August 25 2012

[Pudo]

The company I book travel through had the opportunity to get a preview of the Dream yesterday. TheY posted about 150 photos to their Facebook page.

Enjoy - Photo Album

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

Sept. 11th to 18th (it's a B2B with the first portion being the 4 night), Have I got you thinking??????? There's room in my room as there is only the two of us!

Go for it Sheri!

 

[threeiscrazy]

Sheri,
Thanks for the tip about cricut cartridges at Michaels. I drove to two different stores today and picked up several of them. What a deal! Instead of $89 they were $10 -- a huge savings. The sale lasts until the 15th, I think, so anybody else interested should go check it out. They even had the Tinkerbell and the Mickey Mouse cartridges, so Go Disney! Now I need to open the Cricut and try to use the darn thing. BTW do I need to get a jukebox? They had that on sale for $39. I didn't get it as I wasn't completely sure what it does and if it was a good deal. I got the cartridges home only to realize that I have two Tinkerbell cricut cartridges. So if anybody on this meet board is in need of one (it has other fairies on it too), I'm happy to mail it to you. Just send me a PM!

Beth

Beth, you don't need one, but they come in handy if you are cutting from more than one cartridge at a time. I'm pretty sure I saw one at my store for $10 though.

 

[threeiscrazy]

The company I book travel through had the opportunity to get a preview of the Dream yesterday. TheY posted about 150 photos to their Facebook page.

Enjoy - Photo Album

I saw these on fb today. It looks amazing. And then I got Judy's message and oh, I'm so tempted!

Go for it Sheri!

I've got my thinking cap on for it!

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

It looks beautiful outside with all of the white stuff on the ground. Here in the DC area we got maybe an inch or two, so the big snowstorm didn't really pan out for us. Today, we have a two hour delay before school starts. While the twins hoped for a full day home from school, at least they have a good chunk of the morning to hang out with me and help with shoveling the snow off of the driveway and the walkways. My DH is in Cocoa Beach right now on business, in fact, his meeting is at the port this morning. I'm not sure if any of the DCL ships are there right now, so I'll have to ask him when he calls. What about everyone else? For those of you living up the 95 corridor, are you snowed in right now? On days like this, wouldn't it be nice to be sitting on Castaway Cay, watching the kiddos play in the sand and surf?

Beth

 

[HallsofVA]

Beth

We're right there with you, with the 1-2 inches and waiting for FFX Countr schools to open. Enjoy!


Cathleen

 

[JKSWonder]

Here on Long Island, we have about 9 inches of snow. Kids both home as schools are closed and they are currently watching Despicable Me.

I have lost yet another personal day since my office is open, but I had couldn't get there.

We have a 3 day dummy booking on Dream for 12/1/11. It was supposed to just be a dummy booking, but now I'm thinking of having DH and I take it by ourselves. His birthday is that week. I really want to go to Universal to see the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but the kids are too young for it yet. So, maybe. Or I might plan something for our 15th wedding anniversary in October instead.

Judy, I realized Allison will be 11 by the time we cruise. Which means, no Club or Lab for her either! She would be in the tween club by then. It boggles the mind.

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

Cathleen, A big shout out to you for all you've done on the DisBoard with posting where the staterooms are on the Dream. You are very talented -- I'm sure thousands of people have looked at your Dream "where is my staterom located and is it a good room?" thread! There are some very talented people on this cruise (not me!) including you, Judy who is a DISigner and so generous with her time and talent, Christine who is so organized to keep this meet board working so well for a cruise that is way off in the distance, Jeff who knows everything and then some about computers and it appears that Cathleen is right up there with him, and Sheri who is over the top creative too (some awesome FE stuff on our last cruise was made by her and her family). And those are only the people I know about, I'm sure there are others on this board with a talent that we've all yet to discover. So a big thank you. And now I'm going to stop procrastinating and go outside with my snow shovel!

Beth

 

[lesabrowning]

This will be our first Disney cruise and we are very excited.
Being our first cruise, we have never done a Cruise Meet so I am not sure what info I should post, but we are:
Lesa & Greg from California and will be cruising with our daughter Macy who will be 10 at cruise time. Macy would be VERY happy to make some friends before the cruise and so would we : )

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

This will be our first Disney cruise and we are very excited.
Being our first cruise, we have never done a Cruise Meet so I am not sure what info I should post, but we are:
Lesa & Greg from California and will be cruising with our daughter Macy who will be 10 at cruise time. Macy would be VERY happy to make some friends before the cruise and so would we : )

WELCOME Lesa, Greg and Macy! My family went on our first Disney cruise over Halloween and we loved it! It is super fun getting to know people beforehand. Turns out that when we all run into each other on the ship we all smile knowingly at each other! My twin girls will be eight at cruise time so just a few years younger than Macy.

