6/13/2009 Western on Magic- Our Cruise Chat Continues!

[BethA]

did you try gap kids? the suits usually are the same nice.

 

[Paula13]

I took DD and DS to get some more things for the cruise this weekend. DD found a cute 1 piece at Old Navy. She'll need that for the water parks if she goes on any of those fast slides! I've been looking with DS for nice trunks. He's lean and the men's section at most stores don't carry his size (XS) and the kids section trunks are not his style. Any suggestions? I've been to Target, American Eagle, Aeropostale, and Abercrombie. DD is going to help DS pack. She's already picked out her wardrobe for the whole week. We also got snorkel masks and tube thinggie for them. I figured we could rent the fins there. They are responsible for packing it in their suitcases. I don't miss those days when I had to do the packing for everyone!

I saw XS in girls bathing suits at Hollister this past wkend, not sure about the boys,thou.

BethA.... I used to work at a medical supply company, in my experience, the motorized wheelchairs were harder to operate than the scooters.

 

[Diane71969]

Yes, now that I am done morning I can add it to the website! LOL

I say everyone email to info@westernmagic61309.info what day you want then I will add it there.

I have to do the first day so everyone can get full use of mine.

Ditto - I need to do mine on the 1st night.

Also I ordered mine and they were special order so I don't know how many I will be able to give out if we add too many more cabins...I can't just order a small qty.

 

[Diane71969]

I'm happy to just being able to go on this cruise and for all the wonderful friends I have made and get to talk to.

I'm looking very very forward to my dinner companions and getting to know each other more and building lifelong friendships.

I plan on being with my friends more than in my cabin, so it is really only a place to change and sleep. I was only aggravated and disappointed at my TA's mistake and I had to pay for it.

Being a single Mom I don't get to do vacations very often as a matter of fact this is the 1st vacation that Larry & I have even gone on alone and I was hoping for a little to make it more special for Larry's bday and graduation and my bday.

Sorry if I brought anyone down yesterday..it is a great day today and we are only 39 days away from sailing away!!!!

 

[Brooklyn]

I'm happy to just being able to go on this cruise and for all the wonderful friends I have made and get to talk to.

I'm looking very very forward to my dinner companions and getting to know each other more and building lifelong friendships.

I plan on being with my friends more than in my cabin, so it is really only a place to change and sleep. I was only aggravated and disappointed at my TA's mistake and I had to pay for it.

Being a single Mom I don't get to do vacations very often as a matter of fact this is the 1st vacation that Larry & I have even gone on alone and I was hoping for a little to make it more special for Larry's bday and graduation and my bday.

Sorry if I brought anyone down yesterday..it is a great day today and we are only 39 days away from sailing away!!!!

Diane,

Your TA did not make a mistake. You are also linked to me who got Deck 1, momtomari who got deck 6 and Deb who was already on deck 7. You just got what you got. I really don't think your TA made a mistake.

 

[DisneyBaby2004]

Funny thing yesterday. The kids don’t know we are going on the cruise. My daughter and I were talking about her friends going on vacation in June. She said her girlfriend told her that June is the best time to take a vacation and the 13th is a lucky day so we should take a vacation on June 13th. It tickled me so much. So I said okay if you read nightly without me “reminding” you then we will go someplace on June 13th. I told her to pick wherever she wants to go. My son said Disney World. I said somewhere you have never been, so she says the Keys. This is going to be great. I now have my alibi when we wake up and are on the road on June 13th. And we really are going to the Keys. I was laughing so hard inside. They were like “Mom – are you serious, are we really going to go” Little DS still does not believe we are going. I am even more excited.

 

[nikkistevej]

Funny thing yesterday. The kids don’t know we are going on the cruise. My daughter and I were talking about her friends going on vacation in June. She said her girlfriend told her that June is the best time to take a vacation and the 13th is a lucky day so we should take a vacation on June 13th. It tickled me so much. So I said okay if you read nightly without me “reminding” you then we will go someplace on June 13th. I told her to pick wherever she wants to go. My son said Disney World. I said somewhere you have never been, so she says the Keys. This is going to be great. I now have my alibi when we wake up and are on the road on June 13th. And we really are going to the Keys. I was laughing so hard inside. They were like “Mom – are you serious, are we really going to go” Little DS still does not believe we are going. I am even more excited.

That's awesome!! They are going to be so excited.(and I know you are too)

 

[Brooklyn]

DH tells me today that the unit he is training with this week has one of the Marines with Swine Flu. So I guess I did not have to go to Mexico to get it, I can just spend some time with my husband!

 

[triplefigs]

Hi, y'all! Hope everyone is having a MAGICal day! I'm off to do some FE shopping and then to the grocery store.

 

[triplefigs]

Funny thing yesterday. The kids don’t know we are going on the cruise. My daughter and I were talking about her friends going on vacation in June. She said her girlfriend told her that June is the best time to take a vacation and the 13th is a lucky day so we should take a vacation on June 13th. It tickled me so much. So I said okay if you read nightly without me “reminding” you then we will go someplace on June 13th. I told her to pick wherever she wants to go. My son said Disney World. I said somewhere you have never been, so she says the Keys. This is going to be great. I now have my alibi when we wake up and are on the road on June 13th. And we really are going to the Keys. I was laughing so hard inside. They were like “Mom – are you serious, are we really going to go” Little DS still does not believe we are going. I am even more excited.

