I bought it on eBay and love it! It's exactly what I want: my favorite color, personalized, and "The Little Mermaid"! 
Thanks to DISBOARDS I had a clue what I was looking for. 
The FE's are great!
Dot! Don't go through any stress or expense over the FE's! If your DH made a FE...use it...cherish it...idolize it!!!! How fun is that! With a FE you can use a plastic bag if needed... Not many of us get to see a DH's point of view for a FE. And FE'ers are to be fun...sharing...not expensive...no stress allowed!!!
I like the Pirates of Tortola also. Is everyone dressing for Pirates night? We dressed last time and even though not many did, we had a great time and will do it again...as I mentioned earlier, not too many Dis'ers on our last cruise. It was still alot of fun. Our picture from pirate night is our avatar right now.
On thing that my DH said was the best thing I packed for our last trip was the over the door organizer. It hangs over the bathroom door (any door for that matter) and has many pockets for stuff. I had tape, scissors, bandages, sunscreen, asprin, disposible cameras, dental floss, playing cards, sharpies, lotion...all kinds of little stuff that gets lost in drawers...I put in those pockets. The bathrooms don't have any drawers and limited counter space. If someone wants a picture of this organizer, let me know and I will post one. But honestly, there is not a lot of storage space and you can put extra soaps, socks, change for the wash machines...sitting here thinking I can't think of all I put in there, but it was full of stuff so that whenever someone needed a little something, it was in that pocket hanger and we didn't have to pull out a suitcase to find it.
Oh, another thing... On our last cruise, I put some blank picture frame mats in a large envelope marked with our stateroom number and dropped them off at guest services with the request that the characters sign the photo frames for us. I got the blank, standard size mats from WalMart...up to 8 x 10. They did tell me that one per person per stateroom and they returned them to us the night before we disembarked. I indicated with a sticky note which side they were to sign and which way was the top of the frame so they knew how I wanted them signed. I understand that they will also do pillow cases and such. Such a nice, personalized gift for a family to take home. Note: they may or may not be doing it any longer. I heard that they were going to stop doing this, but I don't know if they did or not. Doesn't hurt to ask
I am checking daily to see if our room has been assigned to us yet. Like many others before us...we are hoping for an upgrade. I was surprised that they even booked us as GTY...we'll see what we get...
I am so excited ... I cannot wait ... There is just a little over 5 weeks to go! I will try not to drive you guys insane.
I'll try not to ramble on and on....Everyone have a great day!..
Linda
I'm with everyone else waiting to find out our room assignment! Hopefully we will all know sometime next week!
Oh, and we have been shopping in the last week! We don't have a lot of clothes/shoes so we had to buy some things. We have bought shorts, a pair of pants, a shirt, and a pair of shoes for DH! I have bought shoes and just ordered a swimsuit from JC Penney - let's hope than turns out well!
) It's $85 to rent a tuxedo from them as we are not going to buy one. What is everybody's DH wearing on Formal Night??? Hi all,
Just stopping in and wanted to introduce ourselves. This is our second Disney Cruise on the Magic. We did the Western Caribbean last year. We are Tim and Laurie (both 40ish) and we will be traveling with our two 8-year-old daughters, Haley and Jordan, and our two 5-year-old sons, Caleb and Noah. I see that there is a kids thread. I will direct the girls to post there to meet some friends before we go.
I see this has been a extremely active group! It took me several days to catch up on the posts that have been written. I had thought we might do the fish extenders this time around. Last time I was too busy making pirate costumes for all of us to make a FE too. However, it looks like I may have waited too long. Is it too late to join in? If so, that is fine. One less thing for me to do in preparation. If not, I will get to work.
We are really looking forward to our cruise. Wish it were time to go now.
Laurie
and welcome!
We did that last time also and it worked out very well. We haven't decided where to stay that night. We get in around 5 p.m. so we have plenty of time to get over to the port. Last time we dropped all our luggage at curbside check in at the port, dropped the car off and took the shuttle back to the port. When we disembarked, DH stayed with kids and luggage at curb while I took shuttle to car rental agency to pick up car. I was so relaxed from our trip that I wasn't even tempted to keep on driving...soooo, I went back and picked them up at the port!
Hi all,
Just stopping in and wanted to introduce ourselves. This is our second Disney Cruise on the Magic. We did the Western Caribbean last year. We are Tim and Laurie (both 40ish) and we will be traveling with our two 8-year-old daughters, Haley and Jordan, and our two 5-year-old sons, Caleb and Noah. I see that there is a kids thread. I will direct the girls to post there to meet some friends before we go.
I see this has been a extremely active group! It took me several days to catch up on the posts that have been written. I had thought we might do the fish extenders this time around. Last time I was too busy making pirate costumes for all of us to make a FE too. However, it looks like I may have waited too long. Is it too late to join in? If so, that is fine. One less thing for me to do in preparation. If not, I will get to work.
We are really looking forward to our cruise. Wish it were time to go now.
Laurie
It's not too late to join the FE list. We decided to have a cut off at 20 rooms and we only have 18 right now. It looks like you have 6 people so are you in 2 different cabins? lsutigger2 is keeping track of the list so she's going to need your cabin #'s if you know them and who is in which cabin along with their ages.Does anyone have an unofficial roster of who is going of the cruise aside from the FE list? If so, can you PM me a copy. Many thanks
More new families! Welcome. If DH says no way, then at least Ashley will be dressed in her pirate finest for the shindig! 
Yes, Hotwire. The reviews came up when you hit continue. It came up 34 days out. We are actually going to do Universal Studios this time. We love Hulk!Did you get this through Hotwire? And why 4/21? I'm assuming you're going to WDW for a few days then? We'll be staying at the Hyatt MCO on 4/25. I couldn't find it on Hotwire for that day but I'm having a hard time seeing the # of Tripadvisor reviews again. Where do they show up? We're actually got $150 in Hyatt gift certificates through MyPoints so we're just going with the AAA rate. It'll come out to $9 + tax!
Just 1 night there with 2 days at parks then off to Holiday Inn at Orange Lake for the water park for 2 nights and we will drive to port Sat AM. We rented a car. It was cheaper than all of the transfers. 
I also have DS who is 5 and DD who is 9....Does anyone have an unofficial roster of who is going of the cruise aside from the FE list? If so, can you PM me a copy. Many thanks
I bet not too many DHs have helped w/ the FEs.
