06/11/05 7- Night West Coast Cruise

[JanetMB]

Some thoughts on Digital photo sharing and management while on the cruise.

Wondering if we brought our card reader, or upload cord from our camera we could load our pic's (or a few anyway) onto a web server, ie: webshots or fotki? It seems as though the folks on the repo cruise are using picture cell phones and sending them to a diser back home. There is little cell coverage though out on the deep blue sea. Any thoughts on this?

From what I've read there is no way to upload any photos or data to the onboard computers. Someone was asking about sending something for work and they said DCL said there was no way to upload it (CD, USB, etc.). It would be nice, though!

BTW, we're in Rancho Bernardo. Small world

 

[dizneygirl]

Hi There,
No, I haven't gotten the password yet. I'll see if I have some pictures of us we can put on here too!

Anyone have any teens going on this cruise? My son is 13 and is looking forward to meeting some new friends!

Anyone know anything about the Holiday Inn in San Pedro? That's where we are staying before getting on the ship. They don't have a park and cruise option though. Anyone know of any hotels that do? I checked into a couple that I saw on here but a lot of the hotels are already sold out for that weekend.

Thanks!
dizneygirl

 

[tikihut4]

Anyone have any teens going on this cruise? My son is 13 and is looking forward to meeting some new friends!

Anyone know anything about the Holiday Inn in San Pedro? That's where we are staying before getting on the ship. They don't have a park and cruise option though.
Thanks!
dizneygirl

Hi Dizneygirl,
I have a son 14.5, (15 in October). He's a great kid (if I may say so myself). At any rate, plan on coming to our dis-meet and they can "hook-up". I showed my son the on-line pictures from "The Stack", and his reply, . . ."coooooool!" It's been 3 years since we've been on the Magic and then all they had for teens was a coffee shop type hang out. He's thrilled that this has plasma screens and a dance floor. Let me know if you'd be comfortable having them instant message before we leave. Just PM me your e-mail address.

Do you all want to share cabin #'s? It would be fun if we decide to do some sort of game or such?

I'm getting excited!!

Tami

 

[tikihut4]

Monstro, where are you? Haven't a post in awhile? Not that I should talk . . . but, you're usually so faithful!

Tami

 

[Monstro]

Monstro, where are you? Haven't a post in awhile? Not that I should talk . . . but, you're usually so faithful!

Tami

Thanks for the concern. I'm still here. We've just been busy with my daughter's soccer. Her team won the 12 year old premier division tonight. We played the team that was one point ahead of us in the standings. If we lost - we take second. We won 1 -0. It was very exciting. Nikki, my daughter was one of the game MVP's. The state tournement starts tomorrow. I'm sure the championship game will be a rematch of tonights game. Too much fun!!!

I told Nicole she can say "I'm going on a Dsiney Cruise" after she wins the State Cup championship. She didn't get it.

 

[pppiglet]

How's everyone doing? Seems like the boards have had less activity lately. Guess everyone is getting all their last minute stuff taken care of. Even the Live Thread has slowed and not as many posting as I thought would. Just wanted to get us back up on page 1! Have a nice week!

Debbie

 

[Stinasmom]

Still out here...counting down!
It seems I have most of my questions answered and am finding a lot of the postings redundant...as if I am some expert! I have never even cruised before!!
Still waiting for docs...at least with being able to view it all online now, I am not worried.
Mentally packing...which outfits for me, the kids... Got a dress back from alterations today. Not a gown, but a fun cocktail dress for formal night. Anyone else going really formal? Gown&tux?

We are staying at the Sheraton right there in San Pedro the night before...anyone else?

It has been fun to hear from the Repo cruisers. Funny how they are posting so sporatically....I suspect that sitting at a computer isn't the funnest thing one can do on the Disney Magic! Maybe after they have all been on the ship for 10 days or more, they'll spend more time filling us in! (and now that they don't have to sleep in lines overnight to get some pins!!)

