Feb. 7, 2008 3 night wonder...Anyone???

[BPCooper]

No problem. The countdown began at 5:00pm EST tonight at the T-43 hour mark. The count includes 26 hours and 31 minutes of built-in holds leading to a targeted launch at 2:45pm EST Thursday.

The official launch weather forecast is currently predicting a marginal 40% chance of acceptable weather Thursday as a front rolls through; Friday and Saturday should be near perfect increasing to 80%.

 

[TLPL]

I'm still here, tried to get everything done at work but ended up didn't get anything done. Oh well, I guess they just have to wait till I go back to work in 2 weeks.

We are flying out of Buffalo tomorrow, weather looks good so shuoldn't be any delay. Have a safe trip everyone. See you all Thursday.

 

[DNSYFRK]

I'm still here for a little bit. one more day of work thought, and it will be a doozie, had an employee walk out on me and then i went home early to go the the doctor, (of course i get sick days before we leave), it turns out the till of the person who walked out was short $420, now i wonder why he left? maybe he had to go to the bank, so now i will have to deal with that on my last day. i love my job i love my job. only 1.5 more days wednesday can not come fast enough. take care all and see you on board.

 

[JonR]

Another late night here. Fly out of Baltimore tomorrow morning. I don't know how we'll get all this stuff in the suitcases.

See everyone at Topsiders at 1pm on Thursday.

Jon

 

[MariaTia]

Safe Travels everyone - I am done with work for the rest of the week But husband and friends have to work tomorrow. We decided to go Amtrak for the trip down to Florida so we actually leave now at 1 a.m. Wednesday. We are going back DisneyWorld for a quick tour of resorts and lunch then out to Port Canaveral Wednesday night. Hope the Shuttle takes off- I think Jason is looking forward to that maybe more than the cruise But, then again, he has never been on a cruise or anything with Disney - so he doesn't know yet

Can't believe it's time See you at 1 p.m. Thursday!!

 

[tinkerbelle77]

Not us!!!!

Just praying for decent weather to get all of us out of Chicago Wed morning Tinks!!! Our flight leaves Ohare at 7 am...what abt you guys??

Spelling Bee was today.....he did ok....missed mandAtory!! That is our new word for the day here...lol

Almost packed...kids have been, just me....DH is working like crazy to finish his project by Wed am! Needed extra suitcase for fish extender stuff! yikes....But I did separate everyones stuff in bags attached with name and room #...will make it easier!

What is everyone else doing...TLPL leaves tomorrow...and there are just a few left...Tinks..maybe just you and me...lol..how this all started Just you and me on the lonely thread

Safe travels to everyone

We leave Weds am also! 1st flight out of Midway! We are concerned with the weather, also! Supposed to be snowing all night tonight, and into tomorrow afternoon, then most of the night again into Thursday! So Good luck with your flight! Hopefully the snow holds off long enough for us to leave this cold snowy city!

Mandatory!!! I know he will never spell that wrong again! At least he was able to compete before you guys left! My daughter said they had the speeling bee yesterday at her school and it made me think of you and your son! I was hoping he was able to be there for it! Congrats on being in the spelling bee, theres always next year!

Good sign with flights here, the fog has risen and I hear planes flying over the house at this time! They take off and land in the snow, but not fog! So lets hope for both of us!

Safe travels to all!!! See ya all on Thursday!

We have an extra bag packed with our fish extender stuff, also! Couldnt fit it in with my other stuff!

 

[tinkerbelle77]

I'm still here for a little bit. one more day of work thought, and it will be a doozie, had an employee walk out on me and then i went home early to go the the doctor, (of course i get sick days before we leave), it turns out the till of the person who walked out was short $420, now i wonder why he left? maybe he had to go to the bank, so now i will have to deal with that on my last day. i love my job i love my job. only 1.5 more days wednesday can not come fast enough. take care all and see you on board.

Sorry to hear that! Good luck dealing with it all up before you leave! See ya Thursday!

 

[DisneyBride'03]

Hi Everyone!!!

Currently at AKV...love it here..leave tomorrow, so sad....anyway...

so sorry to those I did not meet.....we loved ALL our fish extender goodies!!

Thanks so much everyone!! Cant tell you how much some of the items helped out at dinner with Ava!! Tough for a 19mth old to sit so long at dinner 3 nights in a row!!!!!

On a somber note......before we left to the show last night....someone took all my door magnets..and STOLE my fish extender!!!!!!! I was so upset, still cant believe someone could do that!!

Hope everyone had a great cruise, we had great weather

Hope everyone had/has safe travels!!!

We are enjoying a great savannah view

 

[DNSYFRK]

Oh to be home, i love it really , the -10 was so much better than the awesome weather for our castaway cay day. well all good things have to end now all i can do i save up for the next one. Hope all had as good as a time as we did. it was heaven on earth for just a few short days. Disney brode sorry to hear about your magnets and fish extemders. I did the opposite i realized the last night i forgot to even put ours up, crazy me after i spent all of the time on them. i am sorry i did not get to meet many of you my DW and i just kind of took life extremely easy for a change and it was awesome. Only have a couple of hundred pictures to get onto the comuter and printed to make an album. take care everyone and hopefully every had a very magical time like we did.

 

[JonR]

Sorry, we didn't meet up with anybody. I think I saw some at the launch behind Beach Blanket. I had a blast handing out trinkets in the fish extenders. THANKS for all the cool stuff, the kids love their stuff and so do we. We had a table in the middle and then moved to one by the rails for a perfect view of the launch!!!

