20050514..May 14, 2005...Official Check in Disney's 1st 14 Day thru Panama Canal Part 3

[aphoenix]

My oldest DD, Allison is 11 and in the 5th grade. She is very shy around new kids. She absolutely loves the kids groups on the cruise. She has already informed us that she will be to busy in group, to join us for dinner. She has had a very challenging year. She broke both her arms in Sept, when she fell off the monkey bars. The right arm didn't heal right!! She's had to have 2 surgeries done on it. The last one was in Feb. when the Doctor put in a plate and screws. She is keeping her fingers crossed, that her arm will be healed in time for the cruise.

DW can sympathize with that. She had to have three surgeries on her left arm, after she broke it as a kid. Although, she got back at one of her doctors - apparently, she wacked him in the eye with her cast, as she was coming out of the anethesia. He had to have three stiches, and had a black eye for weeks.

 

[seaulater]

CONGRATULATIONS to those who got their docs today.

We are goin' crusin'

THAT WOULD NOT BE ME!

 

[DisneyPinDiva]

GAME ON!

Our poor husbands.....

I WANT HIM...................

Linda[/QUOTE]

Now now Linda ... just because you live in Utah does NOT mean you can have two husbands!!!

 

[Hygiene99]

One last thing- does anyone usually do the music challenges in the Prominade lounge for the medals? Robb and I usually do- he's really good at jazz, swing, and big band music due to playing the sax in many bands. WE both are good at 80s music.....anyone else do this?

I've never heard of this...I'd be interested...I'd ace the 80's music category. I heard a song on the radio today from the early 80's and found myself singing along (thank goodness I was in my car). I couldn't believe I knew every word. Don't remember what I did a week ago but remember every word from a song from the 80's. Go Figure.

Elaine

The Name that tune type game shoew last cruise Been a while now Oct. 04
they only did that game show once and it was during second Dining so we missed it.. love to play ..

Jenn is a Wizz

Peter

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

I WANT HIM...................

Linda

Now now Linda ... just because you live in Utah does NOT mean you can have two husbands!!![/QUOTE]

 

[krdisneybound]

Leslie: No docs - did you do something to tick off your USP delivery "person"??

Don't understand this....... I booked long after you, I think. And I got a room just 10 days ago..

Oh well - guess they have your number.

just kidding, just kidding

 

[snusnu]

I WANT HIM...................

Linda

Now now Linda ... just because you live in Utah does NOT mean you can have two husbands!!![/QUOTE]

He's mine!! she says, rubbing her hands and cackling maniacally...

 

[seaulater]

I WANT HIM...................

Linda

Now now Linda ... just because you live in Utah does NOT mean you can have two husbands!!![/QUOTE]

I figured someone would think that living in Utah and all!!!!!

(DH in blue, wives in pink, orange, yellow and green)



Linda

 

[Serena6010]

My DH Todd and I have been married almost 6 years, but we have been together for almost 11. We met when we were in High school. We are orginally from Ocean County, NJ but have lived in Arizona for 10 years(and love it).
Todd is a HVAC(Heating/AC) contractor. He has had his own business for about 4 years now. I like to call him a jack of all trades, there is pretty much nothing he can't do. He is good at everything from carpentry to cooking. In his free time(when he gets it) he enjoys riding on his ATV.

I am a stay at home mom to 2 kids, Jacob(will be 5 on 5/15) and Alyssa(2). I am currently taking an online spanish class, 4 more credits and I will have my degree in Marketing from the University of Phoenix. In my free time I love researching anything and everything on the internet. I am also a TV fanatic, reality shows are my favorite. DH and I live playing on our co-ed softball team.

We went to WDW for our Honeymoon and has been our favorite vacation spot since, especially when our children were born. In 2003, I convinced DH to go on a Disney Cruise. Everyone loved it......there was something for everyone. I love doing something all the time, DH wants to relax. :O) This will be a 3rd cruise w/ DCL.


-Serena

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

Well.. at this point I guess I can safely assume that no docs are coming today. Maybe it is because they had to reprint them when they decided to give us the last minute upgrade..... yeah right.. that's it!!

I don't have mine either

But they do have to go to the TA first so probably next week.

 

[seaulater]

Okay all you Chatty Cathy's...................someone is going to think we are the 10 day Christmas thread going on here!

10 pages today since I logged in! Too much free time on your hands. Don't you have packing to do?

