10-Oct-2009 - Eastern Magic St. Croix

[davidls]

Hey MJGirl this photo is for your enjoyment. This is what I HAVE to wake up to almost each and every morning. Rough ain't it!!! This is the back of our little homestead. Thanks for the help in putting a photo on here. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I'm not very computer smart. (Sometimes I have to get my granddaughter to show me how to turn this blame thing on!!!!) She is 8 yrs old now and will be 10 when we cruise next year. She is all excited about going again. Heck, so am I!!! Now how do I reduce this thing down to a more manageable size??? Any ideas.

Also, wanted to welcome all our new members coming along on our Magical Cruise!! Our little group is growing with leaps and bounds.

We are going over to WDW in April. Gots to get our Disney fix for the spring. Checking out the Flower & Garden Festival at EPCOT. We go to this every year, haven't missed one in, I can't remember!!! OH GRANDDAUGHTER, when was the last time we missed a Flower & Garden Festival at EPCOT? She told me to be quiet, she is trying to watch the Mickey Mouse show on the Disney channel. I'll have to get back to ya'll on how long it's been. (Psssssst, move in a little closer.................. don't want granddaughter to hear................. I know how to turn on the computer and we have never missed a Flower and Garden Festival, I just like to joke around with her. DW says I'm a big teaser and pest. I got that honestly from my Dad. He was the same way.

Well again welcome to all new members to our group. We are going to have a great time on our cruise. Talk to ya'll again soon.

 

[MJGirl]

Ok David ... add salt to the wound ... they are calling for more snow here on the weekend. I guesstimate our snowbanks are over 4 feet by now. I know the snow on the deck is about 1 1/2 feet deep. My poor bichon, Budde. He hates the snow, especially when it is deeper than he is tall!

Regarding the sizing of the photo, I confess, I ask my 17 year old how to do it! She uses photoshop to resize the photo before I upload it. She showed me how once, but I still can't figure it out.

By the way, You have a lovely home. Looks like a place I could retire to!!! Only 15 years (I hope) to go for me, at least thats my plan. I would love to spend 7 months down in Florida working part time at Disney, then come back here for the mandatory 5 months to keep my OHIP (provincial hospitalization insursance) in tact. I will become a true snowbird. November to June in Florida, July to October in Canada. That would be the life!

 

[DenverVal]

Regarding the sizing of the photo, I confess, I ask my 17 year old how to do it! She uses photoshop to resize the photo before I upload it. She showed me how once, but I still can't figure it out.

You can do it in Paint, click help, choose the index tab, and type in resize and it will guide you to the help topic. In Photoshop, click the image tab and choose resize. Then you can enter the dimensions in either pixels or inches.

 

[davidls]

Thanks Mary on your comments on our home. It took alot of hard work and alot of saving to get it, but it was all worth it. We couldn't be happier. Welllllll .............that's not exactly true. If'n we could win the lottery THEN........ we couldn't be happier!!!!!

Also, thanks to DenverVal on the resizing of the photo's. I'll have to give it a try the next photo I post. I don't have photoshop, but I do have Paint. (Atleast I think I do.....have to check that out too.) Maybe I could get the boss, (granddaughter), to help me. She loves to help. I'll give that a try.
OH GRANDDAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!

 

[JeanC]

Hi Everyone! We just booked this cruise today. Really excited about going to St. Croix for the first time. My husband, Sam, and I are recently retired. This will be our 6th or 7th DCL cruise -- hard to keep track. We are also DVC members at OKW, VB & HH. It's nice to meet all of you.

Jean

 

[cdnmickeylover]

Hi Jean,

Welcome aboard. Nice to see lots of old friends here.

Can't wait to cruise with you and Sam again.

Fiona

 

[MJGirl]

Welcome aboard Jean and Sam !!!

 

[JeanC]

Thanks for the welcome! I notice from my profile that it looks as tho this the first time I have posted on the DIS boards. Actually I've been posting here since at least 2000. My computer died a while ago, and I had to re-register after I bought a new one -- not sure why my prior posts don't show. We live in Indian Land, SC, which sounds like we're out in the middle of nowhere, but we're actually about 10 minutes south of Charlotte, NC.

Jean

 

[TinksDH]

We just went on our first DCL cruise (the 2/9 - 2/16/08 Western Caribbean cruise) and guess what??!! We enjoyed it so much that we decided to re-book onboard. Surprise surprise! So we'll be sailing on the 10/10/2009 Eastern Caribbean cruise with all of you!

At the time of cruising, DS#1 will be 14, DS#2 will be 12, and DD will be 8. I won't tell you exactly how old DW and I will be, other than somewhere in our mid 40's!

We're really looking forward to it and have already begun planning!! Crazy, isn't it??

Like some of you, we too are DVC members and own at VB and SSR. We're taking the kids down to WDW this upcoming Christmas season. I know, the crowds will be crazy, but everyone has to experience WDW at least ONCE during the holidays, right?! In July 2009 we'll be heading to Vero Beach for a week in the sun and surf, and then another week at WDW, but offsite. Hopefully that will be enough Disney to hold us until the cruise, but I bet not!

Hope to get to know you all online over the next 20 months or so...

 

[MJGirl]

Welcome aboard Mike ... Glad you could join us!

I'm going to be at WDW Dec 10-16. Don't know if I can handle the Dec. 25 crowds. I'm booked at AKV, but hope to change to another resort at the 7 month mark!

 

[TinksDH]

Thanks for the welcome MJGirl!

