03/01/2008 Eastern!!

[atinkerbellmom]

Karen-
The Park is the chat board that we all use to chat in before the cruise. I can PM you the link if you are interested and like chat rooms. Sorry, we have been doing it for sooo long, it is just second language. I would LOVE to meet in WDW park, if someone would float the Tink family 4 tickets to MCO.

 

[kshabare]

Hello my fellow cruisers! Norm, Josh and I are doing well. We've almost lost all of our tans. I may need to stop by the tanning beds - I'm in serious withdrawal. It got up to 49 degrees today - whoo hoo. Still chilly for me.

We received a nice letter from DCL. Funny - it thanked me for the nice things I had to say about the ship, and people like Mischa, Natalie, Sheika, Pubmaster Paul, etc. It was a nice letter until I realized it was a modified copy of the same letter they sent to all people complaining/inquiring about our cruise.

Norm, Josh and I are going to St. John instead - with our very good friends. We're only interested in sun, fun and relaxation. Since we spent so much time on the ship to sit in the sun all those days for that amount of money we figured we may as well stay on the island.

Have fun at the park everyone. I probably won't stop by but I'll be there in spirit!

Miss ya'all...

Kim

 

[Micday]

Good Evening Everyone !!

Just dropping in to say hi ! We had very nice weather this week, in the 70's until today. It rained all day long, we need it but I had plans to plant some flowers.

So what has everyone been doing ? I'm just working a lot of hours and getting the house ready for Spring.

DD has two more days of Spring Break then back to school for her.

Michelle

 

[atinkerbellmom]

Okay Ladies and Guys- We were on page 3..... Tomorrow marks the 1 month mark of officially meeting each of you and we are on page 3.... COme on, let everyone know what is happening in your lives.... Where is Jen, MIA now...

 

[ranidayz]

GET OUT! We were on page 3!? I'm sure I didn't join till at least page 8....begging for a mentor because I was so clueless!

We are all still on our cruise high - especially me and DS11. DS9 is back to chess and soccer and DD4 wants to go back on the ship, but not on the rides. She told Chuck E. Cheese yesterday that she wished she were with Mickey Mouse (relatives?) instead.

I still have a couple things in my hideous backpack that I haven't put away. I did get nice shadowbox displays for each of the kids' pins and we have actively been finishing the collections they started.

I've got my second "Rani" pin on it's way to me. I haven't blown up any framable pics yet, but I;m just waiting for some higher resolution pics before I order my two photobooks....50 pages each!

I would love to hear more updates from all of you. Speaking of pins...which is my new obsession (I've kind of ditched Target, shhhhh!) --- Figment, if you're reading this, I now know who "figment' is and man, does he have a ton of pins! you should check it out!

DS11 pointed out to me that we are 701 days away from Mar. 1, 2010 - which is the month when we plan to take the next Disney Cruise.

How's that for info?

Rani

 

[ejkjmom]

Hello to all our Dis friends......

I still haven't done anything with our pictures yet heck.... who am I kidding...I still have ALLof LAST years photos's on a disk...how pathetic is that?????

Hope everyone is doing well...sure everyone is busy busy!!!!! Last week was crazy busy here,...but this week should be alot quieter..hope so anyway..

It's always good to see when there has been a new post on our thread
Tink..thanks for pulling us back up, see we still need you to take care of us

Rani...what site do you use to make your photo books...I have seen them on sites like photo bucket and thought they looked fun..but have never done it.

Hard to beleive that is has only been a month ago that we sailed...for me, it's seems much longer than that!!!!
Wish we were 1 month out...on the OTHER SIDE of March!!!!

Talk to you all later
Brenda

 

[ranidayz]

Brenda,

For these books, I'm using snapfish.com, but I don't really like it because their editing capabilities and layouts are limited. However, I happen to have coupons....

Try shutterfly.com --- there are always coupons and it's really fun. Of course, before you use any site, always google for a coupon code....

Rani

 

[Merriwind]

Hi all-

We've got Spring Break this week. I decided against heading to WDW. Pat is traveling all week, so DD and I will just do fun stuff. We went pottery painting today, have a beach day, the movies and swimming at Grandma and PopPop's planned.

I have a neighbor who does photo books from online instead of scrapbooking. Is that what you're talking about at snapfish and shutterfly, Rani?

I've got a new obsession of the day--ringtones. I have never had anything but one that sounds like a phone ringing. I always get the free phone, so there's not much in the way of features. Well, today we were with friends and she's got songs for everyone. So, I came home, went on the DIS, searched for free Disney ringtones and found a great site. Now, when DH calls, it's "Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me." DD is "Fabulous," from HSM2. My general tone is Spectromagic! I'll probably get more tomorrow. They're sent as a text message, but we never use ours. It was easy--and exciting. I need to get a life!

