Aug. 5th, 2006 - Eastern Magic!!!

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Marcie,
Page 1 looks great!!!
Adding room numbers and the meet at the top of the page was a great idea

Kathy

 

[VA Girl]

Hey everyone!!!! We are getting close and the whole family is counting down the days.

I have a big party that I'm planning for this Saturday (Luau) and I should be working on things for that but I just can't keep my mind off the cruise.

AZ Realtor - I actually posted that I have a daughter who is 5 (she'll be 6 in August) and a son who will be turning 4 on the cruise. Hopefully, you and your family can make the meet at 3pm and we can introduce them to each other so there will be a familiar face for them in the club sometimes.

Markey - I have a daughter who is 5 (she'll be 6 in August). Like I said to AZ Realtor, come to the DIS meet, so they can meet.

Talk with everyone soon, back to Luau planning.

Gretchen

 

[azrealtor]

Hey everyone!!!! We are getting close and the whole family is counting down the days.

I have a big party that I'm planning for this Saturday (Luau) and I should be working on things for that but I just can't keep my mind off the cruise.

AZ Realtor - I actually posted that I have a daughter who is 5 (she'll be 6 in August) and a son who will be turning 4 on the cruise. Hopefully, you and your family can make the meet at 3pm and we can introduce them to each other so there will be a familiar face for them in the club sometimes.

Markey - I have a daughter who is 5 (she'll be 6 in August). Like I said to AZ Realtor, come to the DIS meet, so they can meet.

Talk with everyone soon, back to Luau planning.

Gretchen

I am so excited about our trip!! It great to hear more children around the same age will be there.

Which night is night??

Carole

 

[azrealtor]

We are staying in 2530 and 2532....DD is 7 yrs old, and DD is 3 1/2 yrs. old and DS is 10 yrs old! All have been signed up for the clubs. We have reserved Palo for Monday night. I have also requested LAP for dining rotation.

What is LAP??

 

[ImMarcik]

I am so excited about our trip!! It great to hear more children around the same age will be there.

Which night is night??

Carole

Tuesday night is pirate night.

 

[VA Girl]

Carole -

Pirate night is on Tuesday night, the day we are in St. Maarten.

Gretchen

 

[ImMarcik]

It looks like we don't leave St. Martin until 7 p.m. but I plan on being back on the ship by 4:30 or 5:00 to get ready for pirate night dinner.

It looks like everyone is getting more excited!!! I sure hope my DD finds people to hang out with in the Lab or Ocean Quest. I had a penpal for years when I was a kid, a girl I met at the hotel where we had a vacation one year. Ahhh the memories!!

 

[Marypoppinsiam]

Hey gang at the moment we are in cabin 7539, but that can change too. We are doing an inside cabin for the first time, so I am definitly going to have to bring an alarm clock with us or I will have Mickey wake me up every am. Last cruise we had a verandah so I didn't have to worry about not getting up because of the natural light but now with nothing it will be quite interesting. My DH told me either we could have a verandah or I could get jewerly in St. Maarten, well I guess the jewerly won out. We have changed room numbers twice now, so I won't be for sure we are at until we check in. Lets hope for another upgrade.

 

[ImMarcik]

I'm going to be calling Shirley from the perfect gift soon to order a basket. I am going to do just one for all 3 of us this time. I'm trying to think of a snack or 2 specific for my DD but I can't think. I'm going to have to ask her tonight.

 

[Tarabra]

LAP rotation is Lumiere's, Animator's Palate, Parrot Cay. That's what we've had our last 5 cruises, but I'm sure w/ DD we will have something different. Usually LAP rotation is mostly adults. I think they figure the kids will be more entertained in the other restaurants first. It's going to be tough to change, but it'll all be good!

I screwed up BIG TIME today! I got a special deal from Air Tran, and it was MUCH better than last week's deal. I wanted to check on rental car rates so we could rent a car on the day back at the airport to just kill some time, and I wanted to check out other rates. Well, by the time I got around to booking, the flights were gone on the flight home. Grrrr!!! I've booked 2 weeks out before. They keep adding flights based on need. We may not end up in FL afterall!!

