9/19/09 Western Magic

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Count me in! As of now, there will be my family (the Bowers: me, dh, dd-8yo), and friends..(Crawford family: dw,dh, ds-8yo), and friends (Parker family: dw, dh, ds-9yo, dd-3yo) and possibly more down the road.. This is my family's 6th DCL cruise (well, my dd & I...we leave dh home sometimes!). My dd & I are going with our friends on another "surprise" Western DCL in December. I'm still working on how to tell my hubby about that one...

I'd love to be a part of the FE exchange! I haven't done that before, but it sounds like alot of fun!

WELCOME! I will add you to the FE list Do you think your friends will want to do it as well or do you want me to just add you?

I will post a list and then as everyone has their Cabin #'s as we get closer - I will send PM's with that info. as well to those doing the FE. I know we have plenty of time but I am a BIG planner - especially when it comes to anything Disney and Our DCL Cruises most - so bear with me

Hope everyone is doing well! We have been home bound - my son had surgery last week and is recovering but getting better every day and the tumor on his leg was confirmed to be BENIGN so that was great news!

Happy Summer everyone!

 

[granmaz]

Count me in! As of now, there will be my family (the Bowers: me, dh, dd-8yo), and friends..(Crawford family: dw,dh, ds-8yo), and friends (Parker family: dw, dh, ds-9yo, dd-3yo) and possibly more down the road.. This is my family's 6th DCL cruise (well, my dd & I...we leave dh home sometimes!). My dd & I are going with our friends on another "surprise" Western DCL in December. I'm still working on how to tell my hubby about that one...

I'd love to be a part of the FE exchange! I haven't done that before, but it sounds like alot of fun!

Hi and welcome. You have a big group there - should be fun.

WELCOME! I will add you to the FE list Do you think your friends will want to do it as well or do you want me to just add you?

I will post a list and then as everyone has their Cabin #'s as we get closer - I will send PM's with that info. as well to those doing the FE. I know we have plenty of time but I am a BIG planner - especially when it comes to anything Disney and Our DCL Cruises most - so bear with me

Hope everyone is doing well! We have been home bound - my son had surgery last week and is recovering but getting better every day and the tumor on his leg was confirmed to be BENIGN so that was great news!

Happy Summer everyone!

That is great news about your son's operation.

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Thanks, Marilyn! It was a scary time since he is only 8 but we are through it now and he is recovering well and is getting stronger on his leg every day It was a huge blessing that it was not nearly as bad of a recovery as we thought it would be!

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Hello Eveyone!

Here is the list I have so far for FE Fun If I have missed anyone, please let me know and I will update my post. If you need any info. on the FE fun - please post and we can answer for any first-timers I have listed in alphabetical order for now but may list by Cabin # as we get closer - let me know what you think! Also, do we want to track how many kids/ages per group in case anyone wants to do specific for the kids?

Thanks!

Monica

FE Participants

ChrisLei
disneyfan551
disneyfanatics
finfans
Kirstin's Mommy
Martinezfamily1126
Pumbaa
Yonkrs_Girl

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

I so wish it was a B2B for us! Maybe someday...

 

[ChrisLei]

Hello Eveyone!

Here is the list I have so far for FE Fun If I have missed anyone, please let me know and I will update my post. If you need any info. on the FE fun - please post and we can answer for any first-timers I have listed in alphabetical order for now but may list by Cabin # as we get closer - let me know what you think! Also, do we want to track how many kids/ages per group in case anyone wants to do specific for the kids?

Thanks!

Monica

FE Participants

ChrisLei
disneyfan551
disneyfanatics
finfans
Pumbaa
Yonkrs_Girl

In case you do decide to include the kids specifics, here are mine. DD will be 10 at the time of the cruise, and DS will be 6.

 

[ChrisLei]

Monica! So glad to hear that DS is recovering well. I can not imagine how stressful waiting for the results of the tumor had to be for you. So this next cruise of yours couldn't be coming at a better time! Can't wait to hear all about it!

