DIS-Functional Wonder Peeps 7/20 & 7/24, 2008 PART II

[RonnieJo66]

he wasn't suppose to get anything because we think VD is too commercial...

yeah, that's what Beano sez too

 

[BeanoC]

he wasn't suppose to get anything because we think VD is too commercial

Amen, brother!! (Assuming that by "VD" you mean Valentine's Day and not venereal disease?)

If we need the calendar to tell us it's time to do something romantic, then it's fundamentally pointless. Valentine's Day was invented by Hallmark, Stovers and flower shops.


I'm a hopeless romantic, I know...

 

[tarzanman]

Amen, brother!! (Assuming that by "VD" you mean Valentine's Day and not venereal disease?)

If we need the calendar to tell us it's time to do something romantic, then it's fundamentally pointless. Valentine's Day was invented by Hallmark, Stovers and flower shops.


I'm a hopeless romantic, I know...

The man returns!!!

Ophie and I decided to go to use the money that we could have used for VD to go to Disney World the weekend of March 1. No parks planned. Just La Nouba and dinner.

 

[Anal Annie]

Annie...Im so confused. I think I gotta get through next week before I even look into this.

You are no more confused than me! Your ticker says 4 more days - so when exactly are your dates that you're gone!? Do you go on Tues? When do you return?! You must be so psyched!

 

[CamColt]

Amen, brother!! (Assuming that by "VD" you mean Valentine's Day and not venereal disease?)

If we need the calendar to tell us it's time to do something romantic, then it's fundamentally pointless. Valentine's Day was invented by Hallmark, Stovers and flower shops.


I'm a hopeless romantic, I know...

Totally agree! Valentines Day to me means, having to get the kids valentines for their class, and stuff for their parties, find them something red to wear, give them a little gift etc.... Of course I got DH a box of Hugs and Kisses, but that was just because I knew he wasnt getting me anything and I wanted them. Ill end up eating most of them.

Yep, Annie. We go Tuesday, 5:00 PM flight to San Diego. Wed morning we drive up to DL. We are taking the red eye home on Monday the 25th, so I'll be home Tuesday morning...and probably totally out of it by that time.

 

[tinkryansmom]

If we need the calendar to tell us it's time to do something romantic, then it's fundamentally pointless. Valentine's Day was invented by Hallmark, Stovers and flower shops.


I'm a hopeless romantic, I know...

Neil feels the same way but I got a card and a Dallas Cowboys t-shirt. If that ain't romantic I don't know what is.

Ophie and I decided to go to use the money that we could have used for VD to go to Disney World the weekend of March 1. No parks planned. Just La Nouba and dinner.

Have a great time!!

Of course I got DH a box of Hugs and Kisses, but that was just because I knew he wasnt getting me anything and I wanted them. Ill end up eating most of them.

Yep, Annie. We go Tuesday, 5:00 PM flight to San Diego. Wed morning we drive up to DL. We are taking the red eye home on Monday the 25th, so I'll be home Tuesday morning...and probably totally out of it by that time.

Chuckled about the candy. I do that too!

Not too much going on here. Great weather today. Finally got to put shorts back on! Unpacking. Doing laundry. Next I have to address packages to the peeps who requested items from Disneyland! Friday is "Mom doesn't have to cook" night here so I am thinking Mexican food tonight. Then have to take Ryan to get a birthday present for a party tomorrow and pick out clothes for Linden's 6 month portrait. I know, I know, she is 7 months old now...but had to reschedule due to RSV and Disneyland.

Gotta go someone is at the door!

 

[Anal Annie]

Friday is "Mom doesn't have to cook" night here so I am thinking Mexican food tonight.

YUMMM!!! GOAT!!

(Us too...from you know where!)

Speaking of which that I'm not allowed to say anymore...where IS Miss Cheri this week?! She OK?! We need to talk about LOST this week!! OMG! WHAT is going on Cheri? (But can I just say that Sayid is hot!? LOL... Did you know in real life he has a British accent?! So weird!)

 

[tinkryansmom]

hhmmmm....

Yes, where is Cheri!? Not like her to be so quiet.

What is everyone doing this weekend??

Tomorrow - photos, birthday party, pick up friends kids from soccer game, dinner with neighbors 8 pm fancy restaurant no clothes to wear.

Sunday - ?? I dunno. Maybe passport pictures at Costco for the girls. Sleep. That would be nice.

TZM and Ophie are off to Nouba.

Annie?? CamColt?? Bets?? RJ?? Cheri??

BTW - not complaining here but are we on this boat all by ourselves!?

 

[tinkryansmom]

Oh and no, me no likey the goat.

Pollo Asada por favor!