 

[atinkerbellmom]

Karen, PM me that site. Do you think I could figure it out how to download them to my phone. I am not very smart technically. Do they have Brian McKnight's Remember the Magic? I am on now too, can you let me know.

 

[Merriwind]

Hi all, sorry, thought I put the name of the ringtone site:

http://www.myxertones.com

It was really simple, even for a cellphone dummy like me! Search for Disney and you'll get lots of results!

 

[kshabare]

Just reporting in - Joshua and Norman are at Yankee Stadium tonight. Down the 3rd base line - 13 rows back. Go Yanks! Posada and Jeter look beautiful. And I'm hope cuddled switching channels.

Weather made it up to 57 degrees today!

Kim

 

[Wish-Mom]

You know, I'm learning that one of the best things about the cruise is that Ryan is still coming up with new memories. Almost everyday he tells me something new that they did in the Oceanears Club. It's been really neat to hear these random memories I didn't even know about.

On the other hand, Ryan keeps asking when we can go on another. He says that since the sign on our way out said "See you real soon" that means we get to take another cruise. Love four-year-old logic.

Tink-do you have a photo of Ryan and your DD with Wendy? If you do, please send it to me. The Shutter people took some but I never saw it.

 

[atinkerbellmom]

How sad am I that I have not taken the pictures off the DIC or even looked at them. I know I have one Heidi, so I will do that tonight. It will actually make me get them all downloaded and I will send it to you as soon as I do it via e-mail. If it is really good, I will send you a hard copy as well. You, know, we really should do some CD exchanges. We have so many pictures of each other that we should burn some of them to CD and that way, I may actually be able to do a scrapbook.

You, know my kids do the same thing. They keep bringing up things that happened. I keep asking, for goodness sake, where was I.... Did I sleep too much on this cruise? I did not even have many BUSHWACKERS or Bon Voages.... I have a picture of that See you Real Soon sign BTW Heidi. I have a friend who was with me and she is a picture freak, so I guess I was just counting on her to take all of the pictures.

Rani, I got pictures yesterday from Johnna through snap fish, I do not know why I just can not get yours to work. E-mail me.

 

[ranidayz]

OK - someone email me feiste's phone number -- I am starting to get worried...

 

[ranidayz]

I am officially a nutcase. You know what I bought today? I bought fabric and interfacing for the fish extender for the cruise 2010! Not that I'll be making it any time soon, but it gives me a project now that I don't have my book of lists to put together - I can recycle that.

It's very cool -- funky blue and red water tye-dyed base fabric and a panel of fabric for each of the following - princesses, pirates and mickey. Not that I even know when I'm going....or if any DISSERS are going or even if we're going to do fish extenders......but if we do, I'll be ready!


Ranidayz

 

[atinkerbellmom]

Hey Cruise Family-
Have you guys checked out your credit card statements. There is a $45 credit to your statement. We have not gotton our statement yet, but everyone in our party has gotton a credit. So me being me, I of course called DCL. It is the port charges that are being reversed for CC. Even though it is their own island, we still pay port charges to the Bahamas. So it was not the PIXIE Dust fairy, it is just our port charges being reversed. Just to let you know. THis also takes us off of page three. Also gives all of those people who like to lerk on this thread something to talk about....

 

[Merriwind]

I didn't notice; I'll have to look.

So, anyone dowload any ringtones? I'm all Disney, all the time. Added "Be our Guest," for Dsis, "Tapestry of Nations," for Dad, "Zipadeedoodah," for Mom.

DD had her first trip to the ortho today. Sniff, she has the mouth of a 12-13 yo. Only four baby teeth left; one will probably be out today, it's so loose. Two 12-year molars have erupted. She got seperators today, will get new ones next week and what they now call retainers next week. (They are four bands with a retainer top on top and two bands with an inside wire on the bottom.) Six months or so after that, full braces. This is setting us back at least one DCL cruise!

 

[ranidayz]

Tink - we got the credit - had no idea why....thought they were being generous because of the 'issues' on board

Merriwind - we are still awaiting nine baby teeth to fall out and be replaced by 11 new ones.....unreal how much the ortho costs -- and i've got three who will need it. I NEVER HAD BRACES OR GLASSES ---- this stuff is not from me!!!!! DS 11 got rid of his expanders six months ago---now we just hurry up and wait.

Rani

 

[ranidayz]

You know that song, "It's been six days since I talked to you...?"

Well, today has been
ONE MONTH, ONE WEEK AND ONE DAY
SINCE WE ALL SET FOOT ON THE MAGIC TO SAIL TOGETHER!​

 

[Merriwind]

Wow, it seems like a lifetime ago and more recent than that all at the same time.

Rani--keep an eye on those teeth. DD did lose that tooth the other night--her ninth in under a year! Only three left. Those two year baby molars are HUGE!

Hope everyone's having a good week!