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

[Ct_TiggerFan]

Sue


Welcome home, It was fun meeting you at the mini meet
Barb, congrats on another planned trip to WDW, Glad to hear Dave is on the mend

Terry, 50 weeks yahhooo, I need the countdown to have something to look forward too now our vacation is over.

What a week back, a normal 37 1/2 week turned into
55 hours this week, 17 hours in one day.

Then back to work next day at 8:30 am

Well at least its a 3 day weekend.

 

[Ct_TiggerFan]

As promised here are some photes of our 3 week trip


http://www.snapfish.com/share/p=38231125787121317/l=58969627/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
Ed

 

[Verandah Man]

Great pics Ed, thanks for sharing them!!!

 

[mickeymom923]

Hi everyone

I finally got my computer to work. I spent the last 2 hours catching up on my email and Disboard.

Welcome to all the new people. This is a great group and you'll have lots of fun.

Doreen - We're also hooked up for the late dinner res.
Terry and Tina - hope you feel better soon. Here's some PD
Ed - thanks for sharing your pictures. They are great.
Glad everyone made it back safely.
For everyone on the repo cruise - how was it?

I'm still not back to reality. I don't have to be in work until Tuesday. We had a great time meeting at Trail's End. The cruise was great. DS Harley liked it better than DCL but DD Lindsay and I love DCL. The whole 2 week vacation had some rain everyday but not the whole day. (We were at sea during Katrina and had no idea about the hurricane). We stayed at the POP the night before the cruise and we really enjoyed it. Wish we would have stayed a few extra days. The timeshare was great as usual. The flights there and back were really smooth.

My PM is full and I haven't had a chance to go thru it yet. For everyone,
I have blocked rooms at the Radisson so e-mail me at Bweiss923@aol.com or PM me to book your room at the Radisson the night before. It's party time for the DISer's .

Rates are: standard room $129 + tax
Suite with 1 king size bed and queen sleeper sofa $169 + tax
Suite with 2 king size beds and queen sleeper sofa $189 + tax

Bev
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[Ct_TiggerFan]

Happy Labor day all

 

[Verandah Man]

Happy Labor day all

And a Happy Labor Day to you as well Ed!!!

 

[newholidayx2]

Happy Labor Day everyone
Isnt it nice having a day off? Jon & I leaving soon to go see "Sky High" Anyone see it yet?

Next long wknd most likely wont be until Sept 30th when I suddenly dont feel well. Hey! What can I say? My mindsent only lets me work (3) full wks before having a long weekend! lol And Labor Day to Columbus Day is too long so I need a day off in btwn.

Sue - please let us know when you add to your trip report - thanks

I took myself off my Synthroid. Past few days Ive had leg cramps and thats one of the side effects.

 

[Reenieny18]

Hey where is everyone??? Did you change forums and I was notified?? I am so alone?? YAHOOO!!! anyone there??? HELLO HELLO!!!

Oh well.. i guess I have to talk to myself..

Well my kids start school tomorrow.. Daniel is very scared.. New school and its with JACLYN too...
Marty finally got his computer back after 2 months. . GATEWAY really screwed it up this time.. It was so much better when they had the stored opened here..
Jaclyn went back to a school- work schedule.. Work is not happy since she does not look 16 and oh well.. she cant work past 9pm..

I liked my jewerly so much that I decided to join the company.. YUPPPP ... Like I have nothing better to do in my lack of spare time..
It a trial run while I do it.. so wish me luck.. The first party is SUNDAY and its JACLYN's at my house,...lol So it shouldnt me that bad..

TINA<TERRY< DARLENE< GINNY SUE where are you guys..

TERRY did the boys start school yet??
TINA>> feel better soon so we can get together.. Hey you want a jewerly party as a ice breaker,,lol..LINDA.. where have you been too..

DARLENE AND GINNY.. how was the cruise.. did you get any problems due to HURRICAINE KATRINA?? while on the cruise?? GINNY how about your house?? DARLENE are is STAN?/ COME guys I miss talking to you ..

Ok I get the hint.. I will go to bed since 6am comes fast again.. Goodbye to a great summer.. Time to close the pool..Next summer we will all meet....

Have a great night everyone.. and good luck to all the kids going back to school... Drive safe and STOP FOR ALL SCHOOL BUSES....

Doreen

 

[Verandah Man]

Hi Doreen,

Today is Angelina's last day of summer vacation, she starts her sophomore year on Thursday. It's hard to believe my baby is going into 10th grade already, where have the years gone??? I think Angelina is more excited about starting school this year, last year she was quite nervous starting at the high school, now she has a whole year behind her, she feels more relaxed. She is also exicted because she found out that her best friend Trish and her have some classes together. Thanks to Power Parent we were able to check her schedule out online yesterday, of course Angelina spen all day yesterday IMing her friends to see who had what teacher, during what period.

