5/27/06 "Il pochi il fiero i blabbermouths" We *will* sail again Part 13

[scuba.mom]

We are interested in Alaska - although the Scubas make a compelling reason to go with a land and not sea tour.....still, I have hear HAL is a good line...and I think you can use WDW points.

I received an e-mail from them today on upcoming cruises. Check out the Land / Sea Package for Alaska. It's farily reasonably priced. If we ever do Alaska again that is what I would like to do - start in Fairbanks and work my way down to Anchorage area and cruise from there down to Vancouver. (I know I have kids to get thru college first)

 

[scuba.mom]

If I remember correctly, we were on our way to CHURCH... I try not to do any product sampling there.

BTW... if you're in the neighborhood on the 15th, and not off cruising somewhere or running a marathon, we're having our usual party...

Kiki - We brought him water on our way to Church in your neighborhood, so we must have been on similar schedules Sunday Morning.

 

[justmestace]

Sending out prayers for the people who died in Omaha today. I practically grew up at that mall. There's a new one, closer to my parents', that we go to now, but last month when I was there, my brother, his wife and I had lunch at the mall where the shooting was. Scary.
As far as we know, none of our relatives were there. We're still waiting for them to release the names of the victims and praying for them...and also praying we didn't know any of them.

 

[WDWLVR]

Greetings from the Boardwalk! It has been a long but fun day. We got lots of snow overnight in Chicago which led to little sleep. I was so worried our flight would be cancelled. So I'd wake up, go on line and check it out. No, still on time. Then the alarm goes off at 4 and we get up and start getting dressed. Phone rings at 4:05 - it is my FIL saying they are heading out now to take us to the airport.

A slippery ride to the airport as the roads aren't plowed yet. The benefit of the snow...we get a bigger plane since flights were cancelled yesterday. We check in and we're offered an upgrade to First Class for a really cheap price so we jump on it. These just aren't regular First Class seats - these are the type for long flights like to Hawaii which is where we think our plane came from. Fully reclining with leg rests and everything. May not mean much to some who fly this way all the time but it was a real treat for us. Flight was about 45 minutes delays taking off due to de-icing but not too bad. We get to Boardwalk to find the room wasn't ready yet and we were way too tired to hit the parks right away so we chill out in the rockers and then grab a quick lunch at the hot dog wagon. We then call and find the room will be ready in about 20 minutes so we head out to Publix and stock up on some supplies. Back at the resort the room is ready and we make our way too it. A long walk for sure but a beautiful Boardwalk view! I can see Spaceship Earth as I'm typing this.

We chill in the room for a while, head on over to Epcot to activate our new AP's and then dinner at Chefs de France. We've never eaten here before and we really enjoyed it. We even got a nice table for 2 right by the window. After that it was a walk around World Showcase, some shopping at Mouse Gears, Finding Nemo, Turtle Talk with Crush. We were going to wait for Illuminations as we both love it, but we are dead tired and have a few other nights we can catch it, plus we can watch most of it from our room. So there you have it...a fun day.

Tomorrow is sleeping in a little, then Animal Kingdom, the DVC Member Member Mixer where we hope to meet up with some fellow Member Cruisers, then off to MVMCP.

So nice to be able to walk around in short sleeves after leaving the snow and cold of Chicago.

 

[WDWLVR]

Stacey - I thought of you when I heard of the shootings. Prayers for al involved.

 

[kikipug]

Did you hear that, everyone??

PARTY AT KIKI'S!!!!

I'd love nothing more than having ALL of you there!!!!

 

[kikipug]

Kiki - We brought him water on our way to Church in your neighborhood, so we must have been on similar schedules Sunday Morning.

Last night when I was at World Market, they had individual splits of Banfi... perfect for a morning run???

 

[scuba diver]

So nice to be able to walk around in short sleeves after leaving the snow and cold of Chicago.

Are you crazy? It's freezing here in Florida. I've been wearing a coat to work this week.

It's way to early to be this cold.

