2006 DVC Member Cruise - SSMC06 - October 22, 2006 Part 4

[#1Mouse]

Steve your scrapbook pages look great! I remember your book from your Alaska trip - it was really nice.

 

[cquick]

And just some pages of WDW to keep you interested SQuid

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL SCRAPBOOK PAGES!!!! Makes me think I might have to take up ANOTHER hobby! Are there 35 hours in a day? or maybe 10 days in a week? Do I really need to sleep?

 

[#1Mouse]

Well, I'll give you something to talk about.

THE WEBSITE HAS BEEN UPDATED!

Spent the entire morning getting to all that I'd been meaning to, added the following:

• The Third DVC email for anyone who missed it
• Updated Party Bus info, got this fancy table and everything
• Put up images and a map for the Precruise Meet
• Added a whole bunch of clipart for everyone to use, including the bumper sticker from Erin, and, remember the Welcome Mat?

Whew. Time to take a break after all that. Let me know if I missed or goofed anything.

Great job on the website. It's fun to go there and read all the things planned.

 

[#1Mouse]

Funny you should ask as that was something I was working on yesterday. Problem is that if you try to make it bigger at all it gets very pixelated. So then I thought back to the little mini-magnets that we made for everyone last year. Here's what I came up with:

Size will be about 2 1/2 inches wide by 4 1/4 inches tall. There will be one magnet in each families button bag.

If anyone wants to grab the image in its original size just grab the one out of my signature by right clicking and doing save as.

Cool magnet! Can't wait to put mine on my door! Thanks for making them

 

[IleneF]

OK You guys I have TWENTY FIVE pages to catch up. Sheesh. Well here I go wish me luck!

 

[fireplug]

Really like the magnets, Mark and Mary! It will look good on our door!

Squid

 

[fireplug]

Thanks for all the compliment on the pages. I appreciate them very much. Coleen tells me all the time that they are nice but I need to get some outside opinions once in a while too.

I have been sorting through stuff today and I dont think I will buy any more stickers for a while. (unless they have some WAY COOL ones on the ship or at WDW )

Squid

 

[alikat99]

Hi guys!!! Haven't been around much, since I'm desperately trying to get ready for my trip to Phoenix on Wednesday. I'll have to post pictures of what I've been working on later (if I have time). I'm SO hoping to get it all done tonight, so that I can spend tomorrow cleaning the house and cooking a little for Chris, to make it easier with the girls while I'm gone.

Ok, back to the grind.

 

[IleneF]

Diana and Amy,
I just had an idea while looking at the altered paint cans. It would be cool to have a paint can done up like a disneycruise ship smoke stack and then be able to use it to hold trip mementos. Could you lead us in what we would need to do to make this?

 

[cgcw]

I saw on the news this morning that Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter was killed this morning by a stingray. What a sad and tragic story. Now can someone reassure me that the stingrays on CC aren't going to kill me??

That is such a sad and freaky accident. I feel especially sad for his children having to grow up without their dad.

At least he was doing something he loved when he died.

 

[cgcw]

Okay be gentle now but this is my first attempt at a "still life " photo



This was my morning harvest from our garden

Squid

Yummy!!

I love the colander. I half expected to see a hidden Mickey in your veggies and then caught the one on the colander. Very cute!

Your garden must have an over abundance of veggies is that's one days harvest. Sadly, ours didn't do well at all this year.

 

[RRBB]

Diana and Amy,
I just had an idea while looking at the altered paint cans. It would be cool to have a paint can done up like a disneycruise ship smoke stack and then be able to use it to hold trip mementos. Could you lead us in what we would need to do to make this?

Ooooh, what a cool idea!

 

[cgcw]

Cindy - Hope the you and Cameron are able to get the garbage picked up quick and it's not to yucky soggy. I could imagine if Nick had to do it, he'd probably be grumbly the whole time but he would do it.

Cameron didn't grumble once!! I was very proud of him.

I was doing my share, though

But....I had a good reason, at least I think.

