halloween cruise/ Magic: October 28th-nov..4th 2006

[captaincrash]

Me?

120 days of anticipation on the wall, 120 days of anticipation... you take one down, pass it around...

I'm not surprised! :happytv:

YEAH!!! ... now I get 2001! :rolleyes:

[Big15Foot]

now 2002
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Now it's Time to Go to Work :badpc:
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Big15foot pirate:

[buckifan]

AWOL- Those pictures of your kids are too cute! I got a big chuckle out of the one with your son asleep on formal night. Now, that is tired!

[kritter]

Awol congrats on the 2000!!!!!


Come on show us some more pictures..I love looking at them well so do my kids......

[Princess Olivia]

Awol......That picture! Is he really sleeping against the wall? Adorable. The kids get SO tired after all the sun and fun. I have a similiar picture of Cameron sleeping on Craig's shoulder on the last night during "Until We Meet Again". I only have pictures of Olivia from that night. My favorite is of her, the "ugly" stepsisters, and Franco. It's framed in her room. I wish I knew how to post pictures!

I am sure you will all be terribly jealous. I just got to sit through an exciting 40 minute beauty pageant of 11 Fashion Plate cut out dolls in "swim wear","sports wear", and "formal wear". I was honored to be one of the judges. It was a great upset when Miss swim wear blue & red bathing suit took first over Miss formal wear silver sparkly dress. She nearly "tore" her head off..... :rotfl2: , paper dolls??!!! O.K. I'm a little off tonight. I think I need a Dairy Queen blizzard..."Craaaiiigggg"

[kritter]

Jen,

Is this what I have too look forward too??Hanna and Hope love fashion plates....They think they are the best...
Girls will be girls....

[awoltoday]

Awol......That picture! Is he really sleeping against the wall? Adorable. The kids get SO tired after all the sun and fun. I have a similiar picture of Cameron sleeping on Craig's shoulder on the last night during "Until We Meet Again". I only have pictures of Olivia from that night. My favorite is of her, the "ugly" stepsisters, and Franco. It's framed in her room. I wish I knew how to post pictures!

I am sure you will all be terribly jealous. I just got to sit through an exciting 40 minute beauty pageant of 11 Fashion Plate cut out dolls in "swim wear","sports wear", and "formal wear". I was honored to be one of the judges. It was a great upset when Miss swim wear blue & red bathing suit took first over Miss formal wear silver sparkly dress. She nearly "tore" her head off..... :rotfl2: , paper dolls??!!! O.K. I'm a little off tonight. I think I need a Dairy Queen blizzard..."Craaaiiigggg"

Yep, he fell asleep right there. He got ticked off at me for something and sat down and cried for about 3 seconds and fell asleep. We were laughing pretty hard when we realized he was really asleep.

As for posting pics, it's pretty easy. Assuming your camera is digital and the pictures are already on your PC, all you have to do is upload them somewhere on the internet. You can use photobucket.com or The DIS photo gallery (http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/index.php). You'll log in there, click on the upload photos button and follow the instructions. When you are done, you'll have a URL that you can use to post the picture (something like http://someplace.com/path/picturename.jpg). Once you have the URL, you can just copy it onto the clipboard and either paste it in between and or use the little picture tool above the edit box when you are posting. POC (Piece of Cake this time). BUT, DO NOT TRY THIS AFTER A PAPER DOLL FASHION SHOW!! lol

[princessh]

Hi everyone! Love all the pictures! Thought I would add a few of my own.

Timmy on deck four by the stores
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/DSC00568.jpg

The kids and I on pirate night
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/DSC00635.jpg

Tim and Jacob on CC
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/DSC00664.jpg

Timmy got a hammock!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/DSC00663.jpg

[captaincrash]

We got another vote on the poll...

OK... who wuz it? Come on out and say HELLO!!!!! :thumbsup2

[Princess Olivia]

Awol- I have the pictures uploaded on photobucket but I can't get them attatched to the post. What am I doing wrong?

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Awol- I have the pictures uploaded on photobucket but I can't get them attatched to the post. What am I doing wrong?

Are you copying the URL from photobucket and pasting it into your post, between the and tags?

[awoltoday]

Awol- I have the pictures uploaded on photobucket but I can't get them attatched to the post. What am I doing wrong?

Photobucket gives you three little edit boxes under your photo which are labled, "URL", "Tag", and "Img" respectively. If you copy the contents of the "Img" box and paste it into your post, you will have succeeded. That's all there is to it.

[Princess Olivia]

Thank You both! Semi success! It would paste BUT the picture is HUGE. Any suggestions?

[Princess Olivia]

Tried again....still too big

[missyoh8]

Good Cruise news!!! I just found out that the week of our cruise is a 3 day school week for my kids.....instead of pulling them out for 5 days they will only miss 3 days! They are bummed :rotfl2: , but that is so much easier in the long run.

We also bought our airfare for the way down on Southwest for $44 each person. We have to fly into Tampa not Orlando but when there is 11 of us the savings is huge. Now if they would just release the November fares so we can plan our trip home.

Have a great day everyone..


Missy

[awoltoday]

Tried again....still too big

In photobucket, there is an "Edit" button. Click on that and you can resize the picture there. But, I like big pictures (and have a 22" monitor) ;)


Good Cruise news!!! I just found out that the week of our cruise is a 3 day school week for my kids.....instead of pulling them out for 5 days they will only miss 3 days! They are bummed :rotfl2: , but that is so much easier in the long run.

We also bought our airfare for the way down on Southwest for $44 each person. We have to fly into Tampa not Orlando but when there is 11 of us the savings is huge. Now if they would just release the November fares so we can plan our trip home.

Have a great day everyone..


Missy

So, how are you getting from Tampa to Orlando? How long does it take? And since you're flying southwest, you are obviously going to refuse to go home - like me! Well, at least until southworst releases their schedule past 10/27...

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Thank You both! Semi success! It would paste BUT the picture is HUGE. Any suggestions?

Did you try clicking on the "edit" button in photobucket, that is above the picture and look at the resizing options?


In photobucket, there is an "Edit" button. Click on that and you can resize the picture there. But, I like big pictures (and have a 22" monitor) ;)


Awol - you beat me to it again, I have to work on my typing skills :teeth:

[Princess Olivia]

I am a blond and have DEFINITELY had my "blond" moments :rolleyes1 , but I did see the edit button and it still won't resize. Awol, I would put them out there (my pictures :teeth: ) but they are so big I'd jam up the board. It's weird I can email them at regular size.

[Princess Olivia]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/livcam/DisneyCruise063.jpg
OMG IDID IT!!!!

Cameron :goodvibes

[Princess Olivia]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/livcam/DisneyCruise039.jpg
Craig and Olivia

This is FUN!!!

[GoofyDrivesACar]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/livcam/DisneyCruise063.jpg
OMG IDID IT!!!!

Cameron :goodvibes

What did you end up having to do to reduce the size??? Great pics btw!

[Princess Olivia]

I did what you guys said :thumbsup2 It just resized this time. Blond moment? Maybe. Good result? absolutely! Thanks.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/livcam/patrickswedding032.jpg

See.... blond :confused3 . Poor Craig

Missy- WOW $44 dollars is an incredible deal. I think Tampa is about an hour and a half away from Orlando. Not bad. I hope you can score as good a deal home!

[awoltoday]

Princess Olivia,
That's great. :banana: But, I have a 22" monitor and those pictures are a little too small ;)

Sometimes when you resize the pictures, it appears that it doesn't work because your web browser will cache the file and display the picture from before you've resized it. Usually hitting F5 or Ctrl-F5 will force the browser to reload the picture - or you can right-click on the picture and select "reload image".

Awol - you beat me to it again, I have to work on my typing skills :teeth:

:dance3:

[Princess Olivia]

Awol,
Thank you again for the help. I will try it again soon. 22" monitor, very cool. We are getting a new desk and we've been talking about replacing the monitor so it doesn't look lost. Any suggestions?

Also, anyone know if there is a camcorder that records directly to regular size dvd and can go right from camera to dvd player? If there isn't one yet, why?

[buckifan]

Yeah Jen! The pix are great!

We just bought a new dvd camcorder that records right to dvd's that go directly into the dvd player. They are the smaller size dvd's, though. But, that helps keep the size of the camera very small. It is no bigger that our digital camera in fact. We will be bringing it with us on the cruise.

We just returned from my sister's house, and what is usually a 20 min trip home took us 90 min! They had the expressway closed down because the president is in town for a fundraiser. So all of the main roads were blocked off. UGH! I hate traffic.

Does everyone have their flags out? Happy 4th!

[Princess Olivia]

D -He must have gone directly to Ohio from Graceland where he took Elvis's "#1 fan" Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for a visit. Did you see that on the news tonight?

How much time does the smaller dvd allow you to record? I'd really like to get one before the cruise. How are the kids? Any big plans for the fourth? We live about 20 minutes away from Plymouth (Mayflower, rock, pilgrims). They always have a huge independence day celebration. The kids love it....... O.K. I'm a sucker for a parade. Nothing beats a disney parade!

[kritter]

Hi all,

Today I got out for the first time in a long time ...and got to go to the mall...WOW!!! Dh had better watch out....
I got some cute stuff for our trip to Washington..

Anyone have any great plans for this weekend?? We are just going to try and get some rest and hang by the pool....

DH has the next ten days off so we are going to hope fro great weather and then we can go to the beach...

Crash, We can not wait to see the t-shirts.... :banana: :banana:

[missyoh8]

So, how are you getting from Tampa to Orlando? How long does it take? And since you're flying southwest, you are obviously going to refuse to go home - like me! Well, at least until southworst releases their schedule past 10/27...


We rent a 15 passenger van from airport to port. We will just drive from Tampa to the port. We actually just did from Sarasota-Orlando-Cape Canaveral last week and I believe total it took about 2 hours and 15 minutes. Due to hurricane Jeanne (2004) we have extensive knowledge of the Florida interstate system and we are not afraid to use it!

Yes AWOL I have vacation issues so I figure we will just not come home if the dates are never released! Think work will understand that? I am certain they already have enough to say about my scheduled vacations. We did just purchase the one way fare and are waiting for the other. Hope they do come out because that 15 passenger van is only fun for so long you know!

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

Missy

[buckifan]

Jen,
The discs record for 20min on extra fine, 30min on fine, 60min on standard. We haven't even used it yet, so I'll let you know what the quality is like on each when we try it out.

[buckifan]

Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

[buckifan]

Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

I will go first...

1. Fall
2. Ohio State Football! GO BUCKS!
3. Tie- Mexican & Italian
4. Diet Dr. Pepper
5. Kylie's blanket....smells like her, although she thinks it smells like me:)
6. Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson
7. Vanilla (w/ hot fudge sauce!)
8. Hugs!
9. Oh I SING...much to my ds's dismay
10. Oh I DANCE....much to my ds's dismay
11. Josh Groban....all I can say is WOW!
12. Click....don't care what the critics say, we loved it!
13. Buick Rendevous
14. My kids....corny but TRUE!

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

Okay, I will give it a shot
1. Summer
2. Golden Gopher Football, especially when they beat Ohio State (which doesn't happen very often). No, I am just kidding. I do like Gopher football, but not as much as the Vikings.
3. Beef
4. Non-alcoholic would be diet cherry coke, otherwise beer.
5. Beef
6. John Cusak
7. I will also go with Vanilla/Hot Fudge
8. Hugs
9. I have been accused in the past of being tone deaf, so I only listen to the radio
10. Seeing how I don't want to scare Women or children, I usually just watch
11. Gear Daddies - Summer of 89
12. Either Winn Dixie or Ice Princess, I can't remember which of those block busters came first :rotfl2:
13. Chrysler T&C
14. I will have to get back to you on this.

[captaincrash]

Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

1) Spring ... but in SoCal we really don't see much seasonal variation
2) As a player: Golf (though I'm a hack)
3) I'll say Vanilla Fudge marble Root Beer floats
4) Rasberry Iced tea - the kind you get from Costco with a Hot Polish Dog
5) Freshly baked Chcolate Chip cookies
6) Harrison Ford/Jeri Ryan
7) Chocolate
8) Hugs
9) Sing (no karaoke, just privately in the car for the most part)
10) depends... so I'll say dance (under the right circumstances-photo attached below)
11) Catalina Island Jazz Trax Festival (you could say we subscribe)
12) Over the Hedge (actually - I saw "A Good Year" in a advance private sneak preview - does this count?)
13) Lexus
14) tough to say... I usually don't seriously think in terms of "quotations" being memorably inspiring... so, off hand I'll offer ... "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..." :darth:

And... I'd like to tack on a 15th question....

What is your favorite hobby / passion / pastime?

My answer would be "photograph the kids and family" :surfweb:

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[kritter]

Originally Posted by buckifan
Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

Summer for sure!!
College basketball
seafood
do not really have one--I guess a frozen drink..
my kids hair or their blankets--just like Deena!! or my husband when he is dressed up!!
Julia Roberts
Chocolate
Both-hugs and kisses
sing along although I am terrible
Dance-but we make Dh watch..
So long ago I can not remeber
Cars
Ok I am embarrassed to say a MINI VAN
My kids inspire me...and so does my DH!!!

[awoltoday]

Awol,
Thank you again for the help. I will try it again soon. 22" monitor, very cool. We are getting a new desk and we've been talking about replacing the monitor so it doesn't look lost. Any suggestions?

Also, anyone know if there is a camcorder that records directly to regular size dvd and can go right from camera to dvd player? If there isn't one yet, why?

You are welcome. Well, actually it's 2 22" monitors and one 20" widescreen at work. And it's really cool. I'm sorry I don't really have a good handle on monitors at the moment. Things change SOOO fast and it's very difficult to keep up and still have a life left! At work, we have all sorts of stuff. I liked the Planar flat panels we were getting, but the new widescreen Dell ones we have are really cool. However, the 20" widescreen Dell I have at work isn't quite as sharp as I would like. You're best bet is to go to a store and look at the monitors and buy the one that looks the best and fits your budget.

The camcorder conversation cracks me up. I lugged my old 8mm down to the school to record DD's summer school play (Little Mermaid) - Choc_marg was in Orlando. I felt like I was toting a big rock tablet and chisel. It's probably about time for us to upgrade, too.

We rent a 15 passenger van from airport to port. We will just drive from Tampa to the port. We actually just did from Sarasota-Orlando-Cape Canaveral last week and I believe total it took about 2 hours and 15 minutes. Due to hurricane Jeanne (2004) we have extensive knowledge of the Florida interstate system and we are not afraid to use it!

Yes AWOL I have vacation issues so I figure we will just not come home if the dates are never released! Think work will understand that? I am certain they already have enough to say about my scheduled vacations. We did just purchase the one way fare and are waiting for the other. Hope they do come out because that 15 passenger van is only fun for so long you know!

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

Missy

Well, you can always park that van down by the river. Just watch out for gators! I'm sure the fares will be out in the next week or two and we'll be forced to schedule a trip back home :(

[Big15Foot]

1) Spring ... but in SoCal we really don't see much seasonal variation
2) As a player: Golf (though I'm a hack)
3) I'll say Vanilla Fudge marble Root Beer floats
4) Rasberry Iced tea - the kind you get from Costco with a Hot Polish Dog
5) Freshly baked Chcolate Chip cookies
6) Harrison Ford/Jeri Ryan
7) Chocolate
8) Hugs
9) Sing (no karaoke, just privately in the car for the most part)
10) depends... so I'll say dance (under the right circumstances-photo attached below)
11) Catalina Island Jazz Trax Festival (you could say we subscribe)
12) Over the Hedge (actually - I saw "A Good Year" in a advance private sneak preview - does this count?)
13) Lexus
14) tough to say... I usually don't seriously think in terms of "quotations" being memorably inspiring... so, off hand I'll offer ... "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..." :darth:

And... I'd like to tack on a 15th question....

What is your favorite hobby / passion / pastime?

My answer would be "photograph the kids and family" :surfweb:

1. Fall
2. Golf
3. Hot
4. Frosty Glass of Milk
5. Cinnamon
6. anyone but Tom Cruise :stir:
7. Chocolate
8. Hugs
9. Listen
10.Watch
11. Johnny Cash @ Gitmo Bay Cuba in 1986 :thumbsup2
12."Return of the King" in 2003
13. 2004 Grand Marquis
14. Mother Nature
15.Photography / Steam Trains
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Big15foot pirate:

[awoltoday]

Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

1. Favorite season? Value
2. Favorite sport? hunting/fishing
3. Favorite type of food? Meat
4. Favorite beverage? Beer
5. Favorite scent? Meat
6. Favorite actor/actress? My DD
7. Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla
8. Hugs or Kisses? Hugs!
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen? If it's really loud, I sing.
10. Do you dance, or just watch? Watch
11. Last concert you attended? George Strait
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre? Over the Hedge (but on our way to Cars)
13. What kind of car do you drive? 2000 Ford F-250 Super Duty or 72 Ford Bronco
14. What inspires you? Goofy Drives a Car

[buckifan]

Great answers so far! You guys are cracking me up......nothin' like the smell of meat! LOL

Bigfoot....I totally agree with your choice of actors! He is so out of his mind now!

And to answer question # 15- My favorite hobby/past time is shopping!! It's a girl thing, I know.

