December 11, 2004 Eastern cruise thread

[Villaness]

Welcome cruisenewbie it is nice to have another cruiser. We are also traveling with extended family and are looking forward to December!!:Pinkbounc

[jwann]

Welcome cruisenewbie! Tell us about you group -- ages, where they are from, etc. So glad that our little "family" is growing!

[Disneyfan37]

Welcome!Will this be your first cruise on Disney?This will be dh and I first cruise on the Magic as we have only taken cruises on the Wonder.We are excited.It will be just dh and I.Again welcome!

Maria

[cruisenewbie2004]

This is our first cruise. I have small children under age 6 and also am travelling with about 7 other family members all adults. I hope you'll understand if I don't post names and ages of everyone as I am a bit leery of posting a lot of personal information. But I am excited to talk about the cruise as we are all looking forward to going.

Have you picked shore excurions? Is there a time by which it is better to book them?

thanks!:wave:

[Disneyfan37]

I am sure you all will love the Disney Cruise like as much as the rest of us on here.

No,we haven't picked any shore excursions or have done any on our previous cruises on Disney.We plan on doing some excursions this time around.We will be going to coral world,snuba,and island tour of St Thomas.We will probably book them in October.

Maria

[momto2dkids]

Hello everyone,
My family and I will be joining you on the Dec 11-18th Eastern. This will be our 2nd Disney cruise and 1st 7 day. Our 1st cruise was 3 day Halloween Wonder cruise back in 2002 . We loved it!

Traveling will be myself(32), DH(33), DD(10 at sailing), DS(5 at sailing), and DD(will turn 15 months while on cruise).

jhorner- my youngest daughter is named Joelle too! Great name!

jwann- do you still have the music from the sailaway party? I would love to work out to this as well. Is there any way you could PM me with the information on how I could get it? I would really appreicate it.:hyper:

[SQUIGGLE]

Welcome momto2dkids. How great our little group is growing.

Maria - we did the St. Thomas Island tour it was very informative. Hope to do Coral World this time around. Have heard it is really nice.

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Thanks Fran!I am glad to hear that the tour of St Thomas was very informative.DH are I are looking forward to Coral World.Will you all be going snuba?DH wants to do that.I am considering it.

Welcome momto2dkids!This will be our first seven day cruise also.

Maria

[jwann]

Bump to the first page!

Has anyone heard from Bonnie?? Are you out there Bonnie??

[SQUIGGLE]

Yes, where is Bonnie? Hope she is out enjoying her summer.

Maria - don't know for sure what snuba is - a combination of snorkle/scuba? Anyway, no, I won't be doing that. I enjoy touring the islands and seeing the sights.

Another month almost gone!

[Disneyfan37]

DH wants to try something new this cruise,so we are doing snuba at least he is.He is trying to convince me.I love to sightsee myself,and I am looking forward to being back in St Thomas as the last time I was there was in 84.

Yes,another month almost gone!HOORAY!

Maria

[Bbgrizzle]

Hi everyone,
It looks like we are going to postpone our cruise till 2005. I've decided to teach full time this year and won't be able to take that time off in December. We are going to take a Disneyland/DCA/Knott's Berry Farm trip in October to tide us over. Good luck with your planning everyone. It was great conversing with you all. Have a GREAT cruise!

[Disneyfan37]

DH and I are sorry to hear that as we were hoping to meet you as well as the others.We surely do understand.We will miss conversing with you.

We are going to Disneyland next year as that will be our vacation for that year which means we won't be cruising in 2005.Have you all been to Disneyland before?How did you like it?We went to the Disneyland Paris a couple of years back,and we thought it was better then WDW here in FL.Have fun when you go!

Maria

[jwann]

We'll miss you Bonnie. Have a GREAT school year!!! I hope we get on the same cruise another time!

[SQUIGGLE]

Bonnie - sorry to hear you won't be with us. Maybe we'll meet on some other cruise.

OK guys - another month gone!

Anyone have any ideas for a meet? At the Sailaway Party, maybe?

fran

[Disneyfan37]

A meet at the sailaway party sounds good.Although,DH and I will probably be meeting Fran at the terminal line.We are having a race to see who gets there first<G>.DH and I will both have our Diz pins on,so we should be easy to spot<G>.

Yes,another month gone!Come on December!

[jwann]

Originally posted by Disneyfan37
A meet at the sailaway party sounds good.Although,DH and I will probably be meeting Fran at the terminal line.We are having a race to see who gets there first<G>.DH and I will both have our Diz pins on,so we should be easy to spot<G>.


Hey I thought the race was with me, Jennifer!

[Disneyfan37]

Girl!The race is with you!I am confused<G>I believe though that one someone else on this threat is going to beat us both there<G>.

DH and I were saying at dinner that we could possibly meet at port side during the sailaway party.We usually go to deck ten as it isn't as crowded,but you all just decide and let us know.I know you and I will have caught up by then as I plan on meeting you at the parking lot<G>.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

[SQUIGGLE]

Thank goodness! I didn't think I was in a race with anyone....
However, we plan on being at the terminal around 10:30.
DD & I will both have our DIS Board shirts on; along with our pins.

Port side is OK; but if we make it the starboard side we can wave at the CMs on the dock. Will go along with everyone else.

I checked the Farmer's Almanac and think sunset is around 5:30 that day. We have always had full sun when we sailed before. Should be interesting change. Has anyone else sailed in December? I'm curious about what they do holiday-wise on the ship.

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,Starboard side is perfect as that way we can wave to the CMS.This will be our first time sailing in December as well as first time sailing on the Magic.I am sure Disney will have the boat looking great for Christmas!I can't wait!

Anybody know why Disney Wonder left port an hour later today?I hope everything is okay there.

Jennifer and I are just joking.I confused you with her!Sorry!It sounds like we will all be arriving there about the same time.

August is here!Finally!Another month down!

Maria

[jwann]

Originally posted by Disneyfan37
Jennifer and I are just joking.I confused you with her!Sorry!It sounds like we will all be arriving there about the same time.

This will be SO fun! This is our third cruise but our FIRST since joining a cruise meet thread. I can't beleive that we'll actually "know" people other than our family. THis will make the wait at port seem VERY short -- we'll be looking for the DIS buttons. I was curious, though. My DH is mostly a lurker and has never posted. Will you guys get a DIS button for your DH's??

P.S. Maria and "momto2dkids" did you get the CD's? I realized after I mailed them in a hurry that I never actually checked the CDs to see if they recorded! YIKES! Do they work? AND I forgot to write a title on them. If you want a list of the songs, let me know.

[Disneyfan37]

I know I can't wait either!DH and I will both have Dis Buttons on.Yes,the waiting at port will go by so fast.We can't wait!

I haven't gotten the cd yet.I don't care what order it is in.I will be so happy just to listen to it!Thank you so much!I will let you know when I receive it.Thank you!Thank you!

Maria

[Ratt45]

jwann, this is Maria's DH. She asked me to let you know that she got the CD today. She is busy with the kids she watches so she couldn't get on. It's less than 19 weeks!!!! Hurry up will you!!! I can't wait for December 11!!!!

[Villaness]

Jennifer, where do I get a DIS button to wear as we go to the cruise. Our goal is to get on one of the EARLY buses from the airport to the dock. We are SO anxious to get to December and our cruise. This will be our first Disney cruise, and our grandkids are coming on their first cruise. They are as excited as their parents and grandparents!!! One more month gone!

[jwann]

I don't have my DIS button yet. If you go on www.wdwinfo.com and click on DISboard. Look on the left menu for DIS store. Then you click on DIS stuff, I think, and then click on personalized buttons.

Anyone who has ordered before -- how long does it take to get to you?

[Villaness]

Thanks for the informatin Jennifer. I just went to the store and ordered a lanyard to keep my room key on and a green luggage tag. Now I can be official in my lime green. Hope to meet everyone on board!! Kathy:bounce:

[Disneyfan37]

JWann-Thank you so much!We got it this afternoon.It is great.The dckids and I loved it.We danced all afternoon with it.I already told DH he best make another copy of it.Thanks!

The cd makes me want to go now even more.It brought back many memories.

Maria

[Disneyfan37]

Jennifer,DH just said it took about three weeks for us to get the dispins in the mail.We have our screen names on ours.

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

Jennifer - seems it took a little over a week for our DIS shirts and buttons to get here. We have our screen name on our Pins too. Wasn't brave enough to get a pooh-sized lime green shirt; but the gray ones look great.

fran

[momto2dkids]

Does anyone know if there are going to be any special holiday type kids activities for the young ones in the kids clubs? I thought I would ask here first.

We are so excited to see all the holiday decorations on the ship. We always decorate our house and yard Decemember 1st because we just can't wait any longer to start to celebrate, so going on the cruise is going to add that much more to the celebration this year!!:cloud9:

[jwann]

Our family LOVES Christmas! I don't know if they will do anything special in the club/lab. The navigators on ***************** have an Eastern kids navigator from Dec. last year. There are no special activities listed BUT there ARE some on the adult navigators -- gingerbread house building, reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas", etc.

I think we are going to decorate right after Thanksgiving at our house!! Are you guys going to have your Christmas shopping BEFORE the cruise??? Yikes!! I better start now!

edit: sorry about the **** business. of course I typed in inkognitto's web site. pm me if you don't have it.

[momto2dkids]

Yes, I have Barb's website. It is saved in my favorites. I have looked at the navigator's, but I don't think I've really noticed which month they were from. I willl go back and look more closely later today. Thank you for that hint. I went to her site last night to look at transportation from MCO to the port. I also like Dave's site.

I haven't even thought about Christmas shopping yet. Double YIKES! I guess I should get my rear in gear and start doing some, since I won't have that one week. My DH and I will probably do a little shopping in ports, try to find little stocking stuffers for the kids that will remind them of the islands and thus extend the whole cruise experience for all of us!!:hyper: ::yes:: :hyper:

[cruisenewbie2004]

Why can't people post the URL of other Disney sites on these boards? I notice all this ****** business. Why is that? It isn't like these boards are ownded by Disney. It seems rather childish.


What times does the boat for Dec 11 actually sail (what time do you have to be on board?). Some of our travel companions had the idea to drive 12 hours the same day of the departure. I think that is INSANE!

[momto2dkids]

cruisenewbie2004-
I will try to answer your question, if I'm wrong someone can correct me. I believe the reason for the ****** is that this site is operated by Dreams Unlimited, a TA. Sometimes they block out the URL's of other sites that might be considered competitors in the TA business. Barb, AKA inkognitto, recently started her own TA business, so DU no longer allows her URL to be posted on these boards, though I believe she still is one of the Moderator's for the boards.

I believe the ship sets sail around 5pm. So I believe everyone would need to be on board around 4-4:30pm or so. I don't think I would ever consider driving that long( or anywhere near that long) the same day as departure. To many things could happen that could delay you and cause you to miss the ship. Too risky for me.

Hope this helps!

[momto2dkids]

cruisenewbie2004-
I will try to answer your question, if I'm wrong someone can correct me. I believe the reason for the ****** is that this site is operated by Dreams Unlimited, a TA. Sometimes they block out the URL's of other sites that might be considered competitors in the TA business. Barb, AKA inkognitto, recently started her own TA business, so DU no longer allows her URL to be posted on these boards, though I believe she still is one of the Moderator's for the boards.

I believe the ship sets sail around 5pm. So I believe everyone would need to be on board around 4-4:30pm or so. I don't think I would ever consider driving that long( or anywhere near that long) the same day as departure. To many things could happen that could delay you and cause you to miss the ship. Too risky for me.

Hope this helps!

[cruisenewbie2004]

I understand now.

Yes, it does seem rather crazy to try to drive from SC to FL same day. I told them any number of possibilities could occur. There could be traffic, or car problems, they could get lost, or simply oversleep. I told them the ship waits for no one. We'll see. We plan to stay in the Radisson and simply have breakfast and take the 10:30am shuttle over and have a relaxed time. Not interested in arriving exhausted, hot and frazzled!:wave:

[cruisenewbie2004]

I just tried to book the shuttle for our December cruise and they told me to call back in November! Is that normal?

[momto2dkids]

I JUST got off the phone with Radisson and they made my shuttle reservation for the five of us for 10am on the 11th. Do you already have your reservation at the Radisson? If so, I would call them back and try to talk to someone else.

[momto2dkids]

cruisenewbie2004-

I was just reading a Navigator from the 5/15/04 eastern cruise and it states that all passengers must be aboard by 3:45pm. The Mandatory Life Boat drill is at 4pm and "ALL GUESTS MUST ATTEND".

