20050618 - June 18, 2005 - Magic to Mexico

[CruisingCA2005]

The lanyard/cardholder is a convenient way to hold your Key to the World card. The cardholders that I mentioned let the card slide out easily to pay for drinks or souvenirs in the gift shop or open your stateroom door but the cards won't fall out on their own.

Disneyland does have a bunch of lanyards/cardholders for sale. The cardholders there are the little plastic ziploc pouch things.

We brought two-way radios on our last cruise because we were at WDW for a week before the cruise. I don't think we used them often.

DS should be losing a tooth soon if he'd ever shake it. He has a problem shaking his baby teeth. His permanent tooth is fully out but he won't shake his loose tooth. He's lost 4 on the bottom and 3 on the top so far. 4 baby teeth had to be pulled by the dentist (he looked like a shark with 2 rows of teeth on the bottom), I pulled 1 baby tooth (and he's never forgotten that), and the 2 front teeth he waited until they literally fell out of his mouth. I've got some Disney Dollars ready in case he loses his tooth on the cruise.

I think I read somewhere that guest services will give you "pixie dust" (glitter) for the tooth fairy.

 

[CruisingCA2005]

Ironing?? Blech...I hate ironing. DH & I already decided to send his khaki pants to the onboard laundry to be pressed. Everything else has already gone to the dry cleaners & are ready to be packed in the garment bag. I have a small bottle of Downy Wrinkle Releaser to get out the small wrinkles.

Capt' Ann...how did your doctor's appointment go? Ready to try on your dancing shoes?

I've tried DCL's wine tasting before but this time I want to try the martini tasting, margarita & tequila tasting, and maybe even the beer tasting. Oh yeah.....I am not a lush....I just want to try something new (except for cosmopolitans which I already love).

Two more weeks, two more weeks, two more weeks. I can hardly stand it!!!

 

[tink1963]

Ironing?? Blech...I hate ironing. DH & I already decided to send his khaki pants to the onboard laundry to be pressed. Everything else has already gone to the dry cleaners & are ready to be packed in the garment bag. I have a small bottle of Downy Wrinkle Releaser to get out the small wrinkles.


I've tried DCL's wine tasting before but this time I want to try the martini tasting, margarita & tequila tasting, and maybe even the beer tasting. Oh yeah.....I am not a lush....I just want to try something new (except for cosmopolitans which I already love).

Two more weeks, two more weeks, two more weeks. I can hardly stand it!!!

Does anyone know how much it cost to have something cleaned or pressed on the ship? I am also bring some Downy Wrinkle Releaser. I bought just to bring and thought I better try it at home to see how well it works. And to my suprise it did work well.

And what is this about margarita & tequila tasting. Count me in on this one. I had heard about the martini tasting, but I too am no lush but do like good tequila

 

[CACruisin']

I am out of my fracture boot - sort of! I don't have to wear it now all the time, just if I am going to be walking a lot. Otherwise, I need to wear a running type shoe to support and protect my foot for the next 2-3 weeks. Most of my pretty sandals don't qualify However, I'm bringing them anyway and I will just see how it feels! So yes, I am out of my boot but it does get to come on the cruise with me.
Most of what we are doing on the cruise doesn't really involve a lot of walking, luckily. I had wanted to wander around PV after the canopy tour, but that is not necessary -- I'll just have more time to explore and relax on the ship.

My packing list is getting out of hand: meat tenderizer, wrinke releaser, fracture boot...

 

[CACruisin']

The Margarita and Tequila tasting sound great!!! We have high tea reservations Friday afternoon, but tequilla sounds much better (I am not a lush ... )
Now to talk DD's or DH into staying in the stateroom while baby girl naps since Flounders isn't open in the afternoon ...

DH has no interest in Martini tasting (good - he can babysit!), but count me in! (not a lush ...)

All of these sound like fun, but we will be limited by our Flounders hours ...

How neat to have pixie dust from the tooth fairy!! Holly, you definitely need that! You too Rae Ann, if you can get DS to let go of the tooth

 

[Hollyster2]

I picked up the "pixie dust" last week. I bought yellow cake glitter. I think it will work quite nicely and be sweet too! My son lost a tooth in Disneyworld and Tinkerbell brought him a chest full of chocolate coins, always a great stand-by! I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF DISNEY DOLLARS! I am soooooooo stealing that idea! Thanks!!!!

 

[Hollyster2]

How is your puppy Dlander?

 

[CoastalCA]

Hi All.
I am new to this board. I have enjoyed reading, actually still getting thru this thread, and learning from this particular area. I have been mostly on the Passporter site. More folks here.
My husband and two girsl (8 and 10) are very excited about our first Disney cruise.
The girls get out of school the 17th, then we head south on Saturday morning. We live in Shell Beach, near San Luis Obispo,CA so the drive will be about 4 hours.
Looking forward to getting to know some fellow cruisers!!