I liked the idea the Repo cruisers had to have a "progressive stateroom" tour where at a designated time, our group could visit each others staterooms to see the differences. We are in a Cat. 9 (upgrade courtesy of my MIL!!)....anyone get the Walt Disney Suite??
TTFN!
Marcy

 

[lkohawaii]

Dawn and I got our Documents today. It was kind of a let down after all we've read here. Our tags our just yellow. I thought they were supposed to be designed with characters? Anyway, as if Disney knew we were really dissapointed a few minutes later the FED EX truck pulled up with my DL tickets. Now, that was in a nice gold shiny box. That made me excited to go. Poor Dawn has been waiting all night to get hers. Hopefully hers will arrive tommorow. Can't wait to meet all of you. My family actually started packing last night. We leave in early June though.

 

[tikihut4]

Hi everyone, We finally got our Doc's yesterday! Question for those of you that have been on the magic in the past (This is actually our 3rd sailing on the Magic, but it's been 3 years). Is is alright for the guys to wear "nice" shorts and a short sleeved button down shirt to the regular night dinners? I seem to remember my guys (son 11 and husband) wearing nice shorts. Nice, meaning resort type . . . Tommy Bahama-ish. Any feed back??

Thanks,
Tami

P.S. Have you all seen the pic's of our beautiful ship going through the Locs of the Panama Canal? So cool . . . now that would have been an experience!

Adios,
Tami

 

[pppiglet]

I guess some will wear shorts, but the dress code says " no shorts at dinner " (lunch time is ok). I guess on casual nights it is ok to wear jeans now (although the time we are sailing it will be too hot for them!) My DS will be wearing his dickies for casual nights and suit for semi and formal nights. My DH most likely will wear Dockers for casual. Me....skirts or capris. I haven't been on the Magic before, so just going by the rules.

I did watch the ship going thru the canal yesterday. It was great. I callled in to work and told them I was running late so I could stay home at watch it. (didn't tell them that though, they wouldn't understand!)

 

[Monstro]

I asked my wife - because she pays attention to those things - she says that they really frown on shorts at dinner.

 

[JanetMB]

We got our docs too. Can't believe it's just three weeks away!

We're having passport issues. Monday we got notes in the mail informing us that Natalie and Sophie's photos were too exposed and we needed to submit new photos. We had them taken at a Post Office passport center where we applied - you'd think they'd know what the requirements are! Anyway, we rushed to Costco and got much nice photos (and much cheaper - $5 compared to $15) and sent the application back in. I hope they get here in time since we had to turn in their birth certificates in with the application! There was a big note on the outside with the departure date so I'm guessing they'll process it pretty quickly. If not we'll have to go to the county office and get new birth certificates. Luckily Bob and I already have passports - we weren't born in San Diego and getting new birth certificates would much more of a pain.

We're trying to decide what time to get to the ship. It will take us less than two hours to drive there so we just need to decide when to leave.

-Janet

 

[lkohawaii]

Aggie00 - Please pm me with your name. I have DH's name and your DIS name but no name on the tag. I'm the one making the name tags. I'm leaving in a week and a half. Man time flew by. I always thought I had so much time and the time is almost here.

Bfayne- If you're out there PM me the names of the people traveling in your party so I can make you name tags too.

I'll see everybody in about 3 weeks.

 

[lkohawaii]

Anyone interested in DIS tag? I think that's what you call it. You know where you put the green Dis Magnet on someone's door. Dawn researched it so I'll get more details from her if we're interested. I have the database from the name tags so I'll bring it along with me and I guess we'll get room numbers at the DIS meets if enough people are interested. Of course I'll make the magnet too.

Also, if someone is willing to organize a "cabin viewing" like they're doing on the repo cruise Dawn and I are willing to show our cabins. We're in a cat 11 on deck 7...if that matters. Dawn is really hoping for an upgrade.

O.K. so post and let me know what you think of both ideas.

 

[JanetMB]

Anyone interested in DIS tag? I think that's what you call it. You know where you put the green Dis Magnet on someone's door. Dawn researched it so I'll get more details from her if we're interested. I have the database from the name tags so I'll bring it along with me and I guess we'll get room numbers at the DIS meets if enough people are interested. Of course I'll make the magnet too.

