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

[Shana Rayce]

Hi Betty...
We are getting into Orlando on Thursday...and may be staying at the Poly. Right now I have a ressie at the Contemporary...but am waiting to see if discount codes come out for Oct. and plan to switch to the Poly if they do! We are definitely going to MNSSHP on Friday night! We have been twice before and absolutely LOVE IT!! You can walk right on to the rides with no wait most of the time! It is alot of fun and well worth the $$. Do get your tickets ahead of time though...I'm getting mine this week.

Also...on our Nassau day, I have made a reservation at the Comfort Suites Paradise Island. If you have a room there, you have full privileges at the Atlantis Resort! The room is $175.00...but by the time you add up the Atlantis excursion fees for a family, we figured it is worth it to go for this option! I have always wanted to go to the Atlantis Resort, and now I can spend the day there and see if we would like to go back sometime and stay there! We plan to take a taxi to the Comfort Suites as soon as we get off the Wonder, check in there, and then head over the the Atlantis and spend the whole day at the resort! Not sure what time we'll head back to the Wonder...we'll probably stay as long as we can! I can hardly wait!!

 

[acrucifer]

hey gang,

how is everyone. we are up to 16 dis members now. The July newsletter has been dispatched to all e mail addresses I have. If you did not get the newsletter and want it, please email me your address at acrucifer@aol.com and I will send you a copy. this months newsletter topic is all about castway cay, complete with pictures and history. we will all be under 100 days soon and some of us already are. at 90 days most airlines will assign seat numbers so if you already have a airline reservation and no seat number, you may want to call your airline. I hope everyone enjoys their summer and will talk to you soon, TTFN, Ralph

 

[Pammy jo]

Ralph: Loved the newsletter. Are we popping the cork at 99 days?
Shana: Couldn't stand it, when I read your post I decided that we too had to go to Atlantis. I'll try making our reservations tonight.

 

[disneyfreakk]

ralph, the newsletter was great!

i just cant wait!!!!

 

[acrucifer]

although I seldom need a reason the celebrate something great, I think perhaps we should wait until we got onboard to pop the cork. I am glad you all enjoyed the newsletter and I suspect as we get to 60 days, when we can make excursion ressies through Disney, and cruise docs start going out, the excitement level will be even higher. but from here on out, the anticipation will gradually start to build. It will be a fun ride, enjoy it as it can be part of the whole experience. TTFN Ralph.

 

[acrucifer]

some of you didnt receive the newsletter due to my not having your addresses and I have rectified that by adding you to my address book. a few didnt recieve it although I sent it en mass to a group of members and I have asked those people to check their spam filters and I have resent the newsletter to those people. if anyone else wants the newsletter and did nt get it , simply e mail me. Ralph

 

[Bauerbandt]

Ralph:

Thanks for the newsletter. I believe I read in the newsletter that the second DIS Meet was going to be the day at sea, which would be Nov 3rd, correct? I think we are going to try and get a Palo's res for that night.

Thanks Marley for the MNSSSHP info. I think we are trying to go there Friday night. I am assuming that one needs a ticket for the day and another ticket for the MNSSSHP. Am I correct?

Thanks, - bauerbandt

 

[marley]

yes, you are correct. You need a ticket if you want to go to MK during the day and then another ticket for that evening's Halloween party. --Marley

 

[acrucifer]

lets start getting pumped up. we are in double digits now. it wont be long and we will all be together on the wonder. could we have a meet at disney world, I know a number of us are going there after the cruise. who is game for this ? Ralph.

 

[disneyfreakk]

that would be a great idea!! we are going to be there for a week after the cruise! i think the food and wine festival would be a fun meet! we did this last year and it was a hoot!

 

[acrucifer]

that is an excellant idea. I have also been there at epcot for the wine festival in years past and it was a great time. who among you here would be up for this. you can count me in.

 

[disneyfreakk]

how many kids do we have for the TOT so far??

 

[Shana Rayce]

Hi everybody! I am getting so excited...only 92 days until we arrive in Orlando! Wish it were next week....but I guess waiting and anticipating is part of the fun!! I know we have the TOT list started...but does that list kids/ages?? It would be neat if we had some kind of a list that would tell us who has kids, and what age they are. Just a thought....

Pammy Jo...did you make a ressie at Comfort Suites Paradise Island?? I am SO excited about spending the day at Atlantis!!!! That will be a big highlight of our cruise for me!! Trying to decide whether to eat dinner there, or head back to the ship...hate to miss one of the restaurants on board....but would love to spend every possible minute at Atlantis.... Will give it more thought...plenty of time to decide! Anyone else doing this?

Pin Trading Question...my son would like to get started pin trading on our trip...we'll be in Disney for 3 days prior to the cruise...how many pins do you think would be good for us to purchase for him to start out? I know nothing about this...but when I mentioned it to him he seemed very interested!
Any advice would be appreciated!

Well...better get back to work!

