Dec. 7, 2008 4 nite Mousefest Cruise - who's all going?

[mkmommy]

Danielle

Those shirts look great, I really like the Mickey on the ship, where did you find that one?

Lisa

 

[Hanover]

Thanks--The Mickey on the ship is from a menu the 1st night on the Magic. If you PM me your email, I can send the graphic to you. I had to crop it a bit because the edges of the menu were a little wrinkled.

 

[WeLuvDCL]

I finished our homemade t-shirts! I did navy blue shirts for embarkation day with a DCL I.D. tag of our names (Thanks to Tom's designs on the creative Disign thread) and a "let the magic begin" design on the back (from a picture of a menu). I did burgundy ones for pirate night with a small graphic of Mickey and Minnie with our last name, Romanoff's in the Caribbean. The back has a larger image of some characters in pirate garb. The image on the left is the front of the shirts and the right is the back:

AWESOME job on the shirts!! They look nicer than some of the t-shirts I've seen in the gift shop!

 

[the2princessesmom]

Danielle,

Wow the shirts are awesome! I thought for just a second about making shirts but I'm so not creative in anyway.

Lill

 

[jharrowell]

Wow! Those shirts are so cool!

Oh, just had to share, my documents came through yesterday.

 

[lukesmom]

Danielle,
Those shirts are amazing!! Great job.

Donna

 

[ladyandtramp]

Still waiting for my cruise docs...getting kind of nervous


Can someone who has been on the cruise before help me understand the dinner rotations, and the "dress up night" and how the Pirates night works into all that?
Thanks!

 

[J_LO]

Yeah they finally came!!

We have the land and sea package, i was assuming that the park tickets and all of that would come at the same time...does anyone know anything about this? Or do we get our tickets and all that fun stuff when we check in?

Thanks a bunch!!
Jennifer

 

[Hanover]

Danielle,

Wow the shirts are awesome! I thought for just a second about making shirts but I'm so not creative in anyway.

Lill

Wow! Those shirts are so cool!

Oh, just had to share, my documents came through yesterday.

Danielle,
Those shirts are amazing!! Great job.

Donna

thanks--they were actually super easy to make. I had someone (Tom) on Disboards design the name tags and used a copy of a menu for the back. I just printed them on transfer paper and ironed them on prewashed shirts. With the pirate ones, I used a design someone made for the front and a copy of a graphic I found on Disboards for the back.

Brennan had his pokemon league last night and when we got home the AAA agent had left a message saying our documents were in and we could pick them up.

 

[Hanover]

Yeah they finally came!!

We have the land and sea package, i was assuming that the park tickets and all of that would come at the same time...does anyone know anything about this? Or do we get our tickets and all that fun stuff when we check in?

Thanks a bunch!!
Jennifer

You will get a Key to the World card at the resort when you check in. This will be your resort room key, park tickets, charge card and if you are on the Disney dining plan, the meal credits too. When you get to the DCL terminal, you will get another Key to the World card. Your resort may also have a check in desk for DCL that will really speed up your check in process for DCL.

 

[Hanover]

Still waiting for my cruise docs...getting kind of nervous


Can someone who has been on the cruise before help me understand the dinner rotations, and the "dress up night" and how the Pirates night works into all that?
Thanks!

When you get your Key to the World card, it will have your dining rotation/time listed on it. You will get "tickets" in your stateroom telling you where to go and what table.

As far as pirate night goes, the dining rooms have a special pirate menu, the wait staff is dressed in pirate attire, they do a cute little bit of entertainment I won't ruin by telling you and then the pirate party is in the evening. The pirate party is a lot of different dances at the Goofy pool with characters and DCL staff before fireworks. There's also a couple of other bits in there with Hook and Mickey but I don't want to ruin any surprises. After the party, there's a big dessert buffet and some other buffet foods like quesadillas, turkey legs, chili, crepes, etc.

 

[mkmommy]

thanks--they were actually super easy to make. I had someone (Tom) on Disboards design the name tags and used a copy of a menu for the back. I just printed them on transfer paper and ironed them on prewashed shirts. With the pirate ones, I used a design someone made for the front and a copy of a graphic I found on Disboards for the back.

