Disney Dream March 31, 2011

[douglas_in_philly]

Oh, yeah....can anyone explain what "fish extender" is????

 

[JackNMel]

Hi Doug, welcome aboard to you and your family!!
A veranda room is a balcony, it has doors that open out onto a small balcony area with a couple of chairs and a table. Oceanview is a window looking out onto the ocean, it doesn't open up.

Fish extenders are are like a sewn pocket fabric thing that you hang outside of your door (Disney has metal fish clips outside the doors to put papers on). Thus the name fish extender. People sign up on the Dis meets and make or buy little gifts to give out to other people on the FE list during the cruise, kind of like a secret santa thing. The goodies go into the pockets for the people to find when they get back to their cabins. It is a lot of fun, the kids love it. You can look around on these sites for examples of what a fish extender looks like, and you can buy them on ebay. There are also instructions for making them. You can also see examples of the gifts that people make/buy/give. There are some really creative people here!!

I don't know if we have an offical FE list started for this cruise. Someone needs to step up and volunteer to organize it...anyone...anyone...Bueller...
Bueller...

Hope my explanation didn't confuse you, I can ramble a bit.
Looking forward to this cruise!!

Melody

 

[JackNMel]

Gunghomom, we are on deck 8. Just above you, we will try not to be too loud, haha

 

[Disney Dad Canada]

My daughter is 7 now, but turns 8 a couple weeks before the cruise.

Ive got twin 7 year old girls, Ciara and Jessica. I'm sure Ciara will be running the ship by the second day.

 

[douglas_in_philly]

Thanks, Melody for your reply.

I've been reading posts on the forum here for the past 3 or 4 hours. I think my head is going to explode! ;-) But in a good way, if that's possible.

I've learned a ton, and even saw pictures of the fish extenders! I think I would try to make one if we do it. My daughter wants to make magnets to put on our door, too. Does the Dream have doors that will accommodate that, presumably?

I think I better go to bed. Gotta get up to go to work in about 5 hours! :-(


Douglas

 

[douglas_in_philly]

So I'm at work...I was doing all my posting from my computer at home. I'm on my lunch break now, though, and thought I'd bookmark all the cruise-related links I was looking at from home.

Just thought I'd say hi, and that I, for one, am VERY excited about the cruise.

When we return to Port Canaveral, I'll have about 6 or 7 hours to kill before we need to arrive at the airport in Orlando. Any suggestions? I'm thinking some NASA related things in Cape Canaveral or maybe the Disney shopping place in Orlando.

 

[Mean Queen]

Hi Doug - I think either would be great, depending on what your DD likes. We live in Florida and have yet to check out Kennedy Space Center. We usually go to Disney after the cruise so that we can continue the "magic!"

 

[douglas_in_philly]

I've seen some people on the forum mention their cabin number. I have not found out what mine is. Do most people here know theirs? I wonder if I can call the cruise line to get it. Anybody know?

 

[njmom23grls]

It should be on your reservation - right next to the category
for instance - Category 5C room XYZ

If it says Category 5C Room GTY - that means that they haven't assigned your room number yet but that you are guareented that cabin level (5C) (or above) - you can login on DCL's website and look for it under the sailing information

hope that helps

 

[douglas_in_philly]

Thanks!

It *does* say, "GTY". I guess i just have to wait...maybe I'll call and ask when they will assign it.

 

[douglas_in_philly]

So......how the heck are ya?



I'm busily researching excursion options. Hope I pick things that we love. My daughter really wants to do the dolphin or sea lion swim thing. She also wants to try snorkeling.

If she could ride a bike on her own, I'd enjoy riding a bike around one of the islands.

So the Fish Extender thing is intriguing. My daughter would enjoy that. (Does it seem like everything like my world revolves around my daughter? I guess it does.) From what I've seen, it seems like the Fish Extender gifts are usually just el-cheapo trinkets. Is that usually the case?

 

[douglas_in_philly]

My daughter is here with me, and asked how to make the cute animated smiley faces and other emoticons.

She just told me to say to everyone how she can NOT WAIT for the cruise!!!!!

