08 DEC 2007 - 7 Day Eastern Magic

[MrsMork]

My son (16) is Staying home.. he.. umm.. wasn't invited..

DH & I are doing this one alone.. We are going on the Magic in Sept 08 with our son and family and maybe friends..

so a Playdate wont work for us.. but we will be at the deck party..

We are kidless also, but gathering as a group early does allow those with kids to let them get to know each other while we adults get to know each other also.

 

[pfishgirl]

i love children... if i could.. id be in the kiddie pool with them and in the play rooms i would.. maybe i can borrow someone's child..

 

[MrsMork]

i love children... if i could.. id be in the kiddie pool with them and in the play rooms i would.. maybe i can borrow someone's child..

Us too. We've taken DGKs on some of our cruises. This trip will be just us, but we will be with my sister's family and that will include 2 1 yos and one 13 yo.

 

[plutojudy]

Count us in for a first day meet.

 

[WIFamily]

i love children... if i could.. id be in the kiddie pool with them and in the play rooms i would.. maybe i can borrow someone's child..

Hmmmm, I've got four boys... we're always looking for volunteer parents

 

[MrsMork]

Hmmmm, I've got four boys... we're always looking for volunteer parents

We would never be volunteer parents, but we have on many occassion been volunteer GRANDPARENTS! It is just way, way more fun to be Grandparents than Parents. All the fun, none of the responsiblity! In fact, if we had known about all the perks we would have just skipped the parent phase and went right to grandparent phase! So, anybody that needs grandparents to spoil the kids for awhile let us know!

 

[RBennett]

I LOVE this thread!! We're getting more and more active the closer we get!!! Sign DW and I up for early meets! I also have another question and I figure some of you would know more than anyone. On Tuesday, the St. Maarten day, my DW and I are celebrating our anniversary AND it's Pirate Night!!! My question is do you think I'm trying to do too much in one day? So far I would LOVE to go to St. Maarten for a while and enjoy Orient Beach. I've heard the beach is BEAUTIFUL there, and then come back and maybe indulge in the Rasul room for some spa pampering, followed by dinner at Palo and then Pirate Night festivities. Is that too much? I want to have a great anniversary for DW but I don't want to be running around so much that we can't enjoy it. Opinions??

 

[MrsMork]

I LOVE this thread!! We're getting more and more active the closer we get!!! Sign DW and I up for early meets! I also have another question and I figure some of you would know more than anyone. On Tuesday, the St. Maarten day, my DW and I are celebrating our anniversary AND it's Pirate Night!!! My question is do you think I'm trying to do too much in one day? So far I would LOVE to go to St. Maarten for a while and enjoy Orient Beach. I've heard the beach is BEAUTIFUL there, and then come back and maybe indulge in the Rasul room for some spa pampering, followed by dinner at Palo and then Pirate Night festivities. Is that too much? I want to have a great anniversary for DW but I don't want to be running around so much that we can't enjoy it. Opinions??

I think that would be doable (is that a word??). You could get off the ship pretty early and have some beach time. The Rasul is how long??? I'm thinking no more than 90 min, right? So late afternoon Rasul and then early Palo dinner, spend a couple of hours doing that and then the pirate party is not until about 9:45. This is just me, but the time at the beach is not "running around", but is relaxing, and so is the Rasul time and Palo. You would just have to be mindful of the clock at the beach. I think it would be a fun day of celebrating the two of you. And may I add that your wife is a lucky woman to have you thinking of all these things to do for her. Which anniversary is this?

 

[RBennett]

I think that would be doable (is that a word??). You could get off the ship pretty early and have some beach time. The Rasul is how long??? I'm thinking no more than 90 min, right? So late afternoon Rasul and then early Palo dinner, spend a couple of hours doing that and then the pirate party is not until about 9:45. This is just me, but the time at the beach is not "running around", but is relaxing, and so is the Rasul time and Palo. You would just have to be mindful of the clock at the beach. I think it would be a fun day of celebrating the two of you. And may I add that your wife is a lucky woman to have you thinking of all these things to do for her. Which anniversary is this?

This will be our 3rd anniversary. We'll both be 27. I know, I know....still kids!! But that's what I was thinking too! If we go to the beach early, and then play it out like you said, I think that will work. And for an anniversary present I am going to book her one of the open cabana massages at CC and tell her about it that night. I'm also leaning towards booking the REAS and not telling her so that when we walk in the room she'll be surprised with the gift basket. And then book the doubloon excursion as well as maybe a tour on St. Thomas and she should have fun! Now I just need to find something for me, although making her happy makes me happy. What's the old saying, "if the woman ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." I learned that one EARLY!!

