December 11, 2004 Eastern cruise thread

[thejenjens]

Good morning.

My mom and I have late seating. I can nver get myself to eat too early. Has anyone ever been to Coral World? I am going to see if they have a web site to get more info on it. I think it is going to be really neat to go there. I think that we have the early excursion for this.

I hope this is a good sign if people of the 12/4 cruise are getting their docs then maybe ours will be here in another week or so.

Thanks guys, gotta write another page and a half on the paper.

Have a great day everyone.

Jen

 

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Originally posted by thejenjens
Well I just wanted to drop a line, I am trying to avoid writing my paper that is due. This is what I do instead of writing. I write to you guys.
Jen

That's too funny. When I was in college, I used to clean the house to avoid studying. My house has never been as clean since.

 

[TraSee]

Rebecca....lol...sounds like my story exactly! Now my excuse for the messy house is that I can't stay away from these boards. We have cruised with DCL many times before, but when it starts to get close to sail date...well, it is that night beofre Christmas kind of feeling!
Happy Haloween all!
Tracy

 

[jwann]

Welcome newcomers!! We are going to have a SUPER group!

As far as roll call:

My family is travelling with my sister's family (jhorner on this board). Our group is
Me (38)
dh (41)
ds (9)
ds (6)

sister (36)
dh (41)
ds (8)
dd (5)

We are in rooms 2107 and 2109 and we have early seating.

We are planning on doing all our excursions on our own. St. Maarten: renting a jeep and beach hopping. St. Thomas: taking a ferry to St. Johns to visit Trunk Bay.

We are planning on a DIS meeting on Deck 10 after the safety drill and before the Sail Away Party. It is my hope that all DISers will wear a Lime Green DIS button that has their screen name on it. (You can order them for a few dollars from these boards. My dh wants one too even though he only lurks on these boards. or perhaps make your own.)

Also, we have a game in the works where each person from this thread that wants to play will PM me a question and answer. For example: What was jwann's nickname in highschool? or What is squiggle's favorite dessert on the Magic? A few days before we go, I'll post a list of the questions. Print this out and the first one to get me a completed list of answers wins a Disney cruise pin. We are hashing out the rules. More to come.....be thinking of your question.

 

[thejenjens]

Hi All,

That is funny housework. LOL! Well, my mom and I share a townhouse so we kinda split the housework. And now my and and her girlfriend are living here for a short time and I think that they have picked-up my share of the housework while I write my papers. And procrastinate by surfing the boards. HA HA

I have turned in my paper, that turned out to be seven pages. Now I can guilt free surf the boards. That is until next Sunday when I have to turn another paper in.

We are making our own sort of pins, we got the paint sample lime green Mickey head from Home Depot and are going to put my screen name on there.

Has anyone ever been to Coral World before? If so what is it really like and what can we expect? What does everyone do for lunch and what not while on the excursions?

Well, I hope that everyone has a GREAT work week and a GREAT week even if your not working.

Thanks,

Jen

 

[Disneyfan37]

Jen,that is great that you can relax for a week as your paper is done.Enjoy the time!This is the first time DH and I are taking the Disney Magic as our last two cruises were four nighters on the Wonder.We are doing the excursion with Disney for St Maarten,but we are doing St Thomas alone.DH has an early snuba reservation,so we will leave the boat around 8:30 to head over to Coral World.I will do Coral World by myself while he snuba's.DH got two Dis Pins from online,and we will also be making our own Dis t-shirts before cruise that we will be wearing upon boarding ship.It is just dh and I on the cruise,and we have late seating.

JWann,you want the questions sent now or should we wait on that?Let us know.Thanks!

Anybody decorating cabin door?We went yesterday to Office Depot,and we got some magnetic paper.They also have some cute Mickey and Minnie cut outs which I may go back and get to add to door.I found these at the scrapbook section of the store.

Smchan,I saw that on the board too where someone had gotten their docs for December 4 cruise.DH went to AAA last week,and he told them we wanted the docs mailed to us.We don't want to miss that excitement of doc day.Come on docs!

Hope everyone has a great week!

Maria

 

[momto2dkids]

For the newcomers, our traveling party consists of:

me (30ish)
DH (30's)
DD (10 1/2, that half is very important to her!)
DS (5)
DD (newly 1 year old )

We have late seating, which should work out ok since we are from the west coast so with time difference it is about when we normally eat.

