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[ImMarcik]

I had cabin 7620 and I loved it so much we have it again for our next cruise. It's one of the suprise cat 7 rooms. It's AFT starboard. I could see CC from my veranda. I took pictures of the banana boats going buy. I loved it. We were thinking of the Med too but the only way we could afford it is to move this years cruise to then. So, I don't know if that would happen. I got the Disney insurance too.

 

[RobbieLovesLulu]

helloooooooooooo ladies!

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Woo hoo! Hi Robbie!!

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Oops, got so excited about Robbie that I forgot to address Marcie. I have often thought about the secret verandah but never remember to write down the numbers. What cat are they considered? We had a room in the aft for the PC cruise but traded it in for 2000. We really loved that room during Hurricane Hillary. The waves were awesome covering our window!! Anybody else with a favorite room or cat?

 

[RobbieLovesLulu]

we stayed in 7122 and for the next cruise booked 7622, how much bigger does the 7620 run?

 

[ImMarcik]

Hi Robbie nice to meet ya!

7620 is a cat 7 with an obstructed open veranda instead of a closed veranda. I think it is the same size as 7, 6 & 5 rooms.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Welcome Robbie!!! Can you get your girlfriend to post the rest of your trip report, she left us hanging and we are dying to read it!!!

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Welcome Robbie!!! Can you get your girlfriend to post the rest of your trip report, she left us hanging and we are dying to read it!!!

Good one Heidi!

Robbie, our very first stateroom was 7119, close to your 7122. I couldn't believe how noisy it was. It was right next to the service elevators and you could hear their carts clinking in and out at all hours. It was horrible. I am VERY careful now what is next to me. What cat is 7620? Is it one of the obstructed verandahs?

Can we all just go now??? I am so pysched just talking about rooms. We have MONTHS to wait.

Karen must be getting excited. How long now? Can I sneak in your luggage?

 

[RobbieLovesLulu]

Welcome Robbie!!! Can you get your girlfriend to post the rest of your trip report, she left us hanging and we are dying to read it!!!

Thanks! Nice to be so welcomed. I'll try and keep her focused on the task at hand. Truthfully, I had been taking my time resizing and uploading all the vacation pics.

Robbie, our very first stateroom was 7119, close to your 7122. I couldn't believe how noisy it was. It was right next to the service elevators and you could hear their carts clinking in and out at all hours. It was horrible. I am VERY careful now what is next to me. What cat is 7620? Is it one of the obstructed verandahs?

Can we all just go now??? I am so pysched just talking about rooms. We have MONTHS to wait.

I noticed that service elevator so many times going to and from the room. I think those rooms from that 7122/7622 and up towards the private deck are the best possible. As soon as we got into our room I had to run off and change reservations and hated how long the wait for box car was taking. I learned how ideal the walk down the stairs felt. I tried walking back up afterwards and realized the value of an elevator, ! The location of deck 7 aft in relation to most of the feeding grounds is ideal for recording record weight gains. Truly a magical experience


Every day on the drive home from work i ask myself "self, what could i do to bankroll another cruise SOONER"

 

[ImMarcik]

7620 was very quiet. We had no complaints at all from noise. 90% of the time we took the stairs because 1. helped burn those calories we were gaining and 2 the wait for the elevators was soooo long.

 

[RobbieLovesLulu]

7620 was very quiet. We had no complaints at all from noise. 90% of the time we took the stairs because 1. helped burn those calories we were gaining and 2 the wait for the elevators was soooo long.

How was the view of the fireworks from that side of the ship? On our trip all the fireworks shot off to the starboard side and i was hoping to set up the recorder and capture them from a room on that side.

 

[ImMarcik]

How was the view of the fireworks from that side of the ship? On our trip all the fireworks shot off to the starboard side and i was hoping to set up the recorder and capture them from a room on that side.

Actually we were on deck 10 for the fireworks but we pretty much straight up from our room so it was a great view I would think.

 

[Jsme]

helloooooooooooo ladies!

What a wonderful name. You must be LuLu's honey!

