April 12, 2008, 4-12-08, 4/12/08 Eastern Magic

[Mickey1Fan]

My countdown is 23 hours, 28 minutes until we depart Toronto for Orlando. A day shopping at Downtown Disney is going to be a nice start to our cruise

I may not post any more today (who are we kidding) I have lots of work to get done, should be working instead of posting. I am only in the office until noon.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the Goofy pool and I will have my LMGMH attached to my bag tomorrow at Downtown Disney

 

[ROIE01581]

hi, i am done packing, printing and shopping..I am just spending the day at work watching the clock until 3pm. Then I am waiting for Meg to show up with last minute panic items, while she talks to Kim...Then its bed and up at 4am to get on a Jet plane.

See you Saturday...We will be the group of red tee shirts!

Harkins
Harrington
Laurent
Family vacation
2008

Count down begins...

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

My countdown is 23 hours, 28 minutes until we depart Toronto for Orlando. A day shopping at Downtown Disney is going to be a nice start to our cruise

I may not post any more today (who are we kidding) I have lots of work to get done, should be working instead of posting. I am only in the office until noon.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the Goofy pool and I will have my LMGMH attached to my bag tomorrow at Downtown Disney

We are looking forward to meeting you and I won't have a name tag or other distinguishing label, lol ... but we'll be with Deb, who will.

kat

 

[dsnyfangoofy2]

Looks like some of us are still around for one more day!

If you buy a waterproof case thing on board does it have Mickey on it? I'm not finding any great bargains around here -- $6 -- so if I have to pay $6 or $7 on board it would be worth it if if has a logo.

Bev

 

[gfolchick]

For anyone doing online check in the information needs to be done TODAY.

Bev, the waterproof case I bought is white with a black DCL logo, no MM. I think they came in red or black too and there were two sizes to choose from. I can't remember how much, I'm thinking around $6

Safe travels to all!

 

[dsnyfangoofy2]

DCL logo sounds good to me!

Bev

 

[motherofsons]

We are out of here on Friday arriving and off to Disney for a nights stay at the Boardwalk.

We will keep our eyes open for the lime green mickeys!

Safe travels to all and I vow I will not be on here again, doubt it.

See you on Ship!!!!!
Kathy, Dave, Drew and Collin

 

[aprince&princess]

We don't leave until tomorrow night. Will I be here talking to myself tomorrow? I have packed Myself, DS & DD. I just have to add formal clothes, which I didn't want to put in too far ahead. DH still has to pack, which he will do tomorrow while I do my manicure and pedicure.

We have lgmh also. So look for those!

I wish everyone a safe trip and will see you Sat.

 

[cvspsych]

hi everyone

We arrived today. The weather is perfect!!!!! We are taking it easy until cruise time. We are at the radisson at the port sitting by the pool. By the way, there will be 3 of us now. DH and I are reconciling and he is joining us last minute. We have our lime green mickeys and will be looking for everyone.

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

Well everybody, the car is here and we are takin off in fifteen!!!!! We hope everyone has a safe trip!!!!!!

 

[TaraMom22]

We are leaving in one hour

I never got around to "re"locating the great info I found on St. Thomas and St. Maarten. We are not doing any excursions. We thought we would create our own low key one. If anybody has information on good things to do in St. Thomas and St. Maarten on our own - best beaches, tours by cab, fun places to go with the kids (6 & 8) - Could you PLEASE share when we meet on board? Either bring to the meet or slide under stateroom #6548's door???

THANK YOU!!!

 

[Skuba2]

Hello all and welcome home! I hope everyone checks in here when they get back.

I loved meeting you onboard. I am sorry we missed others. We showed up at the meet late due to some scheduling changes--but we were there.

I plan on filing a trip report as we had some things happen that were unexpected, ugly and fun. I will probably print out the post and include it in my letter to Disney.

My dh is talking about going again, but not or a few years.

Deb

 

[TaraMom22]

Hello all and welcome home! I hope everyone checks in here when they get back.

I loved meeting you onboard. I am sorry we missed others. We showed up at the meet late due to some scheduling changes--but we were there.

I plan on filing a trip report as we had some things happen that were unexpected, ugly and fun. I will probably print out the post and include it in my letter to Disney.

My dh is talking about going again, but not or a few years.

Deb

Hi Deb,
I will be very curious to read your report. We had a great time, but we also are thinking 2011 would be a good year to try another disney cruise. I am not sure we will do a trip report, but maybe we can reply to yours and give our few comments.

One thing I learned is that it takes a lot of work to do a cruise "right"... the packing, travel, boarding, unpacking, getting the layout of the ship, getting in sync with the schedule of everything, making the most of the ports, making the most of everything, packing again, disembarking, getting back to Orlando, and then the long travel day today. I am really not convinced that the cruise was relaxing. Fun - Definitely! But I am feeling in need of a week-long nap to recover from my vacation.

 

[okwmember92]

Welcome Home! It was fun meeting everyone and actually had a relaxing cruise. Our new friends Kathleen and Ron were a delight and even let me crash their dinner one night due to DH's head rockin from the ship rollin.
Deb, the regatta race was a blast! Best excursion ever, wished our boys had been on that one. Your daughter was fun. And if you allow me a little ribbin, we won!! Dressing up for pirate's night was a hoot. I posted a trip report, with a link to my pictures, not a creative writer, so it just gives some of my highlights from the trip.

