20041218-cruise-friends-memories Part 3

[paulcrsb]

Originally posted by videogal1
She bin nibblin' body parts, Paul?

Paul

 

[tkd lisa]

Hi everyone. I missed my morning post because I had too many meetings (darned work getting in the way!). Welcome to our newbies! So glad to have you.

I know it can be intimidating to join into a group like this. Honestly, we're all really really nice (aren't we everyone?). Our first cruise (which was with Vicki and GaRry - wdwgoose and cruisingoose) was another big, vocal group. It was so nice to get on board and actually "know" people to say hi to! And it's really nice for the kids to have someone to look for. So just lurk if you want, or dive right in and let us know what's going on in your lives if you want. It's all goodness!

Anyone else coming to join me in chat tonight? We don't have any plans so I should be there at 9. It was great having so many of us on chat last week.

Happy Friday to all, and Mary, can't wait to see the countdown tomorrow am!

 

[tinksdad]

Originally posted by karaeric
...to dance with you all!!

Some of you may already know me from the east to west Panama Canal cruise thread, but I was too shy to post here - just been a 'lurkin here. Now all of this dancing has inspired me to come out and introduce myself.

My DH, Eric - 36, and I (Kara - 31 until the last day of the cruise!) will be joining everyone on the 10-day cruise in December! We've been booked for so long, I can't even remember when we booked it.

This will be our first cruise together with no other friends or family, so we're very excited and looking forward to some relaxing, possibly some SCUBA diving, and lots of fun!

Lynda, SO sorry to hear about your foot!! If you were still here in the Bay Area, I'd volunteer to come help you out! Bummer and sure hope it's healed in time for this cruise!

Best wishes to all in Florida (AGAIN!!!). Charley displaced my 84 year old grandmother from Port Charlotte to Tampa, then Frances blew through Tampa. Thankfully, the hotel she's living in had no damage. I sure hope Ivan veers off into the Carribean without causing any damage to FL.

Cheers, and happy Friday!

Way to go! Great party we will all be having this Christmas.

Check out the DIS Divers site for some diving information if your interested. I would recommend that you book your dives either with us or through the ship as soon as possible.

 

[seaulater]

Happy Friday everyone!! Glad to see all our new posters.

Lynda-yep, that pantyhose could get pretty expensive with Cash helping you, but then I think I only get to wear mine about one time before they are ruined. I could have been a millionaire if I had invented those things. I could be cruising all the time.
Sorry bout the foot. Hope it heals fast and that you are doing the double digit dance in your electric scooter!!!! I've seen those things move and about got run down with them to at WDW. Man, some of those tourists need a driver's training course before they use those things.

Okay, gotta quit dancing and get to work.

Linda

 

[ohiominnie]

Originally posted by videogal1
Please, if you're playing tug-of-war or keep away with Maggie....stop. It just encourages the biting....especially the tug-of-war

Yup, no tug of war for her!

 

[ohiominnie]

Originally posted by karaeric
(Kara - 31 until the last day of the cruise!)

The last day as in the last full day or as in disembarkation day?

My b-day is disembarkation day. I'm sure my kids will be singing this to me:

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Karen
Now get off our ship!

In fact, they were just practicing it today when my parents were here to prepare them!

10 beautiful days on the Disney Magic and they kick you off on your birthday. That stinks. Maybe I should go for the back-to-back 10 day-7 day!

Although we are going to celebrate the night before so I do know that I'll be able to drown my sorrows in leftover birthday cake!

 

[paulcrsb]

Well I'm off to do some work around the yard. You guys didn't think that I would take a vacation day and do nothing did you? I'm saving the doing nothing for the cruise!

Paul

 

[ohiominnie]

Originally posted by videogal1
She bin nibblin' body parts, Paul?

HA!

 

[ohiominnie]

Originally posted by tkd lisa
Anyone else coming to join me in chat tonight? We don't have any plans so I should be there at 9.

I wish. But ohiomickey has a Residents Reunion for Children's Hospital. We have to get all dressed up and go to a fancy dinner. BLECH!!!! I hate fancy.

 

[paulcrsb]

Originally posted by ohiominnie
My b-day is disembarkation day.

ohiominnie - This happened to me on my cruise last year. What a bummer! I did get my birthday cake at dinner the night before. I made up for it by going to Hoop-de-do Revue that night!

Paul

 

[karaeric]

Originally posted by ohiominnie
The last day as in the last full day or as in disembarkation day?

My b-day is disembarkation day. I'm sure my kids will be singing this to me:

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Karen
Now get off our ship!

In fact, they were just practicing it today when my parents were here to prepare them!

10 beautiful days on the Disney Magic and they kick you off on your birthday. That stinks. Maybe I should go for the back-to-back 10 day-7 day!

Although we are going to celebrate the night before so I do know that I'll be able to drown my sorrows in leftover birthday cake!

Yep, like you, my b'day is disembarkation day...it makes leaving the ship extra sad. But I figure I will have just spent the last 10 days celebrating my birthday!! Doesn't get any better!

Are you going to Palo the night before? Maybe we'll see you there...wouldn't that be funny, having the staff all sing 'happy birthday' at least twice that night?

Cheers!

 

[ohiominnie]

Paul,
We can't do hoop-de-doo that night. We have to get in a car and drive back to Ohio We'd have flown, but my parents are going and they WON'T fly. Seemed rude to say "you drive, we'll fly."

Kara,
We won't do Palo that night. I like the last night being in the dining room with my servers. We'll actually be celebrating MY birthday on the 27th and my son's birthday---his isn't until January 5th, but I say CLOSE ENOUGH!

