10/02/04 Antigua Cruise

[Viking]

Storm or not storm - I had to get #4300.
NahNahNahNahNahNahNah - You let another chance pass, Ciara

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Eric you have an uncanny ability to get the milestone posts.

Jim forgot to mention that he's also made the grocery list for the drive down as well.

I think he's taken to list training rather well actually.

We did not win the big lottery here last Friday night $26 million (ok it's Cdn not US but still we have no tax on the winnings). This means that we are still in our Cat 11 cabin and not in the Roy Disney suite -- to which we'd invite all of our friends of course!

Back to work

Fiona

 

[Twinave]

Hey Jim, Would you PLEASE pack for me???

I just love loging on to this page after a long day at work.

Eric, I could be wrong, but I think Frances is a girl. a boy would be Francis.

Welcome aBoard to our newbie family!
We are a fun and harmless bunch. Unless, of course you get between Goofynut and Viking at Castaway Cay.

Mother-in-law was admitted to the hospital yesterday. I went to see her today. She has pneumonia, but will be ok in a few days.

Can you believe it? Tomorrow is September 1ST!!!!!!!!!!!

Later, Avé

 

[papa]

Ave this board is kind of like a safety net. No matter how much stress you can log on and relax among friends.

 

[piglet33]

Welcome Imsproutingears!

I am making magnets for our stateroom doors and was wondering if you are interested in getting them too. If you are, please PM me your name and address so I can mail them to you.

Thanks,

Reneé

 

[RellingTwin]

GOODBYE AUGUST

HELLO SEPTEMBER

Eric, don't forget the Schnaps!

 

[Viking]

Ave',
you're right Frances is of course a girl. I could use the opportunity and post the explanation why storms used to bear female names exclusively, but I have to take into account that minors read these boards, too I can tell it in a couple of weeks

The newest prediction of Frances' path puts her landfall about 30-40 miles south of Port Canaveral. But after the prediction of Charley hitting Tampa until three hours before he hit Punta Gorda, I think there's a lot of wild guessing involved.

 

[twhipple]

Peter (hygiene99), sent you a PM.

 

[@GoofyNut]

Dance for Joy ... It's September!

is going to really start to fly by now.

Pretty Soon we'll all be

ing away on Deck 10.

 

[@GoofyNut]

I almost forgot what I came to post (senior moment) ...

Eric do you remember when you wrote ...

"Once upon a time there was a Disney-addicted couple from Germany who booked a cruise for 09/22/01. Early in 2000 Viking (That's me) started a thread on the DIS-board looking for people willing to meet on the ship and spend a great time. Not very much later the group started to grow rapidly and reached a size of about 110 people and our group was named Cruisetoberfest, to honour us Germans and all our cruiser with German origins, and because 09/22/01 was also the official opening date of the Oktoberfest.

And then there was 9/11 :-(

But the two Germans decided that they would not let some madmen take control of their lives and so did most of our new American friends and four days later the two dared the leap over the Great Pond on one of the first flights out of Germany heading for WDW. Upon arrival they were more than surprised to find a message from their American friends waiting at Dixie Landings' frontdesk (You really made us feel welcome, Mike!!) A week later we all met at the terminal and on the ship and spent a wonderful time, building up strong bonds of friendship.
When the cruise came to an end many of us promised to cruise again and stay in contact - And everybody stuck to his word. Many of the Americans just waited for us Germans to book again and as soon as we had booked they did the same. Some of them even cruised together again in 2002 and nearly became the Flying Disneymen, when chased across the Caribbean by a Big Bad Storm, never arriving at their planned Ports-of-Call, except for CC.

In 2003 we all met again and were reinforced by many, many new friends and guess what: We decided to cruise again - Especially after Tinkerbell sprinkled the writer of these lines with an overdose of PixieDust enabling him to become a successful Mouseketeer and hence forcing him to come back."

This is how our friendship started and continues to grow!

