Hello everyone....
Monday was a psychotic day - I woke at 6AM to look after the kids until the evening.... my spouse was uncharacteristicly busy from the early AM til evening and we could not do our usual tag team drill - so I was sort of wacked (by 3PM that is) - so I was effectively off line (mentally as well as via computer) all of yesterday.
So.... today I called
DCL late in the day - they declared they had just sent our docs on the 9th via 3 day ground service with UPS. Well... it was not here today and in the evening we left town for a nite. SO tomorrow we'll check our entry area for a UPS package. Oh... I also confirmed our cabin assignment - and they gave us an engineering space next to a hand crank for the rudders. I never told anyone we got a really low fare - a working fare so it seems. Naw.... actually, we're almost in "steerage" (as they used to call it on the Titanic) as we are on deck 2.... by choice might I add.... with a window no less. Hey... we're savin' for a rainy day... not a hurricane might I add... just plain ol' rain.
So - our cabin is the same as we booked.... RATS! Oh well... there's always upgrading at the port - or bushwacking someone with a veranda and tossing their bags into hallway. Er rather, at least until security comes along to eject us into a life raft - or the nearest pier.
So... as for 5 diplomatically tolerable ice breakers about us....
1) My wife and I fell in love on our first date chewing on ice cubes (ice breaker... get it?!?) together at the end of dinner... we'll have to share details of how our first date went at the cruise meet (more fun and dramatic in person, eh?) - that'll be a fun thing then - eh?
2) My wife is a chronic shop-a-holic and I have carried her bags for nearly 21 years now. Day 1 I noticed I could "hang out" with her if I went shopping with her and paid for most of her stuff and most of her meals and drove her anywhere she wanted to go.... so I inadvertantly compounded her addiction. Now - a - days - she sort of pays for most of her stuff.... and I pays fer mine.
3) I'm born and raised in L.A. - as my mother in law used to say - I was a "city slicker". She (my spouse) was born in Buffalo, N.Y. and raised outside of Pittsburg PA in a town that used to have just ONE stop light. I think it has two lights now.... wow.
4) I'm a really psychotic type with a digital camera - I've taken over 35,000 digital images in the last 4 years since our 1st daughter was born. As such - my father in law once cautioned that our daughter could develope retinal damage from excessive flash photography.... I wasn't sure if he was kidding or not since he's a big wheel in medicine.... supposedly.
5) I'm a nut. Oh wait... I'm supposed to say something folks DON'T KNOW about me.... oh... let me see..... oh yeah.... we like to try and travel a bit. We've been on maybe 15 or 17+ cruises (I'm not counting precisely - and this estimate includes a few cheapie 1 and 3 day weekend cruises).... and we've been fortunate enough to visit Asia a half dozen+ times and places in Europe maybe 4 or 5 times. Oddly enough... since the 2nd child arrived we've ground more or less to a halt for most long haul recreational travel. THE ONE EXCEPTION that we "stretch" for is the
Disney Cruise. NOthing seems to come close for a family vacation with our young kids.
6) So.... I decided to throw one extra thing (#6) just in case someone cries "foul" about one of my 5 preceeding cheap-skate entries... So.... "
we love our critters". Although we currently have ONE major pet - a psychotic "thieving" 105 pound Samoyed ... we have had 2 Samoyeds, about a half dozen rabbits, hampsters, lots of fish (never could get them to be friendly or live very long), a cat, and of course my spouse has had a husband (the highest maintenance "pet" a woman could be condemned to have! - PLUS we have raised litterally 10s of thousands of ANTS around our place. Can't seem to make them unhappy enuf with our neighborly prescence... so we just sort of leave more vittles out for them to eat - even the ANT TRAP poison I leave them has no effect!
OK... that should be enuf, eh?
So - everyone get those "fun stories" ready for the cruise (to share)... IE... the good ol' stand by fun ice breakers - such as HOW YOU MET your current signifcant other - and 2nd .... how the "question was poped".... exceptin' those who are travelin' single or those who ditched the spouse to sail with the "secret flame".... shuuuu! We won't tell anyone .... just let us in on the secret dribble as to how you met your current travelin' companion .... and remember ... we have young kids in the gathering... so keep it PG please!
Adios,.... I gotta git some sleep - lot a drivin' to git home tomorrow.
With warmest regards to all - looks like we'll git our docs tomorrow evening! UPS will have had 8 (EIGHT) days to deliver with 3 day service ordered on the 9th (last tuesday).
BTW... has anyone had a "Passportere guide to Disney Cruise" book? Is it really worth getting? It seems we can find a lot of info online and in forums like this one... any opinions?
supported by my Walmart salary. 
And I am sure some of the other kids from the boards will be too.
My DS is currently exchanging e-mails with another 8 year old boy, so he will have a DIS buddy when he boards. If you want to send me a PM, I can give you me e-mail address if you think your DS would be interested in exchanging e-mail with another boy his age.
, but not a nerdy one! I'm very cool and hip 
(haha) and I do not have a pocket protector!
and cats.
