12-3-09 December 3, 2009 3 nite WONDER

[milliepie]

We are on deck 7, 7554. I am so excited I think I'm getting on my DH's nerves already and we have so long to wait. He got me into Disney, so when I suggested the cruise he was all over it. I look forward to getting to know everyone!

~Denise~

 

[tngal]

We are on deck 7, 7554. I am so excited I think I'm getting on my DH's nerves already and we have so long to wait. He got me into Disney, so when I suggested the cruise he was all over it. I look forward to getting to know everyone!

~Denise~

Cool, on our last cruise we were on Deck 7 also. I believe it was room 7576. I know what you mean about getting on your dh's nerves, I think i'm getting on my Dh's and my moms nerves lol. My mom and stepdad are going along with us and she thinks i'm crazy for planning stuff already. I just tell her I gotta do something to pass the time until Dec.

Look forward to hearing more from you also!!

Lisa

 

[fairfax]

Hi everyone!

I just booked this cruise on Wednesday and we are all so excited about being on one of the ships at Christmas time and seeing the beautiful decorations. We just got back from the 7 day Eastern last week, this will be our bounceback cruise.

My family consists of me, DH, DD (age 6) and DS (age 3 but will be 4 by the time of the cruise). This will be our 8th Disney cruise. I've been reading through this thread and it seems like a great group of people. Looking forward to meeting you all!

 

[disneyfreak1]

Hi everyone!

I just booked this cruise on Wednesday and we are all so excited about being on one of the ships at Christmas time and seeing the beautiful decorations. We just got back from the 7 day Eastern last week, this will be our bounceback cruise.

My family consists of me, DH, DD (age 6) and DS (age 3 but will be 4 by the time of the cruise). This will be our 8th Disney cruise. I've been reading through this thread and it seems like a great group of people. Looking forward to meeting you all!

I am sailing on March 28th and booked this for my bounceback as well. What did you think of St. Croix?

 

[fairfax]

I am sailing on March 28th and booked this for my bounceback as well. What did you think of St. Croix?

The ship docks at Frederiksted, which is a small town on the far side of the island. There is not much there. Since my kids are so young, we did not do a shore excursion. When you get off the ship, there is a public beach a short walk away, that is where we went. The beach does not look that great from the ship but it wasn't bad. The water was clear, although it was rocky the further out you get. We rented chairs for $5 each from a very friendly attendant on the beach. There were very clean bathrooms with showers. My kids had a fantastic time playing in the sand. Afterwards we walked briefly in the town, there is not much there but everyone was very friendly. Everything is in Christiansted, on the other side of the island. So, all things being equal we prefer St. Maarten but I really don't have a full picture of St. Croix since we stayed in Frederiksted.

 

[disneyfreak1]

The ship docks at Frederiksted, which is a small town on the far side of the island. There is not much there. Since my kids are so young, we did not do a shore excursion. When you get off the ship, there is a public beach a short walk away, that is where we went. The beach does not look that great from the ship but it wasn't bad. The water was clear, although it was rocky the further out you get. We rented chairs for $5 each from a very friendly attendant on the beach. There were very clean bathrooms with showers. My kids had a fantastic time playing in the sand. Afterwards we walked briefly in the town, there is not much there but everyone was very friendly. Everything is in Christiansted, on the other side of the island. So, all things being equal we prefer St. Maarten but I really don't have a full picture of St. Croix since we stayed in Frederiksted.

We are planning to do exactly what you did in St. Croix. We love St. Maarten so I have a feeling we won't like St. Croix as much either. But, we are not going into Christiansted.

 

[tngal]

Hi everyone!

I just booked this cruise on Wednesday and we are all so excited about being on one of the ships at Christmas time and seeing the beautiful decorations. We just got back from the 7 day Eastern last week, this will be our bounceback cruise.

My family consists of me, DH, DD (age 6) and DS (age 3 but will be 4 by the time of the cruise). This will be our 8th Disney cruise. I've been reading through this thread and it seems like a great group of people. Looking forward to meeting you all!

