05/09/2009 May 9, 2009 7-Night Eastern St Maarten... Watch Out!

[DisneyMommy1022]

Hello to all and sorry that I have been MIA! We had the flu in our home for the last 2 weeks . As soon as someone got better the next one would get it and so on and so on… Anyway below is a list of everyone who has sent me a PM about the FE list:

Scottie
Scott, Sunny, Susan (MIL)
Meghan 12, Morgan 8, Dylan 3
5522 and 5524 SPH

airtime247
Steve and Amy
Emma 3

j2bmickey
J.P. and Jenn
Braelyn 6
6516

DisneyMommy1022
Kristen, Mike,
Courtney 7 & Hailey 4
One Cat 10 rooms

Dollysmom
dollysmom & DH
DD 8, DD 5, and DS 3

Ufcabear
Debi & Cal

Eeyore77
Jennifer, Chris and Betsy (DG)
7594

YenSid1222
Scott & Friends Jeff and Ken

MouseNDaHouse
Jeremy & Natalia
Hannah 5, Sarah 3, & Leah 1

Royfam
Shantu & Jen
Brandon 14, Mariah 11, and Josh 5

Gary & Shash
Alec 1
room 2075

Moebear
Bonnie & Gerry
Emma 7, Morgan 8
stateroom: 8550

Lorraine & Brent (my DM & DF)
stateroom:8552

Jennifer (me)
Hannah (DD)
Lynette (DFriend)
And we will be in 2560.

Mastiff
Jack & Kim
DS 10 & DD 6
8510

CWO4DVC
Mark and Tammie
DS 11
2578

For those who wanted an explanation of how the FE works here you go:

Each Person or Family that decides to participate in the Exchange Buys or makes a FE and has them hung by their stateroom door. Then everyone gets or makes gifts or brings something special for each person participating in the exchange. You don’t have to give much; it isn’t to break the bank so to speak. But its something fun and its neat coming back to your room and having a gift or two waiting for you

I will make a list of who all is participating (Per family or Person) and then their stateroom Numbers and AGE and/or occasion of who all is traveling (in case you want to do something related for gifts) and Each person gets a gift for everyone (whatever you want). We can assign people to give their gifts on certain days if you want everyone to get a gift each day or if you like or it can be a free for all (meaning you can give them out whenever you want to during the cruise). But each person is supposed to get a gift to everyone that is participating.


Please let me know if you would like to be added to this list. I am going to set a cut off day of April 1st to be able to join the FE list that way the ones that do want to participate will have time to put together their gifts.

In regards to the bracelets I think it is an awesome idea and I would love to be apart of it. I will need 4 for our family. Just a thought but maybe we can come up this a group “name of some sort. The May 2nd group is calling them self the Magical MAYniacs. Maybe we could get like 3 or 4 ideals and take a vote. People could use this “name” on shirts or door decoration or even the bracelets. Also if someone wants to come up with a logo I think that would be fun to! Let me know what you think.

Everyone Please double check that I have you on this list if you are interested!

 

[DisneyMommy1022]

Hey all,

What do you think about the following?

Group Name: Magical MayFlowers
Quote: "Because We DIServe It!"

I am still working on a logo.. Will post it soon!

If you have any other thoughts let me know.

 

[DisneyMommy1022]

Please look at the following worksheet and send me any info that may be missing by your name. I would like to have all names, ages of the kids and anything that you may be celebrating well on this trip!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pOs27VszHn7OoexJZ2KheaQ&hl=en

 

[ufcabear]

I was unable to go to the spreadsheet. I saw that our names, Debi and Cal were listed earlier so I think we are good. We are not celebrating anything special - just a good time together. I don't know our cabin number yet as we are in a gty. cabin.

I look forward to doing the FE - I think it will be fun.

 

[ufcabear]

I forgot to say that I like the name. I think it is great. How about everyone else?

 

[Eeyore77]

I kinda like the name it is catchy. As for the FE exchange I think that one gift per room works great. When we did it back in Sept on the members we did it this way and we left all kinds of cool stuff. I loved coming back to the room and finding something new in the bag....

 

[scottie]

please add us to the FE list and for braclets.

Just to confirm, 1 adult and 2 youth bracelets?

 

[NMDisneyMom]

Actually for us, it's 2 adult and 1 youth. My is 4 (almost 5 at time of cruise).

 

[NMDisneyMom]

Added! What is the age of your DD

My DD is 4 but will be almost 5 at time of cruise (3 weeks shy of it - this is actually an early birthday present. It's working against us though due to the age limitations for the excursions. I should have thought this out better I guess.