We normally stay on deck 6 in a veranda room. But on our last crusie we stay in a secret porthole room. It was nice. We used the saving to do the Romance package. How all has done this now? I loved it. But we went on a short cruise and I think it would have been nicer on a longer cruise. How does everyone like the changes to this package?

Does anyone know where/whihc stateroom Karen is staying in? Wonder if she has ever stayed in that room before? I love to hear about the different rooms.

Ok I have been asked by several, even my friends that just lurk (lol, please stop by for a chat next time), what happened to Erik. It is a long story. I am not sure if I even told Sandy all of it. I will try to tell it all now.

History: Erik, my son plays on a traveling baseball team. My husband started the team a year ago. Due to not having enough coaching and even time Dh decided to allow another coach "take" over the team. With the understanding DH will remain a coach. Tournament ball starts in Feb and ends in late November. We play 3-4 weekends a month. In those weekends we play 4-6 games sometimes starting on Fridays and ending on Sundays. We have to go out of town alot to play. It is expensive and it is time consuming for everyone involved. Beleive me when I say if Erik did not want to play ball we would not be doing this.

Present: DH gets a call yesterday morning at 8:26 am EST kicking E off the team. The head coach, Chad, told DH that he had heard form several parents that Jeff was not happy on the team and was saying things about the team. One such thing was we were refusing to do fund-raising. We were refusing to go to a major tournament which is out of state. Supposely Chad was told these things after practice last Tuesday, after the team meeting on Wednesday and Sunday night. Chad never once asked Jeff if he said this. Chad would not tell DH who said this. Instead, he kicks Erik off the team and takes it away from DH as well. Remember this is a team DH started. Needless to say when DH got off the phone he called me and let me know what had happened. I was and so was he ...in shock. We have NEVER said anything like this to anyone. Theres much more that was said but for the sake of keeping this as short as possible...let me say several lies were told and we were innocent of them. The head coach kicked E off the team.
I had to think about how I was to tell an 11 year old boy who eats, drinksks, eats and sleeps baseball that he was no longer able to play for his team. I hate to think about this all day long yesterday. When I came home Dh and I told E what had happened. My son broke down and ran crying from the room. He went to his bedroom. This is my sensitive child. I went to his room and he was in a huddled into a ball crying. You talk about heart breaking. He threw himself on me crying. You know Mommys are suppose to make things better, but this is one thing I can not fix. For several hours after E repeatly said he was sorry to us. When asked why he was sorry he said if I never wanted to play baseball this would not have happened. I knew how my son would take this. And he did not surprise me with his reaction but I am telling you right now I have had my heart torn in so many pieces over this. I do not know if I have ever cried as much or ached as much.

It upsets me that my son was the one who has been hurt and feels rejected over this. First of all WE did not say these things. Second of all, Chad never once asked us if we had said these things. Instead, he jumps to the conclusion we were guilty and hurts my child. I have had to see an 11 year old destroyed and a 12 year old break down because her little brother was hurt.

I did talk to the coach last night. I was able to make him tell me the things that were said and he listened to me and my side. Although he admitted he probably did not handle this the correct way he refused to allow Erik back on the team. One of the worst things for me was when he said, I always told everyone if you had issues come to me. I do not want you talking about things and getting upset about things. Just come to me and we will make things right. I told him if we had of had issues I would have done this but since there were never issues for us we did not come to him. I then reversed the situation on him and told him, he was preaching the walk but not walking it. I explained to him he wanted the parents to do one thing but he did not do this with us. He never came to us and asked us what was wrong. I think this made him take pause. Needless to say there is no happy ending to the situation.

I will say that I have had to pray alot in the last 36 hours. Many times I have had my mind going in nasty thoughts and I had to stop and say a prayer. I will not allow myself to be lowered to these standards.

I am a firm beleiver what comes around goes around. But even with this I do not really wish for the people who are involved to have to hurt like my family has been over this but I do want them to be hit head on with a learning experience over it. I have always been taught God takes care of children and fools. I have said this many times in the last 36 hours. My son is a child and those men are no fools. I know in time what comes around will go around. I hope it is sooner than later. But I do not wish anything bad on them. Just what God will meter out.