Beth

 

[JKSWonder]

This will be our first Disney cruise and we are very excited.
Being our first cruise, we have never done a Cruise Meet so I am not sure what info I should post, but we are:
Lesa & Greg from California and will be cruising with our daughter Macy who will be 10 at cruise time. Macy would be VERY happy to make some friends before the cruise and so would we : )

Welcome! My daughter Allison will be 11 at cruise time. She's tiny (two years delayed in growth) and a bit shy, so I'm hoping she gets to make some friends before the cruise starts too.

 

[HallsofVA]

Cathleen, A big shout out to you for all you've done on the DisBoard with posting where the staterooms are on the Dream. You are very talented -- I'm sure thousands of people have looked at your Dream "where is my staterom located and is it a good room?" thread!

Beth

Beth - Thanks for the kinds words. I'm often amazed when I realize my little special rooms thread has had over 71,000 views and still going!

Unfortunately, I am saying so long to this cruise for now. We'd originally booked this cruise as the B2B portion to the 8/18/12 Western, to give us that opportunity should we decide to do both next year. We just made the decision to book the Fantasy MV today, and this cruise was the reservation that I sacrificed for the MV booking. So it's so long for now, but I still have my booking on the 8/18/12 cruise, and if something happens to our ability to go on the MV, then we may be back.

Meanwhile, all you NoVa folks, feel free to keep in touch, and let me know if you ever get together for scrapbooking or to talk cruises! And feel free to ping me for room questions - always glad to help if I can!!

Cathleen

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

Beth - Thanks for the kinds words. I'm often amazed when I realize my little special rooms thread has had over 71,000 views and still going!

Unfortunately, I am saying so long to this cruise for now. We'd originally booked this cruise as the B2B portion to the 8/18/12 Western, to give us that opportunity should we decide to do both next year. We just made the decision to book the Fantasy MV today, and this cruise was the reservation that I sacrificed for the MV booking. So it's so long for now, but I still have my booking on the 8/18/12 cruise, and if something happens to our ability to go on the MV, then we may be back.

Meanwhile, all you NoVa folks, feel free to keep in touch, and let me know if you ever get together for scrapbooking or to talk cruises! And feel free to ping me for room questions - always glad to help if I can!!

Cathleen

Cathleen, We'll miss you -- but how super special that you are doing the Fantasy MV cruise! And who knows, maybe you'll be back as it is pretty far off in the distance. I'll definitely keep in touch and maybe some of us living around here can get together sometime soon to scrapbook or just gab about our favorite topic aside from our kids: namely Disney Cruising!

Beth

 

[i12go2wdw]

Hello everyone! Please add us to the Fantasy roll-call!

It will be myself, DH, DD10 and DD 14. This will be our first Disney cruise. We just came back from our first ever cruise on Carnival two months ago, and now we want to fulfill our dream of doing DCL. I was so excited about the new DCL ships and booked two inside Fantasy rooms on Deck 2 as soon as they opened up bookings.

Looking forward to sharing the wait with you all!

We will be there too!!!!! Me and my DH have been planning this trip since last year. For our 5th anniversary, we knew we wanted to be on the boat. Our anniversary is on 8-25. No kids on this trip. They have been on 2 disney cruises and been to WDW and other places. Now it is just me and DH.

This thread is like 7 pages deep and the cruise is like 19 months out!!!!

And ... you can count us in too!!!

Book early, Go big, or go home!!!

So we (me, grammy, and my now 9yr old dd, by the time of the cruise, 11yr old - wow did i just write that) are all ready for girls week out 2012!!!

Is it crazy to be excited about a cruise 19 months away???

We are "dream"ing next year and so we figured we would have a fantasy the year after....

Okay I am having a moment .....
Did they even start building the fantasy? So does that mean we are booked on a boat that is not even floating yet? Yeap !!! I'm crazy!!

Okay moment has passed!!

I should be graduating from my masters program the spring of 2012 and so this is my gift to my self - but my mom and daughter get to share it with me... (not the you need a reason to go on a disney cruise - but I like wearing the button that says we are celebrating) and My daughter's birthday happens while cruising....

So I can't believe there are soo many people signed up for this cruise already!! can you imagine what it will look like when we finally get to the terminal?!

Love and peace people

TTYS

I'm here, finally here!
We will be the same group, myself, DH, DD (11), DD (8) and DS (5)
My Mom (Gramacharming) and her DH~but I don't expect her to come on the boards much and my DSister (affectionately referred to as threeiscrazy's sister) and (hopefully this time) her DH, and definitely her DD (11) and DD (8)


Happy Belated Birthday to the girls.