Hope your friends reconsider driving down the same day. It would be so sad if they missed the ship.

[cruisenewbie2004]

I called back and got all ten of us on the 10:30am shuttle!!!!

thanks! I guess it pays to try again!

[SQUIGGLE]

cruisenewbie & momto2dkids - we'll be staying at the Rad too. Feel fee to tell your friends we live about 1-3/4 hr south and won't take a chance and drive up the same day. I-95 is too unpredictable.

We're in the 120's!!

fran

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Hello Everyone! I've been busy and travelling for quite a while and haven't been on regularly at all. It's great to see that we have some more disers added to our cruise! I am sorry to read that Bonnie won't be joining us.

We finally made our flight reservations so now everything seems more "real". We'll be at WDW for a few days both before and after the cruise, 2 weeks total.

momto2dkids - Did I read correctly that your DD will be 10 on the cruise? (I read thru all the posts pretty fast and could have misread.) My DD will also be 10! We cruised last December and I don't remember any real Christmas or Holiday activities in the kids clubs. There were family activities though, like lighting the trees - both on the ship and on CC, gingerbread house making, and Mrs. Claus made an appearance one night.

We'll be in the double digits before we know it!!

[jwann]

BUMP to the first page --

My kids started school yesterday (1st and 4th grade). Just one more milestone closer to the cruise!

[Disneyfan37]

Yes,one more mile stone down!They don't start here in Gator town till Tuesday.I am so ready for this cruise.

Maria

[Villaness]

Question?? Has anyone who has cruised Disney traveled to the port from MCO using a van/limo service or did you take the Disney bus?

We have signed up to take the bus, but would save a $100 by taking a van. We are staying at the Hyatt at the airport, so could travel on either. I worry that a van might not be reliable one direction or the other. I don't want to get stranded at either end.

Thanks, Kathy

[Villaness]

Question?? Has anyone who has cruised Disney traveled to the port from MCO using a van/limo service or did you take the Disney bus?

We have signed up to take the bus, but would save a $100 by taking a van. We are staying at the Hyatt at the airport, so could travel on either. I worry that a van might not be reliable one direction or the other. I don't want to get stranded at either end.

Thanks, Kathy

[SQUIGGLE]

Maria - Hope everyone is OK. did you have any problems with the storm?

cruisennewbie - hope your friends will think again about driving down the same day.

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Hi Fran!We are okay!We really didn't get anything but rain on and off from both Bonnie and Charley.We were very lucky.We talked to my dh's parents as well as other family and friends who are in Sarasota,and they had some wind and rain.We all were pretty lucky considering all that has happened here in FL with Hurricane Charley.Thank you so much for asking!

I don't recommend anyone coming from out of state to get to port on same day either as one never knows.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Maria and Charlie

[momto2dkids]

RebeccaLovesDisney-

Sorry I didn't respond to your email earlier, was out of town for a family reunion. Yes, my DD will still be ten when we cruise. She starts 5th grade on Monday, last year of elementary school- I can't believe time has passed so fast.

[Ratt45]

I just wanted to bump us to stay on the first page. As DW mentioned, we came out of this last storm ok. About a half inch of rain, that's all. Less than 3 weeks from being in double digits!!!!:hyper:

[cruisenewbie2004]

but which boat is this cruise? The Magic or the Wonder? I thought it was the Wonder?

I told you it was dumb!

And someone posted on the other board that the Magic if more formal than the Wonder in terms of dining room dress. That's fine with me as I like to dress up. But is this even true?

Thanks

:wave:

[M's_girl]

Hi everyone,

My family is also going on the 12/11 cruise. I'm glad I saw this last post. I tried searching a few weeks ago for 12/11, but didn't search for December 11--should have know better.

We are DVC owners, but this will be our first cruise. I'm hoping it will be a celebration of me finally finishing my dissertation. My chair told me it "looks like you'll be done by then and will get to do the cruise." I told him I was going even if I wasn't done.

My family is:
DH Richard (56)
Me Wendy (37 on 12/14) and
DS Max (5 at the time of the cruise)

We are all really excited. We are staying at BWV the week before the cruise with my parents and my sister's family. They leave then to go home (San Diego) and we go to the cruise.

I'm so excited it is hard to concentrate on anything else. I'm sure you all know the feeling.

[Disneyfan37]

Welcome aboard!I hope you are all done with your dissertation before the cruise.Good luck on it!

Maria

[momto2dkids]

Welcome M's_girl and family!

[jwann]

Welcome to the Dec. 11th trip on the MAGIC!
My ds will be 6 on the cruise. Perhaps your ds might like to exchange pictures or something with my son. We've been on 2 other Disney cruises so my son knows his way around the club and loves to go and stay awhile!

[M's_girl]

That sounds great. My son is a little shy at first but then warms up pretty fast. We are in La Mesa--right next door to San Diego and Max loves to send and get mail.

[lillygator]

Hi all!
I officially changed from this cruise to the 12/10/05 cruise!! I hope you all have a magical time....and I am anxiously awaiting next year....our daughter will be three and our new baby will be around 11 months!! I did change from a cat 9 to a 6....I figure we have an extra year to pay for it. And hopefully Fl resident rates will come out late next year.....


Please send me lots of pixie dust that this is a healthy baby!!!

[Ratt45]

Lillygator, we will miss you for sure. Have a great time on your cruise, I know you will.

Everyone, in 2 weeks we get to do the double digit dance!!!!
:hyper: :p :bounce:

[momto2dkids]

lillygator-
Prayers and lots of pixie dust on a healthy and happy pregnancy and baby.

My "baby" is now 11 months and when I think that at this time last year I was still pregnant(and loving it) it brings home again how quickly time really does fly. I make it a point to find joy in each and every day with each of my "babies", even during those times it seemed they would never sleep through the night. What a blessing children are!

Happy cruising next year!!

[jwann]

"Behold, children are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward" Psalm 127:3

Prayers go out to you lilygator for an uncomplicated pregnancy and the smooth delivery of a healthy baby.

[Ratt45]

Bump!!!! Felt like we should be on the first page. Only 110 days to go.

:Pinkbounc :bounce: :p

[momto2dkids]

Hello all,


I seen the various threads regarding pirate vs. tropical dress on current cruises. My ?. If the pirate theme stays, how many of you are going to try to dress pirate vs. tropical with pirate touches?

Since I bought my entire family matching Disney tropical wear several months ago, I am thinking about just adding pirate touches to our tropical dress, i.e. the bandanas that DCL seems to be giving out, eye patches, etc, but I am wondering what others on our cruise are thinking about this subject.

Also, I read on the boards that DCL might be considering switching St. Maarteen for San Juan as a permanent change. Does anyone know anymore info on this?

I meant to ask these questions, here to you all traveling on the December 11, 2004 cruise, but instead of posting a reply, I accidently started a new thread. Oops!!!!


Thanks to all.

[Disneyfan37]

I bought a tropical dress and dh has a tropical shirt,so we are sticking to that.

I would love it if they changed St Maarten to San Juan.San Juan is great.I haven't been back there since 84,and I surely want to go back.I haven't heard them doing this at least not from DCL.I called DCL when someone posted it on here,and they informed me that nothing had been changed yet.

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Hello Everybody! My kids are really excited about the possibility of a Pirate's night. DS dressed up as Jack Sparrow for Halloween last year. I sewed braids with beads on a red "bandana" for him. We'll be sure to bring it if it sounds like the Pirate thing is for real. I think most people will still be wearing tropical clothes that night, since it is a "Caribbean" pirate party.

I hadn't read about the possibility of going to San Juan instead of St. Maarten. I liked St. Maarten, but wouldn't mind missing it - I'd rather seen San Juan. How likely do you think this is?

I was glad that resort codes for everybody finally came out. We are staying at WDW for 3 nights before the cruise and then for 4 nights after the cruise. Anyone else also going to WDW?

[SQUIGGLE]

Hello everyone.

Have been working a lot of overtime the past few weeks; and have had company to boot. So I haven't been on line very much.

Pirate night instead of Tropical night? Sounds interesting; but I have a nice dress to wear for Tropical night so I think I'll go with that.

I thought DCL was trying out San Juan and some other island to see if they wanted to go there in the future. Could be wrong.

Have to go check out the rest of the threads I've missed.

Everyone have a great weekend. In just a few days we'll be in double digits!

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,We have missed you.Hope things start settling down for you.I am with right behind you I already had bought a tropical dress for tropical night,so I am sticking to it.We did manage to go shopping today as JcPenney's was having 75 percent off on a lot of stuff.We did get some things.I still would like to get a new bathing suit before cruise.but I am not having any luck finding one.

At this point,I don't care where we go aslong as I am on the Disney Magic relaxing having a great time.I do prefer San Juan,but I have never been so St Maarten.It will just be great to just be cruising.

Everyone have a great weekend!Yes,double digits finally in a few days!

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

I agree. I'll be happy to go whever the Magic takes me. Where did the San Juan talk come from? Is this a definte change? I've missed a lot of threads in the past two weeks.

Happy Sunday

fran

[Disneyfan37]

San Juan came about due to one of the threads on Disboard.

I called DCL,and they said we are going on St Maarten.They said nothing has changed yet.

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday!

Maria

[jwann]

Uh ONE, Uh TWO, Uh THREE....
Everyone ready to do the DOUBLE DIGIT DANCE???
SOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!

[Disneyfan37]

Yes,I am ready to do the double digit dance.I am ready to meet you and at the terminal,and I am ready for these days to fly by!


Have a great week everyone!

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

I am soooo ready for the double digit dance! Just a little longer.

Can you believe the Hurricane is coming this way? this is not how I envisioned spending my long weekend!
Maria - keep your head down.

fran (no comments please)

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,I know that sucks!We are in Gainesville.Where are you at?I hope it doesn't go to Punta Gorda area as they have had enough damage from Charley.

Yes,come on double digit dance!I am ready!I can hear the music now!

Maria

[momto2dkids]

Does everyone have their dancing shoes on?

18 hours and counting till the double digit dance.!! :cool1: :cheer2:

:thewave:

[jhorner]

DDD (Double Digit Dance)

This morning before school my kids and I cranked Hey Hey Baby (from the sail away party) and did the DDD. I don't know how to post the pic so my DARLING Sister is going to do it for me. The only one who didn't dance was my son (7) because he has decided that Hey Hey Baby is a 'girls' song. I gave him a big WHATEVER! gave him the camera and asked him to take the picture! I can't wait to be boogie-ing on the Magic!

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Sending some pixie dust :wizard: and prayers to Maria and Fran (and everyone in Florida) for the safety of them and their loved ones.

And yes, we are also doing the DDD :cool1: :cool1: :cool1: :cool1:

[Disneyfan37]

Thanks everyone!We are okay for right now.It isn't suppose to hit FL till this weekend.DH and I were out last night,and the sky looked beautiful.Hard to believe there is a hurricane coming to FL.

Fran stay safe as well as the others in FL.Prayers your way!

Everyone have a great weekend!

Maria

[Ratt45]

YES YES YES Double Digit dance. 99 days to go!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi everyone. We left Martin County Wednesday night and are now in Davenport with friends. Frances just seemed a little too much for me. Glad we left when we did - no traffic at all.

would you believe i almost forgot about the double digit dance!!!

sharing a computer with a few people so i have to get.

Prayers and Pixie Dust to all in Florida. Keep your headsdown folks.

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,Glad you got out of there when you did.We aren't close to the water,so we are just waiting it out.Prayers,stay safe and take care!

Yes,we are finally doing the double digit dance!Everyone ready?!?!?!


:Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc

[momto2dkids]

Fran & Maria- we will be thinking of you often over the coming days and praying that they find you and your loved ones safe!
:angel:

When your able, please drop us a line and let us know that everything is ok with you and your families.::yes::

In the meantime, lots and lots of :wizard: ,:wizard: sent your way!

[Disneyfan37]

Thanks everyone!All is still calm here.DH and I went to dinner tonight,and on our way home we saw hurricane clouds.It was weird as neither him nor I had seen this before.They say we won't get the worst part till sometime this weekend.

We will be in touch!Again thanks!

Maria

[Disneyfan37]

This is Maria's DH. Right now at 4pm we are experiencing what appears to me as 45 to 50 mph gusts and driving rain. A medium size tree in our neighbor behind us yard fell over earlier and broke their fence and mostly fell into our yard. However, we are safe. A little scary at times hearing things hit the roof. Always the optimist, only 97 days to go for us!!!! I'm tired of the hurricane, even though we aren't in the direct path.
:rolleyes:

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi everyone.
Looks liek we made it through the storm. Well, right now we are having rain with pretty good wind gusts. I thoguht it was over.
Doesn't seem to be any damage here except a few small bushes down.
Storm made landfall at Stuart (where we live) I can't get anyone on the phone - no real surprise. Going to try to call the police and see what I can find out before we try to go home.
Maria - hope all is ok with you.
I'm still thinking about the cruise; and I never thoguht I'd say it; but I've lost count of the days.