[missyoh8]

1. Favorite season? Summer (no work!)
2. Favorite sport? Watching my kids play anything......
3. Favorite type of food? Whatever someone else makes.
4. Favorite beverage? Diet Coke (with or without Captain Morgan Silver)
5. Favorite scent? Fireplace (real wood)
6. Favorite actor/actress? ?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
8. Hugs or Kisses? Hugs
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen? sing.....sing.....sing
10. Do you dance, or just watch? a little of both
11. Last concert you attended? (UGH) Aaron Carter
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre? RV (very good)
13. What kind of car do you drive? Toyota Avalon (and when necessary Toyota Sienna)
14. What inspires you? Kids.......

15. I have a vacation planning passion.

[kritter]

Answer to question fifteen...

I would have to say shopping.....After the damage I did yesterday I have to say shopping.......

[Princess Olivia]

1. Favorite season? Fall. New England is beautiful and kids go back to school :teeth:
2. Favorite sport? Baseball....Go Sox
3. Favorite type of food? dessert
4. Favorite beverage? Diet cherry vanilla Coke or Diet cherry- van. Dr. Pepper
5. Favorite scent? Ocean
6. Favorite actor/actress? Johnny Depp I also LOVE John Cusack (see bottom)
7. Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla cake, chocolate Ice Cream
8. Hugs or Kisses? Kisses
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen? sing.
10. Do you dance, or just watch? Both are fun
11. Last concert you attended? Jimmy Buffet. Surprising Olivia with American Idol concert on Friday night
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre? Da vinci Code.
13. What kind of car do you drive? Toyota Highlander
14. What inspires you? Fashion or a great book. ex: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Lloyd Dobler: I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. :love:

[GoofyDrivesACar]

14. What inspires you? Goofy Drives a Car

You are going to make me blush Awol :blush:


Lloyd Dobler: I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. :love:

Excellent quote and an excellent movie if I do say so myself

[LaRue]

Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

Here goes...
1. The Fall (October here we come)
2. Football when the Vikings are winning other wise GDAC is a bear. I also like watching hockey
3. I like BBQ and anthing that resembles a dessert
4. non alcohol: Diet cherry coke and alcohol related: anything blended
5. Beef (GDAC made me say that) Actually mine is walking outside in the fall and the smell from the houses that have a fire going in the fireplace
6. Tom Hanks and John Travolta. George Clooney (and not because of his acting)
7. Oh come on.....chocolate of course.
8. Hugs and kisses. There is a time and place for both
9. Sing
10. Gotta dance!
11. Shania Twain
12. Something kid related
13. Camry
14. My family and friends. There is nothing better than just relaxing and talking and laughing a lot.

[captaincrash]

Okay, these are fun.....I always get these question/answer emails from my friends, and I thought it would be fun to post one here. No time limit on this!

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

Plus posed by Captain Crash: What is your favorite hobby or past time?

OK... I squeezed these responses out of my dear spouse, Alicia.... here is what she had to say...

1) Spring
2) Whatever my kids are doing
3) Lobster
4) Strawberry Smoothies
5) BBQ
6) <none>
7) Don't even ask.... it's gotta be Vanilla (she really does not like chocolate)
8) Hugs
9) Listen
10) I prefer to watch...
11) Cataline Jazz Festival
12) The Wild
13) Minivan
14) my family
15) shopping ... and more shopping ... and more power shopping!!!!

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/69/9E/95/i699E9531-063E-40B3-B759-EC26370A0DA9.jpg
She doesn't know I posted this - but I'll show her a little later this weekend! :thumbsup2

[kritter]

crash thanks for sharing...


Happy fourth of JUly...

I like these questions we should do them more often...FUN FUN!!!!!

[awoltoday]

15) What is your favorite hobby / passion / pastime?


15) What is your favorite hobby / passion / pastime? I'm a collector. I collect hobbies


15.Photography / Steam Trains
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Big15foot pirate:

Steam Trains? My DS5 will want to talk to you about that ;)
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/awoltoday/IMG_1326.jpg


4. Favorite beverage? Diet Coke (with or without Captain Morgan Silver)


You aren't going to do that leg lifting thing, are you? Have you sampled all of the assorted brands that we'll be able to get bargains on? I hear Appleton's Estate is really good?

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Steam Trains? My DS5 will want to talk to you about that ;)
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/awoltoday/IMG_1326.jpg


That is a great picture, where was it taken?

[GoofyDrivesACar]

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/69/9E/95/i699E9531-063E-40B3-B759-EC26370A0DA9.jpg
She doesn't know I posted this - but I'll show her a little later this weekend! :thumbsup2


I hope you dont' get into trouble with the wife for posting her picture, does she follow this thread at all????

[princessh]

Hi everyone, love the question game you all have going on. Here are my answers.

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?
15. What is your hobbie?


1. Spring or fall
2. Anything on. DH makes me watch them all!
3. Chicken
4. Diet Coke
5. Popcorn or the beach
6. ?
7.Chocolate
8. Both
9. Sing
10. Dance
11. Depeche Mode (last month)
12. Cars
13. Mini van
14. My family
15. Shopping, shopping, and shopping. Oh and of course Disney!


Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Timmy has three baseball games and we then have an Ironbirds game tonight. I am starting to get sick of baseball!

Here is a picture of us last night at Medieval Times. The kids had a blast! The show was really good!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/mt.jpg

Don't forget to send Kristin or I a PM to sign up for the DIS activites or to view the Halloween cruise website!

[kritter]

Hi everyone, love the question game you all have going on. Here are my answers.

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?
15. What is your hobbie?


1. Spring or fall
2. Anything on. DH makes me watch them all!
3. Chicken
4. Diet Coke
5. Popcorn or the beach
6. ?
7.Chocolate
8. Both
9. Sing
10. Dance
11. Depeche Mode (last month)
12. Cars
13. Mini van
14. My family
15. Shopping, shopping, and shopping. Oh and of course Disney!


Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Timmy has three baseball games and we then have an Ironbirds game tonight. I am starting to get sick of baseball!

Here is a picture of us last night at Medieval Times. The kids had a blast! The show was really good!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/mt.jpg

Don't forget to send Kristin or I a PM to sign up for the DIS activites or to view the Halloween cruise website!


Heather,

I love the new picture...looks like you guys had fun...


Awol,

I love the picture of your son...what a great shot!!!

[buckifan]

11. Last concert you attended?

11. Depeche Mode (last month)


Oh my gosh Heather....Depeche Mode is one of my & DH's all time favorite bands. We have seen them twice in concert before. They put on a great show "back in the day", how was last month's show? You lucky duck!

[awoltoday]

That is a great picture, where was it taken?

Durango, Colorado last June. The Durango-Silverton train ride was a kick. And Cody was in heaven!

Awol,

I love the picture of your son...what a great shot!!!


Thanks!

[missyoh8]

15)
You aren't going to do that leg lifting thing, are you? Have you sampled all of the assorted brands that we'll be able to get bargains on? I hear Appleton's Estate is really good?


I have been known to cover one eye with my hand a lot. Along with the references to the Captain being the perfect man......doesn't talk back, he tells me how great looking I am, never complains when I gain weight.......... pirate:

We usually don't buy any alcohol on the cruise because we don't want to carry it home. However, my MIL does and she says it is a great deal (you know then we just carry hers home :confused3 )

[XLT800]

1. Favorite season?
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food?
4. Favorite beverage?
5. Favorite scent?
6. Favorite actor/actress?
7. Chocolate or Vanilla?
8. Hugs or Kisses?
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen?
10. Do you dance, or just watch?
11. Last concert you attended?
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre?
13. What kind of car do you drive?
14. What inspires you?

Here are mnie:
1. Spring
2. Football....GO BUC"S
3. Mexican
4. Crown Royal with Coke Zero
5. Fresh brewed coffee
6. Harrison Ford
7. Vanilla
8. Both
9. Listen...it is hard to sing to sports talk radio
10. Mostly watch
11. Toby Keith...DW won the tickets
12. Stick it
13. Corolla
14. My kids
15. Going to beach to ride waverunner and finding ways to pay for more cruises.

Great questions....I will see if I can get Fran on to answer.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Dave

[Princess Olivia]

Heather- your family looks great. When Kristin first said medieval times I was thinking of something else. In Carver Ma every August/September they have "King Richard's fair". I don't like to go. There is no silverware so everyone eats all this messy food outside with their hands. It's always hot and crowded with people dressed in full costume (visitors included). Lots of people do love it!
We also have the Medieval Manner in Boston. I think this more like what you did. It's an interactive dinner show. The only reason I don't go is because the "court jesters" or the "King" can call you up or out or can choose any manner to embarrass you in front of the "court". I'm just not brave enough. I even sit in the back at comedy shows. Can you say wimp? Sometimes that can be me! I'm glad you had fun. The picture is really cute.

[kritter]

Hope everyone had a fun day and relaxed...We hung by the pool..that is finally looking better...

Does anyone have any pcitures from the holiday weekend that they want to share????

[princessh]

Oh my gosh Heather....Depeche Mode is one of my & DH's all time favorite bands. We have seen them twice in concert before. They put on a great show "back in the day", how was last month's show? You lucky duck!

The show was the best! We took Timmy with us and he had a blast. Tim is really into music, so we go to several concerts a year (most he gets free from work as they sponsor a local venue) and I have to say this was one of the best concerts I ever attended! We have seen them once before and they were great both times. It amazes me that after all these years they can still hit those notes!

[princessh]

Heather- your family looks great. When Kristin first said medieval times I was thinking of something else. In Carver Ma every August/September they have "King Richard's fair". I don't like to go. There is no silverware so everyone eats all this messy food outside with their hands. It's always hot and crowded with people dressed in full costume (visitors included). Lots of people do love it!
We also have the Medieval Manner in Boston. I think this more like what you did. It's an interactive dinner show. The only reason I don't go is because the "court jesters" or the "King" can call you up or out or can choose any manner to embarrass you in front of the "court". I'm just not brave enough. I even sit in the back at comedy shows. Can you say wimp? Sometimes that can be me! I'm glad you had fun. The picture is really cute.


It was like a interactive dinner show. You have a knight to cheer for. They do all sorts of sword fighting and jousting. It was really neat. Contrary to the look on Jacob's face, the kids both had a great time. Jacob keeps asking to go back again!

[captaincrash]

I hope you dont' get into trouble with the wife for posting her picture, does she follow this thread at all????

Well... my caption did say "worlds greatest Mom!"... and she is wacked with a fever and sinus pain since wednesday. SO - I did show her and she gave me a sweet smile... no kiss...or hug. Nothing. Just the smile. I guess that is what happens after 22.5 years with your "best friend". I had been hoping for a little more of a reaction...

And no - as far as I know she almost never reads this thread... as if she did she would probably have stern words for me when she notices I was well over a thousand postings....!!!!! Plus more then a few hundred on this thread alone. PLUS she knows about my other wandering internet interests elsewhere on the web! I have a passion for phtography - so I'm always looking at things about photgraphy - computer processing techniques - equipment test reports and such .... plus ebay browsing. HECK... what else can I do when it's late at nite or in the early morning with everyone asleep and not in their offices????


and....

Originally Posted by princessh
11. Last concert you attended?

11. Depeche Mode (last month)

Hey... I missed that ... we've been to some of their concets --- I had not noticed that they were still touring. I should look up their concert tour schedule! And this quote is from Wickipedia:

Depeche Mode is an electronic music band from the town of Basildon, England, founded in 1980. They have been one of the longest-lived and most successful bands to have emerged during the New Wave and New Romantic era, though they are more akin to what was known as the 'Futurist' scene; many of their videos have been heavily rotated on MTV. As of 2006, it is estimated that Depeche Mode has sold over 72 million albums worldwide. They have influenced many of today's popular recording artists, in part due to their innovative work, recording techniques and use of sampling. In their home country, the UK, they are still thought of by some as an "Eighties band". Though massively influential in the modern electronic dance scene, they remain in the alternative genre.

The three current members of Depeche Mode are:

Martin Gore (primary songwriting, vocals, guitars, keyboards)
David Gahan (lead vocals, recent songwriting)
Andrew Fletcher (keyboards)
Former members include:

Alan Wilder (production, keyboards, drums, vocals, occasional songwriting) from 1982 to 1995.
Vince Clarke (primary songwriting, keyboards), from 1980 to 1981.

And.... I thought that was pretty entertaining ... a collector of hobbies... I wish that were MY state of mind sometimes....

15) What is your favorite hobby / passion / pastime? I'm a collector. I collect hobbies

Maybe I should follow your lead and start on collecting more hobbies??? I figure I'll live a little longer if I can take your approach to a favorite pastime with your hobbies!!!! :thumbsup2

AND on another note - my DD participitated in her first swim meet yesterday. She came in dead last in one event against the 6 year olds 2nd to last in the other event she swam in against the 6 year olds. It seems all of the 5 year olds in the other heats also came in dead last. It's tough I guess as the 5 year olds have had 2 weeks of training and lessons while the6 year olds have had a whole season plus 20% greater age for size and strength. Sigh... So I was sooo happy to have just seen her make it across without stopping and emerging in great competitive spirits. She was totally unconcerned about how she placed. I'm so happy with how it turned out! :)

AND last nite... she developed a fever. Today she had it continue. SO - my spouse is guarded about my taking her to the Anime Expo tomorrow. We have an award ribbon presentation for her doing the race (fever or none) and then I'm planning on doping her with Ibuprofen and taking her to the Anime convention ... in full costume. So far - Alicia is just sort of looking at me over this with a wary level stare and warning me not to let her over exert herself. I think I'm being a nut about this.

So - we'll soon see if my actions were a huge mistake - or I give in and NOT go - as I cannot go without her as she was so looking forward to going in her costume - it would be sort of unfair for me to go without her.

Sigh.... TTFN! :rolleyes:

[kritter]

Tom,

Wow sound liek you have your hands full right now a sick daughter and a sick wife nothing can be worse than two sick women...

Have fun today at the Expo and show us some pictures...

Kristin


Heather how was the Iron birds game last night???

[buckifan]

I read today that Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D will be premiering Oct 20th. They should be showing that on our criuise too, right? While I know some small kids will be frightened of this movie, my DS will love to see it on the ship!

So, we'll be going from The Nightmare Before Christmas, which is really a Halloween movie, to The Santa Clause 3 premiere, an ACTUAL Christmas movie all in one 7 night voyage!

[captaincrash]

Well....

I survived the Anime/Cosplay event. At the last minute Alicia agreed to go with us - Julianna had no fever this morning... and we all piled into the minivan and headed south. Once there - BOTH of my little girls went with me - however the plan was actually for one child to go with each parent and my spouse was going shopping while I ran aroiund taking pictures while in costume at my "cartoon expo" - and that made it impossible for me to do much while wrangling 2 kids on my own - So I was going to push the 2 kids up, buy tickets - return the younger one to Alicia and go back in with the older one dressed in our costumes ... but that did not happen.

We ended up wandering the Convention lobby, adjoining Hilton lobby and the courtyard in between these buildings. There were 10,000+ people (many in costume) wandering around. Most costumes were not all that fancy - while many were rather exotic - and 99% I could not name which movies they came from. There were also tons of fans taking photos - with a large number of serious looking photographers like myself. And it readily became obvious I did NOT want my costumed self to be photographed by 100s of photographers and randomly posted all over the internet... So I never dressed up. Julianna however had her knight outfit on.

So .... the up side is we just visited outside the event where EVERYONE in Cosplay costume was posing for 100s of photographers. There was sufficient activity to satisfy my curiosity outside the event- and the price was right... F-R-E-E! I applied the $50+ we saved in Expo passes towards dinner and some groceries! THE DOWNSIDE ... is I did not go in and see it all. If I paid to enter I would not have lasted long with the 2 kids alone. Nor would I have shot as much as I wanted the WAY I wanted to. Normally I don't like to rush my shots much - but I sort of had to as I was trying to keep an eye on the 2 kids and any strange looking stranger who got within 5' of my kids. There were plenty of strange strangers there today - plus a majority of kind souls who offerred compliments on my bring the young ones to their event! I explained to all that the older daughter is a REAL fan in the making!!!! And she usually affirmed it with an appropriatly entertaining remark!

So the kids had great fun - more so Julianna then Kalea. We stayed about 90 minutes and I only shot approximately 106 photos. Maybe 40% were keepers. Normally I might have stayed 3-4 hours and shot a lot more - but this is OK. Having spent less time at the event - the kids were in good shape and we had a nice dinner .... and my dear spouse got to visit a few places and power-shop a bit. She came home with 2 huge bags and a serene smile on her face. Some of the sales were evidently "good".

So - I'll post select images from today ... tomorrow. And for today I have a few images from yesterday .... her first leap into competitive swimming!!!!

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/F5/AB/0E/iF5AB0E1E-9E3F-430A-9C4F-A66BFEA94A59.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/CE/40/EE/iCE40EE98-2D46-4777-95C3-00002291F324.jpg
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/99/2E/06/i992E0633-8EA6-4BAB-9F78-66C1C99194B2.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/85/DD/8D/i85DD8D64-D15C-4876-9E7E-F4FB5548E324.jpg

So here she is with her 1st award ribbons... YA-HOOOOoooo! We got 10th place. :rolleyes: I'm not sure there were even 10 swimmers in each event for the 4-5 year olds! So we'll just skip talking about that part with her... Anyone recall seeing the movie Meet the Fokers? And the shrine to mediocrity? Well - we're starting here with these 10th place ribbons till better ones come along!!!!