Yea! Another addition to our meet group!! Glad to see you decided to come on over and join us!
I hope to get to do a 7 day cruise in the future, but for right now i'll have to live it 3 or 4 n ight cruises ...as long as its on DCL I don't care lol.
My youngest DD and your DD will probably be in the kids activities together. She is five, will be just a few wks from being 6, when we cruise.
Looking forward to getting to know you also!
Did you do the FE on your cruises? If so any tips...we have been discussing this on here and many of us are "newbies' at this.

Lisa

 

[fairfax]

Yea! Another addition to our meet group!! Glad to see you decided to come on over and join us!
I hope to get to do a 7 day cruise in the future, but for right now i'll have to live it 3 or 4 n ight cruises ...as long as its on DCL I don't care lol.
My youngest DD and your DD will probably be in the kids activities together. She is five, will be just a few wks from being 6, when we cruise.
Looking forward to getting to know you also!
Did you do the FE on your cruises? If so any tips...we have been discussing this on here and many of us are "newbies' at this.

Lisa

Thanks for the welcome! No, I've never done a FE either! I am not very creative, unfortunately. But I'm willing to try!

Our kids will have a lot of fun in the activities! My DD is still talking about the Flubber they made. And I still have it in my refrigerator

 

[tngal]

Hello everyone!!! Just thought i'd drop in and say hi...been working on some of the cruise magnets for the cruise, that is until my printer decided to die on me I am trying something different this time. I just can't see paying out the prices i've found on the magnetic sheets, so instead i'm printing it out on card stock, and using the self-laminating sheets, then applying magnetic strips on each corner. What do you all think, will that hold as well as the magnetic sheets?
I finished most of my shirts that I was going to make ...I will post some pics of them on here if you all would like to see them. Hope to hear from you all soon!!

Lisa

 

[fairfax]

Hello everyone!!! Just thought i'd drop in and say hi...been working on some of the cruise magnets for the cruise, that is until my printer decided to die on me I am trying something different this time. I just can't see paying out the prices i've found on the magnetic sheets, so instead i'm printing it out on card stock, and using the self-laminating sheets, then applying magnetic strips on each corner. What do you all think, will that hold as well as the magnetic sheets?
I finished most of my shirts that I was going to make ...I will post some pics of them on here if you all would like to see them. Hope to hear from you all soon!!

Lisa

I've made magnets both ways and they both work well. I've found good prices for magnetic paper on eBay. Let me see if I can dig up the name of the guy I bought it from. I got 15 sheets for $10.

Look forward to seeing the pictures of the shirts!

 

[disneyfreak1]

Yea! Another addition to our meet group!! Glad to see you decided to come on over and join us!
I hope to get to do a 7 day cruise in the future, but for right now i'll have to live it 3 or 4 n ight cruises ...as long as its on DCL I don't care lol.
My youngest DD and your DD will probably be in the kids activities together. She is five, will be just a few wks from being 6, when we cruise.
Looking forward to getting to know you also!
Did you do the FE on your cruises? If so any tips...we have been discussing this on here and many of us are "newbies' at this.

Lisa

I am sailing Saturday, so I will let you know when I return how our FE exchange goes. I have coordinated it, so hopefully it will go smoothly!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Hi all! We are planning on this cruise too! We did the 4 day Feb 1 and can't wait to go back!
We haven't booked yet, as our bounceback offer doesn't allow until April 6. Did those of you doing bounceback get to book with that offer, or did you just book it and plan to convert it in April? I didn't know you could do that.
TIA!! I'm looking forward to chatting with you all about it!

 

[disneyfreak1]

Hi all! We are planning on this cruise too! We did the 4 day Feb 1 and can't wait to go back!
We haven't booked yet, as our bounceback offer doesn't allow until April 6. Did those of you doing bounceback get to book with that offer, or did you just book it and plan to convert it in April? I didn't know you could do that.
TIA!! I'm looking forward to chatting with you all about it!

