I really do miss a good English afternoon tea. We used to love going to Heaven Farm near Uckfield in Surry.
Bob here. Valerie was feeling guilty about the cost of the shirts until she saw the tee from Disney costs even more than a tailored shirt.
BTW, she's mailing some of the fabric today for those who ordered yardage. Pretty good looking stuff, if you want a totally unbiased and detached opinion
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Received my material. Thank you so much Val. Appreciate all your hard work.
Well since people where sharing what they were doing Pre cruise I thought I would share as it was finalized about a hour ago. We will be spending the day before we sail at
DIsneyland with a cruise kick off lunch at Club 33. So excited. It will be my third time there but there will also be 3 first timers as well. What a great way to kick off the trip.
Oh so envious ..... Enjoy!!!
I have finally got a few spare moments to catch up with things on here. I have had an interesting weekend. We had some freak weather across various parts of Europe which meant that a lot of the feeder flights were cancelled, people could not get to the airport in Rome and a bunch of flights from the UK were cancelled or redirected. It felt like I was working 24 hours a day. I have a day off today and I slept for 14 hours straight. Now I am ready to face the world again.
One thing that I did achieve is making a start on my Fish Extender gifts. I have all the supplies for the gift for the men and made about 40 of them. I am really pleased how they have worked. I am waiting for more supplies for making the gifts for the kids and the ladies. They should hopefully get here by the end of the month.
Corinna
Corinna, hope you are all safe and warm. We lived in East Sussex for about 10 years and have family living there now. We never saw snow when we lived there and now you are all having so much snow.
Thought I would share. I know someone had asked about this design. I caught Milliepie-she's been on every now and then in between school.
We're going to have some beautiful decorated doors!
Lovely, thank you.
Champagne Girls....I ordered our flowers for our hair. So that's done and I already have our leis. We're ready to go. Now we just have to wait until I can contact
DCL and get a date and a room.
This will be my first Champagne Girls and I can't wait!!!!
Medical update. My cat scan was normal so the gland is not enlarged.Have not noticed any improvement yet in my eyes but was told it may take a couple of weeks.I sure hope so
Take care hope you feel better soon.
My first project with the Hawaii Cruise material. Everyone will ask where I got it!
Thanks, Val & Bob for all your hard work!
(couldn't figure out how to attached a photo from my computer - see below link)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150598002852208&set=o.207192239305173&type=1&ref=nf
Great job. You've given me an idea
As you can tell by the date I registered and the number of post that I am a long time lurker. I am sure I could win a reward for it, but this cruise has me rethinking my style. No more standing outside looking in. On this cruise will be me (Kristan), husband Dewayne, and son Kaleb who will be a month shy of five when we cruise. We are all looking forward to this vacation and can't wait for it to finally be here. I think I have all the planning done.
I have read all posts and after posting this I will go back and sign up for the FE. We are all excited to be doing this for the first time. I finally made up my mind today on what our gifts will be so I am headed off to Michael's later. Hoping they turn out as good as they look in my head.
I am training for the Disney Marathon (first time for that too) so I will be running everyday on deck 4 so if you see a women who looks like she is about to pass out that would be me so please say hi. I am looking forward to meeting everyone.
Kristan
Welcome.
This is also my first time participating and I'm trying not to lurk too
Sorry I haven't been active here in awhile but have been having extensive dental surgery and recovering!! I am way behind so if I have missed anything important that I needed to respond to, will you please PM me?
Hope to be active again soon!
Hope the meds are working and you recover quickly.
Finally a day off....working nights and days is really messing up my schedule.
Bethany has had Bronchitis for a few days. She rarely gets sick and just because I have been fearing her missing any school of course the poor kid gets it. Kept her home and hopefully she'll get better quick, they are ok with the 2 weeks in April but dont want to push it.
Hoping to work on my FE gifts today and book our flights when hubby gets up.
Welcome to the newbies and glad to see more names being added to FE list.
