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

[Kabuli1]

Hi,

We might be with you! I have to decide which of the two Jan 2004 Western cruises to take - the 17th or the 31st! Can anybody help me make up my mind??? The thing is, My DD graduates from HS on the 16th and this would be a surprise graduation present. I can't decide if we should leave the very next day or wait till the 31st. Any ideas?

It would be myself (just turned 50); DH (51) and DD (just a couple weeks shy of 18). I hoping we can bring her to Palo to celebrate since she will be so close to her 18th BDay!.

Karyn

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

I would think that waiting the extra time would be good. Especially if you are having family or any kind of get togethers. If it was me, I would want the breather in-between to pack and also if it is a suprise for your daughter I'm thinking she would like some time to anticipate and hmmm shop? Just my two cents. I'm also going to pm you with an idea I had.

 

[Annie12345]

Hi Kabuli1 - I would go for the Jan 31st cruise - not only because of the funlovin DISers who will be on that cruise, but I can remember back to my graduation (okay, it's a distant memory) and I think a few days in between would be much appreciated by your daughter.

Tiigergirl - I had to laugh at a couple of posts back where you talked about the royal "we"... my hubby thinks I'm the only one who says "we" when I mean "he"... Every family needs a foreman (or forewoman!!!)

Hope you're all enjoying sunshiny days!!!

- Annie

 

[Scott5150]

Hey all!

We will be cruzin' on the 1/31/04 western too!

Cast:

Scott - 32
Amy - 30
Lucas - 3 1/2
Sarah - 8 mos
Joann (My Mom) - 62

We have 2 connected cat 10 cabins on deck 2.

 

[Scott5150]

Hey all!

We will be cruzin' on the 1/31/04 western too!

Cast:

Scott - 32
Amy - 30
Lucas - 3 1/2
Sarah - 8 mos
Joann (My Mom) - 62

We have 2 connected cat 10 cabins on deck 2.

Scott

 

[OKWMEMBER]

Glad to have you join our group! I see you are a fellow DVCer, very cool!

 

[dpuck1998]

I haven't been on the cruise boards in a while, but we will
be on this cruise as well. This will be our first cruise.
Myself, DW, DS's ages 4 and 3 at time of sailing.
We will be the lucky ones in the Secret Pothole Room.
I believe it's room 5020. Can't wait, we are finally below
200 days.....is there a dance for that?

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

Yes pduck I have a dance for that unfortunately it looks remarkably like the hokey pokey. Either that or the funky chicken.

Yes Annie I'm frequently referred to as Princess. It is a term of endearment. I think. I hope. It better be! Warren, We need to talk.

I'm feeling kinda bummed. I just got out of the hospital to get my meds for my neuropathy and other problems adjusted and we now can't do both the land and cruise part of our trip. I know, I know, cry me river. Find someone to feel really sorry for! I just don't dare ask for the additional time and well hospital stays don't come cheap. I didn't dare ask for a kleenex while I was there for fear of how much it would cost. I guess you all can see which I chose. I really wanted to do the new Space ride but I figure they aren't packing it up anytime soon. Although I said that about the rocket rods at Disneyland and I ended up missing them. They were in and out so fast. Hopefully Space is better conceived.

OK who has dinner companions and who is still looking for some. We still need to find someone willing to eat with us. We're really not that bad. OK so I have the whole royalty fixation and my son is a messy eater but we bathe and we promise to dress nicely for formal night. I've bought us each a very formal swimsuit for that night. (She ducks for cover in case anyone missed that she is joking. Please no flames this was a joke.) We are very nice people with medium table manners. But we try really hard. I mean this is our fourth cruise and they haven't banned us or anything. I mean there was that one year......What honey. I shouldn't tell them. I might scare them. OK well I'll just end my post with the request that if anyone is looking for a nice DISing family to break bread with then so are we. Oh, and we are doing early seating.

 

[Kabuli1]

Ok, I think you convinced me! I'll call member services tomorrow and book it! I'm just waiting till DD is at work to make the call! I'll let you know when it's official!

We're long time DVC members too - OKW since '94! And this one is going to definitely be on points!

It's going to be a total surprise for Jill, she already thinks that we're going to do her final college visits right after she graduates - which will get us down to Orlando. I think we'll tell her we're visiting friends in So. FL so she brings enough shorts and suits! I'll stick her formals in my bag! I know what she'll want to bring! I hope I can keep the secret!

We would love dinner companions - our last cruise we had DIS tablemates and we love them to death and have seen them since! They became our close firends! We'll be doing late dinner.

This will be our second cruise - both times Western! DH and I are still scheduled for an Eastern in Nov - but will most likely have to cancel that! We may look into doing the AP cruise on the Wonder the week before, but only if the price is really good!

Looking forward to this!

