21st August 2011, Disney Dream

[joius24]

Wayne...have a great time !

I have to tell you guys something funny my son said today. He was writing a essay about the transatlantic cruise we took last year and he said ..." I don't understand why there were British people on the ship....Why would THEY want to sail to europe?"

My answer to him...for the same reason we are doing b2b cruises to a port we have already seen twice ...TO BE ON A DISNEY SHIP!... sometimes I think I need an intervention....

Paid the rest of my cruise balance off
Can we go now?????

 

[PrinceandPrincess]

I just booked all my ADR's for the land portion of our trip. Very exciting. Looking forward to booking excursions! Each step just means we are closer to or vacation!

 

[hortontrio]

SIX MONTHS FROM TODAY MY FRIENDS!!!!

 

[glassslipper2004]

We just booked ADR's for our pre-night as well. Very exciting! Tomorrow we book the after-cruise portion. It's our first time doing free dining at WDW so it should be interesting.

 

[PrinceandPrincess]

North of Boston. Logan Is Best!
I did check No flight on the days we travel. It is Sanford ?

Keep Manchester in the back of your mind too. They had non stop flights on southwest last summer for 72.00 each way, it was about 45 cheaper per person for us. Plus on site parking is only 10.oo a day, which was super convient too. It is becoming my new favorite airport. For me its only a 25 minute drive north past Logan, so its not that far.

Kim

 

[talb714]

North of Boston. Logan Is Best!
I did check No flight on the days we travel. It is Sanford ?

yes Sanford

 

[Sonnyeclipse]

I just booked all my ADR's for the land portion of our trip. Very exciting. Looking forward to booking excursions! Each step just means we are closer to or vacation!

We just booked our ADR's as well for the pre-cruise portion. Le Cellier, Via Napoli, Kona Cafe and Mama Melrose. I'm not sure what we are doing for excursions but you are right, each step gets me more excited about it.

I need to start looking at car rentals to get from WDW to the Port and back. That is my next step.

 

[wayneg]

Back home after our 1 week break. Started to upload pics, ones of the ship in my thread on these 2 pages

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2660346&page=4

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2660346&page=8

will be posting more pics in that thread next few days but no more of the ship.

Did you go Karin? never saw you.

 

[hortontrio]

Wayne~~ didnt knwo you geocache!! We love it, have you found one on CC yet? Our "home" looks beautiful!!!!

Sonny: we are having to get a car rental from MCO to the Radisson and found Budget to be the cheapest for us..

my mom is coming to visit this weekend and we are goin to work on our FE's!!!

 

[wayneg]

Wayne~~ didnt knwo you geocache!! We love it, have you found one on CC yet? Our "home" looks beautiful!!!!

Yes we Geocache everywhere we go, found 408 (plus last weeks in Florida still to log, another 15)
Have you done "King Billys" on Castaway Cay? we still haven't, last time we visited it was August (as it will be this year) didn't fancy the walk out there in that heat but now you have reminded me of it we might do it this year. Maybe leave Karen sunbathing and myself and Matt go find it.
Found a couple in Nassau last time we were there, Key west when we did the 7 night cruise, Grand Cayman then everywhere we have been in Florida from St Augustine down to Clearwater. Couple of years ago met up with friends from NC(he introduced us to Geocaching) in Savannah, GA, cached around that area, Fort Pulaski and out to Tybee Island. Great times

 

[dizneeat]

Did you go Karin? never saw you.

Yes, we did! But we left our resort pretty late and went straight to Jetty Park!

They went through most of the ship's horn's tunes out there and you could not tell who cheered louder - the HUGE crowd out on the pier or the cruisers themselves!

The DREAM is one HUGE ship, but so very beautiful!

Glad you enjoyed your trip - I need to go back and read all of your trip report! I have mine on the main WDW trip report board.

 

[wayneg]

They went through most of the ship's horn's tunes out there and you could not tell who cheered louder - the HUGE crowd out on the pier or the cruisers themselves!

