GrumpysMom -
I saw your post at work (I checked while eating my lunch) so you were first on my list this evening.
I don't know what the DIS's new T-Shirt will look like but there was a long thread on the Community Board with suggestions for the new store and LOTS of suggestions for the T-Shirts!!
The traditional color for DIS folks has been lime green. I remember that being the color way back when I first joined in 1999. I don't remember the reason but wearing a lime green ribbon was one way for DIS members to identify each other. On our Halloween Cruise in 01, one of our fellow DIS cruisers actually designs and manufactures T-Shirts so he designed one for our group and I still love it to this day. Unfortunately, because of understandable copyright hoops, he wasn't able to continue to make that shirt but it was great. Another cruiser made us matching lanyards and another one made us cool buttons. All of them just because they made the time to do something special!! Many folks wore their Lime Green Tee-shirt for boarding and without planning, 4 DIS families were all in a row in our Boarding Line.
Also, some folks go to Home Depot and pick up Mickey ICONs from the Disney Paint section in lime green and do something really creative
with them, but as I addressed in earlier posts, I am "Craft-Challenged" so although I picked some up, they're still sitting on my kitchen counter!!
As to dinner: You can request a table size and they will try to accomodate you but they won't guarantee it. We always ask for a table of 4 so we can spend some real time together as a family. We have always had our request honored and been assigned a table to ourselves. I did e-mail Donna from DU about 6 weeks ago because I had forgotten to request the table for 4 and she reminded me that you can make a request but there are no guarantees (which is certainly understandable).
You can also "link" your seating together if you would like with other family or other DIS'ers who would like to sit together. Many on these boards do that and it works beautifully. You just need to know their stateroom number and last name. If it is several families all wishing to be together, they may place you at different tables in the same area. Our DS (16) actually lives with his Mom in Chicago (I'm just his very lucky step-mom) so our time with him is pretty precious. Again, that is just us and lots of people love to mingle with other folks and do it all the time.
We are also staying at the WL - I am so excited. We have never stayed there before but I have always wanted to in the past so this is a treat.
I hope I answered all your questions. One of the things I love most about the DIS is passing along the kindness and wisdom of others from whom I learned so much. So, feel free to ask away!!
