Hi, all! We are another Florida family on Spring Break cruising on the Wonder. We've been booked since last summer and I am just finally getting around to posting on the meet thread ...
We are a family of 5, Me (Rose, 40), DH (David, 43), DS (Eric, 15), DS (Patrick, 11), and DD (Gina, 9). This is my 9th
DCL cruise (have gone on a few w/my Mom and just DH or DD) and first this year (will go on another in Dec w/DH and then the Dream next year!). Usually, we book connecting Cat 10's for our family, but with the Kids Sail Free deal it was a little bit less expensive to book a Cat 4. So, for the first time, we are all in one room, but with a verandah. I'm sure we'll love the verandah, but we may all want to throw each other overboard by the 4th night!
I've done FE exchanges on most of my past cruises as well as organized meets, so if you are interested in doing that, I'd be willing to put a master list together. For the shorter cruises, we've just had one list of all the cabins/families for the FE exchange and then you choose how often you want to "gift" the other participants. It's completely up to you, once a day, or once (or more) per cruise. It doesn't look like we'd have a huge list based on this thread so far, but we can always see how many are interested and set a cut off date so everyone can start getting their gifts together. We've received all sorts of great gifts in the past, such as regional candies, postcards, magnets, and keychains, practical "emergency kits" with things like highlighters, safety pins, bandaids, zip ties, and notepads, homemade crafts, ornaments, Pirate Night goodies, beach balls, Disney themed items for the kids, etc ... You get the idea - It's really whatever you'd like to give out.
Leslie, I'm so glad you, David, and the kids are joining us! I just know Gina will love showing Emma around. I'm sorry Winnyis' family cancelled - Her son goes to school w/Patrick and her daughter goes to school w/Eric. It was nice knowing they already had some built-in buddies. If anyone else has kids the same age as mine, let me know and maybe we can get them emailing before the cruise. On past cruises, we've done a meet on embarkation day at 3 PM in the Promenade Lounge. It's a good time, after most everyone's had lunch and checked out their staterooms, but before the muster drill. The Promenade Lounge is just off the atrium, on Deck 3, just around the corner from Triton's and Guest Services. It's a good location to meet, much better than trying to find everyone by the pool.
So, if you'd like to join an FE exchange and our group meet, just post your DIS user name, family name/members with ages (just kids' ages is fine!), stateroom number, and then let me know if it's yes to both the FE and the meet or just one or the other. I've started a post below and will add to it as others post their information. I'm putting everyone's information who is sailing that posts it, whether they are doing the FE or not, so we can see kids' ages for possible "buddies" in the Kids Clubs. Also, if anyone has any questions about the Wonder, just ask away! I'm sure I've encountered most of what anyone might be wondering about ...
Happy planning!
Rose
He made them so fast before we could say no, he then demanded $35 from us. I was NOT happy! But at the same time we were on their turf and I was not looking for trouble...so we paid it and learned our lesson. Needless to say I will be happy to stay on the ship this go around.
I found a couple of really cute ones on the Newport News site. I knew they were owned by Spiegel, but I found the same ones on the Spiegel site too. Now i have to decide whether I want the suit for my body type now or my hopeful body type by April!!! lol! 
Lots of mix and match types. It's really putting me in the mood for cruising.