Take care everyone

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,I am glad you and family are okay!We like you have tons of debris in our yard.We are under a curfew,and we are to stay indoors.My neighbor's pinetree broke in three,and two parts ended in my yard.The winds are still heavy and rain as well here in Gainesville.They are saying it will stay like this today.We are okay!Stay safe!

Yes,the cruise!I can't wait!


Take everyone!

Maria

[Villaness]

Fran and Maria.....good to hear all is well with you. I wonder what happened with the people who were scheduled to go out on a cruise on Saturday. We heard on the news that the ships were continuing to sail around and that the people who were supposed to leave on Saturday were staying in hotels.

Boy would that be a bummer....at least for the ones waiting to go. maybe good for those getting extra sailing days.

I am so ready to go on this cruise. My grandchildren are really antsy to go.....we already are getting the " I wish we could go now!" Hey...I wish I could go now!!

Keep safe down in Florida everyone! Hope the cleanup goes well.

Kathy

[jwann]

Thanks for the updates Fran, Maria and dh! Sorry for the inconvenience of evacuation, cleaning up, curfews, etc. Glad to hear you've come throught it!!

See you in LESS than 100 days!!

[SQUIGGLE]

Thanks for good thoughts everyone.
Maria - glad you came through OK.
Got through to Sheriff at home they said we could come home. There is a curfew there. Finally got through to neighbor. He said development is a mess; but buildings are OK. No power for 4 or 5 more days more. He said we should stay here if we can. Can't get anyone from work; so don't know what's going on there.

Getting antsy; so since all is well at home; and there is nothing we can do here; went over to Magic Kingdom yesterday. Everything looked good. Lots of trees down along the roads; but that's all. Roff of Aunt Polly's was being worked on. don't know if it was scheduled or if it is from hurricane.
Have to go now. Everyone stay well
fran

[Disneyfan37]

Thanks everyone!Yes,Jennifer less then 100 days to go.We are doing fine.It is a mess in our backyard as it is flooded.DH cleaned the front yard and roof yesterday.I feel sorry for the yard people this week.We won't be able to start cleaning our backyard till tomorrow if we are lucky as it was still raining last night.Our street in front of the house flood for the second time last night.This morning it looks okay.

Fran,I hope you are able to go home soon.There are tons here in Gainesville without power as well.They are saying a week before it comes back.We got lucky as it only went out twice here.I am asthmatic,so I was like please Lord no.Hope you get ahold of your jobs soon also.DH was told yesterday don't go to work till further notice.He is going to go by there this morning to see what is up.You all stay safe!Let us know when you are home!

There are a lot of people on the boads complaing about Disney Cruise line,and what happened.I wish people would understand it is out of Disney's control as no one can control hurricanes.We have another one brewing,and they say it may affect FL.We don't like it either,but it is out of Disney's control.I am worried about castaway cay.One of my dcparents is taking her two boys next month,and I hope by then all is back up there.I havne't heard what damages were done there,but their trip won't be complete without it.Jenn-Those boys would have me play the cd you sent all day if I would.They love it.I can only imagine what will happen when they hear it at the sailaway party.

All in FL stay safe!Take care everyone!

Maria

[momto2dkids]

Bumping back up to the first page.

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi everyone. We are down to 89 days now! If someone told me two weeks ago I would lose track of the time I would have said, "No Way!" Then along came Frances and I wasn't even sure what day of the week it was.
We came home Thursday. Got phones back yesterday (Friday); but could only call out. Phones came back completely today and we got power at 2:20pm! Now it's all clean up.
Maria - it sounds like the flooding was outside. I can imagine the mess; but glad home is OK.
Can't wait to hear that ship's horn!!

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Yes,Fran the flooding has been outisde both in front and backyard.Now,Ivan is coming.We got lucky with Frances to say the least.We are still cleaning up,but we can't complain as others had a it A LOT worse then we did.Glad to hear you are home.Good luck with Ivan!Stay safe!

Yes,I am ready to hear the boat's horn!Come on December!

Maria

[jwann]

Hi DIS friends!
We just got back from our surprise 4-day trip to AKL and the parks! We had a blast and the weather was terrific. AKL is awesome! I got to see Mickey's Philharmagic and it is now my favorite 3D show.
We got to see first-hand how devastating a hurricane could be. Not from Frances but from Charley. We could see a sea of blue rectangles (tarps) on the houses from the airplane. The damage to some of the houses between the airport and WDW was really sad to see. I can only imagine what it is like for those in Grenada and Grand Cayman today...

[Disneyfan37]

Yes,I hear Charley and Francees did a lot of damage to that area.I haven't been there yet.We are going in a few weeks to take something to Shrley at the Perfect Gift,

I am glad you all had a great time.I will have to check out AKL.We haven't stayed there yet.I am going to WDW in November for soap weekend,but I am just going to MGM.I am looking forward to it as we don't frequent the parks as much as we use too.

You all have a great week!

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

How did we get to the second page?
Maria - any problems from Ivan up there? We just got a little wind yesterday.
What's everyone been up to? Anyone have any ideas what excursions they are going on?

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Hi everyone!We are doing the St Maarten Land tour with Disney as well as renting the bikes at Casstaway Key other then that we are on our own.In St Thomas,DH wants to do the snuba,and we are going to ride the sky ride.We will take care of these ourselves.I plan on shopping for sure!!!!I am wanting to try that guavaberry so bad.I love guava fruit as I was born in Cuba,and one can't find it here in the US.I was surprised when someone on the board talked about St Maarten having it.We will see!

Ivan was nice to us.DH saw some clouds last night,and he said that is what Ivan left.It was windy on and off yesterday.I am just glad he didn't leave any rain.Now,this weekend we will continue on working on our yard due to Frances.The front is done,but the back we are still working on.There is another hurricane coming to FL Monday or Tuesday,but I am hoping and praying it stays in the water.Tropical Number 12 was announced last night.What did we do to deserve one after another.It has never been like this here.

As time gets closer,we need to decide where we are going to meet.I know I am meeting Jennifer at the Port line<G>.We are so looking forward to meeting you all!

You all have a great weekend!

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

Maria - glad Ivan left you alone. Looks like Jeanne will be going away from Florida. Thank God!!!

Is everyone up for meeting at the sailaway party? The Port line is a good place to look for people. We all need to wear our lime green for sure.

Just 12 weks from right now!

fran

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

I am so glad those of you in Floriday are recovering. And also relieved that the current storm activity in the Atlantic doesn't look like it will be making landfall.

While helping out in DD's class at school yesterday, the kids had a few minutes of free time and were building things with lego-like pieces. Several of them built hurricane models based on the radar pictures they see on the news. Just shows how much this crazy season has been on everyone's minds - even here in Texas where we haven't even had any threats.

What/where is the port line?

Also, is anyone going to WDW either before or after the cruise? Anyone going to MVMCP? We are trying to plan our WDW schedule.....

Have a great weekend everyone!

[beautyandbeast]

Hi,

Just booked the 12/11/04!!!:Pinkbounc We have two teens dd17 and ds16. are there other teens cruising at this time???

Thanks Lynda:thewave:

[Disneyfan37]

Yes,it looks like we are going to get a break from the hurricanes at least for right now.The sun is out again today.It is nice seeing it!Thank God the weather has improved around here!

Sailaway party we usually go up to deck ten and face the terminal as we find it to be less crowded there,and you don't miss anything .Yes,we will definitely be looking for you all at the port line.We will be having Dispins on which will have our screen names on them.

Yes,just 12 more weeks from now!

Maria

[Disneyfan37]

Julie,yes,it goes to show that the hurricanes are on everyone's minds.These poor kids aren't going to want to come to FL.Yes,you all have been very lucky this year.I am glad about that as you all have had your share.No,we aren't going to WDW before the cruise.We are about three hours from port,so we are driving there that morning.We plan on leaving Gator territory pretty early as we want to get to port early.

Welcome Lynda!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Maria

[Villaness]

Welcome Lynda! :D It is nice to have AZ represented among our travelers. No teens with our party, but I have heard there are always a good group of teens traveling.

I hope with all the hurricanes there will be islands left to visit! The islands along with Florida are getting hit way too often this season.

Tomorrow I can get our seats assigned on NWA. That means time is slowly moving towards our cruise.

Kathy

[Ratt45]

bump...bump...bump...

Thought we should be on the first page. I know that's where I look first!!!! i didn't look to see if this had been answered so forgive me if it has. The port line is the left turn lane to drop off your luggage and passengers before parking in the secured lot. It starts to fill up some time around 9:30 or 9:45 in the morning. Can't wait cause this weekend I will be making my SNUBA ressie with the people directly(this is NOT offered by Disney as an excursion). Remember this Saturday will mark 11 weeks to go!!!

:bounce: :tongue: :Pinkbounc :hyper: :wave2:

[cruisenewbie2004]

What time again do you need to make reservations for Paolos? If we are a group in a number of different cabins, can I reserve for more than one cabin at the same meal? for example, if cabins 1 and 2 want to eat together one night, can I reserve for them, or does someone from each cabin have to stay in the line?

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi all. Fall is officially here - so another milestone is past.

Hey, Ratt45 - what exactly is SNUBA?

Am I right thinking we should be getting our excursion information fairly soon?

fran

[jwann]

This post goes out to our special 12/11 cruise DIS friends in Florida! Hold on tight! It's gonna be another wild ride! My prayers are with you guys!

Also, seems as though our beloved Castaway Cay survived Ivan but did it survive Jeanne???

Re: excursions - who knows when we'll get our info with all these hurricanes, Disney will probably take a while to catch up! I think we are going to do it all on our own this trip - but it will be fun to read whatever they send us!

Re: Snuba -- it is sort of like scuba except your air tank is still on the boat and you can go as far as your air tube will take you. I've never done it but it sounds fun. You get to go deep like scuba but you don't have to have all the training!

[Disneyfan37]

Thanks Jennifer!We could surely use the prayers here in FL.I am more worried about this one then I was Frances.I was informed today by one of my dcparents that the eye will be going over Gainesville.That was a little more then I cared to find out.When are these hurricanes going to stop?

DH will be doing the snuba.I am going to probably stay on the boat while he does it or shop near by the place where he will be doing it at.I am skipping this one.He is really looking forward to it.I can't wait for the spa.I love the rainforest!

I called DCL about two weeks ago,and they said we will be able to book excursions in October.The only excursion we will be doing is in St Maarten where we will be doing the island tour other then that we are on our own.

You all have a great rest of the weekend.Our friends here in FL prayers for safety your way!

Maria

[jwann]

Hey Maria,
I love those heated tile loungers in the rainforest room. Shall we make a pact? If you hear me snoring - wake me up and I'll do the same for you:o

[Disneyfan37]

Hi Jennifer,Yes,those great chairs in the rainforest.The pact is on between you and I.I could use one of those right now.I can't wait my dear friend!I wish December would hurry and get here.

The weather here in Gainesville is ugly.It is very windy and rainy.The street is already starting to flood.I ask myself what did Floridians do to deserve this?We are okay which is all that matters!Some of the other areas close by already have no power!I hope everyone in FL on this thread is okay!Prayers your way!

Everyone have a great Sunday!

Maria

[Villaness]

Maria, I hope all is well with you after this storm passes. It is hard to imagine this many BIG storms hitting one state in one season. And to think the hurricane season has 2 months to go!

I am heading to WDW on Wednesday a.m. with my niece for her 8th birthday present. This will be her first airplane ride (and believe me she is really afraid). I hope the ride doesn't turn out to be a terribly bumpy ride. It will be a short trip, 3 nights at the Poly. I was nervous when I was watching the weather channel and Orlando was going to be hit again.

All is well, the airport is opening tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. and the parks are all open their regular times, so by Wednesday it should be running smoothly (I hope).

The unlucky ones on the cruise that left this weekend end up with only a 5 day cruise since the Magic is leaving from Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow.

Well, hang in there everyone in Florida! Keep safe. I hope you have power as well. My family in Florida are getting bery tired of going to shelters!

[jwann]

Villaness! I am so jealous! We went to the parks a couple weeks ago (actually between Francis and Ivan) and the parks were SO empty. We had so much fun! Even though your trip is short, you'll get to do lots of things because there'll be no lines. WOW - an 8 year-old's frist trip to WDW - how magical!

