*Dreamy Spring Double-Dip* March 13, 2012

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

FortWorthLeonardFam - We're practically neighbors - we live about 30 mins west of Ft Worth. Are you part of the Ft. Worth famous Leonard family? I grew up in west Ft Worth, went to Marvin and Obie Leonard Middle School (ages ago), and have worked for RS in downtown FTW for nearly 20 yrs. I rode the M&O Subway til the last day. A group of my coworkers and I visited the Leonards museum in December - we enjoyed it very much. I'm too young to remember the actual store, but several of them did. Fort Worth is very proud of the Leonard family, past and present.

UmmGooD - I just posted in the Aft picture thread to you; seems we were after the same room. I've been kicking myself for messing that up, but still happy to be center aft. (...and if for some reason you end up getting preggo and have to cancel, PM me. Would still love to have that room. )

I wish we were a part of the rich and famous Leonard's. They were a big part of shaping this great city we live in. Before the Bass family it was the Leonard's. I am proud to share the name and do what we can to make sure we don't tarnish it. We are making our own legacy though I guess.

I am also too young to remember the Leonard Store, but have had many conversations with older Fort Worth folks that remember it as the first and only Department store around to shop at. People would travel from far away to shop there. I also remember the long forgotten M&O Subway and the ice rink. We need something like that again around here.

My wife has RS as one of her accounts with MSFT. If you know anybody dealing with MSFT retail division they will know her, name is Robin. She just had dinner with some VP's last week at Del Frisco's.

We have spent the last few weeks driving around your neck of the woods, dreaming of more land and possible spot to build down the road after the girls get older. Driving around Aledo mostly, we have a place at Possum Kingdom that we may or may not keep as a weekend lake house. Just love the quick convenience of everything from where we are at. We live in the TCU/ZOO area and love it.

Where is the countdown clock at for our cruise?

 

[UmmGooD]

FortWorthLeonardFam - We're practically neighbors - we live about 30 mins west of Ft Worth. Are you part of the Ft. Worth famous Leonard family? I grew up in west Ft Worth, went to Marvin and Obie Leonard Middle School (ages ago), and have worked for RS in downtown FTW for nearly 20 yrs. I rode the M&O Subway til the last day. A group of my coworkers and I visited the Leonards museum in December - we enjoyed it very much. I'm too young to remember the actual store, but several of them did. Fort Worth is very proud of the Leonard family, past and present.

UmmGooD - I just posted in the Aft picture thread to you; seems we were after the same room. I've been kicking myself for messing that up, but still happy to be center aft. (...and if for some reason you end up getting preggo and have to cancel, PM me. Would still love to have that room. )

I'll definitely let you know first if I do have to cancel but I would be very disappointed to have to give it up

I know our girls would love to have a playmate or two. I am not sure about the Cabanas on CC, haven't ever done one there but do know I am a redhead that needs some shade. That's something I'll have to look into and get back with you on. Last couple of times I was actually content sitting in the sun all day because the weather was perfect and the beer was cold.

We have family in Austin and Round Rock, so definately would like to meet y'all.

It will be our first time on a cruise so I am not sure if I would want a cabana or not. It might be nice when our youngest wants her 3 hour afternoon nap. I guess the other option would be to take her back on the ship while one parent stays with our oldest on the beach.

 

[TXCrew]

OK, hopefully I not going to jinx this trip....I have booked 2 Disney cruises previously, only to cancel them as my wife ended up pregnant both times !! A little too much "magic" I guess . It'll be me, dw, dd (17 at cruise time), ds (15), dd (13), ds (11), ds (7), and ds (3). We, too, are from the Austin area. Glad to hear there will be a lot of Texans on board!!

 

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

OK, hopefully I not going to jinx this trip....I have booked 2 Disney cruises previously, only to cancel them as my wife ended up pregnant both times !! A little too much "magic" I guess . It'll be me, dw, dd (17 at cruise time), ds (15), dd (13), ds (11), ds (7), and ds (3). We, too, are from the Austin area. Glad to hear there will be a lot of Texans on board!!

You must be a fellow Irish Catholic with that many kids! I am the oldest of 10 combined! Either way you all deserve a Disney Cruise by now! They are very family oriented and have something for everybody in the family. We have told our girls if they are good and get good grades we will take them on another Disney Cruise! Hopefullly they realize one day how good they had it. We never got to do this as kids, so we are kind of living through them now as grown ups.

