February 2, 2008 Eastern early check in

[PhotoLisa]

Welcome home everyone!!!

Hope everyone had a safe journey home. What a great week at sea . . . okay . . . minus two days of pretty rough seas in the beginning. Wasn't the weather awesome at Castaway Cay?

Can't seem to find my room host that I was sure I packed in my bags!!!

 

[LisaSp]

Reality bites, as they say. I was really missing our servers Ivo and Amy last nite when we were sorta floundering about what to have for dinner!! My DD was crying this morning, saying she wanted to go to Topsider's for breakfast.

Sorry we missed everyone at the Promenade Lounge. But hope everyone had as magical a trip as we did!!

 

[PhotoLisa]

I know that I did, as did Michelle and Peggy. I also booked for my baby sister that didn't cruise with us this time.

We're rebooked with a dummy date (12/5/09) until the 2010 dates open up and then we will all transfer to Labor Day 2010.

I can't promise that I won't use my dummy booking for a date closer and then book for LD 2010 on that cruise.

 

[busybethie]

We just got back today from the Feb 2 cruise. We have the best time of our lives. The weather was outstanding everyday!! We are all sad to be home in the freezing cold weather when two days ago, we were in the warm sun.

We also rebooked for a 5th cruise!!! Happy me!! Castaway Cay was just lovely. We snorkled at the family beach and the adult beach--just lovely at each spot. We snorkled also at St. Martin and my husband went scuba diving at St. Thomas. The kids loved the club and I loved Palos. We had Brunch and Dinner at Palos. Deck 10 over the family pool was great and a highlight of a trip was watching HSM on the big screen. Everything was just wonderful!! Sunny and warm everyday. We will miss the boat.

We stayed last night at Animal Kindgom Lodge and it was very nice also. We have a Safari view room as an upgrade and have a great view of the feeding area. It was great to see animals coming to eat.

Hope everyone had a safe trip home.

A special thank you to all of those the participated in the gift exchange for the children by placing gifts in the fish extenders at our door. My girls loved it. My mom set it up for us and my children really enjoyed it. Thank you for making out trip so special.

Beth Kelley: 2104

 

[olewnikpe]

It really is a bummer to be home in the cold. We just went through all of our photos and watched all the video we took during the cruise. I'm not looking forward to my return to work tomorrow. I have purposely steered clear of opening up my work e-mail.

Since we'll be using at least some DVC points again on our next cruise, I will be calling DVC tomorrow to book using a dummy date that we'll push to 2010 to take advantage of the "onboard" booking discount, since you cannot do it on the ship for some reason, but instead need to call them within 72 business hours after the cruise ends.

It was great to see everyone during the meet in the Promenade Lounge and thereafter during the cruise, and thanks to everyone who participated in the DIS tag, the kids loved it. We had a great time, and look forward to doing it again. Everyone in our Yahoo group and on the DIS boards certainly helped in making it a great cruise.

-- Eddie

 

[Gina]

Hi everyone!!

Man, does it suck to be back home, or what??

I had SUCH a good time with all y'all... and it was so cool to come back to find little surprises in the fish extender throughout the week. Thanks a bunch to everyone who participated!! And a BIG thank you to Lisa for making our beautiful fish extender -- I just love it so much!

I am so, so glad I had decided to tack on 2 nights at Pop Century after the cruise, as a birthday surprise for Tyler Dean. Pop is completely awesome, and we can't wait to stay there again!! We headed straight there on Saturday to drop off our bags, then hopped the bus to Epcot. We had a blast, and FINALLY talked ourselves into riding Mission: Space! (Green side, though!) We loved it so much, we went right back on it again, and I think it might be our new favorite ride.

I had planned on two days at Epcot because it's our fave park, but Saturday night we had a pro-and-con discussion and decided to spend Sunday at Magic Kingdom instead. That was a GREAT choice. We got to take advantage of the extra magic hours from 11pm-2am Sunday night, and we realized how it would have been so wrong to go to Walt Disney World and not visit MK. We spent a goodly amount of time just soaking stuff in. We rode TTA around three times, just enjoying the sights and sounds. Yesterday, we just explored Pop Century and took lots of pictures.

It was like a vacation after the vacation, and the whole 10 days was just amazing. I managed to get sick with that dang cold again, and am not looking forward to going to work tomorrow morning, but it's still all good!

It was really great meeting all of you... I'm very jealous of yáll who were able to book again. But we're hopefully heading back to WDW in December again with Dad and his guide dog, and my aunt -- our usual 4 1/2 Disney Mouseketeers.

I'm hoping to eventually have at least a summary trip report up, but I'm so behind in school now. If nothing else, I'll post a link to our pics which are uploading as I type this. (I got a couple spooky pics of the abandoned "Legendary Years" section of Pop!)

Hope everyone had as great a time onboard as we did!!

Now where is that darned "in-stateroom dining" button on my phone...


-gina-

 

[princess sparkle p]

We had a fabulous time on the cruise. We also rebooked for the western on 2/7/09, although it may get changed.

We were rather disappointed with our dining room servers, not even close to the experience on our last cruise. Other than that we had a GREAT time. AND NO SUNBURN!!!!!

I spent one of those rough sea days in the Quite Cove "WAVE" pool, it was soooo much fun!!!!!

The day we came home it was 2 degrees!!!!! YIKES!!! Oh it is difficult to be home...gotta love that Ohio weather!!!

 

[bostontochicago]

Hello all! Well, it is FREEZING in Chicago! So not fair. Jay and I just got back from the Beach Club a week ago, and I am still not adjusted. We had such a great time there, those villas are beautiful and the service there is like it is supposed to be at Disney - fabulous. The parks were a little crowded, but the weather was great.

The cruise was wonderful, (although when we got to WDW I did wish we had more time there) and it was great to meet all of you.

Princess Sparkle p...I remember that rough day in the pool - you and I were the only ones in there and chatted for awhile. I hope you got some quiet time with your hubby! Sorry to hear your food service did not improve. Our service did, but our food quality never got better.

All, in all it was a great vacation. Castaway Cay is heaven on earth, and while I don't think we will cruise again for awhile, a double dip to CC may be in our future at some point.