I gathered my little family around the kitchen island last night and said we must find the positive in this situation. God does everything for a reason. I told them all that right now the positive I can see is that just maybe God wants us to spend more time as a family. I told them we will not be ugly. We will not say bad things. We will look for the postive and remember in some way we will find a blessing in the situation. Is this easy for me NO!! But I will not allow myself to be lowered. I had the chance to say some truths to Chad last night about the person who did this and at one time he even asked me a question in which I could have hurt this family as badly as we were hurt. I told Chad that I refused to say and lower myself. I told him his decision was made and I was not going to tell him things about this person that was told to DH in confidence.

So now each of you know what my son has had to deal with. He is feeling some better but he is still very emotional. He broke down again this evening and threw himself on me crying....it will get better.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Nice signature Robbie. I like home is where the mouse is. Ahhhhh, don't we all just love Mickey??!!

 

[Jsme]

I wanted to explain that I did not mean to over look any of the questions about Erik yesterday. I mentioned what had happened early yesterday morning to Sandy in a reply to a pm. Due to having a hectic day at work I did not have much time to take and explain the situation. It took me almost an hour last night to type what had happened the way I wanted it to come out. Plus I did not want to get emotion at work or in front of Erik last night so I waited until he was in bed to come to the board. In all honesty I do not know if I had the time until I did type it all out last night. My life is so hectic with testing we are doing at work, trying to keep the laundry up and the house clean, dinner on the table and going to basketball practice. You know it is much different responding to the emails but to have to take the time and write out a story that is so emotional ... well it simply takes a chunk of space.

As I mentioned to a friend in a pm when asked what happened, I told her I would put it on this thread and she was welcome to come and read what I had typed simply because it takes too much time and way to much out of me to send the story repeatly to various friends.

I know each of you love me and are here for me. I hope no one felt slighted . It was never my intentions. Today is a hard day for me. I am already upset and the work day is going to be hard. I know I should be getting over it but it is so hard to realize that two families you thought were your good friends would do this to your child. I try not to think about it and everytime I do I have to say a little prayer. LOL I feel so dumb for allowing this to get to me this way. It is like I am walking around in a haze.

Anyway, I know alot is going on right now ....the best way for me to find out what is going on is with an email. It is very hard for me to post at work but I can always go to my email. I will be checking the thread most evenings and if I have time a quick pop over in the day.

 

[ImMarcik]

Selena Your post made me cry. You have such the right attitude though and your family will get through it. I can definitely understand being busy but just know we are here thinking about you and supporting you.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Selena - that is horrible for E. I have a cousin that is the exact same way with baseball and he is very good at it. I know he would be lost without baseball. Hang in there.

Robbie - could you please tell LuLu to check her emails for me. Thanks.

Where is Jrsy??????

 

[RobbieLovesLulu]

Selena, thats horrible news. Stay positive and keep the healthy energy flowing

Pooh friend- today will be her first chance to breathe! I'm sure she'll be going through it all tonite

JiminyC- Every time im on Disney property I get that feeling that i'm truly home. Its such a unique feeling.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Selena, I look like a horrible person. Our posts crossed yesterday so I wasn't able to respond to you. I wish I could reach out and help you. Even a hug. Bless E's heart, it will take time. Isn't there some sort of a baseball grievance board for this league that you can appeal to?

I went to a traveling Disney outlet today and heard music from like the Haunted Mansion and other rides. It made me VERY lonesome for WDW. Robbie, I know by your comments that YOU can understand.

Hey, where is Jrsy?? Come on.....he can't be too busy to talk to his "harem".

And where is Karen???? She acts like she is busy with an upcoming trip or something.

 

[ImMarcik]

Okay silly question LOL. How often do you check the disney cruise website to see if you've been upgraded. Every few days I look at my reservation. I don't know why. LOL. Everytime I'm still in cabin 7620.