Any January 10, 2004 Eastern Cruisers lurking yet?

[BGN]

steveandtoyna...We haven't made any plans yet. Just finally picked the date & haven't looked at what's available to do much yet. How about you?
My daughter's been really looking for a penpal so maybe this will be a good chance to find one.

 

[steveandtonya]

We are doing a daysail from St. Thomas to St. John on Wed. Jan. 14. It only holds 6 people and they provide a light breakfast, a very nice lunch on the deck of the sailboat, and an OPEN BAR!. It goes out for about 6 hours and is back in plenty of time to get back to the cruise ship. It should be fun. We are planning on leaving the kids on the ship in the club.

 

[abitjaded]

BGN, yipes, you are right, just checked the Navigators on Barb's site. Ten and nine-year-olds are in different groups. I guess I always just noticed the difference between the age groups as they split into the different clubs. I think my kids would have liked the clubs better if they had at least been in the same clubs. Seemed like there were times when the kids within a club were together, though. Maybe during the "Stormin the club" sessions. Not sure 10-12 is a good mix, that goes from fifth to sixth grade, meaning, at least here, grade schoolers together with junior high. Hm...he'll probably learn a lot of new stuff he doesn't need to know.

Steveandtonya, do you get the boat to yourselves? Ye gads, was it with DCL, can we already book excursions? Which beach on St Thomas? Our first cruise, we charted a boat through Shoretrips to go to Buck Island off Charlotte Amalie. We split it with a bunch of folks we met on the DIS. Worked out well, we were a smaller group than a DCL trip and coluld get the guys to go where we wanted, they were also able to dock right near the cruise ship pier so we didn't have to taxi. Those small sail trips sound great, except drinking and sailing in January, eewww makes me a bit woozy just thinking about it.

We were thinking of taking the kids to Coki beach to snorkel if the waves aren't bad. DH and I were there once before in January and the snorkeling, despite great things to see, was unpleasant. Would love to go to St John, but too onerous with my Mom. Just thinking of doing the Phillipsburg beach and shop on St M. Last trip we went to Dawn to snorkel, lovely beach, but the snorkeling (though supposedly the best on the island) was lousy.

Carla

 

[steveandtonya]

abitjaded, We found out about the day sail from information from this board. It is not through Disney. Right now we have 4 of the 6 slots filled- my sister-in-law and husband are planning on coming on the cruise. It leaves from Red Hook. The website is www.sailwinifred.com It looks like a lot of fun. I'm not sure what beach they go to on St. John, maybe they just anchor off shore and let us snorkel or swim or hang out.

 

[abitjaded]

Looks great!

 

[BGN]

I need to do some research...you & Tonya have everything lined out!! I need to get on the ball! How old is your other child?

 

[steveandtonya]

Hey BGN, He will be 7 in October. I sent you an e-mail about our dtr's being penpals. Did you get it?

 

[BGN]

I did reply to penpal post to email address....didn't you get it?

 

[steveandtonya]

BGN- yes we got it, I just didn't know it. It will be great if our dtr's can get together.

Steve aka suiteman

 

[ruley3]

Goodness I have not been on to check for a long while but many things have been happening... We are from NC and we are supposed to go on the 10th but I just found out that I am pregnant!! So I do not know what we will do!!!

 

[abitjaded]

Come on board, we hope! When are you due? Too close to departure?
Carla

 

[BGN]

I agree...come anyway! It'll be a while before that baby's ready for a cruise! By then you should be past the sick and tired stage.

BGN

 

[ruley3]

WEll there is a twenty four week cut off and I just read about it so I know I will be to far along .....hmmm maybe I will have to just tell hubby we gotta bump this cruise up !!!

 

[steveandtonya]

I guess it doesn't matter as long as you get to cruise. What part of North Carolina are you from?

 

[brack]

Where in NC are you from? My wife and I are from NC originally. I grew up in Raleigh and she is from Durham.

 

[brack]

I hope that people are still looking at this forum. It has been several days since there has been a posting. We are getting so excited about the countdown. I have it everywhere!

 

[steveandtonya]

Brack, We're still here. Just been real busy. I lived in northeastern North Carolina for 10 years before moving out here in 1996. It was a little town called Hertford- just south of Elizabeth City. We loved it there. So close to the ocean. We are getting excited too. But school starts soon and that should make things fly by. Talk to you soon.

Steve

 

[steveandtonya]

I thought I would bump this as it has been awhile since we heard from anyone. Less than 5 months away!! Wish we were going this weekend.


Steve

 

[abitjaded]

I'm still here, too. I've been trying to find a house to rent prior to our cruise. Just have not found the right one. We are looking for a house with pool and four bedrooms, two downstairs, so our senior relatives from Ft. Myers can visit, rather than going down to their house. We always stay in a hotel, since my uncle has a gazillion cats, both inside and outside, and they rule the roost. Now a cousin is living with them, and hopefully he can babysit the cats. Found the perfect house at a great price but it was only available until the 8th. We want to have a week before the cruise to go to each WDW park and finally get the kids to NASA and go to the manatee park.

Carla

 

[steveandtonya]

Carla, Good luck in finding a house for that week. My sister-in-law lives in Orlando and I'll see if she has any ideas.

Steve