 

[scottie]

Actually for us, it's 2 adult and 1 youth. My is 4 (almost 5 at time of cruise).

Sorry I thought it was one of Hannah's BFFs comining along and didnt even think about it being your friend- Can I be your friend for your next time you want to sail with Disney???

 

[dollysmom]

The name MAGICal MAYflowers sounds great. We are from Nova Scotia and our provincial flower is a mayflower. So, we are kind of partial to the name.

 

[dollysmom]

Disneymommy1022 - I couldn't open up the spreadsheet. Here is our info

Room 6605
dollysmom
Allison, Mike (dh), Chloe (dd 5), Cooper (ds 3)

Room 6604
enchantednana
Eva (my mom), Kennedy (8, my daughter who is staying in her room)

If you need more info let me know.

 

[MouseNDaHouse]

Disneymommy1022 - I couldn't open up the spreadsheet. Here is our info

Room 6605
dollysmom
Allison, Mike (dh), Chloe (dd 5), Cooper (ds 3)

Room 6604
enchantednana
Eva (my mom), Kennedy (8, my daughter who is staying in her room)

If you need more info let me know.

Yeah - I couldn't get into it either...

 

[airtime247]

Hi Kristen,

I dig the name as well.

Our FE info looks good but please add that we are in cabin 2070. As for celebrations, we are celebrating our 10th anniversary on May 16th. I know it's the day we return but it will be nice starting our day on the Magic and finishing it at WDW! We are still trying to decide on a nice place for dinner that night that's 3yo friendly.

Speaking of celebrations, our daughter Emma turns three this weekend. She can't stop talking about her upcoming Tinkerbell party. I know she's going to have a great time.

The grandmas arrive tomorrow to stay with us for the weekend so I might be MIA for a few days. Wish me luck!

-steve

 

[scottie]

I found this other option for our cruise bracelets, the charge is about .30 more per bracelet, but would offer the colored lettering on the bracelet to help the phrase we have put on it stand out. I think the majority have replied that they prefer the green bracelet color due to it being the DIS color. Please take a look when you have some time and let me know what you think about this option vs. the first one posted the other day:

http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/showphoto.php/photo/37701

 

[MouseNDaHouse]

Hi Kristen,

I dig the name as well.

Our FE info looks good but please add that we are in cabin 2070. As for celebrations, we are celebrating our 10th anniversary on May 16th. I know it's the day we return but it will be nice starting our day on the Magic and finishing it at WDW! We are still trying to decide on a nice place for dinner that night that's 3yo friendly.

Speaking of celebrations, our daughter Emma turns three this weekend. She can't stop talking about her upcoming Tinkerbell party. I know she's going to have a great time.

The grandmas arrive tomorrow to stay with us for the weekend so I might be MIA for a few days. Wish me luck!

-steve

I have yet to get into the spreadsheet, but we will be celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary on the cruise although the actual date is May 5 and our daughters first birthday is May 7. So add that to Mother's Day and it'll just be an absolute smorgasbord of celebrations!

 

[MouseNDaHouse]

I found this other option for our cruise bracelets, the charge is about .30 more per bracelet, but would offer the colored lettering on the bracelet to help the phrase we have put on it stand out. I think the majority have replied that they prefer the green bracelet color due to it being the DIS color. Please take a look when you have some time and let me know what you think about this option vs. the first one posted the other day:

http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/showphoto.php/photo/37701

I like the originals - turns out that I'm more conservative than I thought...

 

[lyn9856]

This is my first post, but please add us to the FE list and for braclets. This will be our first cruise. It will be myself, DD(4, almost 5 at time of cruise) and a good friend. I'm a single mom so I usually rope one of my friends to travel with me. We are all excited about cruising with all of you. I've been reading the boards for awhile (learning lots! - thank you!), and can't wait to meet everyone.

We are:

Jennifer (me)
Hannah (DD)
Lynette (DFriend)

And we will be in 2560.

Cool! I'm an older Lynette from Uk and will be in 2550!

 

[Royfam]

Please look at the following worksheet and send me any info that may be missing by your name. I would like to have all names, ages of the kids and anything that you may be celebrating well on this trip!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pOs27VszHn7OoexJZ2KheaQ&hl=en

I too could not see it but, from the list above everything looks great except our room number is not listed 2079/2081 (they are adjoining rooms) we will be celebrating my DH bday on the 15th (it's really the 16th)

 

[Royfam]

Hey I was noticing several of us have rooms on deck 2 and we're all right by each other ~mid ship