February 25, 2006 Western Magic Cruisers!!

[vavalynn2]

Rick!!!! You kill me!!! You make me laugh!!
Yes!! I have a list... wait.. let me look here... PLEASE God!!! Don't make me have to go by memory!!!
Oh!! Here they are!!! OK, Incredibles, Ice Princess, Chicken Little, Nemo, Herbie, Sky High, Valiant, Flight Plan, The Chronicles of Narnia, and one or two more that I have never heard of and I cannot understand my writing b/c I was writing as fast as she was reading them off to me. So... we have a good bunch to pick from.. it looks like I was trying to write, The Greatest.... something or Surf or Shop Girl or something like that...do any of those sound like anything? Just bought DGD The Alice in Wonderland tape and will watch it in the morning!!! DH and DS are watching Pirates of the Caribbean now!!! Maybe they really ARE getting excited!!! Karen

My guess is that the others are The Greatest Game Ever Played, a Disney film about basketball and Shop girl a movie starring Steve Martin that I really don't know anything about.

DH and I would really love Palo brunch ressies as well. Does any one know where we will have to go to try to get them when we board?

Some snow here, not too much or what we are used to for January. I can't believe how late it is in the season and I have not been able to use my cross country skis yet.

Happy Less than a month!

 

[levea]

Getting really excited about our first Disney Cruise on 2/25/2006. There are 4 of us, 7 and 9 year old boys. Starting to book shore excursions, anybody been on the electric car scavanger hunt in Key West????

Alicia

 

[levea]

Sorry sent message twice, new at this.

 

[NHdisneybuddy]

We are new to the DCL and have a DS14 and two DD 10,12 - they are very interested in finding other friends their ages.

 

[kj375]

Hi NHdisneybuddy.

I have a DD14 also and live in NH. She is looking forward to the teen programs. Maybe they could email/im?

Kathy

 

[rjh8115]

Getting really excited about our first Disney Cruise on 2/25/2006. There are 4 of us, 7 and 9 year old boys. Starting to book shore excursions, anybody been on the electric car scavanger hunt in Key West????

Alicia

Hi Alicia,
My boys are 6 and 8. Send me a PM with your email address and they can start "talking" before the cruise.

We are just going to bum around Key West. We, along with some other DISers are going on the Captain Marvins Stingray City tour on Grand Cayman. For Coz, we're going to head down to Paradise Beach.

Welcome to the club!!!

Rick

 

[rjh8115]

DH and I would really love Palo brunch ressies as well. Does any one know where we will have to go to try to get them when we board?

I belive we go to Rockin Bar D on Deck 3 forward to book Palo ressies and to make changes to dining arrangements.

 

[rjh8115]

We are new to the DCL and have a DS14 and two DD 10,12 - they are very interested in finding other friends their ages.

Welcome to the group. We have a ton of kids going on this cruise. We have to boys (6 and 8), but there are others with girls near your ages.

Rick

 

[kshabare]

Good Morning all.

I just updated the sheet with the new screen names. My count is roughly 150 people on this cruise - that's not accurate because some early posters never came back to us.

If you want in, just email me.

I need sunshine. They said we may get more snow Tuesday. Today they've predicted rain. Send pixie dust for the week. I need a pick-me-up.

Kim

p.s. I may want in on the electric car in Key West. Last year we biked. This year we thought about kayak. I want to do something to start the fun.....

 

[dreamakermom]

Good morning everyone!!! Just think 4 Sundays from now, around this time... we will all be meeting each other!!!! I have my Mickey tag!!!
I am WAY too excited!! Bought Mickey Cheeses yesterday!!!Yes.. you heard right! Also got the grandaughter a Princess suitcase!!!! Have a wonderful day! Karen

 

[hjensen]

Happy Sunday everyone!! Just like you Karen I cant wait to meet everyone! I had my daughter pick up some more paint swatches yesterday at Home Depot. (she thinks I'm nuts) I want to make some magnets for the door out of the paint swatches and then fix some up to wear kinda like name tags.

Mickey cheeses!!! How cute!! We have LOTS of cheese in WI but I dont think I have ever seen Mickey cheeses! That would be soooo neat!!

Well Karen just had to let you know that Bon Jovi was excellent and he was as gorgeous as ever!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend. We had a ton of rain but I will take that over snow any day!!

 

[Edinafabs]

Donna, Holli & Kathy, I just looked and we have 8:30 dinner time too. We requested APL rotation. Did you all do that as well?

