Got to bed last night around 2:30am, got up at 6am to help John get ready for work (I can't believe he went into work today. lol), then went back to bed until a few minutes ago. I purposely took off today from work
Tina and Chuck: My condolences to you and your family
Darlene: Hope all goes well with Stan's surgery today. It was so great to see you all onboard the ship.
I've added the countdown timers for our February 2007 cruise, and also a countdown timer for August 2008. I chose August 11th as the date only because it's the middle of the month, but I'll change it once we actually book a specific cruise.
Here are the cruise highlights for our family:
Taking DS18 Craig for his very first dinner at Palo! That was THE highlight of this trip, and the picture that the
DCL photographer took that night of the three of us came out great!!
Floating in the water at
Castaway Cay with my DS15 Robby (neither of my sons like the beach). We got the boys to come into the water because I wanted to take a few pictures, and Robby ended up really enjoying relaxing on the floats, and the two of us ended up having a wonderful conversation while floating on the waves for a couple of hours.
Craig came down with a cold a couple of days before the end of the cruise, so he wasn't feeling well that day. From what I've just read, it seems like a few people came also down with colds. Hope all feel better soon!
Watching "Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Men's Chest" in the Walt Disney Theater with John and the boys at the 11pm showing on Pirate Night.
Dinner every night was a lot of fun. Thanks Jaclyn and Karen for being great table mates!!
The Cove Cafe and bumping into various DISers there, especially Mary Rose and John
The Lifestyle portrait (the pictures with the ALL-white backgrounds) that we took (thanks to the DIS board people who gave great tips on this!) is already in the Disney frame we bought at the Magic Kingdom on Saturday, and is on the mantle of our fireplace.
I love this casual-looking picture of the four of us, and it's a wonderful souvenir of this trip. Since we have so many formal pictures from the 2004 cruise, this was a great alternative, and the photographer took many different poses. I ended up buying 2 poses that have all four of us in them, and also a picture of just the boys, and a picture of just John and I.
Late nights at Rockin' Bar D! We had so much fun with Doreen and her family, Mary Rose and John, Dori, and everyone else!!! It was great having DS Craig there, and now I can't wait until DS Robby is 18 so all of us can enjoy the shows together
All of the fish mail was a lot of fun!
Thanks to everyone who put so much thought and effort into that. Next time, my fishmail will be better than a small piece of lime green posterboard with a greeting written on it, but it was a last-minute decision to do fish mail at all!
Also, I only had a chance to write out about a half dozen cards, next time I'll do this all BEFORE the cruise, and not the last day OF the cruise. LOL Also, all of our door magnets survived all week, none were taken off our doors!!
Well that's all I can think of off the top of my head; and I have food shopping to do, so I'll add to this list later. I hope many of us book a future cruise together again!
