20050514..May 14, 2005...Official Check in Disney's 1st 14 Day thru Panama Canal Part 2

[karaeric]

But again, no one should feel that gifts are required to participate. New friendships are the best gift of all (OK - that was real mushy).

Ken

You are just too funny!

On the serious side, Ken's right. Nobody should feel like they need to do anything. We want to because we're so involved and really want to give back to our fellow DISers.

 

[videogal1]

You are just too funny!

On the serious side, Ken's right. Nobody should feel like they need to do anything. We want to because we're so involved and really want to give back to our fellow DISers.

Hooray to that! I've got KTTW card holders on lanyards and collected pirate doodads. I'll hand out what I've got and if there are duplicates I'll do some selective distributing of them to the rest of the passengers...I did that on the 10-day cruise and really had a ball!...I gave one of the photographers a leftover Goofy bobblehead doll for use in a crying child emergency...later found out that it came in handy for him....

If there's one thing I learned on the cruises we took last year is that Cash makes friends wherever he goes....Handing out goodies was a fun thing and helped to distract people from pressuring me to let them pet him....

So many people come to the ship completely unprepared for pirate night...
It's hard to believe that there are people out there who don't know about the DIS!

 

[tap & dap]

We would like to join the sail-away party as well.

 

[spros]

Okay, so in an effort to avoid working on our taxes, I have a new list!

Here are all the Pirate names so far (I'm sure I've missed a few, sorry )

DisneyDreamer8 Captain Bess Rackham
DisneyDreamer8 Dread Pirate Kidd Arr!!!
DisneyPinDiva Can't-Remember-Where-the-Damn-Treasure's-Buried Jen
kaylin Dirty Jenny Kidd
kellib36 Mad Bess Flint
kpros Bloody Mary Bonnie
moocow35 Brunhilda Pink Toe
moocow35 Dirty Morgan Rackham
moocow35 VooDoo Elizabeth
nasmith Black Bess Flint
Q's My Princess Captain Mary Flint
Q's My Princess Dirty William Flint
Q's My Princess Pirate Doris the Pink
seaulater Grainne O'Malley Goldheart
seaulater Kidd the Cutthroat
videogal1 Mighty Ripper I and II
Webmaster Regina Captain Jeannie
Webmaster Regina Dread Pirate Vane
Webmaster Regina Frownin' Bette Dagger
Webmaster Regina I'm Iron Jenny Kidd

Laurie
AKA Captain Mary Flint!

Actually, Bloody Mary belongs to spros.

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

We would like to join the sail-away party as well.

I just love those little dancing bananas!!!

I've added you guys to the list

 

[kaylin]

Jenkatt- Hope you get to feeling better! We all had it last week. I feel better, but still feel wiped out with no energy this week! I'm telling you...I think it's this whole "work" thing that makes everyone sick! It totally gets in the way of everything! (except for payday!)

Kim

 

[Pappy]

can you count us in for the sail away as well please....we ve now got flights via washington and are planning to stay the night before at the orlando airport hyiatt... we ve booked transportation with the disney buses which go from the airport direct to the ship the next day..we then go to the disneyland hotel via disney transport for 5 nights (thanks to dvc) then home via lax and chicago.... does anyone know the arrangements for buses from the airport at orlando.. do you just turn up, where abouts in the complex do they go from?

thanks neil

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

can you count us in for the sail away as well please....we ve now got flights via washington and are planning to stay the night before at the orlando airport hyiatt... we ve booked transportation with the disney buses which go from the airport direct to the ship the next day..we then go to the disneyland hotel via disney transport for 5 nights (thanks to dvc) then home via lax and chicago.... does anyone know the arrangements for buses from the airport at orlando.. do you just turn up, where abouts in the complex do they go from?

thanks neil

I've added you to the list

As for the transfers (i can only tell you my experience with Disney booking the night at the hyatt and transfers) You meet in the lobby of the Hyatt where you sign in and the CM will give you the name of the bus you are on. Ours was "Captain Mickey". Then you wait around till your bus is called then follow the CM down the elevators to the parking garage/transportation level where the busses are waiting. You load up and you are on your way.

 

[nasmith]

Count us in for the Sailaway - 3 total (Neil, Jill, Jody)----

Our pirate names are - Black Bess Flint
Neil = Iron Tom Flint
Jody = Dirty John Flint (actually, Jody's name turned out to be Dirty John Rackham, so we've cheated a bit here....)

About sailaway gifts - I'm bringing the pirate's plunder!!

Don't get too excited though - it's not REAL gold! (real plastic, maybe!)

 

[rcostello1]

Whew made it through the 5 million posts since Friday. Guess I have to read everyday!

