We will be joining all of you on the May 14th cruise!
Let me introduce my crew:
DH-Tom(42)-Loves Disney..works and travels a lot...LOVES to do Disney power weekends for the kids...he will be the one with the big goofy smile and tears in his eyes boarding the ship.
DS#1-Erick(18)-1st time cruiser-loves Disney, high school senior, refuses to tell us if this cruise will interfere with his senior exams(not listed on school calendar)....just happy to have us actually plan something early enough to actually to finally do a cruise(we are last minute planners) before he decides on college or the military(this apparently is a secret too). He is all about food...mass quantities of food.
DS#2-Tommy(6)-Our Disney honeymoon cruise souvenir from 2001...likes Disney....not fond of the walking in the parks..maybe a cruise will be more his speed.
DS#3-Wyatt(4 turning 5 shortly after cruise) insane..loves Disney, endless energy, the ship might be too small for him.
Beth-family friend(44) helps me pick on DH, likes Disney...had not visited parks for over 20 years until we started dragging her along last year...she is still taking everything in..even Epcot is new for her.
Me-Stacy(37 by time we cruise) Disney freak.
We originally booked a category 4 for just the family(DH,me and the boys) this past Saturday night. But DH started feeling badly that we had not thought to ask Beth if she would like to be included....so at 9am this morning I switched us to 2 connecting category 6 cabins and informed Beth that she had to find a dog sitter(poor Loki) she was going on a cruise. BTW our phone rep was June at
Disney cruise line...she was awesome..changing cabins and adding a person and another cabin was way too easy...it could be dangerous on the wallet.
The 2 younger kids hopefully won't know about the cruise until we pull into port....I'm not worried about the 18 year old missing school at this point they are home waiting for graduation until June anyway, the 4 year old has some flexibility in pre-k...and I am going to have set the bar a little higher on the 6 year old for staying home sick now until the end of the year since he is limited to 10 sick days and we have used 4. As far as letting the school know...ehh I don;t know .... it's only 2 days missed during the 2.5 weeks before summer vacation..I think I am just going to send a note in when we get back about a last minute trip courtesy of daddy who is barely home due to work..it might go over a bit better than the 'I was sick of school and went on a cruise instead' note I am tempted to write.
I am excited about making door magnets and fish extenders and deliveing goodies....I think I am going to do one big fish extender between the 2 rooms since I think we are going to treat the two rooms as a suite or I may do a boys FE and girls FE.
DH and DS#2 did the pirate thing for Halloween ....complete with Jack Sparrow hats...so I am tempted to go all out for Pirate night....we'll see how ambitous I get...I might poop out after fish extenders though..lol.
Can you tell I am excited...the thing I miss most about trips to Disney now that we are local is the lack of planning...no folders, no binders, no list of confirmation numbers...now I have a ton of stuff to do before we cruise....we are going to bite the bullet and get passports since we can probably work in a cruise a year ...DH has his from 2001, mine needs to be updated with my married name and the kids and Beth need to get theirs .....it's only three days...but 3 days is all we can really spare right now with DH's work schedule..I'll gladly take 3 days on a
Disney cruise over most anything else!
So you're a DIsney Mom and a Dance Mom, too!!!!
) and letting the boys see the government buildings, the staircase,etc.
I must not have hit "Send."
Cheryl
I couldn't resist the kids free promotion, and finally talked my DH into it.
