Tracerr00
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2010
Hello! My name is Tracy and I’ll be cruising with my sister Diane and my daughter Eilee. It’s our 4th Disney cruise and right now, it’s less than two weeks until we fly to Copenhagen. I’m an uber planner (so my sister says) and they tend to let me go nuts and research the snot out of everything. My sister is probably getting sick of my daily calls to run things past her so she’ll be happy when we are finally off and running!
Below is a photo of the three of us. I tried to find a “normal” one but I quickly realized that we are not normal and couldn’t find one. So here is a photo of us at a Halloween race – Diane as Maleficent, me as a bee and Eilee as Captain America (she’s informed me that she’s Captain America’s daughter who has a name but I didn’t really pay attention to what the name was).
We live in Wisconsin and we will be sailing on the Magic out of Copenhagen on June 13th. Here is our plan –
June 10th – I work for an airline so I was originally going to use my flight benefits to get to Copenhagen but when you pay for a cruise and you need to be there on a certain day, you have a heart attack just thinking about not making it on the flight and missing the ship. So we bought tickets and are flying Southwest from Minneapolis to La Guardia in NY (via Milwaukee). Then we’ll take a shuttle to JFK Airport and proceed to have the world’s longest layover until we leave for Copenhagen on Norwegian Air.
June 11 & 12 – We have two days in Copenhagen prior to the cruise and we’re just going to wing it (yes, I researched tons of things and we’re winging it). We are definitely going to Tivoli Gardens on Friday the 12th and we’ll hang out there as long as we feel like it. Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park and it was the Walt Disney’s inspiration for Disneyland! We also plan to take a walk down the Stroget (I actually have no idea how to say this word unless it’s exactly how it looks. This is what I found Strøget(pronunciation: [ˈsd̥ʁʌˀð]). Either way I know we’ll butcher this language once we get there) – but this is one of Europe’s longest pedestrian shopping streets.
June 13th – we are those people that like to get to the port as early as we possibly can so we board the ship to start eating right away! They have a buffet? Why yes! We’ll belly up to that! A sit down restaurant? Count us in! Burgers and fries by the pool? Heck yes! All you can eat ice cream?? Sorry kids, I was in line first!
Our stops are Talinn Estonia, St. Petersburg Russia, Helsinki Finland and Stockholm Sweden. We are doing Disney excursions in Talinn, St. Petersburg and Helsinki. We are doing Stockholm on our own because the only thing that we MUST see is the ABBA Museum and Disney doesn’t have an excursion for that. We are also doing a private boat tour and shopping in St. Petersburg with a group of people from our cruise facebook group. Our family seems to be a little nervous about this private tour but I have some Russian speaking friends lined up in case I need to call them (my phone will have service there even though it barely has service in our neighboring towns).
I’ll wrap up the introduction for now and continue soon. As my phone should have service in every port, I plan to do some live updates if I can figure out how to do them on my phone! [GALLERY=][/GALLERY]
Below is a photo of the three of us. I tried to find a “normal” one but I quickly realized that we are not normal and couldn’t find one. So here is a photo of us at a Halloween race – Diane as Maleficent, me as a bee and Eilee as Captain America (she’s informed me that she’s Captain America’s daughter who has a name but I didn’t really pay attention to what the name was).
We live in Wisconsin and we will be sailing on the Magic out of Copenhagen on June 13th. Here is our plan –
June 10th – I work for an airline so I was originally going to use my flight benefits to get to Copenhagen but when you pay for a cruise and you need to be there on a certain day, you have a heart attack just thinking about not making it on the flight and missing the ship. So we bought tickets and are flying Southwest from Minneapolis to La Guardia in NY (via Milwaukee). Then we’ll take a shuttle to JFK Airport and proceed to have the world’s longest layover until we leave for Copenhagen on Norwegian Air.
June 11 & 12 – We have two days in Copenhagen prior to the cruise and we’re just going to wing it (yes, I researched tons of things and we’re winging it). We are definitely going to Tivoli Gardens on Friday the 12th and we’ll hang out there as long as we feel like it. Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park and it was the Walt Disney’s inspiration for Disneyland! We also plan to take a walk down the Stroget (I actually have no idea how to say this word unless it’s exactly how it looks. This is what I found Strøget(pronunciation: [ˈsd̥ʁʌˀð]). Either way I know we’ll butcher this language once we get there) – but this is one of Europe’s longest pedestrian shopping streets.
June 13th – we are those people that like to get to the port as early as we possibly can so we board the ship to start eating right away! They have a buffet? Why yes! We’ll belly up to that! A sit down restaurant? Count us in! Burgers and fries by the pool? Heck yes! All you can eat ice cream?? Sorry kids, I was in line first!
Our stops are Talinn Estonia, St. Petersburg Russia, Helsinki Finland and Stockholm Sweden. We are doing Disney excursions in Talinn, St. Petersburg and Helsinki. We are doing Stockholm on our own because the only thing that we MUST see is the ABBA Museum and Disney doesn’t have an excursion for that. We are also doing a private boat tour and shopping in St. Petersburg with a group of people from our cruise facebook group. Our family seems to be a little nervous about this private tour but I have some Russian speaking friends lined up in case I need to call them (my phone will have service there even though it barely has service in our neighboring towns).
I’ll wrap up the introduction for now and continue soon. As my phone should have service in every port, I plan to do some live updates if I can figure out how to do them on my phone! [GALLERY=][/GALLERY]
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