2/15/2013 - 8 Night Western Cruise, Galveston, TX

[FloridaFun]

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all rested from Black Friday. My shopping started at 5am, but I only hit one store and made it back to bed by 6am.

For the FEE, I have the following people confirmed at participate in both groups: FloridaFun, Duck Window, diannacarole, Dawncala, DisMom73, and KPetty725.
If there is anyone I missed or anyone else that wants to stay in both groups, please let me know today and tomorrow I will post the completed lists with who is in what group.

Thank you and safe travels to anyone who is traveling home still or that has family traveling.

Beth

 

[betsy2010]

Thanks Beth!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all rested from Black Friday. My shopping started at 5am, but I only hit one store and made it back to bed by 6am.

For the FEE, I have the following people confirmed at participate in both groups: FloridaFun, Duck Window, diannacarole, Dawncala, DisMom73, and KPetty725.
If there is anyone I missed or anyone else that wants to stay in both groups, please let me know today and tomorrow I will post the completed lists with who is in what group.

Thank you and safe travels to anyone who is traveling home still or that has family traveling.

Beth

 

[SnipsNSnails]

I guess I'm not understanding the stay in both thing.

 

[FloridaFun]

To make it possible for everyone to participate in the FEE, we agreed to split the people into 2 groups if we got more than 15 cabins. That way it would still be a smaller number of gifts to make or get for those in just one group.

However, some people expressed in interest in still giving to eveyone on the list, so they would be part of both groups.

Let me know if you want to be in one group or both groups.

I hope this made sense.

Beth

 

[SnipsNSnails]

OK, that just doesn't make sense to me if the point of splitting was to make the numbers smaller for those who wanted it to be more manageable. So with 70 people participating and we split in two groups that's roughly 35 per group. If 30 people decide they want to be in both groups then there are 50 in both groups. But maybe I'm still not understanding it correctly?

 

[KPetty725]

OK, that just doesn't make sense to me if the point of splitting was to make the numbers smaller for those who wanted it to be more manageable. So with 70 people participating and we split in two groups that's roughly 35 per group. If 30 people decide they want to be in both groups then there are 50 in both groups. But maybe I'm still not understanding it correctly?

If you're only wanting to be in one group, then you'll just give/receive from the members of that group. Since we weren't that far above the 15 cabin limit we set, most of the people can be on both lists and there will still be fewer than 15 cabins to exchange with. Some of us are just over achievers and want to give/receive with more people!!

 

[Gina]

And some of us are poor single parents and hoping to be able to afford even half the list, and appreciate you splitting the group in two very muchly.

 

[SnipsNSnails]

OK, well I just misunderstood. I waited to join until I was sure the group would split because it's my first time and I thought 8-9 cabins would be manageable. But I suppose another 3-4 cabins won't make too much difference.

 

[FloridaFun]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry there was some confusion about what would happen when the group was split. It works out that there are 14 cabins in group 1 and 13 cabins in group 2. I hope that is still okay with everyone. If not, please let me know and we can all discuss how we would like to do it.

For right now I have the groups as follows:

Group 1:
The Great Cornholeo
Sunshine Cruiser
I Heart Mickey
Kimbo71
Dolores Rader
Betsy2010
FloridaFun (2 cabins)
DuckWindow
Dianacarole
Dawncala
Dismom73 (2 cabins)
KPetty

Group 2:
Glorib
SnipsNSnails
Gina
Juliefsu
BlueNorthern
FloridaFun (2 cabins)
DuckWindow
Dianacarole
Dawncala
Dismom73 (2 cabins)
KPetty

For those in who are in one group, I put the names into a bowl and drew them at random. I hope that was an okay with everyone.

Beth

 

[KPetty725]

Yeah, it's our first time too. I figured it would be more fun to do smaller things for more people. Plus, I'm hoping it will be fun enough to tempt my kids out of the kids' clubs. Otherwise, I might not see them all week!

 

[FloridaFun]

That is funny Katie! I hardly ever saw my older son the last Disney cruise. He was in heaven. Went to the club in the morning, hung out all day with his friends, ate with them, swam with them, went to shows with them… he thought it was the best vacation ever!

