05/20/2010 Wonder 3-day Bahamas

[ickletarakins]

I would also be interested in possibly doing a FE, provided I can find the time to get everything together. My DBF and I are graduating from University the end of April, so we're extra busy right now. This trip is sort of a graduation present to ourselves. Currently we're in room 6067.

In Nassau we booked the Sunshine Glass Bottom Boat Tour, something my DBF is really interested in. Has anyone done this before? We're also thinking about renting bikes at CC.

I've done a glass bottom boat tour but wasn't very impressed with it...however, it was in Jamaica, not Nassau, and when we went it was not long after a rainstorm so the water was really cloudy.

 

[Jonaussie]

Thanks for the info. We have decided to do the snorkeling adventure since it's just the two of us and no kids. Anyone heard anything about the snorkeling trip? I don't really have any desire to go over to the Atlantis resort either. Next time when we bring the kids we may do the sting ray adventure, but that's another time.

 

[Jonaussie]

Excuse my ignorance but what is an FE????

 

[ickletarakins]

Excuse my ignorance but what is an FE????

haha don't worry, I had to look it up on the acronym list on this site--FE stands for "fish extender"--and then google that to figure out what it was...it's this little thing that you hang from the fish that has your stateroom number on it...it's made of cloth and has pockets, and the people who agree to do the FE exchange leave little gifts in each other's FE's...

sorry, I know I'm not doing the best job of describing what it looks like, but if you go to ebay and search for "fish extender" there are some for sale on there

 

[ickletarakins]

Meant to post this yesterday, but didn't have time--so now we are less than 2 months away from departure!

 

[Henlady]

Yes we are!!!! We're doing 5 nights at WDW before the cruise, so we have
54 days till we leave. Can't wait.

 

[ickletarakins]

Along with the fish extenders, would anyone else be interested in doing a meet and greet? If so we will probably set that up along with the FE's...you don't have to do both, though!

 

[texaskate]

Hi Y'all-

We just booked our rooms today. We actually did this exact cruise back on February 4th and had a great time, even though I was not feeling well and the weather did not cooperate! We did not get to go to Castaway Cay because of the weather and that was a bummer... Other than that, we had a blast. In Nassau, we went to Atlantis for the day and bought full privileges through the Comfort Suites. For every room you book there, you get 4 wristbands for the slides, pools and beaches. If you haven't been to Atlantis, I would highly recommend it, especially if you have active kids!
There will be 7 of us this time, and I would really like to be involved in the Fish Extender tradition! My in-laws and brother-in-law are going and it's their first Disney Cruise, so I would like to surprise them with the FE's I make for them. So, all in all we will have my husband and I, our 5 year old and my husband's 11 year old daughter, his parents, and my husbands brother. We are coming from Dallas If anyone has any questions about the cruise, feel free to ask- it's all fresh in my memory!

 

[mjmahnke]

To further explain the fish extenders, we did this for the first time on our cruise last October. We didn't have any kids with us so I felt kinda funny doing it, but ultimately we loved it! If you participate, you hang your FE up on the fish outside your cabin door then throughout the cruise the FE participants bring by and put special treat bags in your FE pockets. The treat bags include all kinds of things like candy, things that represent your home state, stickers, disney things, whatever you feel like! The people that do participate in the FE's will list the cabin number and ages of those in the participating room. If there are kids participating,you can make your gifts more kids oriented. You can do as much or as little as you want! The gifts we got included the names and cabin numbers of those that gave us the gifts on a tag outside of little halloween like treat bags. Or others just threw a few pieces of candy in there. It starts at the beginning of the cruise and ends the last night before you return to Port Canaveral. I just ordered my FE from someone on ebay and it was only 19.99 and so very cute!

We'll do a final "role call" of those that want to participate on the 24th and then put out a list of those participating, cabin number and ages of those in the participating cabin.

 

[robinkeith1]

My family will be on board, also! It will be:
Dad- 36
Mom- 35
Daughter- 12
Son-2
Daughter-1

We would LOVE to be included in the FE's!
This is our first cruise AND our first time to WDW (going for 6 nights previous to cruise).

 

[mommytee]

I've been hanging around the DIS, and was thinking of starting a meetup if no-one did by Easter. Thanks Tara!
This is our 2nd Disney cruise, and I want our kids to join the FE exchange. Sailing are me (Tee 35), DH (Em 38), DD (Mad 6 - actually 6 in April, the cruise is her bday gift in lieu of a party), and DS (TT 1).
Can't wait to meet you all! We already have some decorations for our door, and now I'm going to get an FE on ebay.