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/25/EC/A8/i25ECA83F-2095-4118-87A0-869FD54CE265.jpg

More pix tomorrow or wednesday - depending on how I heal and recover over nite from todays' ordeal!

[XLT800]

So here she is with her 1st award ribbons...

Capatain...tell your daughter congrat on the ribbon......she does not look too concerned about what place she came in. What a great start!

Getting ready for 4th party. We have 18 neighbors coming over for swimming, BBQ and fireworks. Should be lots of fun. Four of the neighbors and myself spent 2 1/2 hours firework shopping last night. It should be a blast (yes pun intended).

Hope everyone has a great holiday and be safe if you are lighting fireworks.

Dave

[kritter]

Tom,
Great pictures and looks like she had a great time....

Can not wait to see the pictures you shot from the EXpo...


Dave,

Have fun at the BBQ and fun with the fireworks...


HAPPY FOURTH!!!!!!

Kristin

[LaRue]

Happy 4th everyone! GDAC is out in the driveway putting together a movable basketball hoop. There has to be about a 1,000 pieces and he is not looking too happy. Oh, it will be fun when it is all done. Go GDAC, Go GDAC, Go GDAC, Go!!

I hope everyone has a great day.

[buckifan]

Drew is having a Pirates of Carribean 2 theme for his birthday later this month.....we'll be taking a group of his friends to see the movie. Yesterday I bought a toy "Flying Dutchman" to put on his cake, and he kept saying how cool that ship looks in the movie. He is going to go :banana: when he sees it at CC! Has anyone seen that pix of it there? Very cool. I've read it will be there at least until 2007.

[kritter]

Drew is having a Pirates of Carribean 2 theme for his birthday later this month.....we'll be taking a group of his friends to see the movie. Yesterday I bought a toy "Flying Dutchman" to put on his cake, and he kept saying how cool that ship looks in the movie. He is going to go :banana: when he sees it at CC! Has anyone seen that pix of it there? Very cool. I've read it will be there at least until 2007.



I was wondering if it would be there for us to see...Thanks for confirming it...
SOunds like a cool party...Please take a picture of the cake...thanks....

[kritter]

Hope everyone had a GREAT fouth of July....


Today I went with a girlfriend and saw the movie the Devil Wears Prada... Great movie..A must see...I read the book and loved it....

[Tluvs2talk]

Hi Everyone,
We have been having computer problems and have not been able to access online for a few days. We decided to buy a new computer since we could not be guaranteed that they could fix our problem. Anyway I am back online. I hope everyone had a great weekend, We went to the beach Monday and had a cookout/pool party at our house on the 4th.

1. Favorite season? Fall
2. Favorite sport? Tennis
3. Favorite type of food? Seafood and Mexican
4. Favorite beverage? Diet Coke
5. Favorite scent? Estee' Lauder Pleasure's
6. Favorite actor/actress? Can't decide!!
7. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
8. Hugs or Kisses? Kisses
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen? Both, but I love singing
10. Do you dance, or just watch? mainly watch, wish I could dance well
11. Last concert you attended? Van Halen in 84, They were awful!! too drunk to remember the words to the songs.
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre? Superman Returns
13. What kind of car do you drive? Dodge Grand Caravan
14. What inspires you? Christian Music, a good sermon

[buckifan]

Teri- What a great answer to #14. I totally agree with you! How was Superman? Is it okay for kids? Too bad on the computer problems......that hoots. We had a really bad virus about a year ago, and Rob had to clean everything out. It's amazing how you can feel so lost without it for a few days, ya' know?

[kritter]

Terri,

WElcome back..we sure did miss you...sorry about the computer problems...

Deeana,
How is the party planning going???

[Princess Olivia]

Deanna- We saw Superman Returns as well. LOVED IT!! Kids loved it! After this movie you could say I'm a BIG superman fan. He (the new superman) is exceptionally dreamy.

We are putting in the hardwood floors Monday. That means all the furniture has to go and all closet floors cleaned out. The kids are not happy. Neither am I. I will be glad when it's all done!

[buckifan]

Kristin- not much planning going on today, we've got a major kick ball game going on right now with lots of neighborhood kids. It's a gorgeous day today. High of 80, SUNNY & very low humidity....perfect!

Jen- We'll definitely have to check out Superman. Drew is really into superhero movies still. He and Rob went to go see X-Men recently. I passed on that one, but they both really enjoyed it.

What kind of hardwood floors are you having installed? We have a light oak in our entry/kitchen/hall areas. We've had them for about 6 years now, and I really love them. Feels so warm and "homey", and clean up well.

[cthimes]

Hi to all. We are planning on going on this cruise and are looking forward to it. It is going to be a family get together with several family members from around the country.

A little about us:

My wife, Kim, is a cruise veteran and this will be my second cruise :banana: (first was our honeymoon). We have four children: Patrick (10), Rebekah (8, going on 9 at end of cruise), Colin (6, 7 at cruise) and Ainsley (4, 5 at cruise).

We will also have additional family with us. Kim's parents including her father who is just turning 60 in August and her Mom. There will also be one of her brothers and her sister.

We will be spending the week before the cruise in Orlando at our timeshare condos. Most of that time will be with my family who is flying in to do the Disney and Sea World thing as well as celebrate some family birthdays.

This has certainly been an active thread and I am glad I found it for the opportunity to meet some people before the trip.


Chris

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Welcome aboard Chris and family, it sounds like you are going to be having a nice long vacation in October.

[LaRue]

Welcome Chris!

Happy Belated Birthday to Choc Marg!! :cheer2:

[kritter]

Hi to all. We are planning on going on this cruise and are looking forward to it. It is going to be a family get together with several family members from around the country.

A little about us:

My wife, Kim, is a cruise veteran and this will be my second cruise :banana: (first was our honeymoon). We have four children: Patrick (10), Rebekah (8, going on 9 at end of cruise), Colin (6, 7 at cruise) and Ainsley (4, 5 at cruise).

We will also have additional family with us. Kim's parents including her father who is just turning 60 in August and her Mom. There will also be one of her brothers and her sister.

We will be spending the week before the cruise in Orlando at our timeshare condos. Most of that time will be with my family who is flying in to do the Disney and Sea World thing as well as celebrate some family birthdays.

This has certainly been an active thread and I am glad I found it for the opportunity to meet some people before the trip.


Chris


welcome aboard chris...sounds like you will have a great week before the cruise..we too will be doing a week in WDW befroe the cruise....

WE have been planning a trick and treat for the kids so if you are interested please email me or heather and we will send you the link to the web site we have going for the cruise..kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net or stolteheather@yahoo.com

so glad that you will be joining us...

Deanna, wow kick ball that brings back memories from days long ago..ANyone remember playing kick the can?????

[PMDR59]

Hi All!!! I was directed to this thread when I posted about the Halloween cruise.
Myself DH and our boys 6&7 will be on the halloween cruise. This will be our second trip on the Magic. We did the Western 11/05/05 cruise last year.
Can not wait to be aboard the DCL again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kritter]

Hi All!!! I was directed to this thread when I posted about the Halloween cruise.
Myself DH and our boys 6&7 will be on the halloween cruise. This will be our second trip on the Magic. We did the Western 11/05/05 cruise last year.
Can not wait to be aboard the DCL again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


hello and welcome aboard we have such a great group here...WE have been busy organizing our trick or treating so please send either heather or myself and email (see two posts above this one) for the email addresses...

YOur kids are going to love all the kdis we have sailing with us..My tiwns will be four and a half when we sail...

WElcome!!!!!! :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:

[kritter]

Good evening All,

Just a reminder since we have some new members to our thread...

Heather and I have been working oh soo hard on a web site for our cruise... A moderator recommend to us that having all of our information on a secure web site that can only be accessed by all of us. In turn, we will be able to include much more valuable information about the cruise and all of our activites. Below you will find the information that we will need from each of you to put in the web site.

This is only for the DISers who are posting to this thread. Please have an adult in your group send the following & I will add it to the site & send you the link once I have updated the link. I will add your email to the group list so that you will be notified when the site has been updated with more info.

DIS ID: If you don't include this info, we wont know who you are.
Family name:
Individual names of family members (please include the children' ages at the time of the cruise so that I can put them in the right grouping)
Birthdates: so that we can add them to our cruise list
Celebration:
Stateroom:
Dining:
Hometown:
Pre/Post Cruise Plans: (Date arriving in FL & where you will be staying Friday night & if you plan to stay at WDW after the cruise. This info allowed some of us to arrange meets prior to the cruise.)

A short note with where you work & what activities you like to do.

Please send a picture of your family to be included. This way we will be able to reconize all of you...

For those with children, please send an individual picture pf each child to be put on the DIS Kids page by age group so that the kids can get to know each other a little better. Let the kids tell the others their age, grade in school, favorite thing to eat on the ship, favorite Disney character, & their favorite activity on the ship...whatever they want to write about.

We will have also have a page to list Palo resie times & excursions to help make plans.

stolteheather@yahoo.com

kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net


Also, let us know if you would like to sign up for any of the dis activities we have listed on our web site...

[princessh]

:welcome: Just wanted to take a minute and say Welcome to our new fellow cruisers! :welcome:

[Choc_marg]

Happy Belated Birthday to Choc Marg!! :cheer2:

OK. OK. OK. You called me out! Thanks a bunch LaRue!

I am going to try & get back on here more consistantly again. We are still in recovery mode from Cody's surgery, but most of the other things that get in my way of posting are in the past!!

Welcome to our group Chris!!! We met GoofyDrivesACar & Larue on our cruise last year through the DIS & we all rebooked together for this year. You just never know who you might really hit it off with!

ANyone remember playing kick the can?????

We used to play all the time growing up. In fact, my Mom used to play too until she missed the can one time & ended up eating quite a bit of the street. :headache:

Welcome to you too Maureen!! We were on the Magic right after you last year. We did the 11/12/05 Eastern.

Here's my get to know you info....
1. Favorite season? Spring
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food? dessert
4. Favorite beverage? Margarita
5. Favorite scent? Vanilla
6. Favorite actor/actress? None really, but Patrick Dempsy IS McDreamy
7. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
8. Hugs or Kisses? Hugs
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen? Sing, butthe kids ask me not to :)
10. Do you dance, or just watch? watch. If I am dancing with AWOL, he says I lead :)
11. Last concert you attended? Large venue - George Strait/Dierks Bentley; small venue - Dierks Bentley
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre? Cars
13. What kind of car do you drive? Expedition
14. What inspires you? besides the obvious (family), good friends & people who make a difference.
15. Fav hobby/passion/pastime? Besides the DIS??? Reading, cooking (when I don't HAVE to), & sewing.

I promise that I'll post again before another month goes by!!

[Tluvs2talk]

Buckifan- We really enjoyed Superman Returns. I think it is suitable for kids.

Kristin- It is good to be back online again. I felt out of touch while we didn't have access to the computer.

Welcome Chris and Family and PMDR59 :welcome:

We will be paying our final payment next week!!! That means the cruise is getting close :cheer2: :cheer2:


Teri

[captaincrash]

Hi All!!! I was directed to this thread when I posted about the Halloween cruise.
Myself DH and our boys 6&7 will be on the halloween cruise. This will be our second trip on the Magic. We did the Western 11/05/05 cruise last year.
Can not wait to be aboard the DCL again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Welcome aboard our crazy little sailing Maureen! I noticed our poll vote tally recently grew to 68... that must have been your contribution. I have daughters ages 2+10 months and 5+7 months... so maybe our older girl can send a couple PM emails to your boys. And ... by any chance was it my posting that invited you over??? I didn't check you posting histoy - but I've left a number of Halloween query invites over the past few weeks. :confused3

I have been so swamped lately - everyone is getting sick at my home these past few days. The only one with no symptoms has been me. This morning the young one woke with 103 in both ears and was charmingly delerious. She was plainly declaring "I sick!!.... I want medicine!.... strawberry pleeeeezzzze". But covering for the differing needs of everyone has been a real juggling act. As I was carrying in one of the kids from the car who was asleep - I commented to my spouse I really love being a Dad with a family. I drew a warm knowing smile from her. SO... Tonite I managed to slip away for a bit - (mens fellowship thing and maybe a quasi bible study - OK - maybe it's the other way around but ends up being a thing where we soend half the time just chatting about whats up with one another)... so I got a little relaxing in tonight.

Anyways - I hope to catch up on a lot of "loose ends" in the next couple of days as my spouse is out of town next week for a training gig again (Sunday to wednesday)... there goes next week for me - shifting back into "neutral".

Boy... pretty soon I'm gonna have to take a look at the Palo schedule - and the shore excursions the gang is considering. Usually - my spouse and I are pretty casual about the ports - rent a car and wander about to find things out of the ordnary. Or to just mozy about at a slower pace. It alomst sounds like this is shaping up into a BUSY voyage! :thumbsup2

Cheers!

And..... HAPPY LATE B-Day Choc-Marge!!!!

[kritter]

OK. OK. OK. You called me out! Thanks a bunch LaRue!

I am going to try & get back on here more consistantly again. We are still in recovery mode from Cody's surgery, but most of the other things that get in my way of posting are in the past!!

Welcome to our group Chris!!! We met GoofyDrivesACar & Larue on our cruise last year through the DIS & we all rebooked together for this year. You just never know who you might really hit it off with!



We used to play all the time growing up. In fact, my Mom used to play too until she missed the can one time & ended up eating quite a bit of the street. :headache:

Welcome to you too Maureen!! We were on the Magic right after you last year. We did the 11/12/05 Eastern.

Here's my get to know you info....
1. Favorite season? Spring
2. Favorite sport?
3. Favorite type of food? dessert
4. Favorite beverage? Margarita
5. Favorite scent? Vanilla
6. Favorite actor/actress? None really, but Patrick Dempsy IS McDreamy
7. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
8. Hugs or Kisses? Hugs
9. Do you sing along to the radio, or just listen? Sing, butthe kids ask me not to :)
10. Do you dance, or just watch? watch. If I am dancing with AWOL, he says I lead :)
11. Last concert you attended? Large venue - George Strait/Dierks Bentley; small venue - Dierks Bentley
12. Last movie you saw at a theatre? Cars
13. What kind of car do you drive? Expedition
14. What inspires you? besides the obvious (family), good friends & people who make a difference.
15. Fav hobby/passion/pastime? Besides the DIS??? Reading, cooking (when I don't HAVE to), & sewing.

I promise that I'll post again before another month goes by!!



Happy Belated Birthday...IS cody oK???



Terri and Crash glad to see you are back..... :Pinkbounc

[buckifan]

Welcome to our new posters, and happy birthday to you, Choc_Marg. I'll bet you celebrated with a nice big Margarita, right?

I FINALLY got around to ordering my new Passporter's. Does anyone already have the new edition? I'm so excited to read it.

So, is anyone else going to POC2 today? My ds wants to see it sooooo bad, but he decided to wait to see it when we celebrate his birthday in a couple of weeks. Not sure if he'll make it when he starts hearing reviews of it.

[kritter]

Welcome to our new posters, and happy birthday to you, Choc_Marg. I'll bet you celebrated with a nice big Margarita, right?

I FINALLY got around to ordering my new Passporter's. Does anyone already have the new edition? I'm so excited to read it.

So, is anyone else going to POC2 today? My ds wants to see it sooooo bad, but he decided to wait to see it when we celebrate his birthday in a couple of weeks. Not sure if he'll make it when he starts hearing reviews of it.

I got my passporter a while ago when it first came out and it was full of information..it was great to read and gave me such great insight into all things on the cruise..you will love it deena...where did you order it from????

[cthimes]

We have both the third edition and the fourth edition. I was able to get the deluxe planning for about the same cost as the regular through Amazon with free shipping.

I hate to say it but it is already well marked up and dog eared from all the notes that we have made. :coffee:

[Choc_marg]

And..... HAPPY LATE B-Day Choc-Marge!!!!
Happy Belated Birthday
Welcome to our new posters, and happy birthday to you, Choc_Marg. I'll bet you celebrated with a nice big Margarita, right?

Thanks everyone!!! I was out of town the week before my Bday & I definitely celebrated with a few margaritas that week, so I took it easy when the actual day came along! Not sure why though. I actually like the date of my Bday. I can do all sorts of celebrating & never have to worry about having to recover for work the next day. My Bday is 7/3 & 7/4 is always a holiday :)

IS cody oK??? He's doing better. He had surgery at the beginning of June & was in the hospital for a week. He's been home recouperating. He had bladder surgery & so he's had 2 drainage tubes in his bladder so that any urine that is produced drains right out into a couple of bags. Hopefully, we'll get the tubes out next week & then we start teaching him how to run a catheter through his stoma so he can empty his bladder. It has been a long summer already. Just about the time we get used to the catheter, it will be time for school to start!

I FINALLY got around to ordering my new Passporter's. Does anyone already have the new edition? I'm so excited to read it.

We have both the third edition and the fourth edition. I was able to get the deluxe planning for about the same cost as the regular through Amazon with free shipping.