She's going to post a bunch of the funny emoticons now. Brace yourself.

:

 

[Mean Queen]

My daughter is here with me, and asked how to make the cute animated smiley faces and other emoticons.

She just told me to say to everyone how she can NOT WAIT for the cruise!!!!!

She's going to post a bunch of the funny emoticons now. Brace yourself.

:

Both my girls love to do that.

The FE gifts are very wide ranging. We've got everything from little plastic bracelets and rings (pirate treasure) to tattoos to handmade personalized gifts. The best part of it to me is it gets the kids back to the room. They get excited to leave whatever they are doing to see if anything was left for them.

 

[porknbeans]

We can start signing up for our excursions and reservations tomorrow. We're going to go snorkeling in Nassau and the wife and I are going to Palo. If I can swing it, I'm also going to treat my wife and daughter to a little spa treatment.

 

[douglas_in_philly]

Just finished signing up for excursions. In Nassau, my daughter and I are doing the Blue Lagoon dolphin swim. My wife is skipping it. I think the rest of the day we'll just wander around, and I figured we'd eat lunch somewhere.

In Castaway Cay, I booked us for the Snorkel Lagoon Equipment Rental, and also for Castaway Ray's Stingray Adventure.

I read on the forum here, that we'd have no trouble getting bicycles or float tubes throughout the day, and that reserving them isn't necessary. So I opted not to reserve them, since I wasn't sure if we'd do either of them, but I think we'll still be able to get them if we decide we want to.

What's everybody else going to be doing?

 

[gunghomom]

We did the Blue Lagoon too with my girls 10 and 8, so we will see you there!

 

[Mean Queen]

After looking back at the thread, it doesn't look like anyone has stepped up to organize the FE swap yet. If no one else wants to do it, I'll do it since I did it on the last cruise I went on. And luckily, this seems like a small group, much easier to organize.

If you are interested in taking part, just private message me the following information:

Cabin Number:
Board Name:
Real Names and ages (for kids):

 

[lilliansmommy]

Hello everyone!!

My family will also be going on this cruise. We are very excited to finally see the DREAM!! Let me introduce myself. I am Kelly and will be travelling with my DH, Jim, and my DD, Lilly(2). Jim and I are both teachers and this cruise will be part of our spring break. We are booked on deck 6, very back of boat with verandah!! Kind of interested to see what his room looks like.

We will be staying at POFQ for five nights before the cruise and one night at OKW after the cruise. We are all very excited!!! We will be staying on the ship during Nassau day, as we did not really like Nassau the last time we were there. We have second seating for dining and 7pm show!! Looking forward to meeting you all and chatting before the cruise. Chatting and all the planning beforehand is the best part!!!! Nice to meet you all.

Kelly, Jim, and Princess Lilly

 

[douglas_in_philly]

Hi, Kelly, Jim, and Lilly! Welcome! I've sure learned a lot about Disney acronyms in the week or so I've been coming here. CM, POFQ, OKW, DCL, etc., etc. etc. I keep a second browser tab open to Google, just so I can look them all up!

Gunghomom, for which time slot did you book the dolphin swim? The morning or afternoon? We're doing the morning. I was a little concerned the water might be cooler in the morning, and that we'd be uncomfortable, but I was also concerned that the afternoon time slot might not allow us as much time to run around afterwards (or that we'd have to watch the clock during the morning to make sure we got to the Dolphin thing on time). I ended up figuring that the water would probably be fine, so I booked the morning.

Mean Queen, I think we'll be in for the Fish Extender thing. I'll PM you my info--but we didn't have a room number assigned the last time I checked--just GTY. I'll look and then let you know via PM.

 

[gunghomom]

douglas - we did the early morning session too at Blue Lagoon, so we will see you there.

Would like to do the FE thingy too, just wondering what kind of things to put inside. Do I need to make them? I guess I should look that up!

Getting so, so excited. Still torn about what to do in Nassau - stay on the boat or go to the Blue Lagoon or Atlantis. Settled on Blue Lagoon for now!