 

[dlander]

Welcome Coastal Cal There are so many great people on this board I hope you and your family can meet at Scoops!

Hollyster: Thanks for asking about Bandit. Good news, the cancer has not spread to his lungs or lymphnodes Still have some tough decisions to make though.

Loved all your ideas about the TF. DD12 has two fairies that write her letters, Mary and her sister Terry.

 

[Hollyster2]

dlander-we have been the cancer route with a beloved cat of ours. I sincerely feel for you and know how tough those decisions can be. Hang in there

We are always sooooo happy to have others join our board! Yahooooooo! Welcome!

 

[CoastalCA]

Scoops at 3 sounds like fun.
Sorry, I am assuming this would be Saturday afternoon. I am a real "newbie". Thanks for understanding.

Question about formal night: are sequins required? I mean how dressy is it? Not real up for a gown purchase. I am hoping the "little black dress" will suffice. Any advice is welcome.

 

[CruisingCA2005]

Welcome CoastalCA! We love getting to know more people who are going to be on our cruise.

We have a spreadsheet of the 6/18 DIS cruisers & we'd like to include your info. Please email me at raeann@gmail.com or PM me with the following info. If you send a picture, I'll upload it to our 6/18 cruisers album.
Names & ages of the cruisers
Hometown
Stateroom #
Early/Late dining
Any fun facts
Shore Excursions

Another fun thing that we've been doing in preparation for Pirate's Night: What's your pirate name?

 

[TallMidgetGirl]

yay! scoops at 3!! I'll probably be there....

 

[CACruisin']

Just finished reading the Live 6/4 entry about Debarkation and Embarkation. Sounds like there are still quite a few wrinkles to "iron out" (that's for you VB and all of us other "non-ironers") Seriously though, sure hope DCL can get that straightened out before our cruise.

DD11's swim meet is going well. In her past meets she has worked herself into a real mess with nerves, but so far this time everything has gone well. She is beating her times and not disqualified in any strokes. She just moved into a new age bracket (11-12). Wow - there is a big spread in sizes and speed from the newly 11's to the nearly 13's! Tomorrow's events are her stronger strokes so hopefully the day will go well.

Dlander: our thoughts are with you and your puppy.

VB: Hope the dance recital went well!

Welcome CoastalCA!! Welcome to our thread. We also have DD's: 11, 9, and 2 (on 6/18!) The older 2 finish school on 6/17 and then we'll drive up Saturday morning.

I'll be in my little black dress for formal night too.

In two weeks we will be on our cruise!!!!!

 

[mommykeg]

RaeAnn...I'm not on your cruise (we're sailing July 9th), but I LOVED your door sign!!! I sent you a PM!

 

[Hollyster2]

Just a friendly reminder...Tallmidgetgirl is my wonderful 15 yr old daughter! She is absolutely great with kids, and her friend Melissa will be celebrating her 15th birthday when we ride with Randi! She is a true pirate at heart and is very very patient when it comes to listening to her mother's crazy ramblings about cruise planning!
By the way, her pirate name is Bloody Ethel Kidd. She is truely one of us.

 

[lvrodmic]

Hi Everyone

Glad to be on this board with everyone. I am dlander's DM and I am truly looking forward to meeting everyone. Only thirteen more days. It seems like we have been planning for soo... long.

 

[CruisingCA2005]

I've started packing the non-clothes items for the cruise and DH has already started asking - "Do we REALLY need that?" I figured that since we're not flying to the port so why can't I bring a few extra things. I've packed my small face painting tote bag so I can paint a few pirate faces on Tuesday. I'll make time to paint the DIS kids (& adults) on the cruise though...

Formal night: I'm wearing my red dress that's in my pic on yahoo (email/pm me if you haven't seen it, I'll have to email you a link). LOL - I've gotta get my $$ worth out of the matching red shoes!! Semi-formal night will be a black knee length dress that I have.

Be back to post more soon....

 

[CruisingCA2005]

Hi Everyone

Glad to be on this board with everyone. I am dlander's DM and I am truly looking forward to meeting everyone. Only thirteen more days. It seems like we have been planning for soo... long.

Welcome to the DISboards Lvrodmic!!

 

[mexicocruiser]

Hi everyone - we are new to this site - traveling with our 12 year old daughter - everyones first cruise (except a BOOZE CRUISE to celebrate my 30th - on Carnival - to Mexico - WILD) looking forward to all the fun. My hubby doesn't want to rent a tux - anyone feel it is going to be that dressy?