carmie3377
Hi, I'm Carmen and I'm a Disneyholic.
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2005
Carmen and family
Welcome aboard! I think we were on the Jan 11 Panama cruise at the same time.
Yes, we were! That was a FABULOUS cruise and will be hard to top
Great! I will send you her email
Sounds good! Send me a PM when she's ready to exhange emails
Hello all!
Nikki here! (with DH somewhere around- his name is Stacey. Yes, he's a boy...we get some interesting looks about that one)
I have been lurking on the Dis for a number of years before I joined in 2011 to prepare for a cruise on the Dream in 2012, but never really was super active here. I'm not super active at FB either- but I did join over there today as well. I was trying to decided whether we would book the 4-11th Southern or the 11-18th Southern- but this group seems fun, so I think we're staying here.
We don't have any kids, and I'm about to graduate from residency, so by the cruise I will have done my first year in private practice!I have the luck of having about 4 weeks of vacation a year (and 250k in med education debt, but who's counting right?
) so either week would have worked for us. I figure more people took this itinerary though because it crossed a holiday and that's one less vacay/school day to take off?
I probably will not be super active here, I have a trip on the Fantasy for my birthday (Eastern Sept 21) and a trip on the Connie (X cruise line) as a big meet with another group in early Feb to do before this one, but I LOVE to plan and love to have stuff to look forward to on the horizon!
We haven't booked yet, hoping to do so on the Fantasy, but if it starts to look like we will sell out of the category I'm hoping to sail in, we will jump in. One thing I wasn't sure about was how it works if you book and put down a deposit on an sailing (say this one) and then on the ship you want to book that same sailing. I'm sure they can cancel the 1st one, but do they just roll your deposit into the on board booking?
Once we take this cruise, I will just need the Wonder and I will have sailed all four ships! We were supposed to be on the Magic right now, but I ended up VERY sick in early March and had surgery and all that jazz and it depleted my PTO so we will be doing it in 2015 if the Magic continues to go to the Med by then.
Enough about me, just wanted to say hi! I look forward to chatting and meeting with everyone, and for those on both lists (FB and Dis) sorry for the double post!
Hi Nikki! Welcome aboard! Congrats on your residency graduation! Just this time last year we were gearing up for DH's fellowship graduation. What a glorious day! Never thought it would arrive as I had been along for the entire ride: undergrad, MD and PhD, residency, fellowship! He's not in private practice though, works at a university hospital and LOVES it. Hours are still looooong but getting better. Anyway, what's your specialty???
And I would definitely consider booking now! We booked onboard in March and the price has already gone up $800. You can always reshop onboard to see if it will save you any money.
(and let's not forget that Uncle Sam will want his repayment of 250 large starting in July)
. It's an ideal itinerary, but October is not the month for us (November preferred) and it doesn't stop at CC AND it costs twice as much to fly to San Juan than to MCO. We're waiting to see what the 2015 cruises have to offer, but it would have been great to see you again!
And by "Tara" I meant "Dara" lol. Sorry about that.
everyone does that. My daughter was too small on our last cruise to do the kids club. She spent her time in the nursery, but we did go into the club together for a little while. I am very excited to send them off and have adult time
