August 29th, 2009--Eastern Magic...Let's Get it Started!

[Mojodisney]

So we got home late Saturday night and was without a computer until today. We had a wonderful time and would like to thank all of our new friends! The FE gifts were awesome. We enjoyed everyone one of them and were extremely impressed with the homemade gifts, esp. the bandana with our names on them, the bag that we got Mickey's autograph on, the memory book, and so many more that I can't list them all. Thank you, THank you, Thank you!!!

TPVFOX, Michele, Eric, and Mikayla, thanks for being great new friends. We loved hanging out with you guys. Thanks again for introducing us to Magen's Bay. That was awesome!!!!! 3 hours in the water on the most beautiful beack we've ever seen!!! Hoping to do this again in the future. Oh yeah, forgot to tell you that Tim has a cold, he swears he got it from the women that sneezed on him that night at the show. Aren't you glad we asked you to move over so we could sit with you

CIGY - Great Bracelets! Tara, loved meeting you and hanging out.

Rachel and Matt - you guys are awesome! Matt, we will be thinking of your during your deployment and hope to meet you guys again on another cruise. Rachel, if you are still interested in the item we talked about on the last night, PM me your address and I will send it to you.

To all the others that we were lucky enough to meet, it was great to meet you. For the rest, I'm sorry we never got to meet. Sharon, we thought it was you on the last day of Bingo verifying the bingo balls, but that Sharon I think was from NJ.

Oh yeah, it hasn't stopped raining since we got home Yesterday was the wettest day in that day in history, does that make sense?

Sorry this was so long.

 

[CastawayCayley]

Add me to the list of the appreciative FE recipients! Wow we had the most creative group! I hate to say it but the only reason I hope none of you are ever on another one of my cruises is that I plan on stealing ALL your ideas!! Of course I'm kidding about that (not the stealing part, totally gonna do that)!

We had to leave the dis meet early thanks to my cranky 5 yr old. I tried to get them to go without me but that wasn't happening. Lisa, I had a great time talking to you and was hoping to run into you again but somehow must have missed you! Really wanted to meet Jan and talk scrapbooking, but again, never got a chance. And Dawn, I'm still jealous of the one week in WDW and 4 weeks on the magic! I'm still trying to convince my husband of that for next summer! I figure we each have a couple extra kidneys...

Michelle, that is awful about your bags! I wish I could be a fly on your wall for the phone call tomorrow!

Cigy, I am still wearing the bracelet! I love showing it off to all the people back home and explaining disboards and FE's and watching their jaw drop! They are either really impressed with me or wondering if I'm late with y meds... sometimes it's hard to tell.

THANK YOU everyone here for making this our best cruise yet! Well, you guys and all our favorite bartenders and poolside waiters... they kinda rocked as well.

 

[CastawayCayley]

oh hey wait, I have a question. Is anyone doing a trip report?

 

[jmefox]

Thank you everyone for all the great FE gifts!
We had soo much fun participating and wish we could of met more
board members.

Elliot loves his Boston Bean he giggles at it every time, I am not sure why but it sure is funny to watch! The bookmarks were very useful and an item we had forgotten to pack!

I can't wait till we can cruise again maybe 2011?

 

[Mojodisney]

Cigy, I am still wearing the bracelet! I love showing it off to all the people back home and explaining disboards and FE's and watching their jaw drop! They are either really impressed with me or wondering if I'm late with y meds... sometimes it's hard to tell.

DD mentioned I was still wearing my bracelet too. She said to me this morning, "we are not on the cruise anymore so you should take the bracelet off mommy". I told her I'm keeping it on until I have to go back to work.

 

[Mojodisney]

Thank you everyone for all the great FE gifts!
We had soo much fun participating and wish we could of met more
board members.

Elliot loves his Boston Bean he giggles at it every time, I am not sure why but it sure is funny to watch! The bookmarks were very useful and an item we had forgotten to pack!

I can't wait till we can cruise again maybe 2011?

Loved your pictures of Elliot on your door. Made it really fun to walk down your part of the hallway and check out how he was doing.

When I made our bookmark, DH said who is going to use that. I said I will so I'm making them. Glad they were useful for you. Ours had the lime green threads coming out of mickey's head

 

[jmefox]

Loved your pictures of Elliot on your door. Made it really fun to walk down your part of the hallway and check out how he was doing.

