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

[disney honeymooners]

Mary yalls FE is really cute i was gonna get mine and gregs names embroidered on the front but i am scared that the fabric may pucker if i do that so i may just leave it the way it is we will see. Oh you wanted to see pictures of Kendal in her jacket here are the only ones that i have right now to make greg happy i cropped him out of the pictures since he had just woken up so he was still alittle groggy.

 

[m_kasch]

LOL, Kendall is so cute in her jacket!! Does she like wearing clothes? Minnie puts up with it. She has a hat that she doesn't like though. But shirts she will wear. We tried putting her in booties last winter, to keep her paws from getting cold, but she couldn't walk in them...it was totally hilarious, she was walking and sticking all of her legs straight out...one of her funniest moments!!

Jen, are you freaking out about the hockey?? I heard that your coach got suspended from the game yesterday. But I also heard that a fan threw beer on him...I think that is a fair thing, someone tosses beer on you, you throw a water bottle at them...at least water doesn't stink!! LOL!! Hopefully, the blackhawks will win tonight and we won't have to go to game 7, even though it would be fun to win at home.

Karen, how are your bike injuries?? It sounded pretty painful!! I fell off a bike once and broke my wrist. That was not fun!

Happy Monday everyone!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

we haven't tried any other outfits but she was pretty tollerant of the jacket so i don't think she will have a problem with them but the jacket was hard to get on her b/c her legs are so short they kept coming out of the sleeves. Greg an i are going to get our passports this week and i am finaly going to start my FE gifts this week. I have read some peoples posts on the board and now i am scared about eating at le cellier not bc of the food but bc of how long they are saying it takes them to seat you(with an ADR) and how long it takes to get your food but these seem to be groups of 4 or more not a group of 2 so i am hoping it wont take them 2 hours to get us our food i am still gonna try and do the ADR but i think i am gonn do it for 5:30 instead of 6 i dont know we will see.

 

[m_kasch]

Are you set on eating there for dinner? You could do lunch instead. When we went for the first lunch seating that was available, we didn't have to wait at all. We have had to wait the last few times we went for dinner though. It is just so popular now!!

I have to get Tim his passport this weekend. I keep telling him that every weekend...LOL!! But Mother's Day weekend, we are going to his parents house in MI, which we will probably be doing a lot as the weather gets nicer...and we can book our excursions and stuff on June 11, so I want to have all of our info ready to go. I'm not very patient, so I hate waiting around to do stuff!!

 

[jenny105]

Hi ladies! I'm back at work. Boo. I had a great weekend in VA and it was so hot out! It's like spring got completely skipped over and went right to summer. It was close to 90 degrees!

Mary - I didn't see the games this weekend because I was away but I'm just annoyed. I cracked up when I heard Tortorella got suspended but it was kind of a stupid move on his part because the team needed him. I am a Ranger fan though and through the years, we've been conditioned to be disappointed. It's like I'm watching two completely different teams sometimes.

I like your FE! Very cute.

This weekend road trip made me so excited for the big trip in Sept. I absolutely can. not. wait.

 

[m_kasch]

Dude, you are totally speaking my language about being a disappointed fan!! I am a Cubs fan...I think that about sums it up!! I actually got tickets to the playoffs in 2007, and that was the game where Arizona finished up their sweep of us in the first round. It was sad. When we were leaving, there were these two little kids, probalby 4 or 5, that were BAWLING. I was like, don't worry, i'm sure they will win in your lifetime. Now...how many 100 year olds have heard that?!?!?!?! So sad!! Maybe this will be our year...I love them, either way!

I'm hard at work for my Team In Training fundraising. I'm thinking of doing an outing to a Minor League baseball game, they sell fundraising tickets to you for less than face value, then you get to sell them at face value to make your money. Or, a fundraising night at Buffalo Wild Wings here...so many options!! I'm also going to have a Tastefully Simple party. Yum!! That makes me hungry!!

I also can't wait for September!! I keep telling Tim how excited I am!! He is more excited about the Disney trip after the cruise...but I am trying really hard to get him more excited for the cruise. It's more fun to be excited together!!

 

[Lilo's Mom]

we haven't tried any other outfits but she was pretty tollerant of the jacket so i don't think she will have a problem with them but the jacket was hard to get on her b/c her legs are so short they kept coming out of the sleeves. Greg an i are going to get our passports this week and i am finaly going to start my FE gifts this week. I have read some peoples posts on the board and now i am scared about eating at le cellier not bc of the food but bc of how long they are saying it takes them to seat you(with an ADR) and how long it takes to get your food but these seem to be groups of 4 or more not a group of 2 so i am hoping it wont take them 2 hours to get us our food i am still gonna try and do the ADR but i think i am gonn do it for 5:30 instead of 6 i dont know we will see.

Le Cellier is our favorite place to eat, we eat there twice every trip. In all honesty, we have never waited to be seated during lunch, and we have maybe waited about 10 minutes for dinner. I don't know if that is because most times it is just the two of us or not. As far as getting our food, again, it seems like we never have very long of a wait. Service has always been great, and we have never gotten a bad meal there!

 

[jenny105]

I'm more excited about the cruise than anything else. I love cruises! Don't get me wrong, I'm so excited to be at WDW but I haven't been on a cruise in a couple years and never with DCL. So

I feel your pain Mary. It took the Rangers 54 years to win a Stanley Cup and let's see...since then 15 years have passed so I have 39 more to go. I was 11 when they won the cup in 94...I'll be 65 when they win the next. Awesome.

Good to hear about Le Cellier. Was planning on making a lunch ADR there.