I hate to say it but it is already well marked up and dog eared from all the notes that we have made. :coffee:

So, is the new one that much different than the last edition?? We got the last one before we sailed last year. I wasn't planning on getting the new one since it didn't seem like it could have very much new info. What do you guys think??

So, is anyone else going to POC2 today? My ds wants to see it sooooo bad, but he decided to wait to see it when we celebrate his birthday in a couple of weeks. Not sure if he'll make it when he starts hearing reviews of it.

Cody really wants to see it too. He's just 5 though. I think we'll wait for everyone else's reviews first. Then I'll let AWOL take him if it passes the 5-year old test.

What's on everyone's agenda this weekend?? Not much for us. Just a little trip planning meeting tonight & a mostly free rest of the weekend. Samantha has been wanting to learn how to sew, so I might take her to the fabric store & let her pick some fabric for a beginner pillow.... Hope I have the patience for that :)

Happy weekend everyone!!

[cthimes]

So, is the new one that much different than the last edition?? We got the last one before we sailed last year. I wasn't planning on getting the new one since it didn't seem like it could have very much new info. What do you guys think??

I would not say that there was anything earthshaking that you could not get off the websites. We will only bring one book wiht us and Kim wanted the deluxe organizer so $20 was a cheap investment.

We have not told the kids yet because their grandfather (Don) will be turning 60 and this whole thing is a BIG surprise. They will probably find out in October and I plan on giving the third edition a new life in the hands of my older two children as they conduct "research" excercises! Since they will be missing a total of two weeks of school, they will have some homework to get done and I am hoping that we can tie some of the science and history into the stuff that they will see this trip in Orlando (Hello EPCOT!) and all the new stuff on the cruise.

Chris

[buckifan]

He's doing better. He had surgery at the beginning of June & was in the hospital for a week. He's been home recouperating. He had bladder surgery & so he's had 2 drainage tubes in his bladder so that any urine that is produced drains right out into a couple of bags. Hopefully, we'll get the tubes out next week & then we start teaching him how to run a catheter through his stoma so he can empty his bladder.

Oh, that poor baby......I hate to hear about little ones going through things like that. Now, did the surgery take care of the problem? Is he going to need any follow up procedures? Sounds like he's being very brave. I'll pray for his speedy recovery.

[Choc_marg]

Oh, that poor baby......I hate to hear about little ones going through things like that. Now, did the surgery take care of the problem? Is he going to need any follow up procedures? Sounds like he's being very brave. I'll pray for his speedy recovery.

Thanks! We don't really know yet if he is "fixed" For some unknown reason, his bladder never learned how to communicate with his brain, so his urine would back up into his kidneys & that was starting to create problems. You'd never know there was anything wrong. He's been potty trained since he turned 3, but he has been holding 3 times what someone his age should hold. So, at the beginning of June, he went in for bladder surgery. The docs took part of his bowel to make his bladder bigger, then they took his appendix & created a channel from his bladder to the stoma on his belly. Once the tubes are out, we start to run a catheter through that stoma every few hours to empty his bladder. His doc says that he can still be active & play sports, he just has to make sure & empty his bladder before playing so taht he doesn't rupture the bladder.

It has been a rough few weeks. As a parent, you want your kids to be perfect & healthy. YOu wish you could trade places with him, but he's been amazing about it. He says he's actually excited to pee through a tube!

Thanks so much for your extra prayers! We'll take them!!

[Choc_marg]

I would not say that there was anything earthshaking that you could not get off the websites. We will only bring one book wiht us and Kim wanted the deluxe organizer so $20 was a cheap investment.

We have not told the kids yet because their grandfather (Don) will be turning 60 and this whole thing is a BIG surprise. They will probably find out in October and I plan on giving the third edition a new life in the hands of my older two children as they conduct "research" excercises! Since they will be missing a total of two weeks of school, they will have some homework to get done and I am hoping that we can tie some of the science and history into the stuff that they will see this trip in Orlando (Hello EPCOT!) and all the new stuff on the cruise.

Chris


Thanks for the insight! We'll just go with what we know :) We were on the Magic last year fairly soon after the dry dock, so we've seen the structural changes that would be reflected in the Passporter anyway :)

Cute idea to have the kids participate in "research" My older one likes to help out too! Last year we got a state postcard from each of the DISers in our group. The kids & I spent some time after we got back finding each of our new friends on a US map. They still remember some of the states as the one "Elizabeth & Natalie live in" or the one "Sterling lives in", etc.

[XLT800]

Welcome to Chris and Family and to Maureen and Family.

Been on vacation this week and have not done anything....do not get many weeks like this though and it has been pretty nice.

Lots of pixiedust: pixiedust: pixiedust: pixiedust: for Cody

Hope everyone has a great weekend

dave

[kritter]

choc marg--wow that is a ton for your son to be going through...My brother had a stoma when he was a baby too..he is fine now!!
I will say an extra prayer for your son...sounds like he has been sooo brave....



Dave, How was your week off?? Did you enjoy the pool?????

[kritter]

112 more days till we cruise...

I forgot to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HEATHERS DH TIM!!!!!!!! :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:

[kritter]

112 more days till we cruise...

I forgot to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HEATHERS DH TIM!!!!!!!! :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:

opps sorry posted it twice....

[Princess Olivia]

Choc Marg. That's a lot for a kid (and his parents) to be going through. I'm sorry to hear that. May the worst of it be behind him. Happy birthday to you!!

SO, I surprised Olivia with American Idol concert tickets last night. We didn't tell Liv and her friend until we pulled up at the Worcester DCU center. That's about an hour and half away. They thought they were seeing a movie!! Here is the picture at the moment of discovery!! Olivia is on left in pink.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/livcam/Oliviasrecital126.jpg

At the concert http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/livcam/Oliviasrecital130.jpg

Needless to say we all had a blast!!!

[kritter]

Jen,
I love the pictures she looks soo happy and ecited..Very CUte!!!!



I wanted to let anyone know who is arriving friday before the cruise that CTThimes aka Chris has offered to host the following precruise get togther:"I was thinking Friday afternoon would be best. We could arrange for some pizzas from Giordano’s or something else. We can supply directions and contact info as we get closer." This is an FYI if you are interested and arriving in time..Might be a neat way to meet before the cruies...More details to follow from Chris




Hope everyone had a great weekend...

[scubarn]

I just had to do it.... post #2100

Karen :cool1:

[captaincrash]

I just had to do it.... post #2100

Karen :cool1:

Good score Karen for your 2nd posting to the thread... Woo Hooo! That's the Spirit. This posting is my 300th!!!!!!! And I have YET to beat AWOL or Buckifan to one of the big posting way points! I think AWOL got 2000 and Buckifan got 1500!!! Oh well... :confused3 I'm just gonna have to step up the neurotic intensity!!!! :lmao:

So hoz everyone doing this fine summer weekend? My spouse just took off for an annual pow wow with her company. Leaving poor ol' me to fend for myself with the kids. Which means we'll be stocking up on chocolate milk and chef-boy-ardee!!!! Well... maybe NOT.

So - my new lense is sharp and problem free. I'm a happy camper so far. I'm still checking it for functional performance... and so far it is fine. :blush:

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/E3/A3/25/iE3A325E4-9B16-4B18-8FBC-B3AAF473BEC0.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/AA/8D/A3/iAA8DA321-6A5E-44BE-A444-DFAEA8C4B730.jpg

Aside from that (yeah, I kno... I'm a nut ... and I'm sure no one is surprised at that admission!) ... we have another swim meet tomorrow morning. I'm not sure how we're gonna get up for that!

Cheers! :wave2:

[awoltoday]

WHAT? We were on page 2! We can't have that! :rotfl2:

I hope everybody had a great weekend!

Happy anniversary choc_marg! :love:

[Choc_marg]

WHAT? We were on page 2! We can't have that! :rotfl2:

I hope everybody had a great weekend!

Happy anniversary choc_marg! :love:

Aren't you sweet??? Thanks a bunch :) Happy Anniversary to you too!! :love: :love:

Thanks to XLT, Kritter & PrincessOlivia for the extra prayers for Cody. He's doing pretty well, but we are all anxious to move on to the next phase. Once we get back from the doc Wed afternoon, I'll let you all know how it went & what the plan is for the next few weeks!

Happy late Bday to Tim!!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. This week is looking busier & busier by the minute!!

[LaRue]

Thanks for getting us back on our rightful page AWOL! :smooth:

Happy Anniversary to the two love birds puckerup:

We are all paid up for the cruise and are all geared up to start making Ressie's this week-end. :cheer2:

AWOL, GDAC will sign you up for a couple :scared1:

Have a great Day!

[torontodisney]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

[princessh]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.


Hi and welcome! :welcome:

We have a lot of DIS activites planned for the cruise. We are holding our own trick or treat. We are having a DIS meet. We are having an oce cream eating contest and more! We have a website that has all the information and details. If you are willing to supply us with some information, we can send you an e-vite to view the site. Here is an idea of the info we would need. This was in a post a few pages ago. We would love to have you join in the activites.

Good evening All,

Just a reminder since we have some new members to our thread...

Heather and I have been working oh soo hard on a web site for our cruise... A moderator recommend to us that having all of our information on a secure web site that can only be accessed by all of us. In turn, we will be able to include much more valuable information about the cruise and all of our activites. Below you will find the information that we will need from each of you to put in the web site.

This is only for the DISers who are posting to this thread. Please have an adult in your group send the following & I will add it to the site & send you the link once I have updated the link. I will add your email to the group list so that you will be notified when the site has been updated with more info.

DIS ID: If you don't include this info, we wont know who you are.
Family name:
Individual names of family members (please include the children' ages at the time of the cruise so that I can put them in the right grouping)
Birthdates: so that we can add them to our cruise list
Celebration:
Stateroom:
Dining:
Hometown:
Pre/Post Cruise Plans: (Date arriving in FL & where you will be staying Friday night & if you plan to stay at WDW after the cruise. This info allowed some of us to arrange meets prior to the cruise.)

A short note with where you work & what activities you like to do.

Please send a picture of your family to be included. This way we will be able to reconize all of you...

For those with children, please send an individual picture pf each child to be put on the DIS Kids page by age group so that the kids can get to know each other a little better. Let the kids tell the others their age, grade in school, favorite thing to eat on the ship, favorite Disney character, & their favorite activity on the ship...whatever they want to write about.

We will have also have a page to list Palo resie times & excursions to help make plans.

stolteheather@yahoo.com

kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

Welcome aboard torontodisney!!! We will be traveling with two DDs as well, ages 7 and 5.


AWOL, GDAC will sign you up for a couple :scared1:



AWOL + Banana Boat = :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

[princessh]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes for Tim.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Jen,
The pictures looked great! I bet Olivia was surprised!

Choc_marg,
Glad to hear Cody is doing ok. Pixiedust that he will continue to improve!pixiedust: Happy late birthday to you, and Happy Anniversary to you and Awoltoday!

Capt.,
How did you daughter do in the swim meet?

Got to run. Hope everyone has a great Monday!

Also, just a reminder that we are in need of people who are willing to hand out candy from thier staterooms. We are getting a good amount of kids signed up for trick or treating. It would be great if we could get a few more people to hand out candy! I you can help please send an e-mail to Kristin or myself!

[awoltoday]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

:welcome: :welcome: :welcome: :welcome:
I saw from your post on the main boards that you last sailed a western about 4 years ago? There are a few changes on the ship that you will notice! Starting with the Dumbotron over the goofy pool. Scoops is gone in favor of a self serve ice cream machine. I'm sure there is more... I don't think you or your dd's will be disappointed. How can you beat 80 degrees in Oct/Nov, some beaches, shopping, an ice cold drink, and lobster night? ;)

Thanks for getting us back on our rightful page AWOL! :smooth:

Happy Anniversary to the two love birds puckerup:

We are all paid up for the cruise and are all geared up to start making Ressie's this week-end. :cheer2:

AWOL, GDAC will sign you up for a couple :scared1:

Have a great Day!

Thanks! Are you doing the "all-in" dance? :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer:

Welcome aboard torontodisney!!! We will be traveling with two DDs as well, ages 7 and 5.




AWOL + Banana Boat = :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

You will need to get me liquored up pretty good before I'm getting on that thing!! pirate: :drinking1 :drinking: :drinking1 :drinking: pirate:

[kritter]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CHOC-MARG AND AWOL!!!!

How many years and what did you do to celebrate???

Hope that COdy is doing better... I have been praying for him and thinking of you all...


WELCOME TORONTODISNEY!!!

[gocar24]

We are booked on the October 28 Disney Magic Cruise. This is our second Disney cruise. We took our first one in September 2005. I will be with DH, DS 5, and DD 4. Would love to meet other people who will be on the cruise!

[kritter]

We are booked on the October 28 Disney Magic Cruise. This is our second Disney cruise. We took our first one in September 2005. I will be with DH, DS 5, and DD 4. Would love to meet other people who will be on the cruise!


Welcome welcome we have a great bunch here and some great activities planned for halloween....kristin

[awoltoday]

We are booked on the October 28 Disney Magic Cruise. This is our second Disney cruise. We took our first one in September 2005. I will be with DH, DS 5, and DD 4. Would love to meet other people who will be on the cruise!

:welcome: :welcome: :welcome: :welcome:
You couldn't have picked a scarier group to join up with! :scared: :scared1: We also have a DS 5 (Cody) along with our DD7. How was your Sep '05 cruise? Did you hit all the ports you were supposed to or were you on one of the redirected tours?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CHOC-MARG AND AWOL!!!!

How many years and what did you do to celebrate???

Hope that COdy is doing better... I have been praying for him and thinking of you all...


WELCOME TORONTODISNEY!!!

:thanks: Lucky number 13 for us. We are celebrating by letting choc_marg work while I take DD for a dip in the pool. NO! Wait! I'm taking her on a cruise in October! :rotfl2: Maybe I'll do something "special" for her when she gets done working and the kids are comatose. And :thanks: again for thinking of Cody! He's getting better every day.

[nschnoor]

:wave2: Hi! My husband and I have a question hopefully you veteran Disney Crusiers can answer for us. This is our first Disney cruise, however we have been on numerous cruises. We are use to the formal night being that, formal - either dark suit or tux. However, I have read conflicting information on this board. What is the norm, if there is one?

Thanks,
Nancy

[awoltoday]

:wave2: Hi! My husband and I have a question hopefully you veteran Disney Crusiers can answer for us. This is our first Disney cruise, however we have been on numerous cruises. We are use to the formal night being that, formal - either dark suit or tux. However, I have read conflicting information on this board. What is the norm, if there is one?

Thanks,
Nancy

Nancy,
I have only been on one cruise, so I'm a veteran by the slimest of margins...

I didn't feel uncomfortable in my (el cheapo) tux. BUT, I wouldn't have felt uncomfortable if I had been wearing slacks and dress shirt either. There was such a range that I don't think anybody would feel out of place. I am NOT a dressy person. Heck, I wear shorts and a T-shirt to work. I just felt like for my first cruise I would do it the "traditional" way. And since I bought the "el cheapo" tux, I'll probably haul it along this time too. My advice is don't stress over it and dress how YOU and your DH would be most comfortable. Oh, and avoid reading the "dress code" threads on the main board! You'll just get the extremist view from that. And remember it is YOUR cruise too and it just doesn't matter what they think! ;)

[captaincrash]

NOW....

AND sjcubedofct,

May I volunteer a few (say 3) designs for our little pirate band to consider for the T-shirt designs? I am considered by some to be a bit creative and maybe even a fair freehand artist... so if you'll all allow me a week or two to come up with some concepts... I'll photo graph them and post a photo link... (I'm low tech) ... unless someone emails me then I'll send the oringinal doc.

May I ask whether it's OK to work in more than one color. As it gets a lot more fun with two or more colors. I don't think we need to make it a precise 4 color process thing... but I had in mind a graphic kind of thing. ALSO... I will entertain any suggestions on design ideas from ANYONE (Not that I'd take anyones' suggestions... LOL) .... plus I'll tolerate criticism from the peanut gallery once the images are available for folks to consider here. AND... I'll be happy to share in the design submissions with anyone else who would like to contribute concepts. In the end a brief voting period on the final 3 conceots seems tolerable and democratic to me. :idea:

SO may I ask... are we talking plain T-shirts? Will there be a pocket option on the shirts? Or how abount the potential of having the T-shirts start out as a certain color? I happen to be partial to royal blue (shades of blue) or possibly even a ??? a black T-shirt so we can work in orange and green colors for the Halloween theme? AND... for another Q... are we talkin' about Ts for just the kids or is it we can request T shirts / shirts for adults or who ever asks (and pays) for them? I do have some spare change and I would probably like the pocket option and I do prefer quality in the T-shirt material!

So... while we're at it ... shall be adopt a nick-name for our little band of Magic maniacs? Oh... well now... how do you like that for a nick name for our little band... "The Magic Maniacs"... or how about "The Magic DIS Maniacs".... or maybe we should just stick with no nick name and keep and verbage to something like "Sailing on the Disney Magic ~ St Thomas, St Maarten, Castaway Caye" followed along below the graphic design at the bottom a caption like " The Fabled <or "scarey"> 2006 Haunted Sailing ~ October 28-November 4th".

