Early Roll Call for 10-31-04 Happy Halloween Cruise aboard the Wonder !!

[shannonbri]

Hi there. My family and I are registered on the Disney Cruise. We are getting very excited. This will be my husband's and my 3rd cruise, but it will be my children's 1st cruise. We would love to pass out candy to the T-O-Trs. How can we get into the loop? Thanx.

 

[marley]

Welcome Shannonbri!

I actually haven't started the T-O-T list yet, but I guess it is time. For those of you who have children who want to participate and those of you who want to pass out candy, please email me the following and I will start our list:

names of family members (mom, dad, etc. with children's names and ages) Let's make the age of the trick or treater to be no more than 13 years of age.

Main or late dining just in case we have to figure out a time around dinner to meet, but hopefully, we can do this in the early afternoon. If you have an idea of when you will be arriving on the boat, that would help too since it looks like we might have to start our trick or treating around 3:00 the day we leave port so we are done by the boat drill. I'll check with Disney as we get closer to our sail date to make sure ours doesn't coincide with their T-O-T.

If you have your assigned cabin number or as soon as you get it, let me know and I will make little signs for the doors to make it easier on the kids.

I think the idea of having a quick meet the night before the cruise is a good one. Personally, I am at Ron Jon's new resort the night before and if everyone also wants to let me know if you are in Cape Canaveral the night before, mini-meets could be planned with those who are at your same hotel. I think the pen pal thing is a great idea also and if you want your child to be matched with kids their own age to email back and forth, let me know if you want to participate and I can match people up based on the information you all send me for the T-O-T.

As for blocking seating for meals, I think that would be hard. Many of us are travelling with big groups and if anyone is like me, I have our cruise planned out already, our dining rotation, excursions etc. However, we could have a mini-meet on board for a beer/soda/wine or something. The postcard idea is also cute but the pen pal idea might work better. (?)

Have a good Easter/Passover week everyone!

Marley

 

[marley]

Oooppps, forgot to include my email address for all of the information to be sent to me

marley@nc.rr.com

 

[acrucifer]

shananbri, welcome to our group. I have sent you our newsletter and hope you enjoy it. the next one is due out in May. If anyone in our group has not received it, please let me know and I will make sure you get it.

 

[marley]

Hope Everyone had a great Easter/holiday break. We just got back from 4 glorious days at Disney's HH resort. The weather felt like summer!!

I've gotten 3 families signed up for our T-O-T. Where are the rest of you?? Don't forget to email me the information listed in my previous post. I've gotten 5 kids interested in being email pen pals so keep 'em coming and also interest in a small get together

Marley

 

[Pammy jo]

Hey Marley, maybe we saw you at HH. We were actually staying next door at the Marriott, but rode our bikes through the Disney complex most days. Wasn't the weather great on Saturday?

 

[marley]

Pammyjo:

The weather was glorious!!! It felt like summer to me and it has been so hard to come back to the rainy cold

We might have passed you on our bikes as well. We did a lot of bike riding and even made it down to the beach twice to ride on the sand. Couldn't have asked for a nice weekend

Marley

 

[marley]

BUMP,

Still looking for more families on this thread to sign up for the T-O-T. I am also going to pair up the email pen pal's for the kids soon, so if you haven't sent me your information, please do so. We are under 200 days!!!!

 

[acrucifer]

marley,

It may be a good idea if you send me a list of those families who are signing up for t-o-t so I can publish it in next months news letter. please include my wife and I in that list. thank you for your hard work on this.

 

[bgomes]

Thanks Ralph for the latest newsletter. I was just thinking today ---- that 6 months from this date we will be on our last day at sea.

 

[acrucifer]

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[marley]

Okay, sorry I've been gone so long. Here is the information I have so far for the ToT. I'm missing information for some people and those of you who have sent me your stateroom numbers, I won't be posting those. I do need them from everyone once you get them so I can map out the ToT route. Also, I'll be hooking up the pen pals at the beginning of June once school has ended.