 

[aamove]

Just finished booking on the 3-13-2012 Disney Dream cruise. Cast of characters include me DW and DD12. Booked in a deluxe inside cabin and DD can' wait to see the virtual porthole. Only been on one cruise before and it was a 5 day cruise on the Carnival Ecstacy out of Galveston. Looking forward to seeing the Disney difference. We are also from Texas, Just east of Dallas.

 

[Fleury]

Hi everyone! Just booked a room on this cruise for DH, DD(5) and DS(2). We will be sailing our first Disney cruise in May 2011 on the Dream and now decided to book something during my daughters March Break. We are from Toronto and look forward to meeting everyone in 2012.

Yay! Nice to know some Canucks will be on the cruise! Though, I figured with it being March Break and all ... We live in a little town about 2 hours northwest of Toronto (Mount Forest) and my husband's brother and his wife who are also coming along, live in Oakville. We're trying to convince some friends of ours who live at Wasaga Beach to come along as well!

 

[UmmGooD]

OK, hopefully I not going to jinx this trip....I have booked 2 Disney cruises previously, only to cancel them as my wife ended up pregnant both times !! A little too much "magic" I guess . It'll be me, dw, dd (17 at cruise time), ds (15), dd (13), ds (11), ds (7), and ds (3). We, too, are from the Austin area. Glad to hear there will be a lot of Texans on board!!

Welcome fellow Austinite! You have quite the age spread for your kids. I too am hoping we can go on this cruise. If my wife does get pregnant again it would be wonderful but bittersweet at the same time.

I will have to bring some longhorn flags to fly from my balcony!

You must be a fellow Irish Catholic with that many kids! I am the oldest of 10 combined! Either way you all deserve a Disney Cruise by now! They are very family oriented and have something for everybody in the family. We have told our girls if they are good and get good grades we will take them on another Disney Cruise! Hopefullly they realize one day how good they had it. We never got to do this as kids, so we are kind of living through them now as grown ups.

I never got to do it either. I am the first on my mom's side of the family with a college education and enough disposable income to do something like this so it is pretty special. Now to just have to figure out how to make them not so spoiled.

Just finished booking on the 3-13-2012 Disney Dream cruise. Cast of characters include me DW and DD12. Booked in a deluxe inside cabin and DD can' wait to see the virtual porthole. Only been on one cruise before and it was a 5 day cruise on the Carnival Ecstacy out of Galveston. Looking forward to seeing the Disney difference. We are also from Texas, Just east of Dallas.

Welcome fellow Texan! My wife and I almost took a RCCL cruise on the Voyager out of Galveston in November last year. We had to cancel because my work sent me to Switzerland (and let my wife attend) in June and we didn't want to leave the kids 2 times in the same year so we cancelled.

I'll let you enjoy my verandah for awhile if you let me check out that virtual porthole. I am a bit disappointed I don't get to experience it.

 

[MerissaAndMomLoveDis]

Hello Everyone! My daughter Merissa (10 at time of cruise) and I (Rhonda) are on this cruise during her spring break 2012. We are from Desoto, TX, just south of Dallas. This is our first Disney cruise and we are very very excited!

UmmGood--I had considered finding a family or two to share a Cabana at Castaway Cay. It IS expensive, but I may be interested. We are not in concierge though, so cannot help you with early booking.

FtWorthLeonardFam--re: cocktail hour dismeet--I don't drink much, but I saw on a trip report that some Dis'ers set up a Make Your Own Mojito Tasting meet. Each person had the setups to make 4 kinds of mojitos and were led thru how to make them by the bartenders, then, of course, the tasting! It looked incredibly fun and I would definitely be in for something like that!

aamove--My brother in law is a principal in Forney. Great little town!

Nice to "meet" you all!!!!

 

[Ted in Halifax]

Ok, I'm not a Texan ... but I'd love to join Y'All .... I'm booked! Excited!

`Me, DW (Tracey), DS10 (James), DD8(Avery).

We are Disney world experienced, but Cruise rookies!

 

[kelly1275]

Thanks!

Deciding to bring a new baby would be a hard decision. We booked the cruise knowing we can cancel close enough to the cruise and not incur penalties. In the past it took us a long time to get pregnant so it is a large possibility that she won't be pregnant by the cruise or maybe a few months pregnant.[/QUOTE

Must be in the water cuz we've been trying for almost 4 years to get pregnant so hoping booking this cruise will do it, good luck!

