20040131 ~ Cruising Jan 31 2004 Western Who's with us?

[Tiiiigergirl]

Even though it is a long ways out I thought I would start the thread. I haven't seen one for this cruise and if there is one already started I apologize. So since I officially put down my deposit today....Who's going?

 

[shingle]

hi tiiiigergirl myself dh ds aged 13 and dd aged 8 will be sailing with you we live in wales and this will be our third cruise with disney. is this your first cruise

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

Yeah! We won't be on the ship alone!

No this is the 4th Disney cruise for me, DH and DS age 10. This is our second try for the Western Itin. Hurricane Lili decided to come and play last fall . Hopefully we will have good weather and make it to Cozumel so I can play with the Dolphins.

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

Is anyone else with or will Shingle and I have the ship to ourselves? Shingle, I've got to ask what is the background of your name? Have you been on the Western before?

 

[KSTIGGERSDAD]

Hi there. Good to see you are off on another cruise.

We are on another too. My 40th high school reunion. October 12 of this year.
Say hi to the family.

John and Jean

 

[shingle]

hi tiiiigergirl if you go back a few pages on the forum there is another post for the 31st WE are not alone

 

[shingle]

whoops forgot to answer tiiiigergirls question we have not been on the western before we done a 3 day in feb 00 and a 4 day in feb 03: as for the name shingle my husband is a landscaper and its a decorative stone hope your not to confused

 

[Annie12345]

We will be there with you... it's myself - Ann (36), DH - Randy (47) and DD - Jaclyn (10). We're travelling with OKWMEMBER (Gary and Gail) who we met on our February 8, 2002 Eastern cruise. We're looking forward to trying out the Western itinerary.

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

John ~ so good to hear from you again! Are you planning on singing for your supper again this year. Wish you were sailing with us. For a second I was really excited until I settled down and read it and realized that you were not going with us. Kelly mentioned that she saw you last year.

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

Shingle:

I was just hoping your name did not refer to some strange disease. Actually, it sounds like our husbands may have something in common. Mine is a gardner.

Annie:

Good to meet you as well. Last year we cruised with people we met the year before and had a blast. It was great to have someone to go shopping with when my husband bailed on me.


I'm hoping we can get to know each other a bit. Who is up for a DIS meet on board? I've done this for the past two cruises and it made a world of difference.

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

I went back to page 25 (search function not working) and could not find that other thread so I hope the others find us!

 

[JonHM]

but I am pretty positive that we will be on that cruise as well. It will be me, DW and DS, who will be 3 and a half by that time. We've never been on the Western, just on a 3 day - really looking forward to it!

 

[kmc33]

We are planning to go - me, DH, and DS (who will be 4-1/2 then). I too looked back to previous pages (about 13) and couldn't find the other thread.

I also noticed a post on this page asking about the SuperBowl on the ship. Super Bowl XXXVIII is scheduled for February 1, 2004, while we will be onboard the Magic. So I wonder if that person is going too. I am interested in finding out what they do for the Super Bowl on the ship. Certainly the ESPN Skybox won't be big enough for everyone that wants to watch it.

 

[Annie12345]

Tiiiigergirl - A DIS meet sounds great to us... it was so nice to run into people we had met from the DIS -- we spent most of our time on board with our DIS friends, especially in the evenings...
- Annie

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

How fun! A superbowl party with that many people. And I don't even like football that much but the party part. Woo hoo.

Last year's cruise DIS meet was 100 plus people. We had t-shirts and several events. Some got cancelled due to the itinerary change (thanks Huricane Lili ) but we have lots of time to plan.

Any ideas?

Welcome kmc and JonHM. Our numbers are growing.

 

[OKWMEMBER]

Myself , Gary(49, 50 by cruise time ) and my DW Gail (51) will be joining you! As Annie said, we didi the Eastern cruise this year and we're looking forward to a new itinerary! We did a DIS meet with about 15 folks.

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

15 sounds like a more manageable number than the hundred or so we had on our last cruise!

So has anyone cruise with anyone but Disney before?

What part of the country or world is everyone from?

Does anyone have any pets?

I'll start:

We have only cruised with Disney although I'm really thinking an Alaska cruise would be fun. We are thinking that Princess or RCCL would be the way to go with our DS.

We are from the state with the greatest snow on earth: Utah. Wheee. Too bad we don't ski.

We have one dog named Kara. She is part chocolate lab and part who knows. She thinks she is a person so please don't tell her she really is a dog it would really hurt her feelings!

 

[Annie12345]

Hi Tiiiigergirl -

We did a three day Ocean Breeze cruise in 1999 as part of a vacation package. That's when we got hooked... Since then we were on the February 8, 2003 Eastern Magic... and are looking forward to our back to back cruises next year...

We are from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada... I don't know if we have the greatest snow on earth, but we certainly had our fair share of it this year!! We don't ski but we like to go snowshoeing...

No pets for us...

What grade is your son in? Our DD is in grade 4 and is 9. She'll be 10 when we cruise. She is hooked on cruising just like us...

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

Back to back cruises ooooooohhhhhh I'm jealous!

Our son is 10 and will be just a couple of months shy of his 11th birthday when we sail. He will be in the 5th grade next year. He loves the kids program and we can't pry him out of there!

 

[OKWMEMBER]

We're from Erie, Pa.

We've cruised three other times with Holland America and really enjoyed it. The big difference is that there are almost no kids on a HAL cruise because they cater to an older crowd.

We have two Burmese cats. A.J. (Almond Joy) and Rolo. They run the house.