We're actually going to be at WDW from 12/18 - 12/23, so we'll miss the Christmas day rush, but still be there for the season. We're currently booked at SSR, but may change to a non home resort as well, once the booking window opens up. I really like the way VWL looks during Christmas season!

We started our cruise off by staying 4 nights at the AKV - those rooms are wonderful, particularly with all the new LCD TVs and all! The kids loved it! We had a top floor savannah view, and let me tell you, that property is just beautiful. Also, I am a major photography enthusiast, and there was no end of great shots to take (DW keeps reminding me that I need to get my pictures from this last trip up on Flickr!). The construction is in full swing on the new buildings. It's going to be very nice when it's done - but what DVC property is NOT nice??!!

 

[MJGirl]

Mike ... We just joined DVC last October. I stayed at AKV in December for a weekend and am booked at BWV for a few nights after the Repo Cruise, then it is back at AKV in Dec. Being half Irish and half Scottish, we always went in late August to save money. I always stayed at All Stars or Pop Century. It is nice not having to worry about the room cost. This year, I'm actually going to get a AP this year, what with all the visits.

When I signed up for DVC, I got double bonus points which I used to book the backstage magic tour with Adventures by Disney. I'm certainly getting my Disney fix this year!!!

 

[Tinkermom3]

Thought I would jump in here. I am TinksDH's DW (Lisa). I cannot wait for this next cruise! I am trying to focus on the trips we are planning before the cruise to make the time go faster. As Mike already told you we are planning a Christmastime trip to WDW and we are planning a WDW/Vero beach trip in the summer of '09.

Looks like we have quite a bit of DIS tween and teen kids on this cruise, maybe we should start a thread for them to get to know one another.

Looking forward to hanging out with you all over the next 20 months!

 

[llmurphy17]

I also wanted to add my friend Lysa to the list.

She is going with her two children -her DD will be 13 and her DS will be 11.


My kids will be the following ages for the cruise
DD 7
DD 5
DS 3

See you all soon.

 

[llmurphy17]

Thanks for updating the list. I can't wait to go- I'm trying to stay focused on 2008 so the cruise doesn't seem so far away.

ps. Lysa is also from NY.

 

[dletz]

I finally switched my reservation to this one. Since someone told me to switch to the cruise they were on, then switched to this one. (wonder who?)

There are 3 of us me, DH, and DD 10. My daughter can't wait to see Val and Tracy again. I think this is the first cruise she has known about from the start. For both the Panama cruise and the Transatalantic cruises we didn't tell her until a couple of months prior.

 

[davidls]

It's been awhile since I checked in with ya'll. Work has been keepin' me way too busy. Guess finally they are going to hire someone to help me out at work. But guess who gets to train the new bee?!?! I'll give you one guess. NO............ that ain't right, one more guess................ no that ain't right either. Sheeeeesh...........okokok........one more guess........YEP!!!!! You got it!!!!! Oh well, at least some of the pressure will be off me.

Guys, we just couldn't take it any longer, I booked us a 3 day cruise this coming October. It of course will be on the Wonder. We've never sailed on the Wonder so this is kinda exciting. We are really looking forward to it. Well at least I am. Pssssstt...... lean in a little closer.......just a little more...........gots a secret to tell ya. Promise you won't tell!!!! Go ahead and promise...........okokok.......... I'm surprising DW and DGD with this cruise. They don't know anything about it. Goin' to be a combination birthday surprise for the both of them. Of course it ain't their birthdays but what the hey!!! They are kinda of special to me.

Well gots to go and do some errands. These week-ends seem to fly by don't they. Talk to ya'll later. Keep warm and think nothing but Disney thoughts.

 

[MJGirl]

Hi David ... I was thinking about you as we were getting pummelled (sp?) by another foot of snow. We've broken records this winter. Between Friday night and Sunday morning, we had 37.5 cm or 14.8 inches of snow. So far this winter we have had 246 cm or just over 8 feet of snow. This is an all time high, beating out the previous record from 1923 -1924. Only 5 months until my next cruise. It better have stopped snowing before then!

 

[davidls]

Ok Mary stop showing off with that kind of talk. You know I, done here in Florida, cannot top that one with the snow. HEY!!! We got about 1 1/2" of rain the other day. Does that count?!?!? Guess not huh?
Mary you are going on a cruise in August!!! Lucky you. Is it a 7 day cruise? You know i wish Disney offered some longer cruises. Like a 10 or 14 day cruise. That would be GREAT!!!:dance3: Oh well maybe with the new ships they are having built they will offer some longer cruises.
Well I better get to work. Been nice tqalking to everyone. Oh hey, Did everyone make it thru the time change this week-end. I love when we have to do this time change thing. NOT!!! Mary, do you guys up there in Sunny, oooooppps I mean snowy Canada have to do this time change???
Talk to ya'll soon!!!

 

[cdnmickeylover]

I can answer about the time change and yup we have to do that as well so in addition to losing an hour's sleep we also had to shovel for ever this weekend.

Mary - where abouts are you? We are just outside of Toronto and haven't quite broken the record yet - we have 10 cm still to go. Can not believe how much snow we've had this winter so far 197 cm (record is 207 cm from 1939). Last year we had 67 cm all winter I heard on the radio this morning which makes it even more depressing.

So can't wait for spring at this point although they are predicting yet more snow before the end of winter -- the guy on the radio this morning actually said to keep your shovels available til mid May -- the man is sick.

Fiona