 

[pfishgirl]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE !!!!

 

[KIRSTIN'S MOMMY]

Hi everyone! We just booked, I'm so excited! This will be my 3rd DCL cruise, but a first for my dd's and my dh. He is an avid SCUBA diver, any ideas on excursions for him to do that? I'm sure there are some, but my first 2 cruises are only 3 day Bahamas, and I didn't pay too much attention. Sign us up for FE too, my oldest dd will be 9, my younger will be 2. Thanks, can't wait!!!!

 

[granmaz]

Hi Kirsten, welcome.

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Hi everyone! We just booked, I'm so excited! This will be my 3rd DCL cruise, but a first for my dd's and my dh. He is an avid SCUBA diver, any ideas on excursions for him to do that? I'm sure there are some, but my first 2 cruises are only 3 day Bahamas, and I didn't pay too much attention. Sign us up for FE too, my oldest dd will be 9, my younger will be 2. Thanks, can't wait!!!!

Welcome Kirstin's Mommy! So glad you are joining us and the FE fun! I have added you to the list I am going to keep updating POST # 104 as the list grown and will post another update in a new post as we get closer

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

 

[disneyfinatics]

We were planning on just walking around Key West and doing Chankanaab Park in Cozumel. Not sure what we might do in Grand Caymen.

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Monica! So glad to hear that DS is recovering well. I can not imagine how stressful waiting for the results of the tumor had to be for you. So this next cruise of yours couldn't be coming at a better time! Can't wait to hear all about it!

Thanks, Chris! He is just about back to normal now and cannot wait to get back to swimming later this week. It's hard to believe that tomorrow will be 2 weeks since his surgery! He has recovered so quickly - it's all been a huge belssing on how well the outcome has been!

I will be sure to report about our 4-night but I know we will miss our 7-night as that is what our other 2 have been. But since we haven't been to the parks since April '07 - we decided to do both this September for school break

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

We were planning on just walking around Key West and doing Chankanaab Park in Cozumel. Not sure what we might do in Grand Caymen.

We visited Boatswain's Beach (Turtle Farm) in Grand Cayman and had a blast! We all loved it. They have the Turtle Tanks where you can hold the turtles and then a beach, pool, snorkeling, Awesome small Aviary, Gardens with a trail, etc. It really was a great day there! I can post some photos if anyone wants to see those

 

[granmaz]

We visited Boatswain's Beach (Turtle Farm) in Grand Cayman and had a blast! We all loved it. They have the Turtle Tanks where you can hold the turtles and then a beach, pool, snorkeling, Awesome small Aviary, Gardens with a trail, etc. It really was a great day there! I can post some photos if anyone wants to see those

I would love to see your pictures please.

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Birds in the Aviary...

Fun with the Turtles...

The Park...

I have alot more but didn't want to overload

They also have some other cool reptiles throughout the park and other tanks with larger turtles that are for viewing only. I'll be happy to share other photos if you want to see something specific

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Here is a link for more info. on the Turtle Farm/Park and a map of it as well

http://www.boatswainsbeach.ky/

http://www.boatswainsbeach.ky/_media/boatswainsbeach_map.pdf


I know it's a long way off but we found this and used it when we were there...it's a coupon on page 48 (upper left corner) for 10% off Admission - it does not show an exp. date or anything.

http://www.caymanactivityguide.com/Pdf/Layout.pdf

We will definitely be going back here when we go on our cruise - we didn't really want to see any of the other sites or do the beach (but they have a beach there as well) and wanted something different to do

 

[granmaz]

Those links are great thanks. Perhaps they can be posted on Page 1.

 

[Yonkrs_Girl]

Those links are great thanks. Perhaps they can be posted on Page 1.

Someone who posted on Page 1 would have to "Edit" one of their posts and add this info there But everyone should get the email that an update has been added so they will see the info, too!

 

[granmaz]

pfishgirl(sorry can't remember her real name) is the OP, so she would post them in her post. She does keep coming on here and should see the links. Or you could PM the links to her.