Linda

 

[airtime247]

That happened to me when I drove down to Lake Shasta by myself to spend the weekend with my cousin and her folks. I pulled into the 76 station in Weed and sat there for like 5 minutes waiting for the attendent. I was looking around trying to figure out what was taking so long since there were no other cars there...finally the gentleman came out of the store and came up to my window. He said "I see you are from Oregon" I said "Yes, can I get unleaded please" He laughed and said "sorry but you have to pump gas yourself down here" I was so embarrassed!!!! He said "it's OK, it happens all the time" and showed me how to use the pump

Great story! I've helped a nice lady once with figuring out the pumps here. As if the pumps weren't complicated enough, she also had the credit card machine to contend with.

I've had the opposite happen to me a few times. When we go to Oregon, I often forget and get out of my truck and start to try pumping myself when I get a friendly reprimand!

Isn't New Jersey the only other state that won't let you pump gas? I wasn't aware of this in Canada. I could have sworn I pumped my own gas when we were in Vancouver a couple years ago. Maybe not. Hmm.

-steve

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

I'm done packing....YIPEEEEEEE



actually i've been done for a week...i have that OCPD thing....

 

[Magic_Fan_Bruce]

Me (Bruce)
DW (Sandy)
DD-12 (Amanda)
DD-10 (Jennifer)

I guess the most unique thing about us is that we may be the only couple that gets to hear “our song” during a dinner on the cruise. In college I worked at WDW and was fortunate enough to meet my future wife. We both work in Fantasyland Operations and decided “our song” should be from the place we met “It’s A Small World”. So if you see a couple looking all googley at each other during the “Around-the-World” dinner; that would be us. We’ve been married 22 years now and each one has been great. I don’t work at WDW any longer, but we still live just north of it (we can hear the fireworks every night) and visit at least once a month.

I am now an IT manager for an IT services company and Sandy is a Telecommunications Customer Service Representative (I think, she had a promotion recently so she might have a different title now).

My first visit to WDW was in November 1971. We have also been to DL and EuroDisneyland (Disneyland Paris, whatever...), and this will be our 5th DCL cruise. I’m not technically a lurker because I do post on occasion, just nowhere near as some of you folks (I don’t even type fast enough to post as often as some of you). Nor do we plan our cruise details. I know many of you compulsive planners may have near cardiac event when you read this, so please be seated. We have never booked any of our cruises more than eight weeks out (including this one), we just throw our luggage into the car around 10 or 11am embarkation day, then drive over to the port and hop on the ship. We don’t book any excursions in advance, we just see what’s available after we board and if something looks interesting, we try it. When we’re on the cruise, we never know what we are doing tomorrow until we get the Navigator at turn-down. We enjoy the shows and activities, but a big part of our “Must Do” list is to “Do Nothing”. I must admit I feel very unique among most of you DISer’s and I can hear the whispers now at the DIS meet, “Those are the people that Don’t Plan Anything!”. But, hopefully we can still be friends in spite our differences and if I miss any (most) of the events, it’s not because I don’t care, I’m probably just sitting around staring at the waves going by.

 

[Hygiene99]

Me (Bruce)
Nor do we plan our cruise details. I know many of you compulsive planners may have near cardiac event when you read this, so please be seated. We have never booked any of our cruises more than eight weeks out (including this one), we just throw our luggage into the car around 10 or 11am embarkation day, then drive over to the port and hop on the ship. We don’t book any excursions in advance, we just see what’s available after we board and if something looks interesting, we try it. When we’re on the cruise, we never know what we are doing tomorrow until we get the Navigator at turn-down. We enjoy the shows and activities, but a big part of our “Must Do” list is to “Do Nothing”. I must admit I feel very unique among most of you DISer’s and I can hear the whispers now at the DIS meet, “Those are the people that Don’t Plan Anything!”. But, hopefully we can still be friends in spite our differences and if I miss any (most) of the events, it’s not because I don’t care, I’m probably just sitting around staring at the waves going by.

II Will not say a bad thing about you we have no excursions booked with Dcl. but did get in on One Recently with Ken. That is the only excursion we have booked.. if We feel like doing something we will if not we wont..

We are very much like you.. See You At The Pool...