 

[disney honeymooners]

Thanks for the advice about Le Cellier we are gonna try and do dinner there the night before the cruise if we cant i am gonna try and get an ADR at either the Yatchmen steakhouse or at big River Grille and Brewing Works i like the menus from all of them plus they actually have stuff on them that greg will eat.
I am fixing to go buyt the stuff to make one of the gifts yall are gonna get in your FE goodie bags I am doing one per cabin that is why i need the family name of the people participating who have more than 2 people in each cabin so i can do like "The Smith's or The Smith Family's" i am gonna try with one for me and greg first that way if i mess up its not one of yalls.

 

[Lilo's Mom]

Thanks for the advice about Le Cellier we are gonna try and do dinner there the night before the cruise if we cant i am gonna try and get an ADR at either the Yatchmen steakhouse or at big River Grille and Brewing Works i like the menus from all of them plus they actually have stuff on them that greg will eat.
I am fixing to go buyt the stuff to make one of the gifts yall are gonna get in your FE goodie bags I am doing one per cabin that is why i need the family name of the people participating who have more than 2 people in each cabin so i can do like "The Smith's or The Smith Family's" i am gonna try with one for me and greg first that way if i mess up its not one of yalls.

LOL, Is Greg a "meat and potatoes" kind of guy? Bob is the same way, when I plan where we are going to eat he has to have either a beef or chicken option..he will not touch ANY seafood!

For the FE exchange "The Decker Family" will work for us! Kelly may not be a Decker by birth, but she is much closer to Bob (her step-dad) than she is her real father.

 

[disney honeymooners]

Greg is a Meat and French fry guy (he hates mashed and baked potatoes me personaly i like any kind of potato)
Greg is gonna be using alot of our snack credits to get french fries with alot of his meals that is why i added the disney theme park snacks to our honeymoon registry that way he can get extras if he wants. Thank you donna i appreciate it alot it makes the FE gift making process easier oh how is your daughter so i know what gift to put in the bag just for her? since alot of the people arent bringing kids i am doing special little gifts for the cabins who have children and is there anythink in particular that she likes?

 

[karentan]

donna asked me for an up to date list of the FE people, thought i'd post it here too so everyone can keep up to date:

jenny105 - jenny nieczypor (26) and joe
m_kasch - mary kasch (27) and tim
karentan - karen tan-pearson (29) and gary pearson (27)
disneyhoneymooners - lainey neal (24) and greg
pixydusted - mikkel and jason
futuredis - her, DH, and 3 year old (no names yet)
lilo's mum - Donna and Bob Decker, daughter Kelly Burns (23) and one other person, to be determined
duchessandkittens - amy, DH, 3 sons (14, 12 and 6), dad, brother, niece (4) and nephew (5) - 2 cabins participating

as and when more people come along, i'll update the list. if theres any more info you want put on here, post it and i'll add it to the list.

and here's the facebook link again:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=64245672458

 

[karentan]

and ps: gary bought a load of cheesy scottish souvenirs back from glasgow
i've kinda come up with a prototype of one of my gifts, came out quite well i think!! just gotta find more of what i made it with! i'm so far we've got 9 cabins involved, so i'm buying 16 of everything, thinking that should(?) be ok!!

jenny, read your williamsburg trippie, sounds like you had a great time! cant wait to see the photos!

i've decided against the boardwalk, but i'm now toying with another idea. i've priced up the same free dining package with uk disney, but staying in saratoga springs. it works out as £600 more expensive than ASM, but £440 of that is tickets that i dont need but have to buy, and unlike the USA site, the minimum tickets i can buy are 14 day ultimates. so SSR basically works out as £160 more than ASM. i've put a listing on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=170325865968 putting them on there for sale. i've stated that they wont be shipped until we get back but that theyre good for use until december. if i can sell them, and make my money back on the tickets, i'll cancel the USA free dining and book the UK free dining. i doubt they will go but hey, its worth a try.
so if anyone knows anyone who's going to disney for more than 10 days, and wants tickets with park hopping and water parks and more, send them my way

 

[jenny105]

Donna, your daughter's name is Kelly Burns? That's my cousin's name! Is her middle name Ann because then they would have the exact same name!

Karen, have you tried PM-ing futureDIS? As of right now, since they haven't been on the boards since this thread started, I'm counting them out unless they touch base with one of us.

 

[m_kasch]

Karen -- two things. Are those tickets only good for people from the UK? Otherwise, we might be interested in at least one of them. How much are they? I'm not good at translating euros to dollars!!

Other thing, do you already have your AP? Otherwise, you could just use those 14 day tickets towards your AP. That's what we did with the Free Dining ticket last year. Or is it worth more than an AP?

 

[karentan]

they can be used by people in the USA, they're just only available to buy in the UK. chances are they'll be added to my KTTW card, and i'll be sending the card out to whoever buys them, so i cant actually send them out til we get home/give them to the next person til the 24th (after the cruise we're staying room only at SSR for one night so we dont need the room keys/tickets at that point).
they have to be used by december 31st for the first time, and have to be used within 14 days of first use.
they're £220 each, which is about $340 ish each. a 10 day US park hopper with water parks and more option is $337, so you're getting 4 extra days for about the same price.

and we've already got our APs, otherwise i might be able to upgrade them. oh well! i would love to upgrade to SSR but it totally depends on being able to sell these tickets on......

 

[karentan]

ps: i've just PMd futuredis, i'll let everyone know if she's still in

 

[jenny105]

Ok

 

[karentan]

she's definately still in, i'm just waiting for her to get back with people's names, and i've PMd her the list of people so far

 

[jenny105]

Tell her to get her butt over here and post!