 

[Shana Rayce]

Hi everybody! I am getting so excited...only 92 days until we arrive in Orlando! Wish it were next week....but I guess waiting and anticipating is part of the fun!! I know we have the TOT list started...but does that list kids/ages?? It would be neat if we had some kind of a list that would tell us who has kids, and what age they are. Just a thought....

Pammy Jo...did you make a ressie at Comfort Suites Paradise Island?? I am SO excited about spending the day at Atlantis!!!! That will be a big highlight of our cruise for me!! Trying to decide whether to eat dinner there, or head back to the ship...hate to miss one of the restaurants on board....but would love to spend every possible minute at Atlantis.... Will give it more thought...plenty of time to decide! Anyone else doing this?

Pin Trading Question...my son would like to get started pin trading on our trip...we'll be in Disney for 3 days prior to the cruise...how many pins do you think would be good for us to purchase for him to start out? I know nothing about this...but when I mentioned it to him he seemed very interested!
Any advice would be appreciated!

Well...better get back to work!

 

[disneyfreakk]

hi shana,

i was thinking the same thing for the TOT. but for different reasons. DH and i were talking and he made a good point. what if kids just show up at our state room that arent in our group?? then we wouldnt have enough for the kids whose parents went to all the trouble to plan and be friendly on these boards. should we maybe do nametags and everyone have a list of " our group "?

on another note, although i dont collect pins i have some advice that you may or may not know about. www.disneystore.com is having a pin sale right now.. 50% off. also, http://stores.ebay.com/Disney-Deals-direct-from-Disney has great discounts on all kinds of stuff from disney!

 

[marley]

I can not believe I just spent 40 minutes putting together our TOT list in a post and the DIS Boards server dumped it!!!!!

I'll wait until the boards are more stable to try again so everyone will have the list.

I also keep forgetting to point out in case everyone hasn't noticed that we will have daylight savings time the night before we leave for the cruise adding an extra hour of torture before we can board the ship

Marley

 

[marley]

Here goes again:

Ralph: as for the DIS meet after the cruise, sounds like a great idea, but we will only have Friday at WDW and will be hitting the parks hard!!

Kellie: we have 20 kids so far for the TOT.

Shana: here is the list.

Bob and Barbara (aka bgomes)

Ralph and Stephanie (aka acrucifer)

Pammy Jo and John (aka Pammy jo) Spencer 7, Parker 5, 3 Bradley

John and Lise (aka Iholman) William (9), Kierstynn (7), Trevor (5)

Nick and Tressa (aka nrod7) Brandon (11), Jacob (10)

Marley and Andy (aka Marley) Hayley (8), Jason (4)

Kelli and Tony (aka fussellfamily) Haden (8), Madison (3), Wakeman (2)

Bill and Tracy (aka bauerbandt) Anna (7), Ben (4)

Melvin and Traci (aka Ihave2kids) Fowler (5), Austin (3)

Kellie and Jay (aka Disneyfreak)

Joanne and Eric (aka Jo-Jo21) Eric age 7

Shana and Brent (aka Shan Rayce) Logan turning 9 on cruise

This list does not include: Shannonbri, Coach or Betty. I do not have definite confirmation that they want to participate in the TOT. If so, I need in an email to marley@nc.rr.com names of everyone in your party and including children's ages and cabin numbers if you have them.

This list also does not include my families names since they have not introduced themselves on the board yet but I guarantee they will hand out candy

Ray and Linda

Fred and Suzanne

Kelly and Ed - Josie age 3

Also, I also included in my post that never made it that I've read on previous threads that "stragglers" tend to join these TOTs. I know some of you are planning goodie bags (which is great) but it would be best to have a few pieces of candy set aside for those stragglers if they should appear.

Marley

 

[Shana Rayce]

THANKS Marley!! The list is great! Looks like quite a few kids Logan's age! As you can see I had some server problems too...my post got posted twice! Woops!

 

[Bauerbandt]

Regarding WDW, we are planning on hitting the parks 2 or 3 days prior to the trip. Shanna, do you know where you are staying yet prior to the cruise? I am hoping they extend the special for the Swan and Dolphin into October.

Just an update to Marley's list, Ben will be turning 5 on the Monday of the cruise. I'm trying to come up with something special to do in Nassau for his BD, but if everyone else is getting off the ship, we just may stay on the ship so that he can have better access to the activities on the ship. Does anyone have a sense of how many people (or what percent) stay on the ship during a port of call?

-Bauerbandt?

 

[marley]

Shana: Is the cruise still a suprise for Logan? I kept this past Christmas trip a suprise from the kids and thought I was going to explode when we finally broke down two days before and told them. We did a treasure hunt through the house and at the end, they turned on the TV to find a special we had taped of WDW at the holidays. They were ecstatic (well, my 4 year old cried at first because there was no actual physical present at the end of the treasure hunt but then he was ecstatic

Bauerbandt: as for celebrating Ben's birthday, I would stay on the ship so he can have the Mickey pool to himself (although my kids will be there too) and all of the Mickey bars his belly can handle!!! We spent about 20 minutes in Nassau and then quickly retreated back to the boat. It wasn't empty, but it was very peaceful and the kids got to ride the Mickey slide over and over

Marley