Also, if someone is willing to organize a "cabin viewing" like they're doing on the repo cruise Dawn and I are willing to show our cabins. We're in a cat 11 on deck 7...if that matters. Dawn is really hoping for an upgrade.

O.K. so post and let me know what you think of both ideas.

I am hoping to find time to make magnets to decorate our door but we'll have to see. I'm in the middle of trying to finish writing my dissertation and I'm pretty overwhelmed right now. I'm sooo looking forward to taking a break on the cruise! I'm not sure what DIS tag is, though. Is it just tag with a door magnet?

We're in Cat 10 on deck 2. We had booked Cat 12 guarantee but our room assignment listed on the Disney site is at Cat. 10 so I guess we got a small upgrade. The split bath will be nice. Not sure DH would want me to invite everyone to our room but maybe once he meets everyone he'd be OK with it.

My girls are getting very excited, especially Natalie. Every time I'm on the computer she wants me to show her the cruise site and all the things she gets to do!

-Janet

 

[Stinasmom]

Hi fellow cruisers...
I am all for DIS tag and even have a great program and magnetic paper for my printer to make the mickey head (as DIS green as I want too!). So, check it off the list.
We are in a Cat. 9, deck 2. So far from what I know, we have people in 6,9,10, and 11. I would love to see a cat. 7 navigators Verandah...Anyone?
Still no docs yet. But that doesn't mean time has stopped!
We still have less than 3 weeks!!!

 

[Grandma Debby]

We're on deck 7 in a category 5 with a verandah and would love to take tours of other categories (especially a 1, 2 or 3) and DIS tag sounds fun. My granddaughter is bringing COlorado keychains to trade with the other kids (big or small). We will be in Disneyland from June 8th until we board on the 11th; is anyone else going early?

 

[Dawnee]

We're on deck 7 in a category 5 with a verandah and would love to take tours of other categories (especially a 1, 2 or 3) and DIS tag sounds fun. My granddaughter is bringing COlorado keychains to trade with the other kids (big or small). We will be in Disneyland from June 8th until we board on the 11th; is anyone else going early?

We're (lkohawaii and I) are bringing postcards and key chains. lkohawaii will be at DL from the 6th, and me from the 8th. My in-laws live in CA so they'll be coming down for a visit while we're there. Which hotel are you staying at Grandma Debby?

 

[lkohawaii]

We're on deck 7 in a category 5 with a verandah and would love to take tours of other categories (especially a 1, 2 or 3) and DIS tag sounds fun. My granddaughter is bringing COlorado keychains to trade with the other kids (big or small). We will be in Disneyland from June 8th until we board on the 11th; is anyone else going early?

Grandma Debby...we may be close to you since we're on deck 7 also. How many key chains are you bringing. Dawn and I keep going back and forth on how many to bring. We don't want to bring too little but don't want to bring to many either.

 

[tikihut4]

Now . . . sounds like some fun things are getting started! Please let me know the quanity of key chains/post cards we should bring. My daughter would love the key chain x-change, as the kids have oodles of them hanging from their backpacks.

Dis-tag sounds like fun too. On the Repo cruise there were some talking about a thing they hung on their door to put notes and goodies in. ?? If they made it, I don't have the time, but sounds like fun. The magnet would be as well, just have it traveling from stateroom to stateroom. Those little surprises really are a kick! Stinamom, did you see the photo of one in the signature on a frequent poster on the May Repo Thread? It's too cute. If not let me know, and I'll try to find it again.

Having a tour would be cool as well, I'm fine with that. We're Catagory 4 deck 8.

After reading the repo cruise thread, sounds like the Pacific can be a bit rougher than the waters of the Caribbean. Perhaps we'll bring Meclizine this time. We never needed it in the past. Is anyone getting a patch? On our last 2 Magic cruises, there was only one time that I felt any movement of the ship at all, and it was very slight.

Been shopping a bit, and doing some gathering, in pre packing planning stage. LOVE it that we're not flying this time.

Toodles,
Tami