Calling All 8/19/06 Special Western Cruisers! AKA "The Cruisin' Castaways" Part 2

[Verandah Man]

Boogie on Sue!!!

 

[SeaSpray]

Sue: Congrats on booking your airfare for 2006! I agree, you definitely HAD to get the premium seats I like to book things in advance too, but I just checked on Delta's web site and they're only taking bookings for up to March of 2006. So I'll have to be patient and wait a few more months.

 

[castoff]

Sue: That's Awesome !! We haven't even thought about airline tickets yet. I do know we will fly out t5he day before cruise.

 

[Laurabearz]

Wow Sue... Your really ahead of the game! ANyone else have their airfare booked???

I still havent booked our airfare for our Sept 2005 cruise!

Are premium gold seats like first class seats???

 

[newholidayx2]

Terry: where do you fly Delta from? This Aug Jonathan & I will be flying Song from Hartford direct - (usually we go Delta from Providence but then there's a change in Atlanta)
Jonathan & I are planning on flying down Aug 12, 2006 - spend Sat-Fri at WDW. (thats why we're waiting to activate our APs this Aug). Dave will fly down Fri, rent a car, pick us up and we'll drive over to the port. Most likely will stay at the Radisson again.

 

[SeaSpray]

Terry: where do you fly Delta from? This Aug Jonathan & I will be flying Song from Hartford direct - (usually we go Delta from Providence but then there's a change in Atlanta)
Jonathan & I are planning on flying down Aug 12, 2006 - spend Sat-Fri at WDW. (thats why we're waiting to activate our APs this Aug). Dave will fly down Fri, rent a car, pick us up and we'll drive over to the port. Most likely will stay at the Radisson again.

Barb: We always fly out of Logan (Boston) because it's the closest airport to us (Boston is only about a half hour away), and Delta/Song has non-stops flights directly to Orlando.

We'll definitely be flying down at least the day before the cruise, and stay at the Radisson again. That worked out really well for us last year and it gave a lot of us DISers the opportunity to meet.

 

[mickeymom923]

Hi everyone

Welcome to the new people.

Terry - welcome back. Hope everything went well on your trip.

Andy - welcome back. Hope you had a great 50th. The first time you flew on Southwest you didn't really like it. Was it better this time? Would you fly SW again?

Diane - welcome back. Is there still any damage to the ship or was it all cleaned up by your cruise?

Doreen - hope things are okay.

Hello to everyone else. Hope all is well.

Bev

 

[Verandah Man]

This flight was much better then the first one we took, I guess because I knew what to expect. I was also fifth in line in Group A, so I boarded very early. I'd fly with Southwest again. Our flight did leave 40 minutes late, but we did make up most of that time in the air, as we landed just 5 minutes after our scheduled arrival time.

 

[SeaSpray]

Terry - welcome back. Hope everything went well on your trip.


Bev

Hi Bev

Thanks, I had an excellent trip

 

[8 Ears]

Hello all! Uh alas, Bryan is not over the Mono thing. He was able to make it to school all day Monday and Tuesday. Today I know I woke him up when I went into to see if he was awake . Told him he could go when his Dad went in. but he jumped up and said he was going in with me. They start school at 8:15 and at 9:45 I got the call he had fallen asleep! So here I am home with him snoring away and the rain pouring down. Gosh, that sounds like a line from a horror/mystery book

We had minor flooding Monday and today they say we could get 3-4 inches between today and tomorrow!! Glad we live up on a hill. Maybe I should have DH bring home some milk

Hope you all are having a more MAGICal day

 

[newholidayx2]

Im sorry Bryan isnt feeling better - poor kid

 

[SeaSpray]

Awww, I hope he's feeling better soon. I guess he wasn't quite well enough to go back to school yet.

 

[8 Ears]

Thanks for the well wishes for Bryan. I will pass them on when he gets up. Tomorrow we are back to our orignal plan of him only going a half day.

OK, I guess we actually started today

Mary

 

[Verandah Man]

Mary--sending more PD your way, it sure sounds you can use it!!!!!

 

[castoff]

Mary: Sorry Bryan still isn't feeling well. Is there anything the doctor's can do for him? Sending pixie your way. Tina

 

[ElliotFan]

Hey All! I figured that I better check in.