When I made our bookmark, DH said who is going to use that. I said I will so I'm making them. Glad they were useful for you. Ours had the lime green threads coming out of mickey's head

Thanks I am glad you liked his pictures we wish there could of been more but between three cameras only one worked with the printer and it is our least favorite camera least reliable and the printer was kinda acting up. I am glad you liked what you saw!

 

[Mojodisney]

Thanks I am glad you liked his pictures we wish there could of been more but between three cameras only one worked with the printer and it is our least favorite camera least reliable and the printer was kinda acting up. I am glad you liked what you saw!

Would you please post a picture of Elliot on Formal night. We missed seeing him in his tuxedo. I was looking for you guys, but never saw you that night.

 

[Mojodisney]

oh hey wait, I have a question. Is anyone doing a trip report?

Don't think we will. Love to read everyone else's but I'm not a great writer and details can sometimes be sketchy. If someone writes one from our group, I hope you will let us know so we can "lurk"

 

[TVEPFOX]

W.I.N.

Baker 1, SWA 0

Just hung up with the lovely people at SWA after our soggy baggage fiasco and the flipping employees at Albany International Airport.

Southwest has agreed to dry clean ever piece of dirty laundry I have at no charge! LOL! That's almost 200 lbs of crap! No doing laundry for this girl!

It's good to be me! Now all I have to do it cart it all to the cleaners. I think I'll make DH to it! LOL!!

 

[TVEPFOX]

I don't think I'm going to do a trip report, but I have tons of photos to post. I'll put a few up every so often to remember the Magic.

 

[jmefox]

Elliot was an awesome baby on the cruise really but formal night just did not go well for us, and what was the deal on formal night with the cluster of doom that happened in the lobby? and I love vacation club when I have money I will do it however CHRIS at the DVC desk is rude rude rude I dont know if anyone else had this experience but he made a busy night worse. Apparently you are not allowed to stand near his desk for any reason even if stepping away means you could get pushed down the stairs which we did see almost happen. So here is Elliot in his tux one pic is from formal night and then we put it on again for semi so we could try to get more pictures you can see how that worked out too ...

 

[jel0511]

W.I.N.

Baker 1, SWA 0

Just hung up with the lovely people at SWA after our soggy baggage fiasco and the flipping employees at Albany International Airport.

Southwest has agreed to dry clean ever piece of dirty laundry I have at no charge! LOL! That's almost 200 lbs of crap! No doing laundry for this girl!

It's good to be me! Now all I have to do it cart it all to the cleaners. I think I'll make DH to it! LOL!!

NICE!!!!! I did 3 loads yesterday... Now I wish my stuff got caught in a torrential rain storm.....

 

[Waltworshiper]

. Sharon, we thought it was you on the last day of Bingo verifying the bingo balls, but that Sharon I think was from NJ.

No, it wasn't me, although I was there in the back at the top, and yes I was standing with 1 number to go, I needed N38 and he called a different N, oh well, you can't win them all.

 

[Az Pirates]

We've always said we wanted to visit Kennedy Space Center, and after watching the launch pre-cruise, we decided this trip would be the perfect time. So we spent Saturday at KSC and flew home Sunday. I guess that was a good call. We had some light showers there late afternoon, but sounds like nothing close to what what hit MCO. Yikes!

W.I.N.

Baker 1, SWA 0

Just hung up with the lovely people at SWA after our soggy baggage fiasco and the flipping employees at Albany International Airport.

Southwest has agreed to dry clean ever piece of dirty laundry I have at no charge! LOL! That's almost 200 lbs of crap! No doing laundry for this girl!

It's good to be me! Now all I have to do it cart it all to the cleaners. I think I'll make DH to it! LOL!!

Very nice!
Did pictures, souvies, etc dry out OK? I hope you didn't end up with damage to the non clothing stuff.

the laundry is almost done

I'm impressed! I'm just starting to think about getting going on mine now.

Hey everybody,
do any of you know or have any ideas of where the 2011 destinations will be in the Magic or Dream? I heard that the Wonder is doing mexican riveria out of LA.
Katie
ps that cruise was AWESOME! We booked a dummy date and are looking to see the 2011 destinations

I think they'll be making a DCL announcement here in So Cal at the D23 expo on 9/11. I believe the info will be posted online that day too.

If anyone saw the hypnotist show, the big guy up there thinking his hat was talking to him was my stepson and dh was up in the beginning, but never went under.

We loved that bit! Too funny when your DS said something about not realizing you could get reception out at sea.

