Hi everyone,
I finally made it over to this thread to join, introduce ourselves, and meet all of you. Here's our story:
We (DH and I) are taking our first cruise ever...which will be on the Magic 2/4 with all of you. We bought DVC this past year after selling our house, making a profit, and moving from MA to NY. So, we are thrilled to be DVC owners. I have been on the DIS boards for about 2 years but don't post too much. I am an obsessive planner and we are in the final planning stages of the trip that will culminate with us on the
DCL with all of you.
So, here is our trip details and who we are:
DH and I (both 28 yo) have no kids. We wanted to get pregnant this year, but HAD to wait till after this trip in Feb 06 because I didn't want to be limited on anything for this dream trip. So, DH and I have meticulously planned this trip with my stepdad (56) and are taking my mom on this trip as a *SURPRISE* 50th birthday gift to her. We are so excited. That's one of the reasons we bought DVC was to be able to pull off a trip like this (and have great vacations to boot here on out every year). So, we will do 1 week at DW staying at Grand Floridian Mon - Friday before the cruise. Sat 2/4, we start out 2nd half of the trip - the cruise with all of you. It is the first time ANY of us have cruised (unless you want to call my Marine husband's 6 month on a military ship a cruise) and of course, our first DCL experience.
We've done pretty well with our planning so far. For example, for our WDW stay, we already have booked breakfast at CRT with Cinderella, and an Illuminations cruise. By the way - will anyone else be in WDW the week prior to sailing? We might offer up spots on our Illuminations Cruise to offset the cost of it...
Anyway, we would like to meet other DISers, if there are parties, pub crawls, whatever. We can't wait! So, if there is a list of room #s, we would be happy to be on that. I have to check our materials at home, but I think we are on either deck 3 or 6. We put my mom and stepdad in a navigator's verandah suite and we are in a regular inside stateroom across the hall from them. They aren't really the partiers, but DH and I can be.
So, since we are not repeat cruisers, like all of you, we can't book our reservations yet. They told us we had to wait till 75 days out which puts us at Nov. 22 - the week of Thanksgiving.
We will book Palo for dinner and brunch...maybe also for Tea. DH and I are scuba divers and will be doing one of the Scuba excursions. Is anyone else? We will also book the Submarine excursion at St. Thomas.
We can't wait to see mom's face when we go on this trip. She thinks she is going on a rinky dink WDW trip for a few days and then to her INLAWS in FL for the 2nd week. She doesn't know we are going on the trip, has no idea we are staying at GF, and has no idea about DCL! We are so excited that sometimes we want to spill it to her to get her excited. She will be blown away.
Anyway, we just wanted to introduce ourselves. We would be game for a Palo group brunch, so include us as 4 adults. We are not sure what night to have Palo dinner -- since we want to watch Superbowl, and want to dress up for formal night, and want to go to pirate party. So, I am not sure what night that leaves us. ?? Oh, we are on the 8pm dinner rotation since we don't have kids. Lastly, we were thinking about having Palo dinner on SUnday before the superbowl, since we have 8 pm seating, that we thought if we did Palo, we could have like a 5 or 6 pm dinner and go to Superbowl afterwards (instead of being at 8 pm regular dinner rotation). Does anyone have any advice on this? not sure when Formal night is, but I think people say it's Monday night and Tue is pirate party. Any advice would be great.
Sorry to get long-winded. But I had a lot to say since this is a 1st for us!
Thanks ~
Stacey & Tim (plus DMother and DStepdad)
), and a 4:00 mini-meal from one of the snack bars on deck 10.
