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

[karentan]

wow! as long as the price is the same, yay for (not so free) dining!!

 

[m_kasch]

Sometimes Free Dining doesn't work out to be a good deal. Last year when we went with FD, it was a very small difference for what we had and what it was with the AP rates. We left it though, because it was only like $5 different.

I just love watching the ships sail!! Only 10 more until it is ours...

 

[jenny105]

It's going to be us on that ship soon!!!

Yup, it's pretty much 50% off the room rate instead of free dining Joe is going to be shocked!

 

[m_kasch]

There she goes, off to sea!! I'm almost done updating these letters for people, I love people who ask us to overnight their checks because they are in financial crisis or because they are going on vacation or because they need to go shopping, or whatever -- if you had CASHED you paycheck in the first place, we would be having these problems, would we?!? All of the checks I get are over a year old, so...why don't people just cash them when they get paid? I am so perplexed by this!!

Jen, do you know what kind of view you got? WL is so fun! The boat is very convenient to MK (notice how Magic Kingdom and I have the same initials!!!), and you can rent bikes to go around by Fort Wilderness. So fun!

 

[jenny105]

I have a courtyard view. What's funny is that it's a bunk bed room. We have the queen bed in there too of course but if Joe gets on my nerves, guess where he'll be sleeping??

 

[m_kasch]

lol!! We had bunk beds the first time we went there too, I was on a trip with Tim's family. His mom was freaking out, because his sister and I were sharing that room, and she didn't want one of us to have to sleep on the bunk beds. It was my very first trip with them. I was like, it's okay, I will live sleeping on bunk beds for 3 nights, I slept on them the first 13 years of my life!! She cracks me up!! There is a story about her that one time they stayed at some Disney resort that isn't there anymore (can't remember the name), but they were like cabins or something, and she walked in and was like..."oh, this will NEVER do!!" and called and then they got moved to tower at the Contemporary!! LOL!!

 

[jenny105]

I don't mind the bunkbeds at all! It will be like reliving college days! I'm super excited. I can't wait to get there already. It's so close!!!!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

congrats on the upgrade Jen greg is Jelaous he loves the way WL looks but he is looking forward to the Poly and i will be able to see yalls hotel from ours and we will be there the day we go to epcot for breakfast at WCC. We are buying our airline tickets this week so disney can have our flight info for the magical express to get our luggage as well as us. yall have bunk beds and we have 2 queen beds so if greg gets on my nerves i can make him sleep in the other bed.
I showed my family the magic leaving PC i havent been able to be home to watch the wonder leave port yet but mary i cant believe that it only leaves 10 more times and then it will be us people see on the web cam my family said that they are gonna watch the webcam the day we leave out.

 

[jenny105]

Thanks Lainey! I'm so excited! I was thinking of making a breakfast ADR at WCC the day of the cruise. It's a toss up between that or going over to the Poly so Joe can try Tonga Toast. I'm heading over to the online ADR site now to check...

 

[jenny105]

What is the confirmation number for Ohana? I want to pull all my ADRs up so I can print them all out and put them in my vacation file.

 

[FutureDis]

<waves to everyone>

Hi! How's everyone doing? I haven't been keeping up with the thread a whole lot I'm afraid... been pretty busy with work and potty training our 2 year old... LOL

I was looking over what info I have for the photopass share and just wanted to touch base with everyone about it. It is still $99 to pre-order so we'll be doing that of course. This is the info I have:

Donna 9/27-10/4
Karen 9/12 - 9/24
Jenny ?
Lainey 9/20 - 9/24
Mary 9/19 - 10/3
Stacy 9/19 - 9/24

I need Donna's email address, and Jenny's date for the world, if you guys would pm that to me please.

Do I have everyone? Anyone else want to be added? Anyone on the list change their mind, or are you all still in? So far it will be $16.50 + shipping (if you want me to send you a CD vs downloading it from where I put it online)

It looks like Karen will be the first one there, so I'm going to order the CD around 9/5... So shoot for having the money to me a few days before that. I'll send out an email with that info around the end of August. I guess you can either send a check in the mail, or via paypal, which ever is easiest for you. As soon as we get back from the cruise (I'll be home the 28th), I'll send out the account info for the photopass and everyone can add their photopass cards to that account (do not add to your own account, or you won't be in the share!). We'll have 30 days from the first card being added (so 10/28?) to get them all entered and edited. As soon as I hear that everyone is done adding / editing, I'll order the CD. As soon as I get the CD I'll sort the pictured and either burn CDs for you, or send you a link you can use to download them from my work server (it's good to work in the tech field!) which ever you wish.

