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

[Verandah Man]

Denise...what company made up the name tags? They did a nice job.

.....I love our group picture! I wonder how many copies they sold? Thanks Chuck wherever you are...... And thanks for the open house. I hope my DD delivered the choc. bar to the right fish mail?

Thanks Terry for the countdown. It makes it more real. I'd still like to sneak in a 4 day one with those of you doing the back-back Wonder cruise next Aug. Not looking real hopeful though. We'll see.

Shirley--Chuck is wearing a black shirt and is on the left side steps, just behind Sean(aka: Mr. Clean)!!! That's how Jude described Sean to me, LOL!!!

 

[mickeymom923]

Wow. Only 102 weeks until our cruise.

Bad news - 2 winters to go thru again.

I wonder how many of us will end up doing another Disney cruise between now and then. 102 weeks is a long time to wait.

Bev

 

[Verandah Man]

102 weeks is a long time to wait.

Tell me about it, especially after we just sailed 12 weeks apart this year.

 

[Ct_TiggerFan]

Let see if this makes it any quicker


102 weeks on the wall, 102 weeks on the wall,
You take one down and pass it around. 101 weeks on the wall





Sorry I couldnt help myself.

 

[Buddy Bear]

I love our group picture! I wonder how many copies they sold? Thanks Chuck wherever you are

He is actually getting ready for the Southern Caribbean that is leaving I believe this Thursday.

He is a nice guy, but he goes on too many Disney cruises

OK...I am a little envious

 

[Dizzyworld]

Thanks all.....I just don't know if he really gets to read these boards. He was interesting to talk to. Remember Andy....I was in his suite when I got to talk to you and Hazel.

Ed......you crack me. BTW.......I'd still like to send you the few pictures of your parasailing trip. The one of you touching down in the water is pretty terrific.

 

[Verandah Man]

I remember Shirley, we had a great time chatting with you and Ron in Chuck's suite!!!

 

[Ct_TiggerFan]

Thanks all.....I just don't know if he really gets to read these boards. He was interesting to talk to. Remember Andy....I was in his suite when I got to talk to you and Hazel.

Ed......you crack me. BTW.......I'd still like to send you the few pictures of your parasailing trip. The one of you touching down in the water is pretty terrific.

Shirley

Thanks so much, it was a blast.
I Enjoyed sailing / flying with your family.

 

[Dizzyworld]

Glad you got them Ed. Ahhhh... the memories. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Shirley

 

[mickeymom923]

Hi everyone,

I booked the MNSSHP for 9/15. I never was in Disney for it but I heard it was nice. Has anyone gone to it? Booked my hotels for 2 nights before the cruise and now I'm thinking of coming home the same day as the cruise ends. Has anyone used DCL transportation from the ship to the airport? If so, how did it work out? I always rented a car since we were staying after the cruise.

Have a great day. Soon it's back to the reality of work.

Bev

 

[Buddy Bear]

Thanks all.....I just don't know if he really gets to read these boards. He was interesting to talk to. Remember Andy....I was in his suite when I got to talk to you and Hazel.

I first spoke with Chuck over the phone about a year or so ago. He is a good person who is concerned that people are well informed and not getting bad information.

The reality of this forum is that it is not an official Disney site and there aren't Disney reps responding to your questions so there is always the possibility that you are getting opinion and not necessarily fact.

Chuck is aware that the DIS Boards, for better or worse, is the most active forum for Disney Cruise Line fanatics like ourselves so he does pay attention, but doesn’t always chime in since Dreams Unlimited (who considers AST competition) is the sponsor of this site.

 

[Dizzyworld]

Thanks for the info Jeff. Chuck was an interesting person to talk to.

 

[Reenieny18]

Hello everyone.. Wow what a week we have had here.. The sickness the tiredness.. the driving around.. I think I need a new MAGNET>> TAXI FOR THE KIDS.... any taker on making me one???lol

MARY ROSE and JOHN.. so glad to see you got the luggage back.. more so you got the shoes back.. phew I bet John was so proud to wear them to MANHATTEN today..

TERRY.. thanks for the talk yesterday.. its friends like you and the others on here that make life really tolerable when it gets to you.. to paraphrase a common movie line.... oh never mind...lol I will bit my tongue..hehe

SHIRLEY.. my dad came over today and we told him about ACE.. suddenly being part of a family on the first SATURDAY... he thought his name was cute...lol (you have to know my dad...)

he gave us girls a hint that he may want to cruise with us in 2008 .. well we have to do some things for him as well.. like really work out and be faithful to the YMCA... and we will celebrate KARENS 50th bday onthe MAGIC with 250 of our closest friends.. and our DAD....

LINDA.. how was the FAIR.. the concert must have been great.. but what a let down to walk the midway after the MAGIC...

As far as DENISE refering to me being on NORTHERN BLVD...lol several pages back... well I guess LINDA and her kids saw a person in a van with a LIA SOPHIA sticker on the back before the cruise and tried to get my attention and mind you we never met before.. of all the people in the city ,, she meets me the day before the cruise.. well I was trying to tell her I was going to be on that side of town again..lol Thanks DENISE...lol

MOIRA.. I miss talking to you in the AM.. been sleeping in for some reason..

next page...
DOREEN

 

[Ski-and-Sea]

Hi everyone,

I booked the MNSSHP for 9/15. I never was in Disney for it but I heard it was nice. Has anyone gone to it? Booked my hotels for 2 nights before the cruise and now I'm thinking of coming home the same day as the cruise ends. Has anyone used DCL transportation from the ship to the airport? If so, how did it work out? I always rented a car since we were staying after the cruise.

