8/15/09-Eastern-Tortola Treasure Seekers #4

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

our schools name is Lake Garda

WELL DONE , girls !! I bet your kids were delighted with the new tshirt !!!

How can it be that your kids'school has such an Italian name ?
GARDA LAKE is a beautiful lake here in Northern Italy and a major vacation destination.
This is its official site (if you wish to have a quick look ) :

http://www.gardalake.it/

And here are a few pictures of the lake itself !!

Did you know about the Italian GARDA LAKE ?

laura

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Emily tried to send Alice a PM - did she get it? She sent it from my account a couple of weeks ago (2/28).

Let us know. If she did not get it, Emily can try to send it again. She thought it would be fun to chat with Alice.

I know she has been in correspondance with a few children on the cruise I have seen her on her laptop and she asked a few thnigs re the cruise I will re check

WELL DONE , girls !! I bet your kids were delighted with the new tshirt !!!

How can it be that your kids'school has such an Italian name ?
GARDA LAKE is a beautiful lake here in Northern Italy and a major vacation destination.
This is its official site (if you wish to have a quick look ) :

http://www.gardalake.it/

And here are a few pictures of the lake itself !!

Did you know about the Italian GARDA LAKE ?

laura

Very nice, I am off to Venice in May for a trip.

 

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

Very nice, I am off to Venice in May for a trip.

Will you visit Venice with family ... or are you on business trip ?

Should you pass through Milano airports ... let us know ; maybe we could come and say HI !!!

laura

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Will you visit Venice with family ... or are you on business trip ?

Should you pass through Milano airports ... let us know ; maybe we could come and say HI !!!

laura

Hi we are going as a family to Venice in late May and going to the Marco polo airport on the mainland just accross from Venice.

 

[allardk46]

Good Morning everyone! It is a beautiful day her today...should be about 80 degrees! I am gonna go clean my car and then taking Paige and a friend to see Taylor Swift tonight...She is very excited!

Sounds like your daughter and Jen's has a lot in common with mine - all dancers and all love Taylor swift. Brianna is excited to meet everyone.

 

[allardk46]

Hey all... Just got home from the Science Fair....It was such FUN...................

This year the school made all of the kids winners. So everyone got something.....It was soo nice for all of them. The theme was Rocks so our schools name is Lake Garda and the shirts said Lake Garda Rocks with a big volcano on it.........They all got pet rocks, etc.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is so great for the kids - I like when they encourage all of them.

I also agree that the parents do not do the kids projects. I also try and stay away from correcting the kids homework as how do the teachers know if they understood the lesson. If they ask for help that is one thing but I do not correct. Too many of the young kids I hire out of college do not know how to research or complete a project without help.

 

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

Hi we are going as a family to Venice in late May and going to the Marco polo airport on the mainland just accross from Venice.

AWWW !! I'm glad you visit with your family !! Venice is really unique!! is this your first visit ?

I'm sure you all will have a wonderful time !!!!
Venice is well known also for very posh JEWELRY shops ; you are showed in ONLY if you have an appointment !!!!

laura

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

OK

I am going to get in 'early' before the Disbaords go down, whilst I know its for 10pm EST, I am going offline soon, and when I get up on Sunday they still will be down.

So happy Sunday, and for the UK Happy Mothers day.

And I forgot, ( naughty)

Happy birthday for my sister, 50 today!!!

 

[jenanderson]

Happy Saturday everyone! We have been enjoying a beautiful day in Minnesota today. It was a great day to be outside and now we will do some grilling for dinner!

I have been feeling a bit under the weather but think I am good to go again! Now Emily has it though - I was going to take pictures of her in her new pointe shoes at dance today but she did not look good. I probably should have not even let her go but it is so difficult to make up missed lessons.

Hope everyone else is having a great day!
Jen

 

[jenanderson]

Good Morning Everyone! It was quiet with the boards down for so long. Hope everyone has a great Monday!

Jen

PS - Web site is updated. Check it out...andeeNjoel have their own page now!

 

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

WOW !! I read two hours ago Jen's blog !!! GREAT job !! as usual !!

It's nice to "meet" NEW fellow cruisers : andeenjoel !!

The DIS however seems to work SOOO SLOWLY today !! I spent 15 minutes to get the line /post this !!!
I guess the DISboards still need to be fixed ??????


