7/13/13 ~~ Eastern Mediterranean Mouseketeers!

[linkandclover]

Welcome Aboard! You have been added to our roll call!

BTW: It looks like you live very near me in Northern Virginia. Maybe we've even driven by each other on the Fairfax County Parkway!

We live in Fairfax City so it is quite possible

 

[jeroen1970]

Welcome Aboard! You have been added to the roll call!

Please excuse my unfamiliarity with Dutch first names (though my last name is one), as I wasn't sure if your children were boys or girls. If you could let me know, I'll add the DS or DD to their information in your roll call entry. Thanks!

Tycho is a boy (at time of sail 14)

Quinty is a girl (at time of sail 11)

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

I think I gave you a wrong cabin #

we are #6309

Debbie and Marty

Changed it on the roll call.

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

Tycho is a boy (at time of sail 14)

Quinty is a girl (at time of sail 11)

great -- added it to the roll call.

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

We live in Fairfax City so it is quite possible

We are in Fairfax Station.

 

[pirateluv]

We're in too!! We can't wait!!
There's me (DW Joan), DH (Craig), DGM (my mom Barbara), DS (James who will be 18) and DD (Katherine who will be 13, almost 14) We're from Ottawa, Canada. We did the Med. In 2010 and are so happy to be going back!!
We have late dining. And have cabins 6572 and 6574.
Joan

 

[fun2cruise]

Hello! I'm fun2cruise (Sheryl) and will be traveling with my husband (Dan) on our 6th Disney cruise. We are from outside Atlanta, have second dining and stateroom on the 7th floor.

 

[MrsG]

How does this sound everyone regarding getting some sort of simple logo done now. I'll ask Millipie (who is so talented and generous with her designs) to modify the wording on her design that appears above. I'll ask her to have the wording "Eastern Mediterranean Mouseketeers" appear up at the top of the life preserver and the wording "July 2013" down at the bottom in the middle of the life preserver. Not sure if she can fit "Med" or "Mediterranean" up in that space so we'll have to see what she thinks. And that can be a generic logo that we can all use for anything we want. Later on if people want a different slogan with something fancier as a logo, we can change it out! I'm cool with whatever the consensus is as I have no talent whatsoever for making logos. Photoshop and I do not see eye to eye and I'm rather terrible with text boxes too, so I'll leave the creativity to other people on our meet board and over on the design board!

Also, I've posted our meet board request to Irish Cowboy so that should get added to the general Magic 2013 meet thread soon. When that happens, more cruisers should be able to find us.

Looks great!!! Thanks so much for doing this.

Also, welcome to those new aboard!

 

[WDW Princess 71]

I like the idea of having the simple logo to start with, but as we grow and find out if we have a larger creative base, maybe we could do what our group did on the PC cruise last year. We held a contest for several people to make larger logo designs (ones that included the dates, ports, slogans, etc). Then we had a close date and voted on a poll for one official design (the one in my signature won). It was great because most of us ordered tshirts or sweatshirts with our winner logo on it but we also loved all the runner ups and many of us used those for door magnets too. What does everyone think about this idea?

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

I like the idea of having the simple logo to start with, but as we grow and find out if we have a larger creative base, maybe we could do what our group did on the PC cruise last year. We held a contest for several people to make larger logo designs (ones that included the dates, ports, slogans, etc). Then we had a close date and voted on a poll for one official design (the one in my signature won). It was great because most of us ordered tshirts or sweatshirts with our winner logo on it but we also loved all the runner ups and many of us used those for door magnets too. What does everyone think about this idea?

Sounds like a great idea to me!

There are so many creative people out there and surely it would be super fun to watch it all unfold on our meet board! Any chance you'd like to volunteer to organize the logo design contest when our group gets larger?