 

[ohiominnie]

Somone on the "Disney's First 10 day cruise" thread posted this:


"When we wanted to share an internet package, Bobby stepped up and put it on his account, no questions asked, and at that point we were all strangers"

Are you allowed to do that? Share internet accounts? If so, who wants to get together and share an unlimited package? I'd love to send out Christmas greetings and just stay connected to home (read as the DIS) but it's so expensive.

 

[seaulater]

I'll share. That's what we have been talking about on the PC Cruise in May! Especially since it was the 14 dayer.

Linda

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by seaulater
Hope it heals fast and that you are doing the double digit dance in your electric scooter!!!! I've seen those things move and about got run down with them to at WDW. Man, some of those tourists need a driver's training course before they use those things.

Ahhh, my favorite topic...

Yeah, I know what you mean...Last time I was at WDW I had to rent a scooter there when my own inhaled sand and choked. The scooters at WDW are SO hard to drive I almost got a couple of unwary pedestrians, myself. You can barely steer them one-handed and they are those clunky four-wheeled type that take up a huge amount of sidewalk area. To top it off, the control panel is very hard to figure out. The one I had was the first I've ever seen where you had to flip a switch before pressing a button to select reverse and then you were able to accelerate in reverse. If, however, you were jockeying the scooter back and forth to park it out of the way you had to go through the whole switch flipping, button pressing and then accelerating procedure each time you went from forward, back to reverse, then forward again....Don't ask me how someone puts up with that for the entire day...THEN, to top it off, they are very quiet and slow to stop... pedestrians don't hear them and just wander across their path or change lanes right in front of them. The ped. I missed was a sight-seeing lane-changer and, although I had been following him for a while, he obviously didn't know I was there when he suddenly stopped in his tracks and took off in another direction.....I almost removed half his butt. Of course, It was only when I nearly backed into a seated diner at the 50's Prime Time Cafe that I realized that my very own sylph-like racing scooter had mechanical problems that interfered with its braking ability.......I've read many complaints from scooter victims, though, and have come to the conclusion that If I yelled at each ped. who caused me to swerve, stop, or otherwise impede my progress I'd never get anywhere....If I were on foot, however, people would run into me, push me, and cut in front of me because I walk so slow.... I nearly got into a fight with a LARGE woman at the DISNEY train station in Paris who literally pushed me aside so she could ge to the front of the line...I was only carrying a cane at the time or I might have helped her to the VERY front of the line. I like to think of my scooter as protection against the invasion of my rickety personal space in a crowd....Less dangerous for me....

and that's what the Fluff Queen has to say about that.....

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by seaulater
I'll share. That's what we have been talking about on the PC Cruise in May! Especially since it was the 14 dayer.

Linda

I'll share.....
Got a few free minutes on the May cruise and decided to peek at my home e-mail....Over 200 of them suckers and I'd only been gone 10 days....THAT was the one-month long vacation....
Needless to say, an internet package is on MY list...My scooter doesn't do sand so I suppose CC day will be e-mail/internet day...


I do believe, though, that the accounts are assigned by stateroom. I saw a couple of posts months ago discussing whether or not all the residents of one stateroom could share an account or had to get separate accounts...

Sharing in a group like this should be interesting...

 

[ohiominnie]

Update on my aunt and uncle. The accident was Monday. My uncle had surgery on his leg (insertion of a rod in his femur) sometime Monday night/Tuesday morning. Wednesday evening he was sent home!!!

My aunt is beginning to move more spontaneously. She responds to ppl she knows with movement and increased heart rate. Her sister thinks her eyelids flutter but no one else can verify this. They were talking about weaning her sedatives and seeing what happens.

Thanks all for your continued thoughts and prayers.

 

[tinkfan]

Happy Friday Everyone!!

Welcome to all the newbies.

Its a beautiful sunny day here today!

Wow, this first week of school flew by, maybe because it was a short week. I can tell this is going to be a very busy year and I haven't even started working yet. ( I am a substitute teacher and don't get many calls the first week)

Lisa- sent you a PM yesterday about get together.

Gary- will email or PM you shirt info. Have to take one more look to make final decision.

Mary- still debating Hershey, will make decison by Sunday.

Lynda- what a great attitude you have, hope your foot heals quickly.

I would like to come to chat tonight, should be able to with Hubby gone. Can someone tell me how to get there?

 

[tkd lisa]

Tina, maybe Mark can post you a direct link, but when in doubt, here's what I do to get to chat.

At the top of the normal cruise board is a thread that say "Fri night is Cruise Chat". Open that up and the first thread has a link that says "to go to chat, click here". I just click here and sign in. You will have to download ichat if you've never done it before, so you should try to check in about 10 minutes early. You can get a separate chat name if you want. The first time I tried, I thought the space in my name was causing problems, so my chat name is tkd_lisa. Not sure if the space was a problem, or if I was just stupid!

And I did get your pm on the meet. I'm waiting to meet with my co-girl scout leader to figure out my fall schedule before trying to hook up a meet. Maybe we could do something up by the Rockville area which would make it easier for Dobelover and Charlotte to join us? Let me get my thoughts together and I"ll let you know sometime next week.

 

[WDWLVR]

Tina - here is the link to chat click here to chat

I think with the new chat you don't have to download anything like you did with the old one. I suggest going and registering at a time when there isn't anything going one. Then you just need to remember your name and password to log in when chat is happening.

I don't think Mark or I will be in chat tonight. We're in the middle of a project down in the family room that we need to finish tonight as we are having family over tomorrow.