August 29, 2012 4 Night Bahamian Cruise

[NJMinniegal]

Two weeks from today and we will be on the Dream!!!!

When is everyone starting their vacation??

We don't leave until Tuesday the 28th after work!!!

We are leaving on a 7 am flight to Orlando on the 28th!! Can't Wait! How can we easily find each other?

 

[NJMinniegal]

Hi! Where in VA? We live in Va Beach. Our family decided to enjoy the Dream while in port. We have been to Nassau 6 years ago and visited Atlantis which was great. My three kids (13, 9, & 5) will have plenty of activities to enjoy while most of the passengers will be gone. We are planning to enjoy the pools, play the detective game, ride the aqua duck, and watch Brave or Avengers in the theatre.

I see that your 13 year old is a girl. I also have a 13 year old daughter, this is our first time on a Disney Cruise and she is not sure about leaving us to go to the kid's club. Does your daughter go to the club? I also have a 16 year old boy but she is not old enough to be in the teen club.

We are on the same deck, room 7616. Hope we can meet up!

 

[NJMinniegal]

We're headed down on the 27th for 2 nights at WDW first. So excited!

What resort are you staying at? We will be at the Wilderness Lodge, arriving the morning of the 28th!!

 

[NJMinniegal]

Hello all. This is my family's first cruise and we booked last minute (3.5 weeks ahead), so I just found out about FE's!

Would anyone be interested in forming a last minute FE group? We could keep it low key, just simple exchanges so the kids feel involved. Let me know!

I am a part of the FE exchange - I would be happy to add you to my list, we have plenty of goodies And to anyone else who didn't join, I would love to include your room.


Please email me your room, names, and ages of the kids and I'll include them!! Laurapbeasley@aol.com Or you can message me on here but not sure if I can get messages or not.

 

[NJMinniegal]

Amen to that! We booked VGT and I've been obsessively checking the DCL website for my cabin number. I have this vision of Disney employees throwing darts at a ship map to determine *GT assignments, and they've run out of darts, so I don't have my assignment yet.

That's so funny! Hopefully you received it today??? I think they usually do it about a week out...

 

[Janjan]

What resort are you staying at? We will be at the Wilderness Lodge, arriving the morning of the 28th!!

We're staying at Pop Century this time. We get in late on the 27th and are going to Magic Kingdom on Tuesday.
I know my granddaughter, Spenser, is hoping to meet someone to go the the "tween" club with.

 

[NJMinniegal]

We're staying at Pop Century this time. We get in late on the 27th and are going to Magic Kingdom on Tuesday.
I know my granddaughter, Spenser, is hoping to meet someone to go the the "tween" club with.

Oh that would be great!! We plan on heading to the Magic Kingdom Tuesday afternoon. And we are in stateroom 7616 on the Dream. so please have her look for my daughter, Katie.

If you would like to meet up on Tuesday for a minute in the Magic Kingdom, just message me or email me at Laurapbeasley@aol.com and I'll give you my cell phone number. Maybe the girls would want to do a ride together?? Or we can all enjoy a Mickey ice cream bar together

 

[CEGrant]

Okay, for the supplemental FE exchange, we have the following participants:

momx2fromjingasu (12yo girl, 13yo girl)

janjan (12yo girl, Spenser; 4yo boy, Max)

NJMinniegal (13yo girl, Katie??)

CEGrant (3yo girl, Gwen; 6yo girl, Hadley)

joannel (??kids)

I started another thread in this forum so we can get this organized without hijacking this thread.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=45891725#post45891725

So excited, everyone.....7 days!

 

[momx2fromjiangsu]

We just got our room rumber 6522. I do have extra FE stuff so if the new folks will send me their room numbers I will add them to my list!![/QUOTE]

Hi- Lauri here. Thanks so much for your kind offer to add us!
My girls are Tia -13 and Maya -12 and we are in 6058
I posted on the new thread for the last minute FE exchange also.

So excited and so hard to be packing for this and keeping it a secret!

 

[Janjan]

Oh that would be great!! We plan on heading to the Magic Kingdom Tuesday afternoon. And we are in stateroom 7616 on the Dream. so please have her look for my daughter, Katie.

If you would like to meet up on Tuesday for a minute in the Magic Kingdom, just message me or email me at Laurapbeasley@aol.com and I'll give you my cell phone number. Maybe the girls would want to do a ride together?? Or we can all enjoy a Mickey ice cream bar together

That sounds great. Thanks.

 

[JOANNEL]

! How can we easily find each other?

We will be the 4 crazy 50 somethings with no kids!!!! Our check in time is 11-11:30 so we will be there early. Weather permitting we will be going staight to cabanna's to eat outside unless it's too hot!!! This will be our first cruise in August. We usually go in October. There is a ship tour that I would like to do and then to the adult pool!!!! For frozen goodies!!!

 

[JOANNEL]

Is there a meet planned anywhere?

 

[dreamsail]

I can't believe how many people have joined the group in the last month! I've been working what is essentially two jobs, so haven't had a chance to log in for quite some time.

Welcome to everyone new! I can't wait for next week

I guess I better get busy and make some more FE gifts!

 

[NJMinniegal]

We will be the 4 crazy 50 somethings with no kids!!!! Our check in time is 11-11:30 so we will be there early. Weather permitting we will be going staight to cabanna's to eat outside unless it's too hot!!! This will be our first cruise in August. We usually go in October. There is a ship tour that I would like to do and then to the adult pool!!!! For frozen goodies!!!

Our check in time is 11-11:30 as well!! We will be the family that looks like they don't know where to go, lol!! But most likely you will find us eating!!

I heard the ship tour is usually around 2:00???

 

[dreamsail]

Do you sign up for the ship tour, or just show up? I think it would be fun!

 

[JOANNEL]

Do you sign up for the ship tour, or just show up? I think it would be fun!

On the wonder & magic you just showed up. We will have to check the navigator they give us at check in. I have done it once on each ship and we met in a different place each time.

 

[dilcia]

What should we do if someone gets an upgrade as far as delivering FE gifts?

 

[dreamsail]

What should we do if someone gets an upgrade as far as delivering FE gifts?

Good question...this is my first cruise and FE, so I'm not sure...I would hope that the person switching cabin numbers finds a way to let everyone know

 

[JOANNEL]

Well it looks like Issac will leave our cruise alone, but is heading straight for our house!!! We are going to have to pack suitcases and hurricane proof the house before we leave. We may have to leave earlier than we were planning.
So far it's only a cat one so just a bad rain storm!!! Hopefully it will stay that way.

 

[NJMinniegal]

We fly in to Orlando Tuesday morning, land at 9:30 am. Starting to worry about our flight in!! We are staying in WDW Tuesday night. I added the insurance to the cruise but not to the DW Resort stay. I was thinking that our flights would be covered under the cruise insurance since they are our flights in and out for the cruise, but they are NOT!!

Uggh.. hoping Isaac goes WAY west and lets us land Tuesday morning.