Jessica
Thanks for the posts !!!! I am SO stoaked ! Ok let me know if you go this weekend - I would have to say it would be Sat for me or Fri after work hours - do you know if deluxe is blocked though ???? I agree summer is TOO HOT and TOO CROWDED at d land - I didnt know WOC was on now !!! now I totally wanna go !!!!!I will have to see what my DBF Julie is up to ... Which night is good for you
Where do you live ????
I can bathe your cat and give it the vaccines if you get them from a local feed store... I know blind girl giving vaccines and a bath silly huh
but I used to be a vet tech back in my sighted days !
Denver has a few restrictions while on board but really its vacation for him too !
Are we having a cruise meet ?
How are we doing with the FE stuff ? how many so far ?
Last cruise we broke it up into 2 groups picked a cut off date for people to join made killer maps so it was easy to know where you were going to deliver - it was the bomb.com ! let me know if you need any help this time around I would be happy to do what I can
Hi Cari,
If you haven't realized by now, I am long winded
So...just a warning that this is going to be a long post
You are too silly! You can post as many pictures as you want, we eat them up! We started our own little website where I have a bunch of useful cruise information, shore excursion information and trip reports from people who did the Disney Mexican Riviera in 2005, and most importantly - the website has the list with all of our personal information! (I'm going to list a bunch of info for you now, but if for some reason you are not able to access what you need from the website please let me know and I will be happy to post any changes or info here so you can be privy to itl).
If you can get around the website, the list with our information is under the link titled "Characters of Wonder", it has each of our names and ages as well as the names and ages of everyone's traveling companions; it also has our location, dining time, whether or not we are participating in FE's, our cabin number, and a picture! Another fun link we have on that website is titled "fun photos" and it is basically just a page of pictures people have emailed me that I post so all of us can enjoy them! If you want, let me know the names, ages, your location, your dining time, and your cabin number (or numbers) and I will update your info on our website! If your friend's daughter and boyfriend have their own room I will add them too if you shoot me their info! Also, you can email me pictures at
mrsjeccamcintosh@yahoo.com and I will put your pictures on the site as well.
You can also feel free to send the link for this discussion board and/or our little website to Wendi and family so they can take a look and participate too! The website address is
http://sites.google.com/site/wonderjan23/
So far our group is relatively small, we have 6 cabins plus you, Denver, Wendi, daughter, and boyfriend's cabin (or cabins). Out of the 6 cabins, five cabins are participating in Fish Extenders. At the moment the people count for those participating in fish extenders is 10 adults, one 4 year old girl and one 10 year old boy (and you guys, of course
). The 6th cabin has two small twin girls, but they are leery of giving out their information and deciding on fish extenders just yet. We have all said that even if they don't want to do fish extenders we will leave goodies for her twins; but unfortunately we can't actually do that unless we know their cabin number (and we don't have that info at the moment). Hopefully they will join us too though!
How many cabins does your group have? Also, do you think all of you will join in on Fish Extenders or just you and Denver?
About Disneyland this weekend, unfortunately we're not going to make it. The good news is that we figured out how to get our cat back and get her cleaned, etc. Friday night after work we're going to drive to San Diego and pick her up from my mom's house. Saturday morning (which is why we can't go to d land) we are going to take her to the pet groomer my best friend uses. We are just hoping that she will be bathe-able and not need any kind of sedation. I'm just crossing my fingers that it will all be alright. I think the biggest hurdle is going to be the 2 cats living together again. I don't think I can emphasize enough how much they HATE each other! Their contempt for one another is off the charts!
Last time they were together in a small space my cat of 8 years got stressed out so much that she lost a great deal of weight and became malnourished. I'm just hoping I can find a way to make that all work! With that said, our passes don't expire until next Sunday (the 20th), so we might try and go Saturday the 19th to see World of Color. If we go I will absolutely let you know!
Also regarding the cat, thank you for the offer to bathe her.
And please, it's not silly at all to think of a blind girl bathing and vaccinating a cat! I am 100% sure you could do it a heck of a lot better than me! In fact, I am 100% sure that even sighted I couldn't do it at all!
I might have even taken you up on the offer if she weren't so fierce around water. I don't know what it is about water, but I think maybe her previous owner tried to drown her or something - no joke! She goes INSANE around water! Hopefully with the way I've set it up they can try bathing her without it but then sedate her if needed. (I don't know how that will work yet though, so we'll have to wait and see).
My husband and I currently live in Riverside, and we HATE IT! We were both born and raised in San Diego, in 2002 we lived in Temecula, in 2006 we moved to Las Vegas, and in 2009 we both lost our jobs and had to take 50% pay cuts and relocate back here. We lived in Murrieta until this past March but decided to move up here - and now we regret that decision more than anything! With no traffic it's only about a 45 minute drive to Disneyland, so it's nice to be so close. What area do you live in?
As far as a cruise meet, a couple of us have posted to arrange that but nothing has really been determined yet. Those of us that live in California are all getting together in September. (Steve will have to remind us of the exact date), but he Amy (his wife) and Emma (their 4 year old) are coming down for a family birthday party in the area so they're going to sneak away for the day so all of us can get together before the cruise! Hopefully you, Denver, Wendi, daughter, and boyfriend will be able to join us! Several of us are also talking about going to the Halloween party in October. I know 2 people already have tickets, but for different dates. Ryan and I are still considering it, but it appears that will happen on 10/15 if you want to join in on that!
Aside from that, we have not yet made any plans to meet on the ship. We are, however, all conspiring to do shore excursions together! If you have any thoughts on when and how to all get together, please feel free to post away! We'd LOVE to hear your thoughts and ideas! Your map idea is a great one! What kind of maps were they? Were they an actual layout of the ship? I think setting a cut-off date would be good too, that way people aren't forced to try and get last-minute stuff or make last-minute gifts. Do you (or anyone else) have a thought as to when our cut-off date should be?
OK, is that post just way too long?!? (haha)
Sorry...I pre-warned you that I'm long winded
It's great to see our group getting bigger and bigger! I'm so excited!
I hope you get to keep moving toward joining us & nothing gets in the way! 
Feel better and make sure you are drinking lots of water. I know I get headaches when I don't & if you are crying a bunch...just be good to yourself. 
We have been at 
Cant WAIT !!!! I will post our rooms as soon as I get the confirmation e mail . 
I found out on Sunday that a month ago my mom let her outside (which she promised me she wouldn't do)...so she's been roaming a trailer park in San Diego for the last month. I was furious, I couldn't sleep and I started crying at work. Then I started having anxiety about demanding her back from my mom and getting into a huge argument with her. It was a bunch of drama and a huge mess. I talked to my mom yesterday and she was wonderful about it. I started crying and she told me that if I want her back it's not a problem (she sees her every day, she can just grab her). Ryan and I have decided we are keeping her - FOR GOOD - but now I'm faced with (a) trying to get her shots done and get her bathed - because Ryan won't have her back in our house until that's done; and (b) we are still in an apartment and the cats still hate each other, so I'm clueless as to how that is going to work. If anyone has suggestions on this, I'm all ears! 
Also - we found out what the party was - it was imagineers and their families getting to preview it early. 
I will also make a prediction that she's going to be a handful in high school! 
I don't know why my mom didn't make her give the dog back, I guess she thought that Baby would be better off in a backyard than an apartment - I don't know. But it was so crushing. Baby and the other dog that lived there ran away together (literally) and they were never seen again. I have no idea what happened to her. *tear* Ok, this conversation just got really sad so I will shut up now.
He was about 16. Denver-meet Cruiser. 
Any dads of daughters can understand where I'm coming from! 