 

[kelly1275]

Hello everyone, we're not from Texas either but we love it there does that count . We are from Ohio. We are booked for March 13 and can't wait. Have my disney app on phone counting down. This will be our first cruise! We have an oceanview room. Can't wait to try the slide and mojito's if we all meet. So far this trip includes me, DH, DS(will be 7 when cruise), mother in law. Would love for my son to meet some kids around his age to hang out with. He doesn't meet a stranger so if anyone has kids around his age maybe we could get them together. Going to be a long year waiting for this cruise, especially since we cancelled this years vacation so we could go!

 

[Queen of Oakville]

Hey all! Coming at you from Oakville, Ontario (hey, to my fellow Cannucks!)

Just booked this week and we're uber excited .... to the point, we're I'm just "enh" about our cruise on Holland America next month! I need to stop thinking about Disney, and focus on how much fun we'll have on Eurodam.


When we sail next year, it will be DH and myself, and at the time my daughter will just have turned 6 and my son will be 4 1/2.

 

[Queen of Oakville]

oh ... and i came here looking to see if there was an explanation for "fish extender". I understand that its a giveaway of sorts .... but why do they call it fish extender?

 

[ambushangel]

I know it's still over a year away but we just finalized our 3rd cruise.

My DS (15 now) is so excited. We just love DCL.

Looking forward to connecting with fellow cruisers on this trip.

 

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

oh ... and i came here looking to see if there was an explanation for "fish extender". I understand that its a giveaway of sorts .... but why do they call it fish extender?

Hello there and welcome to the Dream Cruise forum, we can't wait. There are threads posted about these fish extenders in depth. Basically they are ornamental fish things extending from every cabin door I believe with the cabin number, that can hold mail letters, or a bag of goodies that people will hang up. I know lots of people will buy goodies like candy, home town keepsakes, magnets, sometimes little bottles of liquor, or whatever. They will get a group together from these boards and exchange room numbers and basic info about who is in the cabin and anonymously give little surprises to other DIS cruisers on the boards on on board. It sounds like fun and gives the kids a little extra surprise at the end of a long day or morning to start the day. Just do a little search about it and you'll see what I am talking about.

 

[Queen of Oakville]

THansk! I was looking at the door magnets thread this morning (Show your door?) and it "clicked". Once i saw the fish, the "extender" part made sense.

Does this group want to do the FE gifts?

 

[UmmGooD]

UmmGood--I had considered finding a family or two to share a Cabana at Castaway Cay. It IS expensive, but I may be interested. We are not in concierge though, so cannot help you with early booking.

FtWorthLeonardFam--re: cocktail hour dismeet--I don't drink much, but I saw on a trip report that some Dis'ers set up a Make Your Own Mojito Tasting meet. Each person had the setups to make 4 kinds of mojitos and were led thru how to make them by the bartenders, then, of course, the tasting! It looked incredibly fun and I would definitely be in for something like that!

Well we'll have to consider that Cabana. I really think it would help with the kids having a place we could take a break.

We aren't much drinkers either but we recently have taken a liking to some black cherry Mojitos they have at a restaurant near our house. Super yummy.

Must be in the water cuz we've been trying for almost 4 years to get pregnant so hoping booking this cruise will do it, good luck!

I hope you get pregnant. Our first child took about 2 years and the second took over 3.

Hello everyone, we're not from Texas either but we love it there does that count . We are from Ohio. We are booked for March 13 and can't wait. Have my disney app on phone counting down. This will be our first cruise! We have an oceanview room. Can't wait to try the slide and mojito's if we all meet. So far this trip includes me, DH, DS(will be 7 when cruise), mother in law. Would love for my son to meet some kids around his age to hang out with. He doesn't meet a stranger so if anyone has kids around his age maybe we could get them together. Going to be a long year waiting for this cruise, especially since we cancelled this years vacation so we could go!

As long as you love it here it is fine.

My daughter will be 8 and is very outgoing. I am sure she'll be happy to drag your son to whatever activity she thinks suits her best.

 

[ambushangel]

THansk! I was looking at the door magnets thread this morning (Show your door?) and it "clicked". Once i saw the fish, the "extender" part made sense.

Does this group want to do the FE gifts?

Hello Queen,

After looking at what feels like a million different ideas, I'd be up for the FE exchange.

 

[Queen of Oakville]

Hello Queen,

After looking at what feels like a million different ideas, I'd be up for the FE exchange.

Is there a veteran here who can organize this? does it need organizing?

 

[Queen of Oakville]

Is there a veteran here who can organize this? does it need organizing?

I just wanted to clarify too, that I'd be up for doign it, if the numbers are small. I read on one of the threads, that someone had to do 150 FEs. I could not imagine doing so many or carting them to Oralando from home. It sounds like a lot of fun and added magic for the children.

Who else is interested?