December 2,2006...Anyone want to join us?

[Zane_Anthony]

Hello All,

It's been awhile since I have been on so I have a lot of reading to do I spent this past weekend in Dallas and had a lot of fun. I went to the Disney store and found us some santa hats with mickey ears for $1.99 so I am really excited about that ! I'm here in TX so the weather is pretty warm and dry with lot's of fires! . I have told my son that we get to go on the Mickey boat when he is a school kid ( he starts kindergarten this fall ) so yesterday morning he work up and said guess what mom...i'm a school kid now i thought that was cute ( if only it were true ). Well I guess I will go read up now. Talk to you all later !

 

[alwayslisad]

Hello all my fellow Cruisers!!!!

I have spent the past few days looking for some nice outfits for Renee (14) and I - I found two BEAUTIFUL gowns ~ both Lilac
Now my dilema is - I would love to purchase them for her and I when the time comes closer - ( and I have lost more weight ) but what to do about DH....

he has an amazing Charcol Gray (grey - never can figure out that spelling ) suit - that I got at JCPenney last year, when he escorted his sister to a wedding....

Now I can order a tux as well off the Disney Ship - and purchase a Lilac tie and cummerbund ( for about $20 ) to go with the outfits that Renee and I may wear - or I can bring his Suit and just get a tux shirt and Tie and Cummerbund.....

What are your thoughts on this???? What are you all planning on doing?????

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Zane Anthony,
I love your son's logic! I wish it worked that way, we would be cruising right now.
Well we are suppose to get down to freezing here tonight. BBbbrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
For sunny Florida, that is cold. Our high's will be ok, but the lows at night are getting pretty chilly.
We are headed for WDW this weekend. Going to stay at the Wilderness lodge for 2 nights. That should be nice. We live really close, but we thought it would be nice to have a weekend away for a change.

Alwayslisad,
Sorry i have no fashion sense to help you with ideas of what is best. I'm sure you'll make the right decision and everyone will look great!!

mom x4,grandma x4

 

[princessdaisy]

Alwayslisad: I love the sound of the lilac formals. My dd (13) wore her lilac formal for pictures on our last cruise (April05). She had worn it six months before for her aunt's wedding. I am not sure what we are going to wear for this year's cruise. I really want some nice "DCL christmas portraits" to send out to family and friends when we return home. It is gonna be so nice to see the ship decorated for the holidays..

Stephanie

 

[disneycruising]

momx4,grandmax4,

Where in Oregon did you live??

I grew up in Oregon, we lived in the Beaverton area. MY parents and sister are currently living in Sherwood.

We went and visited them over the holidays. We now live in Northen CA. I love going and spending time with them, but I hate all the rain. Is is nice to come home to the sunshine!

Cindy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Cindy,
We are both born in Portland Oregon, but i grew up in Milwaukie.
A good deal of our married life was in Bend and Silverton . My brother lives in Aloha, which is close to Beaverton. My Aunt and grandma lived in Beaverton for around 30 years. We would go there almost every sunday, so I am very familiar with it. Boy you are right about the weather there, it has been record flooding all winter it seems. It is a beautiful state, but it is wet!! I love the sun in Florida in the winter, but it gets too hot in the summer for me.
One of my brothers lived in Modesto for a few years. I dont know if that is close to you or not?
It is nice to hear from someone so close to home, I'm looking forward to meeting you in a few months,
Kathy

 

[nala1128]

OK, Just found this thread. We are on the 12/2/06 cruise. It will me myself, DH, DD (will be 7 by then), and DS (will be 5 by then.) We booked this one while on a 4 night Bahama cruise last January. We were in Disney this Christmas, and went to Mickeys Very Merry Christmas Party. It was lovely. Looking forward to this next cruise!!!!! I'm sure it will be cold here in NY when we are cruising the Western Caribbean

 

[alwayslisad]

Welcome Nala1128 ~ it appears that we have an AWESOME group going on the 12/02/2006 cruise!!! Can't wait to meet you all!!!!!

More snow due here today - and more over the weekend - but this is NH and I should expect it after 20 yrs being here

 

[momof6innc]

We just found this board, so I'm officially announcing that our cruise is booked! We sailed with the Wonder during this week in 04, and we loved it then so we decided to rebook for the same timeframe. It will be fun to chat as we get ready for the cruise and maybe meet!

A bit about us: I have been a Disney fan since childhood, multiple trips to Anaheim (my family's first big cross country vacation), Disneyland Paris (visited 12 days after opening, then lots more times while stationed in Germany with the Army for 7 years both single and married with kids), and now Orlando many times. Our first Disney cruise was on the Wonder, as I mentioned above. Our only DD was diagnosed with leukemia in April 04, and since we lived in Newport, RI at the time we were used to seeing lots of cruise ships sail in. After hearing about her friend talk about his Make a Wish Disney cruise, she said she wanted to do that with her family (what a kid!). My parents booked a cabin on the same cruise, so we didn't have to send the baby to Flounder's reef at all. We all had a ball. DD was treated like a star, and us as well. There was a Make a Wish coordinator; he gave her presents in her room every day, and the 7 make a wish families were the only ones who got a private visit with Captain Mickey that cruise.

Fast forward to last month, December 05. We were bitten by the cruise bug and starting a savings fund for our next undated cruise. Then I thought, DD will get her "all clear/cured" status in October 06, with a few more things to do in November. Why not start to make definite plans for a real celebration? Some families in the clinic had huge catered and DJ'd parties to celebrate the end of chemo/treatment, but we thought another cruise would be more appropriate for us (he-he, anything to go on the ship again! ). So I started pricing out, and we paid for our cruise earlier this month. As a bonus, my dad booked the cabin across the hall for he, my mom and sister so we will have built-in babysitters for the new baby!