 

[MrsMork]

This will be our 3rd anniversary. We'll both be 27. I know, I know....still kids!! But that's what I was thinking too! If we go to the beach early, and then play it out like you said, I think that will work. And for an anniversary present I am going to book her one of the open cabana massages at CC and tell her about it that night. I'm also leaning towards booking the REAS and not telling her so that when we walk in the room she'll be surprised with the gift basket. And then book the doubloon excursion as well as maybe a tour on St. Thomas and she should have fun! Now I just need to find something for me, although making her happy makes me happy. What's the old saying, "if the woman ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." I learned that one EARLY!!

And you are a smart young man! You have learned early. By the way, we will celebrate our 40th anniversary this year and we are still kids too! Stay that way! Edited: I was only 20 when we celebrated our 3rd! Talk about a kid!

 

[RBennett]

So here's another question about St. Maarten. I know I've seen this thread in other places but I wanted to keep some activity going here and get people's opinions; is the shopping anything special in St. Maarten? I know there's an active thread right now saying snorkel in St. Thomas and shop in St. Maarten/St. Martin, but if you're going to St. Maarten for just a leisure day, is the shopping something you should try and do?

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

Edited by Jennifer

 

[RBennett]

I would highly recommend you do the couples open-air cabana massage on Castaway Cay. You mentioned just her, you need to do it too! We were celebrating our 10th Anniversary on our last November cruise. So, we wanted to do something just us, no kids. It was sooooooooo relaxing! Neither one of us had ever had a "professional" massage before. Now we are hooked, we want to do it again on CC.

Jennifer

I'm wondering if I would enjoy it that much though. I thought we could go snorkeling that morning before everything gets churned up and then that afternoon she could have the massage to relax from the snorkeling and I would just enjoy sitting out on the adult beach relaxing. If there are any guys here let me know if you've tried these/enjoyed it!!

 

[Buzz & Woody]

Hi Everyone
I just wanted to let you know that a new yahoo group is ready to go. If this thread get's as big as the Dec 9, 2006 one then it ends up getting hard to keep track of our new friends etc. To subscribe to the group send an email to : disney_magic_2008-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
or to visit the group see it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disney_magic_2008/
Hope to see you there!
Holly (Buzz & Woody)

 

[Buzz & Woody]

We're in 6544 and our parents are in 6543. They refused to take a verandah, so I'll let them look at ours from inside the room, but not let them step out on it. j/k. I plan on seeing if there are any open when we get to the port on the 8th, and if it's less than $1000 to upgrade, I'll probably spring for it, and surprise them.

Another 10 months or so,,,, HURRY!

we had 6543 for our first disney cruise! great location

 

[MrsMork]

I'm wondering if I would enjoy it that much though. I thought we could go snorkeling that morning before everything gets churned up and then that afternoon she could have the massage to relax from the snorkeling and I would just enjoy sitting out on the adult beach relaxing. If there are any guys here let me know if you've tried these/enjoyed it!!

My DH AKA DrHug loves the massages! Last cruise he got a massage and I did not! What's with that??

 

[RBennett]

My DH AKA DrHug loves the massages! Last cruise he got a massage and I did not! What's with that??

Ok....that's just WRONG!!! How could he get a massage and not let you get one?! You tell him next time you need 2 to make up for it!!

 

[pfishgirl]

Hmmmm, I've got four boys... we're always looking for volunteer parents

Do I get to give them Back ??

 

[pfishgirl]

I LOVE this thread!! We're getting more and more active the closer we get!!! Sign DW and I up for early meets! I also have another question and I figure some of you would know more than anyone. On Tuesday, the St. Maarten day, my DW and I are celebrating our anniversary AND it's Pirate Night!!! My question is do you think I'm trying to do too much in one day? So far I would LOVE to go to St. Maarten for a while and enjoy Orient Beach. I've heard the beach is BEAUTIFUL there, and then come back and maybe indulge in the Rasul room for some spa pampering, followed by dinner at Palo and then Pirate Night festivities. Is that too much? I want to have a great anniversary for DW but I don't want to be running around so much that we can't enjoy it. Opinions??

Yup... you fit in PERFECT !!!

 

[MrsMork]

Ok....that's just WRONG!!! How could he get a massage and not let you get one?! You tell him next time you need 2 to make up for it!!

Actually I encouraged it. We did not plan to either get any treatments this trip, but we were at the Rainforest and his shoulder/neck had been bothering him since our flight from OR - 8days earlier. He mentioned it when we were checking out of the spa and one of the therapist told him he should get at least the half body massage and let them work on that area. I said that would be great, but getting an appt at that late time would likely be impossible. She said she would be happy to check and they did have an appt for noon the next day - a sea day! So we booked it for him and it did help him ALOT and made the trip better for both of us.