Just booked this am (YAY!) very excited ... I'm in if you start an FE group and is there a facebook page? This will be our 3rd cruise
Myself, DD14 and DD9 (10 on Jan 29) Glad I found this thread!
Mickeysgirlz!
I have a DS who is 15 and will be in Vibe also! Yes we have a FE List! Small but sturdy.
I will add you to the list.
We had a facebook thread last cruise and it really got the husbands involved in meeting each other. I think it's a good idea. Although, once we got on facebook, the message board thread kinda fell by the wayside.
We are surprising the kids and not telling them about the cruise at all.
We are planning on telling the kiddos we are heading to the airport but instead head to the port. I am going to video our son's face as we drive up because I am sure there will be much screaming and tears flying! (from all of us) LOL
I'm doing the same thing. Although I'll be saying its time to drive home. I've decided to roll the dice and stay in Orlando and leave the morning of the 2nd at 6 am. That way the kids will probably be sleeping from a late night in the parks and not realize I'm going the wrong way. Planning to be at the Port by 10 am.
It's hard keeping my mouth shut. I'm a single mom and usual blab blab blab about the trip as I'm planning it, "....and we're gonna stay here and go there...." Luckily, teenagers are so self-absorbed they don't hear me anymore!
We are driving down too. It will be the 3rd time driving down to Florida and although I love to fly, driving is much more affordable.
Here is our survival plan:
We leave at 4 am. We take lots of snacks for the kiddos, bring a picnic breakfast and lunch that we eat on the fly so we can get as far as possible on the first day. The kiddos have DVDs ipods, DSs etc... to keep them busy. We also pack a wrapped gift (ie a movie and a box of candy) for each time we stop for gas. The kids love the little gifts and it keeps them quiet and amicable until we get to our next stop.
We priceline our hotel about an hour before we plan on stopping using a mobile app and we eat dinner at Cracker Barrel because its fast, good and convenient to the freeway.
Can't wait!!
Wow, You drive from Ontario!!!
I have nothing to complain about driving from Cape Cod!
We plan on leaving around 1 or 2 am Christmas Day. I know, talk about Holiday Quality Family Time! We are gonna celebrate on the Eve with my extended family and then head out.
The boys all want Playstation 4's anyway, which is all they are getting 'cause they are so expensive and they are contributing 1/2 of it while I pay the other half. So Christmas isn't the little kids surprise and joy thing it used to be for us. So we are shaking it up and going to WDW and Universal, which we've never done at Christmas 'cause my mom job is working in a chocolate shop and no one's allowed to take vacation before Christmas.
Osborne Lights, Gaylord Ice here we come!
oh, and a surprise cruise :wink:
I will take your priceline advice asI keep mapping where I should stay and it's not working out.
We're already in South Florida ... that's why I couldn't resist booking this cruise ... LOL! So close ...
You're so lucky! No flying, no driving! I'm green with envy!