JWANN- have you done St. John, Trunk Bay on your own before? I am trying very hard to talk my husband into doing this, but he is paranoid that we are going to miss the ship and then be "S.O.L!"
If I can't talk him into it, I guess we will pretty much stay on the ship since the age of our youngest one prevents us from doing the St. John excursion through DCL.

I am still in on playing the game. Trying to think up some questions!


Disneyfan37- I am planning on trying to make a door sign to decorate our cabin door. I am also trying to find some 'Disneyish' Christmas decorations to possible to to decorate inside the cabin as well. When we traveled on the Halloween Wonder two years ago, I was very lucky to find a boxed set of Halloween decorations(Mickey shaped paper lanterns, mickey bat and mickey ghosts shaped paper garland). I hurried to the cabin to decorate as soon as we boarded as DH went exploring with the kids. The look on their faces when they finally came to cabin and saw all the decorations was priceless. They are still convinced that Mickey and Minnie decorated the cabin for them. In fact, we still have the decorations and used them again this Halloween.

 

[thejenjens]

I think that is great that you decorated your stateroom for your kids. I will keep an eye out for ya on Disney Christmas decorations.

We have a magnet that has the princess' on it and says something like Mille and Jen's Magical Vacation. We are going to put that on our cabin door. Still looking for other things.

Plus, didn't someone mention before about doing a guessing game on your stateroom door?

Thanks,

Jen

 

[DisneyFam5]

Hello,
We will be cruising on the December 11th cruise also. Please be patient with me, because I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to forums! I made my first post last week (and no one answered!) This is only my second attempt. I'm a civil engineer by day and a Disney Fanatic by night (and day!) Our cruisers include:

Me (40 on 12-14, but I'm in denial!)
DH (38)
DS (12
DS (9) (10 on 12-27)
DS (8)

My parents will also be joining us. We cruised the Western Magic two years ago and loved it. I'm looking forward to the extra day at sea.

Well, it's time to see if I did this right and see if my message actually appears!

Michele

 

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Welcome Michele!!

About St. John --- We went to Trunk Bay on our own last year and it was definitely one of the highlights of our trip. I had read up about how to get there, taxis, ferrys, etc. before we left so I pretty well new the schedule we had to follow. Even with that, DH was about to call it off the day before. He was too nervous about not making it back to the ship on time. But, after stepping foot onto that breathtaking beach, he completely changed his mind. It is a rare thing in these times to find a naturally beautiful place that has yet to be spoiled by humans.

As long as you keep track of the time on the beach and catch the cab back to the ferry dock, you will have no problem getting back to the ship on time. The cabs on St. John are used to the cruise ship schedules and line up at the popular beaches (Trunk Bay, Cinammon) on time to pick people up. Also, going on your own, you have more beach time than the excursion folks do. We saw the excursion come and go while we relaxed on the beach and snorkeled.

Have a good week everyone!

 

[momto2dkids]

Welcome Michele and family!

RebeccaLovesDisney- Thanks so much for the info on Trunk Bay, I need all the info I can get to throw at my DH to try and convince him. If nothing else- maybe he will just get tired of me trying to convince him and let me plan away.

 

[disneygatorfan]

Trunk Bay is definitely worth it... was amazing. And it is super easy to get there on your own. All the taxi's are waiting, know when the ships come in, and when they go out. Ferry is easy to catch, and it's a neat ride over to St. John's.

I went to Trunk Bay last year, we got there.. shopped a little in St. John, went to the beach for a few hours...had lunch... got the ferry back, and still had time to shop more on St. Thomas.

 

[Disneyfan37]

Welcome Michele and Family!

momto2dkids-That is a great idea to decorate the stateroom.I bet your kids loved it with the Halloween theme.I know those priceless faces.I know that I am going to take a small table top tree with us.I don't know if you have CVS,Eckerd's or Walmart where you are at,but I have found Disney decorations at all three of these places.If you have a Disney Store by you,they will definitely have them.Your kids will love it no matter what you do!I will see if I see anything,and I will let you know.I havne't decided how I am going to do the cabin door.

thejenjens-DH and I had early seating on our first Disney Cruise on the Wonder,and we liked it.On the second cruise on the Disney Wonder,we had late seating we tried to switch without any luck.We actually ended up loving it as we were never rushed.We have late seating now for this cruise,and we are glad we do.

