April 11th 2009 Magic Eastern Easter cruise--UPDATED WITH ROLL CALL PG 1

[kellimomo3]

Hi all. We also had a fantastic cruise. I am glad we got to meet most everyone. Sorry if we missed a few. We almost re-booked while on board but could not decide on the exact cruise and dates. I am sure another cruise is in our near future though. The kids had a blast.

Sorry if I go sour, but I had some very devastating news while I was away. Our department head and my boss took his own life last Tuesday. I did not find out until yesterday, Sunday. Obviously last week was very hard on everyone in my office. Naturally everyone is still in shock, and showing various stages of grief.

Hi Tom,
It was really great to meet you and your family. I am so sorry to hear about your boss, that must have taken you out of vacation mode fast. I'm glad you and your family had a fun cruise!

Kelli

 

[itutorfortravel]

Hi all. We also had a fantastic cruise. I am glad we got to meet most everyone. Sorry if we missed a few. We almost re-booked while on board but could not decide on the exact cruise and dates. I am sure another cruise is in our near future though. The kids had a blast.

Sorry if I go sour, but I had some very devastating news while I was away. Our department head and my boss took his own life last Tuesday. I did not find out until yesterday, Sunday. Obviously last week was very hard on everyone in my office. Naturally everyone is still in shock, and showing various stages of grief.

Hi Tom! Glad to hear you all got back to Greensboro okay. Did you come home yesterday? If so, you must have been in that horrendous traffic like us! It took us more than 2 hours more than it ususally takes to get home from Orlando...ugh! But I'd still do it again in a heartbeat Anyhow, it was good to meet you at the port and to see you onboard!

I'm so very sorry to hear about your boss. What a tragic incident...

Take care,
Kimberly

 

[PPFQP]

I'm glad you introduced yourself!!!! You were the only Dis'er I met. DD was amazed at how you knew who we were and hadn't ever seen a pic and even knew about our sailing party! LOL!! I hadn't even told her about being on the Boards before the cruise.

Now that the cruise is over, it's time to get serious planning for prom, graduation, and graduation party. She is enrolled at Marshall University which is only about 45 minutes from home, so we'll get to still see her often. She plans to major in Communications Disorders to become a Speech Pathologist.

I rebooked onboard for the 5 night Bahamian for next June for hubby and myself. Did you rebook by chance?

What ever happened about the cheerleading tryouts? Will she get another chance to try out?

 

[PPFQP]

We rebooked on board for next spring break but I am also thinking about moving it to a 5 day cruise next summer or Thanksgiving 2010. Has anyone cruised over Thanksgiving before? If neither of those dates work for us, I will just push the reservation to one of the new ships when those dates are released. I believe my understanding is that you can move the reservation to another ship, right? I hope so!

We did the same thing. We rebooked on board for summer 2010, but we are hoping to move it to a 2011 date. We are going to Europe next summer. I wanted to do the Disney cruise in Europe, but the dates don't match up unfortunately. We will probably do another cruise line for that trip and then hopefully Disney will have some new itineraries for 2011.

 

[PPFQP]

Hi all. We also had a fantastic cruise. I am glad we got to meet most everyone. Sorry if we missed a few. We almost re-booked while on board but could not decide on the exact cruise and dates. I am sure another cruise is in our near future though. The kids had a blast.

Sorry if I go sour, but I had some very devastating news while I was away. Our department head and my boss took his own life last Tuesday. I did not find out until yesterday, Sunday. Obviously last week was very hard on everyone in my office. Naturally everyone is still in shock, and showing various stages of grief.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. What a terrible thing to come home to. Best wishes to you and your work mates.

 

[Had2disneycruz]

Tom - So sorry about your boss. That was an awful thing to come back to after such an amazing vacation. Best of luck to you and your co-workers.

Anybody have anything to say about your "Magical" experience? We had such a great time and honestly, I have no complaints. We had the best stateroom host, Aldo, and the very best servers on the ship! Leslie and Caroline were so much fun during dinner. We had an adult table and a kids' table and it was perfect. They entertained the kids while we had dinner and now we really miss them! If I were to complain, it would be how much we spent while onboard! We did an AWFUL job of sticking to a budget!!!

Kelli - It was really great to meet you and your DH. We enjoyed chatting with you at St. Maarten. Your pictures are amazing and yes, I may have to "borrow" some from pirate night. Mine were very grainy. Your camera is awesome! You are a very good photographer. I got some amazing shots thanks to all the research I did on the disboards, but I didn't do as well as you!

