20041218-cruise-friends-memories

[afff]

Hi Lisa

My son will be 6 and my daughter will be 10.
By the way where do you find the abbreviations eg. ( DS etc )
I'm glad to hear you found the Cat 10 big enough for your family.

 

[WVMD]

Welcome AFFF,

I have a daughter who will also be 10 at the time of the cruise. Ohiominnie's daughter will also be 10. My daughter, Lauren, doesn't know that we've booked the cruise - it's driving KT, who is Ohiominnies daughter, crazy that she can't tell her. They met on the 3 day Wonder cruise we took in September.

Once again - welcome to this crazy Magical group. Even though I haven't been posting long - and haven't had the pleasure to meet most of the group members - you'll definitely feel like you belong as I did very quickly.

Take Care!

Virgil

 

[jilljill]

Hi everyone,
Welcome to afff. Our DD wil also be 10 when we go on the cruise. She doesn't know either, and won't for a very long time. In fact I have only told 2 people, outside of the boards, that we are going.

Mary, thanks for the weather update. I heard Sunday is supposed to be very chilly there. I have booked Tony's for dinner Thurs. night, we haven't eaten there.

Well just about time to head out the door to pick up DD and head to the airport. Speak to you all next week.

 

[WDWLVR]

Greetings all! Taking a mid-day break before heading out to Epcot and the Candlelight Processional tonight.

We are staying at the Contemporary- my first time ever! Our goal is to one day stay at every Disney World hotel and this was one I had never stayed at! We got a beautiful Magic Kingdom view. It isn't DVC but it is a great resort.

For those of you who haven't had a chance to see the new fireworks show "Wishes" you'll be in for a treat when you do - awesome show.

Our first sight when we walked into the lobby yesterday was the model of the Disney cruise ship. Made me smile because I knew we were just a year away from our Magical cruise with all of you!

Well off to read the rest of the board before we head out. Have a great day everyone!

 

[tkd lisa]

Afff: I think the abbreviations are listed on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) part of the web page. But it's pretty much D for Disney or Dear, then
D- Daughter
S- Son
W- wife
H- husband
M- Mother (with IL for in-law)
F- father (with IL for in-law)
GD for granddaughter
GS for grandson,

and so on......

Even though my daughter will be 12, she does very well with younger girls. She'll probably fit right in with the 10 year old crew. She'll be in their group at the lab (it's 10-12), and will probably be happy to email the girls once they know about the trip.

We've told our kids, because they were part of the decision. We're taking my in-laws with us, so part of the decision was that we are having a very small Christmas this year and next so that we can afford to take grandma and grandpa. They kids were happy to do it, because they love their times with the grandparents (we live 700 miles away, so only see them at Christmas).

 

[gail1771]

Mary, That was so nice to hear from you from WDW. Bundle up , I heard it is going to be a chilly weekend in Orlando. I will look forward to hearing about your trip when you return.

My daughter loves to hang around with older girls but she will only be shy of 8. I hope there will be more girls posting in her age group for the children's program. My son will be hanging with Deb's son and hopefully other children posting in his age group. He will be 3.5 at the time of the cruise.

I can't believe how fast time is going since we booked this cruise. Almost 6 months has passed. Talk to you all soon-Gail1771

 

[afff]

Thanks for the welcomes everyone. It seems like you ALL are one big happy family.
Its great to hear the similar ages of our DD's and would be great if they could get aquainted prior to the trip via email. ( great idea )
Reading your posts got me even more excited about the trip. I didn't think that was possible.
My children ALSO don't have a clue about this vacation.
So the emails will have to wait.
I just can not wait to tell them ( its killing me )......We are waiting for the right moment.
With Christmas (2004) being so far away anything could happen.
It is by far...... still not a for sure thing for our family as of yet.
To tell the kids about DISNEY and then possibally having to cancell would be the worst thing conceivable for them.
So we are going to wait a while yet to tell them.
I, myself am 99.999999999% committed but my wife is still not quite convinced.
I am slowly, but surely working on her, and I will continue to pay down on our outstanding balance.

Did anyone book airfare with Disney?
We did.......In the new year I will be trying to find cheaper flights then the ones quoted to us.

Thats it for now....I will be checking in frequently

Where do you get the countdown clock?

 

[tkd lisa]

Afff, you can get your countdown clocks on the technical board. Go to the main board page, then down toward the bottom is the technical board. One of the top posts there is something like get your countdown clocks here.

The person who wrote the code for this was on our May 2002 western cruise (psyklops). He surprised his wife with the trip, and they were really nice people.

 

[Kabuli1]

Hi everybody! And a big welcome to afff! It seems like everybody is at WDW except me right now.

