9/24/09 3 Day Wonder - Cruise Meets, and FEs, and Goombays oh my!

[jenny105]

Hi everybody! I was MIA this weekend. Didn't really do a whole lot. Saturday, the DBf and I went out to dinner and then to see Adventureland. That movie was great. Kristin Stewart (Bella) is in it and the first thing out of my mouth was 'Where's Edward?' My DBf just rolled his eyes. Sunday I just relaxed and played video games.

Lainey, I hope your mom is ok!

Karen, I hope you're feeling better!

Mary, can you PM me the pic? I am just looking for ideas so it would help if I knew what other people are planning to do. I'll let the DBf be surprised!

Hi Amy! Welcome! Just to introduce myself, I'm Jen and I'll be sailing with my DBf Joe. We're staying 4 nights at POR before the cruise and 2 nights at ASMo after. This will be our first time ever on DCL!

Speaking of, since we're booked on land & sea I'm thinking about calling DCL and telling them to switch my reservation to 3 night cruise only. That way, when I get the difference credited back to my account, I can book the 4 nights at POR separately and get free dining!! I don't need the transfers so land & sea really isn't a neccessity for me. I'm going to put on hold on POR w/free dining right now!

 

[karentan]

jenny, congrats on changing to the free dining! its always good when you get something for free, i cant wait to make all our ADRs for places that i keep meaning to try but dont because of the prices. i'm not sure what i'm looking forward to more, the cruise or the free dining!
was it you who was re-doing your bathroom? if so how'd it go?

mary, dont worry about PMing me a picture of your FE gift, i was only kidding anyway, i like the surprises! i've actually thought of another idea for my FE, going to try and make one sometime soon and see if it actually works.

i'm feeling a lot better than i was yesterday, but still dont feel particularly well, i went to the doctors today, and she said its not tonsilitis (thank goodness!) but i have got a bit of a viral infection, just gotta dose up on painkillers and get some rest. i'm sooo tired at the mo, i'm glad its only a 4 day working week this week

 

[jenny105]

I'm so excited I rebooked and got the free dining! Now I'm going to go over a bunch of menus for places I want to try. I had an idea of where I wanted to go but it may need to be reworked now!! It's going to save us so much money on food and leave us extra for souvies and cocktails on the ship!

Nope, it wasn't me who was re-doing my bathroom! Though it could use it. My shower leaks.

 

[karentan]

oops, wonder if it was lainey. i remember someone on here was saying that they were doing their bathroom!!!

yay for more money for cocktails! i ended up having a few strawberry daquaries (sp?) last time as they didnt have any cocktails i liked the sound of. i normally drink june bugs, wonder if they'd do one of those for me.........

 

[jenny105]

I'll be drinking margaritas, coronas, and mojitos! Maybe I'll make myself classy during dinner and get wine or champagne. Do you like pina coladas? (And gettin caught in the rain! couldn't resist) If you do, they can make a drink called a Miami Vice. It's 1/2 pina colada 1/2 strawberry daquiri.

I used to bartend so tell me what ya like and I'll think of a drink haha!

 

[karentan]

ive never actually had a pina colada! then again never had a daquiri before the last cruise! i used to work on a cocktail bar about 10 years ago, thats how i got into drinking, i never used to drink before i went to college, started work in a bar and the rest is history!!
i mainly drink baileys (i used to drink it by the pint ) but dont drink as much now!! that and peach schnapps. i'm not really a beer or wine drinker, but i do like cocktails. mmmm

 

[PixyDusted]

Colada? YUM! I actually like virgin pina colada's better than ones with rum!

Jenny - I want to see Adventureland too!!

Donna - just my opinion, but I would get two 8GB cards before I got a whopping 16GB one. I hear the larger the card the more likely it is to crash. Did you look up reviews of specific cards? I would before I buy...just to be a smart consumer. Can't hurt, right?

Amy - WELCOME! My fiance and I live in Central Florida (he works for Disney, me for Universal) and we're Disney "freaks" too so I know how you feel. We're slightly jaded though with all the pixie dust but that's why we love the cruise. It's the one thing we think Disney consistently does right!

We haven't done much more for our wedding than what we had planned for our original date. We're not really telling the "masses" we rebooked (aside from our family who we've told already) until June. So I guess that's when I'll kick stuff up into high speed!

FE: sure, I'm game. What do I have to do? I've never participated before. I know I need the FE for my door (well, fish thing) and I need to make X amount of what I create/give out for everyone but where's the list? Or is there no list? Or there's a participation list but what we create is a surprise? Is it supposed to be representative of the city we live in? B/c I live in Orlando so I don't think finding an "icon" to represent that would be too hard! LOL.