I am disappointed that I didn't get to meet all of you, including Oatmealdiva, Grumpymom, AnaRN, cruisingfun, tbrox and sdzm. I did run into sdzm's DS while trying to deliver FE gifts. Boy, he is tall! Sdzm, I loved the mickey and minnie magnets you made! Very sweet and they look great on our refrigerator now that we are home! Thanks to whoever made the other magnets. We love them all! We enjoyed all the FE gifts and they were all so thoughtful! Thank you again. I was also disappointed that I didn't get to meet the new folks that joined us a few weeks before the cruise.

To those who went to the 3pm meet, I am so sorry we missed it. I "misplaced" my DD4. She felt so comfortable on the ship that she decided to leave the Mickey pool and stroll on deck 10 by herself. After a mild heart attack and 12 people looking for her, we found her and set her straight. So sorry I missed meeting some of you!!!!!

I thought that losing my DD was enough drama for the day, but later, I slipped and fell by the goofy pool (did anyone see me...I was the one in the tiara that landed on her a**) And, yes, I did spill my drink! I slipped two more times on that deck so I had to go barefoot after that! Then to add to the drama of the day, later that night, I misplaced $800 in cash! We couldn't get our safe open so I took the cash with us to the Mickey pool. I thought I might have lost it up there so I called Guest Services to see if cash was turned in. While security was in our stateroom, he had me double check the suitcase I thought it was in and I did find the cash in another pocket. I just forgot where I put it! Security was very professional and very understanding about me losing my mind. He reset our safe and the cash spent the rest of the trip in the safe! Although that was all stressful, our first day on the Magic was still incredible!

I felt that all the CM's we dealt with were wonderful and I wish we had rebooked onboard. I was too lazy to take the time!

Looking forward to hearing about everyone's trip. Anyone doing a TR?

 

[DisneyMommy1022]

HI guys,
I'm from the May 9th Eastern and we were wondering if anyone had a copy of the navigators from your cruise that would be willing to send them to me? Please PM and I will give you my email address.

Thanks and I hope you all had a great trip!
Kristen

 

[Alicia87]

What ever happened about the cheerleading tryouts? Will she get another chance to try out?

Wow!!! Can't believe you remembered that!!! Tryouts were this weekend (while we were gone), and she decided to sit it out this year. She wants to focus on her Freshman year of college (boy, oh boy....do I hope that lasts!!!)

Thanks for asking!

 

[Alicia87]

To those who went to the 3pm meet, I am so sorry we missed it. I "misplaced" my DD4. She felt so comfortable on the ship that she decided to leave the Mickey pool and stroll on deck 10 by herself. After a mild heart attack and 12 people looking for her, we found her and set her straight. So sorry I missed meeting some of you!!!!!

I thought that losing my DD was enough drama for the day, but later, I slipped and fell by the goofy pool (did anyone see me...I was the one in the tiara that landed on her a**) And, yes, I did spill my drink! I slipped two more times on that deck so I had to go barefoot after that! Then to add to the drama of the day, later that night, I misplaced $800 in cash! We couldn't get our safe open so I took the cash with us to the Mickey pool. I thought I might have lost it up there so I called Guest Services to see if cash was turned in. While security was in our stateroom, he had me double check the suitcase I thought it was in and I did find the cash in another pocket. I just forgot where I put it! Security was very professional and very understanding about me losing my mind. He reset our safe and the cash spent the rest of the trip in the safe! Although that was all stressful, our first day on the Magic was still incredible!

Geesh! Your day was a complete train wreck, wasn't it? LOL!

 

[Alicia87]

I must say, our servers Zsolt and Satish, were the best servers on the 4/11-4/18 Disney Magic!!!!

If you were in Parrot Cay the last night, our tables were the ones screaming for them for about 15 minutes

We've already gotten an email from Zsolt thanking us for the "Excellent" ranking on the comment card....he got two extra days off for it!!!

 

[Had2disneycruz]

I must say, our servers Zsolt and Satish, were the best servers on the 4/11-4/18 Disney Magic!!!!

If you were in Parrot Cay the last night, our tables were the ones screaming for them for about 15 minutes

We've already gotten an email from Zsolt thanking us for the "Excellent" ranking on the comment card....he got two extra days off for it!!!

NO, WE HAD THE BEST SERVERS ON THE CRUISE!!!!!!!!! Leslie and Caroline took care of 21 rowdy Virginians! We never had to deal with our 12 kids while we were dining. Heaven!! But, I didn't see a comment card. Our last night was crazy, as DD4 fell asleep in our arms and we were trying to rush out to see the farewell show in the atrium! I wonder if I can call Disney to see if I can fill out something online! I want our servers to get a few days off! Alicia, was the comment card the one that had questions about the cruise overall? That I did fill out. I put it in a box by the gangway as we disembarked on Sat. I hope that was it! We too screamed for our servers as they went by on our last night! I have it all on video!!!!!!!