Elliot was an awesome baby on the cruise really

We were sitting at the next table, so I can verify... he certainly was! I think you should post pictures of him in the high chair the last morning. I bet those turned out cute too!

When I made our bookmark, DH said who is going to use that. I said I will so I'm making them. Glad they were useful for you. Ours had the lime green threads coming out of mickey's head

Me! I'm glad your delivery was early on. The bookmark went immediately into my book so I could throw away the lovely SW napkin I had been using.

We got so many thoughtful FE gifts! I hate to start singling things out, but DD insisted I post a special thank you for the autograph bag. It's the first thing she pulled out to show her friends when they came by yesterday, and I guarantee it is completely covered with signatures.

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in the FE exchange. It was great fun!

We got home late Sunday night and first thing Monday morning I started getting phone calls about car pool issues. Yuk! Guess it's back to reality. At least we have until Thursday before school starts here. I sure wish I was still on a Caribbean beach though!

 

[Mojodisney]

So here is Elliot in his tux one pic is from formal night and then we put it on again for semi so we could try to get more pictures you can see how that worked out too ...

What a gorgeous guy!!! He looks like a keeper.

 

[Mojodisney]

No, it wasn't me, although I was there in the back at the top, and yes I was standing with 1 number to go, I needed N38 and he called a different N, oh well, you can't win them all.

Would have loved to been a part of that pot!!! DH informed me after we didn't win that if we had, we would have immediately rebooked!!! Oh well. Told him he better start making more money so we can cruise Disney again SOON!!!

 

[Michele325]

We've always said we wanted to visit Kennedy Space Center, and after watching the launch pre-cruise, we decided this trip would be the perfect time. So we spent Saturday at KSC and flew home Sunday. I guess that was a good call. We had some light showers there late afternoon, but sounds like nothing close to what what hit MCO. Yikes!
We got so many thoughtful FE gifts! I hate to start singling things out, but DD insisted I post a special thank you for the autograph bag. It's the first thing she pulled out to show her friends when they came by yesterday, and I guarantee it is completely covered with signatures.

We were also at the space center Saturday. We left late afternoon when the showers started and drove right through the heavy heavy rain while on 95 (we went to Stanford airport) it was really scary! Michele, sorry about your bags, but I am so glad they are paying to dry clean everything, wish I could see their faces when they get THAT bill, lol.

We also loved the FE gifts! I am using the bookmarks and our fridge is cover with magnets. The kids love their bags, we actually used them at the character breakfast so they have the characters signatures on them. My 4 year old has been carrying it around My older son loves his pirate bubble bath and HAD to use it last night! lol. Thanks so much everyone.

Too bad I didn't meet more of you on the ship. We did wind up at a dinner table with Melissa (skiingwife) which was fun! Thanks Melissa!

 

[MakingScrapbooks]

Whew! Trying to recover. I came home with a cold and have been sleeping most of the last few days.

I also want to say thank you for the awesome FE gifts and bracelets. This was our first time doing the FE, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. We really enjoyed coming back to our room to find fun goodies! Thank you all so very much for adding to our magic.

Castaway Cayley, I am sorry I missed meeting you too.... as well as so many of the rest of you. I had every intention of trying to meet as many as I could, but my kids had other ideas for that first afternoon. LOL!

We went back to MK on Saturday, then drove home on Sunday. I miss having someone cook and clean for me. Why can't we bring our servers home with us?

Well, the kids are already asking when our next Disney Cruise will be. I'm debating on one of the kids sail free dates. We'll see.

Everyone have a great week catching back up with life.

 

[bellelinus]

Whew! Trying to recover. I came home with a cold and have been sleeping most of the last few days.

I also want to say thank you for the awesome FE gifts and bracelets. This was our first time doing the FE, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. We really enjoyed coming back to our room to find fun goodies! Thank you all so very much for adding to our magic.

Castaway Cayley, I am sorry I missed meeting you too.... as well as so many of the rest of you. I had every intention of trying to meet as many as I could, but my kids had other ideas for that first afternoon. LOL!

We went back to MK on Saturday, then drove home on Sunday. I miss having someone cook and clean for me. Why can't we bring our servers home with us?

Well, the kids are already asking when our next Disney Cruise will be. I'm debating on one of the kids sail free dates. We'll see.

Everyone have a great week catching back up with life.

Sorry about your cold, Jan - I've been wondering why you didn't check in earlier! I had a wonderful Palo brunch with you . . . I am guessing that you didn't book one of those Med cruises that were on sale ?