For those of you who do not have children, we will try and hit you first on the ToT route so you aren't "stuck" in your room. For those of you who have children and both adults want to follow us on our Halloween trek, you can always both go and then hop into your room when we get there and then hand out your candy. Not a problem at all

The information I am trying to collect are adult names, children's names and ages, where you are staying the night before the cruise in case we decide to have an informal meet, what seating you are at so we can plan the time of the ToT, whether your child wants a pen pal or not, and your stateroom.

Bob and Barbara - no children, Main seating

Ralph and ?

PammyJo and ? - children ages 3, 7, 5

John and Lise - children William (9), Kierstynn (7), Trevor (5), Yes to Pen Pals, Radisson

Nick and Tressa - Brandon (11), Jacob (10) - Pen Pal yes, Main seating

Marley and Andy - Hayley (7) Jason (4), pen pal yes, Main, Ron Jon's

Ray and Linda - no children, Main, Ron Jons

Suzanne and Fred - no children, Main, Ron Jons

Kelly and Ed - Josie (3), Main, Ron Jons

If you see your name and there is information missing, please email it to marley@nc.rr.com

If you don't see your name, please sign up

 

[fussellfamily]

Hi! My name is Kelli, my husband Tony and 3 children will be on this cruise.

Haden (8) Haden would also be interested in having a pen pal

Madison (3)

Wakeman (2)

The kids would like to participate in ToT and we'll hand out candy as well. I'll email rm # later.

Thanks for organizing this! We can't wait!

 

[Bauerbandt]

Marley, I just emailed you our information for the TOT list.

Thanks,

 

[marley]

thanks to everyone so far for updating my list. Looks like we have 16 kids for the ToT so far which is great!

We all seem to be pretty well spread out at different hotels/locations the night before our cruise, so it looks like at this point, our first meeting might be either the ToT (which I'm thinking will be 2:15 on October 31st) or the 3 p.m. Dis Meet immediately following. I'll keep you posted and hopefully we will add some more cruisers.

Marley

 

[marley]

thank you everyone for all of the emails the last few days. I have gone through the entire thread and figured out who matches their screen name and I think the only ones I'm missing details for are SharonBri and Kellie Jones.

Also, Trod, I saw your wrote that your parents are coming. Do they want to hand out candy? If so, send me their names and a cabin number when you get it so I can add them to the list. My parents, my husband's parents and my SIL have not joined our thread (guess they are shy), but I've included them on my list to hand out candy.

As of today, we have 18 children and 12 staterooms to hit up for candy!!!

Marley

 

[Bauerbandt]

I see that a few people are staying at Ron Jons (http://www.ronjonresort.com/default.shtml). While we are hoping to be at WDW prior to the cruise, we are considering staying in C.C. afterwards. I would appreciate any words of wisdom on Ron Jons and any info on rates & rooms would be much appreciated. Thanks,

 

[marley]

My 4 family members are all staying at Ron Jon's. I have a one bedroom for $108 plus tax and I believe my parent's studio was $79 plus tax. We used a code someone posted but I think you can get the same discount with either AAA or the new code posted in this thread:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=565160

--Marley

 

[KELLIE JONES]

We have been super busy.

we are staying @ the HRH before our cruise so we wont be able to attend a "pre cruise" meet.

I was thinking, if everyone with kids would tell us what kind of candy thier kid(s) like that may help, that way each child gets what he/she likes? or I was thinking instead of candy, getting little disney treats , what do you guys think?

As far as the meeting is concerned, how about this... could we maybe meet after the kids hit our rooms ? (The wine and beer might be a better idea after TOT)

 

[acrucifer]

this idea sounds good, except we will have mandatory drill at 4pm. then will be close to sail away and then dinner. sail away is at 430 pm. so this may not work, but I am open to whatever people want.