An Ohana Reunion...The Waterless Cruise...

[villagesbarbara]

Just back from a couple of days at WDW. I now have a new "best spot" to watch Wishes. We went to a DVC Bay Lake Tower event and saw wishes from the terrace around the Top of the World Lounge at BLT. What a view. The lounge is great and will be open only to DVC members who are staying at BLT on points. Fair warning, don't attend one of these events unless you have strong willpower or are just resigned to adding on some points. The rooms were great and they have added a twin sleep chair to the living room of the 1 bedroom units so that they sleep 5. The decor is modern like the rooms at The Contemporary. There are some units with MK views and they will be playing the Wishes music over the TV so that you can have the full experience from the balconies in those units.

OK back to work. We're back to WDW for a week on the 12th with the whole family. Then they come here for three weeks. Better get my act together because if it doesn't get done before the 12th it won't get done for weeks.

Hope you are all having a great summer and can't wait to catch up in August.

Barbara

 

[tom31b]

Just a reminder that you can view, order or download photos from our photo sharing site located at http://thepiratezone.smugmug.com

We purchased access to the picture site for one year, so at the end of July it will go away. There are many, many wonderful photos (over 12,000 of them) and I encourage you to take advantage while its there.


Posting this again to help you out

Viewing Tutorial

When you go to the photo page, you will see this:

If you scroll down, you will see the photo galleries

Click on one of the galleries and you will see a page similar to this:

To flip through the pages, use the controls for next/prev:

When you find an image you want, click on it:

This will open the image in the larger window

When you put your mouse over this larger image, a menu will appear

Select the size image you would like and click, opening the image by itself (here large selected)

You can then "right click" and select "save image as" (or similar depending on your browser)

This will save the image to your computer.

You can also select "buy: photo" to have the image printed and sent to you. Their prices are reasonable and quality is excellent

 

[dahuffy]

Thank you for the reminder Tom. Hope we'll have something similar for after this this trip.

 

[dahuffy]

Looky what we got!

 

[dahuffy]

sure does echo in here!!!

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

Hi there!


nice tats!

 

[dahuffy]

Hi there!


nice tats!

Thank you Des!

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

OMGosh...I have to start getting ready..I have 1 week left...

 

[dahuffy]

OMGosh...I have to start getting ready..I have 1 week left...

See you there!

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

I am bumping this up so we can find it.

11 more days

 

[4fosterkids]

Thanks for the bump....I have found my way back finally!
Kallie & I are coming in on Sunday 8/16 and leaving Friday night 8/21, staying at Port Orleans. She still doesn't know...LOL (her bday is 8/19) Lots of slip ups, so it just goes to show...she doesn't listen to me! Haaaaa
We have absolutely nothing planned...tried to sneak in on a few things but they were booked. No worries....we will just shop or pin trade and grab a bite along the way and meet up with everybody after
Who has the excel spreadsheet of what parks on what days? I know there is one floating around somewhere!! lol Also, is the page 1 list of people, dates & hotels correct? Is there a cell phone list to share? I have a few but not all.

We're excited.....well I guess I'm excited for both of us

Jill

 

[magiroux]

Thanks for the bump....I have found my way back finally!
Kallie & I are coming in on Sunday 8/16 and leaving Friday night 8/21, staying at Port Orleans. She still doesn't know...LOL (her bday is 8/19) Lots of slip ups, so it just goes to show...she doesn't listen to me! Haaaaa
We have absolutely nothing planned...tried to sneak in on a few things but they were booked. No worries....we will just shop or pin trade and grab a bite along the way and meet up with everybody after
Who has the excel spreadsheet of what parks on what days? I know there is one floating around somewhere!! lol Also, is the page 1 list of people, dates & hotels correct? Is there a cell phone list to share? I have a few but not all.

We're excited.....well I guess I'm excited for both of us

Jill

Hey Jill, we're getting pretty excited here too!

I know Roger had a spreadsheet of his plans, but not sure of one was made that included everyone. I think it was just talked about.

8/17 - Some are doing a GG for Illuminations so we made that an Epcot day.
8/18 - Dinner at Ohana and watching Fireworks from the Poly Beach. Some who are not doing dinner are meeting at the beach for the fireworks. Then after, the plan is to go to JellyRolls
8/20 - Water Park Day (Typhoon Lagoon) I think most, if not all the pirates are going to that one, then dinner at 1900 Park Fare.

There has been talk of meeting at the pools at either BCV or OKW, but nothing set in stone yet.

 

[magiroux]

Random (very fun) family at Disney/Universal.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLOJ9HMkgAE

 

[4fosterkids]

Thanks Mary Ann!
Thats a start

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

Hi there,

I can't believe it's here! I miss you all like crazy and am excited to see you.

I am attempting my hand at a trip report so the link is in my sig if anyone is interested.


Des

 

[allshookup]

I'm going to put this on Facebook too, but just a heads up that I received a call from WDW today just confirming our Grand Gathering. I have the following families: Miller (7 PPL includes Huffman), Weeks, Beyea, Ribanski (sorry Barbara if I heard that wrong), Giroux & Devlin. The Illuminations dinner starts at 7:30. I'll be at the door by 7. See ya then!

 

[magiroux]

I'm going to put this on Facebook too, but just a heads up that I received a call from WDW today just confirming our Grand Gathering. I have the following families: Miller (7 PPL includes Huffman), Weeks, Beyea, Ribanski (sorry Barbara if I heard that wrong), Giroux & Devlin. The Illuminations dinner starts at 7:30. I'll be at the door by 7. See ya then!

Thank you for arranging all this Di. We can't wait. We will be there by 7 also. Where are we supposed to go?

 

[allshookup]

Thank you for arranging all this Di. We can't wait. We will be there by 7 also. Where are we supposed to go?

I believe it's the Odyssey. That odd shaped brown building between Test Track & Mexico that's usually only good for a pit stop.

Oh you're very welcome! I was happy to set this up, but sorry it was such a hassle to get people added.

Thanks for Ohana! I can't wait to get me a Backscratcher! Yum!

 

[junesgoofy]

I have not been on here for a while and it looks like others haven't either. We were not sure if we were still going to WDW but we are now. We will be there around noon on Sunday the 9th and leaving Monday the 17th around 4. We will be staying at the All Star Music Suites. We have a lot of your phone numbers to meet up with you all at some point in time. See You Real Soon!

 

[allshookup]

I have not been on here for a while and it looks like others haven't either. We were not sure if we were still going to WDW but we are now. We will be there around noon on Sunday the 9th and leaving Monday the 17th around 4. We will be staying at the All Star Music Suites. We have a lot of your phone numbers to meet up with you all at some point in time. See You Real Soon!

Aw too bad, we're arriving on the 17th so we'll probably just miss you guys. Oh well I hope you have a nice trip!