Looks like we lucked out docking at CC, the previous Wonder cruise was not able to. Too bad, also we really need to stay there longer.

See ya! Kim

 

[rachaellou]

We had a great trip and it was great to meet some of you - but somehow didn't manage to meet that many!

Our best excursion was the kayak, hike and snorkel of Cas Cay on St John - it was fab and I would thoroughly recommend it.

Our only hitch was a problem with our cabin (serious metal grating noise in that night with the really rolling sea) but they found us an empty cabin to sleep in the following night when it was also rough - that was after they had taken our ceiling down to try and find out what was making the noise...... they tried hard to keep us happy as they attempted to rectify, then moved us, then gave us a bottle of champagne by way of apology, so all round they dealt with the issue as well as they could have done I guess.

Debbie my mum tells me your new nickname is Debbie-tini!!

Now I need to pay off my credit card bill (cost of the trip and flights and spending money!!) which will take about 3 years then we'll be cruising again!

Byeeee

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

Hello everyone!!

We too are safely home ... and I agree that it was FUN but not necessarily relaxing!! We were fortunate enough to meet quite a few people but sadly, due to the kids being everywhere and very hard to keep up with, we missed the 2pm goofy pool meet. Maybe as we all post pics or do reports, we'll say "HEY, I SAW YOU!!!"

We kept threatening the kids that next time we cruise Disney, they stay home!

I am thinking that we will probably wait until the new ships come out to sail Disney again. We'll get the Western under our belts on one of the new ships and see where we end up from there. We really need to start utilizing the timeshare we bought so next April, I believe we decided on Turks & Caicos or Barbados.

I am going to do a trip report but it might be a week or so before I can get to it. My back went out again yesterday and I've been basically bed-ridden since. I am at work today but using my cane again which is never very efficient but it's what I need to do.

Hope everyone is getting back in the groove!!

Kat

 

[Skuba2]

We had a great trip and it was great to meet some of you - but somehow didn't manage to meet that many!

Our best excursion was the kayak, hike and snorkel of Cas Cay on St John - it was fab and I would thoroughly recommend it.

Our only hitch was a problem with our cabin (serious metal grating noise in that night with the really rolling sea) but they found us an empty cabin to sleep in the following night when it was also rough - that was after they had taken our ceiling down to try and find out what was making the noise...... they tried hard to keep us happy as they attempted to rectify, then moved us, then gave us a bottle of champagne by way of apology, so all round they dealt with the issue as well as they could have done I guess.

Debbie my mum tells me your new nickname is Debbie-tini!!

Now I need to pay off my credit card bill (cost of the trip and flights and spending money!!) which will take about 3 years then we'll be cruising again!

Byeeee

LOl---yep. Was she in the martini tasting. LOL! I did a little experiment and came up with a beautiful tanzinite martini by combining two of the already made ones. I don't think any of us was liking them. But, we all loved the Debbitini.

 

[ajeent]

Hello all and welcome home! I hope everyone checks in here when they get back.

I loved meeting you onboard. I am sorry we missed others. We showed up at the meet late due to some scheduling changes--but we were there.

I plan on filing a trip report as we had some things happen that were unexpected, ugly and fun. I will probably print out the post and include it in my letter to Disney.

My dh is talking about going again, but not or a few years.

Deb

Ahoy there!
We got back yesterday and after a full day getting back into the swing of things, I crashed last night. Now I am swamped with work and life...
I am sorry I didn't meet all of you... although I did pass by a bunch of you a few times going from here to there....

We had an awesome time - well my 10yo and I did anyway. the 13 yo liked it, but didn't love it. DH says "everyone should go on a cruise... at least once" He won't go again.. of course that did not stop me from booking another cruise to take my mom and boys again -

I booked for a June western next year - but will probably push it to 2010. I can't wait, but I can't start planning now or I will get sucked into board surfing again! LOL


I might do a trip report over the weekend depending on how work is going.
Why must we pay for taking some time off???

I hope to upload some pictures sometime as well. We got great shots from the photographers. Nice to have a new family photo, it has been more than a few years.
Catch ya later!

 

[gfolchick]

We're back, laundry's done. We ended up pushing it and took the kids to Epcot on Saturday and then the 9pm show of Cirque. The park was beyond crowded and we were all struggling to stay awake for Cirque.

Sorry I didn't meet too many of you. I ended up giving my parents a tour of the ship around the time of the meet. We did bump into the CT folks a lot. We came home to beautiful weather here. The trees and flowers are blooming so it makes it not so bad.

We had booked for the August 2009 Tortola cruise before leaving and I priced it on the ship and it was much more so we have that to look forward to. My parents really enjoyed themselves. Everyone is missing our great servers, Sunny and Bonim. The kids want towel animals.

After 5 cruises I you'd think I'd have my sea legs, but Thursday the cruise gods were not with me and I ended up not feeling so good. I missed semi-formal night. My dad came down with it later in the evening, but by Castaway Cay all was good. I am still feeling the rocking though!

Well, back to real life now. Take care.

 

[cindyd1@optonline.ne]

Welcome back everybody!!! We are back into the swing of things homework...getting up early..softball, baseball and dance!!! My kids are already asking when can we go again!!!! Sunday we were lying in bed wondering if room service was going to come My dd9 has been making towel animals ever since we got home!