February 5, 2011 Western Carribean **Cruise Meet **

[sdjen]

Hi everyone! I am starting this cruise meet thread since I just booked this trip today!! So excited for my first Disney cruise - it is going to be a long wait until February of 2011!!

Hope you hear from lots of you and that we have a really fun group to sail with. I will post more about me on the next thread

Happy planning to everyone!!

I stole this from another thread so we can get to know one another!

Roll Call
DIS Name
First Name of Those Sailing
Ages of children at time of sailing
Stateroom(s)

Here is a current list for everyone that has responded so far.



4happybogles
Tara, Rich, Jonathan, Ethan
Boys will be 4 and 6 when we sail
6612
2nd Disney Cruise
Ethan's 5th Birthday as it will take place just a few days after our cruise is over.


SDJen
Jen (40 something ) and my daughter Amanda
She will be 5 at time of sailing
5520 - secret porthole room!
I have done one Carnival cruise w/girlfriends This will be our first Disney cruise or Disney anything! I have never been to either Disney park either if you can beleive that!
We will be celebrating Amanda's 5th birthday - she turns 5 on Feb 3rd!

Canadian Disney Dad
Nigel, Cindi, Haille (13) & Amy (10)
This is our second Disney cruise.
We'll be celebrating the fact that we aren't in freezing and shovelling snow in Calgary that week!
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DIS Name: Presentation
First Name of Those Sailing: Lisa, Doug, Natasha, Nathan, Anya
Ages of children at time of sailing 14, 10, 7
Stateroom(s) We got the secret porthole rooms 5522 & 5524
Cruised Before? Yes
Celebrating anything special? nope
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Yankeegal64
Hi everyone! My daughter just became engaged on New Year's Eve and is getting married on the February 5, 2011 cruise. We will have a wide range of ages in our group from 5 years to 68 years. We have family that have booked from Korea, Las Vegas, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, & Hawaii. My 3 kids are in the military and we have been very blessed to be upgraded when the military rates were released our last couple of times so I am going to be keeping my fingers crossed this go around. I know it's over a year away but I am so excited!


DIS Name: dunbarfamily
Names of those sailing: Jeff, Brandy and our four children
Ages of children at time of sailing: 9, 6, almost 4, and 19 months
Staterooms: can't remember right now, will look at paperwork and update later, but I know it's two connecting inside staterooms. Since we have more than the Disney standard issue family of 2 adults and 2 children, we had to get two rooms....so we're going cheap as we can on the staterooms!
Cruised before: Yep, January 2008 and Feb 2010
Celebrating: No, but I'm always up for helping others celebrate!

erbrhenderson
Erin, Brandon, Cooper, Gabby
as well as my in-laws Al and Mary
will be 8 and 6


Luvstocruise
My wife and I and our 11 year old boy(he will be 12 when we sail) will be on this cruise in 2011. Am looking forward to a great cruise. We got a outside porthole stateroom on deck 2 midships. Will also be travelling with a friend of ours (three adults and 1 child in the room, should be cosy!!).

DIS Name: JennLK
Rob, Jenn and kids: Acadia (Cate - who will be 10 but 2 weeks shy of 11) and Jackson (who will just have turned 2 in Jan)
Stateroom 2116
Cruised Before? NO
Celebrating anything special? Originally planned the cruise to celebrate my 30th but my birthday isn't until after the cruise - March 6. Cate's birthday is also Feb 21
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Joybiz
Hi I'm Joy from Ireland, Myself, Gemma, Niamh and Noreen have just booked our cruise and can't wait The age of the children coming with us are 28, 40, 28 & 27 I can't remember our staterooms right now so I'll have to get back ye on that. 2 of us have been on a meditarian cruise before but none of us have ever cruised with Disney. A friend of ours recommended Disney, said it's the only way her family cruises and seeing as we are going for Gemma's 40th Birthday we wanted it to be the best


Dis name: ltzol
It will be me (Laura) my DH (Tom) and our children Hannah (10) and
Nathan (6)
We will be joined by our friends who have a 8 year old boy and an 11 year old girl.
Not sure about our rooms right now...
This will be our second Disney Cruise, we were on the Eastern last January and it really was our BEST family vacation ever...

kshaffer
It'll be me (Kendra), my husband (****) our son Jaton and daughter Gracie
Jaton will be 8 and Gracie will be 5
Not completely sure of our stateroom at this time
Very 1st Cruise!!!

Com op 2000
it will be just the two of us and you will probably not even know we are on the boat. We are very private people. (DW n me)

Dizzy
My DS will be 17 on the cruise and turns 18 on Feb 26th
My DD will be 14 on the cruise.