OR... we might have a halloween pirate themed design with a parchment look..... and perhaps a treasure map... or maybe ??? Or maybe I think I need a few days to sketch a few concepts then I might aire out some ideas before I committ any serious effort to a final finished graphic.

I also need to know what format your sister needs this in order to reporduce it sjcubedofct. SO.... just let me know... or if it is easier just private message me her contact number and I'll call and get the info straight from her - which might be easier for YOU then to hand it off to me here. :hyper2:

OK... enuf of that...

TTFN! pirate:

Here's a emotion of me n' my hot chocolate... :coffee:

As mentioned some time ago - I am going to post 1 or 2 new t-shirt designs a day for the next few days. I can ADD ANY LANGUAGE to these and I can make modifications to the designs as we go. Each one will be numbered 1, 2, 3 and so on. Modified versions will pick up a letter with number.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR OPINIONS as to what is OK or NOT. Volunteer language ideas - or simply say "That's IT!!!"


Design #1
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/0C/0B/E1/i0C0BE19B-2908-40F7-B681-A8263A2771D3.jpg


Design #2
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/7B/A3/11/i7BA311AB-8587-479F-B29F-954F46A5BF55.jpg
Note, the grey lettering at the bottom is a private note to myself on the type face I used. Also, you may note a slight mismatch onthe BLACK and GREY fields where I spliced in the "DIS" and "2006". On a final image for the printer I will get the colors to match closer (maybe) so you can't see the splicing lines. :artist:


Design #3A
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/58/51/A0/i5851A03F-0E88-4B25-A6CE-34D22B1C9584.jpg

So ... what do you think??? pirate: Remember - all your opinions COUNT.... as if I'm really listening though... LOL! ;) More to come every day!

[captaincrash]

:wave2: Hi! My husband and I have a question hopefully you veteran Disney Crusiers can answer for us. This is our first Disney cruise, however we have been on numerous cruises. We are use to the formal night being that, formal - either dark suit or tux. However, I have read conflicting information on this board. What is the norm, if there is one?

Thanks,
Nancy

The norm is NO tux for most folks IMHO. However, my family now packs 2 tuxes for formal and the semi-formal nites (black tux and white dinner jacket). Plus we pack semi-matched pirate costumes. AND since this is our 1st Halloween voyage - we're also packing moderately sophisticated costumes (if my spouse lets me bring the whole shea-bang!). Oh yeah... we also bring clothes to wear when we're NOT in costume too ... plus diapers for the kids. FOr toothbrushes and underwear we just go 'round knocking on cabins till we can borrow some from someone else... :lmao:

Oh well... here's a pix of me in one of the tuxes...

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/5E/CF/2F/i5ECF2FA0-D402-4E1B-A277-314EB2CD81FD.jpg

See... my daughter at the lower edge of the picture cannot bear to look... more spousal abuse!!!!! Aaarrrghh! :happytv:

OK... gotta go change a stinky diaper and get the kids to bed...

TTFN!

[cthimes]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

Hi Torontodisney,

Welcome aboard. I am traveling with four children and the two oldest are around the ages of your kids. We are keeping the trip a surprise right now but I am sure that my daughter Rebekah (9 on the trip) and Patrick (10) would enjoy meeting your older daughter while Colin (7 by the trip) will be enjoying meeting some friends.

The trip is a surprise for my father in law who is having a BIG birthday. My DW and mother in law are afraid that the kids will spoil the surprise so we are not telling them until the end of August. At that point we could exchange emails for the kids.

We will be in Orlando with my family the entire week before the cruise doing the Disney thing. Depending how the schedules fall, I mentioned to Kristin about having a get together at our resort. We could keep it simple and bring in some pizzas and stuff. We have a timeshare condo in Lake Buena Vista.

Chris

[GoofyDrivesACar]

As mentioned some time ago - I am going to post 1 or 2 new t-shirt designs a day for the next few days. I can ADD ANY LANGUAGE to these and I can make modifications to the designs as we go. Each one will be numbered 1, 2, 3 and so on. Modified versions will pick up a letter with number.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR OPINIONS as to what is OK or NOT. Volunteer language ideas - or simply say "That's IT!!!"

Okay Captain, I have a question, before I can cast my vote, what color is the shirt going to be? By the way, I think you did a great job on the designs.

[XLT800]

:welcome: :welcome: :welcome: to gocar24 and torontodisney.

Torontodisney....we also have a 11dd. I am sure that she would love to email with your DD.

nschnoor.....Formal night a suit is fine and semi-formal night you will see more casual dress then dress up. We always schedule our PALO for formal night because wearing a suit once on a cruise is enough for me.

Captain.....great designs. Where are you thinking the design will go? Full size on the back or pocket size on the front? On our last cruise we had a pocket size design on the front and the itenerary was listed on the back.


Dave

[princessh]

Capt, love the desgins, but I am worried that the women and girls will not wear the design. My boys will love them. Could you also come up with a general beach/cruise design or general halloween/pumpkin just as another option? You are very talented and I would love to see what else you can come up with!

[princessh]

Since there has been some talk about the t-shirts again. I thought I would bring up something I found from another thread. There is a company that has made rubber neon green bracelets for other dis cruisers. I have spoken to the company, and they advised that they could not put a mickey image on the bracelet, but gave me some ideas of what they could do. Here is a picture from the other thread showing how thier bracelets turned out. Along with the image the rep suggested. The rep said we could do something similar, but add an image or two, The cost including shipping would be about $2.25 a bracelet. If anyone is interested, let me know. We can order them anytime up until the End of Sept.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/P1010392.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/boat.jpg




Since we are on the subject of ordering t-shirts, I thought now would be a good time to bring up the breacelets again. Soon, Kristin and I will have ordering info on the website.

[buckifan]

We are making up t-shirts for all of the kids coming to Drew's "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed birthday party, and they will wear them to the movie. We are doing the same Calico Jack Rackham flag design on them. I think they look cool, but Heather has a good point about them being more appealing to men/boys. I love the bracelets, and would definitely like to order those!

[captaincrash]

Capt, love the desgins, but I am worried that the women and girls will not wear the design. My boys will love them. Could you also come up with a general beach/cruise design or general halloween/pumpkin just as another option? You are very talented and I would love to see what else you can come up with!

Let me dream up some stuff less scary or "hostile" looking. No sweat.

How about this - it's a quick and rough concept.... (very rough... free hand edited with paint)

Design #4
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/2A/E6/6A/i2AE66AF9-BC3E-4252-AC7F-E9A82711517B.jpg

I would normally be more careful to get the head shape and scale ito better balance. I just sort of "slashed" it up with a spray paint tool. I think this can be refined considerably.

I have another idea too (of course)... how about a Mickey face as above but a huge fork and knife instead? AND... I sort of wanted to get "DIS" into the flag - but now the ears a little small.... I guess I could still put it on Mickeys' forehead.... or I could enlarge the flag... shift the Micky and crossed sword/bone up and create black space at bottom to add an area for more language. How about... "Yo Ho - a Pirates Life iz grand!"...., "Surrender your Booty", .... or ....."Ahoy there - DIS Mates!" .... Or "Hand over ya' Loot to yer DIS Mates!!!" ... or simply ... "Hand over yer Loot!!". Heck, with latter declaration your T-shirt just might PAY for itself one even in a dark passageway on the ship!

OK... here it is... another idea....

Design #4A
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/DF/0B/5A/iDF0B5A0E-9D40-4576-8B6B-70AC4E7CBD2F.jpg

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Good Work Captain!! I will cast my vote for 4A or 2, depending on if we decide to go scary or something a little softer.

[cthimes]

:Captain.....great designs. Where are you thinking the design will go? Full size on the back or pocket size on the front? On our last cruise we had a pocket size design on the front and the itenerary was listed on the back.

Now, even though it will be a little more expensive, I like the idea of something on the back like the itinerary!

[captaincrash]

.....

Captain.....great designs. Where are you thinking the design will go? Full size on the back or pocket size on the front? On our last cruise we had a pocket size design on the front and the itenerary was listed on the back.

Dave

Dave:

I would say the Pirate Flag design should go full size on the front or back. And if it's on the back then we could have a simple design on the front pocket like one of these AND remove the sailing date from the big design on the back - and keep in mind we can change the type face and colors any way we desire (well - that might present more of a problem than benefit... :confused3 ):

Pocket design #1A .................................................. .................................................. ........... Pocket Design #1
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/70/27/65/i70276530-E65D-4595-9ECF-A166EA74FAE5.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/F5/0D/5F/iF50D5F27-F475-44C5-A9D3-C0D7589EABD7.jpg




Now, even though it will be a little more expensive, I like the idea of something on the back like the itinerary!

cthimes: :thumbsup2

Frankly, I'd like to put something on the sleeves!!! And then have wings sewn on to the back ... and maybe a tail tacked onto the waist!!! But then again - I'm the nut whos' packing the costumes, pirate outfits, 2 tuxes and diapers for the week! Plus a half flat of bottled water if my spouse gets her way - as she always does!!!

And GDAC.....

... hold off on the votes till we finish all the concepts - or - allow other folks to express their interests/concepts/ and most importantly... criticisms. I do welcome them all. We can make this an evolving community effort... to a point. ;)

And then we'll take votes!!!!

Heres' another variation of #4..... it looks more like a flag this way...

Design #4B
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/E0/7F/89/iE07F89BA-1BD3-455C-9DBD-BFF9707C382D.jpg

Oh yeah... before I forget... BELATED GREETINGS to all the new folks (gocar24 and torontodisney) these past couple of days!!!! And... has anyone noticed we're up to 71 votes on the poll now? Anyone new who has not intorducted themselves yet... come ou out and say hello!!!! :wave2:

TTFN - got a million errands to run today and my spouse is out of town til thursday - leaving me to keep the wild ones from getting too wild! :rolleyes1

[LaRue]

Crash,

Great work on the designs. What color shirt would they be put on??? Also, I like the 4A design the best so far.

I also like the saying "surrender your booty"

[captaincrash]

Crash,

Great work on the designs. What color shirt would they be put on??? Also, I like the 4A design the best so far.

I also like the saying "surrender your booty"

We can put it to a vote or post a POLL to see what folks what as a saying (if any) once we settle on a design!

And as for what color shirt - well - it can be any that the shirt maker has for cheap (with reasonable quality - no Pakistani made t-shirts, please). Beef-T fruit of the Loom sounds fair to me - and I like the idea of a pocket - but then again - everyone is gonna have an opinion. A vote would end all discussion.

SO - colors... I can change the colors pretty easily - and it is up to the silk screener to match it (or come close). And if we were to stick with the Halloween orange on black - I was thinking we could select from either a red shirt - or even a purple one - keeping it in line with a pirate-like theme in light of the POTC 2 theme.

And for the record - I was trying to hand draw some designs but it is very hard to do so and get good results. I had wanted to have a 3/4 view of a carribean map with a [peter Pan ala HOOK sailing ship floating over it with some clouds. But heck - if I could really whip up a good drawing like that in a day then I would not be working in finance and "business politics" for a living. I may still get a nice hand drawn center-piece drawing - ink pen style by hand - not graphics from the web like what I've done so far. I might add that I think the final image we vote on and use will have to be CLEANED up and SHARPENED to suit my tastes. These are usable as is - but they can use some refinement as yet. These are concept creations that are probably nominally usable.

More varied ideas to come. I am side lined for the rest of today as I am racking my brins and combing through the house for some free flight airline certificates that have to be sent off tomorrow. They were not in the fireproof fileing cabinet where they were suposed to be - and my spouse and I are uncertain of their last placement. I'm mildly agitated - and about to call AA to ask for an extension if they'll grant it. In fact - I'm calling them now.

TT pirate:

[kritter]

Now that we have some designs in from Tom..which are very creative and wonderful...

Tom suggested to me that we open the t-shirt designing up to everyone and if anyone else has a design that they would like to post feel free...By the end of the weekend (Sunday) we will take all of the designs and put them onto our halloween web site and then we will cast votes as to our favorites and then we can begin the ordering process. The company we are thinking about going with you will be able to choose the type of shirt, via a sweatshirt, polo shirt, tank top etc. and then we will have our design put on it..YOu will order directly from them and pay them directly..then you can have your shirts deliverd right to you...

The bracelets we will have to place one group order which will be a min. of 20 of each size.. We will also have those on the web site by monday..

So lets get out our creativity and see some more designs....Bring them on..the more the merrier....Please note that the company we are ordering from will not let us use images of mickey but we can use images of the boat.

[kritter]

Don't forget to keep sending your information to Heather or myself..thanks....

[buckifan]

I wanted to share some drawings Drew just did of Pirates of the Caribbean characters Captain Jack Sparrow & Elizabeth Swann. It's too bad he doesn't know anything about the cruise.....he would love to submit a drawing for the tshirts!


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/buckifan/DSC00538.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/buckifan/DSC00539.jpg

[awoltoday]

I wanted to share some drawings Drew just did of Pirates of the Caribbean characters Captain Jack Sparrow & Elizabeth Swann. It's too bad he doesn't know anything about the cruise.....he would love to submit a drawing for the tshirts!


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/buckifan/DSC00538.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/buckifan/DSC00539.jpg


WOW! Drew is quite talented! Those are great!

[kritter]

Great designs...!!!! My twins loved them.....

[buckifan]

Capt- I got your PM.....that looked really cool, what you did with Drew's drawing. I'm going to print one off and show him. You should post what you did here.....

[Tluvs2talk]

BUCKIFAN- Drew's drawings were GREAT!!! Rick and I went to see Pirate's Of The Carribbean Saturday. I liked it better than the I did the first one. pirate:

Welcome to all our new posters!!

Heather and Kristin- the website is expanding nicely. You two have done a really nice job. :thumbsup2

Hope everyone had GREAT DAY!!! :sunny:

Teri

[kritter]

BUCKIFAN- Drew's drawings were GREAT!!! Rick and I went to see Pirate's Of The Carribbean Saturday. I liked it better than the I did the first one. pirate:

Welcome to all our new posters!!

Heather and Kristin- the website is expanding nicely. You two have done a really nice job. :thumbsup2

Hope everyone had GREAT DAY!!! :sunny:

Teri


Thanks Terri, we have had a blast doing the web site....It has been fun...Heather has been great to work with..Any suggestions would be great/ideas!!!!

[kritter]

Capt,
Wondering did you get my email about the tux thing for DH?? Any thoughts??
Thanks, kristin

[pumpkinlove13]

Hello Everyone! We have just booked our first cruise ever. We are excited to join all of you on the Halloween Cruise on the 28th. We are flying into Orlando on the 27th and staying the night in Cocoa Beach. I am so glad to find this thread. We are bringing our 5 year old daughter but our 19m old is staying home with Grandma :guilty: . Is there any other info needed? Anyone else staying in Cocoa Beach the night before?

[princessh]

Hello Everyone! We have just booked our first cruise ever. We are excited to join all of you on the Halloween Cruise on the 28th. We are flying into Orlando on the 27th and staying the night in Cocoa Beach. I am so glad to find this thread. We are bringing our 5 year old daughter but our 19m old is staying home with Grandma :guilty: . Is there any other info needed? Anyone else staying in Cocoa Beach the night before?

Welcome Pumpkinlove13 :welcome:


Below is some info from a prior post. We currently have a website that has all the details about our activites on the cruise. If you can e-mail Kristin or I the info. we can send you a link to the website. There is a ton of information on the website! Glad that your family will be joining us! Let us know if your family is interested in the trick or treating or DIS meet!




A moderator recommend to us that having all of our information on a secure web site that can only be accessed by all of us. In turn, we will be able to include much more valuable information about the cruise and all of our activites. Below you will find the information that we will need from each of you to put in the web site.

This is only for the DISers who are posting to this thread. Please have an adult in your group send the following & I will add it to the site & send you the link once I have updated the link. I will add your email to the group list so that you will be notified when the site has been updated with more info.

DIS ID: If you don't include this info, we wont know who you are.
Family name:
Individual names of family members (please include the children' ages at the time of the cruise so that I can put them in the right grouping)
Birthdates: so that we can add them to our cruise list
Celebration:
Stateroom:
Dining:
Hometown:
Pre/Post Cruise Plans: (Date arriving in FL & where you will be staying Friday night & if you plan to stay at WDW after the cruise. This info allowed some of us to arrange meets prior to the cruise.)

A short note with where you work & what activities you like to do.

Please send a picture of your family to be included. This way we will be able to reconize all of you...

For those with children, please send an individual picture pf each child to be put on the DIS Kids page by age group so that the kids can get to know each other a little better. Let the kids tell the others their age, grade in school, favorite thing to eat on the ship, favorite Disney character, & their favorite activity on the ship...whatever they want to write about.

We will have also have a page to list Palo resie times & excursions to help make plans.

stolteheather@yahoo.com

kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net

[captaincrash]

Capt- I got your PM.....that looked really cool, what you did with Drew's drawing. I'm going to print one off and show him. You should post what you did here.....

I sent the modified images privately as I did not know how you would react to my modest creative additions. I thought the drawings were wonderful freehand drawings - but difficult to make out as the lines were thin. SO I doubled the outlines and drew an oval behind it - and filled the oval to make the drawing stand out. It's ust a simple idea - and you don't want to know how long it took me to do accurately. It was not that fast because I am not really all that smart of practiced at doing this.