I'm sorry I've been almost too busy to post! But the house has been on the market now for just over a week, I've had family here and am getting ready to teach an adult class at my church, so time is really flying by. We're hoping to come to an agreement on a contract this morning, so hopefully that will be done, I'll let you know.

It turns out we may be bringing #1 DS and his fiance as well on the cruise. I'm holding a cat 12 for them. The price has already gone up abut $100pp. So the cat 12 is the same as the cat 11 weeks and weeks ago. That's three staterooms for us - I guess we all know what they are getting for Christmas THIS year - A cruise NEXT year! Maybe I can knit each of them a lime green scarf!

Does anybody have an extra DCL Christmas ornament or two they could part with?

Well, I'm off to get started on my incredibly busy day!

Karyn

 

[afff]

thanks tkd lisa......got my clock

 

[gail1771]

Hello to all from snowy NY. We are suppose to get 6-18 inches by tomorrow night. They say it will be near blizzard conditions tomorrow. We have about 3-4 inches already. We will be home bound if the perdition is correct. I wish I was in sunny Florida. I hope you all have a great weekend.

Deb, Thanks for the e mail. It was great to hear from you. I will e mail you this weekend. Fondly-Gail1771

 

[WDWLVR]

Gail and everyone else on the east coast - take care in these storms. Guess winter is really us.

Our magical time at WDW is coming to an end. Today is our last full day and also the day of the Mega Mouse Meet. Don't know if jilljill will make it or if gaRry is still here but we've met lots of other DIS'ers.

The good news about this trip coming to an end is that it means the 10 day cruise is getting closer!

Off to start our day - hope you all have a great day! I'll check back in when we get home.

 

[Debs Hill]

Gail, take care of yourself in all that snow! Does it make you feel like Xmas is coming?! It's been wet and miserable here for the last week, about 9 degrees, so mild for the time of year.....what's th weather like at WDW?!! Wish we were there!

Debsxx

 

[WDWLVR]

We're home Miss WDW already! We did have a wonderful surprise this morning. Right before we were ready to leave the room we got a call from gaRry in the lobby! Didn't know who it was at first but when he said that since I had lunch with his wife and daughter maybe I'd have coffee with him! Unfortunatly we didn't have time for that (beside that fact that we don't drink coffee) but we did have about 20 minutes to chat with him before our town car came! So nice to get to meet yet another Dec. 2004 cruisers.

Jilljill wish we could have caught up with you as well. Maybe next time!

We'll I'm going to go read the boards now and maybe even do a trip report over the theme parks forum.

 

[afff]

Hello fellow 2004 ......10 day cruisers

I need some info on the above water parks as I will be travelling in March 2004 to WDW for 2 weeks.
My kids are 9 and 5.
To all those that may know.......Which water park will suit them best?

Thanking you in advance for any info.

 

[jilljill]

Hello everyone,
We made it home from chilly WDW. It was sad to fly home and see the snow, knowing it was starting to get warmer in FL today.

Mary, our time was well spent with all the Doll and Teddy Bear events at Epcot from Fri. to Sun., we didn't even get to see much in the park. We were supposed to go the the Candlelight Processional Sat. night but DD was too cold to sit thru it so we had dinner with friends at Fulton's. There's always next time to catch up with you or anyone else. Our next trip down will be Easter week.

We had a fun time at MVMCP, and 'Wishes' is fantastic. Has to be the best fireworks display I have ever seen.

Off to get much needed rest.

 

[tkd lisa]

afff, we've never been able to make it to a water park, so I can't give you any advice. However, they often close one of the parks in the winter months for refurbishment. The people over on the theme park board probably have lots more advice for you. One other thought is that it's often too cold for water parks in December, so you might have a backup plan.

To get to the theme parks board, go back to the main page, and it's one of the top 10 boards.

Good luck!

 

[gail1771]

Hi Everyone. We still have snow on the ground in NY. Hopefully when it rains this week the snow will be gone. To much snow for me.

Jill, We will be down at WDW for Easter week also. We will be in the West Palm Beach area April 3-6th than we will be at WDW April 7th to the 14th. If you are free at sometime mabye we can get together for a little while and anyone ealse that will be down there at that time. We will have our DD who is 7 and our DS who will almost be 3 with us. We are staying at the Wilderness Lodge the first night with friends than we are staying off site at our Marriott time share near Sea World but we will be at WDW almost every day. Hopefully we can hook up.

Will anyone else be ther at this time???

Have a great day everyone. Fondly-Gail1771

 

[tkd lisa]

Bumping us up higher on the page. There are several questions on the main board from people about the 10 day cruise. We might be getting some new recruits!!!

 

[Kabuli1]

Gail, I was talking w/jilljill about going down Easter week as well since it would get me one more time w/ my APs! It would be so much fun to hang out together!

I was just out in WA doing some house hunting. Pixie dust and fingers crossed, we should have the formal contract on the house today.

Karyn