Brennan had his pokemon league last night and when we got home the AAA agent had left a message saying our documents were in and we could pick them up.

Glad you got your documents, but what is a pokemon league?

Lisa

 

[Hanover]

Glad you got your documents, but what is a pokemon league?

Lisa

It's a club of people that "battle" with Pokemon cards. There's kids from ages about 5 through older adults. On any given Thursday, there are about 30 to 50 people that come to play in the middle of the mall. It is an official league and for every so many battles, they earn pins and a pack of 3 or 4 cards. They have tournaments and pre-release dates where they play with new packs of cards before they are released to the public. Brennan got into Pokemon last year on the bus when his friends would trade cards among each other. When I was at KB toys in our mall buying him some new cards last year, I saw a sign that mentioned the league and then found out it was friends from baseball that started the local league here and we didn't know about it before then. Brennan really loves it. Keegan never got into it but enjoys hanging out at the mall once a week!

 

[Hanover]

I forgot to mention I got my Mousefest lanyard, pin and pocket guide book yesterday!

 

[psugrad99]

Just wanted to say "HI" I've been reading the boards now for weeks and thought, I should start posting myself. This is our 3rd DCL but the first with a toddler so it should make it interesting. We are also doing the Land and Sea (as much as we love the cruise, we have never been to WDW with it all decorated for Christmas). I was surprised to find out that we were on the MouseFest cruise so I didn't want to be left out.

 

[memobrien]

how is everyone getting to the cruise? Are you taking the DCL buses? I booked transportation on their buses from WDW. but it seems like we will get there later in the day. now i'm kind of wishing I made other plans. I'm wondering if it's too late to cancel the transportation from the Poly to cruise, and go another way.

maura

 

[lukesmom]

how is everyone getting to the cruise? Are you taking the DCL buses? I booked transportation on their buses from WDW. but it seems like we will get there later in the day. now i'm kind of wishing I made other plans. I'm wondering if it's too late to cancel the transportation from the Poly to cruise, and go another way.

maura

I've booked to DCL bus from our resort (Saratoga Springs) to the Port.

Donna

 

[mkmommy]

Just wanted to say "HI" I've been reading the boards now for weeks and thought, I should start posting myself. This is our 3rd DCL but the first with a toddler so it should make it interesting. We are also doing the Land and Sea (as much as we love the cruise, we have never been to WDW with it all decorated for Christmas). I was surprised to find out that we were on the MouseFest cruise so I didn't want to be left out.

Welcome aboard, thanks for saying hi, and hopefully you will drop by our meet at 3:00 PM

Two weeks today I will be flying to Florida , I am glad it is not this weekend as we have had snow and it would be a slow drive to the airport.

Lisa

 

[Hanover]

Just wanted to say "HI" I've been reading the boards now for weeks and thought, I should start posting myself. This is our 3rd DCL but the first with a toddler so it should make it interesting. We are also doing the Land and Sea (as much as we love the cruise, we have never been to WDW with it all decorated for Christmas). I was surprised to find out that we were on the MouseFest cruise so I didn't want to be left out.

Welcome! Looks like we've got a few from PA along with us! My DH's family is from Pittsburgh and we live right outside of Gettysburg.

 

[Hanover]

how is everyone getting to the cruise? Are you taking the DCL buses? I booked transportation on their buses from WDW. but it seems like we will get there later in the day. now i'm kind of wishing I made other plans. I'm wondering if it's too late to cancel the transportation from the Poly to cruise, and go another way.

maura

We have a rental car we'll be parking at the port. Our friends rented a town car from the Hyatt to the port and back from the port to the Hyatt.

Two weeks from right now we'll either be at MK or Epcot. DH and the boys really want to start off at MK, but the Christmas parade taping crowds scare me! I guess we can always hop. We have dinner ressies at the Garden Grill that night. Is anyone going to MVMCP on the 12th? Right now that's our plan but we still need to buy tickets. We're renewing our annual passes this trip too so I wanted to wait in case we decide to just hop to another park on the 12th. I love MVMCP, but it would be over $200 extra for us to get tickets.