Ava is REALLY getting into Mickey Mouse. A little too into him! I was pulling up the live shows on the Disneycruiseline site, and now she's obsessed! She keeps going, "Mouse, mouse!!" I'm glad she is recognizing him. Oh no...she is saying it again!!! I absolutely can't wait now for her to see him onboard!!

AZREaltor...you'll appreciate this! I sold a house today!! One that's been on the market since SEPT.!!! It's next door neighbor is a major highway. I got them to drop the price and we got a full price offer!!! Thank God!! I had 4 closings in June, so that's why we booked, then hit a little dry spell! Now I can spend a little more cash on the ship! I also need to get on the ball and get some more listings. I don't take on a bunch due to the baby, but I like to keep around 5 or so. I'm down to 1! Yikes!

Getting very excited as the days get closer!

 

[VA Girl]

Just booked Radisson Resort at the Port for Friday night before the cruise. Anyone else staying there that night? If anyone is looking for a place to stay, I actually got a better rate by booking directly with Radisson than any rate I saw online. Just an FYI.

So what seating does everyone have for dinner? We have the early seating, which is a first for us. We've always booked too close and have had to take the late seating. Last year my son was falling asleep at the table almost every night. We are doing Palo brunch on Monday and the Palo high tea on Thursday.

Well, that's all for now, talk with everyone soon.

Gretchen

 

[teaskye]

we'll be sailing once again. have dgd age8 and dgs age5 am looking forward to meeting everyone on board am anxious to go and counting the days. we leave for Orlando on 7-29-06!!!!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

teasky

Remember we have a meet on board the first day, in the Promenade lounge at 3 p.m.
I hope you and your family will join us for a few minutes to say Howdy!!
since you are arriving a few days early, are you going to WDW for a few days? By your post I know you have cruised before, how many times have you cruised? This is be #12 for us. Our grandkids are coming too. But they are 12 and 15. They dont know about it though, we arn't telling them. They will figure it out when we pull into the port instead of going to the beach as we have told them.


Gretchen, we have late seating, but we are going to try and change it when we get on board. If we cant get it changed we will eat in the buffet for the 5 nights it's open. The other two nights we will do something else for dinner. We just cant eat that late or we dont sleep well. Hopefully we will be able to change it, we have had good luck before when we needed to change.

Have a good day everyone!!!

kathy

 

[markey]

Anyone get their docs yet? I think there are really late this year.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Markey,
No docs here yet.
I will post as soon as we get them.
Usually we get them about 2 weeks before we cruise.

Kathy

 

[ImMarcik]

we'll be sailing once again. have dgd age8 and dgs age5 am looking forward to meeting everyone on board am anxious to go and counting the days. we leave for Orlando on 7-29-06!!!!

Hi, welcome back. I went to put your name on the first page but then noticed I had already added you. I hope you can make the meet.

 

[Marypoppinsiam]

No docs yet but I don't think our arrived last time until we were about 20 days out. I just love receiving them even though we do the online check in.

 

[ImMarcik]

I just ordered my basket. I can't wait to see it. I don't have docs yet either but I bet by next week someone will have them.

 

[azrealtor]

I just ordered my basket. I can't wait to see it. I don't have docs yet either but I bet by next week someone will have them.

What type of basket did you order. Again, this is my first Cruise & do not want to miss out on best things to do, get or bring.

Where was the information on what night is pirate night?

 

[ImMarcik]

What type of basket did you order. Again, this is my first Cruise & do not want to miss out on best things to do, get or bring.

Where was the information on what night is pirate night?

http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/cruise-new/cr-stateroom-navigator.htm
If you go here and pick an Eastern, look at everyday's navigators and you can see what everyday will be.

I ordered a basket from the perfect gift. Shirley the owner is so very sweet.
http://www.theperfectgift.cc/index.html I got the number from the website. I used her the last cruise too. This time we just ordered one basket for all 3 of us. The main thing we are wanting is Dr. Pepper. They don't have Dr. Pepper at WDW so by the time we get on the ship we will want some. So, I got a 12 pack, half diet half regular. Snacks, like M&Ms, Oreos & bubbles for my daughter at the sail away party, glow necklaces for the deck at night and pirate night. I got it all in a Disney bag. Last time I got a basket for my daughter and husband seperate, they were a surprise. His was pirate themed and hers was about like this time. They can also put sand toys in them for the beach.