Dec. 2, 2007-4 night Wonder and MouseFest Cruise

[keegandkenziesmama]

For those of you who are debating if taking your kids out of school for a cruise will cause them lifelong "damage", just wanted to assure you that my daughter, who missed a number of days of school for several Disney trips and one cruise, is now at college on a full ride scholarship--so obviously it didn't hurt her. No need for any "guilt".

I realize, of course, every child is different, and not all can handle missing a full week, but if you think your child can make up the work, then don't hesitate. You know your child better than anyone else!!

Now she is in college and can't sail with us anymore, so our opportunities for family times-- at least childhood experiences-- are gone. She has obviously made up the academic work, but we could never make up the "memories" had we missed these experiences!! They grow up so fast, every moment is precious--take full advantage of it now whenever you can.

What if Wendy had worried about school instead of flying to Neverland with Peter?

That's some great advice! We did get all of his work beforehand (Kindergarten) and he did most if it before we left. She even gave him an additional vacation-related assignment. Then, when we got home I found out that there were two snow days, so he probably did even more work than they did! And you're right, the memories are much more important! Thanks for your insight!
Jennifer

 

[ulittletinker]

Hi Jennifer,

We have been taking our 9 year old out of school the last 4 cruises. We usually get her work ahead of time and try to do as much as we can before we leave. I try not to worry about it too much, though I am sure it will be a little trickier as we hit middle school. I figure it is just so much cheaper this time of the year than when the kids are off of school.

I am not a member of the Vacation Club, but I know some of our cruisers on our thread are---hopefully they can give you more info on it.

We came home Sat. to cold and very snowy weather. I keep thinking last week at this time, it was so nice and warm at Nassau

Vicki

Vicki, I'm moving our next cruise to Dec 5 09. We'll be saliling with you again on the magic. we decided to do Disneyland for halloween 08 and skipping mousefest 08.

I haven't told danie yet.

talk to you soon
Virginia

 

[Long Gone]

Someone told me at one of the land Mousefest events, that the Wonder's Dec. 6 cruise immediately after ours was delayed or cancelled due to a mechanical problem, possibly related to the power failure Monday evening. Did anyone else hear anything about that? Or did anyone ever get any credible information about what caused the power to "blink" on our cruise?

The Chief Engineer at the Captain's Corner forum said that it was a clogged or broken fuel filter that caused an engine to shut down. The power was only out 7 min and all systems functioned as they should have.

We too had a great time. Sorry to not have been able to meet more people. In retrospect, it might have been nice to know what everyone looked like before we boarded. I think the people I might have recognized are Michael and Marc and Marilyn and John. I'm pretty sure I didn't bump into any of them.

Thanks to all who participated in the secret santa. The kids ran to the room to see if there was something in the stocking.

We rebooked the Dec 6, 2009 (4 night) but have been considering the Dec 5, 2009 eastern. Seems like the 4 night was not quite long enough.

 

[mvlimmex]

Vicki, I'm moving our next cruise to Dec 5 09. We'll be saliling with you again on the magic. we decided to do Disneyland for halloween 08 and skipping mousefest 08.

I haven't told danie yet.

talk to you soon
Virginia

YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That will be so much fun to be on the same cruise again! I really enjoyed getting to know you. I see Long Gone is thinking about joining us too .

Adriane will be so excited!! I am excited to go on a 7 night cruise, as this time around just seemed to go so fast!

You'll have fun at Disneyland next Oct. especially during Halloween. Don't they have special events planned during that time? We hope to also go to DL in a year or 2. I haven't been there for about 5 years and really enjoyed it last time we were there.

Did you have a good time at the resort and parks over the weekend. Isaac came down with a cold towards the end of our cruise and is now feeling miserable. Poor little guy. I feel so bad for him.

Vicki

 

[keegandkenziesmama]

YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That will be so much fun to be on the same cruise again! I really enjoyed getting to know you. I see Long Gone is thinking about joining us too .

Adriane will be so excited!! I am excited to go on a 7 night cruise, as this time around just seemed to go so fast!

You'll have fun at Disneyland next Oct. especially during Halloween. Don't they have special events planned during that time? We hope to also go to DL in a year or 2. I haven't been there for about 5 years and really enjoyed it last time we were there.

Did you have a good time at the resort and parks over the weekend. Isaac came down with a cold towards the end of our cruise and is now feeling miserable. Poor little guy. I feel so bad for him.

Vicki

Poor baby, I hate when they're sick at these young ages. I hope he feels better soon!
Jennifer

 

[mvlimmex]

Poor baby, I hate when they're sick at these young ages. I hope he feels better soon!
Jennifer

Thanks Jennifer!! Me too.

Vicki

 

[OJoyfulOne]

I haven't heard anything, But We were at PALOs for dinner when the power went out. Dinner still was wonderful as always.
Virginia

Virginia! We were at Palos as well when the power went out. We were sitting at a table right where the walkway was as people came in......so everyone coming in or out would have passed by us.

Our server was Dalibar and we asked him if the power outage has happened before and he said he has been there for six years and never had something like that happen.

Palos was our favorite sit down dinner hands down.