Largest crowds we have ever seen waving the ships off.

Glad you enjoyed your trip - I need to go back and read all of your trip report! I have mine on the main WDW trip report board.

Just read yours, Matt got the same shirt from the outlet, the one with the rat in Mickey gear and we got some of the halloween sprinkles also.
Didn't we have the best weather possible? been 5 times at Xmas, 3 times at Easter, never had winter weather like that. Shame we never got time to spend by the pool, our 7 days were packed solid.
I will add a few more pics to the thread next couple of days to finish it off.

 

[hortontrio]

Yes we Geocache everywhere we go, found 408 (plus last weeks in Florida still to log, another 15)
Have you done "King Billys" on Castaway Cay? we still haven't, last time we visited it was August (as it will be this year) didn't fancy the walk out there in that heat but now you have reminded me of it we might do it this year. Maybe leave Karen sunbathing and myself and Matt go find it.
Found a couple in Nassau last time we were there, Key west when we did the 7 night cruise, Grand Cayman then everywhere we have been in Florida from St Augustine down to Clearwater. Couple of years ago met up with friends from NC(he introduced us to Geocaching) in Savannah, GA, cached around that area, Fort Pulaski and out to Tybee Island. Great times

Wayne, i havent gotten the CC one...i want to though but not sure if the smartphone gps will work there??? didnt knwo there were any at nassau...we just started last summer and are still learning the ropes but its a GREAT family together time and FREE~~haha~~maybe we can try and meet up at CC and you can show us the expert ropes on caching...glad you had beautiful weather~~
do you cruise before we all go in August on the dream??

 

[wayneg]

Wayne, i havent gotten the CC one...i want to though but not sure if the smartphone gps will work there??? didnt knwo there were any at nassau...we just started last summer and are still learning the ropes but its a GREAT family together time and FREE~~haha~~maybe we can try and meet up at CC and you can show us the expert ropes on caching...glad you had beautiful weather~~
do you cruise before we all go in August on the dream??

If we do it you more than welcome to have a walk out with us. You might struggle with smartphone GPS on the island, our Garmin should work OK.
I think we did 2 in Nassau but there is only 1 of them there now(GCC41F) the other must have been removed but another 1 or 2 have been added so no doubt we will be looking for any thats available.
August will be our next cruise, we are in Florida 5th-28th with the cruise 21st-25th.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Hey everyone.
Just FYI- we probably won't be able to make this cruise (or the one before it, we were doing b2b)
Unfortunately we already paid for flight tickets, lodging, tickets, etc. Sooo.... if we can't go on the cruises we'll just extend lodging and stay at WDW longer. I'll be wishing I was with y'all though! :-(

 

[glassslipper2004]

How cool that there is geocaching on CC! My family has only done it a few times but it was lots of fun. Although on CC you won't be able to drag us away from the beach...

 

[wayneg]

Hey everyone.
Just FYI- we probably won't be able to make this cruise (or the one before it, we were doing b2b)
Unfortunately we already paid for flight tickets, lodging, tickets, etc. Sooo.... if we can't go on the cruises we'll just extend lodging and stay at WDW longer. I'll be wishing I was with y'all though! :-(

Sorry to hear that Shelley, is it a definite cancellation and remove you from my list or still a possibilty you are going?

 

[Sonnyeclipse]

Wayne~~ didnt knwo you geocache!! We love it, have you found one on CC yet? Our "home" looks beautiful!!!!

Sonny: we are having to get a car rental from MCO to the Radisson and found Budget to be the cheapest for us..

my mom is coming to visit this weekend and we are goin to work on our FE's!!!

Thanks for the tip on rental and for letting me know about geocaching on CC. We geocache occasionally and that would be a fun activity the day we are there.

 

[hortontrio]

Shelley very sorry you wont be with us!! Wish we could do something to help you out!! HUGS!!

 

[hortontrio]

Sonny, Wayne and any other folks~~maybe if it works we can all do the CC geocache together!!!