[Disneyfan37]

Hi!We are doing fine!We were pretty lucky once again compared to what everyone else is going through.We now wait for our flooded yard to go back to normal.Yes,this is unbelievable.To think they are two more months,I don't even want to think that.

Villaness,Have fun at WDW with your niece.I am sure she will have a fantastic trip.The sun was out this afternoon,so hopefully Wednesday it will be nice in Orlando.

Have a great week everyone!

Maria

[micah31nurse]

Hello! This sounds like a great thread! I am a single mom and will be on my first DC on Dec. 11th. I have a 3 1/2 yr. old girl and she is so excited about cruising! Anymore single moms or dads sailing this date? I hope that I have a lot of fun and am not bored! We were supposed to sail 9/4 and our plans got messed up because of frances!
:earsgirl: princess:

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Welcome micah31nurse!! Don't worry, I don't think you will get bored. We wondered the same thing last year before we sailed. One week seemed like a long time to spend on one ship. But the week flew by and we didn't have time to do a lot of the things we wanted.... Thus the need to cruise again this Year!!!

[jwann]

Welcome Micah31nurse! How our "family" is growing!!

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed that our same cruise in 2006 (Dec. 9th) is one of the special Western itineraries with two stops at CC. I think we are going to book it and try to go two years between cruises. I think we can do it if I know I'm going to bask in the sun on Castaway Cay twice in one week!

[jiminy579]

We are cruising on this sailing!
Me, DH, DD age 12, and DS age 10.
We are sailing with my cousin and her family too!
Sailing on the Magic in December just can't be beat!!

pirate: Pirate night here we come!

[momto2dkids]

Welcome jiminy579!

I have a DD who will be just a month shy of 11 when we sail. My daughter is so excited that there are several girls around her age.


Final payment has been made, airline reservations made, hotel reservations taken care of... now I just need to reserve our limo/van service from MCO to the Radisson. I know there are several companies i.e. FL Tours, Happy Limo, Southern Elegance, but does anybody here have any opinions on which one they have used and liked?

Thanks.

I feel like that commerical where the child and dad were "too excited to sleep"!

[micah31nurse]

What is the weather normally like on the cruise ship in December.
Any idea of what excursions to go on with a 3 1/2 yo? She is very good for 3 and used to sitting through things, but I want her to have a good time!:earsgirl: princess:

[momto2dkids]

micah31nurse

I hear the weather is pretty nice in December. I think I read that the average temp is in the 80's. Some say that the water at Castaway Cay can sometimes be on the chilly side depending on what you are use to and others say they thought the water was perfect.

Heads up regarding excursions- you might want to check out Disney's website for ages that are allowed on the excursions. We were looking at doing the Trunk Bay excursion in St. Thomas through Disney Cruise line but found out the minimum age for that excursion is 5 years old. We will end up going on our own so our 1 year old an go, which other DIS'ers say is really easy.

Welcome!

[Villaness]

Hi Everyone!

Back from our short hop to WDW. Weather was perfect, sunny every day, no rain, but very hot!!! 91 which is too hot when walking toe parks.

Enjoyed the firewoerks at Wishes. I have the CD of the music during Wishes but have never seen it before. It was great!!

Had some new experiences this trip.....there was a pyrotechnic convention going on at one of the convention centers in the park and Thursday night they put on a firework display at 9:00 off the lake of the MK. We were staying at the Poly and had a great view when it started. WOW! WOW! WOW!!! I have never in my life seen fireworks like these. The person at the hotel and the TV said that there was competition between various companies and it showed. It was awesome......I can't describe this event. There aren't enough words that could convey the colors, the sounds etc.

Then we went to the Halloween Party in the MK (I didn't realize this was going on....I wasn't paying attention to the Disney Chat groups etc) so we bought a costume for Allie (Jasmine) and went in to the MK. I wish I would have known then I would have taken a costume as well. The park was open from 6-12 mn. with 2 parades, special fireworks and trick or treating throughout the park. Great fun. The fireworks that night were set to spookier music than Wishes etc. The castle was lit in purples, greens etc to make it look scary as well as the lights on main street. The lights were low throughout the park which gave it a Halloween atmosphere.

Allie got chosen to be one of the children on the Grand Marshall wagon for the 10:00 parade which thrilled her to death!! She said she always wanted to be in a little hometown parade they have, but she was in THE DISNEY Parade!! I'm so glad she was brave enogh to get on the plane for this trip. She had a great time.....I know, my feet are killing me! Glad to be back home.
:Pinkbounc

[Disneyfan37]

Welcome home Villainess,It sounds like you all had a great time.I love the fireworks at the parks.They are awesome.I bet these other ones you saw were spectacular.Yes,the FL weather here has been very hot lately,and the humidity level doesn't help either.We don't have fall here in FL like you do.That is great that Allie got chosen to be in the parade.I bet that was truly enjoyed.Glad to hear you all had a great time.

Maria

[thejenjens]

My mom and I are on this cruise. I can't wait till December. We went on one cruise in 2002. It was only a four day. We can't wait to do the seven day. Three days at sea. YEAH! I was also wondering if any one has ever booked an unconfirmed stateroom? That's what we have for now. I guess when we get our paperwork we'll have our stateroom number. They say you might get an upgrade with an unconfirmed room. Does any have experience with this sitution?

Thanks,

Jen ::MickeyMo

[Villaness]

Hi Jen,

I have booked an unconfirmed stateroom before with other Princess and one time got a good upgrade. The other time I got one in the class that I was paying for.

I am sure November will be a long......month because all of us are so anxious for this cruise to come. I am always so excited the last month for every cruise I have taken. It will be nice to be with grandchildren on this cruise.....this is our first Disney cruise!

Kathy

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi everyone. Welcome to our new cruisers.
Just got power and phones back yesterday. So here I am taking a break from cleaning and checking my "feel good place."
Looks like our little group is growing.
Just 10 more weeks! Kind of got sidetracked last month. Need to get cracking on what we need to buy!
Everyone have a great weekend.

fran

[thejenjens]

::MickeyMo

Hello Everyone!

I am so excited, my daughter Jen (adult) and I are going on the first seven day cruise of our life! We can't wait! Was just wondering if there were any other Mother and daughter combo going to be on the ship? The first trip was a four day with a veranda, this time we are going with a inside stateroom no port hole or anything, I am a little nervous about that! Any experience with inside staterooms?

Thanks, Hope to see you on the ship!
Millie ::MinnieMo

[cruisenewbie2004]

My travel agent called today. Our final payment is due on October 12th. She said we can book excursions once our paperwork comes from Dinsey 3-4 weeks out.

It will be very soon!:wave:

[jwann]

Welcome Millie and Jen!
We've only done inside rooms on our two cruises and have been fine with them. I suppose we don't know what we are missing. I do miss the daylight in the morning but we are all morning people so getting up is not usually a problem.

I'm SO excited that our "family" is growing!!!
Please be sure to purchase the "DIS" lime green buttons and wear them on the embarkation day. We plan to have a DIS meet on deck 10 before the sail-away party. Isn't that right?? Also a friendly competition to see who will end up at the port first (me, me, me, meeeee)

momto2dkids: I put a picture of my 6-year old and a drawing he did in the mail today. I asked him to draw a picture of him on the cruise boat - I think you'll be surprised what he drew!

fran: WOW - this long without electricity! Is there anything we can do to help?? Like the starfish said in Finding Nemo - "find a happy place, find a happy place, find a happy place"!

[SQUIGGLE]

You've got a mother/daughter team right here. It will be myself and DD (also adult).

If you liked the 4 day cruise - you will LOVE the seven day! Do you have the early or late dinner seating?

Sorry I can't help on the inside stateroom. We're hung up on the verandah. I love to sit out there early morning and late at night.

Where in NJ are you located? We're from Trenton originally.

fran

[jwann]

Too funny fran - look we posted one minute apart from eachother !

[SQUIGGLE]

jwann - we must have been typing at the same time; but you hit submit first.

Many thanks for the offer. Things are slowly getting back to normal. BUT can you make the days fly by?

fran

[jwann]

I'll see what I can do...:hug:

[Disneyfan37]

Hi all!We hope everyone is having a good week.Welcome aboard to our new friends joining us on this cruise.DH and I can't wait to meet you all.We have our pins ready!DH has this box full of cruise stuff,and every time I see them I get even more excited!

Jennifer,you know who is going to win?Me<G>!!!It will be so funny if we get there at the same time!

We are getting away this weekend.We are heading to Cocoa Beach to see the boat sailaway as well as going to meet Shirley from the Perfect Gift for the first time.She is doing some baskets for my dckids as well as one for us in December.On the last two cruises,we have had Disney do the welcome aboard basket stuff this time we are doing something new.I have heard great things about the Perfect Gift.Shirley is so great to talk to via phone,so we are looking forward to meeting her.

Fran,I hope you have your power on by now.We have been lucky with both hurricanes as we only lost our time briefly.We still have tons of things to do in our yard,but we have to wait till water goes down.Prayers that your lights come back on soon!

You all have a great rest of the week!

Maria

[thejenjens]

Hi JWANN,

Thanks for the input on the staterooms. I'll also let my mom know. I was wondering where do I buy or get the DIS Lime Green buttons from? I would love for us to have them for our trip! We can't wait. The days keep just ticking by don't they? I hope to be at the port pretty early also. However, are flight is pretty late the night before. Is there a specific place on deck 10 that everyone meets and a certain time? How did I get all this information?

Thanks for everyones help. Even though we were on a four night cruise before...it seems like it was a blur. It went so very fast and being new I think that we missed some things. I would love some tips from you pro cruisers.

Thanks again,

Millie and Jen
Mother, Dtr Team

[thejenjens]

Fran,

AKA..SQUIGGLE

My mom and I have the late seating for dinner. How about you and your dtr? What do you have? So far we have asked for a two seater table. What do you guys have? How old is your dtr? I'm 26. We are originally from Mt. Holly..now we reside in Maple Shade. Both in Burlington County. My mom's family all lives here. Except my one Aunt who recently moved to Florida. Mom and I are planning on one night to have dinner at Palo's. We did not try Palo's last time. However, now that we have more time we think we'll give it a go. We are so very excited to go on this cruise together.

Hope to see you and your dtr on the ship.

Thanks,

Millie and Jen
::MinnieMo

[Pgood]

Just got off the phone with Debbie and made all our reservations for the REAS!!!! I am so excited. We are traveling during our anniversary and have PALO reservations for our dinner with turn down service that night!!!!

We are traveling with boys 6 & 9. I heard they might have changed the age designations of the clubs. Has anyone heard about this? I need to make sure they stay together, as they did on the last cruise.

Can't wait, I love signing on to my reservations on the Dreams Unlimited site and seeing the days left to the trip!!!

[thejenjens]

PGOOD,

Sorry to let you know, however the boys will be in different groups. The groups go 3-7 and then 8-12. I hope that they won
't mind. I have the Disney Cruise Passporter. This thing is great. However, just to double check the book I just hung up the phone with the cruise line and asked them the ages. I just wanted to answer your question for you. Hope to see you on the ship.

They should still have fun if they don;t mind being seperated.

Thanks,

Jen::MickeyMo

[jwann]

HEY!! Pgood!!! My sons are 9 and 6 as well!! Would you like to exchange pictures/letters in the mail? My sons aren't much for writing letters but are good at drawing pictures and I can attach a polaroid of them so your boys might have a familiar face in the club and lab! My 6 year-old likes the club and spends alot of time there. My 9 year-old LOVES the lab and would stay there all day if we let him. He's also been saving his allowance for arcade cards.

Jen - you get the DIS buttons by going onto www.wdwinfo.com and clicking on "Stuff for DISers" on the left hand side. I'm not completely sure where we are meeting on deck 10 - port? starboard? BUt we are meeting above the goofy pool.

[Pgood]

jwann

I would love to exchange info!!! The boys would be thrilled.



Thanks for responding!!

[cruisenewbie2004]

My brochure says the ages are 3-4, 5-7, and so forth. A group of 3-7 year olds is crazy! I don't like that at all. Are you sure of this?

:confused:

[jwann]

Originally posted by cruisenewbie2004
My brochure says the ages are 3-4, 5-7, and so forth. A group of 3-7 year olds is crazy! I don't like that at all. Are you sure of this?

Don't worry cruisenewbie. They keep the 3&4s together and the 5-7s together. They even have different navigators. We've had kids in our traveling group that were in those separate groups and they rarely saw eachother. IMHO, Disney does a super job keeping things age-appropriate.

pgood - I sent you an email! FUN!