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

We're in too!! We can't wait!!
There's me (DW Joan), DH (Craig), DGM (my mom Barbara), DS (James who will be 18) and DD (Katherine who will be 13, almost 14) We're from Ottawa, Canada. We did the Med. In 2010 and are so happy to be going back!!
We have late dining. And have cabins 6572 and 6574.
Joan

Welcome Aboard! You've been added to the roll call!

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

Hello! I'm fun2cruise (Sheryl) and will be traveling with my husband (Dan) on our 6th Disney cruise. We are from outside Atlanta, have second dining and stateroom on the 7th floor.

Welcome Aboard! You've been added to the roll call!

 

[scrapycruiser]

Sounds like fun !! I love this group already

 

[WDW Princess 71]

Sounds like a great idea to me!

There are so many creative people out there and surely it would be super fun to watch it all unfold on our meet board! Any chance you'd like to volunteer to organize the logo design contest when our group gets larger?

I'd rather someone with experience actually setting up the central location for the designs and poll setup do it, but if we dont have anyone experienced I'd be willing to take a stab at it. I can always try to reach out to the person who organized our PC one and see if he can give me some tips.

 

[Hanover]

Disname: Hanover

Danielle (Me, then 40)
Derek (DH then 40)
Keegan (now 14,then 16)
Brennan (now 10,then 12)
Joyce (my MIL)

We are from Pennsylvania and my MIL lives in Maryland.

It will be our 18th DCL cruise and my MIL's 5th DCL cruise.
We are on deck 6, midship and starboard in a verandah and inside cabins a# 6550 and # 6551

We did the Med in 2007 with DCL and the Baltic in 2010 with DCL and can't wait to get back to the Med!

 

[bonnielynn]

still deciding.. but love all the info

 

[Newfoundland Sailor]

I had to the post the following link. I found it while looking for good sites re: Valetta, Malta. It is a 2 minute video of the Disney Magic being welcomed into the Port...including the Captain parking the ship and the gun salute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-flYdtqBxA

Enjoy

~Heather~

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

Disname: Hanover

Danielle (Me, then 40)
Derek (DH then 40)
Keegan (now 14,then 16)
Brennan (now 10,then 12)
Joyce (my MIL)

We are from Pennsylvania and my MIL lives in Maryland.

It will be our 18th DCL cruise and my MIL's 5th DCL cruise.
We are on deck 6, midship and starboard in a verandah and inside cabins a# 6550 and # 6551

We did the Med in 2007 with DCL and the Baltic in 2010 with DCL and can't wait to get back to the Med!

Welcome Aboard!! You've been added to our roll call!

I assumed in your roll call entry that Keegan is a DD but if I've got it wrong I will switch it on the roll call to a DS! And sorry in advance if I made the wrong assumption! I'm lame with names.

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

I had to the post the following link. I found it while looking for good sites re: Valetta, Malta. It is a 2 minute video of the Disney Magic being welcomed into the Port...including the Captain parking the ship and the gun salute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-flYdtqBxA

Enjoy

~Heather~

Awesome -- loved the band playing, the cannons firing and the Magic tooting her horn as she departed the port! I moved it over to the first page post three in the Valletta category. Thanks Heather and keep those tips coming!

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

I'd rather someone with experience actually setting up the central location for the designs and poll setup do it, but if we dont have anyone experienced I'd be willing to take a stab at it. I can always try to reach out to the person who organized our PC one and see if he can give me some tips.

Nicole, No problem. We'll just wait and see if anyone wants to handle this when the time is ripe! Until then, we can get by with our simple logo. We've got plenty of time to get creative.

I'm amazed how many people have already signed up for our meet board. And I love looking through the roll call descriptions and seeing all of the children that are signed up. Should be super fun for my twins to make some new friendships on board and hopefully on some of the excursions. We get to be on the Magic for TWELVE whole days, four of them sea days. Yahoo!!!

And guess what everyone? Thanks to Chrissy's post a few pages back, I bought two of those Mickey in a toga beanie babies off of ebay too. I plan on sticking them on the twins' pillows that first night we leave from Barcelona.

Beth