Heather
Hope she gets better soon.
As if don't have enough to deal with about my eyes I ended up on the emergency ro on sat and had emergency surgery.ihad a hernia the size of an apple push through I might go home tomprrow
Take care of yourself.
We are celebrating our 14th anniversary today. I know that is nothing compared to a lot of people here, but in my generation, it is major achievement. Graham came to the town where I work once he finished to the day and we had a lovely meal at an Indian restaurant that I had wanted to try for ages.
Being finally PIF and having the excursions booked has given me a second wind as far as the cruise is concerned. I finished the Fish Extender gifts for the men yesterday and ordered the prints for the magnets. I am still missing supplies for the rest of the Fish Extender gifts, but I am hoping that the remaining materials for the kid's gifts arrived within the next couple of days.
Corinna
Happy Anniversary!!!
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Hi everyone,
Wow, finally caught up on all the missed posts. We're back from our Aulani trip. It was so wonderful we didn't want to leave and ended up extending our stay a day, would have stayed longer if we could have but DH had to be back at work today.
For those who have not yet been. The resort is amazing. Wristbands are a must at all the pools and we also had to show either a wristband or room key to get access to the garden even for the Starlite Hui. I think with other resorts in the area Disney is having to monitor use and access to their programs and facilities. Very understandable. We had a lovely stay, our room had a ocean and pool view. The service was great and the cast members were friendly and helpful.
We arrived on Sunday the 5th to warm lovely weather which changed and deteriorated over the following 3 days. The weather predictions were completely wrong as we had been monitoring the weather there for a week before our arrival. But it cleared up on Thursday but did remain rather windy throughout our stay.
We had rented a car at the airport, driving wasn't a problem at all. We managed to take a drive to the North Shore, Turtle Bay and the Dole Plantation. We also drove into Honolulu and did Diamond Head.
Info on Diamond Head:
It cost $5 (cash only) for the car to enter and parking. It took us about an hour to do the hike up, spend some time at the top and hike back down, around 20 minutes up and 15 minutes down at quackish walking pace. There was a set of stairs to the tunnel then a steep set of stairs to a short tunnel with a spiral staircase and an exit to a view point. Next was a pathway to another staircase to the top most viewing area. We then tracked back to the level bellow and did another stairway down with wasn't as steep as the first one we did up. We could have taken the alternative one up too but opted on doing a little round trip at the top. The views were fantastic.
Here are a few Photosynth panoramic's that I captured.
This is from the first view point:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=54ddc34e-c6a0-443d-89dd-b20ab37abece
This is along the path at the first view point:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=c907aa6a-69d0-4310-b277-24bc8b4f13fe
This is the top most view point:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=716359d2-67ab-497e-82ec-3899f06058da
View of the crater when going down:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=7ba6f5cc-6491-4dbf-8f76-1c0cf9bb15eb
Back at Aulani:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=727d7a3c-e690-49a8-b6ce-aaf1e298d295
We didn't do Pearl Harbor as we're leaving that as our shore excursion in Honolulu.
We spoke to DVC at Aulani and at the time they were not aware that DCL had an excursion to Aulani but were very excited to hear that and also that members were using points to visit the resort from the ship.
Everyone seems to know that the ship is going to be visiting and are looking forward to the ships arrival.
I did ask about information on transport options and was told that the two options. Firstly a taxi to and from the port at a cost of about $60 to $70 each way. However this can be a lot more expensive if you travel at peak hour as the taxi meters by time. Second option would be to get a taxi from the port to the airport and then rent a car, return it to the airport and take a taxi back to the port. The second was the option that was advised.
When we were driving back to the airport yesterday I did see a few limo's and it occurred to me that a limo or town car maybe an option. They usually have a set cost and will pick you up and drop you off at your preferred destinations. I have not looked into this ... just a thought.
Can't wait for the cruise to meet everyone in person and to return to Hawaii.