HAVE A NICE WEEK all of you !!!
laura

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE, (After the short break)

I hope the boards organize our shore trips so that 6 hours becomes a full day in port.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Hope you all like my ''upgraded' monorail avatar, it took all of Sunday to upgrade it!!!

 

[TheFatMansWife]

we went to venice for my 40th
had a great time, what an amazing place, I love the water taxis and the little alleys that lead you to little squares of shops and restaurants.
we went in may a lovely time to go not too busy and the weather was fab.

we have had some great weather here in the uk. perhaps spring is finally here::

 

[caitlinsdad]

Hope you all like my ''upgraded' monorail avatar, it took all of Sunday to upgrade it!!!

very nice, yes the boards still seam slow from the upgrade . Looks like they still need a little work

 

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

Hope you all like my ''upgraded' monorail avatar, it took all of Sunday to upgrade it!!!

WOW !!! VERY nice !!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

AWWW !! I'm glad you visit with your family !! Venice is really unique!! is this your first visit ?
I'm sure you all will have a wonderful time !!!!
Venice is well known also for very posh JEWELRY shops ; you are showed in ONLY if you have an appointment !!!!
laura

we went to venice for my 40th
had a great time, what an amazing place, I love the water taxis and the little alleys that lead you to little squares of shops and restaurants.
we went in may a lovely time to go not too busy and the weather was fab.
we have had some great weather here in the uk. perhaps spring is finally here::

Its my first time to Venice, I have flown 'over' it a few times but never been there on can I say 'dry land' This is actually part of a freebiee, last year I flew to Los Angeles for the Panama cruise and back from Orlando with BA, also I did Barcelona with them in 07 for the Med DCL cruise, so with the airmailes our familiy get to fly to Venice for free.

very nice, yes the boards still seam slow from the upgrade . Looks like they still need a little work

WOW !!! VERY nice !!

I thought as Disboards had an upgrade I would upgrade the avatar to the new Disneyland Monorail trains.
And yes like the new monorail trains, the boards are very slow and seem to take a lot of time to load against other internet sites.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

NICE JOKE FOR YOU ALL:-



Why wouldn’t people buy bread from the constipated baker?








Because he kneaded a poo.

 

[andeeNjoel]

Good Morning Everyone! It was quiet with the boards down for so long. Hope everyone has a great Monday!

Jen

PS - Web site is updated. Check it out...andeeNjoel have their own page now!

Here are the examples from the Dis FAQs:

7 day Eastern Cruises [per 1/3/09]
LAPLAPL 5:30 and 8:00
APLAPLA 5:45 and 8:15
PLAPLAP 6:00 and 8:30


Here is what the 2008 Passporter indicates (the 2009 version comes out soon):
All adults: LAP
Young kids: APL
Older kids: PLA

However on our last cruise (4 night), the two of us had the rotation predicted for 'older kids'. I guess I don't look my age, but they hadn't seen me yet. We ate at Palo on the first night so I was very happy with the rotation we had. For an added bonus our table mates were awesome! (From the UK)

I think it would be nice to be at Lumiere's on formal/Golden Mickey night and at Parrot Cay on pirate night, but I think they will all be great no matter how they line up.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Here are the examples from the Dis FAQs:

7 day Eastern Cruises [per 1/3/09]
LAPLAPL 5:30 and 8:00
APLAPLA 5:45 and 8:15
PLAPLAP 6:00 and 8:30


Here is what the 2008 Passporter indicates (the 2009 version comes out soon):
All adults: LAP
Young kids: APL
Older kids: PLA

However on our last cruise (4 night), the two of us had the rotation predicted for 'older kids'. I guess I don't look my age, but they hadn't seen me yet. We ate at Palo on the first night so I was very happy with the rotation we had. For an added bonus our table mates were awesome! (From the UK)

I think it would be nice to be at Lumiere's on formal/Golden Mickey night and at Parrot Cay on pirate night, but I think they will all be great no matter how they line up.

The way DCL 'did' the rotations by 1/ young kids 2/ older kids 3/ no kids, has basically stopped (passporter 2008 is out of date) and now its random, but you can put in a request, its not guaranteed, unless at Suite level, PLA looks the best as you get formal night in Lumière's. Assuming Tortola is pirate night then you get Parrot Cay there that night,