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Sending out prayers for the people who died in Omaha today. I practically grew up at that mall. There's a new one, closer to my parents', that we go to now, but last month when I was there, my brother, his wife and I had lunch at the mall where the shooting was. Scary.
As far as we know, none of our relatives were there. We're still waiting for them to release the names of the victims and praying for them...and also praying we didn't know any of them.

Most certainly --

 

[WDWLVR]

Good morning everyone! Checking in from the Boardwalk again.

Yesterday was a fun-filled day for us. We started our easy with breakfast in the room and then headed over to Animal Kingdom. We got there just a few minutes after opening so missed the opening crowds and walked over to the Safari. It was posted as a 30 minute wait but it was more like 10 minutes. After that we did the trails and headed over to see Nemo the musical. Fun show. We finished up the day with lunch at Yak and Yeti. We did the fast food side of it not the sit down. Mark deemed it very good. I'm the picky eater so had a kids meal of chicken bites.

Heading back to the room we opted to get off at the Swan, walk over the bridge and then up the stairs to our room. Much faster than if we had waited for the bus to get all the way over to Boardwalk and then had to walk to our room from there.

In the afternoon we headed over to Epcot for the Merry Member Mixer. Got there about 2:50 and the line was already pretty long. Dee Vee Cee was there in her holiday finery. What a funny lady. We got to meet up with some of our fellow cruisers from past cruises. Once inside we had our picture taken with Mickey and Minnie and then headed over to the back corner where the DIS group tends to hang out. Saw lots of old friends which is great. Karen and Mary were there which was really nice. We got to see Mary's grandson Christopher who has grown so much since I last saw him. We also got to see pictures of the engagement. Fun.

We left the mixer about 4:30 to head over to the Magic Kingdom. As we were getting near the monorail at Epcot we ran into Webmaster Doc and his wife (they had been at the mixer ealier and left maybe 10 minutes before us). So we rode the monorail over with them and then took the ferry to the Magic Kingdom. We had a 6 pm reservation at Tony's and got there a little before 5. We asked if we could check in early and the girl said we'd probably have at least a 25 minute wait which we were fine with. I don't think we had sat down more than a minute when they called our name. I guess they had a open table for 2 and not many parties of 2. Yeah! We haven't eaten here in forever and have wanted to for some time since we heard Ducky Williams talk about how he did all the artwork and designs for the room. Beautiful!

After that it was time for MVMCP. We usually opt for the second parade but this year we camped out a spot in Frontierland for the first one. We ended up sitting right outside Diamond Horseshoe which was one of the cookie and cocoa spots. We spend an hour just people watching and talking to the families around us. The parade was a lot of fun. Seeing the wooden soldiers is always a highlight for me. Then after the parade we headed over to the castle (we missed the lighting during dinner - I forgot to mention how beautiful it was in person). Anyway the parade was still going through at this end so we found a bench between the hub and andvertureland and sat there watching the end of the parade again and looking at the castle. Beautiful!

At 9:30 Holiday Wishes started. Nobody does fireworks like Disney! Wow!

Then we went over to Tomorrowland and saw the stage show "Mickey's Night Before Christmas". Fun show and it was the first time we saw the charcters with the new head pieces that had moveable mouths and eyes. Very cool.

Heading back the line at the Boardwalk/Swan/Dolphin bus stop was pretty full and they were loading 2 handicap patrons. The Yacht/Beach club bus pulled up and there was hardly anyone in line there so we got in that line. There was one handicap person there but the bus driver got him in and starpped in quickly and we were on our way before the Boardwalk bus even started loading. Once at the Yacht club we walked over the bridge and up the back stairs again to our room.

All in all a great day.

We slept in a bit this morning. We'll head back to Magic Kingdom, then we have a late lunch at Le Cellier and the Candlelight Processional planned for this evening.

Have a great day everyone!

 

[WDWLVR]

Are you crazy? It's freezing here in Florida. I've been wearing a coat to work this week.

It's way to early to be this cold.

We must be crazy as we wore shorts yesterday during the day.

We changed to long pants for the evening party but didn't even take our jackets. Could have used them at the end but the hot cocoa kept us warm.