[Ratt45]

Bump to the first page. Couldn't stand seeing us on page 2. Got my ressie for SNUBA on St. Thomas. Can't wait to try it for the first time!!!! Only 9 weeks to go :hyper: :earseek: :bounce: :smooth:

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi all. Just got on line to pay bills; but had to check the Board first.
Jen - We have early seating; usually get LAPLAPL rotation. We get a table for 8; and have been lucky with our table mates. have met some very nice people. DD is 39.

There was some talk of a meet before the Sailaway Party. Deck 10 Starboard (terminal) side. We'll have our DIS shirts and pins on. Hopefully we'll see you in the terminal before we board. We'll probably be getting there around 10;30.
did you say you are getting in the day before? If so where are you staying?

Maria - glad to hear you made out OK in the storms. Life is getting back to normal slowly down here.

Can't wait to see everyone; and hear the first blast of the Horn!

fran

[jwann]

Hi all!
Hope everyone is having a good fall weekend. It is Homecoming weekend here in Murray at Murray State University. SInce my dh teaches there, we always have fun this weekend.

I have an idea. Feel free to let me know what you think....

I'm a big "game-playing" gal and thought of a game that might be fun to play on the boat.
1. Everyone from our DIS group (anyone who will wear a shirt or pin so that includes dh's or dkids with DIS buttons or shirts) PMs me with a personal question and answer that only someone could get if they ASKED you. Example - NOT THIS - What color are fran (squiggle)'s eyes BUT THIS What was Joelle (jhorner)'s nickname in highschool. Get it? Be sure you supply me with a question and answer from each one in your group who will play.
2. A couple weeks, or so, before we sail, I will post a list of the questions on our thread. You print the questions out.
3. The first one to give me their paper with all the questions correctly answered wins a Disney pin (how about a Disney Cruise Christmas Pin!?)

This game might be fun! It will encourage us to look for DIS buttons and interact with one another. I can just see me in the Walt Disney Theater -- "Hey, Maria, what's your favorite color?"
LOL

I ran this by my dsis and she thinks it sounds good but she's a game playing sort as well. What do y'all think?

[momto2dkids]

Sounds FUN to me! I'll ask my DH if he'll be willing to participate, but I know my children would like to play for sure.

Great idea jwann!!!

[SQUIGGLE]

This sounds like it could be fun; but what are the rules? Can we ask questions of each other BEFORE the cruise? Or do we have to wait until the cruise?
We would definitely have to wear some DIS indentifying item. Might get a lot of strange looks if we just went up to someone who happened to be in a lime green shirt (do you know how many of those there are out there!)

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Hi!I am gain for some game playing.My dh will have to answer for himself.

We just got back from Orlando.We went to the Perfect Gift out at Cocoa Beach and met Shirley and Norm for the first time.I am sure you all know who I am talking about as Shirley is also on here.I am so glad we got to meet them.They are great people.We ordered a basket for our cruise from them. We went to eat at Rusty's,and we watched the Magic sail out as we ate.Downtown Disney was really busy last night.I can see why I couldn't get a room on Disney property.The Riu in downtown Disney was fine though.We had breakfast this morning at the Polynesisan at Kona Cafe.I love their stuffed french toast.Then,we took the monorails around the hotels to walk off breakfast as we looked in the shops.The hotels were packed,so I am sure the parks were too.There was tons of debris down as we traveled through Orlando and Cocoa Beach.It is so sad.

9 more weeks!I can't wait!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Maria

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,I am glad things are getting back to normal there also.I hope and pray we are done for the rest of the year.I am with you I can't wait to hear the horn blow,and I surely can't wait to go to the rainforest onboard the ship.

We have late seating!We were lucky on both cruises on the Disney Wonder,so hopefully we will be lucky with our tablemates on the Magic.That is the only eerie thing I have about cruising as one never knows what that is going to be like.I wish some of you all had late seating,but it looks like we are the only late seaters<G>.

Jen,I beat you to the port already I was there yesterday<G>!We are going again a week from Thursday to see the Wonder sail out as two of my dckids will be on it.They still have no clue.DH and I already discussed it this weekend we are going to be sleeping here in town,but we will be leaving early enough on Saturday to get to port before 10 AM.We will have our Dis Pins on.COme on 9 weeks get out of the way!!!!I am so ready for the rainforest!I am going to lounge away<G>.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Maria

[momto2dkids]

Disneyfan37-
My family and I have late seating as well, so you won't be the only DISer at that time. We were waitlisted for early because we will have our 3 Dkids(10,5, and 1), but I think we have pretty much decided that late seating might work out well for us since we are from the west coast. Eating at 6-6:30 would be like 3:00 on our body clocks. 8-8:30pm equates to 5-5:30 on our body clocks which is more like when we eat here at home. My only worry is being in a room full of adults only that might not like sharing their dining time with small children and getting strange looks all during dinner. Kind of like that, "Oh I hope that baby isn't sitting by me on the plane" look that moms sometimes get when they travel with young ones on planes. :rolleyes:

[Disneyfan37]

Hey!We won't look at you all like that.It would be great if they sat us together.DH and I love children,but we know exactly where you are coming from as there are people like that.We get the usual question when we book a cruise with AAA-"Don't you want to go on another cruise line that doesn't have as many children?" If I wanted to do that,I would of asked.This will probably be our last cruise booking with them as there are really no incentives now with booking with AAA.We will have to wave at each other!

Maria

[thejenjens]

Disneyfan37 and Momto2dkids and SQUIGGLE,

MY mom and I also have the late seating. We both love kids. I think there will be other families at the late seating with kids. It will be fine. We expect to see kids everywhere I think that if they minded they would take a different cruise.

We love playing games. I can't wait to see you all on the ship! Do we wear a specific Disney Pin or can it be any Disney Pin that we have? And do we have to get lime green shirts or can we just wear any Disney shirt with the pin? Then do we just wear a Disney Pin everyday to identify ourselves as playing the game? Or how will that work?

I can't wait til December. SQUIGGLE we are arriving the night before. We are getting in sooo late that we are just staying at a hotel right near the airport. So far I have the Fairfield in mind. They have shuttle service to and from the airport.

I am thinking of getting up and trying to get on one of the first buses to the port. We get more and more excited everyday.

When you guys have late seating how many people do you usually sit with?

Hope to see you all there.

Thanks,

Jen and Millie

[thejenjens]

Hi,

How is everyone doing? I was wondering what excursions everyone was planning on taking. We booked ours yesterday. I can't wait for December to get here.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Jen :bounce: :Pinkbounc

[smchan]

So... today is "final payment" day for our cruise. I'm agonizing over whether to stick with it or not. Typically, I book last minute; no more than 30 days out. But this one I reservered whilst onboard back in March, so it includes a 10% discount and $200 on board credit. I also have the 14 day FL to CA cruise reserved, but if I do this one, it'll be hard for me to justify the expense of the repo cruise. The big difference being the 12/11/04 cruise is with my kids (boys, 4 & 6) and the repo cruise is just my wife and me.

I really want to go on the 12/11 eastern with my boys who have never cruised before. Come on folks, talk me into it - before DCL closes today!

Thanks,
Sam

[thejenjens]

I think that you should take the boys on this cruise. It will be an experience that they will never forget. An early Christmas present. Plus, the 14 day cruise is almost 7 months away. This one less than 2. YEAH! We can't wait to go. Your boys will have so much fun in the kids labs. Plus, you and your wife can still go to a nice private dinner together at Palo's. Why not! Disney is ALWAYS worth it. Just think that in two months from today you could be sitting on the ship having lunch or swimming in the pool or watching a movie. Or whatever you heart desires. My mom and I are SO excited to go on our first 7 day cruise. We have only been on one other and it was a four day.

Hope to see you and you family on the ship.

Jen ::MickeyMo

[momto2dkids]

What better time to share a magical time with your young boys then on a Magical boat at the most magical time of the year-Christmas!

Come on- cruise with us!! Create those memories now.

We were orginally booked on the same FL to CA repo cruise, but had to cancel because of timing issues with school, testing and such. My children are just as excited, if not more, to be going on the cruise around Christmas time and seeing all the decorations as they were about cruising for the two weeks repo cruise. My now 5 year old still remembers his first cruise when he had just turned three and is literally jumping up and down with excitement about leaving for another one in eight weeks.

[smchan]

OK... I'm almost there.

I'm thinking about a surprise visit to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party the night before the cruise to get into the Disney frame-of-mind. Anyone else going?

Thanks,
Sam

[Villaness]

I would love to go to the Christmas party!!! I went to the Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween party and it was wanderful. What goes on special for the Christmas party? We arrvie early in the morning on Friday and could go to the party. My DS and his wife want to go to Univerals Studio because they have noever made it to that park. We'll see what I do.....

Kathy

[smchan]

OK, gang, I'm in. Just made my final payment. I'll be down in the deck 2 dungeon. :D

I tell you, I'm going to be spoiled. My last cruise was the 7 night Western back in March. I've got to space these things out a bit more or go bankrupt!

Here's a link for information (http://allearsnet.com/tp/hol_mk.htm) regarding Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party.

As for my plans, I'm coming from central North Carolina, so I'll likely leave Thursday night and spend the night somewhere near Jacksonville. We'll plan to get to WDW mid-afternoon on Friday, check in, attend the Christmas party (shhh... it's a surprise for my boys), and then head to the port Saturday morning.

Man, I'm psyched! See y'all on board!

Sam

http://www.mindspring.com/~smchan/cruise/black.jpg

[momto2dkids]

smchan-
Yippee!!!:jumping1:

Have fun at Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. What a great surprise for your boys.

By the way, great picture.

[smchan]

Originally posted by momto2dkids
By the way, great picture.

Thank you. :) Self-portrait right before my wife and I went to dinner on formal night during our last cruise.

Here's another to help us get in the mood.

http://www.mindspring.com/~smchan/cruise/panoramicship.jpg

[smchan]

Originally posted by Villaness
My DS and his wife want to go to Univerals Studio because they have never made it to that park.

And what's wrong with never having visited Universal? :teeth:

Sam

[Villaness]

Sam...........I do agree!!! I will choose Disney any day!!! Great pictures! Welcome aboard!!

Kathy

[jwann]

Welcome Sam and family! How old are your boys? Mine are 6 and 9. We are also doing the MVMCP the night before the cruise! Can't wait!

About our DIS meet game -- I'll think about the "rules" and post closer to the cruise.

Personally, my group will be at early seating. We are arriving at Disney the day before the cruise and staying with my dsis (jhorner) at the Beach Club Villas. As for excursions, we decided to "do" all the ports ourselves. The only thing I am worried about is not making is back to the boat on time......

[smchan]

Originally posted by jwann
Welcome Sam and family! How old are your boys? Mine are 6 and 9. We are also doing the MVMCP the night before the cruise! Can't wait!

Mine are 4 & 6 and a pair of stinkers at that.

We have early seating as well.

Sam

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Welcome Sam - Glad you decided to take your boys. They'll have a great time! I took my DS last year when he was 6 and he did great.

We currently have late seating, but are waitlisted for early. We booked back in March and I was surprised that early seating was already filled. Hopefully now that all the final payments are in, DCL can begin to finalize the dining seating.

You guys have fun at MVMCP. We will be in WDW - arriving the Wed. before the cruise, but currently we're planning to be at Epcot on Friday night. DH wasn't too excited about staying out so late at MVMCP. (I tell him he's just getting old and too set in his ways. :p )

The game idea sounds fun. Will the lime green Mickey heads from Home Depot do for identification?

[smchan]

Originally posted by RebeccaLovesDisney
We currently have late seating, but are waitlisted for early. We booked back in March and I was surprised that early seating was already filled. Hopefully now that all the final payments are in, DCL can begin to finalize the dining seating.


Hmmm.... that's interesting. Consider checking in with DCL on the seating options. I booked only a couple months ago and got early seating no problem.

Sam

[thejenjens]

I would check with DCL also because when we booked we could have had early seating also. We passed and took late because I just can't eat that early.

I already have the Lime Green Mickey Head from Home Depot for the game as well, just in case we can use that.

We are sooo very excited. The more time that passes the more excited I get. I can't wait to be on the ship for 7 whole days. Plus, I can't wait to see what stateroom number we will have. Hopefully it will be a good one. Do you guys already have your numbers??

Thanks,

Jen
::MickeyMo

[thejenjens]

Has anyone gotten the Cruise Line Passporter?

We have had one for almost a year. I look at it all the time. It breaks the ship's decks down. Shows you where every stateroom is located and gives you GREAT tips.

