Any 10-16-04 cruisers yet?

[WldWcnWmn]

Well, we've been watching the news so close. I used to live in Jax Beach (Jacksonville) and I have family there. They still have power, but are getting ready to drive up to east Georgia hoping to miss most of the damage. I've been reading the reports from this board and on the walt disney web site. Looks like CC took a whallup and is still experiencing heavy rains. Apparently all the people who live there were evacuated. I know we won't be cancelled over this (Mickey's got 3 weeks to do his Magic and make the island o.k. for tourists) but I am still sick to my stomach. Literally. I am too type A to handle stuff like this. I hope that Sandy's o.k. and everyone makes it throught his storm allright. I feel guilty for having such a pretty weekend. It's sunny and warm, which is rare for Oregon.

we won't be cancelled...we won't be cancelled...we won't be cancelled.

 

[tevagirl]

Hi ALL!

I hope Sandy's making out okay. What a mess that state is in. Those poor people.

This is a very busy month for us. We have baby showers, a birthday (Andrew's first!) two christenings (one which is today), and a wedding all coming up in the next 3 weeks. At least the month will go by very quickly.

We were stopped at a red light yesterday and there was an suv type car stopped on the other side of the light. It had a sun roof and standing up out of the sun roof was this big pure white husky looking dog. It would have been funny enough just seeing him standing with his head out of the sun roof but he was also wearing goggles!

I hope everyone has a nice Labor Day. Stay safe.
Denise

 

[wide awake]

Hi,
Hope all of you are safe...I don't think we'll be cancelled, but I do wonder if they might switch ports on us. I was excited before, now I'm giddy...we might have a mystery cruise too !!! Might as well look at the bright side.

 

[KathyKC]

Denise,
I look forward to seeing you on the parasailing trip.

To Everyone in Floriday,
Hope you and your families are okay.

Kathy

 

[Denine]

Sandy: I hope everything is going OK. It looks like W. Palm was getting hit pretty hard from video on the weather channel this morning.

We are partially moved in. The movers come Thursday. We are exhausted.

No time to think about the cruise.

 

[tevagirl]

Kathy...I won't be on the parasail but I will be watching from the sidelines!

Sandy...can't wait to hear how you and your home did during the last few days. I hope everyone and everything is okay.

Happy Labor Day to everyone. After today I won't have to go food shopping at 6am to avoid the crowds. But, on the other hand, it means summer is over. But then again it means the cruise is that much closer! (I could go on but I won't.)

Talk to you later, Denise

 

[katie'sduck]

Sandy,
Hope you and yours are doing well. You are in my thoughts.

Patty

 

[Mickey02]

Happy Labor Day

I haven't posted on this board for a long time. I am pretty out of touch with everything.

I have been looking for information on how CC faired. Seems no one really knows but lots of speculation. Sounds like there is a good chance we may not get to stop there.

Sandy-I hope everything turned out ok. Are you back home now?

Barb

 

[Zandy595]

I'm back. We were able to come home Monday afternoon. We finally got power back last night and just now got our phone back. The only damage we sustained, at my house, was 4 out of 8 trees were blown over. DH staked them back up and hopefully we'll be able to save them. My DM (20 minutes SE of here, near the beach) had her screens ripped off her patio and a big palm tree knocked over. She was so worried that her whole house was going to be torn apart. We feel very lucky. The upscale mobile home park near my neighborhood took a huge hit. Big trees fell on a couple of them and a lot of roofs were ripped to shreds. There are many trees down, a lot on power lines. Our county cancelled school for the whole week. DS really wants to go back. I hope the school is OK, I haven't heard anything. Normally he would be happy about not having school, but all this has been extremely hard on him and he just wants everything to get back to normal. He was terrified during the worst of the storm, we all were. My aunt's house (where we stayed) has hundreds of very tall pine trees all around it and we were sure that at least one was going to come down on the house. Fortunately none of them hit the house or the cars. Their driveway was blocked by a few that fell down though. Luckily my uncle has a chain saw or we'd still be there. A small town in my county took the direct hit, but since this hurricane was so HUGE and covered the whole state everyone had to deal with it.

Now our only problem is we don't have any food. Well, we do have a few cans of ravioli left, but that doesn't appeal to me at all. A couple stores were open because they were running on generators, but they don't have any milk, meat, fresh fruit or vegetables.


