Fantasy Western April 28, 2012

[taswira]

Happy to have you with us, fenrir58.

 

[kyla]

Welcome fenfir58! I decided to bring my parents along as well on their first Disney cruise. They got the cabin next to ours. My niece is coming too! Disney cruise doesn't feel right without some kids along.

 

[fenrir58]

Thanks Dissers! Woohoo! The more the merrier!

 

[taswira]

I've done something I told ThePhantomsGirl I would not do this time, but ...

For my last cruise we had a website and a Facebook group, but MANY choose not to use FB, so felt left out. With that in mind, I created a website for this cruise that I will post this weekend. I think it's turned out well, so hopefully some of you will like it also. It does include a sign-up page for the cruiser list, including the FE. I will post the link here sometime this weekend after finishing up.

EDITED TO ADD: I will not be participating in the FE and am NOT organizing it, so hopefully someone else here will volunteer for that! The cruiser list will just enable easy sign-ups.

 

[supercruiser420]

I've done something I told ThePhantomsGirl I would not do this time, but ...

For my last cruise we had a website and a Facebook group, but MANY choose not to use FB, so felt left out. With that in mind, I created a website for this cruise that I will post this weekend. I think it's turned out well, so hopefully some of you will like it also. It does include a sign-up page for the cruiser list, including the FE. I will post the link here sometime this weekend after finishing up.

EDITED TO ADD: I will not be participating in the FE and am NOT organizing it, so hopefully someone else here will volunteer for that! The cruiser list will just enable easy sign-ups.

That's an awesome idea. There may not be a lot of people here yet, but once we get closer this forum will be filled with people excited for the cruise! On the last Disney cruise I was on, someone made a website and it was an easy place to communicate and get info on FE's and different disboard meets. Looking forward to the crazy adventure lying ahead!
Besides the FE's we definitely have to do a room crawl and some other meet and greets!!. I was looking at some of the excursions today on the website. Cozumel looks amazing!

 

[supercruiser420]

Our good friends Michael and Emily have joined our group!!!! They'll be with Samantha and I celebrating my 30th birthday and our third wedding anniversary!!!! The best part is, they booked an inside stateroom so we can see the magical porthole!!!! They'll be joining us for all the FE fun as well!!! Only 10 months to go

 

[taswira]

My eyes are so tired I just can't look at the Web any longer. But as promised, HERE is the start of a website I've put together for this cruise. Please bear with me as I build it and do a lot of experimenting through the coming months. Read the "NEWS" items on the site if you need help finding your way around. I'm hoping everyone here will bookmark it, but if you lose the link you can click on the LEFT side of my signature graphic, the one for this cruise, and it should take you there.

 

[o&smom]

My name is Marni and my family and I will also be joining all of you on the new Fantasy. We would like it be added to any FE exchange list, too. This will be our third Disney cruise and our first to the Caribbean. We are so excited to be one of the first on the Fantasy! We will be spending a few days prior to the cruise in Orlando and experiencing WDW for the very first time! We live in Portland, OR and have many happy memories in DL, but had not yet made the long journey to WDW.

Here is our info:
Marni - Me
Bill - DH
Owen - DS (8)
Spencer - DD (1)
main seating for dinner
room# 9160

P.S. Any tips for WDW would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Marni

 

[taswira]

Marni - I don't know if anyone else here is maintaining any kind of list for this cruise, but we now have a website HERE and you can submit your info by filling out this form, which will automatically be added to our cruiser list page.

I just posted the site last night, so most others here probably haven't seen it yet.

 

[ThePhantomsGirl]

Shari - GREAT job on the cruising website. While THIS thread is the place for discussions and conversation - having the website makes it easy to see in a glance who is who. Also a great way to keep track of meet-ups, who is doing FE's and such.

By the time we cruise, this forum thread will get very long and it will be difficult to keep track of who is going, who is interested in what event and so forth. Having the website will make that part easy. I also like that it has the actual first names of people.

Just another GREAT resource - so a great big thank you to Shari!

 

[stinkerbellsmommy]

Wow! Fantastic job on the website, Shari!!! I just started looking at the page, but will be signing up shortly =) Just saw the countdown says 306 days until sail date. Thanks again for doing the page!

 

[taswira]

Wow! Fantastic job on the website, Shari!!! I just started looking at the page, but will be signing up shortly =) Just saw the countdown says 306 days until sail date. Thanks again for doing the page!

Thank you very much! And thank you to those who are signing up on the cruiser list!

If there is something anyone here would like to see on the site that isn't there, please let me know.

Shari

 

[o&smom]

Thanks for the amazing website Shari. I have entered all of our info.

Thanks,
Marni

 

[taswira]

Thanks, Marni!

Shari

 

[ThePhantomsGirl]

Well, the countdown says 302 days. Still feels like forever, but it IS getting closer.

I'm wondering how many times they'll change the boarding procedures by the time we sail?

 

[taswira]

Today our cruise website says 299 days. Time will REALLY start passing quickly now!

 

[ThePhantomsGirl]

Yea! We are under the 300 day mark. I know it still seems so far away, but it will probably go by faster than we think. I know when I was waiting for my first cruise - it felt like forever. Then all of sudden - it was time!

I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July! And for any Canadians - I hope your Canada day was wonderful too!

Any cruise newbies out there?

 

[taswira]

krhardy - Thanks for signing up on our cruiser list!

Since you are the OP - Do you think you could add a link to our cruise website to your original first post of this thread, so those joining the thread could easily find it? I'd really appreciate it.

To have it show as "Our 28 APRIL 2012 Disney FANTASY Website", you can copy and paste the following code:

Our [B][URL="https://sites.google.com/site/dclfantasy42812/"]28 APRIL 2012 Disney FANTASY Website[/URL][/B]

 

[krhardy]

:Since you are the OP - Do you think you could add a link to our cruise website to your original first post of this thread, so those joining the thread could easily find it? I'd really appreciate it.

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done!

Thank goodness others are tech savvy...I *could* be but sadly can't spend the time I would like to figuring these type of things out

 

[krhardy]

I know we're still quite a ways out, but I'm trying to see if we have enough interest to make a cruise t-shirt with our "Fabulous Fantasy Fiesta" logo on it.

I don't mind taking point on making them since we have a machine at the gym where I work (we do our own staff shirts and martial arts tournaments)

The only down side is the following: because "Disney" is well copyrighted, we can't use any trademarked logos. ie. mickey heads or images of the ships.
I tried last time and the company we use to make our heat presses won't produce a copyrighted image without the original image holder's permission.
That said, what would people like on a shirt? And, what color?
Submit ideas and over the next couple of weeks I'll play around with the transfer company's website and post images of what I can come up with.