It really isn't cold to us - not after the snow we left.

 

[RachelTori]

Hi, Mary! So happy to read your posts. I'm doing WDW vicariously through you this December!

Have to laugh about the transportation -- sure does pay to know your way around when it comes to taking those buses, doesn't it?!!

I'm determined to get the family down there next December. It's hard to imagine that the castle is really more beautiful in person than in the pictures I've seen. Sure hope they'll dress it up with lights again next year.

Enjoy your dinner and the CP tonight.

 

[CajunGirl2]

Mary, thanks for the posts. I so want to go to Disney for Christmas one year. I went YEARS ago as a teenager and would like to do so again.

Bruce got off early today. He called from home & said that I have a message from DCL. I had faxed inventory control with a request for a SPH room in June 2009. Guess I'll call them back & see what they've got for me. Maybe at a cat 10 price, we can afford to cruise in '09.

Ang

 

[whnim64]

Well, after getting a quote from DU, we've booked the May 23, 2009 Eastern cruise. We might have to switch again; Caleb will be 'gradutating' 8th grade that summer. Our other option was going to be Aug. 15, but he might miss the first few days of high school. Definitely can't afford the summer prices! Mary, I know what you mean about not being cold in Florida. We got about an inch of snow last night with more predicted. Enjoy the warm weather!

 

[CajunGirl2]

Well, after getting a quote from DU, we've booked the May 23, 2009 Eastern cruise. We might have to switch again; Caleb will be 'gradutating' 8th grade that summer. Our other option was going to be Aug. 15, but he might miss the first few days of high school. Definitely can't afford the summer prices! Mary, I know what you mean about not being cold in Florida. We got about an inch of snow last night with more predicted. Enjoy the warm weather!

I wish our '08-'09 school calendar was out. If they keep the calendar like this year, we'll get out on May 22 & could make it on the May 23 Eastern. I would really like to do that one since the prices are considerably less.

Ang

 

[RachelTori]

I wish our '08-'09 school calendar was out. If they keep the calendar like this year, we'll get out on May 22 & could make it on the May 23 Eastern. I would really like to do that one since the prices are considerably less.

Ang

Angie,

Gwinnett County's last day of school is Wed, 5/20/2009 - maybe North Fulton's will coincide.

 

[CajunGirl2]

Angie,

Gwinnett County's last day of school is Wed, 5/20/2009 - maybe North Fulton's will coincide.

Oh, thanks Laura! Maybe I should bank on that fact. We've always been pretty consistent with finishing up a couple of days later than Gwinnett. Y'all always finish in the middle of the week & we finish at the end. Hmmm ... the wheels in my mind are spinning!!! Need to go check that pricing again.

Ang

 

[whnim64]

Oh, thanks Laura! Maybe I should bank on that fact. We've always been pretty consistent with finishing up a couple of days later than Gwinnett. Y'all always finish in the middle of the week & we finish at the end. Hmmm ... the wheels in my mind are spinning!!! Need to go check that pricing again.

Ang

Yes, sail with us, sail with us! DU quoted us $3600 for a Cat. 9 for the 3 of us for that sail date. Caleb already said that he wouldn't mind missing his 8th grade promotion. He's ready to sail again as a teen this time!

 

[CajunGirl2]

Yes, sail with us, sail with us! DU quoted us $3600 for a Cat. 9 for the 3 of us for that sail date. Caleb already said that he wouldn't mind missing his 8th grade promotion. He's ready to sail again as a teen this time!

Sandi, do you know what the difference was between DU's quote & the price through DCL? Just curious.

We'd love to sail with y'all again! You were such great tablemates.
Ang

 

[ohiominnie]

I either need counseling, or a higher dose of medication, or something. B/c I'm totally OUT OF MY MIND!!!

http://www.pediascribe.com/20071207/i-am-a-bear-of-very-little-brain/

Stacey, any word on when Megan and David are heading to the shows?

No time to catch up on the thread. Must get dinner into the kids and head to TWO theaters.