Bringing Home the Magic - Part 2 - 8/18/07 - 9/01/07- list of cruisers on page 1

[CRUISEADDICT]

We were on the 10 Day Holiday Cruise Dec 2006. DS was 12 at the time (He was turning 13 in January so he considered himself a teen). He went to the stack and had a blast!

 

[bellelinus]

Perhaps we should try to organize a "Ladies Brunch" - & maybe an Afternoon Tea??? Andrew (UK) (from the 8/08 Panama Canal dis board) - organized a meal (can't remember if dinner, brunch or?) I think for 14 at Palo's.

I love that idea! Both the group brunch and the group tea . . . with so many sea days, we should have plenty of options . . . Chris, maybe you can ask Andrew when he gets back from Majorca how to go about contacting DCL about a group Palo thing.

 

[gpb_1]

Our DS13 has only been up to the stack on the Oceanears Lab visits before. He's got Guitar Hero at home, and so is looking forward to playing that on the cruise as well.
We've got him booked in to the teen excursion (the wild side) on CC, but apart from that we're not sure what else the teens activities are really.

 

[Grandma x3]

I love that idea! Both the group brunch and the group tea . . . with so many sea days, we should have plenty of options . . . Chris, maybe you can ask Andrew when he gets back from Majorca how to go about contacting DCL about a group Palo thing.

Julie - that was my plan!! - he is so generous w/his time etc. & he'll have the answers!
You've been to Paris before (yes?) - this will be my first visit and a rather short one at that. I need to plan for that besides the stops we'll have on the cruise. and Barcelona. What do you think about taking a side trip to Seville when we stop at Cadiz?
I sure hope Andrew's headaches get better - hopefully he'll get in some R&R while in Majorca.

 

[bellelinus]

Julie - that was my plan!! - he is so generous w/his time etc. & he'll have the answers!
You've been to Paris before (yes?) - this will be my first visit and a rather short one at that. I need to plan for that besides the stops we'll have on the cruise. and Barcelona. What do you think about taking a side trip to Seville when we stop at Cadiz?
I sure hope Andrew's headaches get better - hopefully he'll get in some R&R while in Majorca.

Yes, I've been to Paris before, but my girls haven't . . . I wouldn't call myself an expert, but if you have any questions I'll give you my best effort for an answer or opinion. As I think I told you, between the July 28 11 day Med cruise and this transatlantic one, we will go to Paris for 5 days and DL Paris for another 5. This will be my first time in Barcelona, but I have been reading up on it for so long now I feel as though I have a pretty good idea of what we will do there.

My oldest daughter (who turns 15 in just over a week) leaves on June 9 for a foreign exchange program in Spanish and will be living with a family in Cadiz (!) and studying at the University of Cadiz . . . I've already told her that we won't make any plans for that day and just let her show us "her" Cadiz . . .

I think this trip will help Andrew a lot . . . the headaches sound mainly stress related to me, and his doctors' visits have ruled out anything really serious. I know he will help us with what he learned, and ladies' brunch and tea for some in our group sound terrific.

 

[kugalbelle]

12 weeks to go

Can't believe it - these weeks are going to fly by .... can't wait - we have 9 weeks left to our 11-night cruise and will hae already been on board for 3 weeks in 12 weeks time for the transatlantic ....

 

[kugalbelle]

Yes, I've been to Paris before, but my girls haven't . . . I wouldn't call myself an expert, but if you have any questions I'll give you my best effort for an answer or opinion. As I think I told you, between the July 28 11 day Med cruise and this transatlantic one, we will go to Paris for 5 days and DL Paris for another 5. This will be my first time in Barcelona, but I have been reading up on it for so long now I feel as though I have a pretty good idea of what we will do there.

My oldest daughter (who turns 15 in just over a week) leaves on June 9 for a foreign exchange program in Spanish and will be living with a family in Cadiz (!) and studying at the University of Cadiz . . . I've already told her that we won't make any plans for that day and just let her show us "her" Cadiz . . .

I think this trip will help Andrew a lot . . . the headaches sound mainly stress related to me, and his doctors' visits have ruled out anything really serious. I know he will help us with what he learned, and ladies' brunch and tea for some in our group sound terrific.

We've been to Paris many times. I love Paris and probably know Paris better than I know London!!!. If I can, I'll be happy to help with any questions too.

 

[Grandma x3]

We've been to Paris many times. I love Paris and probably know Paris better than I know London!!!. If I can, I'll be happy to help with any questions too.

Thanks for the offer - I've never been to Paris - in fact, just now I was checking hotels on the web. I'll definately take you up on it!

 

[DenverVal]

WOW!!

Just looking at the list of cruisers from page 1. There sure are many people who either cancelled or no longer post.
It sure is hard to try and see who is actually going on the cruise now.

Robb

I looked the first page over and some of these folks are not allowed to post here any more, (long sad story not appropriate for these boards, sorry) but the majority of them are still cruising. I will contact DisneyElf and ask her to update the first page. She has been very busy lately.

 

[Hazy]

Thank-You for posting that DenverVal. I just thought it was really strange that so many people would cancel or not post. It is such a shame we don't have anything organized like the cruisers had on the way over.
Oh well, it is nice that a bunch of those listed are still cruising.

