ooooh let me know about the babysitting. This is my parents first ocean cruise in decades and I may need a break from sitting them. I promise that they are fully potty trained :thumbsup2
I won't get hit for my comments though, because they don't DIS ;)

[rcgoodman]

We are the Goodman family from Ga. This will be our second Disney Cruise, our first was in 2005. We are traveling with Jesi, our DD age 13 and River our DS, age 7. My husband Jesse and I (Rachael) are so excited! We are celebrating my 35th b-day (Feb 14) on this cruise. Our stateroom is 7078.

[paceyswife]

For those who are planning what to wear.
Had some time today to do some research:
2/3 2/4 2/5
72 72 72 Average High
50 50 50 Average Low
88 86 85 Record High
35 29 29 Record Low

This is NOT the forcast for those days, only the averages and records.
:surfweb:

Thanks for taking the time today! Can't believe less than three weeks away!

[pbwhite]

We're joining you all for the 2/5 cruise, and the same 13 that cruised in 2009 are back for a 2nd helping. We've got 8 adults and 5 kids, all in the 4-10 range.
Really looking forward to having a few more days to enjoy the ship!

[CanadianDisneyDad]

Looks like NASA moved the shuttle launch from Feb 3rd until the end of the month. There goes my hopes of seeing a shuttle launch before the cruise.

yeah i was hoping they would bump it a day but guess we'll miss it.

cheers
:goofy:

[com_op_2000]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2521184&page=4

Life jackets no longer required at Muster Drills!!