10/02/04 Antigua Cruise

[Izza]

Eric,

Thank you for the list.

Question for anyone: Who came up with Cruisetoberfest? Is there any reason behind it other than the timing?

Just curious.

 

[jeanneg]

Welcome, Izza......glad to see you're jumping right in!

Eric: you just conjoured up an old memory of mine....someday (preferably over a long beer!) I'll tell you a funny story about the experience hubby and I had concerning the London Imperial War Museum! Good luck (UGH!) with your root canal.....I'm supposed to get one of those also, but mine is asymtomatic right now so I've been putting it off for the time being.

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Eric - thanks for the new list. Do love the tropical Mickey. I feel for you with the tooth. Hopefully it won't flare up while you're away. I know how unpleasant that is.

We just had snow flurries here this afternoon. How depressing. I don't think that it will stay long but just looking at it out the window does not conjure up springtime or warmth.

As Kim posted come join us for dinner -- we are a great bunch who had a wonderful time. One of our (Jim and I) fondest memories of the cruises are getting together at dinner and finding out how everyone's day went.

Back to work.

Fiona

 

[bettemom]

Hey Eric,

I feed squirrels, how come I did not get a new list ??????

Bye, Kim

 

[Twinave]

Eric, Thanks for my special list. Have a great time in the UK. Oh, I may live in the South, but I'm from New York!!
Welcome again to Izza and family! Hope the list helps you sort us all out. As for the Cruisetoberfest theme, that was before my time. LOL One of the original Cruisetoberfesters will have to tell you the story.
Kim, I look forward to hearing about your progress.
jeanniec, I will let you know about Jester. I haven't met a Patterson book yet that I didn't finish. Right now I'm reading Nicholas Sparks, The Guardian.

Got lots to do!

Later, Ave'

 

[Hygiene99]

I dont know how many times Jen has said it .....

ONLY BRUSH THE ONE'S U WANT TO KEEP......

.......MAY 15TH MAY 15TH MAY15TH ........


HUMMM.......

OH THAT IS 2 DAYS AFTER MY 38TH BIRTHDAY.....

KIM is there going to be lots of help....????????

Eric have we thought about adding the dcl emblem to the design
or Mike ??????????


We will not make it to DC meet thanks for the phone call PAPA .... would Love to do the things u have mentioned but
I have actually been .... but Jen has not .....

CHANGING Of The Guard At The Tomb Of The Unknow Soldier is breath taking .... also alot of other things to see at the Cemetery.... it would be about a 12 hour ride for us.....


Feeling sad today Peter

 

[RellingTwin]

Izza...the story of "Cruisetoberfest"

WAY Back in early 2001 I booked the 9/22/01 7 night Magic cruise. I then began e-mailing others on this board who were sailing at the same time. Before long we had about 20 families who were sailing with us. As the sail date got closer we started talking about getting some T-Shirts made, planning some get togethers, ect. Eric (Viking) mentioned that 9/22/01 was the official beginning of Octoberfest in Germany. Since many of the original group were of German desent, we ( I can't remember who's idea it was) coined the phase "Cruisetoberfest". Our T-shirts said CRUISETOBERFEST on the front, and "WE AIN'T AFRAID OF NO HURRICAIN" on the back.
By the time we sailed we had over 100 internet friends to meet up with. The sailing took place just 11 days after the 9/11 attack and we were worried our German friends might not be able to make the trip, but almost all of us made it (a few folks dropped out due to the terrorist attack)! One of the group bought 100 American Flags for us all to wave at the sail a-way party.
We sailed again the following year (9/28/02) with about 5 families from the previous year (We called that cruise "CruisEars") and of course many other "New" friends. Once again we had over 100 people to enjoy our cruise with.
Then we heard from Eric and Anja...they were sailing again!!!So CRUISETOBERFEST II was born! Now we added some original CF(Cruisetoberfest I), and some CE(CruisEars) and we had a
"(Re)union Of Friends". Once again a FANTASTIC time was had by all! Last year Eric and Anja had said it would be a few years before they sailed again....BUT!!!!!THEY WON A 7 NIGHT CRUISE WHILE ON BOARD....SO...Cruisetoberfest III was born!