I can't believe how quickly time flies. I've missed having an active board to chat on (or lurk on )

We are booked on the 8th deck (I think, it got confusing since we were unable to book onboard and had to wait for DCL to get back to us). The only thing that would prevent us from cruising with everyone again is if there is an awesome Mexican Rivera cruise that comes up. My mom is celebrating a milestone birthday the 23rd of August 2012 and we'd like to take her to Disneyland and then go on a cruise. She grew up in CA and loves DL, but if they are still doing Alaskan cruises then we will be in the Eastern Caribbean.

I'm off to pick the little man up from pre-school. Judy, there have been NO TEARS all week!

We just got off our first Disney cruise and had an awesome time. We booked this one before we departed. As of now its just my husband and myself.

We received our packet today for our August 25th 2012 cruise. We had booked this in October. When we booked this onboard the Magic in October they told us it was Eastern. We received the packet as a Western. I just checked the web site. It does say it is an Eastern

This will be our first Disney cruise and we are very excited.
Being our first cruise, we have never done a Cruise Meet so I am not sure what info I should post, but we are:
Lesa & Greg from California and will be cruising with our daughter Macy who will be 10 at cruise time. Macy would be VERY happy to make some friends before the cruise and so would we : )

Better late than never, you have all been added to the first page, hope I got it all right but if not please let me know
I just feel like I am getting over the holidays now, what a whirlwind.
We are going to be going on the cruise with two other families, one we have been to WDW and on cruises with before but the other family is new to it all.
I enjoy planning so much so I am going to start monthly dinners and we will talk about different parts of the vacation each month. We are trying to get together in the next couple of weeks to talk about budget and where we will stay for the first (WDW) part of the trip.
I am hoping we can all stay together in a vacation house, we will have 7 kids with us who all grew up together (in my family daycare) and I know how much fun they would all have.
What are all your plans for the before or after part of the cruise.

 

[tjbaggott]

Better late than never, you have all been added to the first page, hope I got it all right but if not please let me know
I just feel like I am getting over the holidays now, what a whirlwind.
We are going to be going on the cruise with two other families, one we have been to WDW and on cruises with before but the other family is new to it all.
I enjoy planning so much so I am going to start monthly dinners and we will talk about different parts of the vacation each month. We are trying to get together in the next couple of weeks to talk about budget and where we will stay for the first (WDW) part of the trip.
I am hoping we can all stay together in a vacation house, we will have 7 kids with us who all grew up together (in my family daycare) and I know how much fun they would all have.
What are all your plans for the before or after part of the cruise.

i12go2wdw, add my mom, Dee, and her other half, Al to the roll call. They will be in one of the two rooms listed by name on the roll call.

As for pre or post cruise plans, Not any plans as of yet. Still too far out for us. But I do like your idea of monthly dinners. Perhaps I'll do that in the few months leading up to the cruise. Don't know yet if we'll fly or drive, but I'm hedging on driving for that one. Post cruise plans, will probably plan another cruise. I doubt we'll do WDW during that vacation, but who knows, lots can change between now and then. I hate to say it but I'm having a hard time getting excited about the ports of call on this one. I truly did love the Western Itinerary. It might be simply because I've never heard of St. Marrten or the others. I'd love to find an all inclusive Beach excursion like we experienced in Cozumel. Lots of time to plan though, and find out what each port has to offer. Defintately looking forward to being on the ship itself!

 

[gdulaney]

Hi

My husband and I are booked on the August 25th cruise.

Ginny (gdulaney)
Andy (xabear)

Looking forward to meeting everybody!!
Ginny

 

[tinkerbelltwins]

Hi

My husband and I are booked on the August 25th cruise.

Ginny (gdulaney)
Andy (xabear)

Looking forward to meeting everybody!!
Ginny

Welcome Ginny and Andy!

Beth

 

[JKSWonder]

Hi

My husband and I are booked on the August 25th cruise.

Ginny (gdulaney)
Andy (xabear)

Looking forward to meeting everybody!!
Ginny

Hi there! I love it each time a new person joins the group....

 

[i12go2wdw]

i12go2wdw, add my mom, Dee, and her other half, Al to the roll call. They will be in one of the two rooms listed by name on the roll call.

Hi

My husband and I are booked on the August 25th cruise.

Ginny (gdulaney)
Andy (xabear)

Looking forward to meeting everybody!!
Ginny

I added you, and welcome!!

 

[gdulaney]

Beth -
It's pretty cool that we picked the same cruises!

Ginny