 

[sdzm]

Tom - sorry to hear about your boss. My prayers are with his family, friends and coworkers.

We had a great time on the cruise! Thank you to everyone for the FE gifts!!!

I loved your pics Kelly! What kind of camera do you have?

I'm sorry I missed the 3:00 mtg on Saturday. I had planned to go and then we met up with family that we had not seen since Christmas. I figured I would just keep a lookout for the green tags on everyones bags and meet some of you during the cruise. Unfortunately, that did not happen. I met Willie on our way off the ship.

My DS met some new people at the Stack and enjoyed hanging around with them most of the week. He knew that I was looking for tags and wanted to meet some of you during the trip. Upon returning home he told me that one of the people he hung out with on the ship and at the airport was also on this board. Princess Row - if he had told me while we spent hours waiting at the airport for our flights I would have introduced myself - we were at the table just a few feet from your booth. I'm sure he waited until we got home so that I would not embarrass him. It's a teenager thing - I understand. I hope your DD enjoyed the trip!

Back to reality

 

[itutorfortravel]

I must say, our servers Zsolt and Satish, were the best servers on the 4/11-4/18 Disney Magic!!!!

If you were in Parrot Cay the last night, our tables were the ones screaming for them for about 15 minutes

We've already gotten an email from Zsolt thanking us for the "Excellent" ranking on the comment card....he got two extra days off for it!!!

I agree with you! We had Satish and Zsolt too and they were GREAT! I thought they were an awesome combination. Satish was so kind and reserved and serious about his job and Zsolt was a live wire! The two of them together were fabulous...were you at 1st or 2nd seating? Could it be that we were sitting right next to you?! We were at 2nd seating and all of us in the section were screaming and waving our napkins for them whenever they came out of the kitchen. If we were at the same seating, were you the table that I asked about when you were going to give them your gratuities? Oh my gosh, how funny would that be if we were right next to each other and never formally met! I am SO glad that Zsolt got some extra time off for your comments...he was too funny! How do you get in touch with the crew on the ship? I'd love to email them and our cabin steward Tabah - they were all excellent and made our trip truly magical!

 

[Freddyfishstix]

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.

We are considering the 5 day Wonder cruise with two stops at Castaway Cay. Is anyone else thinking about this one?

 

[itutorfortravel]

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.

We are considering the 5 day Wonder cruise with two stops at Castaway Cay. Is anyone else thinking about this one?

Hi Tom! Right now we are booked for the 7 day Western next spring break but I am thinking about moving it to the 5 day with 2 stops at CC or either moving to a 7 day at Thanksgiving 2010...when were you guys thinking of the 5 day? I was looking at mid-June 2010.

Kimberly

 

[oatmealdiva]

Wasn't that an AWESOME week? I have to say that that was the best vacation I have ever had in my entire life!

Thank you to everyone for the absolutely wonderful FE gifts. Myles really loved coming back to the room and checking the "mail." Next time I promise to do a better job of identifying my deliveries

I'm glad to have met so many of you (anjiellisvt, big willie, princess row, tbrox, kellimomo3, L2ConD, and I am sure I am forgetting a couple of people). I hope EVERYONE had as wonderful of a time as my family did.

Tom - My condolences on your workplace's loss. What a horrible thing to return to after a vacation. My heart goes out to you all.

We didn't rebook onboard...my mom and I wanted to see how Myles "came down" from the cruise if you know what I mean, especially since he had to go back to school on Monday. So far he's transitioned back to reality better than his mom has . He has been asking daily since we returned to L.A., "When's the next Disney Cruise, Mom?" My mom and I are considering either next Easter OR one of the 10-night Northern Europe cruises next summer. We will probably decide this summer. I don't want to wait until DCL puts a ship in Los Angeles again...I can't wait that long!

Lots of hugs to all of you!

Amy

 

[itutorfortravel]

Wasn't that an AWESOME week? I have to say that that was the best vacation I have ever had in my entire life!

Thank you to everyone for the absolutely wonderful FE gifts. Myles really loved coming back to the room and checking the "mail." Next time I promise to do a better job of identifying my deliveries

I'm glad to have met so many of you (anjiellisvt, big willie, princess row, tbrox, kellimomo3, L2ConD, and I am sure I am forgetting a couple of people). I hope EVERYONE had as wonderful of a time as my family did.

Tom - My condolences on your workplace's loss. What a horrible thing to return to after a vacation. My heart goes out to you all.

We didn't rebook onboard...my mom and I wanted to see how Myles "came down" from the cruise if you know what I mean, especially since he had to go back to school on Monday. So far he's transitioned back to reality better than his mom has . He has been asking daily since we returned to L.A., "When's the next Disney Cruise, Mom?" My mom and I are considering either next Easter OR one of the 10-night Northern Europe cruises next summer. We will probably decide this summer. I don't want to wait until DCL puts a ship in Los Angeles again...I can't wait that long!