Thank-You again for posting that note!

Robb

 

[ejw]

We have been discussing arranging a meet for the girls 10-12 year olds. In fact I would really like to get that going. I was thinking maybe a virgin cocktail hour for them in the promenade on Sunday or Monday. With us boarding on Saturday and doing shore excursions on Sunday and then setting sail. It maybe too much. I would be happy to help plann or organize this. Just let me know what you would like me to do, if anything.

Hi Dee, I think this is a good idea. finding a time when everyone is available might be difficult for the first couple of days. maybe sometime sunday after we set sail? I think some of the girls want to see the magic fountains cause they saw it in the cheetah girls movie. maybe we can all do that on saturday night.

we have a cruise meet thread going revolving around the girls. it's called transatlantic august repo - age 10-12 group or something like that. haven't figured out how to post the link yet.

btw, melanie got an email from alexis. thanks.

ellen

 

[DenverVal]

To copy a link, just copy the url in the browser window for the kids' thread and copy it into your post on this thread.

 

[happyfeet]

Perhaps we should try to organize a "Ladies Brunch" - & maybe an Afternoon Tea??? Andrew (UK) (from the 8/08 Panama Canal dis board) - organized a meal (can't remember if dinner, brunch or?) I think for 14 at Palo's.

brunch/afternoon tea sounds great!
Will look forward to it.
Sue

 

[momma4v3]

We have been discussing arranging a meet for the girls 10-12 year olds. In fact I would really like to get that going. I was thinking maybe a virgin cocktail hour for them in the promenade on Sunday or Monday. With us boarding on Saturday and doing shore excursions on Sunday and then setting sail. It maybe too much. I would be happy to help plann or organize this. Just let me know what you would like me to do, if anything.

I know my daughters would love to do this. They are already so excited since they have started emailing a couple of girls their ages. This would be a great way to meet each other.

As for a Dis meet, one idea may be the fist sea day (Aug 20), early afternoon? That is what we are doing on the 10 day. It would be nice to place a face with the names of everyone!

Linda

 

[momma4v3]

brunch/afternoon tea sounds great!
Will look forward to it.
Sue

WOW!! A ladies brunch or tea sounds great! I am interested!

Linda

 

[happyfeet]

Any single/solo parents or any singles out there interested in matching up for Palo ressies,wine,rum tastings,hic....

Sue

 

[happyfeet]

Its raining & nasty in Gib today(but come August it will be HOT!)
thought Id post a couple of things that sprung to mind as I charged down Main Street this morning!!!
INTERNET-take laptop to "Gibralter arms"(MainSt)order a coffee or coke "lite"&use there connection in nice surroundings,no charge.

MAGAZINES/PAPERS/PAPERBACKS-great place to stock up for the sea days .(In English & reasonable prices)
ALSO SEA SICKNESS Meds,or infact any medication,as there are 2-3 really good pharmacys in Main St
Prices,dont forget these are shown in £ (everywhere EXCEPT the post office will accept euros)GIB is REALLY EXPENSIVE.
Ifyou need to change $ there are plenty of currency exchange booths in Main St to do this at decent rates.
FOOD-dont,thats all Im going to say on the subject!
Any? regarding the rock,I will be happy to try to help,
Sue

 

[happyfeet]

Thought we would do a segway tour in Barcelona,Sunday A.M,when the roads are nice & quiet,(too lazy to cycle)found a couple of places that sound O.K,has anyone else looked into this & come up with anything they could rec?
sue

 

[kugalbelle]

Thought we would do a segway tour in Barcelona,Sunday A.M,when the roads are nice & quiet,(too lazy to cycle)found a couple of places that sound O.K,has anyone else looked into this & come up with anything they could rec?
sue

Would love to do this too but on the 27th July before we start our cruises. can't recommend any, but if you do find any with recommendations etc. would appreciate the info.
Thanks

 

[kugalbelle]

Hi all,
Checking in for the day. I'll be around the weekend, have too much to do before our trip.
As we're doing 3 cruise's I'm posting in 3 threads at the moment and thought you may find this info that I posted about Jetlag helpful.
We communted between London and Boston every second week for about 2 years before our actual move to the USA. My DH never get's Jetlag and would arrive into Boston or London and go straight from the airport into the office. My DD (who still travels between the USA (home) and London (College)) and I have the same problem which is on the UK/European end.
UK/Europe to Boston, would be fine - just a long day and we would stay awake until bed time, collapse into bed and quickly get into the MA, USA timezone.
However the USA to UK trips are the worst for us. We always end up leaving the USA at night as most Transatlantic flights do, which is actually early hours of the morning in Europe so by the time you arrive at your destination you may have been able to get a few hours sleep if you're lucky. What we try and do now is as soon as we're on the plane and settled, is to get to sleep ASAP and when arriving into Europe try NOT to have a nap until bed time - which tends to be very difficult as we are exhausted!! We found that once we napped we would end up being competely out of time with the timezone and would go to bed at 4am and only wake up at lunch time.
We also set our watches to the destination time as soon as we board the plane that give's us an idea of how many hours possible sleep we'll get on the plane.
Hope the info helps.
Charmaine