Has anyone heard anything definite about Castaway Cay, St. Maarten, or St. Thomas? I went to DisneyCruise.com, but it only had info for 9/9 and 9/11 cruises. I really hope they don't switch it to the western itinerary. I've been to those places, except Key West. Looks like Port Canaveral will be up and running by this Saturday and CC might be OK for the 9/11 cruisers. At least it says they haven't made any itinerary changes to that cruise yet.

 

[katie'sduck]

Hi Sandy.

So glad you are back with us and that you sustained no major damage. It probably seems like it will never get back to normal at this point, but it will. Keep reassuring your DS. I'm sure your family is being kept in everyone's prayers and thoughts as well as the whole state of Floridians.

Keep your chin up!

Patty

 

[Denine]

Sandy: I am so glad everything is OK with your house and your mom's house. I was worried about you guys over the weekend.

We move tomorrow and Frances is now here. Just a lot of rain, but a pain to move in.

 

[corrybaybe]

HI All !!

Hi Sandy I am really glad you and your family are safe. I thought about you all weekend.



Peg

 

[tiggerfantoo]

Hi, Sandy, I'm glad that you and your family are safe. My DH and I were vacationing in Virginia last September when the hurricane went through. The people there seemed to handle things very well, even though there was so much devistation and no electricity. Most restaurants were closed, and the ones that were open had a very limited menu as they lost everything in their freezers and refrigerators. I remember eating a lot of salads! I remember talking to one clerk at the Wal-Mart. Her power had been off for four days at that point. She said that she was going to find a store that was open and buy a small container of milk for her cat. Lucky kitty, to have an owner that loved it that much!

I hope power is restored to your area soon, and that the stores are able to restock their freezers and shelves soon.

It looks like Ivan is going to stay away from the east coast of Florida. If they do change our itinerary, will we be able to make shore excursion reservations?

Gloria

 

[wide awake]

Hi All,
Just heard from my DU person...CC is not too damaged, should not be a problem for our cruise. Glad everyone is safe and that Ivan is keeping his distance.

 

[WldWcnWmn]

Hazza Sandy!! You guys made it without too much loss.
Mekayla and I are so glad to hear that everything is o.k. We are also super excited that Ivan is not going to hit Castaway Cay. (Hopefully)

I hope everything is o.k. for our cruise. I can't even imagine having our cruise cut to three nights...I would be so bummed. Even though no one was at fault, did DCL do anything for their guests that had to cut their trip short this week on the Magic? Just curious.

 

[Julebobo]

Originally posted by tevagirl
Okay...I made the pins. Unfortunately I can't show you because I don't know how. They are lime green Mickey heads, cut out from the Home Depot paint chips, name is put on with a paint pen, they are laminated and have a bar pin on the back. I think 50 cents a pin would cover the cost of the laminating sheets, bar backs, padded envelopes and postage. If you want any tell me the names and your address and I'll get them off to you.

How's it going, Sandy? Still thinking of and praying for you guys.

Thea.....repeat after me....We will not be canceled. We will not be canceled. We will NOT be canceled. There.....that should do it.

We are all getting so excited about this trip. I was actually getting a little too excited. Lost a couple of nights sleep trying to think of everything I have to do and get before the trip. Had to calm myself down. Nuts, huh?

Have to go....got some shoppin' to do! (for the trip, ofcourse!) Talk to you all later.
Denise

Yu did a good job.........Bobo and I are wearing ours already....julebobo

 

[tevagirl]

Originally posted by Julebobo
Yu did a good job.........Bobo and I are wearing ours already....julebobo

You're so sweet...that's why I love you.

(By the way...did you get Jill's email?)

Sandy! I am happy to hear that you "weathered" out the storm. We were all worried about you. Well...most of us. (Some of us were fooling around in California with some guy named Rollie and didn't even know there was a crisis going on.)

 

[Julebobo]

Yes, I did get that nasty reply........well, because of our long friendship I will still be there but I will have to assume it is a BYOHD party....... and will do so...............julebobo

 

[Zandy595]

Denise ~ I PM'd you about the pins.

 

[Julebobo]

Originally posted by tevagirl
You're so sweet...that's why I love you.

(By the way...did you get Jill's email?)

Sandy! I am happy to hear that you "weathered" out the storm. We were all worried about you. Well...most of us. (Some of us were fooling around in California with some guy named Rollie and didn't even know there was a crisis going on.)

I didn't see this before, like I was there just having a good time of it. First of all you should know that they had a heat wave that I had to endure, then Bobo wanted to eat at a Japanese restaurant ( a real one) and you know how I like fish, NOT. So it is not that I was there just having a good time. There were other things going on.
And if you keep up this being mean I shant wear my pin........julebobo