Eeyoresbestfriend
Marybeth Darren, Deanna (14) and Darren Jr. (12)
not sure of stateroom yet, maybe upgrading when military discounts come out

DIS Name: MoserFamily
First Name of Those Sailing: Sandi (me), James (him), Maddie and Otto
Ages of children at time of sailing: Maddie will just have turned 5, Otto will almost be 2
Stateroom(s): 2128
Cruised Before? Once, but not on Disney
Celebrating anything special? Possibly using it as a celebration for birthdays (Maddie's on January 12, mine January 13 and Otto's February 21)

Purplepeg
Connie, Greg,Shanleigh, Arianna, Amelia
kids are 10 and 6, niece will be 18
not celebrating anything
I think we're on deck 6, can't remember numbers but we're two cabins
This is our 2nd cruise with Disney and last cruise didn't participate in anything as we didn't have an active chat thread.
Probably up for participating in most things.

PTMax
Paula (Me)
Chris (Husband)
Celeste (9)
Alicia (7)
Marshall (2)
11B GTY
1st Cruise

Travelers: Kim, Sean, Hunter (10) and Mackenzie (9)
My husband and myself have cruised with Disney before without the kids, but we have been on several other cruise lines as a family.
I will have to relook at our cabin assignment, but we have a verandah on deck seven midship.
My husband and I will be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary onboard!

BERRYFAM
Steve, Connie, Madison
DD will turn 8 while on cruise.
2nd disney cruise

DIS Name: Mommy Poppins
Names of those sailing: Jim, Tina and our three children
Ages of children at time of sailing: DD15, DS12 and DS8.5
Staterooms: #5020 and #5022--two side by side secret porthole staterooms
Cruised Before?: Yes, 4 night Wonder in January, 2010 when DH returned from Iraq
Celebrating: DD15's birthday is the week before the cruise, but really we are cruising with 40 other people from our church!
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[4happybogles]

We just switched our cruise to this one, we can't wait until Feb 2011.. wow that is a long time away, but it will so be worth it once we get on the boat!!! Excited to have friends join us on this one!

4happybogles
Tara, Rich, Jonathan, Ethan
Boys will be 4 and 6 when we sail
6612
2nd Disney Cruise
Ethan's 5th Birthday as it will take place just a few days after our cruise is over.

Can't wait to meet everyone and have lots of fun planning and getting ready for an amazing cruise!!!

 

[sdjen]

I am so excited to have someone else to wait with! Here is hoping that the next 16 months fly by!!!

SDJen
Jen (40 something ) and my daughter Amanda
She will be 5 at time of sailing
5520 - secret porthole room!
I have done one Carnival cruise w/girlfriends This will be our first Disney cruise or Disney anything! I have never been to either Disney park either if you can beleive that!
We will be celebrating Amanda's 5th birthday - she turns 5 on Feb 3rd!

How cool that our little ones are both celebrating their 5th birthdays with this trip! I figured that i would do this trip before she is in school so i dont have to pull her out of kindergarten for a week. This way she will only miss a couple of days of preschool - no big deal. We live in South Dakota where the February weather is quite unpredictable so i am planning on flying out on the Thursday before the cruise just to make sure we get there in time.

Cant wait to chat more and hopefully get some more people to join also. I am hoping that we have a really fun group I have been reading about the FE exchanges - that sounds really fun!

Happy planning and cant wait for the Magical cruise!

 

[4happybogles]

We would love to do the fish extender again. did it on our first cruise and just loved it!
We can't wait to go, sure wish it was closer! We are cruising with some friends this time around and we all wish we could take a 14 day one. They are so much fun I am sure we will share a lot of information as the year goes on!

 

[IrishCowboy]

I have added a link to your thread on the main index page. Have a great cruise!

 

[CanadianDisneyDad]

We just switched our Jan 2010 cruise to this one and now the wait is even longer than before. Can't wait to get on the Magic again.

We are:
Nigel, Cindi, Haille (13) & Amy (10)
This is our second Disney cruise.
We'll be celebrating the fact that we aren't in freezing and shovelling snow in Calgary that week!

 

[Presentation]

Hi all,

sdjen asked me to post here.


DIS Name: Presentation
First Name of Those Sailing: Lisa, Doug, Natasha, Nathan, Anya
Ages of children at time of sailing 14, 10, 7
Stateroom(s) We got the secret porthole rooms 5522 & 5524
Cruised Before? Yes
Celebrating anything special? nope

 

[sdjen]

Hi to the new posters. We are now up to 15 whole people

Cant wait to chat more throughout the next year plus. Luckily, we have lots of time to get to know each other!

Does anyone have a good idea for a group name?? I am not very creative

 

[IrishCowboy]

subscribing

 

[yankeegal64]

Hi everyone! My daughter just became engaged on New Year's Eve and is getting married on the February 5, 2011 cruise. We will have a wide range of ages in our group from 5 years to 68 years. We have family that have booked from Korea, Las Vegas, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, & Hawaii. My 3 kids are in the military and we have been very blessed to be upgraded when the military rates were released our last couple of times so I am going to be keeping my fingers crossed this go around. I know it's over a year away but I am so excited!

 

[4happybogles]

A wedding, how much fun! Congrats to you and your daughter! I think getting married on a cruise would be a lot of fun! Sounds like it's going to be a bit of a family reunion as well. I am sure you will really enjoy yourself, we loved our first cruise and can't wait for this one

 

[sdjen]

Yes - Congrats to your daughter and your family! A cruise wedding sounds like so much fun! And it sounds like you have a great family also - you will have a lot of fun with everyone there.