Sorry to be out of the loop, but as crazy as my life normally is... the last 10 -12 days have gone over the top. (Andy, I'm with you I want to run away with Mickey NOW!!!!)

We have a deadline for work at the end of the week. I ended up putting over 60 hours last week to make sure that we'd make the deadline. (I worked all of last weekend - ICK! Sometimes I hate being salaried. All I have to say is that I better get a decent bonus out of it.)

My high-speed internet went in on Monday. I love it. SOOOOOO much better then dial-up. It's part of the reason I haven't been able to keep up with the board - I didn't have enough bandwidth from home to have the board up on top of all the windows I have to have open to do my job properly. (Not a problem now, though. So , I should be able to keep in touch better.) I felt so sorry for the technician that did it for me, it took him about 4.5 hours to get in in and working properly. More than half of it was spent trying to get my work laptop to talk to the router. There ended up being two different problems. The wireless network card in the laptop was old enough (3-4 years old now) that it wasn't talking to the router. The guy a sweetheart and threw in a new wireless card without charging me for it. The other issue was that there appears to be two other wireless networks in my neighborhood. He changed the frequency setting on the router (there are 11 channels) and that cleared up the interference. Now I'm high-speed and wireless - woo hoo!

Yesterday was an absolute fiasco! I woke up with a splitting headache that wouldn't go away. So, I was late starting my workday. Then to top it off, what was supposed to be a 15 minute rescue mission to jump-start my brother's truck turned into a 2+ hour long comedy of errors... don't ask! As a result I had to work until nearly 9 PM last night to get my time in.

I am SOOO in need of a vacation at this point, but am going to have to wait until Devin and I head down to Disneyland the last week of July. (Although I am take one day off next week to go Mother's Day shopping with my Mom. It's been a while since we've been able to run off, just the two of us. It should be a good time. Shopping and lunch - can't get much better than that!)

Well, I better get back to work... after I go track down some lunch.

Dori

 

[allshookup]

Bev: There were railings missing from the front of the ship when we boarded, we saw them working while we were in Nassau, & by the time we disembarked in NY the railings were back in place. I guess the 2 employee jacuzzi's were swept right off the ship, but they didn't appear to be in any hurry to fix them. I also heard that if you went down to deck 9 you would've seen where they were fixing carpet etc. but we never ventured down there.

Mary: Also sending wishes for Bryan's good health!

Sue: I can't believe you got airfare already...that's terrific!

Terry: I think we will be booking Song too. They seem to have the best rates out of Boston. We may go to Disney for a few days first. We did an excursion on this past cruise to the Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach & my kids loved it! They had a pirate themed kid's pool, hair-brading, & even ceramics. I was planning to stay at the Raddison the night before but I'm starting to consider the Holiday Inn for a couple of days. Maybe we'll do the Radisson before & the Holiday Inn after instead of rushing right back home to Boston! Hmmmm decisions decisions!

Diane

 

[SeaSpray]

Dori: It's good to "see" you! I'm sorry you had such a lousy day yesterday, between the headache and all the time it took to help your brother with his truck. I'm glad you're enjoying your new faster, wireless internet connection!

Diane: We've had very good experiences with Delta/Song and Logan so far, so we're sticking with them. I know a lot of people go down to T.F.Green, but it's actually a longer drive to get there than Boston, for us. Hey, you never know, we could end up on the same flights if our plans match up. I still don't know for sure exactly what our plans will be, for before and after the cruise. At the very least, we'll be flying in the day before, and most likely staying at the Radisson. We practically took over the lobby last year, and I have a feeling that we'll be an even bigger group next year! I can't believe we still have over a year to go.

 

[newholidayx2]

We rented a car from Avis to get us from the airport to the Radisson back in 03. Met another DIS family there for dinner, swimming (and they took Jon for the night!)

 

[Ct_TiggerFan]

Hi all,

Hope all are doing well.

Dori, welcome to the land of High Speed Internet,
Sounds like the home office is taking shape. I know the feeling of putting in those sixty hour weeks, we are gearing up for a major rollout of a new "killler app" as the develpers are refering to it, yea Killer allright, expect thats what happens to us support folks as you know.

Mary, here are a few more pd heading your way for Bryan

Andy hope you got all you wanted for your Bday.

well TTFN
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