Any questions from anyone??

I can't wait! Our time is just around the corner!

 

[m_kasch]

Jen, I PMd you the reservation stuff. I was supposed to go to the water park today with my sister and my neice today, but the weather is not cooperating, so we are going to go see UP instead! And my nephew is coming to the movie too, so that's fun!! I was talking to him this morning while he was watching Dragon Tales, and he asked me if Minnie likes to watch that too, and then he wanted her to come watch it with him, LOL!!

Alright, I have to go get ready for the movie now. Have a good day everyone!! Although i'm sure i'll be updated by my blackberry......

 

[jenny105]

Stacy - I PMed you with my info. Everything sounds great!

Mary - Thanks!! I'm trying to keep everything organized. UP is great! Have a good time!

 

[karentan]

i spent ages earlier typing all 14 of my ADRs into my phone, so at least i wont have to take a piece of paper around with me all the time!!

stacy the photopass share sounds great, i'm still in, at some point could you find out a rough shipping cost for sending me a cd to the uk? (surface mail will do, i'm in no huge rush for the photos)

well i'm off to spain tomorrow, i'll still be checking in every so often, otherwise by the time i get back there'll be about 10 pages for me to get through!! i've booked an airport lounge so i've got somewhere nice to chill out in before the flight, me and gary are going to pop into town tomorrow morning then he's driving me to the airport (he's not coming, at the time i booked he wasnt sure if he could come, and by the time he decided he wanted to go the prices hasd shot way up!!). we're going to pop in and see my grandparents for a bit, they live about 5 minutes from the airport.

 

[m_kasch]

Karen, have fun in Spain!! I'm jealous!!

Jen, I like your new ticker!! Is Joe excited about the WL? It will be fun!!

Up was so good!! Jarrett liked it too, and he was cracking up at the short before hand with the clouds and storks. That was really cute!!

They have the first 4 Harry Potter films playing on ABC Family this weekend, and they are going to have clips from the new movie on. I will have to check that out!

 

[jenny105]

Karen, have a great time in Spain! We'll try not to be too chatty.

Thanks! Joe doesn't know about WL. I was too excited about it not to say anything at all so I said 'We're going deluxe. There's 8 of them. You figure out which one' Then he asked if we were still staying in ASMo after the cruise and I said 'Nope, whole trip is deluxe.' He keeps trying to get it out of me, what resort it is, but I won't say. I hope he likes the two I picked out!

I know all about Harry Potter weekend. I am glued to my tv during those!!

 

[karentan]

when your new ticker gets to the middle its going to look like the ship is flying!!!
i really wanna see Up, but apparently its not out here til october

 

[disney honeymooners]

have a great time in Spain Karen!!
Well my mom and i just bought our HP tickets she said she is gonna call in to work so she can sleep late the next day.
Stacey im still in just let me know how uch I owe and when you need it by, well our shore excursion has been booked and all of our information is in and printed out so we are ready to go.
I think i have bought enough FE stuff for the kids now i have to get some more for the adults my mom said i need to buy silly string for the FE bags but i think that might be a bad idea but streamers would be cool to give out to everone when we get on the ship to throw towards teh jetty when we leave or those poppers i dont know what do yall think?

 

[m_kasch]

How was everyone's weekend? Mine was good, I didn't get much studying done though...I really have to get on that!! We bought a bunch of Landscaping stuff for the front of our house today at Home Depot, they had all of that stuff on sale. I'm getting exicited for next weekend, Rascal Flatts here I come!! And Harry Potter in the same week!!

I booked a ressie at Kona Cafe for the day of the cruise, I have been dying to try the Tonga Toast, and we have to go to the Car Care Center to exchange the rental car, so since we are already going to be there, I figured, why not?!? LOL!

 

[disney honeymooners]

Mary what time is yalls ressie you may bump into us in the lobby we are gonna eat at captain cooks they also sell the tonga toast and i have to have it before we leave i know that the bus will be picking us up at 11:30 im sure we will be done eating long before then.
we are going to see HP this week my mom wanted to see the midnigh showing so that she could get ready for when we go to see New Moon in november luckily i have class the next day and not work so i dont have to worry about getting up too early. My weekend was great i had saturday off we went to see Ice Age 3 it was good my brother loved it.