On our side of the street, we had 1 dad and his son, me & Cameron & 3 boys without parents. So, we started cleaning along the parade, and at first the 3 boys and Cameron tried to stay ahead of the street sweeper. Cameron ended up coming back, and the 3 boys who were not with any parents, took off ahead of the group. They had no bags to collect any garbage and never came back to help. So, it was me & Cameron, this other dad and his son (who has some type of problem and while he never grumbled, his Dad was doing more than his share to compensate for his son's lack of effort. This didn't bother me at all, as I knew there was a true reason why he wasn't helping)

But the 3 boys who took off, I had a huge problem with. I didn't have "sucker" written across my face today. I was there to help my kid, not babysit for the others in the group who 1-didn't want to help, and 2-didn't bother to help.

After the 4 of us were done, we went to chat with the scoutmaster. As we're waiting to talk to him, one of the Mom's of the boys who took off came up to me and asked me "if I had fun out there". Ummm, yeah, it was a barrel of laughs. So the Dad and I that did the majority of the work, talked to the scoutmaster who told us we should have kept the boys with us. Ummm, excuse me? I wasn't there to babysit other peoples children today. I was there to help my kid and the troop.

I'm still rather upset by all of this, because the 3 boys who put in minimal effort will get the same credit as the boys who truly did their share. I just don't agree with that and I still have a call into the scoutmaster. I want to know what exactly is expected (especially since I'm only a parent and not in a leader position whatsoever in Boy Scouts), so I know next time whether or not Cameron will be volunteering on his own or with either me or Gary. And, it bothers me that I even have the need to think about something like that at all. I don't mind helping out, I don't mind my children helping out, but I don't want to do more than my share because someone else doesn't want to do their share, yet they still get full credit.

 

[cgcw]

Happy Birthday Chris ​

 

[cgcw]

We spent the day yesterday with DD and her DH and his family at our local theme park, Holiday World. The just opened a new roller coaster this year. It's the third longest wooden roller coaster in the world, so of course, I had to ride it. Bad decision!! It seems those wooden coasters shake me up more and more every time I ride one. About 2/3 of the way thru the ride, all I could think of was "Is it over yet?" Today the left side of my neck and my left shoulder blade are soo sore. Even as I'm typing, I have the ice pack on my neck. Other than that though, we had a great time. It has been cool here the last few days, but the sun came out yesterday and warmed things up enough that we were even able to do the water park there.

Mary, I hope evening is finding your neck feeling better.

I'm not too fond of the shake factor in some roller coasters too. I think that's one of the things I like best about Expedition Everest is it's so smooth.

 

[cgcw]

Only 18 pages till 1000 !

Squid

I'm trying to help!!!!

 

[cgcw]

Looks like we need a few posts with pics from LAST years cruise to perk up the thread today.

These are some of the pages from my scrapbook

SQuid

Steve, your pages are awesome!!!!

 

[WDWLVR]

Well we never got a picture of Gary Sinise, but we did get a picture of Cindy's Gary. He thought he was hiding behind a croc, but no.

 

[cgcw]

And just some pages of WDW to keep you interested

SQuid

Awesome!!!

 

[Diana Lyn]

Diana and Amy,
I just had an idea while looking at the altered paint cans. It would be cool to have a paint can done up like a disneycruise ship smoke stack and then be able to use it to hold trip mementos. Could you lead us in what we would need to do to make this?

That would be super easy to do Ilene! They sell the clean/empty paint cans at the Home Depot and Lowes. The quart sized are under $2 and the gallon a little over $3 I believe. All you would need to do is cut red cardstock to size and glue it to the can all the way around. The seams are the hardest part, and with solid color paper, it's easy. I used a good strong glue stick on mine, but I've red modge podge works really well. Then all you would need to do is cut a Mickey head in white. I have a large sized Mickey punch that I can always cut some Mickeys and put in the mail to anyone who would like some. And then cut some waves in blue. If you used a gallon size--you can get either Mickey fabric or red, white and blue ribbons and tie around the handle. The quart size cans don't have handles, but you can just decorate the top with the same paper as the can itself.

Great idea---I was just at the Home Depot tonight! Now I'll have to go out and get another paint can!