06/24/2006 - Special Western Cruise - Who Else!?

Enjoy your cruise!!!! Doingitagain, tell Lorie (Musicgirl), Bill and Andrew, HI :wave2: from her brother and sister-in-law (Eric and Tami) in Pville, Ohio! You all have a drink for us, :drinking:, lots of parties - party: Try not to let Lorie be to hyper on you - :hyper::laughing:, while we are here doing housework - :laundy:!

Seriously, have a great time!!!
 
Here's a link to the Magic sailing out the PC channel and also sailing by the Two Palms cam on 6-24-06. Here's wishing everyone a MAGICal week!!!

Disney Magic Pics 6-24-06


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I last visited on 6-21, Oh how I wish it were....6-21 again!!

Had an awesome time meeting so many of you!!!!

Jillpie and I are already thinking June 2008 Eastern. Marie how about you?? I know you are doing the Med., But we had sooooo much fun!!!

I truly hope I can squeeze in one in 6-2008. We all love it, but college is just around the corner. Come on lottery and scholarship!!!!
 

OK.....how about this for a fun trip home story? (I know I saw a bunch of you at the airport.....I was too stressed to talk about it then, but it's over and we're home how.) DS-6, who seemed to be feeling perfectly fine all morning, very quietly announced when we were about 20 minutes away from Port Canaveral that he thinks he's going to throw up. Having seen at least a couple other 5-7 year olds throw up on deck during the week, I didn't bother to even question whether he could wait until we could reach a gas station.....I pulled over immediately (like 70 to 0 in 30 seconds or less).....alas.....not quick enough. Quick enough for the siblings to get out of the rental van, but not DS-6. We started digging through the trunk for semi-clean clothes, wipes to clean the van, etc. I stripped him down to his underwear on the side of the road and got him changed. DH continued to clean the van.....but wait.....the story doesn't end there. Next thing I know DS-6 is jumping up and down crying and slapping at his legs. He'd been standing on a fire ant nest. I pick him up, pull off the long pants and continue to kill ants. Now ants are all over the van, so we go on an ant killing spree. At this point, the other 2 kids are standing on the pavement out of fear of being in the weeds near the fire ants, which makes me even more crazy as traffic on 528 is wizzing by at 70+. Anyway, we all got back into the rental van which actually cleaned up surprisingly well. Shortly after that I saw all of you near the Airport food court.....sorry I wasn't too social.....I was pretty stressed by then and just praying that we'd make it home without anyone else vomiting in awkward places. Good news is that we did.....DS is now much better.....his biggest problem is I wouldn't let him eat or drink all day, so he's feeling pretty appreciative for the saltines and water he's now enjoying.

I'll have to think about June 2008 another day! I'm just happy to be home now! :thumbsup2
 
Just wanted to say how great it was to meet everyone. Me too!!
We had an amazing cruise, even though the weather could have been better.

Sorry we didn't get to meet up with everyone, but to those we did--and you know who you are--you made our cruise so much more enjoyable. For anyone still on vacation--enjoy it.

Beth
 
Hi everyone! :wave: We are so sad that it's all over :sad1: but looking foward to something new. It was so nice meeting everyone at the sail-away :boat: and we hope everyone had a wonderful time. We listed our trip report on Marie's (Doingitagain) live post, she did a great job with the live post. YEAH!!! Hope to ready about everyones trip. :surfweb:

To our Beaches and Cream Dis-Club, :mickeybar (Musicgirl, Buzzlightyear3, Jillpie, Doingitagain) it was fun, keep in touch and let us know when you will be at WDW and we'll try to meet! :tinker:
 
Hi all :wave:

We are back home. I hate that we missed meeting most of you. DS schedule just was not on the DIS schedule :( I am glad that we finally got to meet a few of you at Serenity Bay the 2nd CC stop. I had planned to go to Rockin Bar D with you all that night but ended up packing till 1 am :guilty:

How was the Costa Maya meet? We went off the ship to join you and it started pouring, so we got right back on waited the rain out, DS went down for a nap and by then it was too late to go to the beach @ Maj so we circled the shops and went back to the ship.
 
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Serenity Bay on our 2nd CC stop :sunny:
 
carole88 said:
Safe trip Charla. Weird how you can't cancel your excursion.

Wanted to follow up on this one....I couldn't cxl my excursion online the night before we left....Wed. night. Called DCL the next day (Thurs) from the airport. The response was that the cutoff is 11:59 pm ET, I'm CT and was on past that time which is why I couldn't cxl. I questioned why I couldn't cxl because the policy is supposed to be w/in 48 hrs of commencement and we couldn't get on the ship at 11:59 ET Friday night (Thought to myself... the boat hasn't even reached PC by then). The CM spoke with a supervisor and after a few minutes hold he came back and said it was taken care of w/ no penalty :cheer2:
 
I posted this on the "tipping" thread and thought I would add it here, also.

We just got back from the 6/24/06 Magic cruise. We had a concierge suite, and our teens spent a lot of time in the Stack. I know that concierge and the counselors cannot receive cash tips.

Before our trip, I took a picture created by Musicgirl (thanks, Lorie!). It was a picture of the Magic from a previous cruise. Musicgirl added our names and the words "Double Dip" and the June 24, 2006 date to the picture. I uploaded the picture to Walmart.com and for eighty-eight cents each, I created gift cards with this picture. I then loaded them with various denominations and used them for tipping the positions which cannot receive cash. I also tucked some in with our thank you cards and cash tips as "extra" for special services. I taped the receipt to the back of each just to make sure they wouldn't have problems using them.

The gift cards can be used at a Walmart store (I checked, they do have a bus to Walmart every Saturday for CMs) or online at walmart.com (they could order something and have it shipped to themselves or their family).

They were well received. Concierge did tell me that they checked with their manager and they were given permission to keep them. They had mentioned that sometimes they couldn't keep gift cards (particularly if they were money cards like VISA gift cards). I am not sure why they worked ... perhaps because these had a special design specific to our trip, or because they were Walmart ... but I am glad they did.
 
Well, I can't believe it is over. The week went by so fast and we had a blast. Being with a very large group, we did not have a chance to mingle. We have tons of memories and photos. Thanks for sharing ideas and plans, we all learned from each other and being prepared helps to make the cruise more enjoyable. For those who were at the Rockin D Bar for the adult ventriloquist show, Clara and Pepe are my in-laws. They had a blast and enjoyed the attention. We will be on another cruise in June or July of 2008. The dates are not yet released so we are temporarily booked the last week of 2007 and will switch when the dates and itineraries are announced. So long for now and I wont wait so long before joining the next sailing group of Disers. Time to get ready to start a new countdown. :hourglass :wave2:
 

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