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

[karentan]

yay for the cruise!
how's everyone been? work's been ok here, even though today dragged like a *****.

have you heard about the seaworld thing? one of the trainers has died, i think it only happened about an hour and a half ago.
http://www.wqad.com/news/nationworld/os-seaworld-orlando-shamu-injury-20100224,0,7095229.story

 

[m_kasch]

The roads were SO horrible here this morning, I was in I-80, right before I get on the toll road...and then the traffic was slowing, so everyone stopped. When you would go to stop, it was so icy your brakes would lock up. It was scary!! My heart was going about 9 million beats a minute, but then after I got on the toll road, it was okay.

Work has been busy here, we have an audit going on, so that's a lot of work. But I did get promoted (yay!!) to Sr. Accountant, so that's good!

That is insane about the whale. There's very little information here...but apparently so guests could see it from the viewing area

 

[jenny105]

The Sea World thing was all over the news. My question is, if it attacked and killed someone before, why was Sea World still holding on to it??

Congrats on your promotion, Mary!

I just tentatively put a hold on a 2 BR Villa at Saratoga Springs 10/4-10/9!

 

[karentan]

yay!! is that for your birthday trip!
congrats on the promotion mary!

i got my disney ID today, i feel more official now!!

 

[jenny105]

Yep, that's for the birthday trip! I just paid the deposit today! I'm so excited. Right now there are 6 of us on the reservation but I know 4 are definite. If the amount of people drops, we'll probably be switching resorts. I don't know anything about SSR! lol

 

[disney honeymooners]

Mary congrats on your promotion that is GREAT!!!
Karen congrats on getting your ID card and Jen that sounds fun I hope you have a great time but its disney you always have a good time.
Well nothing new to report here other than I'm sick which sucks i feel like crap and i think im gonna take some cough medicine and lay down maybe some more sleep will help me feel better.
Jen you would like the Percy Jackson movie we took my little brother to see it and he loved it it was funny bc while we were sitting in our seats waiting for the movie to start this family sat down in front of us and Jeremy said "Hello" and they didn't say anything back so then Jeremy assumes that they are ignoring him and he says "OH COME ON!!!" I couldn't quit laughing he is five and it sounded so funny coming out of his mouth.
Well i have one more week and i will be 25 I told greg what i really want is to go to Disney but that isnt happening so i decided on a DQ Ice Cream Cake i havent had one of them in a while. Well i had better get my sick butt back to bed i will talk to y'all later.

 

[karentan]

hope you feel better soon lainey. i've got the sniffles again, i think this weather isnt helping, its march now, time for the sucky weather to p*ss off now.

saratoga is lovely jenny, if you can, put in a request for congress park, downtown disney view, we had one of those rooms on our last night last year, and its great sitting on your balcony looking over at DTD, plus its a nice short walk over to the margharita bar!

nothing much to report here, been a bit awol on here lately, but havent really been up to much. i should hear back in the next few days about a work thing, i've been put forward for a 3 week placement at disney head office in london to help with the new till systems, doubt i'll get it, but they put my name down for it, and if i get it it means i get 3 weeks of guaranteed full time overtime (the one thing that sucks about disney is that i'm only part time, i cant get full time hours, but i've gotta try and get as much overtime as possible to try and make my hours up. i'm doing pretty well so far, but not sure how it'll go long term). not expecting to get it but keeping fingers crossed, t'll be good experience, plus i get to go see head office at disney which is cool

back to work tomorrow, my boss has put me down for overtime, and i've actually got a full 36 hour week this week.

 

[jenny105]

I was reading about the sections and I definitely want to put in a request for Congress Park. Is it within walking distance of DTD or do you have to take a boat over? How is the bussing from there? I know nothing of this resort lol. Who knows if we'll end of actually staying there, you know how many times I switched last trip, but if all 6 of us do end up going it will definitely be SSR.

I hope you feel better soon Lainey!

I can't wait for warm weather but it's supposed to snow again tonight into tomorrow ugh.