 

[Soccermom-Cheri]

I'm here. Had a looong rough glad-it's-over-week. One good thing: I no longer have a " shaggy dog"

 

[tarzanman]

hhmmmm....

Yes, where is Cheri!? Not like her to be so quiet.

What is everyone doing this weekend??

Tomorrow - photos, birthday party, pick up friends kids from soccer game, dinner with neighbors 8 pm fancy restaurant no clothes to wear.

Sunday - ?? I dunno. Maybe passport pictures at Costco for the girls. Sleep. That would be nice.

TZM and Ophie are off to Nouba.

Annie?? CamColt?? Bets?? RJ?? Cheri??

BTW - not complaining here but are we on this boat all by ourselves!?

We do not go to La Nouba until March 1. This weekend we are home. Got some work around the house to do.

 

[tarzanman]

So does anyone else have to mow their lawn today?


Cheri, is it snowing in San Diego?

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

Nope!! No lawn today!!

I am going to try on my wedding (Vow renewal) dress!!!

 

[tarzanman]

Yeah, I think I might have heard something about that. Ophie is preparing to meet you I think. I am going to stay home and do

 

[Soccermom-Cheri]

So does anyone else have to mow their lawn today?


Cheri, is it snowing in San Diego?

um, no but it has been b*tt cold and so wet we were thinking of buying kayaks. T and I went out to play soccer yesterday and mostly played "smush ball"


Annie- you've been doing research on Atlantis. From everything I've read, the Disney excursions don't give access to the water slides unless you pay about $250 pp, right? We aren't doin' that. (BTW, I didn't like LOST this week. It's getting dumb IMO. Now Sayid is working for Ben? And I'm tired of Jack's "poor me" sad eyes. Next week should be better - according to the spoilers)

ok, back to the laundry.

 

[tinkryansmom]

I am going to stay home and do

You do laundry too! Go Ophie picked a good one!

Please to be calling Neil and explaining the process!



Cheri I don't like kayakmomCheri as a screen name. Can you take up Jai Alai??
or Scuba. ScubaMomCheri.

hhmm...

GolfMomCheri

Nope.

Will think on this.

 

[Anal Annie]

Annie- you've been doing research on Atlantis. From everything I've read, the Disney excursions don't give access to the water slides unless you pay about $250 pp, right? We aren't doin' that. (BTW, I didn't like LOST this week. It's getting dumb IMO. Now Sayid is working for Ben? And I'm tired of Jack's "poor me" sad eyes. Next week should be better - according to the spoilers)

Yes - lots of excursion research going on here! DCL actually appears to offer 3 diff. levels of Atlantis excurions. One is simply a beach thing - runs $65 pp - I think it includes lunch but no waterslides. (We have several friends that did that one last year and they enjoyed their day a lot.) The next one is the "Aquaventure" one which is $155 pp which is the beach one with lunch plus it DOES add wristbands for the waterslides. The 3rd one is called the "Dolphin Cay Aquaventure" and is the regular "Aquaventure" PLUS a dolphin encounter (2 hour interaction I think it said) all rolled into one day! THAT one is $285 pp.! Our problem is that if DS even THINKS there are waterslides within reach he will be upset to not get to go on them! The other option is booking a room at the Comfort Suites (next door to Atlantis) for approx. $215 for 4 ppl. + all their energy surcharges & taxes blah, blah. (Kids 12 & under no extra charge etc.) One room for us would run ABOUT $263. But then you have to get taxis on your own to get there and buy your own lunch. So maybe what, another $50-60 or so?! So I think I can round the Comfort Suites thing to about $325. for the 3 of us which would save $140 VS booking with DCL.

That website that offers the private charter catamaran also has a 3 stop snorkeling trip we might think about. It's more of a dedicated snorkel trip than a booze cruise type thing - but DH & I like the snorkeling so that might actually be worth it. It was about $55 pp I think. I have found a couple of other options for Dolphin Swims too (as opposed to the "encounter" thing that DCL offers). Most ppl seem to think the extra $ is worth it for the "swims". DCL only offers the Blue Lagoon "encounter" for $99 pp. The same exact thing elsewhere is $85 pp and the actual "swim" is $165 pp at one place & $175 pp at another. These excursions take about 3 1/2 hours. But that's another pricey excursion. Now I need to research the tour companies a little to see if the one that's $10 more is better or not.

I also need to talk to DH about this crap. Maybe we'll skip Atlantis & do the 3 stop snorkel (I'm assuming with no responses that nobody else is into a private charter and / or snorkeling) and then maybe a dolphin swim on the other stop. I don't know. Really just budgeting! We will basically have 3 beach days on CC as all of the excursions there are very short. I'm OK with spending most of my day doing something else in Nassau.

