Alaska on July 19th, 2011 "Where a good tan is hard to find"

[jlawall]

I checked my calendar. It was actually 7/30/2005.

After I joined the DIS (and became addicted), I saw that your thread was still active, so I read through it and some of the trip reports.

I came across this picture:

Hey, that's me, my parents, my cousins, my SIL & BIL!!! We're being stalked.

Hey, it's your picture!

 

[jlawall]

Is this Robin who was supposed to sail on the 2008 cruise but abdicated (JK) to the next one? Remember me - its Laura. You started our thread and then decided to go on the one after. I got bronchitis just before that cruise. Lasted forever. I ended up being very low key.

Glad I may finally be getting to sail with you.

Tom, disrgard that comment about sailing in 2005, although I do think JoAnn, didn't you also sail that year? I think you wee contemplating sailing with us but moved to the later on as did Robin I think. I know our DD's share a birthday together.

Old friends and new ones!

Laura, we sailed together on the Med in 2007, not sure about 2005, but we did sail the West Coast that summer (with Tom)

 

[jlawall]

Telling you all- we should all sit together. Our anniversary will be #21 on the 21st. See note above.



As for thread name, what about something like:

Eagles, Salmon and Bears OH MY! or Salmon, Eagles and Bears Oh My!

Or something to that effect? Just thought the play on the Wizard of Oz was cute. Doesn't hurt that I'm an OZ fan.

Sorry, didn't mean to jump in there. Just got all excited and I haven't talked on the DIS for what seems like months.

Me too, woo hoo.......

 

[jlawall]

Tom, you were coming on as we were getting off. In 2005, we left off the ship I think some time around 10 am. Lines were long. We were tired. Big group you got there. They all traveling too?

And no, I'm not spastic, just I get to sail with JoAnn again. We sailed in the Med in 2007. She's really great.

Thx Laura!

 

["Got Disney"]

ya know were a bunch of chatter boxes....looking at the other Alaska cruise meets we are for sure off and running

Looks like we have a bunch of fun excited people for the July 19th cruise...either that or were all just delirious because of all the $$$$ we just spent

 

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

A few changes in cabins numbers:

New info included & revised to match everyone else.

Cabin#7007 Main Dining
Tom (me)
Kristi (DW)
West (DS) 7

Cabin#7005
Heather (DSIL)
Oly (DBIL)
Josh (DN) 8

Cabin#7507 Main Dining
Carolyn (DMIL)
Marilyn (DW's Grandma)

Cabin #7505 Main Dining
Carol (DMIL's friend)
Joan (DMIL's friend)

Cabin #7009 Late Dining (on waitlist for Main)
Nancy (DCousin)
Peter (DH)

Cabin #8520 Late Dining (on waitlist for Main)
Sarah (Nancy's DD)
Anthony (DH)
Jaden (DD) 10
Baby (D?) 1

 

[Schachteles]

[QUOTE="Got Disney";33753732]Welcome Kelly

So I have thought of some more names to throw into the pile......

July 19th, 2011 Cruising Alaska where a good tan is hard to find.

July 19th 2011 Cruising Alaska where the Polar Bears are COOL[/QUOTE]

I like the Cruising Alaska Where a Good Tan is Hard to Find!!

[QUOTE="Got Disney";33753350]thanks Tom.I did not bother with it because it looked great already!

Hi and welcome aboard to the everyone i missed this morning when I went to take a much needed nap. 4:30am and the name Robin should never be used in the same sentence.

Look over your info on page one to be sure that I have what you want and that it is correct.

We still need to come up with a name and also a picture to mark this cruise so we can print it out for our cabin doors....who's good at that. Tom I know that you make name tags....anyone else good at things like that?[/QUOTE]

I am going to try to figure out how to get a spreadsheet attached to the thread, so people can enter in their information...in the end it will make FE stuff easier.

 

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

Going along with the Good Tan theme. Here's a graphic I found, and adjusted a little.

It's real rough right now, and low quality, but you get the idea.

 

["Got Disney"]

Thanks Tom and have put in the changes.

So how is everyone planning on getting to this place called Canada ...planes, trains automobiles....or all of them?

Besides the planes, we are also looking into Amtrack. Looked last night but from here it will take about a day and a half. Would be fun but sometimes ya just want to get there and when your done ya just want to get home.

We are thinking of doing a 6 day stay in Canada before hand and checking out the sights. Also including heading out to Whistler for a couple of days. Making it a 14 or so day vacation.

Dh is still saying that if the Dream comes out with more than just a 3-4-5-6 day cruise he may want to go there and be on that. He said that was our original plan back when. But we also agreed that if DCL did Alaska we would be on it. I vote Alaska...have been to the Caribbean and Mexico a zillion times...I am ready for something else. So unless the Dream comes out with something irresistible, than Alaska here we come. But by what the feed back is it will only be taking over the Wonders itinerary.

