I go away for a day after saving us from page 3 and WOW
you guys have all been on except me. I guess I asked that everyone gets posting
Jen-
We are celebrating 3 b-days on the ship, mine being the 1st. Mine is actually while we are on the ship. We are not doing any stateroom celebrations as thoses are the decorations and small cake in the room on the first night only, no matter when your birthday is. That has a cost to it. If you do the free celebration they bring the birthday person a slice of strawberry cake and sing happy birthday at dinner. So it is nothing big. Just a little something. I have actually called and tried to talk to them about the cake. Being lactose intolerant, I do not want the strawberry moose filled cake. They said for me to speak to them on the ship and see what other slice of cake they could do once on board, but had no promises. I have decided, to just go with the flow and someone else at the table can eat the cake and not worry about it. There is a link with a picture on the cruise boards, I'll find it and come back to post a picture of the cake slice. So no need to rush to have it included in your reservation, you could probably tell them once on the ship even and be fine. From what I get, they bake a few of the same cakes on the ship and slice them each night and all of the passengers in all rotations share this cake, this is the reason you only get one slice. I even spoke to them about DD, because she is allergic to eggs and asked them what they could do for her and they said they would get back to me as the rules say, no speciality cakes can be made on the ship.
On top of the little strawberry cake slice, they do have a "happy birthday" that sits on the top that is all choc. candy
. Last cruise they did DD her own little icecream cake for our anniversary, but I think it was because we had purchased a wedding cake for our ceremony. Did I tell you we renewed our vows last cruise for our 10th?
Here is the link to the thread with the pictures. The first cake you see is the one you pay for and would be in the room on the 1st. The red slice is the free one.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1642212
I hope this helps.
Rani- We have never done the dolphin one. It tends to be very exspensive. I just could not imagine spend over $400 to do it while my kids, especially DD is so young. To me, it is something we will do maybe as them being teenagers, so they can always remember the moment. If you decide to do it maybe I can send DS with you and the rest of us stay back.
Just joking.......
We do not do a lot of excursions though. We love the ship and the local aspect of the travel. We are trying to look into beaches where people are with a little more clothes. I guess we will have to stay away from the french side.
Mike- We have never done the Eastern, this is our first. We have done 3/4 and 7 western, but not 7 Eastern, so once off the ship I can not help much. I do have a friend born and raised in the VI, St. Thomas, (she now lives in DC). She is a college friend I stay in touch with, so I think I will hit her up for local information and do it on our own.
AS far as the kid activities, they are scheduled at different times. Most of the big activities do only happen once and many are on port days. I think they do it on purpose, so that it is not sooo crowded in the clubs. It is to the point you have to sometimes make a decision of this or that. They do it to keep it less crowded and to keep you coming back because you missed something. They have it down to a science to keep the activities from being crowded. Now it is the older kids that make flubber in the lab. I do not think you DD will get a chance in the club. The lab is for 8 and over. Now, we are shuffling something. Last cruise, my DD missed the slumber party with Goffy, because it is doing our dinner time. So we have decided it is okay for her to miss dinner with the family to go this time. We will just have to feed her earlier. See, what I mean about needing to make adjustments. They do it on purpose. See if during dinner, you get maybe 1/2 the crowd. We have a rule in our family to always go to assigned dinner and eat together. This time we will just have to be flexible that day I guess.
Speaking of dinner, we can link our reservations together and be together at dinner if you want, because you guys have second dinner, correct. I would want you to link with us instead of us to you though, because we already have our rotation because we have such major food issues on the ship, with DD egg allergy, that we have to order her meals ahead of time. Since this is a little more work on
DCL, I try to not change our orginal request. It makes it easier for them to do assignments. Just let me know off boards. The girls will enjoy being together.
ALL- I should say not to mention FLUBBER. If you ask DS, one of the things he remembers from the last cruise was the argument between his parents about the flubber. I tossed it in the garbage because I did not want to chance bringing it through customs and getting fined if we are selected for search. DH, thought it was fine and tossed it in the bag anyway. So we got into an argument over the Flubber that had to be tossed once we got home because it was too hard.
So now the joke is that I am a flubber nervous ginnie
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Talk to you later and thanks to Mike as my DD now says, "Spin Ya Later".
Happy December!!!! HO HO HO!!!
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I guess we are lucky, we have never had a problem getting anything I asked for in all of our cruises. 
Without sitting on the computer at midnight. MicDay, great chat the other night. It was a by chance thing that really worked out. 
