11/24/07 We are Better Than Leftovers!!! Nana Head reunion

[FlyEaglesFly]

Hello everybody. Thanks for the well wishes with the floods up here in PA. I'm in NE Pennsylvania about an hour and half north of Philly. We got a lot of rain, and a lot of towns were evacuated. We ended up being ok (compared to others).

We did go to Costa Maya in March. However, we didn't have a good day there. The lack of sleep and constant activities caught up with our kids. We got off the ship, went to the port, but the kids were not in the mood. Pretty cranky. We ended up going back to the ship and have a quiet day on the ship. It worked out as the kids rested and re-charged their batteries. Everyone on the ship loved the port. I felt cheated that we didn't get to go to the beach as planned. They all loved the beach. Oh well.

I hope everyone had a nice 4th. We went to the Jersey Shore (Ocean City) for a long weekend. We're going to Hershey Park this weekend. Just what we need, more rides. I'm still dizzy.

I was reading that other thread about the Christmas decorations for our cruise. I hope that is true. It would be nice to see all of the decorations. Just another added touch for the week.

Take care everyone.
Jim

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Jim,
glad to see you are ok and still with us.
Yes the ship will be decorated when we cruise. It is beautiful to see. Most is in the atrium area, although a giant gingerbread house is near the Promenade lounge a few small trees are places near the theater and clubs. The stores are also decorated some. You can make a free gingerbread house too. There will be a tree lighting ceremony on the first evening which is alot of fun. You sing carols, characters arrive and a lucky family will get to help Santa Goofy lite the tree, then snow falls in the atrium!! The entire even takes about 20 minutes, but it is a MUST DO on the ship. CC is also decorated at the dock and the tram looks like a reindeer. The first hour or so of getting off the ship at CC there will be corolers to greet you too. Weather permitting Santa Goofy will zoom around the lagoon area on a jet ski too.
We have doen 4 cruises I believe where it was decortated for the holidays. Now the atrium looks so plain without the decorations. It isnt really, it's beautiful, but I keep remembering it with the decorations.


Have a great Thursday everyone!

Kathy

 

[lvstitch]

When we went in December everything was decorated. I just loved it. I went to the tree lighting ceremony and as Kathy said, it is not to be missed. It is only done on the first night so make sure you go. I also loved the tram in CC dressed up as a reindeer. I have pictures but not on my digital so I can't post them sorry.

I miss the Jersey Shore so much. We used to go to Seaside Heights every summer. When I have kids I will make sure we take them there. I have also been to Hershey Park but that was a long time ago. I remember going on the factory tour and getting "cooked" don't know if they still have that attraction there but I loved it. I also remember the crazy ferris wheel and the kissing tower that I was always so scared to go on but did and cried the whole time. My favorite part of the park was that our parents let us get any kind of candy we wanted when we left.

Kathy, do you have any pictures of Minnie yet? I'm dying to see her.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

If i am doing this correct you will see apicture of my new dog, if not i will try again. I am just learning how to do pictures,so be patient with me.

Kathy

 

[lvstitch]

That worked. She is very cute. She posed so well for the camera too

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

It took about a dozen attempts to get that picture. I got 2 good ones. She was afraid of the camera and kept running away.
She is so timid yet. This morning she decided to sleep on a padded lounge chair on the patio, which was fine, but she was afraid to get down off of it. So DH had to go out and coax her down. She was so funny to see.
She also saw her reflexion in the front window last night and was afraid of herself. Guess we will have to work on that some.

Hope everyone has a good weekend. We will be at home installing doggie doors and doing the pooper scooper duties!!! So much fun

We finally got some rain here last night which we needed very badly!!

Looking forward to hearing from you guys over the weekend to keep us bumped up.
Anyone going to see the new pirate of the caribbean movie this weekend???
My DS is going, but we will wait til next weekend. I hate the big crowds on opening weekends, so will wait aweek. I know it playe dont he ships at 12:01 this morning. that would of been so cool to see it for the first time on the ship. I know it will be playing on our cruise next month so I'm sure we will see it again on the ship.

