2 DISNEY ships together in 1 PORT!... PIRATE NIGHT w/pictures!

[dizzi]

I have never done this before.........Literally, in every way.........
I have never wrote a trip report.........
I have never been on a cruise............

I have never pondered so long on what i will make the Title of something.
And now after a week i am going to change the title!!!! HA, A womans perogative,right??????????

I am sure as the story unfolds though all of the title will make its self clear! HOPEFULLY! IF i dont keep changing it!!!!!!!!

This is my cast...................

MYSELF........dizzi........which everyone in my house knows it is short for dizzi for disney!!!!!!!! I am MOM, WIFE, and Cheif Project Manager of this Cruise.

MY DH..........Mike........he is DAD, HUSBAND, and GREAT listener. PROJECT MANGERS need GREAT LISTENERS!!!

MY DS.........Joe........he is 14 year old SON, Basketball player, and MIDDLE School Student. NOT ALWAYS THE GREATEST LISTENER!!!!

MY DD........Allie.......she is 10 year old Daughter (she will be 11 before we cruise), Cheer leader, 5th grader about to embark on Middle School........and She has NO need to LISTEN as she knows Everything ALREADY!!!!!!!!


My DH has been on a cruise a very long time ago in another life, And it was not a DISNEY CRUISE......which does not count any more.......and the rest of us have only seen the outside of a cruise ship as we pass by the terminals in Fort Lauderdale or watch them roll out to sea while we play at the beach...........SO WE ARE FIRST TIMERS!!!

FIRST TIMERS.......in just about every way........WE have no idea what to expect, what to pack what to wear................OH MY this is gonna be fun!!!!!

FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!!! yep that is what we try to do every year when it is time for our BIG FAMILY VACATION!!!!!

We started looking at DISNEY Cruises in late 2006 and finally found this board in JAN 2007. We finally booked our cruise March 16 2007. After much pondering of dates and IF we should get a verandah or not.

VERANDAH!!!!!! yep we booked a VERANDAH!!!! i have learned since then that it is actually said in this way.........VERRRRRRRRRRRandah with the roll of the RRRRRs over the tongue and usually followed by the word DARLING!

Darling husband really pushed for the verandah. I was not convinced for sometime that we should spend the extra money$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I will let you know what i think of the extra $$$$$ spent when we return!!!!!

RETURN................NO i dont want to even think about returning.........AHHHHHHHHHHHH i haven"t even gotten there yet............

OH NO.... CAN WE GO NOW?????????

 

[DreamCruiser100]

YOU SHOULD BE IN BED YOUNG LADY, IT IS AFTER MIDNIGHT!!!

LOVE your TR so far!!! It makes it soo real, starting a TR, I just know we are going to have a blast!!

Sleep tight my dear DIZZ friend

See you on the Moon board.........................

 

[vital]

3 Moonies starting thier reports already?! I'm glad, now I don't have to do one!

 

[jns]

Just saying Hi
Great start
Looking forward to meeting you on board

 

[Babs417]

Paula yes you do! Lynn this is so great to be in a story.

 

[101DalmFan]

Well, of course I have to subscribe to this one!

(OMG, what if I do something supremely silly on-board and it ends up in everyone's trip reports.............. )

 

[LivingtheWDWdream]

Great Start. I remember my mom and I trying to decide verrrrandah or not. We went Verrrrrandah and didn't regret it. We loved watching them dock the ship and unload and reload everything. In the early morning taking photos of the sunset from our private deck and knowing we didn't have to worry about being seen in our Pajama's!

Can't wait to hear more!

 

[Disneygrl36]

I'm here too Lynn
We Moonies are writing some pretty interesting stories already.
I am soooo ready to meet all of you.
CAN WE GO YET?????????

 

[dizzi]

I am so Extremly Excited!!!! The best of the best count down is on!!!! In exactly 2 weeks this exact time we will be loading up the last items into the van!!! And heading UP to Orlando for our BIG FAMILY VACATION!!!

Our Big Family VACATION,this year consists of One day at Sea World, MNSSHP, and then OF COURSE our 7 Night Cruise Eastern Caribbean!!

Caribbean.....awwwwww......Again......something that will be a first for all of us! But doesnt the word just make you feel peaceful, dreamy, i already feel the breeze in my hair, and feel the ocean on my toes!!!!! OKAY BACK TO REALITY!!!!!