Lots of hugs to all of you!

Amy

Hi Amy! I enjoyed meeting you at the 3 PM DISmeet in the Promenade Deck...sorry we didn't run into each other any more after that. Glad to hear you had a good time. So did we! Maybe we will see you next Easter. That is the week we re-booked. I was able to snag a SPH cabin so I decided to go ahead and book it and then move it if we want or need to. We may move it to a 5 day cruise next summer or a 7 day next Thanksgiving...haven't decided yet but I do know that another DCL cruise is in my future!!! Wow, a 10 night cruise next summer would be awesome! Have fun whatever you decide!

 

[Princess Row]

Sorry everyone i've been lacking on getting on here! It was sooo great to meet all of you!

SDZM- I AM the DD i'm the one who has been posting this whole time and your DS told me i was sitting right by you but i was to scared to come intorduce myself. My mom and Grandma were sitting at the table right next to you. I was the shorter blonde girl as most of the parents reffered to me as. So sorry i didnt get a chance to meet you!
The FE turned out great, we were sooo exited with all of our presents.
The pin trading went over very well we got some really good pins.

Our trip back was miserable, we sat at the airport waiting for hours upon hours. We then had a 5 hour flight to Arizona when we arrived we found out our plane was delayed by 2 hours so we sat in Pheonix for almost 3 hours. Our second plane was 2.5 hours. And we finally made it home at 1 am cali time so with a three hour time change we got to sleep about 4:30 florida time.
Our servers were both wonderful. Alicia and Joe! We miss you so much! Everyone in the giftshop and Natalie and the whole entertainment crew you all made our cruise so much more magical. We plan to book the Mediterranian cruise next. We will eventully! I cant wait to go back.
On CC we did the scavenger hunt. Did anyone else happen to finish that thing? It took me and my mom a long two hours. At the end all we ended up with was a small coin! Ohh well at least we made it to the end.

The excursions all turned out pretty well. The overall cruise went over wonderful. Disney always knows how to impress our family!!!
Soo great to meet all of you!! Keep posting everyone!

 

[Had2disneycruz]

I guess our thread is dying out! No one is posting much since we are back! Well, the laundry is done, clothes are NOT put away and suitcases are empty, but not put back in the closets. I have a ton of stuff to return to Target and Walmart. We didn't use a lot of the things I thought we HAD to have on the cruise. Once thing we did not use is the over the door shoe organizer. We never took it out of the suitcase. We only had three per room so we were not crowded at all. We loved our Cat. 11 rooms. Deck 6 forward was a great location. I am interested to hear how you all liked the locations of your cabins, especially those of you aft. Deck 6 is a very quiet location and I think we were really lucky. How was deck 1 & 2?

Well, back to life, back to reality! I keep thinking of what I was doing a week ago! Two weeks ago, we were getting ready for a very long drive to Fla. But we didn't care....it was Fla!!!!!!! To those of you that live there....lucky!!!!!!!!

Hope to chat with y'all soon!
Jerilyn

 

[anjiellisvt]

I hate Reality!! We had soooooo much fun on the cruise. I think it lived up to everyone's expectations. For those that didn't hear, we didn't tell the girls until we were driving up to the port. They were ecstatic. My ten year old had been asking to go on a disney cruise for years and was almost in tears as she told us "I knew you were up to something". My six year old just grinned from ear to ear.

The kids club was great. Jordan cried the first night when I made her leave to go to bed.

I really enjoyed meeting all of you on the cruise. THANK YOU ALL for all the wonderful FE gifts!!! I did not know we should have labeled our gifts, but I will remember for next time.

I ended up keeping our room on the 1st floor. It really worked out well. We were right next to the elevators so it was easy coming and going. There was some strange noise we heard every once in a while, but it never woke us up or prevented us from going to sleep. It was just kind of strange. We had an interior room, which was really awesome for those afternoon naps. (Monday was torture when around 3:00 I couldn't go take a nap!!)

Alicia87, we were in the second dinner seating too. I assume that was you all over with itutor. I was jealous. Our servers were good, but yours must have been awesome!!

Tom, I am so sorry to hear about your boss. I will keep you all in my thoughts and prayers.

PrincessRow, your family rocks!!! Thanks for all the pin trading advice. I do believe you were everywhere on the ship.

itutorfortravel, we really enjoyed spending time with you and hope that we meet again.

oatmealdiva, I think you all were everywhere too. If I didn't see PrincessRow, I always saw you all. I hope you had fun.

To Everyone, lets do it again!!!