BUCANEERS TAKE OVER THE WEST CRUISE! Apr 3-10 2010

[MN Mickey]

So, is everyone else busy getting ready for next week? We've been running around today getting last minute things.

 

[poizenivey]

So, is everyone else busy getting ready for next week? We've been running around today getting last minute things.

We spent most of the day running errands to pick up a few of the last minute things!! I have to dig out my bed (it's hidden under all the clothes!!!) before bedtime! We were pretty successful!

I'm getting sooooo excited!!!

In a few of the other discussion areas we saw that several commented on buying candy for the movies before going b/c it was so expensive there and using an over the door shoe holder for things such as sun screen, toiletries, etc to save on counter space...they have both the movie type candies (Junior Mints, Mike and Ikes, Hot Tamales) and the shoe holder at Dollar Tree!!

 

[poizenivey]

Search the primary cruise board for Fish Extenders and you will find plenty of ideas.


We are dressing up for pirate night. I made costumes for me and DD. DH has a wild outfit he likes to wear, and DGM has put together an ensemble from her theater's costume closet.

I did a tally of our board today to see how many we have. There are a couple of large groups so I might be off but here goes.

Nuclear families 23
Parental units between 40 and 46
Teens 6
Grade school kids 23
Babies & toddlers 4
Grandparents between 7 and 10

I have no guess how many rooms.

We are doing pirate night also! My mom made both girls and my costume and my hubby is procrastinating....

 

[MommyMinnie]

We are doing pirate night also! My mom made both girls and my costume and my hubby is procrastinating....

How fun! My DH doesn't really dress like a pirate exactly. He has some skull print pants and a faux suede vest he wears with a Goofy pirate hat.

I have spent the weekend making a gold evening dress for DD. Then I'm working on a new purple wrap for me. See everyone soon.

 

[MN Mickey]

Last day of work today. Flying down after the girls get out of school tomorrow. When is everyone else heading down?

 

[charliez]

Dad's in the hospital with pancreatitis... and there may be more issues. He's not coming, and we're in doubt at this point. Wish us luck!

 

[jk8]

So sorry to hear that. I hope he stablizes and there is a good outcome.

 

[MN Mickey]

Dad's in the hospital with pancreatitis... and there may be more issues. He's not coming, and we're in doubt at this point. Wish us luck!

Sorry to hear that and that he won't be coming. Any updates? Are you still going?

 

[charliez]

Thanks. It's been a rough week. With Dad's blessing, we four plus my aunt still plan to come, assuming no further complications. We'll be the ones with the dazed expressions... or at least I will be. Will be needing that beer mug!!

 

[cruisecrzy]

Hello everyone...we had wanted to go on this cruise since November, but FL Resident Rates never opened up.

We were gonna just do a back to back Wonder sailing in May or June.

We have family who calls the Disney Magic Home and this morning they told us we are able to sail...so we are very excited and overwhelmed.

Our daughter loves to deliver FE stuff and she knows she delivers the stuff....but she truly thinks Mickey delivers the stuff to her. That is the the reason I am writing is that we will have our FE hanging out and I did not want anyone walking by thinking how come someone would do that. Thought it did not look as if there was a list.

Now if we have time we will put together stuff we had bought for FE's and roam the halls and drop them in. Is there a list anywhere of how many adults, how many kids etc.

Thank god we live so close...though I just saw the News and things are going crazy here over the accident at Fort Wilderness

 

[AnnMarie3]

Hi to everyone! Last minute packing here. We are flying down tomorrow and meeting the rest of our family. Hope everyone has a safe trip. See you on the Magic!

 

[charliez]

Hope everyone has made it home safely (or will, if your vacation is still going on...)

Wasn't this a great cruise? I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did, if not more.

For those wondering, my dad wound up being hospitalized at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, but he wanted us to go anyway, and so we did. They sent him home midweek, and his assisted living facility helped get him home. Thanks to Verizon international roaming and cellular-at-sea service we were able to stay in touch, though I had more success calling from Cozumel and Grand Cayman than when we were at sea. (It's cheaper, too.)

But enough about that... early highlights for us included seeing our server from our first cruise, Daniel, on the first day aboard... he was our lifeboat drill leader! We also saw Ahlden, who our girls became good friends with last time as well. He is now running the crew store, so we only saw him a few times, but it sounds like this was a good move for him. It's nice to see that there people who enjoy the work (and they work hard!), are successful and stay with the ship. Says something for Disney as well.

The weather was awesome, as I'm sure you would all agree, so snorkeling at Grand Cayman and then (lightly) frying ourselves on Friday at Castaway Cay were fantastic. (Really liked Pelican Plunge, as well as riding the bike path -- more trails in the future would be nice.)

My aunt had a great time as well -- she loved our servers Dario and Thomas so much that she was in tears when leaving the dining room on Friday night. Speaking of dining, our night at Palo was wonderful, and it was extra nice because our head server (Roberto) invited the girls to come to dinner anyway - he, Dario and Thomas made sure they had a nice time. (And I think it was quite a compliment that they were welcome to come without us.)

Along the way, we also met up with some friends from home who were vacationing in Mexico - they took the ferry to Cozumel, and we met up to spend the day with them. Sr. Frog's was... interesting... with kids.

Shows were as awesome as last time... we REALLY liked the Disney retrospective, "The Dream Goes On" -- that was special.

All in all, it was a great trip - and much needed. I'll try to post more later, but for now it's time to catch up with life and work. Sorry we didn't get to meet up with anyone from DIS (that I know of), but I did enjoy chatting with you all ahead of time.

 

[Hagee]

GReta!