August 7, 2004 Magic...who's going?

[wendym]

I admire you all for driving so far. We drove 66 miles last week to visit relatives and we had to stop for coffee and the toilet (for mum!!) enroute.
Cay, my mum and I are from Scotland so we combine the cruise with WDW and often other places. We usually drive down the night before.
Wendy

 

[gometros]

Shelley - from what I've heard, the auto train is miles better from when it started out. Except for occassional delays, we love it.

 

[jeanneg]

Shelley: So sorry to hear about Corey.....of course you can count on us for prayers.
We also paid to park at the port because we were basically a little confused about how it would work out and the terminal parking just seemed so hassle-free. That said, however, I can't help but think of all the conch coolers that $70 would buy!

Denise: Leftover wine? With this group, are you kidding! Maybe we can all bring water bottles and I'll divey up whatever is leftover....that way we can be "discreet" when we party while waiting on line! Hmmmm....the happiest place on earth just got even happier!

Cay: we've been doing WDW for years but this was the first time we ever drove and it was EASY. After Richmond, there are no major cities to drive through until you reach Jacksonville, FL. Compared to everyone else, our trip is relatively short (about 10 hours). I have no qualms about flying, but the nice thing about driving to a cruise is that you have lots of room to bring all the things you probably didn't need in the first place! When we go to WDW it's just t-shirts and shorts for all of us, but since you have to dress for dinner every night onboard I find myself packing way more than I ordinarily would.

 

[wendym]

We all act "mad" without the wine - think what we would be like with it to begin with!!!

 

[wendym]

Jeanne
Mum is asking what and where is the equivalent of Carlos and Charlies in San Juan!!
Wendy

 

[eye R.N.]

I would hang out at a bar with her anytime!

Jeanne, us "discreet"????? Think of the embarassment factor for our kids. "Yep, that my mom at the front of the line downing the wine." Now I'm sorry I didn't pick up more of the plastic Mickey tiki mugs at WDW.

 

[wendym]

Aren't I cruel to her! Still never manged to get her in that place anyway. I am sure we can think of some great ways to hide the wine!
Wendy

 

[martinez03]

I have my countdown set to 12:00 am that is probably why mine is of compared to everyone else. I will be wide awake at that time and technically on vacation so that is why I used that time. I think I will check out the auto train as well. As far as driving I don't know. We went to WDW Easter of 2002 and drove. We left to come home at 3:00 pm one afternoon and did not get home until 10:00 am the next a.m. Straight through except for the usual Mcd's stops. Traffic was so bad that I could not even pull over to a rest stop to catch some ZZZZZZZZZ's because they were jammed packed AND every hotel room was booked all the way up 95. NIGHTMARE!!

 

[sbennett]

August traffic shouldn't be as bad as Easter Traffic when everyone is trying to cram their vacation into the school break.
July traffic this year wasn't too bad. Just had some tie ups near St. Augustine/Jacksonville area due to construction.

We have a computer virus on our laptop at home....pray for it, it has ALL of our cruise pictures on it!!! Jay's trying to figure out how to get rid of the virus by using Norton's help. It's the backdoor flood or something virus....ugh!!!

 

[jeanneg]

Hee-hee, if I ever see lime green water bottles at the dollar store I'm buying a dozen of them! No one but us will ever know! Don't worry, Denise, my kids are past embarassment by now.....it seems I've always excelled at being a bad role model!

Wendy&Doreen: Most of the times I've been to PR have been "professional" trips so I wasn't able to seek out the local watering hole. I still can't get over what went on at C&C's! Another one for "been there, done that". I do know of a very nice waterfront bar in St Thomas!

Shelley: sounds like you're not having a very good week. Several people in Raleigh have had their computers attacked by that new virus also. I'm not sure if they were able to recover everything but I'm sending a prayer up right now that all goes well for you.

 

[gometros]

I think Jay and Shelley had a little more to worry about than a virus last night

We were lucky. We got power back at 8:50pm.