 

[triplefigs]

DH tells me today that the unit he is training with this week has one of the Marines with Swine Flu. So I guess I did not have to go to Mexico to get it, I can just spend some time with my husband!

Shhhhh! Don't tell Dr. Doom that!

 

[Brooklyn]

Shhhhh! Don't tell Dr. Doom that!

I know that is what I was thinking! At least we would be naturally immune by the cruise though! LOL

He however would probably put Maddy in a bubble! LOL

 

[Paula13]

Ok, after being on hold for 45 mins with TA I found out the we have 6:00 dinning time, which is what I wanted to request! I also requested the Swan, don't know if we could sleep in a double bed That will be an interesting evening if we have to

 

[triplefigs]

Stephanie, when is Maddie supposed to have her ear looked at???

 

[Brooklyn]

Ok, after being on hold for 45 mins with TA I found out the we have 6:00 dinning time, which is what I wanted to request! I also requested the Swan, don't know if we could sleep in a double bed That will be an interesting evening if we have to

I thought they switched it to just one time for early and one time for late??? Just 6:15 and 8:15

 

[Paula13]

I thought they switched it to just one time for early and one time for late??? Just 6:15 and 8:15

I don't know? I had originally saw they made it 5:45 & 8:15. But, then I saw some where that the magic went back to staggered. So, I just called to request the 6:00 & was told that is what we had. BUT, I will have to warn you, I don't have much faith in the TA, so I could have been told the wrong thing...crossing my fingers,thou!

 

[Andrea_loves_Disney]

Hello everyone!! I am sorry I am not more active on this thread! I just can't keep up!!! I try to skim through every day and see what you peeps are talkin about... my office filters out websites with discussion boards and even though I have a way to get through the filter, I am always afraid I am going to get in trouble!!! So anyway, that is my reason for not being more active here!!

I read the discussion yesterday (last night?) about the FE gifts.... it is fine with me if you assign me a day in order to space things out. Just let me know!

I know my DD13 (Megan) wants to get to know her fellow teen cruisers better (Kaitlyn, Larry and Megan that I know of!!!) but she has just been so involved in her school and activities lately she just hasn't had time to do much of anything else!! As school winds down and the cruise gets closer, I know she will jump on the board and talk to everyone!!! So don't forget about us!!!

Hey Diane (Larry's mom) I know we are directly 2 decks above you I think (we are in 7501) so it will be easy for us to find you!!! Can't wait to meet you guys!!! It is going to be a blast!!! How is the end of 8th grade going for Larry?? It is stressful right now for Megan! She has been quite out of sorts lately .... we will really need this vacation by the time it gets here!!!!

I will try to post more soon!!! I want to get to know everyone!!!

 

[triplefigs]

Deb, how is Jayde feeling today???

 

[SUZCRUISE]

Since I think we are the only 1st time cruisers who were upgraded to a porthole, I presume your comment was directed at me. I am not sorry we got a good upgrade. I am saddened that not everyone did, feel horrible that anyone is upset over their assignment, and I know that you have spent a lot of $$ on cruises this year. I am sorry that you feel like you were overlooked. But that is no reason to single us out and try to make me feel guilty. I persoanlly think DCL is BRILLIANT for upgrading 1st timers. There is a much higher chance that we will book that Category or higher next time.

It's my second cruise and we also got the category 9. Seems a lot of us with 2 cabins were assigned to the 2nd level.

I don't think they have any rhyme or reason to assigning cabins. I'm a programmer, if they'd like I could probably come up with an alogrithm that would fill the ship weighing who paid the most, who signed up first, how many cruises they'd been on, along with the number of cabins, capacity, desirability of location etc.... lol.

But my guess is it's some poor smuck who just has a schematic of the boat and tries to fit people in based on room capacities and to the best of their ability keep people together with their travel companions.

I look at it this way. I paid for a 12. If I got a 12 I got what I paid for...anything better is just cake.

I try everyday I live to be thankful for what I have. It reminds me of a lesson I once learned years ago. I was in the Dairy Queen. My 3 kids were fighting, driving me nuts! I was having a pity party, what did I do to deserve this? Along raising my 3 rotten kids. Then I looked over to the next table and saw this woman. She was spoon feeding her son ice cream. He must have been about 10. He was in a wheel chair, unable to even control his body to feed himself. I felt like I'd been hit over the head with a 2 by 4. Then I thought about how stupid I was and how thankful I should be. That night I went home and thanked God for my maybe my not so rotten kids and my not so bad life. Whenever I want to have me a pity party I think back to that day.

 

[BethA]

I did not know the TAs had that info-I'll have to call.
Is that the third time? I asked for 5:45--somehow we are always last getting out of dinneer and hoped by going with the middle time we would not be late for anything right after dinner. We started telling them we need to be done to go to this show and it seemed to work somewhat better for us.

I did not hear about the Marines with swine flu-was it on the news?

So stephanie have you decided to stick with the deck 1 room? Is there anything available you would prefer since your other rooms are gone? In WDW we always seem to geet the worst room----farthest walk in the hotel, view of garbage, etc. So it is no fun to be disappointed.

When will we decide about adding more FE--I will have to see if I can get the same thing again-or start with a new idea?