Here are the modified images - I envisioned maybe using these as pocket imprint transfers with some lettering above or below - likes sailing dates or somethin like that.

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/D4/A4/8C/iD4A48C5D-B242-433A-891E-57A9B7770B93.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/31/EF/8A/i31EF8AB4-1D84-4369-B888-07D5BC55C3F6.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/4F/54/7E/i4F547E05-123B-43D7-9D26-812F1BB34BE0.jpg

The 3rd image at the right will be impossible to reproduce with =out employing an expensive 3 or 4 color process with sharp alignment of the colors. So we will not be considering that .

Gotta go feed the kids....

TTFN

And K - I just got your message - I was out all day - check your email.

Edited in Thursday: Thought I'd just add here as opposed to adding another entry. I emailed a bunch to ya K. Check it out!

AND... anyone else notice we're up to 74 votes on the poll now? OK... who was it? I can't tell anymore? So - step forward please and introduce yourself!!!! :wave:

[LaRue]

Wow!! Everyone must be having a busy day today. Welcome to all the new crusiers!

[torontodisney]

Hi Dave, Tried to send a pm but for some reason it did not work. My dd would love to email with yours. We are in Tampa a few time a year as my Husbands head office is located there. Drop me a note and the girls can start planning their halloween cruise. travelbug1313@hotmail.com Thanks Erin.

[kritter]

Hi all,

Had a busy day today.. My two nephews were here all day....So the kids swam most of the day and played all day...
Hope everyone had a nice day....

[awoltoday]

Wow!! Everyone must be having a busy day today. Welcome to all the new crusiers!

Yep. Busy day here, too.

We sadly now have return air reservations for our trip, thanks to SWA opening their schedule up. So, I guess we won't be staying in Orlando forever :rotfl2:

[Tluvs2talk]

I have also been busy. I am planning a suprise birthday party for Rick Saturday. I have been cleaning the pool, grill, mowing the lawn, and cleaning the house. Tomorrow I have to bake 2 cakes. One he will get Sat early, one for the party. I am keeping things simple. Hotdogs, chips, corn on the cob, cake and ice cream.

Hope everyone had a great day!!!


Teri

[captaincrash]

Hello Everyone! We have just booked our first cruise ever. We are excited to join all of you on the Halloween Cruise on the 28th. We are flying into Orlando on the 27th and staying the night in Cocoa Beach. I am so glad to find this thread. We are bringing our 5 year old daughter but our 19m old is staying home with Grandma :guilty: . Is there any other info needed? Anyone else staying in Cocoa Beach the night before?

Welcome aboard Pumpkinlove13! We also have a 5.75 year old daughter coming aboard as well! I don't know how far backwards you may have read - but we have lots of good lclean fun planned to top off the cruise! You're sooo lucky to be starting out on Disney for your 1st cruise. My spouse and I started out on a 1 day cruise to Mexico! She got sea sick on the way back!! BUt even so we had a great time way back then!

We also are flying in on the evening of the 27th. Since we're coming in from from Los Angeles (LAX) we can't get in very early without taking a red eye. And we don't do those anymore with the kids. SO - we are not sure where we'll stay yet - we sort of are happy go lucky sorts in some matters - so we're ikely to just stay at the airport and hotwire the digs. Just as we have done on our other visits into Orlando.

:rockband: :welcome: :rockband:

SO = once again - a harty welcome sings out from the West Coast echoing after your self introduction!!!!!

[buckifan]

Teri,
Please wish Rick a Happy Birthday on Saturday, from all of us! What day is his actual birthday? Rob's (my dh) is Sunday, and we are planning to go out to dinner to celebrate. Hope you have a nice day for your party.

Welcome to all new posters!

Thank you to everyone that complimented Drew's drawings. And Capt....he loved what you did with the Elizabeth sketch. Drawing is really his passion in life. He doesn't go anywhere without his sketch pad and pencil. Maybe he'll be working for Disney one day!

[kritter]

Happy Birthday Rick and to Buck's husband...


Today we are taking thekids to a carnival and fireworks today..Got to run.. my cleaning lady is due here any minute and I always feel the need to "clean" before she comes I know crazy it is....She has been a god scent to me since I have been sick...

[missyoh8]

Yep. Busy day here, too.

We sadly now have return air reservations for our trip, thanks to SWA opening their schedule up. So, I guess we won't be staying in Orlando forever :rotfl2:


We are too cheap.........so while they are open we are just going to stay in Florida until the fares go down!! So sorry you have decided to go home :confused3 .

Missy

[Choc_marg]

Rob's (my dh) is Sunday

Wonder what it is about that date & this sailing....... AWOL & GoofyDrivesACar have Bdays on Sun too!! LOL!!

Welcome to our new cruisers!! The group is really growing. IIRC, this is about the time I found our last cruise meets thread.

This afternoon we go back to the doc to get Cody's last drainage tube removed (we got the first one out on Wed). Then we learn how to run the catheter. Yippee!!! Of course we are havign to appeal our insurance because they won't cover the catheters. Our policy just doesn't have that coverage. UGH!

Happy Friday to all! I'll try to check in this weekend to give a Cody update & see what all the Bday boys are up to!

[awoltoday]

We are too cheap.........so while they are open we are just going to stay in Florida until the fares go down!! So sorry you have decided to go home :confused3 .

Missy

LOL... We're going with the book early and book often theory. Any credits we get will definitely get used for future travel.


Wonder what it is about that date & this sailing....... AWOL & GoofyDrivesACar have Bdays on Sun too!! LOL!!


Do you not recall volunteering me to work on my Bday? :rotfl2:

[Pluto too]

Happy b'day to Goofy Drives a Car and AWOL :banana:

AWOL, House For Sale and I will see you and Choc_marg sometime this weekend, probably Sunday.

What kind of work are you doing this weekend?

[buckifan]

Wonder what it is about that date & this sailing....... AWOL & GoofyDrivesACar have Bdays on Sun too!! LOL!!



How fun! Hope it's a nice weekend all around! Happy Birthday guys!

[princessh]

Happy Birthday to all the men! :bday:

Here is a picture of my t-shirt design. I might work on another one as well. I have uploaded all the designs submitted so far, and the company we are using has not rejected any of them.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/cc.jpg


If anyone else has any designs, please share them. They can be done in as much color as you would like. This t-shirt company has no color limitations. so lets get creative and design away! On. Sun. night we will post all the designs on the website, and Kristin will take a vote on which design everyone likes the most.

I can not wait to see what everyone else comes up with!

Have a great weekend!

[buckifan]

Heather,
That is darling! I love it!

[kritter]

Heather,
Like the design...
As Heather said the last day to submit ideas for t-shirt designs will be sunday since we will then upload them to the web site and I will let the voting begin...Come on I know sooo many of you are creative...Come on bring on some more designs...

Kristin

[Tluvs2talk]

Heather- I LOVE the t-shirt design!!!

Buckifan- Ricks birthday is Saturday the 15th.

:bday: :cake: :bday: :cake: Happy Birthday Rob, Goofy Drives a Car and AWOL !!!

Teri

[Big15Foot]

---Started the Ressie Dance this morning @ 3am EDT :banana:
---With Dial-Up :surfweb: it took 58 minutes :hourglass

( Palo Brunch, High Tea, & Dinner )
3 Excursions & 3 Spa Appointments.
***had NO problems :thumbsup2
-------------------------------------
I'm getting the Elemis Sole Delight Foot Treatment;
I should get my Moneys Worth :rotfl2:
=============================
Big15Foot pirate:

[GoofyDrivesACar]

---Started the Ressie Dance this morning @ 3am EDT :banana:
---With Dial-Up :surfweb: it took 58 minutes :hourglass

( Palo Brunch, High Tea, & Dinner )
3 Excursions & 3 Spa Appointments.
***had NO problems :thumbsup2
-------------------------------------
I'm getting the Elemis Sole Delight Foot Treatment;
I should get my Moneys Worth :rotfl2:
=============================
Big15Foot pirate:

We are dancing with you, we got Palo Brunch and Dinner ressie this moring
:dancer:


Princessh - nice work on the T-shrit design. I have been very impressed with all the designs so far, everyone who has submitted one is obviously very talented.

Also wanted to thank everyone for the nice b-day wishes and extend my happy bday wishes on to everyone who is celebrating this weekend. Hope everyone has a great weekend and I just can't wait to start voting on the T-shirt designs, it is going to be hard to wait until Sunday.

[missyoh8]

Clarify........you are at 105 days right? CC members book 90 days out correct? I panicked when I saw this post, but I don't think I can book for 15 more days.

Guess that means we better part with our money and pay off our balance in the next few days.

Congrats on the resi bookings.....that means you are all the closer to a greatly needed vacation!

Missy

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Clarify........you are at 105 days right? CC members book 90 days out correct? I panicked when I saw this post, but I don't think I can book for 15 more days.

Guess that means we better part with our money and pay off our balance in the next few days.

Congrats on the resi bookings.....that means you are all the closer to a greatly needed vacation!

Missy

That is correct, we are at 105 days out, and the excitement is really starting to build.

[princessh]

That is correct, we are at 105 days out, and the excitement is really starting to build.


I thought only cat 3 and higher got to book at 105 days. How did you guys manage that? I thought you guys are in a cat. 4. If there is a trick to booking sooner you have to fill us in on your secert! Being CC members we have to wait until 90 days to book. Hope you left some spaces open for the rest of us! :goodvibes

[awoltoday]

I thought only cat 3 and higher got to book at 105 days. How did you guys manage that? I thought you guys are in a cat. 4. If there is a trick to booking sooner you have to fill us in on your secert! Being CC members we have to wait until 90 days to book. Hope you left some spaces open for the rest of us! :goodvibes

You are right. But the romance package folks also get to book at 105 days. Also, there will be plenty of space left for us poor folks. Disney doesn't release everything - in fact, they hold some back for 1st time cruisers too. And we can also try to reschedule when we get on the boat! No worries, but I'll still be up at 3:00am EDT to schedule ours ;)

It's about time for repeat cruisers to pay up! 2 weeks to 90 days!

Very glad to hear that GDAC & LeRue didn't book me on that crazy banana boat!

Happy B-Day Guys!

105 days of anticipation on the wall, you take one down...

[princessh]

You are right. But the romance package folks also get to book at 105 days. Also, there will be plenty of space left for us poor folks. Disney doesn't release everything - in fact, they hold some back for 1st time cruisers too. And we can also try to reschedule when we get on the boat! No worries, but I'll still be up at 3:00am EDT to schedule ours ;)

It's about time for repeat cruisers to pay up! 2 weeks to 90 days!

Very glad to hear that GDAC & LeRue didn't book me on that crazy banana boat!

Happy B-Day Guys!

105 days of anticipation on the wall, you take one down...


Thanks! Know I get it. Guess I was having a blonde moment there!

[GoofyDrivesACar]

I thought only cat 3 and higher got to book at 105 days. How did you guys manage that? I thought you guys are in a cat. 4. If there is a trick to booking sooner you have to fill us in on your secert! Being CC members we have to wait until 90 days to book. Hope you left some spaces open for the rest of us! :goodvibes

Awol is right on, we had the romance package on our first cruise, and when we rebooked on board, we ended up with it again some how :confused3

Very glad to hear that GDAC & LeRue didn't book me on that crazy banana boat!


Oh believe me, the topic came up and we decided we have plenty of time to get you booked on that boat.

[Big15Foot]

Romance :love: :love: Package here too :thumbsup2
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Big15Foot pirate:

[captaincrash]

Haaa-Pee BURTH-DaaaYYYY toooooo you, .....
Haaa-Pee BURTH-DaaaYYYY toooooo you, .....
Haaa-Pee BURTH-DaaaYYYY DEEEERRRR .... (who wuz it again?)....,

... oh yeah... Geeeee DAAAKK and Ayyy - WOL!!!!!
Haaa-Pee BURTH-DaaaYYYY to you!!

That wuz my kids singin' sort of arcepeligo (misspelled).

Before midnite my time I hope to add a couple more T-shirt concepts for consideration! :thumbsup2

[LaRue]

Romance :love: :love: Package here too :thumbsup2
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Big15Foot pirate:

I guess love will be in the air. :lovestruc

Congratulations on your reservations.

[kritter]

Crash can not wait to see the designs....


WOW a lot of romance packages here....

[captaincrash]

ok...

HERE ARE 3 MORE IDEAS~~!

Design #7A
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/07/A9/08/i07A90867-1A27-401B-984D-3FB19B2DB55E.jpg

Design #7B
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/53/9E/6B/i539E6B2E-02FE-4517-8FFC-F706896A2534.jpg

Design #8
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/BE/4A/E0/iBE4AE0BC-910A-4A94-84EA-8EA5C181F103.jpg

Design #9 AA
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/BE/F7/22/iBEF722CD-7BE6-4FE4-A280-403A8B8B9045.jpg

Design #9 AB
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/72/B4/A1/i72B4A148-8BA7-4E07-8DE1-8E64C41F0C89.jpg

Design #9 ABC
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/A4/5F/DE/iA45FDEDC-27B0-4774-9E55-6D607236A1E4.jpg

Design #9C
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/0D/46/23/i0D46234B-61BD-43AE-97B3-FD44AADB51B6.jpg

Design #9D
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/24/17/73/i241773D9-F51F-462B-A358-4B502B3EFC1A.jpg

Design #9E
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/8F/C1/0A/i8FC10A72-4B32-4152-A93D-516E7EBAC72F.jpg
The colors should be orange for the moon and outline




So ... when exactly is the deadline? If I have time maybe I'll add a couple more designs today (sunday). :confused3

[buckifan]

Capt-
Based on design #9D, what about a picture of the ship only....with your text above and below as a pocket design on front, and then on back a big blow up of the itinerary map and text of the ports below?

I love the look of the ship and map in the black and white with orange accents....very cool.

[captaincrash]

Capt-
Based on design #9D, what about a picture of the ship only....with your text above and below as a pocket design on front, and then on back a big blow up of the itinerary map and text of the ports below?

I love the look of the ship and map in the black and white with orange accents....very cool.

I am not quite certain what you were thinking of - but here is my interpretation....

Design 10 (buckifan 1 back)
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/CC/29/E1/iCC29E1B7-F0B9-48C5-89B9-1BE86DC85E77.jpg


Design 10P (buckifan 1P pocket design)
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/82/51/D3/i8251D350-0E76-43CD-BFA1-7A8948E81048.jpg

The images need to be cleaned up. :confused3

[kritter]

WOW love all of the great designs...I will give everyone till this afternoon..then I will post all of the designs on our website and let the voting begin...I will let you all know when they are all up there...Great Job Captain...and Heather...
ANyone else got any more designs????

[princessh]

Love the designs! However the company we are using will not allow us to use the Disney name, logo, or Characters. We can use an image that resembles a character, but not the actual character like Pooh. It is a shame, because we could come up with so many more designs, but the company will refuse to print the shirts. Capt, is it possible to rework your beautiful designs without the Disney name, logo and characters? I realy look forward to see what you come up with. We have so many great designs to choose from!

[buckifan]

I am not quite certain what you were thinking of - but here is my interpretation....

Design 10 (buckifan 1 back)
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/CC/29/E1/iCC29E1B7-F0B9-48C5-89B9-1BE86DC85E77.jpg


Design 10P (buckifan 1P pocket design)
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/82/51/D3/i8251D350-0E76-43CD-BFA1-7A8948E81048.jpg

The images need to be cleaned up. :confused3

Yeah, that's great......but I liked the look of the black and white image with the orange accents (picture of ship and map), and the brownish color border. Sorry if my post was confusing!

And since we can't use the "Disney" name....maybe we could just say "Cruising on the Magic". Would that be okay?

[LaRue]

Hi Everyone

Happy Birthday to all of you celebrating Birthdays this week-end. :bday:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g286/bkkern/DSC_0128-1.jpg
I wish I could give you all a slice of GDAC's birthday cake. :goofy:

Thanks to everyone on all of their hard work coming up with designs for the t-shirt. It is going to be hard to choose just one. Maybe we can take the top two and put one on the front of the shirt and one on the back.

Have a great day.

[captaincrash]

Love the designs! However the company we are using will not allow us to use the Disney name, logo, or Characters. We can use an image that resembles a character, but not the actual character like Pooh. It is a shame, because we could come up with so many more designs, but the company will refuse to print the shirts. Capt, is it possible to rework your beautiful designs without the Disney name, logo and characters? I realy look forward to see what you come up with. We have so many great designs to choose from!

OK... I suspected so much... but I was on a roll last nite.

I'll see what I can do.

[princessh]

Great idea Larue! Love the cake! Maybe we could have two designs and everyone can pick what they want. The company we are using will allow you to use multiple designs and make several differnet kinds of shirts. We can have tank tops, sweatshirts, Polo shirts and much more!

Here are a few designs I worked on after church today.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/night2.jpg


http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/vast1.jpg


And maybe this one on the pocket area of a men's shirt.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/front.jpg


These are just scans of the designs. The actual design is a lot more clear. We are off to a baseball game. If I have more time, I might try and come up with one more!

[captaincrash]

How about these?