Papa...Mike and Kathy
@GoofyNut...Art and Cathy
and me RellingTwin...George and Mary (plus kids) have been on all the cruises,
Many more TwinAve,PADisneyFan,CheesePlease, Dan&Scott, CDMickeyLover,Hygiene99,Piglet33,SarahsMom,VideoMan,TuliRose,BetteMom (please forgive me if I've missed anyone!!) have been on (or are now booked) on 2 or more cruises.
Each time with old friends and new we have a fantastic vacation!

This might be a good time to mention that we in NO WAY want to "take over" anyone's vacation! We do NOT expect anyone to join any get together they don't want too, or feel obligated in ANY WAY!It's great to say hello to everyone at the sail-a-way party, then say hello when you run into them on board. As my very smart sister said "you ARE going to be on board with 2000 people.....you might as well get to know some of them before hand"
For people with children it has the added bonus of having pre-made playmates. The kids get to meet either via e-mail or at the Friday night before we sail and feel right at home with their new friends!For shy kids like my DD this was a real blessing!

Boy oh boy!!! I didn't mean to ramble on so!

Anyway...for Izza and anyone else who was wondering, that's my story and I sticking to it!

 

[Izza]

That's a great story. I feel priveleged to be welcomed so openly by you all when you've been together for so long.

For what it's worth, I love the name. My great-grandmother was full-blooded German, and some day I plan to go over and see where that side of my family comes from.

I'm so excited about this trip, nervous about how the boys will react, and feeling a lot lighter in the wallet.

 

[padisneyfan]

WELCOME TO IZZA AND FAMILY

We will pass on the May 15th siding party as we will leaving on our Navigator of the Sea cruise that day.

Just finished watching American Idol, what a long 2 hours. I just am not into it this year. I did think LaToya and Amy did the best tonight.

I think Survivor is on Wed night. So will have to be flipping between Survior and American Idol results show. I want to see Kimberly Locke sing. I can get the results from AI by tuning in the last 2 minutes, since they drag that on and on for 1 hour tomorrow.

Nancy

 

[Viking]

Originally posted by RellingTwin
Izza...the story of "Cruisetoberfest"

WAY Back in early 2001 I booked the 9/22/01 7 night Magic cruise. I then began e-mailing others on this board who were sailing at the same time. Before long we had about 20 families who were sailing with us. As the sail date got closer we started talking about getting some T-Shirts made, planning some get togethers, ect. Eric (Viking) mentioned that 9/22/01 was the official beginning of Octoberfest in Germany. Since many of the original group were of German desent, we ( I can't remember who's idea it was) coined the phase "Cruisetoberfest". Our T-shirts said CRUISETOBERFEST on the front, and "WE AIN'T AFRAID OF NO HURRICAIN" on the back.
By the time we sailed we had over 100 internet friends to meet up with. The sailing took place just 11 days after the 9/11 attack and we were worried our German friends might not be able to make the trip, but almost all of us made it (a few folks dropped out due to the terrorist attack)! One of the group bought 100 American Flags for us all to wave at the sail a-way party.
We sailed again the following year (9/28/02) with about 5 families from the previous year (We called that cruise "CruisEars") and of course many other "New" friends. Once again we had over 100 people to enjoy our cruise with.
Then we heard from Eric and Anja...they were sailing again!!!So CRUISETOBERFEST II was born! Now we added some original CF(Cruisetoberfest I), and some CE(CruisEars) and we had a
"(Re)union Of Friends". Once again a FANTASTIC time was had by all! Last year Eric and Anja had said it would be a few years before they sailed again....BUT!!!!!THEY WON A 7 NIGHT CRUISE WHILE ON BOARD....SO...Cruisetoberfest III was born!

Papa...Mike and Kathy
@GoofyNut...Art and Cathy
and me RellingTwin...George and Mary (plus kids) have been on all the cruises,
Many more TwinAve,PADisneyFan,CheesePlease, Dan&Scott, CDMickeyLover,Hygiene99,Piglet33,SarahsMom,VideoMan,TuliRose,BetteMom (please forgive me if I've missed anyone!!) have been on (or are now booked) on 2 or more cruises.
Each time with old friends and new we have a fantastic vacation!