We have 6 kids: 11, 10, 8, 6, 3, and 13 months at the time of the cruise (yes, that's the 3 month old you should be able to hear in the background, he's that loud!). We can't wait! (OK, baby's fine now). I have the passporter's cruise book from the last cruise, so now I get to look up all of the fun extra stuff on the Magic. We have two adjoining cabins, and we plan to go to Palo once just with DH and I and another time with the parents, and then the adult ladies of the group hopefully can go to high tea. The kids are looking forward to returning to the kids clubs. The older boys are saving their money for the arcade cards.

I guess what I'll want to know, for those who have been on the Western cruise, what are the most fun/worth it shore excursions? Because of the cost of the trip already, our budget is tight for excursions. We plan on having each person go on one if they want, and we'd split up (Dad goes with the older boys if it's physically challenging, let's say, and I'd go on the easier ones). If we don't pick a shore excursion, are there beaches to go to on the various islands without too much trouble? We stopped at Nassau last year, but we only walked around for an hour or so before returning to the ship. We might have been more adventurous if the day at sea had been first. We were so in love with the ship we didn't want to get off that first day!

I look forward to chatting over the next few months before meeting!

Elizabeth

 

[momof6innc]

How many posts do I need to do before I can post tickers and such? I tried but it said I hadn't posted the minimum. And which ticker code do we use? I use tickercentral.

thanks!

Elizabeth

 

[nala1128]

Hi! It does seem like a nice group. Momof6 it sounds like this cruise is a very fitting celebration. Congratulations to you and your whole family!!!!!

I also have never been on a Western Cruise. DH and I have done different parts of Eastern Caribbean before the kids were born. We too would appreciate any good shore excursion suggestions for the Western Caribbean. Our kids will be 7 & 5 at the time of sailing.

Also, does anyone have any more info about the High Tea. My daughter is a big fan of Tea already (At the ripe old age of 6 LOL), and I would love more info.

Thanks all!!!!

Robin

 

[nala1128]

I know that the code I copied and pasted was the bbCode from Tickerfactory!
I am nost sure about any restriction.

 

[alwayslisad]

Welcome Momof6 ~ welcome to the 12/02/2006 PARTY CENTRAL posting place -

 

[momof6innc]

I want to post tickers and stuff, so I'm going to try an experiment and post a bunch of questions one at a time to see if maybe once I post 10 I can post urls. I've already looked at the faqs and didn't find out anything about email postings and such.

First question, and I apologise if the answer is in the Passporter's guide (I can't find mine!). Any idea how easy/hard it is to get switched from second seating to first seating? Our problem is that we will have 11 people in our party, so I am thinking it won't be possible. Maybe if we were a smaller group. That was a bit of a drawback but definitely not enough to halt our plans. We know the kids will be on quirky schedules, so it's not a big deal. I just want to know what the chances are.

We called two different travel agencies, and both were surprised that second seating was the only one available on this cruise. Anyone know of any big groups sailing with us who would have reserved whole dining rooms?

Elizabeth (the one who can't wait to post tickers and stuff!)

 

[momof6innc]

Hi all, me again

Are you talking about the High Tea at Palo, or the Tea with Wendy for kids? I think you have to be an adult to go to the Palo one, but I know my DD will want to go to tea with Wendy! I have read somewhere around here that not many little boys want to go, but one of my boys will be 6 and I read that the boys can get picked to act out Michael and John. I think he'd have fun with that.

I think, with more time on the cruise this time (4-night last time), there will be more time to plan stuff with everyone in the family. The Palo high tea will be perfect for Mom and my sister and me.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi everyone,
We did the western last december, but the excursions we took were not good ones for younger kids. They would be bored I'm sure, but for us they were great. Our grandkids swam with the sting rays and loved it at Grand Caymen, they are 11 and 14. Our cruise went to Costa Maya instead of Cozumel, so I dont know what Cozumel has to offer for kids.
Next week we will hit the 10 month mark!!!!!

Time is flying by very quickly for us.
Hope everyone has a good weekend,
mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[nala1128]

I was talking about the High Tea with Wendy for my Daughter. My Mother-in-Law always has little "tea parties" with my kids when she visits. My son always likes to be included, but never touches the tea!!!!!! Our first cruise was also a 4 night Bahama so we are looking forward to being able to do more great stuff on this cruise too!

 

[Zane_Anthony]

Wow...Looks like a lot of new people since I last checked in ! Hello to you all I am glad to see some kids my sons age ( he will be 5 then ). The only excursion I have found that I would really like to do is the dolphin encounter in Cozumel. I am just crossing my fingers hoping they can be back up and running by then, and that no hurricanes tear up anything else this summer !

 

[princessdaisy]

Just checking in to say "Hi" We are looking to book one of the stingray excursions (Grand Cayment)but not with Disney. My 4 1/2 year old (at time of cruise) wants to see them! might also do the one on Castaway Cay...not sure yet.

The tea at Palo's was very nice...my hubby wouldn't go with me, so a few other Dis pals joined me for tea

Have a great weekend everyone!

Stephanie

 

[momof6innc]

I'm doing this to show off the kids as well as bump us up! This photo was from our private visit with Captain Mickey on the Wonder last December. The 7 Make a Wish families got to visit with Captain Mickey, who didn't come out to the general public during the entire cruise, so all of the kids felt very special!

I have decided to really cut down food spending for a week and see just how much money I can put into my DCL savings jar. I don't usually budget shop (too lazy), but I bet if I do I'll be able to put an extra $100 or so, at least.