Everyone have a great day!

Maria

 

[thejenjens]

DisneyFam5--Welcome Michele and family. Are you and your DH going to have a nice dinner at Palo's for your 40th birthday? Hope that you have a great time on the ship and celebrating your 40th. I think that is a great way to spend your birthday.

Disneyfan37--Do you and your DH have a table for two or do you do a group table? We had late seating on our first cruise the 4 night and liked it just fine. We liked going to the show and also not rushing to finish dinner.

I can't believe that we are in the 30's. WOW! The time is going by. Those doc's are sure to be here soon. Then maybe mom and I can find out what our stateroom number is going to be. It is driving me waiting. I can't wait to go to Coral World. I LOVE the ocean and all sea life.

Have a great Tuesday.

Jen

 

[Disneyfan37]

thejenjens-it is just dh and I,so they will probably put us with someone else.I didn't know they had tables for two.We were lucky on our last cruise as we ended up with great tablemates.Hopefully,we will be lucky this time around too.Yes,it is great taking your time at dinner and then being able to enjoy the rest of the evening.

Yes,we are in the 30s day mark finally.I am so ready!Come on 20s<G>!The docs will be coming I am sure any time now.I am so waiting for them.

I am so looking forward to this cruise.I love the sea life.I really enjoyed St Thomas back in 84,so I can't wait to see how much it has changed since than.

Happy Voting Day to all!

Maria

 

[jwann]

Welcome Michele and family!

I'm just busting at the seems with excitement! (or is that my growing waistline from all the halloween candy....)

Michele - I have a boy who is 9 and can't wait to go to the lab!

About Trunk Bay - We are just going to wing-it. Sounds like we'll have company from our DIS friends here on the thread. We can keep a look out for one another so we can be sure to make it back to the ship on time!

Now begins the political message part of my post.....
GO VOTE!
Thus ends the political message part of my post

 

[thejenjens]

Disneyfan37,

On the four night we were able to request a table for two. So that is what we did this time as well. My mom always says that I would be comfortable no matter how many peopel we sat with, however she is unsure of dining with strangers. Even if they will be our Disney family for seven nights. So I of course want her to be comfortable on her vacation so I go along with a table for two. Plus it gives us more quality time together, however I guess being on a ship in the middle of the ocean we'll get a TON of quality time together. I love going on vacation with her she is the best.

Still wondering if anyone has ever done Coral World before or not?

Can't wait to be sailing, sailing over the ocean blue.

Thanks,

Jen

 

[Disneyfan37]

thejenjens - How were you able to request a table for two?I may talk to dh about doing so!Thanks!It is nice to sit with others,but one never knows!

I know it will be so great sailing out in the ocean!Come on December!

Maria

 

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Originally posted by disneygatorfan


it's our new tradition of a december cruise together.. did it last year at the same time and had a lot of fun!

Shelley - just wondering which cruise you were on last December. We were on the Dec. 13th Eastern cruise. Were you on that one as well?

Also, I noticed you asked about going to the parks. We are going both before and after the cruise. Two park days before (mostly MK while crowds are low) and three park days after.

Momto2dkids - This website has a lot of good information about the US Virgin Islands, such as taxis, ferry schedules, beaches.
www.vinow.com

 

[momto2dkids]

RebeccaLovesDisney-
Thanks so much for the link to the V.I. It looks great. I am excited to look at it in more depth later. Right now workmen are cutting the stucco off the back exterior of my house. VERY LOUD. It seems several of the windows on the back lower floor of my house (4 years old) have been leaking over the years. They tore through parts of the interior wall last week and found some water damage and small amount of mold-YUK! Now they have to take the stucco off so they can do more testing on the windows to see if they are defective. I just keep thinking- THE CRUISE IS COMING, THE CRUISE IS COMING!!

(My daughter has really enjoyed corresponding with your daughter. Please let her know that my daughter will be PM'ing her again soon, it's just with all the craziness around the house right now she has to wait to use the computer.)

Looking forward to meeting you all at the cruise meet on deck 10.