I booked this cruise for my bounceback and plan to convert it Monday.

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Thanks! I better get cracking then!!
We did have magnets and T-shirts on our last cruise and some don't have the specific date, just 2009, so we plan to re-use them. The one did have the date, but my DH was the only one to have that shirt. I can't find the pics of the magnets, but we did one with the picture from the red shirts that we all wore at boarding.
Here's some pics:

I also made little magnets with the Mickey head paint samples from Home Depot. I wrote our names on them and trimmed them and laminated them. Then I just had some magnet strips and stuck them on. VERY EASY!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

We're official!!!
We are booked in cabin 6101! Another deck 6 family! We were told we can just mail in our vouchers after 4/6.

So here's about us:
I am a 40 yr old lawyer - I work in the court system with a judge as her law clerk, doing research and writing.
My DH is a mailman and also works selling merchandise/shirts at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN where the MN Wild play.
DD 8 is in 2nd grade and is involved in gymnastics and dance (for now).
DD6 (is celebrating her b-day today!) is in kindergarten and also in gymnastics and dance.
We were on the 2/1/09 4 day and have also been on a Carnival Cruise in 2008.

 

[fireworks fan]

Thanks! I better get cracking then!!
We did have magnets and T-shirts on our last cruise and some don't have the specific date, just 2009, so we plan to re-use them. The one did have the date, but my DH was the only one to have that shirt. I can't find the pics of the magnets, but we did one with the picture from the red shirts that we all wore at boarding.
Here's some pics:

I also made little magnets with the Mickey head paint samples from Home Depot. I wrote our names on them and trimmed them and laminated them. Then I just had some magnet strips and stuck them on. VERY EASY!

I love your t-shirts! I especially like the port hole design

I have a DD6 years old too. I think we will definitely have some kids in the same age range in our group. Should make the fish extenders extra fun.

Welcome to the thread

 

[tngal]

I've made magnets both ways and they both work well. I've found good prices for magnetic paper on eBay. Let me see if I can dig up the name of the guy I bought it from. I got 15 sheets for $10.

Look forward to seeing the pictures of the shirts!

That would be great. I did the magnetic sheets last time and it was so much easier! I would really appreciate that!!!!

Lisa

 

[tngal]

am sailing Saturday, so I will let you know when I return how our FE exchange goes. I have coordinated it, so hopefully it will go smoothly!

Cool! Can't wait to hear how it goes!!!

 

[tngal]

Hello everyone!! Sorry its taken me so long to post the pics of my shirts..this wk is my DD's spring break and we've been trying to keep them entertained lol. Just remember i'm not a pro at this lol. I'm going to do a few more of these later on probably.

THESE ARE THE SHIRTS WE'LL WEAR FOR EMBARKATION

THE "GENERATIONS" SHIRT FOR ME, MY MOM AND 2 DD'S

SHIRTS FOR MY OLDEST DD CASSIDY

SHIRTS FOR MY YOUNGEST DD KAITLYN

ok..thats all i have for now always enjoying hearing from all of you!! Take care

Lisa

 

[kellyb2000]

Booked yesterday!

I haven't been on the Dis in a long time, but that was my first thought after I booked!

We have 2 kids - my son will be one week shy of 7 and my daughter will be 2 when we sail. My mother and step-father are going as well. This will be mine and DH's 4th disney cruise. Everyone's else's 3rd except DD which will be her first. Our last cruise was in 2005 so it's been way too long!

We booked Cat. 12 because it was $300 cheaper than a cat. 11 and my TA told me we would be in a cat. 11 anyway. I don't care - just get me on the ship. Can't wait to see it decorated for the holidays.

Does anyone know what temperature the water will be in the Bahamas in December?

TNgal! I'm just a tad bit south of you in Chattanooga. Are you driving or flying? I'm hoping the Allegiant flights will be $19 and on the right dates. If not we're driving.