Have a great day. Soon it's back to the reality of work.

Bev

We've always used DCL transportation to/from the airport and have been happy with it. We fly Continental, and there is a check in counter right at the port. This time Continental even had all our boarding passes and luggage tags already printed out. We just handed them our luggage and boarded the DCL buses to Orlando.

It was almost a little scary how well it worked.

Several airlines have check in counters right at the port. Otherwise you just put your luggage on the buses.

We had the late breakfast seating on the last morning and didn't leave the ship until 9am. So there wasn't a long line to board the bus.

 

[Reenieny18]

LAST DAY OF SUMMER VACATION!!!
Lori in ILL,( great talking to you yesterday as well...) Diane in Mass, Sarah in Pa ( I have papers to send you.. and STEVE MADDEN has a brand new line for fall.. and a great sale I think 2 for $39.00) , Mary Rose, Moria Thank you very much for your orders.. they are going out today.. if anyone else has anything email me or call me before 11am..
What a great time I had.. I went to Guess services.. and I was ok doing what we did since it was no money, cash...lol..was exchanges..

JOANNA.. how are you doing with your LS.. are you manager yet? are you buying a lot of nice things with the $$$ your making.. If anyone wants info let me know ... its really amazing..


MARY ROSE .. just for you...

AUGUST 16... AUGUST 16...AUGUST 16....AUGUST 16.. AUGUST 16....

I am trying to up load a picture of ANDY the cruise director in honor of STEVE ERWIN... What a tragedy.... bless his soul and his family...

DOREEN

 

[SeaSpray]

good morning everyone

Well I wasn't very happy driving in to work this morning because... summer is behind us now... kids are going back to school this week (I'm one of those crazy moms who actually LIKES when her kids are off for the summer. lol)...and now we have the winter to look forward to. BLECH! LOL

However...once I got here and started chatting with Maggie and my other co-workers, I'm in a much better frame of mind.

I've been posting on the thread for my February 4th Wonder cruise...but so far there aren't many replies. Every once in a while a new person will post and introduce themselves, but then that's it for a while. It's strange to be going on a Disney cruise in 5 months and NOT have an active thread. lol Oh well I know we'll have a great time; we're cruising with friends of ours from Canada and we enjoy their company very much. She is a DISer but she doesn't post often. We plan on surprising them with door magnets and a few other surprises that I don't want to mention here

Andy: I love the line in your signature that says "Cruising Castaways II"!!! I'd like to vote for that to be our August 16th 2008 Cruise name! But then again, maybe people who will be joining that cruise for the first time might feel left out since it refers to the cruise we were just on?? I don't want to cause any problems or hard feelings like we did when we talked about the Lost At Sea cruise 2 years ago. Ah well.. there's plenty of time to decide about a name for our 2008 cruise

 

[Reenieny18]

Terry did Robby start school today? We start tommorrow.. I heard the busses this Am doing their route though. Glad your day brighted a bit when you got to work..

I too... like having the kids home for the summer. I am going to miss them here with me.. Esp since the summer we had.. What fun it turned out to be...

Continue to have a great day... and remember only 9 more months to go..until summer again...

I like the idea of CRUISIN CASTAWAYS II.. but than again I liked the LOST AT SEAS as well and the BLACK PEARLS ..lol remember that one??

What ever we pick... I will plan on being there
Doreen

 

[SeaSpray]

I'm finally on my lunch break!!! I ordered cream of broccoli soup and a roll and butter from a local deli/lunch place that delivers. It arrived in plenty of time, before my scheduled lunch time, but when I finally got to sit down and open the container of soup I saw that it was CLAM CHOWDER which I can't stand!! So I went back to my desk and called the place and they said they'd send out the correct soup as soon as the delivery girl got back. So...Maggie was nice and told me don't worry about it, that I could do some work while I wait for my soup to arrive and then take my lunch break whenever the soup arrived. So....about 40 minutes late the soup arrives. I walk to the back of the office where our lunch room is and sit down and realize they didn't give me a spoon. No spoons in the kitchen...so I walk back towards the front of the office to the other kitchen to get a spoon. Then I go back...open the soup and see it's the correct soup... open up my roll and discover they didn't give me any butter for it! So...I just ate my soup and the bare naked roll is sitting over there by itself. lol

Doreen: Robby goes back to school tomorrow He's at a friend's house today enjoying the last day of summer vacation Craig and his friend are on campus today with various activities, and they start classes tomorrow.

 

[DMMarla07860]

Everyone should go read my trip report and comment on it.

 

[Verandah Man]

Good News, our roofer is coming tomorrow morning!!! We could of used him a few days ago, it poured like crazy here today, we even had streets flooded that never flooded before. I was about ready to bring the ark back out, LOL!!!

I'm just hoping it's a minor problem.