I have emailed our friends (3 families that went together) about the Atlantis thing. I don't want to go there & not do the slides & then have DS be all mopey about them if they're like right in your face and he can't use them!


LOST - I am "over" Jack and Sawyer & Hurley both need showers! I can smell them both thru the TV screen! Esp. Hurley! LOL! Lots of speculation about Sayid and Naomi out there...he was very upset about her dying I think. He is so-o-o ummmmm _____ tho (starts with an 's' and ends with a 'y')! But do you think they're counting Ben as one of the Oceanic 6? Do you think he assumes someone else's identity with all of those passports? Who was in the coffin? Locke? I heard Michael will be back this season - do you think he's on this ship?!

 

[tinkryansmom]

Sooo Lost on the Lost thing. I gave up somewhere in the middle of season 1.

But excursion info me likey. Go Annie! and figure it all out. DH and I like the catamaran idea but seeing as how Linden will only be 1 when we sail there is no sense taking her off the boat which means one person goes with Ryan and one person stays behind.

I would love to do the Atlantis thing. DH is lukewarm at this point. So I don't know what that gets me.

If travel zoo comes up with a room rate I will most likely book it. That being said, since we are only cruising the 4 day, not too sure we will go crazy with excursions. Or maybe one stop at CC I will do something with Ryan and the other stop at CC DH will do something with Ryan. ??

Was just looking at rates for 2009. Best Friend is still whining about us not going with them 7/18/09 - $10221 to sail cat 4 with them $4973 to sail cat 4 9/12/09 - I love my best friend but that is a big difference in $$. We are really leaning towards no kids Disney Adventure in 2009 - to Ireland if they are still offering it. Can't wait for that information to come out!

OK off to take Ryan to birthday party and pick up best friends kids at soccer field.

 

[Anal Annie]

OK, I think we've pretty much decided what we're doing and have formed a plan. I don't think there will be any Atlantis for us! DH and I don't want to pay to go to the beach there when we're going to have 3 days of beach on CC. Nor does he want to pay THAT much for a pool & waterslides and we don't want to risk DS finding out that he missed out on a waterslide somewhere! So I think we are going to book a dolphin "swim" directly thru this dolphinencounters.com place for our first Nassau day. It is still a lot of money ($165 pp) but we agreed if we're going to spend $500 it's going to be on something DIFFERENT! I've been fiddling around with this crap long enough!

I THINK on the 2nd Nassau day we are going snorkeling. The EXACT trip remains to be decided. DH doesn't want to be cocktail-less so I don't know if we'll do the afternoon 5 hour / 3 stop serious snorkel one or a shorter, earlier one (but this one has a stop with sharks)! The sharks sound cool. BUT if we book a shorter early snorkel we don't have to be back onboard until 7:00. So we COULD snorkel early - put DS in the club for the afternoon & then we could go to Atlantis for a little while alone for some gambling! AND it's still possible we might decide to book the snorkeling on CC instead - but they flat out say on the website vests are required and I despise that requirement - and they don't appear to include cocktails their snorkel trips either! But the Dolphin swim needs to be booked early as they don't allow as many slots for those as they do on the "encounters". So I think one really pricey excursion will do it for us!

 

[Anal Annie]

But excursion info me likey. Go Annie! and figure it all out. DH and I like the catamaran idea but seeing as how Linden will only be 1 when we sail there is no sense taking her off the boat which means one person goes with Ryan and one person stays behind.

I would love to do the Atlantis thing. DH is lukewarm at this point. So I don't know what that gets me.

If travel zoo comes up with a room rate I will most likely book it. That being said, since we are only cruising the 4 day, not too sure we will go crazy with excursions. Or maybe one stop at CC I will do something with Ryan and the other stop at CC DH will do something with Ryan. ??

Was just looking at rates for 2009. Best Friend is still whining about us not going with them 7/18/09 - $10221 to sail cat 4 with them $4973 to sail cat 4 9/12/09 - I love my best friend but that is a big difference in $$. We are really leaning towards no kids Disney Adventure in 2009 - to Ireland if they are still offering it. Can't wait for that information to come out!

I keep forgetting you are only on the 4 day one! It's tough for me to give up on the Atlantis idea....but DH really liked the dolphin plan.... The worst thing about planning it like this thru a diff. tour co. is that we have to pay for it NOW and then there's the cancellation thing. I think this place does offer to cancel up to 24 hours ahead tho - which is decent....but I don't want to hassle with trying to get our money back!

YIKES on those 2009 rates! I don't think we will EVER go above a Cat. 6! I stopped at the bank yesterday & emptied out my 2012 cruise fund envelope! I am up to $1,500!! THAT'S not going to get me in a Cat. 6 any more by 2012! I am going to have to adjust my envelopes for inflation!