December 23, 2009 ~ Christmas on the Wonder!

[JohnsPrincess]

I should have included the above quote when saying I'll be signing up. Can you tell I am new to this? Never mind this must be my 4th post now only another 6 to go and I can sign up for the fish extender exchange - yeh!!
Julie

I'm so glad you'll be joining in!!!

Will you be dressing up for Pirate Night?

 

[TheBeadPirate]

I should have included the above quote when saying I'll be signing up. Can you tell I am new to this? Never mind this must be my 4th post now only another 6 to go and I can sign up for the fish extender exchange - yeh!!
Julie

LOL... I already have your screenname in as a placeholder! I put it in when I made the spreadsheet. I figured since you asked about it you'd be signing up!

I just finished our October FE gifts.. wanna see? I did embroidered Halloween treat bags for each cabin. We have 17 cabins participating on it.

close up of the logo:

 

[JohnsPrincess]

ARGH!! I can't see the pictures from work!! I'm going to have to check on this back at the Villa. They SOUND cute though!! Embroidered treat bags!!

...I also need to go through the magnet pictures so I can get that done!!

 

[NCDisneyfam]

Your fish extender Halloween gifts are great! I hope we can get several families to sign up to participate for the Christmas Cruise!! I think it will feel even more like Christmas if we're getting little gifts every now and then!

 

[JohnsPrincess]

Your fish extender Halloween gifts are great! I hope we can get several families to sign up to participate for the Christmas Cruise!! I think it will feel even more like Christmas if we're getting little gifts every now and then!

I know what you mean!! I'm so excited!!

 

[milliesmum]

I'm so glad you'll be joining in!!!

Will you be dressing up for Pirate Night?

No, probably not, I'll go down the tropical/caribbean dress route. My DS(22) has a fab Jack Sparrow outfit that he will be wearing.

 

[milliesmum]

Your fish extender Halloween gifts are great! I hope we can get several families to sign up to participate for the Christmas Cruise!! I think it will feel even more like Christmas if we're getting little gifts every now and then!

I agree - Its going to be great, I can't wait

 

[JohnsPrincess]

No, probably not, I'll go down the tropical/caribbean dress route. My DS(22) has a fab Jack Sparrow outfit that he will be wearing.

Your DS is only a little younger than I am!! My dh and I are planning on dressing up and I told my mom that she MUST find herself and my baby sister costumes too!! LOL

 

[JohnsPrincess]

LOL... I already have your screenname in as a placeholder! I put it in when I made the spreadsheet. I figured since you asked about it you'd be signing up!

I just finished our October FE gifts.. wanna see? I did embroidered Halloween treat bags for each cabin. We have 17 cabins participating on it.

close up of the logo:

I checked this from my room and those are Adorable!!! Good job!!! Lucky cruisers!

 

[JohnsPrincess]

Eeeeeek! I'm so excited!! The Amazing woman who's disigning my magnets sent me a PM with 2 of them!! But I'm at work so I can't see the pictures - the Agony! I will be checking those as soon as I get back to my room tonight!

AND - my husband sent me all my mail (even though he wasn't supposed to) and one of those things was my Fish Extender that I ordered and it's SO CUTE!!! It's PERFECT!! I didn't expect it to be so so so nice!

 

[NCDisneyfam]

We have our pirate costumes, we book excursions on Friday--Now we just need to get more people to sign up for fish extenders!!! Where is everyone??

 

[milliesmum]

Hooray i'm now a fully paid up member having just paid the balance for the cruise.
Is it just me or have Disney complicated the new web site? It may be my computer but trying to pay for three cabins was a nightmare and I ended up going round in circles trying to get on the right page.
Nevermind its done now - now all I have to worry about is what to pack!

 

[JohnsPrincess]

We have our pirate costumes, we book excursions on Friday--Now we just need to get more people to sign up for fish extenders!!! Where is everyone??

I know!! Tomorrow we can book excursions!! So excited!!! What is everyone planning on doing?? We want to do the Ardasta Gardens/City tour in Nassau (though the Forts and Junkanoo one looks cool too) and then the Seahorse Catamaran & Snorkel adventure on Castaway Cay!

 

[JohnsPrincess]

Hooray i'm now a fully paid up member having just paid the balance for the cruise.
Is it just me or have Disney complicated the new web site? It may be my computer but trying to pay for three cabins was a nightmare and I ended up going round in circles trying to get on the right page.
Nevermind its done now - now all I have to worry about is what to pack!

My issue with the site is that every time I log in I have to add my reservation number again if I want any info on it. I don't understand why it won't save under my login??!!

 

[TheBeadPirate]

I'm wondering just how full the ship's gonna be for our cruise. I put off booking Palo brunch until yesterday (we're Castaway Club- can book at 90 days). Brunch usually books up fast......well, when I booked it was wide open!