This might be a good time to mention that we in NO WAY want to "take over" anyone's vacation! We do NOT expect anyone to join any get together they don't want too, or feel obligated in ANY WAY!It's great to say hello to everyone at the sail-a-way party, then say hello when you run into them on board. As my very smart sister said "you ARE going to be on board with 2000 people.....you might as well get to know some of them before hand"
For people with children it has the added bonus of having pre-made playmates. The kids get to meet either via e-mail or at the Friday night before we sail and feel right at home with their new friends!For shy kids like my DD this was a real blessing!

Boy oh boy!!! I didn't mean to ramble on so!

Anyway...for Izza and anyone else who was wondering, that's my story and I sticking to it!

It all started with a thread on the Boards when I asked "Who's cruising?" and after Mary's initial 'recruiting' the group grew faster and faster. They guy who came up with Cruisetoberfest was Jerry Wiese/DVCNut, who also had German roots. The thread ran for about 9 months. Cruisetoberfest II's thread ran for nearly two years until it was closed due to its sailing date not being in the future.
Our fondest memory - and the cornerstone for a wonderful friendship- was that after not knowing, if we were able to make it to the USA, we already had people waiting out for us. Anja & I were on one of the first aircraft leaving for the states after 9/11. We took off on 9/15 and we we arrived at the AllStarMovies -without our luggage, which was still in Philadelphia- we already had an email waiting for us from Mike (Papa) and the next day we had another message on our voicemail. It made us feel so welcome!!! And all the others sent their best, too. It was really overwhelming.
As some of us were survivors of Hurricane Floyd at WDW in '99 we came up with that slogan.

 

[Viking]

Originally posted by bettemom
Hey Eric,

I feed squirrels, how come I did not get a new list ??????

Bye, Kim

Perhaps the squirrels ate it

Stop the kidding, Viking *

*That was my conscience speaking**

** Didn't know that I had one

Kim,
I received a mail from your and from Bernandjon@hotmail.com's account stating that the size of The List exceeded the size of your mailboxes
There's two solutions:
-Get a bigger mailbox (Being male I definitely know: Bigger is better )
-I could send a 'cheap' version of The List w/o all the graphics.

The List has grown to a size of ~700kb. After having a DSL-line for 5 years now I 'forgot' to care about filesize (Remember: Bigger is better).
For everybody:
just tell me your preferences:
-Full version as a Word.doc (No reply necessary)
-Full version as a PDF (Please reply, if there's anyone aport from Ave' who prefers this one
-Down-sized Word.doc (Please reply)

I'll try to cater to all your needs with the next revision. BTW, I will do a drastically reduced version in September anyway. This one will fit on one double-sided sheet and is meant to be your 'extended memory' on the ship, facilitating to adress your new friends correctly and to save you embarrassing moments ('Who the he** was this now' )

 

[bettemom]

Hi Eric,

Use this e-mail please kjmcbirde@attbi.com , size will not be an issue with this account.

Thanks, Kim



Peter...

Sorry it is still a sad day hopefully each day is getting a little better...

Who knows how many will show up, as in anything you have to plan for everyone and then punt, we could have 15-20 people or 3 people. By 5/15 we will have all the old boards off and the new trim and tyvek house wrap up. So all we have to do on that Saturday is measure and chalk out the lines for the siding and nail those boards up.

I am making a continental Breakfast ( muffins, coffee & fruit) and doing a steak sandwich barbecue for lunch ( veggies & chicken for non meat eaters) and desert.

One of my friends coming is an experienced builder and I have been talking with another builder friend and he went over the stepd for good installation of the siding. So hopefully we will be all set...

Off to work

Bye, Kim

 

[jeanniec]

Nancy -- Are you sure that AI is going to be on for an hour tonight? Our TV guide shows that it is on from 8:30 to 9 only which presents a real problem since Survivor is on from 8 to 9 which means that winners (or losers) will be chosen at approximately the same time. I know AI was on for an hour last week which was great because then you could watch the last half-hour without missing anything on Survivor.