It is great to have to get ideas. We love ours.

Jen

[Villaness]

I have the cruise passporter as well, I think I've read it from cover to cover at least twice. Now my daughter-in-law has it checking everything out. I am getting so excited!!! I think everytime I get on the DIS boards I get even MORE excited listening to everyone.

Kathy
:Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc

[thejenjens]

I was wondering if the Disney Pro Cruisers could give us some ideas of the best things to do on the ship. And the best way to manage our time while there. I felt as if the four night cruise was such a blur as was our first ever cruise. We were kinda in ahh of the whole idea of being on the ship and what not. I think that this time will be a lot better having more time on the ship and more days at sea.

Also, when you have those days at sea does can you actually feel that there are so many people on the ship. I mean on port days everyone is off doing something most likely off the ship. But with days at sea does it seem that there really is more people than on port days?

Still a little afraid of the inside stateroom. Are they much smaller than an outside stateroom? We won't know our stateroom number until we get our cruise papers two weeks prior to the cruise. :confused:

Thank you for everyone's help.

Millie ::MinnieMo

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

This time we'll be in a SPH cabin! I don't think you'll find the inside cabin too small. We were in one on our last cruise, and other than not being able to tell when it was morning, it was fine. They're not much smaller than the outside cabins.

[smchan]

Originally posted by thejenjens
I was wondering if the Disney Pro Cruisers could give us some ideas of the best things to do on the ship. And the best way to manage our time while there.

As for me, I plan to sleep. Alot. And when I'm not sleeping, I'll be napping, eating, watching movies, or... *ahem*.

I felt as if the four night cruise was such a blur as was our first ever cruise. We were kinda in ahh of the whole idea of being on the ship and what not. I think that this time will be a lot better having more time on the ship and more days at sea.

Exactly my experience. The 7 day cruise really lets you disconnect from the world and you really get to know your tablemates well. I'm totally sold on the 7 day cruises.

Also, when you have those days at sea does can you actually feel that there are so many people on the ship. I mean on port days everyone is off doing something most likely off the ship. But with days at sea does it seem that there really is more people than on port days?

It does feel more crowded especially around the pools. But I don't recall ever feeling like the crowd overwhelmed me. I mean, it wasn't a crowd like Fantasyland on a Saturday in June.

Still a little afraid of the inside stateroom. Are they much smaller than an outside stateroom? We won't know our stateroom number until we get our cruise papers two weeks prior to the cruise. :confused:

Maybe you'll get an upgrade. I reserved a GTY 11 on my March western and got a deck 2 cat 9. I loved it so much, I reserved a deck 2 cat 9 for this cruise. Pop by and stare out the window with me if you like. I'll be in 2510.
:D

Sam

[thejenjens]

Thank you for the info on the sea days and the crowds at the pools. We'll probably do something else on those days. Actually for dinner we only have a table for two. My mom said on the first cruise that she knows that I would feel comfortable with other people that I don't know. However she probably would not be as comfortable with others as she would be with it just being mom and daughter. So we went again with a table for two, I don't want my mom to be uncomfortable. This is supposed to be a WONDERFUL vacation. I can't wait.

So Sam, your like the dad on the DCL commercial where you see him sleeping all over the place. On the ship, and Castaway Cay. HA! HA! That's funny. And thank you for letting me know that you got an upgrade. That gives me something to look forward to. Hope you enjoy your view.

Jen ::MickeyMo

[smchan]

Originally posted by thejenjens
So Sam, your like the dad on the DCL commercial where you see him sleeping all over the place. On the ship, and Castaway Cay. HA! HA! That's funny.

That's me. :D Though I suspect my boys are going to be so excited they won't let me sleep on this one. It'll be their first cruise - my third.

Sam

[cruisenewbie2004]

My TA called and said our shore excursion information has come in for our cruise. I don't have any big interest in anything except perhaps the butterfly farm and coral world, and I assume I don't need to call her asap and book those, right?

We have all paid in full now, all ten of us. It would be interesting if anyone in our party gets an upgrade. We are in a veranda room, we have two oceanview rooms and one inside cabin. Perhaps the inside cabin will get bumped up.

[smchan]

The weekend is almost here, so that'll be one less week between us and our cruise. Man I'm getting excited!

I'll be exhausted from excitement by the time our sail date actually arrives!

Sam

[jwann]

Originally posted by smchan
The weekend is almost here, so that'll be one less week between us and our cruise. Man I'm getting excited!

I'll be exhausted from excitement by the time our sail date actually arrives!



DITTO, My MAN!!

[SQUIGGLE]

cruisenewbie 2004 - we're planning on seeing Coral World too. Heard from someone who lived on St Thomas that it is worth seeing.
Not Sure about St Maarten - may do island tour.
Sure wish our excursion info would get here. Curious to see if there is anything new.

Just saw on a thread down farther that docs seem to be arriving around amonth before the cruise. Soooooooo does that mean in just about a month we should be getting our doc? YEA!!!!

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Yes,dh and I are getting excited too!I booked the excursion that we are doing with Disney on Wednesday which is the St Maarten Island Tour.Come on Fran join us!!We will be doing Coral World on our own actually I will as dh will be snorkeling as I didn't want to try it due to my asthma.He already booked that online.

I hope these weeks fly by as we are so ready for this getaway!

You all have a great weekend!

Maria

[jwann]

To those on our thread with young kids....

Are you going to ask for one of the "pay it forward"-thread postcards? (For those who don't know. You can PM the thread your kids names and address and someone will send a cruise postcard to your kids from Mickey - or any character you want - saying "Can't wait to see you".... etc. before you go on the cruise. Then when you get back you sign up to be one of the folks who will send out a postcard. You get a few free postcards in your stateroom). If so. Don't you think we ought to ask for one soon??? I'm not sure on the turn-around time....

[jwann]

Good morning Maria - we posted just a few minutes apart! I can see you are an early riser like me! Perhaps we'll have to meet for a cup of coffee and watch the sunrise from deck 10 one morning...

[Disneyfan37]

Good morning Jen!Yes,my dear friend I am an early riser and a coffee drinker as well.Yes,we will definitely have to meet for a cup of coffee one morning as well as a sunrise.DH isn't a early riser,so I haven't seen the sunrise on the boat yet.I bet it is beautiful.It has been a busy week here.I am so ready for the rainforest at the spa.I want some relaxation now<G>.

Maria

[thejenjens]

Our excursion package came about a week or so ago. We thought we had are places picked, however today things changed again. They always seem to. Now we are going to Coral World and doing the Tram, and we are also going to do the Butterfly Farm. I can't to get on the ship.

Does anyone know of any place that has cheap transfers from the airport to the Raddison next to the Port?

Thanks. Can't wait to see everyone.

Jen

[momto2dkids]

Hi thejenjens,

Getting transportation from the airport to the Radisson is the only thing I have left to really plan and reserve, so I was calling around today to check and compare prices from the various companies. A couple months ago I was pretty sure about using Happy Limo because they were recommended by another DISer and they seem to have the best rate for a van (we have 5 in our party). After reading the number of negative posts regarding Happy Limo I started getting worried about using them and decided to do more looking. I found that the top companies that people on this board seem to like and recommend are FL Tours and Southern Elegance Limos. I went to both websites and talked with Adam from Southern Elegance Limos- seems to be a very nice man! I'm going to try to talk my husband into going the limo route when he gets home tonight, we'll see. The price is around $280.

If I remember correctly there are two in your travel party(Mom and Daughter) so you could probably look at a town car for much cheaper than a limo. Southern Elegance has town cars for $160 roudtrip. FL Tours has town cars for $170, buty offer a $10 discount so they run $160 as well.

Hope this helps.

[SQUIGGLE]

Good morning all!
We haven't gotten our excursion info yet. If we don't get something today I'll go on line with DCL and get the info. Then I'll just call DCL.
We definitley want to go to Coral World; but not sure about St Maarten yet. Has anyone gone to the Casino there?

What's happening with "the game'?

8 weeks from right now we'll be pulling up to the terminal!!

Everyone have a great weekend.

fran

[smchan]

Originally posted by SQUIGGLE

8 weeks from right now we'll be pulling up to the terminal!!


Exactly what I was thinking! Except 8 weeks from now (1130 AM eastern time), I plan to be standing in line waiting to board. :D

Sam

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,I am wondering the same thing about the casino in St Maarten.I haven't been,but it is surely a thought!Let me know if you find out anything.

We are heading back to port this Thursday to see the boat leaves as two of my dckids will be on it.The children still have no clue.I wish I was a bug on the wall when they find out.They aren't going to say anything till they are at port.After this trip,we won't be there again till we sail out.

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

Maria - that is so neat! I hope the children don't find out ahead of time.
I seem to remember someone saying the casinos are small; but don't remember much else. I'll have to do some searching I guess.
Are you doing the Under Two Flags Tour or the See & Sea Tour? We are talking about the See & Sea Tour as we did the other one. I did enjoy it; but would like to try something new.

fran

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,We are hoping they don't either.They still have a few days.They have been wanting to go on the Disney cruise line since we first went on it two years ago.We are hoping that they get hooked as we surely would love to go with them sometime.We are doing the Under two flags tour.I am glad you enjoyed it.Let me know what you find out about the casinos.We may or may not go there.I want to be able to enjoy the boat this time around as well when it isn't too crowded.

Maria

[thejenjens]

:earsgirl: Hi to all of you fellow disney cruise lover: Can't wait to get on the Magic on December 11th. I just have a quick question, I keep looking at the book for all of the thing you can do in port and I keep changing my mind about everything! We, my DD and I (Mom and daughter team) are doing the Butterfly Farm, but we had the Under two Flags tour, now I was wondering if we should go back to the Under Two Flags tour. Has any one been to one or the other and what did you think?

What is the weather like where we are going in December? I want to make sure I take the right clothes, but would like to get away with not having to take so much luggage! Last time for the four day, we took way too much! I mean one whole suitcase was shoes! LOL!

Thanks for all of your help, I am getting a lot of good tips from the board!

Millie (thejenjens Mom) :wave: ::MinnieMo

[SQUIGGLE]

Good morning everyone.

Millie - we went on the Under Two Flags Tour a few years ago. It was a good overview of the island with some of the history thrown in. We made a few picture stops and then had about an hour to shop in Marigot. Sorry, can't help you with the Butterfly farm. I thought it was interesting.

Have never cruised in December; but I'm figuring it will be even warmer in the Islands than here in Florida. So, I'm taking shorts and short sleeves; and a pair of jeans and a light sweater (just in case).

Maria - we'd like to enjoy the ship when it's not too crowded too. That's why we are having trouble deciding what to do/or not do.

St Thomas is definitely Coral World and probably the Paradise Point Tram.


Everyone have a good day.

[smchan]

So... 8 weeks from now (11:19 am eastern time) we'll be at sea and I'll hopefully still be sleeping. :D

Sam

[Disneyfan37]

Good morning everyone!

Fran,your St Thomas plans are just like ours as we are doing Coral World as well as the tram.DH is doing the snorkeling at Coral World,so I will be entertaining myself while he is doing that.We didn't book either of these through Disney as the snorkeling one we have to book ourselves.I am taking shorts also as you know here in our great FL we don't have much of a winter<G>.It cooled down this weekend in Gator territory,and dh and I truly enjoyed it.I want to be able to enjoy the boat this time when it isn't crowded as on our 4 day nighters we never got the chance.I can't wait to just relax in the rainforest as well as on deck 7 hidden area.

Everyone enjoy your Sunday!

Maria

[cruisenewbie2004]

Originally posted by jwann
To those on our thread with young kids....

Are you going to ask for one of the "pay it forward"-thread postcards? (For those who don't know. You can PM the thread your kids names and address and someone will send a cruise postcard to your kids from Mickey - or any character you want - saying "Can't wait to see you".... etc. before you go on the cruise. Then when you get back you sign up to be one of the folks who will send out a postcard. You get a few free postcards in your stateroom). If so. Don't you think we ought to ask for one soon??? I'm not sure on the turn-around time....

Nooooo. I don't think it wise to give out the name and address of your small children to total strangers. How do you know if anyone on this board is actually going on a cruise? I could totally be lying and have 5 different log in names.

[Ratt45]

Bump...bump...bump....Couldn't stand to see us on page 2!!! Time is quickly going by. Before you know it, we will be on the Magic!!!!!

[smchan]

Are we there yet?

