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

[pigletgurl246]

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

 

[amy2girls]

Count our family in!! 4 adults and 2 girls age 7 and 9 at the time

 

[kirby1777]

My DH and I are booked on the April 25 cruise, as are our tablemates and nextdoor tablemates from our cruise to eastern carib cruise on April 5. Tortola is spelled with an O, we were confused at first also.

 

[kirby1777]

I'm in also my DH. We cant wait.

 

[morgy827]

Hey Kirby1777,

SO glad to see you made it on the boards!!!

Can't wait till next April, tablemate!

 

[dvc2themax]

hey amy2girls! We are also from NH. My DD14 (15 time of cruise) and I are starting to work on our count DOWN timer for the cruise. First we will count every 2 weeks or so, then the last 60 days, day by day! Gives us something to look forward to. Depending on when the Harry Potter theme park is ready, might get there a day or 2 before the cruise!

 

[dizfan]

DW (Debbie) and I recently booked the April 2009 Tortola trip.

We'll be celebrating DW's 50th birthday and a 5 year anniversary.

We were engaged at WDW and spent our honeymoon on Tortola. When we heard about this cruise, we had to book.

We absolutely loved Tortola when we were there. It's far less commercialized than other islands. Everyone we met there was great.

Cane Garden Bay is beautiful and offers a great calm beach. Most of the sailing ships anchor in this area.
Brewers Bay is a bit of a bumpy ride, but offers far better snokeling than Cane Garden.
There are several other beaches that it appears Disney isn't offering excursions to.
If Disney offers an excursion to the Baths on Virgin Gorda, I highly recommend it.

Dan

 

[donaldsgal]

We MAY be joining you all. I just put a request in for Dreams Unlimited for a quote for this cruise. It would be me, DSis, and DNiece, who will be three at the time. It'll be our first Eastern Cruise - an Eastern turned Western in 2005 (thanks, Hurricane Rita ) and a land-and-sea to the Bahamas on a four night in 2001. I have wanted an Eastern cruise for a long time. St. Maarten doesn't interest me, so we're checking this one out. We will most likely book and then hope that a) I get a new job that isn't as restrictive on when I take time off and b) I can scrounge up the moulah! Anyways, I wanted to check you all out first to make sure you were a friendly bunch, and congrats! You have passed my test! We'll let you know in a few days if we book!

 

[dizfan]

Welcome donaldsgal. We everything works out and you are able to join the cruise.

Some pictures of Tortola I posted on another thread

Dan

 

[donaldsgal]

Okay, change that to we ARE joining you for this cruise. Very excited to see you all in 11 months and 1 day!!!!!

 

[BobandLee]

Good evening all.
Just stopping by to give the thread a bump back to page one.

We are going to be joining you on this cruise.
We know some of you already.

Linda (Seaulater) and I have been on the same cruise before, share a birthday and love girl scout cookies. Also have talked with Robert a few times.

Also have cruised with Dale and Bob and Gordy(wrabitdad).

Looking forward to Disney's first visit to Tortola.

 

[donaldsgal]

Just thought I'd post again to bump up our thread. I am "double-dipping" my membership - I'm part of this group and the PassPorter group since Jennifer and Dave Marx are celebrating a 10th anniversary of the PassPorter by being on this cruise. Very exciting!

We are in a category 5, stateroom #7558, starboard side. Very excited about that as long as we back into Castaway Cay - we'll have a view of the island from our verandah!

Not much else to report. Weather here in Ohio is lovely today, thanks to a bunch of storms last night that cooled off the yicky humidity.

Say prayers for our mom - tomorrow she's getting a shoulder replacement surgery.

Night all!

 

[BobandLee]

Just a bump to get us back on the main page.

Great evening here in the heartland.

 

[Roveer]

We'll be on the April 25 09 sailing!!! Mom, Dad and the 4 kids. Can't wait. This will be our 2nd DCL cruise, first was a 4 night eastern and we stayed in the Walt Suite. Unfortunately I obsessed over it until I booked Tortola in the walt suite for next year. I honestly don't know how I get myself into these situations. Now I have to obsess over how I will pay for it. Let's see, with all those kids the federal stimulus check is supposed to be pretty big... Send it to Disney. Hrm. In the fall we get a property tax rebate check, that's pretty big, send it to disney. See, it's already working itself out. I can talk myself into anything...

In any event, I'm already looking forward to it as the 4 night went by so quickly.

Roveer

 

[donaldsgal]

Welcome Roveer! The thread isn't too active yet, but I imagine in the months to come it will be! Very exciting that you'll be in the Walt Suite. On our last DCL cruise, I organized a stateroom tour for our DIS group. Maybe we'll have to do that again so we can lay eyes on that beauty! Have a good Saturday!

 

[lsutigger2]

Okay gang, get those dancing shoes polished and ready. Tomorrow is our 300 days to we sail (or close to it, depending on how you count the days) and I think that calls for a dancing party.

It will be here before you know it. maybe one day soon, I'll try to post a list of those who have signed on as sailing on this cruise.

but for now, I have dancing to do!!




(someone to sing in the band)

and the band !!


Anyone want to join in??

 

[dvc2themax]

Dancing along with you

We have already started out countdown calendar every 15/30 of the month we cross off the list that we put on posterboard. Then on the 75 day mark, count down day by day!

 

[amy2girls]

 

[nascar8820]

It will be here before you know it. maybe one day soon, I'll try to post a list of those who have signed on as sailing on this cruise.

Here is the list we have been keeping:

seaulater
justmestace
Hygiene99
dadlvsdisney
trings
dvc2themax
LocustPoint
shane23
wrabitdad
lsutigger2
scottrob/Lucky Penny
B&B Mom
TiszBear
egorss78
morgy827
kirby1777
nascar8820
amy2girls
dizfan
donaldsgal
BobandLee
Roveer​

22 DISBoard member including ourselves.

 

[lsutigger2]

Hey there, thanks for the list. Maybe there will be more folks to join us.

The more the merrier at a dance party

Hope everyone is having a good summer.
Anyone want to add where they are from to the list?? I'll start.

My cruise partner (my DH) and I live in Louisiana. I'm a native, he's a transplant from Illinois.

seaulater
justmestace
Hygiene99
dadlvsdisney
trings
dvc2themax
LocustPoint
shane23
wrabitdad
lsutigger2 - Louisiana
scottrob/Lucky Penny
B&B Mom
TiszBear
egorss78
morgy827
kirby1777
nascar8820
amy2girls
dizfan
donaldsgal - Ohio
BobandLee
Roveer

(there may be a better way to add that. I'm not very good a computer stuff!)

Later,