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

[dizzi]

Hey guys thinking about joining in on your cruise.

My first choice was Feb 19, but there is a large savings for this one....so it will most likley be this one.
This is the same itenerary just 2 weeks earlier....not sure why the big savings.

We wanted to do it on my DS birthday but it will just have to be an early presentl

WE most likely wont officially book for awhile as i want to wait to see if any special promos come up.

We just got off the WONDER and we got a great Florida resident rate for that.

Hope to chat with you til cruise time.

Lynn

 

[dizzi]

Unless something unforseen comes up we will be doing this cruise.

This will be my fourth Disney Cruise.....

SO excited already and just got off the Wonder

There are a few ports that each of us has not done so we are looking forward to that, but honestly i am looking forward to the sea days the most.
And most likely making KEY WEST more like a sea day for us too!

We did Key West on our last cruise and we also go to Key West sometimes on our Bike (we go Sept 17th for Bike week.) And it just really isnt that "KID" friendly so i think we will mostlikely get off do just a little shopping and take a few pics.

We Plan to be the FIRST ONES OFF THE BOAT FOR CASTAWAY CAY!!!!
Want to get a Hammock and not move for most of the day!!!!

 

[dizzi]

I know there is ALOT of time before the cruise....

BUT WHERE IS EVERY ONE????????????????????????????????

W definitly want to do the FEs, we have one from a couple years ago and we will use that one...

But if you dont have one you can use alot of different things

I have seen people use, purses, disney gift bags, a treasure box, you can be creative and use what ever you like.

Will someone come and talk to me.................

 

[dizzi]

Hope you guys had a great weekend.

I guess i am going to go ahead and book i dont want to miss out on the cruise and i the cost may go up instead of down so i will be booking when i get home tonight from work.

HOPEFULLY i can get around the same area as we did On the Wonder.

We were on Deck 2 but right under Topsiders and it was just a quick elevator ride up to get drinks etc.

So i want to check that out tonight.

HOPE YOU GUYS COME BACK SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JennLK]

Hey Lynn!
We are on deck two for this cruise - room 2116 - wanna be our neighbor ?!
I am excited and it has been way too quiet over here.
I am a newbie on this cruise thing and I wanna get the full experience - FE'S and all!

 

[dizzi]

we had room 2686 on the WONDER very nice spot!!!

So i definitley want to be down that way.

I will have to look at a layout of the ship and see what rooms are available and see what i can get.

Would would like to be a little closer to a laundry room....I dont usually do laundry but i do a bit of ironing.

There are so many fun things that can be done.

Fish Extenders
TAG GAME
First Day Meet and Greet
Pirate Picture
Pajama Breakfast
Sea Day get together
I guess we could have a SUPERBOWL PARTY!!!
I have seen groups do there own t shirts
there own lanyards
there own bracelets


Cant wait to get this party started!!

 

[JennLK]

we had room 2686 on the WONDER very nice spot!!!

So i definitley want to be down that way.

I will have to look at a layout of the ship and see what rooms are available and see what i can get.

Would would like to be a little closer to a laundry room....I dont usually do laundry but i do a bit of ironing.

There are so many fun things that can be done.

Fish Extenders
TAG GAME
First Day Meet and Greet
Pirate Picture
Pajama Breakfast
Sea Day get together
I guess we could have a SUPERBOWL PARTY!!!
I have seen groups do there own t shirts
there own lanyards
there own bracelets


Cant wait to get this party started!!

That all sounds like so much fun !! Like I wasn't amped up enough about this cruise already

 

[JennLK]

Dizzi when is your ds birthday. We wanted to do either mine (Mar 6) or dd's (Feb 21) on the ship but schedules (in my case) or money (in dd's case) wouldn't allow.

How old are your kiddos ?

 

[dizzi]

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

 

[dizzi]

I read that your children are 11 and 2 wow.........

Have your kids sailed before?

The 11 year old should LOVE THE CLUBS???

My DD was 10 or 11 our first Disney Cruise and she really enjoyed them.
They do alot of cool things.

Is your 11 year old shy or will she participate in the kids clubs??

 

[dizzi]

On my First DCL cruise our meet thread did just about all of the events i listeds.