Here is to dreaming about some warm Carribbean weather - it is about 10 below here today (wind chill is -40) and i am really ready for some warm weather and a vacation. Too bad it it still over a year away

 

[dunbarfamily]

Hi everyone! Woo hoo! I'm the first to post to this thread in two months! We just booked this cruise while on our last cruise Feb 28-March 4th. We are very excited!

DIS Name: dunbarfamily
Names of those sailing: Jeff, Brandy and our four children
Ages of children at time of sailing: 9, 6, almost 4, and 19 months
Staterooms: can't remember right now, will look at paperwork and update later, but I know it's two connecting inside staterooms. Since we have more than the Disney standard issue family of 2 adults and 2 children, we had to get two rooms....so we're going cheap as we can on the staterooms!
Cruised before: Yep, January 2008 and Feb 2010
Celebrating: No, but I'm always up for helping others celebrate!

Can't wait for this thread to get going again!!

 

[sdjen]

Welcome! Glad to have another family to join the meet thread. So far we do not have a big group but I am sure we will have a good time. Only 11 more months to wait! Since you have cruised before i am sure you will be able to provide some good advice to us "newbies". Have you done a FE exchange on your previous cruises? Looking forward to that too.

 

[dunbarfamily]

Welcome! Glad to have another family to join the meet thread. So far we do not have a big group but I am sure we will have a good time. Only 11 more months to wait! Since you have cruised before i am sure you will be able to provide some good advice to us "newbies". Have you done a FE exchange on your previous cruises? Looking forward to that too.

I'll try to help however I can, but there are way more experienced cruisers here than we are! We have picked up a few tips and tricks along the way though, and I'm happy to report that on our last cruise, I was able to tell aft apart from forward, and ended up where I wanted to be most of the time on my very first try! One wouldn't think a boat would be hard to navigate, but it is!

We just did a FE on this last cruise. (I can't believe a week ago at this time we were on the ship, probably eating at late dining!) The FE was a lot of fun, and my children really enjoyed "sneaking" to other participants' doors with our gifts, and of course, they loved racing back to our rooms to see if they received anything!

11 months seems so far away!

 

[sdjen]

only 325 more days to wait

any one else having a hard time being patient??

 

[erbrhenderson]

Hi everyone! I am starting this cruise meet thread since I just booked this trip today!! So excited for my first Disney cruise - it is going to be a long wait until February of 2011!!

Hope you hear from lots of you and that we have a really fun group to sail with. I will post more about me on the next thread

Happy planning to everyone!!

I stole this from another thread so we can get to know one another!

Roll Call
DIS Name
First Name of Those Sailing
Ages of children at time of sailing
Stateroom(s)
Cruised Before?
Celebrating anything special?
A photo if you'd like

We will be on our first Disney Cruise!!

erbrhenderson
Erin, Brandon, Cooper, Gabby
as well as my in-laws Al and Mary
will be 8 and 6


Looking forward to looking ahead with all of you!

 

[sdjen]

Hi, everyone! Welcome to the new family too - glad to have you with us! Looks like our daughters are close in age - maybe they will be friends

I am so excited! i know it is really early but I got our airline tickets today for the cruise. I had enough miles to get one free ticket so I just had to buy one for my daughter. So, i got both tickets for under $400 total! I know some of you pay a lot less than that but for travel from South Dakota, i am really happy with that. We are pretty limited here for carriers and flights so I went ahead and booked them now. We are arriving on the Thursday night before the cruise about 9:30 PM. i am planning on taking Amanda to Seaworld on Friday and then sailing on Saturday. Cannot wait!!!

The other exciting thing that happened today is that we adopted a puppy from the animal shelter. A cute little black and white lab mix - i am hoping to get a good nite's sleep tonite - wish me luck

 

[Luvstocruise]

Hi all,

My wife and I and our 11 year old boy(he will be 12 when we sail) will be on this cruise in 2011. Am looking forward to a great cruise. We got a outside porthole stateroom on deck 2 midships. Will also be travelling with a friend of ours (three adults and 1 child in the room, should be cosy!!).

Am sure to have some questions for the boards, even though I have done other cruises in the past (ancient history - 1989 and 1995!!) as well as being one of the few that did trans pacific and transatlantic crossing back in the sixties (I was a teen on the last one! - I;m 54 now...just showing my age I guess.

My friend of 30+ years is going on his first cruise. I am breaking him in on what to expect, but I am sure he will have a blast. He likes kids a lot,so won't be overwhelmed with the whole disney-kid thing! He is my driver helper, as planning on driving to Port Canaveral arriving a day before the cruise. (Long way from Toronto area of Canada to there, but I did WDW with him the wife and my son 2 years ago, and it was fine!

Luvstocruise

 

[CanadianDisneyDad]

G'day

Well currently we have had a couple weeks of snow.....YES snow.....in May!!

None of it has stayed long but makes the countdown (8 months...5days...) way too long

cheers!!