 

[padisneyfan]

jeanniec--- I thought it was only going to be on from 8:30-9pm also, but several people from work said it was to be an hour. When there have been guest artist the past 2 weeks (Rueban and Clay) the results show was an hour. Since Kimberly is singing tonight, it might be an hour. I guess we won't know until tonight since it seems no one knows for sure. Last week is when I caught the rerun of Apprentice, Survivor and AI all at the same time but channel surfing. I will soon need one of those tivo machines.

The community boards have an apprentice spoiler on them. I have avoided opening the article as not sure I want to know who the final 2 are. However, each time I go by it I am tempted to open it up.

Well, I must get to work.

Nancy

 

[jeanneg]

Eric: I also use hotmail so my mailbox has a very limited capacity. If it's not too much trouble, the downgraded version of Word (no graphics) would be alot safer. I try to clean out my email every day, but sometimes people send large photos or I'll be out of town for a few days and I notice that things start to get bounced back. Of course when we move, I plan to ditch our dreadful dial-up service but I still have a few more months to go. Thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into keeping us so well informed.

 

[Sarah'sMomfrom PA]

From what people are telling me at work, Survivor is a "recap" show tonight--I will watch it anyway just to make sure.

Nancy...I can't believe that you would chose a RCCL cruise over the siding party at Kim's....the steak sandwiches do sound good at Kim's!!! Sam is off that weekend but I don't know if we could make it or not...plus don't know if you would actually want Sam to use a hammer???

Called my kennel yesterday and she can't take the dog the week that we are on the cruise...her and her husband run the kennel and both are elderly and she wanted to take that week off to rest up after the summer busy season....I am hoping a bribe of extra money would help since this is the only kennel that I like using.

By the way.....Sarah is cruising with us!!!

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Glad to hear that Sarah is cruising. Was wondering when I saw the list but then maybe I misread it.

Not sure about the siding party but the food sounds good.

I've heard Survivor is a recap show too. Watched a bit of AI last night but got frustrated with so many commercials. Thought Jennifer Hudson looked way different with her hair straightened. Since I only saw bits and pieces can't really say who I liked the best.

Waiting for The Apprentice tomorrow. I do not want to know who are the final two. Hoping I think for Troy and Amy.

Back to work.

Fiona

 

[Viking]

Not a mistake:
Sarah was put on 'No cruising' because I was told by MaryJo that Sarah wouldn't accompany her, but I'll happily put her back on 'cruising'.

Folks,
please send your List-requests (PDF or down-sized Word-file) to our mail-account. It would be tedious work to extract that info from the thread, thank you.

 

[Viking]

Originally posted by bettemom
Hi Eric,

Use this e-mail please kjmcbirde@attbi.com , size will not be an issue with this account.

Thanks, Kim

Kim,
I took the liberty to change that adress to kjmcbride@attbi.com, it may make it easier for the List to get to you
I have a tip for you: Whenever you have problems spelling your name you may either lay off the booze or just copy it from your passport or driver's license

 

[Sarah'sMomfrom PA]

Eric....you must have had a dream sequence because I never told you that Sarah wasn't cruising....I have not raised a stupid child....she gets pulled out of school...mom and dad pay for a 7 day cruise plus all of the extras...night at Ron Jon...a few days at the Royal Pacific Hotel at Universal and she would refuse to cruise...no way...we kid her that she has more money than us..she gets money each week for lunch...she conveniently doesn't have time to eat lunch and when she gets home, she asks Sam to go and get her something because she is starving!! (which he ends up paying for!!) In the mean time, she has pocketed her lunch money!!

We are also going to Colorado and Utah for two weeks in August but she doesn't consider that a vacation because she really doesn't want to go there!! At least we'll be knocking another two states off of our list (I am determined to do all 50 states before I die and I am off to a good start!!) We only have about 17 to go and alot of those are states with not much happening (Iowa, Kansas, etc.!!)