The Reality is ............ i only have 14 days to finish packing.....and of course I am an overpacker of sorts, i must know what all 4 us are going to wear each day..and there are certain days and times when we MUST match. I feel a bit of anxiety like i wont get it all in the suit case and like a will forget something, and not having ever done this, i feel like i might mess up and forget something important...................... but i know soon it will all come together. As long as we look good for the pictures!

AHHHHH pictures.......cant wait to post some pictures when i return

RETURN NOOOOOOO i dont even want to think about that yet.........

 

[Babs417]

Are you packed yet?

 

[Brianne&Sami'smom]

Another Moonie report!!! Can't wait to read more!

 

[praisehisname]

I'm subbing. We are doing the Halloween cruise next year, so bring back lots of details!!!

Denise

 

[Babs417]

With this group you will get alot of tails I mean details

 

[dizzi]

This may be the longest 4 days of my life!!!!!!!!
Okay at least the longest 4 days of this COUNTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!

I almost wish i had started out not caring what we were going to wear, and just taking a couple simple outfits, as the packing as been a stressful at best.........BUT MEMORABLE.

And hopefully worth it when we get all the great pictures back!!!!
And of course i will post them here!!!!

Of course what happened was i saw a trip report with all the great pictures and every picture they posted they all matched in a very awesoem way....polka dots and colors and stripes.........so i had to do my best for our FAMILY to match as well!!!!

So at this point I have 1 large suitcase packed for our PRECRUISE days and then for the CRUISE i have 4 large and 1 medium. I think by the time i finish i may need 2 more mediums.
We hope we can fit it all in the van...........but i thought it would be more than this so i am doing pretty good.

Truthfully i am tired of the count down and i am just ready to GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!!!!!!!!

 

[dizzi]

OH MY............

We have just arrived home and i am too tired to unpack and wash clothes so i am going to do DAY ONE!

We arrived at around 9:50am at the parking lot! So we only had to wait about 10 minutes to get in to the parking area.

We saw one of our table mates go in just ahead of us and it was very nice to already know soemone that would be on board!

We went into the terminal and checked in ................
FIRST LESSON LEARNED! We had not printed out our check in papers completly, make sure if you print them you check that they are all there! SOOO make sure it prints all the way to the end with LINES FOR YOUR SIGNATURE. We had to fill everything back out.

Making me know for sure we were not going to get a #2 for boarding.
And as i filled out the paper work i mentioned " oh we are not going to get a #2" The lady helping me said if you do not get a #2 come and see me and i will give you one.

I hated to be greedy............BUT I DID GO BACK FOR MY #2!!! Magical moment #1 May not seem like much but it was too me!

We waited in the terminal and took pictures with MINNIE!

Checked our DD in to her Kids club and then it was time!

I cant say i was that impressed with the name announcement but i was on the ship and that is what mattered!

We went up stairs and got some grub from TOPSIDDERS............it was alot like i imagined and we sat outside and the air blew through our hair! We had our DISBOARDS MEET and GREET! And said our HELLO'S and had some drinks!

Then we went to our CABIN!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH very NICE! OUR luggage had arrived and we started to unpack! And the boat took off!

AND I STARTED TO GET VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY DIZZI! Yep thats my NAME! And no pun intended..........the more i unpacked the dizzier i got!
BY dinner i felt terrible! But tried todo dinner in the dinning room BUT nope wasnt going to happen. DD and i both felt horrible but we both excused ourselves and went to the room we spent "girl time in bed groaning and hoping the next 7 days were not like this!"

We ordered room service........chicken noodle soup! GREAT FIRST MEAL!
And went to sleep!
SECOND LESSON LEARNED! TAKE THE MOTION SICKNESS MEDICINE BEFORE YOU GET ON BOARD!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Disneygrl36]

Hi Lynn
I am impressed that you already have some trip report up!!!! I am downloading pictures right now.
Great meeting you & I saw on the main thread that I need to tell you "Welcome Home".
I am sad today how bout you?

 

[dizzi]

YES I AM SAD!

AND yes you can say WELCOME HOME!

We joined the DVC!

LOOKING forward to using soem points on our cruise next year and then maybe VERO BEACh without the kids this summer!

WOO HOO!!!!!!!

 

[ironwill1979]

I love your TR! I could feel your excitment jumping out of the computer at me! It's making me get all excited/fidgety now about my cruise that is still 6 months away.

 

[KimAshton]

I could have told you about the motion sickness meds. Seriously I get sick driving in the passengers side of the car. I hope it wasn't that bad the whole trip.

 

[frdeb1999]

Love TR's!