[SQUIGGLE]

we"ll be there pretty soon.

fran

[jwann]

Lordy, Lordy -- look we're in the 40's!!
:hyper: :hyper:

[momto2dkids]

Hey!! Now if only my weight loss, in pounds, could be in the 40's...lol! Only 25 down, but still would like to lose about 20-25 more. Was hoping to do so before the cruise, but I guess anything is better than nothing!

[Disneyfan37]

Hip!Hip!Hooray!We are surely readly for December to get here.The Disney Wonder was so tempting yesterday,but I am so ready for a 7 nighter!

Maria

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,I noticed someone posted online asking about St Maarten Casinos.No one has replied yet.I I wish they would.The casinos in Freeport were okay,but they weren't anything like the ones in Biloxi,MS.We haven't been in Vegas yet,so I can't compare them to those.I am hoping the ones in St Maarten are better,but then again I may not even go there.I am definitely going to check out the guavaberry store as I love guava.

Jen,you ready for the spa as much as I am?When we went to see the Wonder sail out Thursday I wanted to jump right onboard.The spa is calling my name.October has been a hectic month here.I also found out at the doc's office yesterday that I need to take care of my lungs more as my asthma is just gettimg worse.I don't even smoke.I need one of those great aroma showers,and that will clear me up.I am ready for some game playing on our crusie.

Anyone decorating their crusie cabin doors?I am considering.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Maria

[smchan]

7 weeks and counting!

Sam

[Disneyfan37]

Yes,Seven weeks sounds better than days!It will be so great when we get to that one month mark.I am so ready!

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi everyone.
Maria - sorry to hear about your asthma. Have a friend who has it bad. she lived in Key West for two years and was almost off her medications. Doctor said it was the sea air! Maybe you could move to Port Canaveral? Or would that be a little too close? LOL

Were grand children surprised on Thursday? Bet they are having a WONDERful time.

When are you going to Coral World? We have the 8 am (8:30? something like that) excursion.

Wasn't thinking too much about decorating door. Was thinking of a small tree for the stateroom though.

Hey! Where is everyone's room? We are in 6074.

Have a great weekend.

fran

[Villaness]

I am so ready! An hour long massage sounds like something from heaven. :D 7 weeks to go and so much to do before we leave.....my DS birthday, his daughters birthday (both are going on the trip and major excited), Thanksgiving, Christmas shopping, and the list goes on and on. This is why a massage has my name on it!!!

Cruising is the one thing I can do and totally relax. I guess that is why my DH and I try to go on at least 1 cruise every year. It will be fun to have the kids and grandkids along with us. It may not be quite as relaxing, but a very different type of fun and bonding time.

Everything is set and ready to happen.....the rooms pre and post are done, the transportation is set.....Let's go!!!

Kathy:Pinkbounc :bounce: :Pinkbounc :bounce:

[Disneyfan37]

Hi Fran,Thanks!I went just now and got some vitamins and will start taking care of myself more.The seaair does great for me as well.I have no problems!I would move to port canaveral in a heart beat.I love seeing the boats sail out.I never had allergies,asthma or anything when we lived in South FL,but here in Gator territory it is different.We have a lot more trees and stuff for sure which affects me.My dckids didn't even know they were going on Wednesday night.When we saw the boat sail out we got to see a glimpse of them.The Mom sounded as I could hear it in her voice yelling.I am glad as she was afraid of seasickness.The littlest one yelled out Gaga which is my husband.Those two boys are spoiled rotten by us to say the least.We had two baskets done by the Perfect Gift in cabin waiting for them.We have missed them dearly.I hope and pray they are having a great time as the next time we are going with them.Today,they are at Castaway Cay,so hopefully the weather is great there.DH snorkeling time is set for ten at Coral World their time.We are in cabin 2556.Hey a table top Christmas tree may be good idea.We are sticking to deck 2 as we have had good luck with that deck as far as seasickness and everything.We may venture on our next cruise and get a higher up cabin.My dckids were in 7501.I am curious as to how they liked their room.DH and I were talking about a verandah today at lunch.He is like if I want to go outside I will go to deck 9 and 10,so we will stick to porthole cabin for right now.

Kathy,I am with you.I can actually relax on a cruise,and DH can too as we aren't having to drive anywhere.Everything is right there for us.

Anybody book anything for Castaway Cay?We just got the bikes again,and we will also do the water trikes as well.We enjoyed both of these two things last night.I was thinking about seeing if DH wanted to do the glass bottom boat,but I have heard too many mixed emotions on that.With all the hurricanes we have had this year,who knows if one could actually see anything.I saw some photos that someone just took of Castaway Cay after Jeanne,and the island looks so brown and treeless.It is so sad.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Maria

[jhorner]

Hi all! It's been a long time since I've posted but my good Sister, Jwann keeps me updated.
We booked the jetski excursion on CC but just for my DH and DS. I'll hang out on the beach and do it next time if they like it.
I can't believe only 48 days! It will be relaxing and energetic at the same time. I will be up late and up early so you can probably catch me napping on the tile chairs in the rainforest on a few afternoons.
My dear dear sister is going to get disboard buttons for us. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone.
Is anyone doing any 'park time' before the cruise? We've got one day and we are trying to decide what to do.

[Disneyfan37]

JHorner,I will be at the tile chairs along with you and your sister at the spa.I plan on napping there myself.Yes,we are finally down in the 40 marks.I can't wait!Come on December 11!

Maria

[thejenjens]

Hi All,

I have not posted in awhile. Hope everyone is doing well. My Aunt and her girlfriend left on the Wonder today. They called us at 1:45 from the ship. My Aunt was the first one in the adult pool and her girlfriend ws the first in the hottub. I can't wait till Dec.

Jan made my mom and I a magnet for our stateroom door with the pricess' on it and says sonething like, Millie and Jen's Magical Vacation. How is anyone else thinking of decorating their doors?

We are also booked for the early Coral World excursion. I can't believe that we only have 47 days left. YEAH. This will be my prize for finishing a rough semester at school. I just turned in my Mid-Term on Friday. My class is over on the 3rd of Dec. A week before the cruise. I get to relax and then really relax and have a great time on the ship with my mom.

We still don't have our cabin number. We will find that out when we get our papers for the cruise. We can't wait for them to get here. Probably a month or so before we leve, right?

Thanks,

Jen and Millie

[jhorner]

Door decorations! What a great idea ("where have you been" you are probably thinking as I'm sure you've discussed this already)
How about a guessing game. Like 3 clues to your favorite ride at one of the parks or your favorite thing on the cruise.
For example if it was It's a Small World
you could write
It's in a magical place...
And yet filled with many countries...
don't jump the ship or you'll get all wet....
The answer is It's a Small World
The answer could be posted on last full day.
Any takers?

[thejenjens]

Totally!!!!!!!!

How would we work the game???

We could also have multiple one's on our door for each person in the cabin. Each person could come up with their own. Right?

Would we have to know where everyone is staying and what cabin number? I would be interested in that game however I will also be putting the magnet on our door that my Aunt's girlfriend made for us.

Let me know what I can do and I'll help.

Thanks,

Jen

[smchan]

Anyone received their cruise docs yet? I saw someone on the 11/27/04 cruise received theirs, so it should be getting about that time!

Sam

[disneygatorfan]

I just booked today... thanks for the bump!

This is my second annual cruise with my grandmother.. She looks forward to it all year long. We went last December and had a great time.

I was hoping for a Western, but the dates just didn't work out. Doesn't matter.. I am on the cruise!!

Can't wait.. have to get my countdown going. I had to start a new account, since it's been so long since I been on the dis boards.

Wow, can't believe I got it booked so easily. Now just have to wait it out.

[Ratt45]

No, we haven't gotten our doc's yet!!!! We are always excited when the Big Brown Truck goes by the house. Unfortunately, it hasn't stopped at our house. I expect it to stop in about 2 to 3 weeks. Where are those doc's?:mad: :bounce: :tongue:

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

:hyper:I can't believe we're already looking for our cruise documents to arrive! I know December's getting closer, but WOW. So much to do.....so little time.........

[smchan]

Yep - it's getting to be that time. My wife has decided she needs a new "Christmas-y" dress for formal night and has started shopping around.

Sam

[Disneyfan37]

The Disney Cruise FL resident rates were announced today for December and January 7 night cruise.We were able to get a $600 credit on our booking.More money to spend on the boat<G>.6 weeks from this Saturday.I am so ready!

Maria

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Originally posted by Disneyfan37
We were able to get a $600 credit on our booking.

Congratulations! Gee and I was excited today when I got $20 off my car rental rate. ::yes::

[TraSee]

Hi all!

Just confirmed my booking for December 11. My husband and I were originally scheduled for a cruise on Sept. 11th...but we live in Orlando and had to postpone it due to the hurricanes. We originally had it changed to April, which would have been an additional $1300! We just changed to the December cruise for no additional money...woohoo. AND the countdown to December cruising is much nicer than April! We have cruised many times on DCL and this will be our second Eastern. We are both looking forward to a lot of r&r on those days at sea:cool:

I look forward to meeting everyone:wave:

Have a great weekend!
Tracy

[thejenjens]

I can't wait til December. The more I am one the boards the more excited I get. My aunt and her girlfirend just got off the ship yesterday and are now in Disney for TEN days. Can you believe it ten days. I can't wait to hear what they thought of the Disney cruise. Especially my aunt being a frist time cruiser.

They had enough film for 800 pictures. I wonder how many of them they are going to use for the trip. Can't til our cruise 42 days and counting.

Can't wait to start playing those games.

Jen

[momto2dkids]

Welcome TraSee! :wave:

[TraSee]

Thanks momto2dkids...we are so both looking forward to this trip...after our three hurricane hits and a crazy work schedule...well, I can already taste the souffle from Palos and feel the steam from the spa!!:jumping1:

[disneygatorfan]

I recently booked and joined this thread.. I was wondering if we could get a role call of who all is going...

it's myself and my grandmother.... we are both from Florida

it's our new tradition of a december cruise together.. did it last year at the same time and had a lot of fun!

[Disneyfan37]

Welcome Disneygatorfan!DH and I are going,and we are from gator territory.I see you are happy Zook is gone<G>.This is the first time we are cruising on the Magic let alone at this time of the year.We cruised on on the Disney Wonder in September and May on our last two cruises.We can't wait.

Maria

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to our new additions.
TraSee - living in Stuart FL I know what you mean about being ready for this cruise!
Looks like we have a few groups from good ole Florida.

Mom & daughter here so 2 adults (sot of LOL)

Thought I was pretty much ready clothes-wise; but after seeing smchan's post a Christmasy dress does sound good. Hmmmmm

6 more weeks! Almost time to start watching for the Brown Truck.

Have a great weekend

fran

[Disneyfan37]

RebeccaLoves Disney,I was so happy to get this credit on Thursday as we had been waiting for a Florida resident discount rate,and it finally came through.We were happy campers.More money to spend onboard<G>.That is great that you got 20 dollars off of your rental rate.DH and I are so looking forward to meeting you and everyone else on this thread onboard.

Come on December!

Maria

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Welcome TraSee and Shelley! :thewave:

So glad to see our little group growing.

For those new to our thread (to save you from reading through several pages of this thread), our group is:

Me (30something)
DH (also 30something)
DD - 10
DS - 7

[thejenjens]

Hello to everyone new and to everyone alrady on the boards.

I can't wait to see the truck pull up with our docs.

It is my mom and I sailing on the cruise both adults as well. It looks to me as though we will have a bunch of us from the boards on some of the same excursions. The Coral World looks to be the most popular.

Well I just wanted to drop a line, I am trying to avoid writing my paper that is due. This is what I do instead of writing. I write to you guys. I wonder what dinner rotation we will get. Come on Dec.

Jen :bounce: :Pinkbounc :bounce: ::MickeyMo

[TraSee]

Six weeks from now we will be getting ready for the boat drill!! It is almost 4:00. :cool: I can't wait!
Tracy

[smchan]

Speaking of docs, someone is reporting the 12/04/04 docs are arriving now, so ours should be coming very soon. :)

Sam

[disneygatorfan]

is this anyone's first cruise?? or first dcl cruise?

I am beginning to consider myself a dcl veteran... this is my second 7 day.. went last December and had a great time, minus one rough sea day...

Still waiting on what stateroom I am getting... all I know is CAT 5 GTY. Oh, to sit on my verandah... only 40 more days!

Anyone doing parks before or after?

[SQUIGGLE]

Good morning all.

smchann - that is great news!

Jen - get going on that paper! The sooner it is over; the closer the cruise will be.

We are two adults who request early dinner and our rotation has always been LAPLAPL. I forget if you said you had early or late dinner; so not real sure this will help you.

Have a great Sunday everyone.

fran

[thejenjens]

Good morning.