I know that DCL has dropped the 3 day from its itinerary for 2010. Why bring in such a beg new ship and have them do Nassau? they cant fill the Wonder as it is for this, so they have made it where kids sail free. How the heck are they expecting to fill a ship even bigger to do the same thing in addition to raising the prices to do so? I think DCL is fickle with there pricing.

 

[Schachteles]

[QUOTE="Got Disney";33762920]Thanks Tom and have put in the changes.

So how is everyone planning on getting to this place called Canada ...planes, trains automobiles....or all of them?

Besides the planes, we are also looking into Amtrack. Looked last night but from here it will take about a day and a half. Would be fun but sometimes ya just want to get there and when your done ya just want to get home.

We are thinking of doing a 6 day stay in Canada before hand and checking out the sights. Also including heading out to Whistler for a couple of days. Making it a 14 or so day vacation.

Dh is still saying that if the Dream comes out with more than just a 3-4-5-6 day cruise he may want to go there and be on that. He said that was our original plan back when. But we also agreed that if DCL did Alaska we would be on it. I vote Alaska...have been to the Caribbean and Mexico a zillion times...I am ready for something else. So unless the Dream comes out with something irresistible, than Alaska here we come. But by what the feed back is it will only be taking over the Wonders itinerary.

I know that DCL has dropped the 3 day from its itinerary for 2010. Why bring in such a beg new ship and have them do Nassau? they cant fill the Wonder as it is for this, so they have made it where kids sail free. How the heck are they expecting to fill a ship even bigger to do the same thing in addition to raising the prices to do so? I think DCL is fickle with there pricing.[/QUOTE]

We are going to fly to Seattle on Saturday because it is a lot cheaper and then my DH is talkng about renting a car and drive up to Vancouver on Sunday...but I am nervous about the price of doing that, so I am going to push to take the Amtrak up and spend time sightseeing in Canada.

 

["Got Disney"]

We are going to fly to Seattle on Saturday because it is a lot cheaper and then my DH is talkng about renting a car and drive up to Vancouver on Sunday...but I am nervous about the price of doing that, so I am going to push to take the Amtrak up and spend time sightseeing in Canada.

When we prices amtrak we would need beds so it was more money. Plus a day and a half. But sounds like fun.

For us it is the same amount of $$$ to fly into Seattle. So mise(sp) as well just fly into Canada for the same amount and time. On page one I posted a thread that has all info Vancouver and traveling there. Everyone is checking into stuff on how to get in and cost and posting it in that thread.. Check it out.

 

["Got Disney"]

Going along with the Good Tan theme. Here's a graphic I found, and adjusted a little.

It's real rough right now, and low quality, but you get the idea.

I like that Tom...can you also put on the date and the tanning saying to see if it would fit? So we can see how it looks?

That would also work for the one that says...July 19th,2011 cruising Alaska where the Polar Bears are COOL

 

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

Going along with the Good Tan theme. Here's a graphic I found, and adjusted a little.

It's real rough right now, and low quality, but you get the idea.

[QUOTE="Got Disney";33763589]I like that Tom...can you also put on the date and the tanning saying to see if it would fit? So we can see how it looks?

That would also work for the one that says...July 19th,2011 cruising Alaska where the Polar Bears are COOL[/QUOTE]

I'll work on it tonight.

 

[mrtobias]

As a fan of all things Bear, I love that drawing.

We are on for Late Dinner seating and please excuse my ignorance but what is FE?

 

[Schachteles]

As a fan of all things Bear, I love that drawing.

We are on for Late Dinner seating and please excuse my ignorance but what is FE?

FE=Fish Extender

Check out the following thread: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1980639

Basically you get a holder to go over your Fish that is outside of your stateroom door and other people on the boards that sign up exchange things. Lots of it is treats for the kids, homemade items...it is just fun to have surprises back at the room each day.

We will talk more about it...in like 500 days...LOL

 

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

FE=Fish Extender

 

["Got Disney"]

As a fan of all things Bear, I love that drawing.

We are on for Late Dinner seating and please excuse my ignorance but what is FE?

This is an FE....the red thing hanging from the fish. Also known as the Fish Extender..hence FE.

They are easy to make. This one I used no sewing at all.... just fabric glue and stickers for photo booking. They are hung, and for those that want to participate we put little fun gifts in them for each other that participate. If you look closely you will see that it has some things sticking out of the names.

You can also see Toms magnets on my door

 

[manascarfan]

Going along with the Good Tan theme. Here's a graphic I found, and adjusted a little.

It's real rough right now, and low quality, but you get the idea.

We like the bear!!

We have been looking into flying to Seattle and possibly the hydrofoil that someone pointed out earlier??? Plenty of time to work it out.

 

[mrtobias]

Got it! Sounds like lots of fun - glad for the way to do it without sewing. Last thing I sewed was size 24 months for the now 34 year old....

 

[Schachteles]

Got it! Sounds like lots of fun - glad for the way to do it without sewing. Last thing I sewed was size 24 months for the now 34 year old....

I ordered mine off of eBay...I figured it would be best for my sanity to not attempt to make my own.