 

[i12go2wdw]

I'll give this bio thing a go,
Dan and I met on a set up that he knew about but I was tricked into. We married 18 months later in 1988. Dan is a computer programmer who works for a company based in Denver but he works here at home. I also work at home running a family daycare. Our 4 children have mum and dad around 24/7 (the down side is we have 4 kids around 24/7) .
Jordan is 12 in grade 8 into Tae Kwon Do, guitars, video games and friends.
Rebecca is 9 wants to swim in the olympics, plays softball and piano.
Mitchell is 7 class clown, guitar, baseball and loud!!!!!
Nicole-Renee is 2 and very loved (spoiled?) by her brothers and sister but she is good, not a whiner in the bunch.
I went to DLC many times as a child (3 day drive can't tell you how many times I heard "Don't make me stop this car") Dan had never been so we went on our honeymoon. Then a couple more times before kids.
The kids have been to WDW 2 times and DCL 2 times- 4 day and 7 (Nicloe only once as she wasn't on the radar screen yet).
We are travelling with Rebecca's best friend and her parents, our good friends.We are also going to be with our tablemates from our last cruise (suckers for punishment as their children and grown and they choose to be with our 4)
We live in North Vancouver, about a 45 minute drive from where the 2010 Olympics will be held (some indoor sports will be much closer). We have the ocean infront of us and the mountains behind us and yes we have long hot summers and I pump my own gas and have never seen an igloo.
We have not seen our docs yet, but I couldn't be any more excited (except if the packing was done
Can't wait to meet you all, I think we should plan a mini POFQ meet before the cruise to get some of the introductions out of the way.
See you soon,
Christine

 

[icunurse_celeste]

Now now Linda ... just because you live in Utah does NOT mean you can have two husbands!!!

I figured someone would think that living in Utah and all!!!!!

(DH in blue, wives in pink, orange, yellow and green)



Linda[/QUOTE]

Hey don't feel bad- even people knowing I was born in Utah gets me weird questions.....

It also seems that some people get the Amish and Mormons confused.....

I REALLY don't get that one...

 

[airtime247]

Steve,

I'll have to wave to you when you go on Expedition Everest. I don't do roller coasters except for Thunder Mountain railroad. Too scary for me!

Have any of you Oregonians been to the little animal park just north of the CA border in Bandon? They let you pet the animals there, even tiger cubs! We went last time we were out there before moving down here. I'll NEVER AGAIN drive a motorhome down highway 1! I think that's where they invented roller coasters!

ttfn,
Renae

DW won't go on most coasters but she will ride Disney's. It must be safe if the mouse built it!

I know which park you are talking about in Bandon. We went there a few years ago. Our most vivid memory was a mountain lion a lady walked around on a leash. It kept swatting at her ankles. We were all a little surprised that she didn't put him away. There was also a large black animal (wolverine maybe?) that smelled like popcorn.

There is an awesome drive-through wild animal park just off I-5 in Winston. You drive your own car through the property (kind of like Kilamanjaro at AK) but there are no fences separating you from the grizzly bears, lions, and most other animals. I think the only animals that are separated by a fence are the tigers and maybe cheetahs.

-steve

 

[TDC Nala]

I'm single, I push a lot of government paper, and my neighborhood bar is 800 miles away.

That's about it.

 

[DisneyPinDiva]

Me (Bruce)
DW (Sandy)
DD-12 (Amanda)
DD-10 (Jennifer)


My first visit to WDW was in November 1971. We have also been to DL and EuroDisneyland (Disneyland Paris, whatever...), and this will be our 5th DCL cruise. I’m not technically a lurker because I do post on occasion, just nowhere near as some of you folks (I don’t even type fast enough to post as often as some of you). Nor do we plan our cruise details. I know many of you compulsive planners may have near cardiac event when you read this, so please be seated. We have never booked any of our cruises more than eight weeks out (including this one), we just throw our luggage into the car around 10 or 11am embarkation day, then drive over to the port and hop on the ship. We don’t book any excursions in advance, we just see what’s available after we board and if something looks interesting, we try it. When we’re on the cruise, we never know what we are doing tomorrow until we get the Navigator at turn-down. We enjoy the shows and activities, but a big part of our “Must Do” list is to “Do Nothing”. I must admit I feel very unique among most of you DISer’s and I can hear the whispers now at the DIS meet, “Those are the people that Don’t Plan Anything!”. But, hopefully we can still be friends in spite our differences and if I miss any (most) of the events, it’s not because I don’t care, I’m probably just sitting around staring at the waves going by.

Bruce.. what are you trying to do... give everyone a heart attack 24 days before the cruise?? I'm hearing collective gasps as we speak!! Actually this is the first cruise where we have anything planned in advance... guess some of it rubbed off from being on these boards for the Christmas cruise and this one. It was a lot of fun meeting everyone during the DIS planned events at Christmas too... met lots of great people and had a ton of fun! Stick with us and next thing you know you'll be booked years ahead of time and packed 3 weeks in advance...