August 6, 2005 Mexican Riviera..Who's In?

[jilljill]

Oh no , we fell off of page 1.
I hope Stacey and family are having a good time at D'land.

 

[Catnip0113]

I love your idea about us getting upgrades! I wish! My computer is acting up right now, I need to run Ad aware again. Ever since we got a cable modem, all kinds of pop-ups. Maybe a lot of people on our cruise are new and don't know about the DIS boards? Maybe they will discover it when the time is closer like I did. As it got closer to April, I did a Google search on Disney starving for information about it and I found it...

Cathy

 

[jilljill]

I just got back from Wash DC tonight - chaperoning DD's class trip. There were 13 chaperones for 29 kids in her class. We saw a great Space 3D Imax movie, then had free time in the afternoon to wander around the museums. It was fun.

I'm glad you found the boards Cathy or I would be talking to myself this week

 

[Catnip0113]

My DD goes to Washington DC next year in 8th grade. Today I went to her team's award ceremony. She got an academic award in Social Studies and a peer award in self discipline. I was thinking that this thread is going to be extremely long by the time cruise time gets here.

I have to go to the dentist today to have a new crown put on. I plan to relax in the chair by pretending to be on my verandah looking at the ocean and imagining other things on the ship. Hope it works!

Cathy

 

[justmestace]

I'm back.....had a great time with & and the rest of the gang.
jilljill, I had a chance to talk to Donald every night.....even stayed till 10:30 one night, will write more about it later. Wonderful guy!
Cathy.....LOL....I do the exact same thing when I have to have dental work!!! I hate getting crowns!
Will fill you in on DL highlights tomorrow.....way too tired tonight, but it was wonderful!!

Stacey

 

[jilljill]

Yeah, Stacey is back .
Glad you had a good time at D'land.

 

[jilljill]

Stacey you couldn't put on your new timer that you were sailing with me.....NOOOOOO, you had to put sailing with 'The Mouse'. I guess he's much more inportant than I am

 

[justmestace]

Originally posted by jilljill
Stacey you couldn't put on your new timer that you were sailing with me.....NOOOOOO, you had to put sailing with 'The Mouse'. I guess he's much more inportant than I am

You want to know what's funny about that????
I almost DID put you on there!!!! LOL.....no kidding! But I was afraid you wouldn't like that!

 

[jilljill]

Originally posted by justmestace
You want to know what's funny about that????
I almost DID put you on there!!!! LOL.....no kidding! But I was afraid you wouldn't like that!

 

[justmestace]

Just popping in to say hi.

Do we have any new cruisers????

The whole time we were at Disneyland this week, I kept thinking about next summer.....how crowded it was going to be, for one thing. But I was thinking about all the special new merchandise (there's a shopper for you, thinking ahead a whole year!), thinking about how great it will be to finally have all the rides operating, watching the progress as they were painting, repairing..etc.
And how much fun it will be to know that after our days in the park, we'll be getting on the Magic!! I still can't believe it.
We had a suite, but I think we'll stick with a regular room, with the bunk beds next year. All of the suites only have 2 queens or a King in the bedroom, and a fold-out couch. We made DS sleep in a sleeping bag on the living room floor, DD had the couch, and DH and I had the 2 queens. Selfish, I know.....but on a trip like that, I have to have my beauty sleep! I did let DS sleep with me one night, and all he did was wiggle around and kick me. No thanks. At least with the bunk beds, theyeach have their own bed. Although, then they fight over who gets the top bunk!
I think Disney really messed up with their suites at the GC. They made them more for holding meetings, rather than for families. We saw a family with 11 (yes, that's eleven) kids, only 4 of them who didn't have special needs.....they had three rooms to fit everyone in!
Anyway, enough griping.
It was a marvelous trip....and I'm really looking forward to next year.
Hope everyone (all 3 of us) is having great weekend.
Stacey

 

[Catnip0113]

Glad you had a good trip to DL Stacey. You got me to thinking when you talked about the crowds. I should get a book on DL and talk to you guys so I know what are the "must do" rides and all. We are supposed to have 3 days/2 nights at DL, but they count the day we fly in from CT (arrive 1pm PDT) and the day we get on the Magic. Well, we will be anxious to get on the ship so we will really only have one full day. Now, are there two main parks to see? California Adventure and the Magic Kingdom? Is there a DIS board for Disneyland I should know about?

Cathy

 

[justmestace]

Cathy,
There are two parks....they are right across a central plaza from eachother.
If your kids are young, they will enjoy the Magic Kingdom much more than California Adventure, except for maybe A Bug's Land...and there's not even that much to do there.
I'd plan on going into the MK when you arrive, and going to Toon Town.
Get up early the 2nd day, and hit the rides in Fantasyland, then some of the bigger rides, Splash Mountain (with a Fast-Pass) Pirates, Haunted Mansion.
Save CA for the evening, when the Boardwalk area (like a carnival) is all lit up.....it's very pretty at night.
There are a couple of good books that you can get at Borders or Walden Books.
Anything else?? I'm more than happy to help. Guess I should have been a travel agent!
Stacey

 

[justmestace]

I forgot......if you click above where it says DIS Discussion Boards (Main Board) there is one for Disneyland....but sad to say, it's nowhere near as informational as the cruise boards.

Personally, Barb & I can probably tell you more than what you'd learn over there. (Not trying to sound like a know-it-all, just being honest)

I changed this to say "above" ...I had accidentally typed "about"...sorry!

 

[Catnip0113]

I will look for the books (maybe ask Santa for one). It is hard having so much time to plan, I get way ahead of myself...

 

[justmestace]

Join the crowd of crazy "advance" planners.
I'm always afraid that I'll have everything all planned out too early, and then be bored sitting and waiting.
Guaranteed, something always happens to mess up those plans, and I end up with things to do at the last minute.

It's so hard when you have a great trip coming up, to not think about it, and just do everyday stuff!

The time does go faster than you'd think, though!

 

[justmestace]

Hi Everyone!

Are we all enjoying our long weekend?

 

[justmestace]

jilljill....you have three T.O.P.'s and I have three T.O.P.'s!!!!

Not too hard to do when there's only three of us!

 

[jilljill]

Good evening , we are back from the beach.

Cathy, I'm sure that Stacey can tell you way more than I about D'land. We were first there 11 years ago and then again last summer for a night on our way home from Australia. We had a whirlwind tour of both parks in 1 day before heading to the airport for a redeye home. The day we arrived we went to the Downtown shopping area and hit a couple of the cast member shops in the area. So needless to say, we were very bleery-eyed when we did the parks last year.

 

[jilljill]

Originally posted by justmestace
jilljill....you have three T.O.P.'s and I have three T.O.P.'s!!!!

Not too hard to do when there's only three of us!

Cathy, thought I better fill you in on what a T.O.P. is: TOP OF PAGE. Something to look forward to when posting. Silly yes, but fun when you have more people on the thread looking for a challenge.

 

[Catnip0113]

Thanks for explaining T.O.P, I was wondering what the significance was. I must have some, is there an easy way to count them? Hope you had a good weekend, at least this week is shorter now...

Cathy