We missed the bon voyage party, due to a couple of events (lost earing, chaos,...) That night I didn't really eat anything due to moving ship. I left my wife to eat by herself. (What a husband! The kids hung out in the clubs.) After that the rest of the trip got much better. We had a blast. So many new things, it will take about 2 weeks for it all to set in.

We had a great visit to the Pirates and Princess party on Feb 5, and Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios on Feb 6.

I think our favorite family activity was Castaway Cay and snorkeling. We used our Kmart bought masks. We all biked around the island. Only $6 per person. (Quite the bargain.)

My daughter fell in love with the Oceaneer lab!

Hope everyone has a safe trip back. We fly back from Tampa tomorrow morning!

Disneybride sorry to hear about the magnets being stolen. I really enjoyed seeing the decorations and the fishextenders.

Jon

 

[Mom2PrincessK]

We loved AKL too! We have about 200 pics of giraffes and zebras LOL! Can't have too many of those, I guess!

It was good to meet DB and London Couple - can't wait to hear how Palo's went! Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone else....hope you all had a great time.

Thanks to all for the fish extender goodies! We enjoyed doing that, and DD6 liked helping pass out the items -she was so excited when we passed one we had filled and saw it was empty

DB - so sorry to hear about your door decs and hanger! What a bummer - I had heard that can be an issue, but still can't believe someone would do that.

DD6 LOVED the Club - could hardly pull her out of it. DS13 really didn't really get into going to Aloft, which I was afraid of, but he says he still had fun.

Hope you all have safe travels home!

 

[Finally08]

How is everyone feeling since arriving home?? DH started feeling bad at dinner the last night of the cruise, and he ran fever all night. Of course in the days following we all got it - it's the flu!! The entire house has it, and we're miserable.

 

[DisneyBride'03]

Tough to believe just a few days ago we were on a beach....with amazing weather....and I look out my window and see snow...and its so cold out!!!

We had a great day on CC....DS14 got sick morning of checking into AKV, he slept all day after taking some meds...DD10 has been sneezing all day....

I have to admit, I think my DH wanted to throw me overboard a few times...lol..I may have over planned...got a bit strssed...and had to tell myself to relax!! lol 3 days is just tough to cram so much into....and with 3 kids in different age groups....trying to get Ava to nap, then the show at 6 15 and dinner at 8...(they let us change dinner seating when I realized there was NO way we would make it at 5 30!!!!) We had Tritons, Ap and then Parrot Cay for our rotation.

Joyce it ws great seeing you, we have some pics of your DD on stage, will gt those to you from sail away party!

**For those interested......I have some very interesting pics of jontheref at Wavebands on his engagement nignt!!!!** Just kiding Jonathan...you can have them for a small price LOL

I got to meet tinks Mom2PK..TLPL.. who I jsut couldnt meet up like I wanted, so hectic, sorry Peter MariaTia and who else? Oh London Couple lol

JonR....so sorry...somehow when DD10 and I made our deliveries, I could not find your DS's goggles!!! I felt horrible, am so sorry!!
Besides our stuff being stolen and my FE DH lost his Maui Jim sunglasses and case he just bought ($150)..somewhere between the DCL bus and AKV! So that was a damper too!

Three days is just not enough.....I may need a xanax or two for next cruise...lol

Finally08..sorry abt your family! Hope you guys get better soon!!

Ava loved the nursery...in there twice...2 hrs ea...
Courtney not so crazy abt Lab....
Les...loved the Teen Club, rarely saw him! lol
The Club looked great, took Ava in there to play a bit!

So, when is everyone's next cruise? lol

 

[ladyandthetramp2]

Both my DS are sick too! High fever and colds. A definete negative of the cruise!!

 

[Mom2PrincessK]

DH got the flu too - so far the rest of us haven't...but being stuck in a small room for a week I can't imagine how we haven't! I've heard it is going around here in the school's and some workplaces as well.

 

[Finally08]

Oh man...so with so many of us sick, no doubt it came from somewhere on the ship. That makes me scared to cruise again. I still feel like I'm dying and now I have to reschedule clients. Blah!

 

[jontheref]

Well

The London Couple are Engaged and back home!!!! Thankyou for well wishes received!!!

It was a wonderful trip and was such a blast meeting people!!!!
Mom2princessK - Wish we had seen you guys more on the boat and hope everything/one gets better soon!!!

Tinkerbell - what a pleasure it was to have DF walk in on us whilst in our staeroom (long story folks! Easily explained and our partners know!!!)

TLPL - great to see you if only briefly

MariaTia - Lovely to see you at our engagement party!!!!! (Shame you saw me on stage though!)

Disneybride - well far too much to say about you! It was great meeting and socialising with you guys, thanks for everything!!!

To everyone who we swapped FE stuff with - thankyou and hope you enjoyed your gifts!!!

 

[Mom2PrincessK]

Well

The London Couple are Engaged and back home!!!!

Congrats to you and Kirsty! We wondered how the big night went!

It was great meeting you. Glad to hear you made it back safely.

 

[DisneyBride'03]

So how is veryone feeling...getting better???

 

[Finally08]

So how is veryone feeling...getting better???

Sadly, not really.
DS's fevers got much worse yesterday. DD's had stopped yesterday morning then spiked again in evening, but today it hasn't gone back up. My fever is staying on the lower end today (it was really bad yesterday). Poor ds is mising a week of school on top of the 3 days he missed last week - he may never catch up!