Sounds like a plan.
Now tell these good people the story so they don't think they have been invaded by some loons.
Oh and tell them about UTOP and PDFG while you are at it.
We don't want to confuse all our new cruising buddies!
Um, but they HAVE been invaded by loons.
Ok, here's some background stories.....
U TOP..... It started as just a celebration of TOP's (which stand for "Top Of Page.") On the December 2004 cruise thread we'd celebrate for every new page that was started. Since there are 15 posts on one page, the 16th post would create another page....hence a TOP. Something worth celebrating. The phrase U TOP was coined by my daughter as the phenomenon that happens when you're just posting along and you just HAPPEN to get a TOP.....U TOP=Unexpected TOP.
PDFG stands for "Pixie Dust For Gary." Garry is a great man who was on our Christmas cruise. He's a firefighter in Michigan. Once, several years ago, he went into a burning building (not sure of all the details of it) but all the firefighters who went in the building that day ended up very sick....some with liver problems, some with kidney problems, some with lung problems. Garry ended up with liver problems and is now on the national transplant list waiting for a new liver. He was supposed to be on our May '06 Blabbermouth cruise, but couldn't come. He did stand on the rocks at Jetty Park and videotaped our group leaving port ....on the ship he SHOULD have been on. We had had a huge banner made that we zip tied to the railing on deck 4 that said "WE LOVE YOU, GARRY." And we all yelled at the same time "WE LOVE YOU, GARRY." There was nary a dry eye in the bunch and Garry himself ended up admitting he was crying when we did that. So.....we sprinkle pdfg on our TOP's to give Garry the pixiedust that he needs to get a new liver.
What else am I missing? Oh, smoothie dad. Yes...also on our Blabbermouth cruise WDWLVR, MarkRG and our family ate dinners together. Night one, Mark and my son Nick ordered smoothies. I didn't even think about it until later, but realized that Mark must have paid the bill for BOTH smoothies. The next night both smoothies were on one bill so WE paid for both smoothies. On the third night, the server asked Nick what kind of smoothie he wanted and Nick told him.....and then the server asked Nick "and what about for your dad????" But Mark is not Nick's dad....Mike is. The server totally did not know who Nick belonged to!!
Then later in the week, KT asked for cheesecake for dessert and the server looked at Mary and asked if that would be ok. Her response was "it's fine with me."
Sure it's fine with her, it wasn't her kid!!!
So from that point Mark has been known as "Smoothie Dad."
When Mark and Mary opted to (GASP) cruise without us on the DVC member cruise, I contacted another DISer and arranged a smoothie to be delivered to Mark at dinner compliments of his Smoothie Son!
Ah, it's the little things that turn a regular run of the mill cruise into a DIS family gathering.
(happy sigh)
Oh, and btw, you'll find that Mary is a MUCH bigger loon than I am!!! 
and it's still going strong even though that cruise was in MAY of 2006! 