 

[Viking]

Thanks for posting that again, Cathy - I think it must be at least 6 months and 2000 posts old ;-)

Tomorrow I will print the banner for the sail-away-party and the group-photo. I tested it on monday: One of my co-workers married last weekend and I printed a larger banner which we hung over her desk welcoming her with her new name - and about 3 dozen balloons in our company colours.
The printer I'm going to use prints on paper of 3.5 feet width and virtually indefinite length. Our banner will be about 2 feet high and 11 feet long. But it will only contain text - no Mickeys as the printer is only connected to our CAD-system for the our charts, but I think this is better anyway to avoid trouble with Disney

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Can't wait to see the banner at the Sailaway Party. Hopefully the weather will be great. It will be interesting to see the reaction too. We got a great reaction last year with our tshirts!

Can't wait for this cruise to happen although have a lot of work to do beforehand. I keep get reminded of all the files that have to be completed before I leave. Since I don't want to stay late the night before we leave I'm already staying late to try to get stuff done. It's hard during the day as the phone keeps ringing.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Mystery cruise or not we are leaving soon!

Fiona

 

[jeanneg]

Got my docs, got my docs......now it's starting to seem real!

 

[Viking]

I handed in may vacation request today. Our vacation planning is always done in December and we have to plan 90% of our vacation time, but before leaving we'll have to hand in a formal vacation request which is required by our Human Resources Dept. Additionally I accumulated some hour to extend my vacation time by a day after our return and as we're not allowed to hand in requests for using up saved time more than two weks in advance I had to wait until now. So our first vacation day will be on saved time and the rest on vacation time. Nevertheless I'm accumulating some more time as I intend to leave on Friday 9/10 not later than noon I'll just clean up my desk, then I have a meeting of my company's Work Safety Council. Being a paramedic and first aid-instructor I'm a consultant for the council and in charge of all first aiders in our house. Additionally I'm one of our volunteer firefighters. We meet every three months, analyze all accidents of the last three months and try to find ways to prevent new ones.
But this weekend I'll take work home again to help out my old team and Anja has to do the night shift - We really deserve that vacation!!!
Anja will take the floppy-disk with the T-shirt design to a print shop close to her hospital and have the Shirts done. The ask for about $25 for each shirt, but they deliver fantastic quality. My company uses that shop for all our promo-shirts, etc.

OK, we call it a day now: I punched in some over time, then we ran 4 miles at the gym, did a 50minute leg-routine and then 45 minutes of Badminton with our company-team - and now we're dead tired and need some sleep

 

[@GoofyNut]

I want my documents too. I called today and they said they are currently being sent out and am I part of that large group?

I think the word is out!

Somehow it just doesn't seem real till you have that paper in your hand.

 

[jeanneg]

Originally posted by @GoofyNut

I want my documents too. I called today and they said they are currently being sent out and am I part of that large group?

I think the word is out!

Uh-oh, seems like our reputation is preceding us..........is that a good thing or a bad thing?

 

[sparrow_of_tortuga]

Hey y'all,

Add the three of us to your list of people goin' on the Antigua cruise! This will be our fourth cruise! YAY

Sparrow

 

[RellingTwin]

Welcome to Sparrow and family. Glad to have you with us!

Eric, I sent you an e-mail.

No docs here yet

I have no doubt the crew will remember us! We were such a happy bunch of people!The CMs I spoke with were somewhat ammazed that such a large group from the internet (most of whom had never met in person) were able to be so organized! I guess it must be the German in us!

LOVE the Cruisetoberfest story!

 

[jeanniec]

Welcome Sparrow and family!

Jeanne -- No fair! I want my docs, too. We reserved in August 2003. Hope ours arrive soon. I don't think it matters when you booked your reservation, tho. Just so we get them!

 

[sparrow_of_tortuga]

We don't have our doc either, and a friend of ours who is leaving on the 9/11 cruise doesn't have his docs either.