I had trouble fitting in all the food though. All of us had too much to eat at the bar-ba-que on Castaway Cay and we ended up skipping dinner. So, we never got to experience Tritons. I was sooooo full. We did make it upstairs later for the Pirates buffet.....had one of those huge turkey legs......YUM! Oh.....and dessert.

Joy

 

[OJoyfulOne]

I'm feeling pretty jealous cause you guys are going on another cruise!!! Wish I could be sailing with y'all! Couldn't afford it. I wouldn't mind doing a seven night cruise next time tough.

I was a bit suprised that I really didn't read about the boat rocking the first several hours of the cruise and then for a couple of hours on the way back on the DisBoards (maybe I missed it??). I wasn't prepared for that. I got a little sea sick. Couldn't eat anything at dinner hardly the first night and had to leave the table at one point to use the restroom if you know what I mean! We called down to guest services and got some sea sickness pills before dinner which helped very little. Next time I'll know.

Joy

 

[keegandkenziesmama]

Anyone know someone trustworthy --with extra space in their suitcase--who's going cruising soon? lol I'm totally depressed...I bought my daughter this little set of plastic princesses in this round package and they had another one with the 7 dwarfs and I didn't get it and now I'm BUMMED!!!!! I always do that! I'd love to get them now for her (really, it's for me!).

Jennifer

 

[ulittletinker]

I was just listening to the news, and they mentioned a grandma banned for life at all Disney property. I have to watch the 11:00 pm for details. as soon as I get the details, I'll post.

virginia

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

Hey everyone! Just wanted to say Hi. I had a wonderful time (no pun intended) and wanted to thank all of you for stalking me out
We just got back last night to 34 degrees, Thank you Cleveland.
I'm sorry I didn't get to meet all of you, but the ones I did, you were so great!
I'm so glad that we went over to Disney after the cruise it def helped with the depression of getting off the boat.
The next cruise is looking like the 5 day in Sept of 08 and then A 7 day of Oct 09. If I can jam anymore in there, I will

 

[keegandkenziesmama]

Hey everyone! Just wanted to say Hi. I had a wonderful time (no pun intended) and wanted to thank all of you for stalking me out
We just got back last night to 34 degrees, Thank you Cleveland.
I'm sorry I didn't get to meet all of you, but the ones I did, you were so great!
I'm so glad that we went over to Disney after the cruise it def helped with the depression of getting off the boat.
The next cruise is looking like the 5 day in Sept of 08 and then the 7 day of 09. If I can jam anymore in there, I will

Hi! I wanted to tell you my two oldest loved seeing their names on your door...we had to always stop and look at it! Hope we didn't wake you at any time with a bunch of loud ruckus right outside your room!

Jennifer

 

[granmaz]

I was just listening to the news, and they mentioned a grandma banned for life at all Disney property. I have to watch the 11:00 pm for details. as soon as I get the details, I'll post.

virginia

Well it wasn't me!!!!!

Hi all, we just arrived home this morning. Had a fantastic vacation overall and the cruise was brilliant. Sorry we didn't get to meet many of you.

Shared a table with Kim and Melissa and had a ball!! We had so many laughs. We bumped into them twice in the parks too afterwards which was amazing.

Thanks everyone for the Secret Santas.

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

Shared a table with Kim and Melissa and had a ball!! We had so many laughs. We bumped into them twice in the parks too afterwards which was amazing.

This was one of the highlights of the cruise for us! It was a great time. Thanks for putting up with us.

 

[ulittletinker]

Well it wasn't me!!!!!

Hi all, we just arrived home this morning. Had a fantastic vacation overall and the cruise was brilliant. Sorry we didn't get to meet many of you.

Shared a table with Kim and Melissa and had a ball!! We had so many laughs. We bumped into them twice in the parks too afterwards which was amazing.

Thanks everyone for the Secret Santas.

Was your waiter Witt and Anna by chance?
Virginia

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

Was your waiter Witt and Anna by chance?
Virginia

Yep it was! They were AWESOME!

 

[ulittletinker]

Yep it was! They were AWESOME!

I think you guys were sitting kitty courner from us. Did you and your friend have your hair braided? We were at table 9 A community table sitting with two teachers and two TA.

Virginia

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

I think you guys were sitting kitty courner from us. Did you and your friend have your hair braided? We were at table 9 A community table sitting with two teachers and two TA.

Virginia

Yes we had our hair braided! How funny! I had no clue who anyone was. People would come up to me and know who I was. Were you at the table with the awesome looking captain jacks??

 

[granmaz]

This was one of the highlights of the cruise for us! It was a great time. Thanks for putting up with us.

On the contrary, thank you for putting up with us. We both agree here our meal times was one of our highlights too!!! Didn't we have a lot of fun?

Was your waiter Witt and Anna by chance?
Virginia

Yep it was! They were AWESOME!

They were the best servers.

 

[OJoyfulOne]

Welcome back everyone!

Granmaz, I thought I might have seen you and John a few times, but I just wasn't sure. I'm the shy one, so I didn't approach you and say hi. Sorry.

Glad everyone made it home safely so far!

Joy