This year's Homecoming isn't until the first Saturday in November, but Angelina already has her dress, shoes and handbag, nothing like being prepared I guess, LOL!!!

I told Angelina yesterday that she could wear the dress on the cruise next summer for either Formal Night or Semi-Formal Night, her reply was, "We'll see." Kids, just you don't love 'em!!!

I've got a few more messages to check then I'm off to PT, take care all!!!

Andy

 

[Reenieny18]

Well, the kids are off to school. The whole bus will be late since it never got to the bus area until 7:50 am.. it was suppose to leave at 7:20am..
So much for first day jitters.

Jaclyn woke up and started acting like NEMO on his first day at school... Daniel meanwhile wanted to throw a pillow at her..

Pretty lonely here and oh so quite... Maybe now I can read my summer novel I have had since JUNE....

Andy, you know you will buy here another dress... or 2...

I am off to the bank.. Have a safe day everyone..

Doreen

 

[Verandah Man]

Silly me, I started getting ready for PT and them remembered today was Wednesday. I normally have PT on Wednesday, but with the holiday this week my schedule was changed to Tuesday and Thursday. It's a good thing I checked the calendar before driving over there, LOL!!!

Oh Yes, I know I will be buying a few more dresses before cruise time. There is a young man by the name of Dan that Angelina is interested in. The two of them have already talked about him taking her to the Jr-Sr Prom this year. Oh boy, here we go again!!! Dan and Angelina went out for dinner the other evening, then came back here and watched a movie. I don't know if I am ready for this, HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Aurora's Mommy]

....Dan and Angelina went out for dinner the other evening, then came back here and watched a movie. I don't know if I am ready for this, HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my husband's favorite lines from a movie is from Clueless. If you haven't seen it, Cher's (the main character) date comes to pick her up. Her father says to the date (something to the effect of) "I have a .44 and a shovel, I doubt anyone would miss you."

Our DD is only 3 1/2, but he is already practicing that line!

My DS started school last Monday (8/29). Alas, the teacher has already called! It's going to be a looooooong year.

 

[Ct_TiggerFan]

Morning all


Its day two for Caitlin, she started third grade yesterday.

Andy, Thanks for the updates, at least I have a few years before I go thu that with Caitlin.

 

[Ct_TiggerFan]

One of my husband's favorite lines from a movie is from Clueless. If you haven't seen it, Cher's (the main character) date comes to pick her up. Her father says to the date (something to the effect of) "I have a .44 and a shovel, I doubt anyone would miss you."

Our DD is only 3 1/2, but he is already practicing that line!

When Caitlin starts dating:
I think I will be sitting in my living room, cleaning my newly acquired knife collection. I will ask the boy as I sharpen a blade " and when are you going with my daughter" , oh course I could add as he answers i say." great that sound like fun, let me get my coat"

 

[Verandah Man]

When I was in Florida this past March my mom put in a CD, I think it was Jeff Foxworthy. Anyhow, I remember one line on the CD that went something like this. The father speaking to his daughter's date, "I don't mind going back to prison, if I have too." I think I might use that line every now and then.

We met Dan before they went to eat, he really seems like a nice kid. Angelina asked Hazel if they could go food shopping today at Shop Rite instead of Acme. Hazel asked her why, and Angleina replied, "Because that's where Dan works part-time." I can hear Donny Osmond right now, "And they call it puppy love."

 

[SeaSpray]

TINA<TERRY< DARLENE< GINNY SUE where are you guys..

TERRY did the boys start school yet??

Doreen

I'm here

Robby had his first day of high school today. Craig starts his senior year tomorrow.

Robby seemed to have a great first day; he said he likes his Honors Biology teacher a lot. She told the students they will work hard this year, but that she wants them to have fun and enjoy the class too. Oh, and she is going to let them bring soda or water or coffee/tea/hot chocolate to class with them, if they want. lol He said that all of the other teachers let them drink spring water in class, but not soda or anything else.

Robby is thrilled to finally be in high school and in ALL honors classes. In middle school, only the math class and English class were separated according to ability. He likes to learn at a relatively fast clip and he likes delving deeply into subjects, and that just is not possible when the classes are mixed, like they were in middle school. I think he is really going to love high school

I haven't been posting on here or sending emails much because I haven't been very chatty lately, but everything is fine here and I think about all of you, and our cruise, fairly often Also, over the weekend John said that maybe we should stay at the Wilderness Lodge or the Polynesian, instead of Pop Century, for our adults-only trip next month, so I've been back to reading the resorts and the restaurants boards again. So much for a "budget" trip. lol But, we have not totally decided to switch, so who knows, maybe we will just keep our Pop reservation