 

[karentan]

the walk from congress park is aout ten minutes if that. its a nice walk too along a well lit path. you come out at DTD marketplace, near the design a tee shop.
we were in the paddock the first half of the trip and even then, the walk is only about 15 mins.
there are 5 bus stops, they come regularly, we didnt have any issue at all with the buses. if you need to get to a resort, you can walk (or bus) to DTD then get a direct bus to the resort, instead of having to bus to a park then back out again.
its a great resort, we stayed there for the first time last year, we've done AKL twice and have both agreed that we're not that bothered about going back there, but we both want to go back to SSR

 

[jenny105]

That's what made me choose SSR over OKW, the location. I like that if I have an ADR at a resort, I can just walk over to DTD and catch a bus, rather than having to go to a park and then transfer. Thanks for all the info, Karen!

 

[disney honeymooners]

Well its snowing here once again I am use to cool weather close to my birthday but i am not use to SNOW this close to it. Oh i checked the werft meyer website and they have added the front smoke stack to the Disney Dream and now it is the only ship in that covered dock and it looks like they have started building the back half of the ship which is where our room is.
Ok greg and i cant decided where to stay when we get off the cruise next sept it is between ASMu and POP since some of the POP rooms have been updated but i dont really know its only for one night so we will be spending more time at the pool and around the resort and then going out to eat with Karen and Gary
I love the way music looks and then i could go take pictures at the other 2 All Star Resorts luckily i have a while before we have to decide.
Thank you guys i am feeling much better a day of rest really helped.

 

[karentan]

when i was trying to decide (we were supposed to be staying at a value, then i swapped to SSR and AKV! ) we chose music, the rooms just looked nicer to us, its the middle of the 3 all stars so easier to get round, and POP is just huge in comparison.
but yay for dinner plans! we need to choose where we want to go!

jenny, we had the same dilemma as you at first, OKW or SSR. the location was one of the main deciding factors for us, SSR is just so much closer and you have the option of walking to DTD, with OKW you'd need to get the boat first. plus gary had a round of golf during our trip and the course went through SSR and OKW. we just weren't sure about OKW after that, SSR have big buildings, but they're not too big, but the OKW buildings are tiny, there's a LOT of them, and it just all looked a bit disjointed. plus a lot of them back really on to the fairways of the golf course, so i'm not sure if i'd feel comfortable sitting on the balcony, knowing my luck i'd get knocked out by a stray golf ball!

 

[jenny105]

My vote is for POP. I've stayed there a bunch of times and have loved it. I never thought the resort was all that big. But then again I've never seen the All Star resorts. They must be tiny in comparison.

That was my fear at OKW too! I didn't like how the golf course seemed right on top of the rooms. I just kept thinking 'knowing my luck, I'll get hit with a golf ball.' Great minds, Karen. LOL.

 

[disney honeymooners]

As long as where we eat is at one of the resorts or at DTD since we probably wont have park tickets for that day b/c we want to relax at the pool for most of the day. As long as the restaurant has stuff greg will eat its good since he seems to be more of a picky eater than the rest of us.
I was leaning towards staying at the Music one but i couldnt make up my mind.

 

[karentan]

'knowing my luck, I'll get hit with a golf ball.'

as long as gary's not playing you should be ok........

we were hoping that no one was sunbathing on their treehouse villa balcony when he was playing, he launched a ball right into the middle of the THVs......

 

[karentan]

any place is ok with me lainey, i'm sure we can come up with something closer to the time.

well 2 days at work down for me so far, 2 more to go. this week has been doing my head in, apparently its world book day tomorrow so all the kids have to go to school in costume. naturally everyone has left it to the last minute, so they're all getting irate when we dont have what they want in the right size.
everyone else has left it to the last minute too moron, next time, plan ahead!

 

[jenny105]

as long as gary's not playing you should be ok........

we were hoping that no one was sunbathing on their treehouse villa balcony when he was playing, he launched a ball right into the middle of the THVs......

Way to go, Gary! Remind me to steer clear of THV.


That's like people trying to get a costume the day before Halloween and getting mad when they can't find anything good.

 

[karentan]

luckily i think we've had the last of the mad costume hunters in now. but we have managed to clear pretty much all the costumes out of our stockroom, even the stuff we've had in there for about 3 years
only one more day to go then weekend off. i need it, i didnt get home til after midnight last night and i'm due back in at 9am today. gotta set off in a minute as it takes me over an hour to get there this time of morning.....

 

[jenny105]

I have a 3 day weekend. Yay! I took Monday as my comp day for next week since that's my Saturday rotation so at 5 oclock tonight, I will be running out of this door as fast as I can!

 

[jenny105]

Is it too early to start a PTR?