Design #11
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/23/CA/B4/i23CAB48D-72CE-4E5B-A0B4-7E020104C1C4.jpg

Design #12
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/B4/9C/AE/iB49CAEF1-1315-429E-832E-EC5430D5C8F2.jpg

Design #13
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/86/22/06/i862206A4-AF3C-43CC-AD85-5445F653967F.jpg

Design #14
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/9F/A3/D7/i9FA3D7E6-7A97-42AB-9ED8-C1ECC8A50A2F.jpg

Design #15
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/1E/05/6B/i1E056B3F-9AA8-4DB1-A31E-AAAEC455B979.jpg

Design #16
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/66/3A/13/i663A13F2-3872-483C-8FBA-4D9411214EE9.jpg

Design #17
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/FD/C1/8A/iFDC18AB2-662B-4132-AB39-14B433E3A185.jpg

???????? :confused3 Any last minute suggestions????

[kritter]

Good evening all,

Great designs!! So glad that we have so many that we are going to be able to choose from....

I am not feeling to well tonight..So I thought if it is ok by everyone that I would extend the "deadline" for t-shirt designs by one more day. Then tomorrow evening I will begin uploading them to the website..Hoep this is ok by all...

Anyone else got any more ???

[Princess Olivia]

Hi everyone! Been out of the loop for a week. No computer (or furniture,fridge,stove, etc...) BUT the floors look beautiful!

Honestly, all the designs are fabulous from all of you very talented people. D-
Drews drawings with Crash's additions are very cool!

Heather, I LOVE the first option with the ship lit up at night and would love to get a bunch of things with this picture. Nice job.

Loved POC 2! A little bit violent and long but really loved it. Can't wait for #3!!

[captaincrash]

I'm all worn out from making t-shirt designs.

Maybe I'll come up with one more series - but probably not. I'm considering taking my 5.5 year old daughter to see POC2... but as was mentioned by Princess Olivia - I am concerned about the violence. It really is not necessary for her IMHO. SO - I just might take her to see something else. TOday was a hot hot and humid day - so I am anxious to get out and do something - aside from the afternoon gardening chores I just finished. A movie sounds nice - or maybe I'll rent something or ????

Actually - going out for dinner sounds nice too... but I have to see what the spouse sez. I sort of feel like a .... buffett..... but she is 95% likely to veto that idea. She's been busy with chores around the house too... so ...

Oh well... I just booked/paid for my air and hotel for Honolulu next month. We have a surprise 80th birthday celebration for my FIL there. We've got a great deal at this swank boutique that is sort of trying to be a "W" ... and really seems to come close in the major amenities - and then some. However - it is also a FLAMING BARGAIN! I am paying only $480 for 5 nites! The rest of the time we're staying with family so the kids can mix - and I save some moola. Well... not really since I have to rent a car - that sort of off sets some of the savings. So - we save so little as to say there's minimal difference.

At any rate, we're having a small gathering - so it will be a nicer restuarant with no "set" activities. IE, no dancing, roasting, LCD show, etc.. We feel Dad would prefer it low key. ME... on my 80th I want to invite 125 people (same size as our wedding receptions) to a busy and fun venue - and NO GIFTS. Just come and have fun!

at any rate... I'm b;abbering away again... so TTFN as I'm gonna check theater show times and flip a coin as to whether to take the little one to POTC2, go alone or switch to a kids movie?

And I loved the designs posted with the details - the upside down bat, and Mickey ghosts!!!! Cute!

Cheers!

[kritter]

ok, I have saved all of the t-shirt designs and will put them on the web site this evening..WOW I saved over 30 designs....

[princessh]

Good news! We found a different company that looks like it will allow us to use the Disney Name, logo, and characters! All designs on ok!

Here are a few more to choose from:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/mmbeach.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/tot-1.jpg

This last one I can not take credit for, but it was cute so I thought it was an option.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/stolteheather/halloweenmagic-JNMom.jpg

Lets see if we can come up with a few more designs before night!

[buckifan]

Heather,
You have come up with so many good options. I do love that last one also. Where did you find it? I love that image of the ship at night.

[Tluvs2talk]

Heather,
I also LOVE the last design you made!!!

Teri

[Tluvs2talk]

Ok, I just looked at all the designs for the t-shirts on the web site. Crash and Heather your designs are great as well as Buckifan's Sons drawings. I am voting for t-shirt design #1. I love the ship at night with the spooky moon and the pumpkin and the bats.

Teri

[gocar24]

ALL the designs are amazing! Sure wish I was that creative! Where do we send our votes? Via DIS or email? I am having a difficult time deciding which one to vote for!!! It is making me more excited about our trip!

[kritter]

Ok all, thanks for being patient with me took a long while to finish loading all of the t-shirt designs they are all wonderful.

Please look at all of them on the website we have created. There is a separate page for all of the t-shirts. Look at them and then email me your votes...I wrote instructions for voting on the web site.

If you do not have the link for the web site yet please send me your information to kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net and I will send you the link...

Can not wait to see what designs everyone picks. Your votes will be kept confidential. I will update the web site daily with what shirts are in the running.. You may vote as many times as you have passengers on the cruise. For example Terri and Rick get two votes since they are a party of two. For example again, my family is a family of four and we can vote four times. We may have to have different deisgns for the kids, and females and males if that is what people want..We may end up with three different designs if that is what people want..

Kristin

[kritter]

Ok, I just looked at all the designs for the t-shirts on the web site. Crash and Heather your designs are great as well as Buckifan's Sons drawings. I am voting for t-shirt design #1. I love the ship at night with the spooky moon and the pumpkin and the bats.

Teri


Terri,

just send me an email..since I just put more on the site last night..thanks so much...

[princessh]

Just wanted to take a moment and remind everyone if you have not done so, to sign up for the website. I also wanted to mention that we are in need of volunteers to hand out candy from the staterooms. We are also in need of a few parents to be in charge of the trick or treating groups. This is going to be a great event for the kids, but we need everyone's help to make it happen!

[fourlittlemunchkins]

Sorry, I haven't been too active with posting. I have had some problems with my password, etc. We are in the middle of looking at houses and that with getting the house ready to sell have just been too much. Plus the kids want to be kept busy and happy. :banana: Not enough time in the day.

I have been trying to follow the posts and keep up to date, as well I have been really going through the boards to learn all I can about our upcoming trip. Which reminds me Captain Crash I couldn't help noticing you are doing the 11 night Western Cruise I believe. I had just heard about that cruise as well and saw a posting by you. Does that mean you are leaving us? I'm hoping that maybe you are going to end up doing both cruises. You have been such an active member and your family really seems so wonderful. Hey if you are leaving us than I might just have to look into that 11 night cruise as well. LOL ;)

Well, not too much to add here. I love the t-shirt designs and already have found my favorite. Also, I can probably arrange my dh to hand out candy too. Hope everyone is well.

Evelyn :wave:

[princessh]

Good to hear from you Evelyn,

If you can send Kristin or I the following info we can get you set up on the website. That way you can vote on the shirts. If your husband is willing to help with the candy that's great! Here is the info posted in a prior thread about what we need for the website.


A moderator recommend to us that having all of our information on a secure web site that can only be accessed by all of us. In turn, we will be able to include much more valuable information about the cruise and all of our activites. Below you will find the information that we will need from each of you to put in the web site.

This is only for the DISers who are posting to this thread. Please have an adult in your group send the following & I will add it to the site & send you the link once I have updated the link. I will add your email to the group list so that you will be notified when the site has been updated with more info.

DIS ID: If you don't include this info, we wont know who you are.
Family name:
Individual names of family members (please include the children' ages at the time of the cruise so that I can put them in the right grouping)
Birthdates: so that we can add them to our cruise list
Celebration:
Stateroom:
Dining:
Hometown:
Pre/Post Cruise Plans: (Date arriving in FL & where you will be staying Friday night & if you plan to stay at WDW after the cruise. This info allowed some of us to arrange meets prior to the cruise.)

A short note with where you work & what activities you like to do.

Please send a picture of your family to be included. This way we will be able to reconize all of you...

For those with children, please send an individual picture pf each child to be put on the DIS Kids page by age group so that the kids can get to know each other a little better. Let the kids tell the others their age, grade in school, favorite thing to eat on the ship, favorite Disney character, & their favorite activity on the ship...whatever they want to write about.

We will have also have a page to list Palo resie times & excursions to help make plans.

stolteheather@yahoo.com

kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net

[princessh]

I have been trying to follow the posts and keep up to date, as well I have been really going through the boards to learn all I can about our upcoming trip. Which reminds me Captain Crash I couldn't help noticing you are doing the 11 night Western Cruise I believe. I had just heard about that cruise as well and saw a posting by you. Does that mean you are leaving us? I'm hoping that maybe you are going to end up doing both cruises. You have been such an active member and your family really seems so wonderful. Hey if you are leaving us than I might just have to look into that 11 night cruise as well. LOL ;)





Alright capt. what's going on? Please say you are still going to be on our cruise.

[fourlittlemunchkins]

Thanks Heather, I will try to find the time tonight to get all our info to you. I'm just trying to do some organizing right now. Things should quiet down later in the evening though and I should get a few free minutes. :surfweb:

Evelyn

[kritter]

Just wanted to say thanks to the two families that have sent me emails and have voted for their favorite t-shirt designs...Be sure to keep emailing me with your votes...
Thanks,
KRistin

Hope everyone is staying cool....

[captaincrash]

....Which reminds me Captain Crash I couldn't help noticing you are doing the 11 night Western Cruise I believe. I had just heard about that cruise as well and saw a posting by you. Does that mean you are leaving us? I'm hoping that maybe you are going to end up doing both cruises. You have been such an active member and your family really seems so wonderful. Hey if you are leaving us than I might just have to look into that 11 night cruise as well. LOL ;)

...... Hope everyone is well.

Evelyn :wave:


Alright capt. what's going on? Please say you are still going to be on our cruise.

Well....

... I was waiting to see what happened with everything else here ... but when my spouse got back last thursday she went through the mail and said - Tom!... look at THIS! It was a post card for the Southern sailings on DCL with $199 air. Well... we had everything already "set" for Halloween and I was think ... "oh no, not again...". She explained that this southern cruise was EVERYTHING we wanted and so on - dis and dat. So I made a reservation on a courtesy hold last friday while holding our Halloween voyage. Over the weekend we talked about it and we have a number of complications. Changing air from October to September would have lost 85% of the fare value to penalties and the new ticket would have cost MORE. We are near exclusive United Airline patrons. And we made dozens of calls to sort through the madness. And finally we got the air untangled and then - DCL inventory control had a snafu - which was unraveled just this morning. I was waiting for the final untangling to say anything here.

SO... I am sorry to say after about 350 posts (most of them very long winded) representing a near novel in length - plus after posting probably 100+ photos we are are shifting our res. We had a special sailing on the Magic 2 years ago but it was all messed up by hurricane Francis - and converted into a Western sailing of 4 days - probably our desired type of cruise. but since we were already in Orlando ready to meet the ship we went - besides, they spiffed us a veranda plus transfers to Fort Lauderdale to meet the ship embarkation.

So.... I know I've got maybe 2 dozen t-shirt designs that need sharpening should any win the design contest. No problem - I promise to by "johnny on the spot" in delivering a finished file if it wins. Plus, I am not entirely gone - as I am still ....... welcome to post here .... right? AND, as a consequence of making my changes I opted not to take an 85% loss on my October Orlando flights and instead took a 28% penalty and will still fly out for the weekend of the 28th. I might be able to duck in on a pre-cruise gathering if someone will let us know when and where?

So - I would like to take this opportunity to declare that everyone here has been simply wonderful as parteners in crime for the DIS group on this sailing. I'm sure it's likely to be MORE FUN without a Jedi and Padame on the cruise... as the Star Wars costumes are not very halloween-like.

Oh yeah... remember how I already ordered custom made sweat shirts and T-shirts? Yup, those are custom printed with our names and the Halloween cruise dates! I don't suppose anyone is named Alicia and TOm on the ship - in a size petite and large? Cuz I can make them a good deal on custom printed garments... especially if they had 2 kids named Julianna and Kalea on the cruise ... in appropriate sizes!

Oh well... I have my "Secrets" on how to pull off an Ice Cream speed eating contest with a minimum of fuss - for anyone who would like to step forward to run it.

Anyways.... I held off of saying anything until it was done. I was not sure it was possible at all. :confused3

So - I'll not be bringing my Jedi Knight or Padame costumes to the other sailing but look what they've got me doing in substitution!

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/B0/40/87/iB04087E0-3BD9-4DC9-9CE1-2FCE0160F818.jpg

[XLT800]

Captain........Sorry to see you jump ship. You will have a blast on the 11 day though. If not for school we would be on there with you, but that is just too many days.

Thanks to all the people that came up with designs for the shirts. They all look really good.

Dave

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Have fun Captain, enjoy those extra 4 days.

[missyoh8]

We as well......gave a little consideration to switching to the 11 day in September. Last week when we got that mailer, we did give a little thought, :rolleyes: but all in all didn't think we could swing getting the other 4 adults in our party to agree and get schedules changed without a lot of headache to say the least!

Have fun Captain....you will have to stop by afterward and give us the lowdown! pirate:


Missy

[kritter]

Capt,
Sorry to see you gone...What ever will you do with those costumes now..???
We will miss your post but do expect one at least once a week from you....


Anyone want to volunteer to host the ice cream eating contest???
Also do not forget to vote for your favorite t-shirt designs on our web site..and if you need the link let me know...thanks

[fourlittlemunchkins]

Don't blame you at all Captain, sounds like you are doing what is in the best interest for your family. The mailer was the whole reason I was looking into that cruise myself. I like the idea of the 11 day honestly. I'm afraid that 7 days is just going to fly by and be over before we know it.

Have a great time and who knows maybe we will see you there. :wave2:

Evelyn

[captaincrash]

Don't blame you at all Captain, sounds like you are doing what is in the best interest for your family. The mailer was the whole reason I was looking into that cruise myself. I like the idea of the 11 day honestly. I'm afraid that 7 days is just going to fly by and be over before we know it.

Have a great time and who knows maybe we will see you there. :wave2:

Evelyn


Actually... for us .... having done a few sailings before WE'D SAY... 7 days is perfect! Now - 3 days is quick - but also tolerable. And 4 days is a decent deal too. Now we've done a 5 day and this almost felt liek a 7 ... but 7 is just "right" in our book. My spouse got her way ... as usual.

And thank you for the gracious remarks folks. I'm gonna miss the gang here - no doubt. But if OK... I'll visit and lurk a bit every now and then. Plus I might be around on embarkation morning too in Orlando if anything is going on with the DIS gang.

So ... I'd like to share some quick info that is sure to save folks a little cash IF you're driving to the port in a rental car. Normally the options are just Avis and Budget... but i just found out that THRIFTY has a new office 3 miles away and a FREE shuttle.

Use the Promotion Code WMRT for a 10% off discount

Following are the rates after the 10% discount for a ONE NITE RENTAL from October 27th -28th.

Economy Car per day is $16.19
Compact Car per day is $17.81
Mid-Size Car per day is $20.24
Standard or FULL Size Car per day is $26.72
VAN ....................... $30.77 ..... however, for the weekend it was $27.68!
Convertible ............. $30.45
SUV ....................... $36.04
Premium (Chrysler Pacifica / bad rear visability) ...... $49.41
Luxury (Chrysler A300 Touring)................... $56.51
Mack Truck ............ $98.22 (special license required)
Flexible flyer tricycle... $0.52 ($10 CDW mandatory however... beware)

If you want the car for 2 days just double the price. When I went to book for October 27th (yeah - I'm still flying in as I would otherwise lose 85% of my money on the flight).... and get this... I reserved a DODGE CARAVAN 7 passenger van from October 27th to the 30th for only $27.68 a day!!!! The total including taxes was $83.04 with the WMRT discount code! Previously - I held Avis and/or budet reservations for about $50 for ONE days' rental on a full size. Yeah... Thrifty has them trumped on price and car classes!!!! PLUS - I might add that for some reason I could not get the discount code to work on the PC to MCO debarkation rental. AND - the MCO to PC rental had a $10 drop charge... but not on the reverse. SO watch for that.

You can book the above rates right on Thrifty.com

Cheers! :thumbsup2

Oh yeah.... the Mack truck... I'll take 3 please! :badpc:

[princessh]

Capt.,
Sad to see you change ships, but I completely undertand. It is a great offer. If it were not for us having our plane tickets, already giving my daycare children the dates I will be closed, and all the time Timmy would miss from school, I would be we be sailing then too! You will be missed around here!

[awoltoday]

Crash,
I certainly can't blame you for switching to that cruise. I think the deal(s) they have going for those sailings are extremely difficult to pass up! Especially with the airfare they are including.

You are now obligated to post the links to your pictures when you get back!

Well....
... I was waiting to see what happened with everything else here ... but when my spouse got back last thursday she went through the mail and said - Tom!... look at THIS! It was a post card for the Southern sailings on DCL with $199 air. Well... we had everything already "set" for Halloween and I was think ... "oh no, not again...". She explained that this southern cruise was EVERYTHING we wanted and so on - dis and dat. So I made a reservation on a courtesy hold last friday while holding our Halloween voyage. Over the weekend we talked about it and we have a number of complications. Changing air from October to September would have lost 85% of the fare value to penalties and the new ticket would have cost MORE. We are near exclusive United Airline patrons. And we made dozens of calls to sort through the madness. And finally we got the air untangled and then - DCL inventory control had a snafu - which was unraveled just this morning. I was waiting for the final untangling to say anything here.