Kathy

 

[lvstitch]

We are going to see it tomorrow. I hate crowds too but one of the theaters here has private movie booths and I know someone who got us one. We can just show up right before the movie starts and not have to worry about getting a good seat. I would have loved to see the movie on the ship. That would be so cool. Other than see pirates I don't have too many other plans this weekend. I should be able to keep us bumped up.

Kathy, my one dog is the same as Minnie, she is scared of everything. She is 13 and has never grown out of it. It petty funny to have a dog that's a scaredy cat

Have a great weekend everyone

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Please NO details, but how was the movie???

I won't get to see it for a week or so, theaters around here are all sold out this weekend. So please dont give away anything, just tell me how you liked it!!!!
It is so hard to wait!!! My DS went and saw it late last night, I havnt seen him yet to see how he liked it.

We are hoping to install the doggie doors this weekend and teach Minnie how to use them. We need one in the sliding glass door and one in the screen door on the patio. we have a screen enclosure around our entire patio and pool area, so that is why it will take two doors. One to exit the house to the patio and one to exit the patio to the yard.
It is a quiet weekend around here. I looked at the Magic in port this morning. The port cam was finally pointed the right direction.

have a good day everyone, I will be waiting to hear if you liked the movie.

Kathy

 

[lvstitch]

The movie was good but a little too long. The booth we had was great. It had 8 captians chairs and we got all kinds of food and candy. It was completly private and you could control the sound and temperature so it was perfect. I am spoiled forever.

I think Minnie might be scared of the doggie doors at first. They are usually scared for the noise they make when they walk in and out of them. I guess it's just a matter of her getting used to it.

I checked the port cam yesterday and it wasn't working, it is today so we are going to try to watch the ship leave. Other than that, no too much planned, we might watch some of the soccer and yankee games. I also want to get some time in the sun

 

[lauritagoddess]

Hi!! This will be the first Disney cruise for myself and my DS who will be 5.5 then. I had just booked us for the 12/8/07 cruise but rescheduled to 11/24/07 after getting a look at his school schedule for this fall (pre-K) and if it's the same next year in K, the 12/8/07 cruise would conflict with school conferences and a Christmas show. I'm really excited now. It will be so nice to have the days off before that for Thanksgiving and then to have our cruise right after that.

I wish we had the to also combine this with some days in the parks. As it is we'll have to fly in the morning of the cruise. I'm trying to decide whether to fly back the afternoon we dock or to stay over in a hotel that night and fly out the next morning.

Nice to meet everyone!!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Laura and family!!!

So happy to have you with us
We are all still getting aquainted around here, but everyone is very friendly and helpful
So if you have any questions, please ask. We try to help each other around here, with my brain I need all the help I can get
by the time this cruise rolls around it will be DCL cruise # 15 for us.

We are cruising as a couple this time, no kids or grandkids this time, unless something changes between now and then.

I am looking forward to getting to know you over the next few months



Your right, Minnie was afraid of the doggie door, but with coaxing, treats and tons of praise she is adjusting to it. We start pushing the flap open a little then coax her on through it. She is getting the hang of it. But the noise of the flap hitting down scares her some. we will work on it all week. When ever she masters that door we will put the second one on the patio door for her. We dont want to stress her too much at first, so one door at a time.
Tomarrow she gets her stitches removed, then she can finally get a bath

Have a great evening everyone,
Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Howdy everyone,
hope you had a great weekend.

Minnie can come in her doggie door, but is still afraid of going out the door. I figured it would take alot longer to get her trained, so hopefully a couple more days she will be comfortable with it, both directions!!