P.S. Oh yeah, forget to mention, Do any of you play VMK? VMK is a Disney online game site, it stands for Virtual Magic Kingdom. It's free to play. Anyway, John and I have been playing the games on there a LOT for the last few months. You might have noticed my new avatar, that's what my character looks like, in the game. Also, I have CL before my user name CapeGirl. CL means that I am a Community Leader in the game. A Community Leader just plays like every other player, but also tries to make sure that the rules of the game are enforced. I had to send in an application to Disney, and then after a week or so, I was notified that I was "hired". lol No pay, just a volunteer job. LOL John is also a CL. His name in the game is CL_capecad. CapeCAD is the name of his business. (CAD standing for Computed Aided Design). I tried several times to sign up using SeaSpray but VMK wouldn't accept it, so out of frustration I typed in CapeGirl, and it was accepted. Anyway, let me know what your id is, if any of you are on there, or decide to sign on! Oh, and that's John and I, VMK style, down in the countdown timer for our October trip.

Apparently the DIS tag fairy is a member of VMK because I got two new tags recently. One just says I'm a VMK Community Leader, and the other one "Loud people give me skull pain" was a line I said in the game one night, during a conversation. lol Had NO idea that a DIS tag fairy was around. lol VMK has a limited dictionary in order to try and protect young kids from giving out too much personal info, and to avoid people from saying things they shouldn't say. So, you cannot say words like "head" or "ache", and many other common words. SO, we end up getting creative, in order to say what we want to say. On that particular night, someone was saying that they are very loud in person, and I said the above line. Out of context, I guess it sounds pretty funn

 

[Verandah Man]

Since the cruise is getting closer all the time, I made our quarterly payment this afternoon!!! Our cruise is now "officially" half paid off.

Just for the fun of it, I went back to see what the price difference was from when we booked, and what the price is today. Since booking this cruise back in January, the price has gone up some $1600.00 That early booking does come in handy, not to mention the 10% and the $200.00 stateroom credit we got for booking onboard!!!!!

 

[sandygirl]

Hey where is everyone??? Did you change forums and I was notified?? I am so alone?? YAHOOO!!! anyone there??? HELLO HELLO!!!

TINA<TERRY< DARLENE< GINNY SUE where are you guys..

TERRY did the boys start school yet??
TINA>> feel better soon so we can get together.. Hey you want a jewerly party as a ice breaker,,lol..LINDA.. where have you been too..

DARLENE AND GINNY.. how was the cruise.. did you get any problems due to HURRICAINE KATRINA?? while on the cruise?? GINNY how about your house?? DARLENE are is STAN?/ COME guys I miss talking to you ..

Doreen

DOREEN, Girlfriend! I missed you!
The cruise was awesome and we had a great time. Ginny and her family were our tablemates and we couldn't have had a better time. Stan got alot of rest and Sandy and I snorkeled for the first time. I am soooo tan. We met so many nice people and some of them are booked for this cruise too! Can't wait to sail with all of you again.

Stan will have the port installed tomorrow and will start chemo on Monday. Everyone says how good he looks. We are praying that he responds well to the treatment. I know he enjoyed the trip and was concious of balancing rest and making memories with Sandy. He didn't complain once about posing for pictures.

Sandy started 3rd grade today!!! She came home all happy and bubbly. She looked so grown up in her uniform kilt, no more jumper. Where did my baby go?

Gotta go to bed...getting back to work was tough yesterday. Sandy and Stan both came downstairs on Tues and said, "What? No Lumiere's?" Too funny!

Darlene

 

[Reenieny18]

DARLENE<< so good to see you.. I am thrilled that you had a great time.. And STAN did as well... Its so funny that over a year ago you met GINNY and now you sailed with her again..I misssed talking to you guys..As you can see it has been quite here. I didnt get any emails from you or her while you were gone

Sandy did well back in school? Mine did as well. I like the fact of uniforms too. Mine can wear Navy or Tan pants or shorts with Polos that have the school logo on it and the girls can wear the plaid or kahki skirt. The boys can wear the oxford with a tie but most opt for the polo now adays..Its so much easier and $$$$..lol

Daniel schedule is all messed up. I think he has 5 study halls in a roll on 4 days.. So much for classes.. One class is excell MATH but they left out BAND.

Jaclyn loves her schedule as well.. WHAOO
Ok back to my day... have a great day everyone.. only 11 months now to our CRUISE..

Doreen

 

[Mjasp]

Hi Darlene...I am so glad you had a great trip with your family. We wish Stan only the best. GOOD LUCK!

Doreen...Well, remember our phone conversation...hmmm...think now...maybe the next paragraph will jog your memory LOL

We did it, we got a puppy!!!!!!! We got a Bichon Frise. As soon as I learn (or my kids want to do it for me) I'll post a picture. Maybe over the weekend, as we got him on Tuesday, which was also the first day of school. So it has been a hectic week.

Hi Everyone

Talk to you all soon
Joanna