I did work on the spreadsheet. Group 1 is on the first page and at the bottom of that page you will see a little tab where it says Sheet 2. If you click on the sheet 2 tab you will get the page with the second group. With that said, I did have to move the information from one sheet to the other and I somehow lost some of the T-shirt sizes for sure. Can everyone please check their information and make sure it is correct. Sorry in advance about any mistakes I made. If you need me to correct anything that you can not fix, just let me know. Thanks!

 

[glorib]

That is funny Katie! I hardly ever saw my older son the last Disney cruise. He was in heaven. Went to the club in the morning, hung out all day with his friends, ate with them, swam with them, went to shows with them… he thought it was the best vacation ever!

I did work on the spreadsheet. Group 1 is on the first page and at the bottom of that page you will see a little tab where it says Sheet 2. If you click on the sheet 2 tab you will get the page with the second group. With that said, I did have to move the information from one sheet to the other and I somehow lost some of the T-shirt sizes for sure. Can everyone please check their information and make sure it is correct. Sorry in advance about any mistakes I made. If you need me to correct anything that you can not fix, just let me know. Thanks!

Thanks so very much for all the organizing you've done with this! I really appreciate you taking the time to do it!

 

[juliefsu]

That is funny Katie! I hardly ever saw my older son the last Disney cruise. He was in heaven. Went to the club in the morning, hung out all day with his friends, ate with them, swam with them, went to shows with them… he thought it was the best vacation ever!

I did work on the spreadsheet. Group 1 is on the first page and at the bottom of that page you will see a little tab where it says Sheet 2. If you click on the sheet 2 tab you will get the page with the second group. With that said, I did have to move the information from one sheet to the other and I somehow lost some of the T-shirt sizes for sure. Can everyone please check their information and make sure it is correct. Sorry in advance about any mistakes I made. If you need me to correct anything that you can not fix, just let me know. Thanks!

Thank you for organizing this. I haven't been on in a few days so sorry I didn't respond. I'm fine with being in just one group.

 

[FloridaFun]

Thank you for the “Thank you” It has been a lot of fun getting to know everyone in advance and I can’t wait to meet all of you on Feb. 15!

 

[KPetty725]

Ok, so random question. I've always requested the early dining time because it works better with young kids; however, I've never tried to request a specific dining rotation. Can you do that? I thought I had seen someone say on here that they had but I can't find that post (not surprising since we're up to 19 pages!!). I always get stuck in Parrot Cay on the last night which means we have to go there for breakfast and I'm really not a fan of that restaurant. It's too loud for me (visually and auditorally? auditarily? audioly? oh heck...sound! LOL)

 

[BlueGreen]

Hey - I just got introduced to the concepts of FEE and this board - and will be on the cruise on the 15th out of Texas.. Is it too late to join the Fish extender? Let me know. THere will be 4 of us travelling -myself, my husband - or 8 and 5 year olds... Thanks!

 

[FloridaFun]

Hi BlueGreen,

We closed the official group last Wednesday, but I would be happy to exchange with you as well if you would still like to participate. There are a couple of other people in the group that are in 2 of the FEE groups who might also like to exchange with you.

I hate to say no to adding you to the regular FEE group, but I don’t want to put pressure on those that committed to a certain number of cabins in order to make it possible for them to also participate.

Beth

 

[FloridaFun]

One other thought my Mom just had. Always good to have your mom close by to bounce things off... I could start a 3rd FEE group of people that join in later. Would that work for you BlueGreen? I would participate with you still in that group and we could add anyone else the inquires from now on. Is everyone good with that?

Thanks,
Beth

 

[KPetty725]

Hey - I just got introduced to the concepts of FEE and this board - and will be on the cruise on the 15th out of Texas.. Is it too late to join the Fish extender? Let me know. THere will be 4 of us travelling -myself, my husband - or 8 and 5 year olds... Thanks!

Welcome! I'll give up one of my spots so you can join. I was feeling a bit uneasy looking at the list anyway because I'd really like to do something for both grown ups and kids and that was adding up to a lot of people!

Do you have girls or boys? I've got a 6-year-old daughter who will be hanging out in the kids club and would love more friends her own age (as opposed to just playing with her 3-year-old sister!!).

 

[FloridaFun]

Thanks, Katie. BlueGreen, you can email me your details to beth@sitesandsounds.com I will need your cabin number, family last name, adult names, kid names with ages, t-shirt sizes, any special celebrations and your google email address.