4/25/09 Magic - First Visit To Tortola!

[Keira1387]

Welcome aboard!!!!!

 

[supernatural2222]

Hey guys! My name is Kaitlin and I am one of the daughters(the 16 yr old) of Megakat! Just wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I can't wait until April! But so much school until then
Hopefully more teens come on soon so that we can hang in the teen club! I have never actually gone.

 

[dvc2themax]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=24938149#post24938149

I'm the DD 14 of DVC2themax
I started the thread so us kids can start talking and get to know eachother!
Less than a year. We should get started

This is a link my daughter, Casey, set up for the kids/teens to talk on if you are interested. Not much action on it yet due to still over 200 days (my ticker says 215 days).

 

[justmestace]

I just thought I should clarify that I'm not on this cruise either. My family was going to be in Tortola last Christmas on Norwegian, but it turned out that we had to cancel that cruise. I was really hoping to get a chance to scope it out for you guys.
Now instead, I'll be anxiously awaiting YOUR trip reports, because I'll be doing this cruise in May!!

 

[TiszBear]

You have have me listed as going but I forgot to say that my mother will be going with me. This is our annual mother/daughter trip. We are both so excited as we both have never been on a cruise.

I can't believe we are already under 200 days till the cruise!!

 

[dizfan]

Glad to know we're under 200 days.

We're praying the economy turns around. I just got word that the company I work may be facing layoffs. If I can make it through the New Year, I should be safe. If not, we'll be cancelling the cruise.

Dan

 

[dvc2themax]

Yea on under 200 days.

I am with you Dan, on the economy getting better soon. I am searching airline rates and is all I can do! Over $500 dollars right now per person.

I have not yet booked flights because I use Southwest to do a direct flight from NH to FL and the dates are not yet out.

But we all need to PRAY and PRAY and hope we all make it on the cruise in APRIL!

 

[TiszBear]

I have my flights and I am hoping there are no changes. This is my second set of airline tickets, first ones that were booked were on Midwest and that flight was cancelled. Had to rebook on Delta and those flights are ok. The only one I am not happy with but can live with is the flight down. We are flying the day before staying at the Hyatt at MCO. The flight out of Milwaukee is at 5:55am and I get in to MCO before 11:30am I think (that is with a short layover in Atlanta). At least we can all get a good night sleep before we leave on Saturday.

 

[sandiedvc]

Hi all!

We will be on the First Tortola expedition!

DH Mike and I will be on board for our very first verandah. We are very excited.

When do you think that the tours will start coming out?

See you all soon!

 

[nascar8820]

Welcome aboard sandiedvc!

 

[sandiedvc]

Thanks for the welcome!

We do need a really cool name for the cruise.

Someone else much earlier on the thread said that they were horrible at names; but you haven't seen nuttin' yet....

What about...

April in Tortola

or... Taking it to Tortola

or... Are there Turtles in Tortola?


Now that that is out of the way, nothing else that any one comes up with will be any worse than those stinkers!

What has anyone else got?

 

[dvc2themax]

Love the label at The bottom of your message.

 

[amy2girls]

Kathy,

Love you picture on your sign. I agree we need something like that! How do you do that????? Are you creative like that- you got the job!!!
How about- Sailing the Magic to tortola- A First! (not very creative- sorry ) or Sailing away in April to Tortola on the Magic!

 

[sandiedvc]

LOL! I wish that I knew how to make the nice cruise banner in my signature!
One of the ladies on the Westbound TA put that together for everyone to use. I won't tell you how long it took me to put that in my signaturer!

I did have a bit of an idea for a cruise banner for us though. What about using the letter flags that ships sail to spell out Tortola and then add the numeral flag for one. We could put the flags on one line and then add the dates of the cruise below.

I don't know that I know how to do this so if anyone has any idea how to carry out the idea..... Go for it!

Here is a website to give you an idea what the flags look like:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeohzt4/Seaflags/signals/sigflags.html#intlltr

What does anyone think?

 

[dvc2themax]

I am not creative like that at all, organizae something is great - designing something - someone else needs to take control .

Someone else had fish ?? that hangs on their door, and again, have no clue to make one, especially with my favorite characters - goofy, beauty and the beast, piglet, Ariel. Any help on directions to make would be great.

Ok, since we are all asking how to... any idea where to find tall/long polo shirts with disny charcters on them? When we went to Downtown Disney last year, could find polo shirts, but not with a disny character onit. I had found a polo shirt with goofy embroidered, the shirt was yellow and was the only shirt in the Disney store. But cannot find it anywhere. Help on the creative people out there.

180 days around teh workl to go for the trip!

Safe halloween to everyone that reads the boards!

 

[sandiedvc]

Ok, since we are all asking how to... any idea where to find tall/long polo shirts with disny charcters on them? When we went to Downtown Disney last year, could find polo shirts, but not with a disny character onit. I had found a polo shirt with goofy embroidered, the shirt was yellow and was the only shirt in the Disney store. But cannot find it anywhere. Help on the creative people out there.

Have you checked disneyshopping.com ? They have polos that you can select the character and the color. The guys colors are red, navy, and black and gals have red, pink, and purple. Both are $34.50.

Unfortunately, neither are available in talls. I am 5-9 and I sometimes order mens sizes just to get the extra length. But the colors available are limited.

If it is for a guy, you might have to buy your own tall polo and try to find an embroidry place around you that would put Goofy on for you. I don't know if the ones in the parks will put a character on your own items or not.

The other option is an iron on character from a craft or sewing store and I don't know how well it would hold up after a few wearings!

Good luck!

 

[dahirsh]

Maybe it's time to introduce myself. I've been booked on this cruise for months, but I'm still referring to it as "the cruise I may or may not be taking" I figured I would make a decision in the fall when it came time to book air fare and I guess I'm almost there.

This will be my first DCL cruise and my fifth cruise overall.

 

[sandiedvc]

Someone else had fish ?? that hangs on their door, and again, have no clue to make one, especially with my favorite characters - goofy, beauty and the beast, piglet, Ariel. Any help on directions to make would be great.

They are fish extenders and they hang on the fish message holder on the left of your stateroom door. There are many different ways to make them. The best thing to do would be to search the main cruise board for fish extenders. There are hundreds of posts on them and no "right" way to make them.

Some are as simple as a fabric tote bag from the craft store. They personalize it by getting some images they want: characters, words, family pictures, etc and then printing them with their inkjet printer onto special iron on paper (also at the craft store). Add a little ribbon, buttons, glitter, whatever and you are done.

If you use the iron on paper, there are a couple of kinds depending on what color you are ironing it on. Just check that you are getting the kind you need. And make sure to take your coupon to Michaels or Hobby Lobby!

I would show you mine from the Panama Canal cruise, but I haven't figured out how to post pictures!

There are lots of good pictures on the cruise threads tho! Some of them are pretty complicated but don't let that scare you off, they don't have to be. They just have to do the job!

 

[sandiedvc]

Just did a quick search for fish extenders.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1219607&page=2

Post #27 has some directions on how to sew one if you have a sewing machine.

 

[dvc2themax]

Polo shirts - is a for a man. I have searched and found nothing, but will check out the web site you mentions. Downtown Disney did have polos, but not tall/long ones. And Downtown Disney shop will not embroider on shirts you buy or bring yourself unsless you have the receipt to show you bought at Disney. Tried that last year when we went. And since they are licensed characters, haven't found any places in New Hampshire that have the license to do it. But the other option of an iron on would be next which I did not think about. THANKS!


Will also check out the fish extenders too! Thanks for the link.