OK, DisneyDreamer8, count us in at sailaway, that's 5 people. I will be the one with a drink in each hand. My sister will have 2 in each hand

I think I resonded to everyone's PMs for Fantasmic...Lynda haven't called them yet...that 3 hr thing really messes with my sleeping schedule!

Budget in CA sounds great, going to look into that. I need a car anyway that week.

Did you see all the categories available today? Lots of people must be canceling, even cat 4 was available.

 

[TDC Nala]

Looks like Jen and Amy got the worst of the colds from the group last week. Jen, you need to get better and get those photos developed. You know the ones I mean.

I actually know what I'm doing May 13. I'll be at the Adventurers Club. I know that comes as a big shock.

Y'all can take the question mark off me in the party list. I am indeed just one person.

Catherine ("Iron Charity Bonney" - I ran the thing three times and I'm always Iron Charity Bonney)

 

[karaeric]

Count us in for the Sailaway - 3 total (Neil, Jill, Jody)----

Our pirate names are - Black Bess Flint
Neil = Iron Tom Flint
Jody = Dirty John Flint (actually, Jody's name turned out to be Dirty John Rackham, so we've cheated a bit here....)

About sailaway gifts - I'm bringing the pirate's plunder!!

Don't get too excited though - it's not REAL gold! (real plastic, maybe!)

Can I just tell you what that reminds me of? Lord of the Dance meets the antenae ball smiley face!

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled programming...

 

[JenKatt]

Catherine, I'll get them developed this weekend.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Please add my Mom (Margaret) and myself (Elaine) to the wine party.

What time is the sailaway party?

Elaine

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

Okay....

I added nasmith and rcostello1

TDC Nala: I have you as 1 person

Micky&JoshNut: the party is at 4pm on the 14th. You can see all the dis activities scheduled at Jen&Jeff's site http://tiggerfan.net/canal/events.html


I will post an updated list tomorrow but right now we are at 31 families for 87 people total.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

DisneyDream8 - thanks for the link to Jen & Jeff's site very helpful but now I'm confused.

Jen&Jeff's site lists

Day 9 - Puerto Quetzal
Day 10 - At sea
Day 11 - Acapulco
Day 12 - At sea
Day 13 - Cabo San Lucas

But on the Disney site it lists:

Day 9 - At Sea
Day 10 - Acapulco
Day 11- At Sea
Day 12 - Mazatlan
Day 13 - Cabo San Lucas

I'm confused. Did Disney change the itinerary? If so, why is still listed on the Disney Cruise Line site?

Elaine

P.S. Count Mom & I in for the sailaway party - that is if we arrive in time (Disney is planning our flight) and if we don't get lost on the ship.

 

[kpros]

DisneyDream8 - thanks for the link to Jen & Jeff's site very helpful but now I'm confused.

Jen&Jeff's site lists

Day 9 - Puerto Quetzal
Day 10 - At sea
Day 11 - Acapulco
Day 12 - At sea
Day 13 - Cabo San Lucas

But on the Disney site it lists:

Day 9 - At Sea
Day 10 - Acapulco
Day 11- At Sea
Day 12 - Mazatlan
Day 13 - Cabo San Lucas

I'm confused. Did Disney change the itinerary? If so, why is still listed on the Disney Cruise Line site?

Elaine

P.S. Count Mom & I in for the sailaway party - that is if we arrive in time (Disney is planning our flight) and if we don't get lost on the ship.

If you're only confused about this, you're doing great. The Disney site is correct. Jeff had posted this schedule about 10 minutes after the cruise was open for booking and his schedule was how it looked originally. It has since changed.

Ken

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Thanks Ken for the quick reply.

I'm an overplanner so when I saw the different places I thought "oh no now I need to research this place". Now I can continue my research on Mazatlan. For our 4 day Wonder cruise back in November I think I had the Passporter guide memorized. I'm so glad that now we will have 14 days on the ship with many at sea days. I am definitely going to try to actually go in one of the pools this cruise!!!! and sit and read my murder mystery book on one of those deck chairs on deck 4. I hear that they are very comfy!!!

I'm definitely getting excited. I paid off the balance of our trip since I just add a 3 day stay at Disneyland after the cruise. So great to see balance due - $0.00!!!!

Elaine

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

P.S. Count Mom & I in for the sailaway party - that is if we arrive in time (Disney is planning our flight) and if we don't get lost on the ship.

I have you down. Don't worry about getting lost...just find the aft or midship elevator and take it to deck 10 and look for a big group of people above the Goofy pool (the one in the midship area of deck 9)

See ya then

 

[Regina]

Yep, this will be a Quetzal free cruise. We'll Cabo, but no Quetzaling.

Count us in on the Sailaway.