Karyn

 

[Scott5150]

I have only been to Disneyland once, but I went on the Rocket Rods twice while I was there. They were pretty cool, but not an E ticket ride like the others.

Unfortunately due to our late booking, we have been stuck with late seating. I hope to change this if we can, but I do not know where on the list we are for first seating. We normally eat between 5 and 6, so 8 is far too late for us. It actually almost caused us to put the cruise off until May. But I figured that we could get it changed.

Scott

 

[Kabuli1]

It's official, we're on! We got one of the partially obstructed view full balconies (at Cat 7 price): 6134! What's interesting here is that we were planning to be in this cabin on the cruise in Nov which we are having to cancel! So I guess this is meant to be!

We are: Me: Karyn (just turned 50 gasp before the cruise); DH: Randy (same age); and DD: Tinkerbell (aka Jill) (almost 18) This is a big secret and surprise for her. We are hoping we can sneak (with permission) Jill into Palo and the spa!

We will have late dining and would love DIS dining companions!

Any other teens here?

Ok, now when do I get to start packing?

Karyn

 

[dpuck1998]

Hey Tiiiigergirl, our countdowns are in perfect synch...

Somehow OKWMEMBER will be there a day before us though...
dirty sneek....

 

[kmc33]

This is too cool! I don't think there were any DISers on our first Disney Cruise. Before we left, I read posts of others that had lots of people going and thought that sounded like fun. Now we are going on one of them! We should link all of our reservations and take over a dining room!

 

[OKWMEMBER]

I don't trust the weather in Erie in January, dpuck1998! We give ourselves an extra travel day. Have fun at WDW! We stayed at the Yacht Club the night before our last cruise. Loved it!

 

[kmc33]

We are flying from Pittsburgh on the 30th too. I guess I didn't factor that in when I did my countdown clock.

Hope everyone is enjoying summer! Can you believe it's almost August already?! We just got back from a week at the Delaware shore. It was nice to get away. Although after seeing the Caribbean Sea, it's hard to get to excited about the Atlantic Ocean this far north. Even if the color of the water isn't as wonderful, the waves were great!

 

[Kabuli1]

Bumping this up! Had to go looking thru lots and lots of pages to find us!

Wow, the summer is fast coming to an end, kidz are going back to school in a few weeks which means that the next 180 days are going to fly by! And I've got 25 more lbs to lose before the end of the year!

I've been thinking about 1/31/04 so much lately. Anyone know where they're staying the night before the cruise? Has everybody gotten their air or travel arrangements made? I'm waiting for Southwest to publish it's rates for January. We're also holding off cause DH and I are seriously considering moving to FL in the near future.

I hope August is wonderful for everybody and any end of the summer vacations are super family times for all of you! I just got back from a wedding in DC and had a great time. (My 1.5 hour plane ride home turned into a 5 hour weather nightmare! Keep that in mind if you're thinking about flying into Orlando on the day of the cruise!)

Happy thoughts and pixie dust to everybody!

Karyn

 

[Annie12345]

I thought I'd bump this up in case there are any other cruisers who will be joining us that ... I hope you are all having a fantastic summer... I've been working really hard during the week and enjoying our beautiful weather on the weekends - not near an ocean but some pretty nice lakes.... We just bought some neat stuff for the cruise this weekend...
- Annie

 

[OKWMEMBER]

I wanna go were there's sun!

How is everybody? Where have you been, Ann? Long time no chat!

We're getting excited about celebrating my birthday at WDW. Almost time to start the 50 day countdown!!!

We hope everyone in the group is having a fun, if not dry, summer and post to the thread soon!

 

[Tiiiigergirl]

Can you please send some of the rain here? We are roasting and dry. I feel like Sarah in the sequel to Sarah Plain and Tall, the one where it doesn't rain for weeks. That's us. We are waiting until it cools off to lay our sod and I'm really starting to covet my neighbor's grass. A couple of them got it put down before this terrible heat wave began.

I'm thinking that in September we'll start looking at booking some flights. I'm kinda anxious because I want to surprise Warren with a limo ride and I can't book that until I know our flight schedule. Hope everyone has a Disney day!

 

[Kabuli1]

Tiiiigergirl! I would love to send some of this to rain to you! The weeds in my yard are taller than me. One week away and I need a machete to hack and slash through my garden!

OKWMEMBER, somehow I'm NOT looking forward to that particular birthday which comes for me after yours and before the cruise. SIGH! How 'bout we have a drink together on board to celebrate! I took DH to BWV for his 50th last April we had dinner at Emeril's Tschoup Chop - very nice! Be sure to stop by guest services at one of the parks and get your birthday pin! Oh, I et the manager at BWV know about it and there was a very nice surprise waiting in our room on his big day!

Well, it's another gloomy rainy day in Chi Town! Oh, how I miss the sun! Hope each and everyone of you has plenty of sinshine today - inside or out!

Karyn