We also had a lot of scrap bookers (all ladies) and we all brought a srapbook grab bag with us and we meet in one of the bars had a drink and chatted and each took another grab bag it only took about 45 minutes on a sea day.

We had matching LIME GREEN MICKEY TEES

We did bracelets that had our cruise name and date.

It was a Halloween Cruise and a pretty large group/

 

[JennLK]

My 11 y/o gets a twinge of apprehension before meeting new people but I would never call her shy. Here at home she does cheerleading, dance, and a local pageant so there is no room for shyness !! She will be nervous about being without me on a ship of course but will get over that once she has met her first friend.

This is actually the first time sailing for ALL 4 of us ! It should be exciting

 

[dizzi]

Oh it will be very exciting............

My DD does cheer too this will be her 6 year of competition cheer.

Just last month when we did our 3rd DCL i got excited just seeing the ship when we turned the corner in the bus that took us over.

Make sure you study the lay out of the ship.

Even though i think the MAGIC is pretty easy to get around, knowing where you are right away, will help out with not wasting time and not missing events, or being late for events.

Are you guys going to the port area early or will you be arriving the day of?

HEY IS ANYONE ELSE CRUISING WITH US????????????

 

[JennLK]

I think that we are definitely going down at least 1 day prior. We will either fly down early Friday or maybe even Thursday evening. We have had some major storms up here last few winters do I really don't want to miss my cruise because of snow !

 

[dizzi]

Have you guys done the parks before?

WE will probablly go up one day bfore just to be up there.

We went up 2 days before and just chilled and did a little shopping before our last cruise.

WE stay at the Radison, and even though it was a VERY NICE HOTEL....they offer the leave your car.....(which i guess you wont have if your flying)

But we had a great ride over to the port but coming back was a real problem and we ended up having to get a taxi back to the car.

In the long run it was still less expensive than parking the car at the terminal but just wish i had known i would have just went straight for the taxi instead of waiting for and hour for a pick up and then get a taxi.

Live and learn.

But there pool area is relly nice.

WELL OFF TO WORK!!!!!!!!!

 

[CanadianDisneyDad]

sdjen- that would be great! I am a little worried that my daughter might get a little clingy and not want to do the club things on her own.

Once your daughter sees all the action going on the clubs she won't mind being away from you. Our youngest daughter is very shy and usually sticks with us but once she was in the clubs she never wanted to leave. We went to pick her up at midnight one night and had to return later because she was still in the middle of eating pizza and ice cream and painting a pillowcase and didn't want to leave yet.

 

[CanadianDisneyDad]

we had room 2686 on the WONDER very nice spot!!!

So i definitley want to be down that way.

I will have to look at a layout of the ship and see what rooms are available and see what i can get.

Would would like to be a little closer to a laundry room....I dont usually do laundry but i do a bit of ironing.

There are so many fun things that can be done.

Fish Extenders
TAG GAME
First Day Meet and Greet
Pirate Picture
Pajama Breakfast
Sea Day get together
I guess we could have a SUPERBOWL PARTY!!!
I have seen groups do there own t shirts
there own lanyards
there own bracelets


Cant wait to get this party started!!

What about Door Magnets too? We did that on our first cruise and had so much fun going around to all of the different participant doors and slapping on our magnet that we had created. It was so much fun for us and our girls to see the new magnets that kept appearing on our door as well.

 

[dizzi]

HA....
I love the door Magnets...
But we just made door magnets to put on our door and I made door magnets as FE gifts

What did you do.....set up a magnet swap....THATS SO COOL!

 

[CanadianDisneyDad]

HA....
I love the door Magnets...
But we just made door magnets to put on our door and I made door magnets as FE gifts

What did you do.....set up a magnet swap....THATS SO COOL!

That's exactly what we did, we had one person organize it and if anyone wanted to participate they just sent that person a PM by a certain date with their stateroom number. Then everyone created their own magnet and duplicated them for as many staterooms that were participating and then just before the cruise we were sent a map of all of the staterooms that were participating and the only rule was that you had to deliver your magnets before the 4th day or something like that. TONS of fun and we never actually saw anyone deliver a magnet to our door, they just appeared like magic!

 

[dizzi]

oh we soooooo have to do that