Didnt do much around here over the weekend, went and saw The Lake House.
It was worth seeing once, but not my first pick, too predictable to figure out what was going to happen.
Next weekend, we will try to go to Magic Kingdom on Sunday morning when they first open and will try to do the new version of Pirates of the caribbean ride and check out any new pirate clothing they may have for the party on board the ship, and maybe see Superman movie. Then the next show will be the new Piratres movie. We wanted the crowds to die down some first so we are seeing the others first.
Have a great Monday everyone!!

Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi everyone,
well I found someone on the discussion forum who is going on our cruise.
I invited them to join us and she said she would, so hopefully we will have some new people here soon!!
I think her name was mousefansmom and they having lot sof people coming along, so it will be a large group.

Hope she posts soon,
Kathy

 

[lauritagoddess]

Thanks for the welcome. It will be so nice to get know everyone over the next 16 months - wish it was sooner than that, lol.

Anyone else going who has younger kids?

 

[lvstitch]

Gosh, I wish it was sooner too but the sooner it gets here the sooner it's over right

Welcome Laura, wow this ship is starting to get crowded You will have such a good time. My first cruise I tried not to have too high of expectations and let me tell you the cruise exceeded everything I imagined it could. If I would have known how much we were going to enjoy it, we would be going a lot sooner than Nov 2007.

Kathy, I am happy Minnie is getting used to the doggie door, the power of a little doggie treat is amazing.

Deana, hope you had a safe trip. The weather wasn't too bad here, right I want to know what you thought of Red Rock if you got a chance to get over there.

TTFN

 

[mousefansmom]

Hi Kathy-
I made it over to this board! I don't get to post much, but I will check in when I can! Can't wait for Nov. 2007 to get here so we can join you on The Magic!!

Mousefansmom

Hey, who's with us?
We are going to book this cruise on our next cruise this fall, so we can get the room credit.
But I thought, why wait, get a thread started so i can meet all the awesome people who will be cruising with us.

It's going to be a awesome cruise


Let me know if your coming too. I'd love to get to know all of you who we will be crusin with.





mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

mousefansmom,
SO happy to see you found us!!!
I have a question for you though, I dont think your mom named you mousefansmom?? I could be wrong
But is there another more common name we can call you???

we are all still getting aquainted here so dont be afraid to ask questions about cruising or about us. We are a friendly group and anxious to get aquainted around here.
So far we have shared about our pets, what our favorite disney character is and our favorite disney movie and favorite TV how.

Now I have a new question for everyone,
If you work outside the home, or in you home, share what type of job you have??

I will start.
I am retired early for medical reasons, but my last job was being the owner of a pizza place called Fat Roasa pizza. i have also cooked a a few restaurants such as Dennys and been asst manager in an Arbys. Mostly I tried to work at home raising my family. DH had his own construction business for many years in Oregon, but after moving to Florida 6 years ago he went to work for Maronda Homes as a Production Manager.

How about the rest of you guys and gals?? I know we have shared some of this, but we have a few new people to catch up with.

Kathy

 

[lauritagoddess]

If you work outside the home, or in you home, share what type of job you have??

I do worker's compensation claims for the federal gov't. It's just as exciting as it sounds, lol. I'd love to do something else, but the pay is decent, the benefits are good and I get enough time off so I can indulge my Disney mania with my son.

 

[lvstitch]

Welcome mousefansmom How many Disney cruises have you been on?

I am an Executive Admin for the VP of Marketing and Advertising for Station Casinos. I did work for the Sr VP of Operations until 2 weeks ago. I was traded to this department because I was being under utilized. I have been a secretary for 13 years, it's what I have always wanted to do, I have thought of changing jobs but I love being a secretary. Before Stations, I worked for Wynn Las Vegas and I was at the Luxor for 5.5 years. My husband owns a pizza place called Martino's Pizza. We missed NY pizza so much we opened up our own place I don't really like owning a business because it becomes your life but my husband loves it.

 

[triplefigs]

Hi. This will be our first cruise ever! It's me, DH, and our BBG triplets who will be 7 then. Can't wait to celebrate Turkey Day with the Mouse and no in-laws~

We're very excited!

Denise