My mom and I have late seating. I can nver get myself to eat too early. Has anyone ever been to Coral World? I am going to see if they have a web site to get more info on it. I think it is going to be really neat to go there. I think that we have the early excursion for this.

I hope this is a good sign if people of the 12/4 cruise are getting their docs then maybe ours will be here in another week or so.

Thanks guys, gotta write another page and a half on the paper.

Have a great day everyone.

Jen :wave: :yo-yo:

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Originally posted by thejenjens
Well I just wanted to drop a line, I am trying to avoid writing my paper that is due. This is what I do instead of writing. I write to you guys.
Jen :bounce: :Pinkbounc :bounce: ::MickeyMo

That's too funny. When I was in college, I used to clean the house to avoid studying. My house has never been as clean since.

[TraSee]

Rebecca....lol...sounds like my story exactly! Now my excuse for the messy house is that I can't stay away from these boards. We have cruised with DCL many times before, but when it starts to get close to sail date...well, it is that night beofre Christmas kind of feeling!:bounce: :Pinkbounc :bounce:
Happy Haloween all!:cool:
Tracy

[jwann]

Welcome newcomers!! We are going to have a SUPER group!

As far as roll call:

My family is travelling with my sister's family (jhorner on this board). Our group is
Me (38)
dh (41)
ds (9)
ds (6)

sister (36)
dh (41)
ds (8)
dd (5)

We are in rooms 2107 and 2109 and we have early seating.

We are planning on doing all our excursions on our own. St. Maarten: renting a jeep and beach hopping. St. Thomas: taking a ferry to St. Johns to visit Trunk Bay.

We are planning on a DIS meeting on Deck 10 after the safety drill and before the Sail Away Party. It is my hope that all DISers will wear a Lime Green DIS button that has their screen name on it. (You can order them for a few dollars from these boards. My dh wants one too even though he only lurks on these boards. or perhaps make your own.)

Also, we have a game in the works where each person from this thread that wants to play will PM me a question and answer. For example: What was jwann's nickname in highschool? or What is squiggle's favorite dessert on the Magic? A few days before we go, I'll post a list of the questions. Print this out and the first one to get me a completed list of answers wins a Disney cruise pin. We are hashing out the rules. More to come.....be thinking of your question.

[thejenjens]

Hi All,

That is funny housework. LOL! Well, my mom and I share a townhouse so we kinda split the housework. And now my and and her girlfriend are living here for a short time and I think that they have picked-up my share of the housework while I write my papers. And procrastinate by surfing the boards. HA HA

I have turned in my paper, that turned out to be seven pages. Now I can guilt free surf the boards. That is until next Sunday when I have to turn another paper in.

We are making our own sort of pins, we got the paint sample lime green Mickey head from Home Depot and are going to put my screen name on there.

Has anyone ever been to Coral World before? If so what is it really like and what can we expect? What does everyone do for lunch and what not while on the excursions?

Well, I hope that everyone has a GREAT work week and a GREAT week even if your not working.

Thanks,

Jen ::MickeyMo ::MinnieMo :Pinkbounc

[Disneyfan37]

Jen,that is great that you can relax for a week as your paper is done.Enjoy the time!This is the first time DH and I are taking the Disney Magic as our last two cruises were four nighters on the Wonder.We are doing the excursion with Disney for St Maarten,but we are doing St Thomas alone.DH has an early snuba reservation,so we will leave the boat around 8:30 to head over to Coral World.I will do Coral World by myself while he snuba's.DH got two Dis Pins from online,and we will also be making our own Dis t-shirts before cruise that we will be wearing upon boarding ship.It is just dh and I on the cruise,and we have late seating.

JWann,you want the questions sent now or should we wait on that?Let us know.Thanks!

Anybody decorating cabin door?We went yesterday to Office Depot,and we got some magnetic paper.They also have some cute Mickey and Minnie cut outs which I may go back and get to add to door.I found these at the scrapbook section of the store.

Smchan,I saw that on the board too where someone had gotten their docs for December 4 cruise.DH went to AAA last week,and he told them we wanted the docs mailed to us.We don't want to miss that excitement of doc day.Come on docs!

Hope everyone has a great week!

Maria

[momto2dkids]

For the newcomers, our traveling party consists of:

me (30ish)
DH (30's)
DD (10 1/2, that half is very important to her!)
DS (5)
DD (newly 1 year old princess: )

We have late seating, which should work out ok since we are from the west coast so with time difference it is about when we normally eat.

JWANN- have you done St. John, Trunk Bay on your own before? I am trying very hard to talk my husband into doing this, but he is paranoid that we are going to miss the ship and then be "S.O.L!"
If I can't talk him into it, I guess we will pretty much stay on the ship since the age of our youngest one prevents us from doing the St. John excursion through DCL.

I am still in on playing the game. Trying to think up some questions!


Disneyfan37- I am planning on trying to make a door sign to decorate our cabin door. I am also trying to find some 'Disneyish' Christmas decorations to possible to to decorate inside the cabin as well. When we traveled on the Halloween Wonder two years ago, I was very lucky to find a boxed set of Halloween decorations(Mickey shaped paper lanterns, mickey bat and mickey ghosts shaped paper garland). I hurried to the cabin to decorate as soon as we boarded as DH went exploring with the kids. The look on their faces when they finally came to cabin and saw all the decorations was priceless. They are still convinced that Mickey and Minnie decorated the cabin for them. In fact, we still have the decorations and used them again this Halloween.

[thejenjens]

I think that is great that you decorated your stateroom for your kids. I will keep an eye out for ya on Disney Christmas decorations.

We have a magnet that has the princess' on it and says something like Mille and Jen's Magical Vacation. We are going to put that on our cabin door. Still looking for other things.

Plus, didn't someone mention before about doing a guessing game on your stateroom door?

Thanks,

Jen

[DisneyFam5]

Hello,
We will be cruising on the December 11th cruise also. Please be patient with me, because I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to forums! I made my first post last week (and no one answered!) This is only my second attempt. I'm a civil engineer by day and a Disney Fanatic by night (and day!) Our cruisers include:

Me (40 on 12-14, but I'm in denial!)
DH (38)
DS (12
DS (9) (10 on 12-27)
DS (8)

My parents will also be joining us. We cruised the Western Magic two years ago and loved it. I'm looking forward to the extra day at sea.

Well, it's time to see if I did this right and see if my message actually appears!

Michele

:earsgirl:

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Welcome Michele!! :wave:

About St. John --- We went to Trunk Bay on our own last year and it was definitely one of the highlights of our trip. I had read up about how to get there, taxis, ferrys, etc. before we left so I pretty well new the schedule we had to follow. Even with that, DH was about to call it off the day before. He was too nervous about not making it back to the ship on time. But, after stepping foot onto that breathtaking beach, he completely changed his mind. It is a rare thing in these times to find a naturally beautiful place that has yet to be spoiled by humans.

As long as you keep track of the time on the beach and catch the cab back to the ferry dock, you will have no problem getting back to the ship on time. The cabs on St. John are used to the cruise ship schedules and line up at the popular beaches (Trunk Bay, Cinammon) on time to pick people up. Also, going on your own, you have more beach time than the excursion folks do. We saw the excursion come and go while we relaxed on the beach and snorkeled.

Have a good week everyone!

[momto2dkids]

Welcome Michele and family!

RebeccaLovesDisney- Thanks so much for the info on Trunk Bay, I need all the info I can get to throw at my DH to try and convince him. If nothing else- maybe he will just get tired of me trying to convince him and let me plan away. :tongue:

[disneygatorfan]

Trunk Bay is definitely worth it... was amazing. And it is super easy to get there on your own. All the taxi's are waiting, know when the ships come in, and when they go out. Ferry is easy to catch, and it's a neat ride over to St. John's.

I went to Trunk Bay last year, we got there.. shopped a little in St. John, went to the beach for a few hours...had lunch... got the ferry back, and still had time to shop more on St. Thomas.

[Disneyfan37]

Welcome Michele and Family!

momto2dkids-That is a great idea to decorate the stateroom.I bet your kids loved it with the Halloween theme.I know those priceless faces.I know that I am going to take a small table top tree with us.I don't know if you have CVS,Eckerd's or Walmart where you are at,but I have found Disney decorations at all three of these places.If you have a Disney Store by you,they will definitely have them.Your kids will love it no matter what you do!I will see if I see anything,and I will let you know.I havne't decided how I am going to do the cabin door.

thejenjens-DH and I had early seating on our first Disney Cruise on the Wonder,and we liked it.On the second cruise on the Disney Wonder,we had late seating we tried to switch without any luck.We actually ended up loving it as we were never rushed.We have late seating now for this cruise,and we are glad we do.

Everyone have a great day!

Maria

[thejenjens]

DisneyFam5--Welcome Michele and family. Are you and your DH going to have a nice dinner at Palo's for your 40th birthday? Hope that you have a great time on the ship and celebrating your 40th. I think that is a great way to spend your birthday.

Disneyfan37--Do you and your DH have a table for two or do you do a group table? We had late seating on our first cruise the 4 night and liked it just fine. We liked going to the show and also not rushing to finish dinner.

I can't believe that we are in the 30's. WOW! The time is going by. Those doc's are sure to be here soon. Then maybe mom and I can find out what our stateroom number is going to be. It is driving me :crazy: waiting. I can't wait to go to Coral World. I LOVE the ocean and all sea life.

Have a great Tuesday.

Jen

[Disneyfan37]

thejenjens-it is just dh and I,so they will probably put us with someone else.I didn't know they had tables for two.We were lucky on our last cruise as we ended up with great tablemates.Hopefully,we will be lucky this time around too.Yes,it is great taking your time at dinner and then being able to enjoy the rest of the evening.

Yes,we are in the 30s day mark finally.I am so ready!Come on 20s<G>!The docs will be coming I am sure any time now.I am so waiting for them.

I am so looking forward to this cruise.I love the sea life.I really enjoyed St Thomas back in 84,so I can't wait to see how much it has changed since than.

Happy Voting Day to all!

Maria

[jwann]

Welcome Michele and family!

I'm just busting at the seems with excitement! (or is that my growing waistline from all the halloween candy....)

Michele - I have a boy who is 9 and can't wait to go to the lab!

About Trunk Bay - We are just going to wing-it. Sounds like we'll have company from our DIS friends here on the thread. We can keep a look out for one another so we can be sure to make it back to the ship on time!

Now begins the political message part of my post.....
GO VOTE!
Thus ends the political message part of my post :)

[thejenjens]

Disneyfan37,

On the four night we were able to request a table for two. So that is what we did this time as well. My mom always says that I would be comfortable no matter how many peopel we sat with, however she is unsure of dining with strangers. Even if they will be our Disney family for seven nights. So I of course want her to be comfortable on her vacation so I go along with a table for two. Plus it gives us more quality time together, however I guess being on a ship in the middle of the ocean we'll get a TON of quality time together. I love going on vacation with her she is the best.

Still wondering if anyone has ever done Coral World before or not?

Can't wait to be sailing, sailing over the ocean blue.

Thanks,

Jen ::MickeyMo

[Disneyfan37]

thejenjens - How were you able to request a table for two?I may talk to dh about doing so!Thanks!It is nice to sit with others,but one never knows!

I know it will be so great sailing out in the ocean!Come on December!

Maria

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Originally posted by disneygatorfan


it's our new tradition of a december cruise together.. did it last year at the same time and had a lot of fun!

Shelley - just wondering which cruise you were on last December. We were on the Dec. 13th Eastern cruise. Were you on that one as well?

Also, I noticed you asked about going to the parks. We are going both before and after the cruise. Two park days before (mostly MK while crowds are low) and three park days after.

Momto2dkids - This website has a lot of good information about the US Virgin Islands, such as taxis, ferry schedules, beaches.
www.vinow.com

[momto2dkids]

RebeccaLovesDisney-
Thanks so much for the link to the V.I. It looks great. I am excited to look at it in more depth later. Right now workmen are cutting the stucco off the back exterior of my house. VERY LOUD. It seems several of the windows on the back lower floor of my house (4 years old) have been leaking over the years. They tore through parts of the interior wall last week and found some water damage and small amount of mold-YUK! :eek: Now they have to take the stucco off so they can do more testing on the windows to see if they are defective. I just keep thinking- THE CRUISE IS COMING, THE CRUISE IS COMING!!

(My daughter has really enjoyed corresponding with your daughter. Please let her know that my daughter will be PM'ing her again soon, it's just with all the craziness around the house right now she has to wait to use the computer.)

Looking forward to meeting you all at the cruise meet on deck 10.