 

[karentan]

have you managed to rebook all the rooms your friends and family had booked for the original date? i remember you saying you had LOADS of people coming on the cruise with you!!

 

[PixyDusted]

We've only told a handful of those previous guests about the rebooking (immediate family and my 2 best friends to be exact). So they're the only ones who have rebooked so far. We're waiting to tell the others until June probably. Hopefully they'll come. If not, what can we do?

 

[jenny105]

Karen - Have you ever tried a fuzzy navel? There is peach schnapps in that. I keep giving you drink suggestions.

Mikkel - Adventureland was really good! I didn't expect it to be anything great but it was pretty funny. The main guy in the movie is like a Michael Cera type so if you like him, you'll probably like it.

Ok, next thing to work on today. FE ideas.

 

[karentan]

yeah i've tried fuzzy navels, but i'm not a huge fan of orange juice, so i tend to avoid them.
i like the creamy cocktails, you can get the big ones from TGI fridays, over here they're called frozen black irish, not sure if they do the same ones over there, but i like the ice cream blended ones!!

mmmm, i really fancy one now........

 

[jenny105]

We have some of the pre-mixed Friday's ones here. Creamsicle, Long Island Ice Tea, Margarita, and Mudslide are the 4 I always see around.

 

[karentan]

mmm mudslide!!!

 

[jenny105]

You are going to be my cocktail partner in crime on this ship!

This is a dumb question but I've read a lot of Jane Green and Sophie Kinsella books. Do you talk all cute like they do and say words like loo, telly, and call the subway the tube? And when you argue you call it a row? Silly I know but I love it!

 

[karentan]

cocktails sound like a really good way of spending the cruise....... need to start saving up then!

yeah we use "loo" all the time, there are other slang ways of saying toilet, but they're not as cute or nice!!
we use telly a lot, but i'm more of a "tv" person!!, and not really sure why people call it the tube, i just call it the underground (london is one of the few places thats got an underground system, and its actually called the london underground, so thats really what i call it.
yeah not too sure why its called a row, but you can also call it a barney (not sure why but i think it sounds funnier than row!!)

 

[disney honeymooners]

Welcome to the board Amy My name is Lainey and i will be sailing with my soon to be DH on our honeymoon this will be my 4th cruise and my second one with Disney. My DFi has never been on a cruise, never been on a plane and the last time he was at disney world he was 3 so this will be a trip full of firsts for him. We are doing the 7night land and sea and we are staying at the Poly for the first part of our trip and I can not wait.

Karen- i will be asking the bartenders to make me a special drink that is popular in the Bahamas it is called Goombay Smash (Jen already knows about it i told her earlier in the board) it has Clear Rum, Dark Rum and Coconut rum in it along with Pineapple juice it is really good but you don't realize how much liquor you are drinking until you try to stand up and you fall over or lose your balance.
POLLEN SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY CAR IS YELLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!AND MY HEAD HURTS!!!
Jen- i want to go see Adventureland but no one here will see it with me i wish you lived closer cuz then i would have someone that would go see it with me.
Mary- I have no clue how the pollen count can be really high and it is snowing but maybe they took the count really early they said we are supposed to get some snow tonight it is so windy outside and it looks like it is going to rain b/c the clouds are really dark but nothing is happening. This isn't right it is April it shouldn't be this cold here!

 

[karentan]

by the way, is anyone else here on facebook? i've added jenny but wondered if anyone else is on there?

 

[disney honeymooners]

i am on facebook and myspace look for Lainey Neal i have gotten my mom hooked on both of them. Hey i want to ba a cocktail buddy too i love all the drinks i am hearing so far except for Margarittas my body doesn't like tequila

 

[karentan]

lainey, i think we might have stolen your nice weather, we've got it this side of the pond! its actually been really nice here the past few days, the kids are off school for easter, which normally means it chucks it down with rain for 2 weeks solid, but its been good weather for a change!
i'm glad we havent got the pollen problem over here yet, i've got a stinking cold at the mo, so i'm really glad i dont have hayfever (yet) to contend with!!

 

[karentan]

my body doesn't like tequila

i know how you feel, i dont do well with tequila, vodka, or absinthe.
yay for more cocktail buddies though!! i love june bugs, its malibu, creme de banana, midori, pineapple juice and sours. tastes really nice!

btw lainey, is your facebook network kennesaw 08?