SO... I am sorry to say after about 350 posts (most of them very long winded) representing a near novel in length - plus after posting probably 100+ photos we are are shifting our res. We had a special sailing on the Magic 2 years ago but it was all messed up by hurricane Francis - and converted into a Western sailing of 4 days - probably our desired type of cruise. but since we were already in Orlando ready to meet the ship we went - besides, they spiffed us a veranda plus transfers to Fort Lauderdale to meet the ship embarkation.

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... (J/K!)

So.... I know I've got maybe 2 dozen t-shirt designs that need sharpening should any win the design contest. No problem - I promise to by "johnny on the spot" in delivering a finished file if it wins. Plus, I am not entirely gone - as I am still ....... welcome to post here .... right? AND, as a consequence of making my changes I opted not to take an 85% loss on my October Orlando flights and instead took a 28% penalty and will still fly out for the weekend of the 28th. I might be able to duck in on a pre-cruise gathering if someone will let us know when and where?


So, you're ditching us. But, you want to stick around to rub it in? :rotfl2:

I briefly checked out that cruisemeets thread - you are going to have your hands full keeping up over there!


So - I would like to take this opportunity to declare that everyone here has been simply wonderful as parteners in crime for the DIS group on this sailing. I'm sure it's likely to be MORE FUN without a Jedi and Padame on the cruise... as the Star Wars costumes are not very halloween-like.


What? C'mon, what is MORE halloween like than Star Wars costumes? And you can still tote those costumes to MNSSHP, right? So, you don't get out of hauling them all the way across the country!!


Oh yeah... remember how I already ordered custom made sweat shirts and T-shirts? Yup, those are custom printed with our names and the Halloween cruise dates! I don't suppose anyone is named Alicia and TOm on the ship - in a size petite and large? Cuz I can make them a good deal on custom printed garments... especially if they had 2 kids named Julianna and Kalea on the cruise ... in appropriate sizes!


I would be happy to take your shirts aboard and maybe even take some pictures of GDAC & I wearing them while testing the Mickey pool urine detection system theory! But, I call Alicia's shirt!


Mack Truck ............ $98.22 (special license required)

CDL ......................... $100
Squashing little cars..... PRICELESS!!

[awoltoday]

Have fun Captain, enjoy those extra 4 days.

You just wanted to snag post #2200... :rotfl2:

I forgot to do the paid off the cruise dance! We're all in!
:dance3: :dogdance: :dance3: :dogdance: :dance3:
:dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer:

100 days of anticipation on the wall, 100 days of constipation, you take one down, pass it around....

[Tluvs2talk]

CAPTAINCRASH- I was originally signed up for the 11 day cruise, but we switched to the halloween cruise. Rick could not take off that much time from work as we had already cruised this year, Anyway I will miss your postings and I am sorry I did not get to meet you or your family in person. maybe our paths will meet in the future on a Disney cruise. Happy sailings to you and yours.


Teri :sail: :sail: :sail:

[captaincrash]

Crash,
I certainly can't blame you for switching to that cruise. I think the deal(s) they have going for those sailings are extremely difficult to pass up! Especially with the airfare they are including.

You are now obligated to post the links to your pictures when you get back!
................

!!

OK.... so I knew I wasn't gonna get off as lightly as it seemed - initially. I was chuckling though all the running commentary! And you're right about one thing... I'll have a tough time keeping up with the meet thread on the other sailing. On the other thread I spoofed a photo BECAUSE the 2nd reply to my 1st posting asked how I might look in a grass skirt... they have a few of the guys agreeing to show up for a couple DIS events in a grass skirt. So - the thread had a link to show what last years' grass skirt gathering looked like - and I responded with a spoofed photo converted as following....

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/F6/C4/F6/iF6C4F607-0A43-43ED-B9E4-BF1E3834AC4E.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/8F/BF/08/i8FBF08BF-55E9-4730-A1E3-9016294360A5.jpg

And after about a DAY... look what someone did to MY photo!!!!..............

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/15/09/12/i150912BF-CE96-4C0E-B951-C833C7641788.jpg

So ... needless to say ... but I sort of responded with this....

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/C8/42/A1/iC842A1E5-915C-4CD3-9CF7-304326381F10.jpg

And, of course .... when I showed my spouse and kids they all could not stop laughing!!! Oh well... I don't know what I've gotten myself into. So.... Teri, now I understand why transferring to the Halloween voyage might have been a very wise move!!!!! If only I had known..... :lmao:

[buckifan]

Capt- Hope you have a great time on the 11 day! I too would love to be on that cruise, but I'm already nervous enough about taking the kids out of school for 6 days.......couldn't do any more than that. Your girls are at a good age to make those longer trips during the school year, so do it while you can!

[kritter]

Crash you are keeping us laughing with the pictures like always...


Hoping that you will be able to meet this little group of ours on the morning we disembark..that would be neat to meet your family...what do you think??


AWOL congrats on being paid in full!!!!!

KEEP THE VOTES FOR THE T-SHIRTS COMING IN!!! I may send out an email reminding you all to vote...thanks....Check the web site to see what shirts are in the "running."

[GoofyDrivesACar]

KEEP THE VOTES FOR THE T-SHIRTS COMING IN!!! I may send out an email reminding you all to vote...thanks....Check the web site to see what shirts are in the "running."

How long do we have to vote? Been busy the last couple of days and haven't had a chance to show the kids all of the designs, but I will try to get to it in the next couple of days.

[XLT800]

I forgot to do the paid off the cruise dance! We're all in!

We will join you. We just paid ours off this morning.

Kristen.....we will try to vote for shirts before this weekend, since we will be gone until Tuesday. We are going to a wedding and for the 1st time in 19 years we will be without kids for 2 nights. :teeth: It should be fun, the wedding is in Venice, Fl with the reception at a 6.5 million dollar house right on Venice beach. The best part is because it is on the beach it is a casual wedding so no suit and tie.

Dave

[awoltoday]

OK.... so I knew I wasn't gonna get off as lightly as it seemed - initially. I was chuckling though all the running commentary! And you're right about one thing... I'll have a tough time keeping up with the meet thread on the other sailing. On the other thread I spoofed a photo BECAUSE the 2nd reply to my 1st posting asked how I might look in a grass skirt... they have a few of the guys agreeing to show up for a couple DIS events in a grass skirt. So - the thread had a link to show what last years' grass skirt gathering looked like - and I responded with a spoofed photo converted as following....

<<<SNIP>>>

And after about a DAY... look what someone did to MY photo!!!!..............

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/15/09/12/i150912BF-CE96-4C0E-B951-C833C7641788.jpg

<<<SNIP>>>

ROTFLMAO!!! :rotfl2: :rotfl: :lmao:

[awoltoday]

We will join you. We just paid ours off this morning.

Kristen.....we will try to vote for shirts before this weekend, since we will be gone until Tuesday. We are going to a wedding and for the 1st time in 19 years we will be without kids for 2 nights. :teeth: It should be fun, the wedding is in Venice, Fl with the reception at a 6.5 million dollar house right on Venice beach. The best part is because it is on the beach it is a casual wedding so no suit and tie.

Dave
:dance3: :dogdance: :dance3: :dance3: :dogdance: :dance3:
:dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer:

2 nights without kids! Wow! :bounce:

[princessh]

I guess everyone is dancing today! I just paid off the cruise this morning as well! :dance3: :dancer::dancer::dancer: :dance3:

[missyoh8]

What is the actual day that we can make reservations on line? CC members that is? I am still trying to figure out how to hold on to my money until the last minute. From what I am seeing today, maybe now is the time ....HUH?

Missy

[captaincrash]

ROTFLMAO!!! :rotfl2: :rotfl: :lmao:

Well...

If you liked that one - how about these gems I found on the "net".....

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/69/68/78/i696878C7-131B-43BF-84C7-3FD5C04A9788.jpghttp://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/ED/2B/4F/iED2B4FA8-F89F-4B87-99DC-E9D19D7798DD.jpg

:rotfl2: :rolleyes1 :rotfl2:

[tchrmom]

2 nights without kids! Wow!


:confused3 However will we pass the time??????


:rolleyes1 :lovestruc :rolleyes1 :lovestruc :rolleyes1

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
Fran
:teacher:

[princessh]

What is the actual day that we can make reservations on line? CC members that is? I am still trying to figure out how to hold on to my money until the last minute. From what I am seeing today, maybe now is the time ....HUH?

Missy

The day for CC members is July 30. I paid mine today, as I did not want to wait till the last minute. We have a lot going on this next few weeks and my luck, I would forget to pay it and would not be able to make online ressies. You still have some time!

By the way, please tell Bo that Timmy has been very busy. He has not forgotten about Bo, just has not had time to send him an e-mail. He is looking forward to meeting him on the cruise!

[kritter]

Fran and Dave enjoy your weekend away...

Capt, love the pictures...


Heather I love the sign in your signature!!!

[Tluvs2talk]

Rick and I paid our cruise off last week!! Now we are just waiting to make ressie's for Brunch and tea


Teri

[gocar24]

We have had our trip paid off for two months, but now we are having a hard time trying to figure out what ressies we want to make! My DH and I are celebrating our 10th anniversary this year and was wanting to do a nice spa treatment together, but are having a hard time choosing. Any suggestions?

[GoofyDrivesACar]

We have had our trip paid off for two months, but now we are having a hard time trying to figure out what ressies we want to make! My DH and I are celebrating our 10th anniversary this year and was wanting to do a nice spa treatment together, but are having a hard time choosing. Any suggestions?

We did the couple's massage last year and it was nice.

[Choc_marg]

We have had our trip paid off for two months, but now we are having a hard time trying to figure out what ressies we want to make! My DH and I are celebrating our 10th anniversary this year and was wanting to do a nice spa treatment together, but are having a hard time choosing. Any suggestions?

I did the hot stone one last year. It was nice & was so relaxing. In hind sight, it wasn't really worth the $175 (+tip) though. I probably could have gotten really relaxed with $175 in Margaritas! Of course the hot stone massage is quite a bit longer than the $109 well-being massage. So, if you are wanting to splurge, the hot stone is a nice, long (75 min) massage.

[GoofyDrivesACar]

I did the hot stone one last year. It was nice & was so relaxing. In hind sight, it wasn't really worth the $175 (+tip) though. I probably could have gotten really relaxed with $175 in Margaritas! Of course the hot stone massage is quite a bit longer than the $109 well-being massage. So, if you are wanting to splurge, the hot stone is a nice, long (75 min) massage.

I did $175 in Beer and it was very relaxing.

[awoltoday]

I did $175 in Beer and it was very relaxing.

And you're bringing a bigger budget this time, right? :drinking1 :drinking:

[kritter]

Thanks for all of the t-shirt votes...Keep them coming.....


ANYONE ONE WANT TO VOLUNTEER TO ORGANIZE THE ICE CREAM EATING CONTEST?????

[missyoh8]

I did $175 in Beer and it was very relaxing.


I highly advise bringing your own beer and a cooler! We drank 175 beers and they were all very COLD because we packed them in our own cooler. This was especially nice at CC when it is so hot and the drinks the server brings are half warm by the time you get them.

I am all for some fruity drinks too......but really cold beer sometimes is PRICELESS.

Ok.......I don't really think that we drank 175 beers!

Missy

[GoofyDrivesACar]

I highly advise bringing your own beer and a cooler! We drank 175 beers and they were all very COLD because we packed them in our own cooler. This was especially nice at CC when it is so hot and the drinks the server brings are half warm by the time you get them.

I am all for some fruity drinks too......but really cold beer sometimes is PRICELESS.

Ok.......I don't really think that we drank 175 beers!

Missy

I know what you mean about having to wait for your drinks on CC, we ordered a bucket of beers last year, and we ended up waiting at least an hour to get them. Next time I will make sure I walk over there myself and get the drinks.


And you're bringing a bigger budget this time, right? :drinking1 :drinking:

That was just what I spent after the massage in Diversions while watching football, and yes I am bringing the bigger budget this time. I have to if I am going to get you on that banana boat :teeth:

[awoltoday]

I know what you mean about having to wait for your drinks on CC, we ordered a bucket of beers last year, and we ended up waiting at least an hour to get them. Next time I will make sure I walk over there myself and get the drinks.


I'm pretty sure he swam to St. Louis and bottled the beer himself. :confused3 Lesson learned - BYOB.


That was just what I spent after the massage in Diversions while watching football, and yes I am bringing the bigger budget this time. I have to if I am going to get you on that banana boat :teeth:

How much did you spend on beer before your massage in Diversions and who gave you a massage in Diversions? :banana:

[GoofyDrivesACar]

How much did you spend on beer before your massage in Diversions and who gave you a massage in Diversions? :banana:

I don't exactly remember his name, but he was wearing a NY Giants shirts :confused3

[LaRue]

I don't exactly remember his name, but he was wearing a NY Giants shirts :confused3

What is this talk about a Beer budget. FOUR WORDS....Drink of the Day!!

AWOL...Don't encourage him :stir:

[kritter]

Do not forget to send me an email with your t-shirt votes...Voting will close on Saturday.....

[kritter]

OK More votes have been entered...Keep them coming..Please check the website to see what shirts are in the running two are very close..So if you have not yet voted get them in so we can get the orders placed asap..Thanks to everyone who has voted and volunterred for the trick or treating...

[awoltoday]

What is this talk about a Beer budget. FOUR WORDS....Drink of the Day!!

AWOL...Don't encourage him :stir:

You're right! Throw the budget out the window!!!

[kritter]

Heather,

I hope Jacob's surgery went well today....We are thinking of him... :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

[tchrmom]

You're right! Throw the budget out the window!!!
:confused3


BUDGET???????????


Can you DO that on a cruise????????? :confused3

Is it legal?????? :lmao:

Fran
:teacher:

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Heather,

I hope Jacob's surgery went well today....We are thinking of him... :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

I hope it is nothing serious, plenty of pixiedust: pixiedust: pixiedust: for a quick recovery.



:confused3


BUDGET???????????


Can you DO that on a cruise????????? :confused3

Is it legal?????? :lmao:

Fran
:teacher:

I remember reading something about this being legal, but I don't believe anyone has ever accomplished it :teeth:

[buckifan]

Heather,
I hope Jacob is doing well.....what kind of surgery did he need?

[Choc_marg]

Heather,

I hope Jacob's surgery went well today....We are thinking of him... :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

Lots of pixiedust: pixiedust: pixiedust: to Jacob! Hope he's recovering well!

[kritter]

Heather,

Wanted me to tell you all that Jacob is well ..he had to have his tonsils, adnoids out and tubes put in his ears...He is doing well...But he is in a bit of pain....He has been taking a nap the last time I spoke with her...He then woke up crying due to the pain.....

I told her you were all asking about Jacob and she said to tell you thanks so much..She will most likely be checking email tonight later or tomorrow...

[kritter]

HAPPY SATURDAY!!!!!

REMEMBER TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE ON THE T-SHIRT DESIGNS..
Email me with your votes...Come on there are more of you out there that still need to vote!!!!

[fourlittlemunchkins]

Kritter,

Did you get my e-mail with all our info for the cruise? Let me know if I left anything out or if I need to re-send it.

Thanks

Evelyn :wave:

[awoltoday]

My DW just pointed out that we forgot to do the double digit dance! We're down to 97 days!

:dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer: :dancer:

Hope Jacob is feeling better and eating lots of ice cream!

97 days of anticipation on the wall, 97 days of anticipation, you take one down, pass it around....

[buckifan]

Kristin,
I just looked at the website, and it really IS a close race for the winning t-shirt design! Can't wait to see the results.

[kritter]

Evelyn, I will check my email now..thanks for sending it along to me...


Deanna, It is a close race...I am hoping that anyone who has not voted does so by tonight...so then tomorrow we can announce it and get them all ordered.. I am leaving for DC on Tuesday morning and can not wait...I am going to meet Heather and her husband..The four of us are going to have dinner on tuesday night so we can not wait..We are going to take a picture of the four of us so she can post it on the boards...Since I will not be back till SUnday morning....
WE all need to have the count down dance everyday now!!!!!

[kritter]

Oh my gosh just got more votes in for the t-shirts check out which one is in the lead now!!!!!!!

[drragu63]

Hello everyone! I am finally posting to the group. My father and two children (5 y/o dtr and infant son) will be on the Halloween Magic cruise. Somehow writing this post makes the cruise even more real! Ruth Ann :rotfl:

[awoltoday]

Hello everyone! I am finally posting to the group. My father and two children (5 y/o dtr and infant son) will be on the Halloween Magic cruise. Somehow writing this post makes the cruise even more real! Ruth Ann :rotfl:

:welcome: :welcome: :welcome:

Hi Ruth Ann!!
I usually don't toss out the first welcome because I'm afraid my avatar (little picture under my screen name) will scare them off! You're family is going to have a great time! Make sure to check out the first post in the thread if you haven't already. I see you've been here a LONG time for never posting before! I hope you won't wait another 2 years before you post again ;)

96 days of anticipation on the wall, 96 days of anticipation, you take one down, pass it around....