 

[sbennett]

Sandy:
We lost our power at 4:12pm and finally got it back at 4:15 this morning!! Muggy nite, Courtney and I were sitting on the deck watching the stars and she got stung by a HUGE hornet. Poor thing, she screamed like someone was killing her. I felt sooo bad, I killed the hornet. She had those liquid glow in the dark bracelets on her ankles and I think it was attracted to them.
Kids were thrilled they had lots of ice cream for dessert last night!! and they all "camped in" in the family room. They thought about sleeping outside until Courtney got stung.
Of course we have well water so we had no water either. Luckily we have a pool so we could grab a bucket of pool water to flush.
Jay's father is on 24 hour oxygen so they had to convert him to the portable tanks because the oxygen mixer requires electricity and he didn't want to go to the shelter they had set up at the Senior Citizen center because there'd be too many people there they wouldn't be able to sleep....they could have socialized though!!

So what do you think.....baby boom in 9 months or what?

 

[wendym]

Sandy and Shelley
We were thinking of both your families last night and delighted you both have power back now. I hope Courtney recovers ok and that Jay's father coped well enough.
I certainly think there will be a baby boom!
Wendy

 

[gometros]

Baby boom maybe, but not in our house. With my youngest being 15, I'm not ready to get back into diapers again

 

[jeanneg]

Originally posted by sbennett [/i

So what do you think.....baby boom in 9 months or what? [/B]

Hee-hee, Shelley and Jay, just rememebr there's an age requirement for infants on the cruise. I wouldn't want you to do anything to jeopardize your 8/04 sailing!

 

[wendym]

I'll be good and not add any more comments about babies!
Just a heads up - I've just read a thread about the Radisson and they allowed somebody cruising on the 10/11 crusie to prebook their shuttle times. I know previously you could only do that when you checked in.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?threadid=416212
Off to try and get organised for tomorrow - 1st day of school nerves and that is coming from the teacher!
Wendy

 

[sbennett]

Rest assured there will not be any babies in the Bennett house...it would be an absolute miracle if it did happen since all three of our children are adopted because even with the help of IVF we weren't able to have our own!! Plus at 46 and 47 who wants another baby....I'm counting the years til they are all in college and married and have their own children.

Think we've rid the computer of the virus.....still communicating here from work since we don't want to take a chance on losing any of the vacation pictures until Jay can get them all transferred off the laptop safely. He was on the phone with Gateway for about an hour last night.

RE: Corey - we took him to the doctor's yesterday and of course the EKG while he was there was perfect....he didn't have his chart from the other cardiologist because they sent it to his other office...so after a 2 1/2 hour trip up there....we still know NOTHING! The new doctor did call us yesterday afternoon and said that he got the chart from his other office and he'd review it and get back to us in a couple of days....obviously not too concerned! Will keep you posted.

 

[gometros]

Well, if he's not too concerned, that's good news. Btw and fyi, I always carry my latest EKG in my wallet. I Xerox it so it's small enough. This way I always have a baseline to show the doctor if the need arises.

I just odered a new computer yesterday, a Dell 8200, 2.8ghz of power baby!!! I bought a wireless router so that Elana can use this one in her room. Of course, I made the mistake of telling her and now she's gloating to her brother and sister that she is getting her own computer before they did (they got new ones for college). I told her if she keeps it up, I might just change my mind

 

[sbennett]

Hi Sandy,
Great idea re: EKG

We LOVE our wireless connection, Jay takes the laptop all over the house (and outside on the deck too!) We have 3 computers hooked up to the internet and they work great with the wireless connections (laptop and the kids computer in their playroom)
We can all be doing something on line at the same time and it doesn't interfer with any phone lines or whatever!

Now if we could just figure out where we got that darn virus from... only the laptop had it. I got an email from someone in England (not Scotland Wendy...don't worry) and it took forever for it to open up.....I'm wondering!!!!!

 

[wendym]

Shelley
Thank goodness the virus didn't come from Scotland - see those English! Cannot believe your children are adopted - they look so like you both. I am so glad you were able to adopt.
I am sure it will continue to be good news about Corey.
Wendy