Rick, we don't have Costco here, are the Mickey Mouse cookies sold somewhere else that you know of? What brand were they? They would be nice to buy for my DD

I can't get to more smiles than the first page, has anyone else been able to?

Have a good Sunday

Eddy

 

[kj375]

How do you find out/request a certain dining rotation? Is there a reason for APL? I don't mind the 8:30 time, if I ate too early I would want to go to sleep too early!

We just went to Home Depot and picked up some Mickey swatches! Also, DH & DS had Mickey grilled cheeses for lunch (using my Mickey waffle iron).

Kathy

 

[PhotoLisa]

Yes . . . 4 weeks from today, we'll be in Key West! How exciting.

I got caught up in making pillowcase designs yesterday . . . 14 of them. It consumed my day from about 4:30 until midnight. I did repost saying I had taken all the requests that I could due to needing to do some personal work. Check out the Creative DISigns forum of disboards to see all the wonderful ideas that are being shared. I believe this particular idea was the brainstorm of Kate (Nick & Jess's Mom).

Here's a link to some of the designs . . . http://lisanealphotography.com/forums/disney/pillowgallery

Also . . . I have a center design for the pillowcase if you'd like to use it.
Here is a small resolution image copy (do not download this version -- it'll print awful):

Here is a link to the full resolution image that I've reversed for you if you want to print it on transfer paper to iron onto your pillowcase (or shirt).
http://www.lisanealphotography.com/forums/disney/pillowcase center4 flipped.gif

 

[PhotoLisa]

Almost everyone I talked to said you can bring your own alcohol on board. We bought a nice Disney soft sided cooler on ebay. We will use it as a carry on and either buy our alcohol in Port Canaveral when we get there the day before or buy some in Key West. Might cost alittle bit more but then I dont have to lug all those bottles!!

Have you read in the FAQ that you can ship items ahead to the warehouse? I think this is what we're going to do instead of lugging alcohol with us. From reports, it says the items are usually in your stateroom waiting when you arrive.

My daughter did some calculations from liquid ounces to actual weight and figured to ship a case of beer, it would only be about $6 using DHL. It has to be cheaper than buying it onboard for casual consumption or walking a distance in KW or getting a cab in KW.

I believe we'll be shipping things ahead!!!

 

[PhotoLisa]

Hi Rick:

We have late seating booked for our group of 6. I put a request in for 8:00, the earliest of the late rotation, but it's showing up as 8:30 on our reservation. I still don't understand exactly how those staggered dining times work . Oh well ... what it is, it is.

We booked our cruise back on 2/2/05 and requested late seating. Before the invention of staggered times, the ressie on the Disney website showed "Late Seating 8:30 PM". I don't think they've changed the notation on the website now that staggered seating has been introduced.

I feel certain that although the D-website says 8:30 - everyone's says that and you won't find out your "real" time until you check in at the port and get your KTTW card.

There is still hope for you to get your preferred rotation.

 

[kellimomo3]

Alicia,

I also have 7 and nine year old boys. My seven year old is almost eight and will be in the Lab. They would love to email back and forth and are already doing so with Rick's boys. PM me and we can exchange emails.

Kelli

 

[levea]

Hi Rick,
We will be doing the same in Grand Caymen, Captain Marvins half day stingray tour. In Coz we are going over to xcaret eco archeolgical park. We would also like to do the electric car scavanger hunt in Key West. The problem with that is the ship docks too late to pick it up with an existing group. So I am trying to look for people to join us and make our own group and time. We only need 6 more. Let me know if you know of anyone. I will let my boys know about your boys.
Talk soon
Alicia

 

[hjensen]

Hi Eddy! How did you request the APL rotation? It would be really nice to have a bunch of us DISers sitting at the same table!! Let me know if I have to call DCL or my TA to request that!!

 

[beaner720]

Donna, Holli & Kathy, I just looked and we have 8:30 dinner time too. We requested APL rotation. Did you all do that as well?

Rick, we don't have Costco here, are the Mickey Mouse cookies sold somewhere else that you know of? What brand were they? They would be nice to buy for my DD

I can't get to more smiles than the first page, has anyone else been able to?

Have a good Sunday

Eddy

Hi Eddy

Yes, we requested the APL rotation as well. We also requested the 8:00 seating but it's listed as 8:30 on our reservation ... I think that may be just how they show all late seating? I think the 8:00 MAY be linked with APL, but like someone else said I don't think we'll really know if we're 8:00, 8:15, or 8:30 until we get our KTTW cards when we board.