So we're doing Palo Brunch Christmas Day at 10:30!

And we're waiting to book our excursions till after this cruise. We're doing the Greycliff Resort wine pairing and may do it again if it's worth it. It's listed as one of the top rated wine cellars in the world by Wine Spectator- I'm looking forward to it!

And we usually just hang out on Castaway Cay- so no worries there!

I printed out my Christmas door magnets already too. They're packed away ready to go!

Cruise Critic has message boards also with "roll call" threads like these. I listed our cruise there also and haven't gotten any responses yet.

 

[JohnsPrincess]

I'm wondering just how full the ship's gonna be for our cruise. I put off booking Palo brunch until yesterday (we're Castaway Club- can book at 90 days). Brunch usually books up fast......well, when I booked it was wide open!

So we're doing Palo Brunch Christmas Day at 10:30!

And we're waiting to book our excursions till after this cruise. We're doing the Greycliff Resort wine pairing and may do it again if it's worth it. It's listed as one of the top rated wine cellars in the world by Wine Spectator- I'm looking forward to it!

And we usually just hang out on Castaway Cay- so no worries there!

I printed out my Christmas door magnets already too. They're packed away ready to go!

Cruise Critic has message boards also with "roll call" threads like these. I listed our cruise there also and haven't gotten any responses yet.

Oooh it would be lovely if it wasn't too crowded!! I go back and forth on Palo but I think we're going to skip it this time since I want to make sure we see/do all the holiday stuff and spend as much time with my mom (and sister who can't eat there) as possible! Next time DEF though! LOL

The wine pairing looks SO GOOD and I know John would enjoy the cigar one too, but again, this trip I really wanted to do stuff, during the day anyways, that we can all do together. I do love a good wine though...Please tell us how it is!!

Christmas magnets!! Duh!! Lol - I had a GREAT lady help me with some but I didn't even think about Christmas ones. Sheesh! I still need to order the magnet paper...but all of the stuff I see says to use Ink Jet printers and the only one I have access to over here is Laser Jet...do you know if it matters??

 

[TheBeadPirate]

Oooh it would be lovely if it wasn't too crowded!! I go back and forth on Palo but I think we're going to skip it this time since I want to make sure we see/do all the holiday stuff and spend as much time with my mom (and sister who can't eat there) as possible! Next time DEF though! LOL

The wine pairing looks SO GOOD and I know John would enjoy the cigar one too, but again, this trip I really wanted to do stuff, during the day anyways, that we can all do together. I do love a good wine though...Please tell us how it is!!

Christmas magnets!! Duh!! Lol - I had a GREAT lady help me with some but I didn't even think about Christmas ones. Sheesh! I still need to order the magnet paper...but all of the stuff I see says to use Ink Jet printers and the only one I have access to over here is Laser Jet...do you know if it matters??

hmmm, don't think it really matters. But don't know for sure. My printer is a photojet, which is basically an ink jet set up for photo printing. Everything worked out great.

A.Mickey here on the DIS has a design thread and did ours- they were on our cruise back in May- it's a green mickey head with a santa hat with the DCL logo on the trim and our names. Turned out super cute.

 

[JohnsPrincess]

hmmm, don't think it really matters. But don't know for sure. My printer is a photojet, which is basically an ink jet set up for photo printing. Everything worked out great.

A.Mickey here on the DIS has a design thread and did ours- they were on our cruise back in May- it's a green mickey head with a santa hat with the DCL logo on the trim and our names. Turned out super cute.

Sounds good! I guess I'll order what I found and cross my fingers!

Awe - too cute!! A.Mickey, huh...I'm going to have to remember that. I would like some Christmas ones!!

 

[JohnsPrincess]

We're Booked!! We're Booked!! We're Booked!!!

We are doing the:

Ardasta Gardens & City Tour on Nassau from 1245-315
Seahorse Catamaran & Snorkel Adventure on Castaway Cay from 930-1215

I think that'll give us lots of time to further explore everything.

I also did exactly the opposite of what I said I wouldn't do yesterday. LOL. I booked John and I into Palo for Brunch on Christmas Day at 1130. I sort of feel bad because that means we're dissing mom and sis, but, lol, I know they'll understand! We need some romance!

So I'm very excited!! Now I need to go ahead and order the stateroom gifts for everyone. I'm still not certain what I want to get for my mom though. But for Nikki I'm getting the little Minnie in her sailor outfit, John is getting the ship model, John & I are getting the Bon Voyage with the Fairy Tale Cuvee (we had it on our mini honeymoon), and then I'm thinking of getting the document/passport holder for me. But I'm not sure. I'm assuming if I don't pre-order it, they'll sell it on the ship??

 

[JohnsPrincess]

Does anyone know the schedule of activities on Christmas Day?? I want to be surprised, but I worry that at 11 (Palo) we'll miss something!! LOL