 

[MMmomto5]

Hi there. Can we join in? We are doing this cruise as well. We were going to do the 4 day on the 23rd, but when we checked into switching resorts for the Disney World part of our trip, we would have had to give up Bay Lake Tower, so my hubby vetoed it.

We would love to take part in the FE exchange and any meets that take place. Going on our trip is me (32), DH (34), DD12, DS11, DD8, DD6, and DS4 along with my parents and my hubby's uncle.

We booked the dolphin excursion for part of our group and the sea lion excursion for the others, and the men and my DS11 are going to try parasailing on Castaway Cay day. We also have Palo booked for the third night, so I am hoping it's not the same night as the Pirate themed evening.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone!

 

[GeorgeY]

Our cruise group is getting quite large. That is great.
Welcome to everyone....

Hey MMmomto5, we are doing the parasailing at Castaway Cay as well. We booked the 10am time. What time is your group going?


George

 

[MMmomto5]

Our cruise group is getting quite large. That is great.
Welcome to everyone....

Hey MMmomto5, we are doing the parasailing at Castaway Cay as well. We booked the 10am time. What time is your group going?


George

Hi George, I checked our schedule and it looks like the guys are scheduled for 10a.m. too. All the girls will be watching and taking pics.

 

[robinkeith1]

Okay, this thread has gotten me soooo excited! I've ordered our fish extender and have made Palo reservations, nursery reservations, shore excursions (although planning to stay onboard in Nassau)... gathering pirate items and door decor now!! CAN'T WAIT!!

So are we waiting until April to do the all call for FE's? That seems SO far away ... Okay, okay....I'm sure I have a bizillion other things to be prepping so I'll hold my horses .

Quick question...I've read conflicting reports. I've got a 1 year old and a 2 year old in swim diapers. They CAN go in the Mickey ears or no? I've read both ways. I know they can go in the splash pad area NEXT to the Mickey pool, but the ears???

Thanks!!

 

[ickletarakins]

My family will be on board, also! It will be:
Dad- 36
Mom- 35
Daughter- 12
Son-2
Daughter-1

We would LOVE to be included in the FE's!
This is our first cruise AND our first time to WDW (going for 6 nights previous to cruise).

Have you guys (the parents) never been to WDW either??? Regardless, you guys will have such a blast there with your kids, I'm sure.

Someone else mentioned how sad it was that we aren't doing the official FE list until later in April...that's partly my fault We booked a guarantee stateroom and probably won't get our room assignments until 2-4 weeks out, so we thought it would just be easier to wait until we (as well as anyone else who may have done guarantee rooms) had more of a chance of having an actual room number to add to the list.

 

[robinkeith1]

Have you guys (the parents) never been to WDW either??? Regardless, you guys will have such a blast there with your kids, I'm sure.

We're originally Californian's so we grew up having Disneyland as the place to go. SO, even though I've only been to WDW once and my hubby has never been, we feel like we've had the Magic Kingdom experience a bunch . Our oldest daughter (12) has been to Disneyland with us multiple times but since having the littlest kiddos we haven't been. This will be their first trips.

Is anyone else dressing up for Pirate Night?? I just got finished ordering costumes. Come on people....my husband will *die* if we're the only ones dressed up!! Help me out here!!

 

[mjmahnke]

OK, while we agreed to do the FINAL list on April 23(?) I think it would be helpful to do a preliminary count just so we can know about how many cabins are participating. Even if you have already mentioned it, please post if you are definitely participating, how many of you and ages in room and cabin number. I ordered my FE on ebay and got it yesterday and it is SO cute!

I'll start the list. We are definitely participating. We will just put one outside our sons cabin Chris 20 and Erick 19 and their cabin is 6305.

Haven't started working on door decorations yet. As everyone responds if they are participating, I'll start a list and we'll do a "last call" the week of the 15th with the final list being published April 23.

Mary

 

[robinkeith1]

Cabin 8554
Keith and Robin (35 and 36)
Mackenzie (12) girl
Kaden (2) boy
Ainsley (1) girl

 

[texaskate]

We all have guarantee rooms too, so we don't have our assignments yet. We will have 3 cabins participating. I just finished everyone's FE today! I don't sew and I am not the craftiest, but it was fun making them- my husband even helped!

We will have:

Cabin 1 (TBD):
Kate-33
Kurt-38
McKenna-11
Kyle-5

Cabin 2 (TBD):
Oma (German for "grandma")- 66
Opa (German for "grandpa")- 74

Cabin 3 (TBD):
Scott- 43
Theo- 42