From WDW To DL With Love - January 06, 2011

[LindaBabe]

Welcome home, Alan the shark!

Hope everyone enjoys AKL.

Rainy and chilly here, and the leaves are falling in droves.

 

[JenKatt]

Anyone looking for Jeff he is driving monorail yellow but expects soon to be working the express platform at the TTC. At lease until 3pm when his shift is over

 

[LindaBabe]

Nothing to say, but I never come by without giving a little nudge bttt.

 

[poohs4me]

Just thought I'd ask - has anyone started do anything special to save or prepare for the cruise?

I email my husband every week on how much time we have left to wait before the ship leaves.

 

[JenKatt]

Just thought I'd ask - has anyone started do anything special to save or prepare for the cruise?

I email my husband every week on how much time we have left to wait before the ship leaves.

Since we're traveling with friends and family from around the country we're starting to plan how we are getting to the port and after the cruise. (We just added on to BLT so we're going to hopefully get a GrandVilla the night before). Other than that, we're slowly putting money to the side...

 

[aan1701]

We just got our room at AKV. Wow. My first stay in a one bedroom, almost to big. The club is not bad either.

 

[LindaBabe]

Just thought I'd ask - has anyone started do anything special to save or prepare for the cruise?

I email my husband every week on how much time we have left to wait before the ship leaves.

Yes, of course. It's expensive and we're retired.

This month, we are going through a massive restructuring of financial planning, healthcare redecisions, and travel planning for next year. We've decided after two years with 3 months on the road in each year, that 2010 is the year to stay home, weed out, clean up, and do some goal setting. I'm sure it won't be near as much fun as road tripping but we can't go on being frivolous nomands forever, can we?

On another level, I already know what y'all are getting for FE gifts.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

Just thought I'd ask - has anyone started do anything special to save or prepare for the cruise?

I email my husband every week on how much time we have left to wait before the ship leaves.

We have been saving for ages for our west bound cruise, when this cruise came up I was really wanting to do it and also as it will be my 40th at the panama canal. Mum and Dad made a kind,generous and welcome donation so we can cruise both, we have a cash card we put dollars onto when the dollar is at a reasonable rate. It is a god idea cause we cant get at the dollars, also if I get a bonus from work I put that on the card as well.

CAnt wait to see the pictures alan.

 

[LindaBabe]

We have been saving for ages for our west bound cruise, when this cruise came up I was really wanting to do it and also as it will be my 40th at the panama canal. Mum and Dad made a kind,generous and welcome donation so we can cruise both, we have a cash card we put dollars onto when the dollar is at a reasonable rate. It is a god idea cause we cant get at the dollars, also if I get a bonus from work I put that on the card as well.

CAnt wait to see the pictures alan.

We were going westbound too, but I happily swapped it out for the PC.

 

[cardidog]

Hi! Someone recently asked what people are doing to prepare for the Panama Canal cruise----well---today I purchased a nice full-length dress---for formal night---for $15.00 at a local charity shop I'm planning really nice items for our fish-extender goodie bags----hopefully you all are into history----since we work at the National Archives, we have a lot of records dealing with the building of the canal---I'll see what I can copy. Also, since the previous discussion about sci-fi, my husband is willing to bring some sci-fi dvds to watch on the cruise---he insists on bringing our portable dvd player---I keep telling him there won't be any down-time on this cruise!

I am sort-of bummed---I keep watching the weather for Orlando---I fly down on Tuesday for the food and wine festival and for the Halloween party on Thursday before I head on over to the Hurricane Who convention and all I see is rain in the forecast. Sigh. I can still have fun at WDW in the rain---can't I?

 

[orlandothebeagle]

Hi! Someone recently asked what people are doing to prepare for the Panama Canal cruise----well---today I purchased a nice full-length dress---for formal night---for $15.00 at a local charity shop I'm planning really nice items for our fish-extender goodie bags----hopefully you all are into history----since we work at the National Archives, we have a lot of records dealing with the building of the canal---I'll see what I can copy. Also, since the previous discussion about sci-fi, my husband is willing to bring some sci-fi dvds to watch on the cruise---he insists on bringing our portable dvd player---I keep telling him there won't be any down-time on this cruise!

I am sort-of bummed---I keep watching the weather for Orlando---I fly down on Tuesday for the food and wine festival and for the Halloween party on Thursday before I head on over to the Hurricane Who convention and all I see is rain in the forecast. Sigh. I can still have fun at WDW in the rain---can't I?

Bloomin sure you can still have fun!
Thats great you got your dress from charity shop, I cant walkpast a charity shop.

Linda, I probably should have swaped it, but to cruise out of barcelona I am really excited about.

 

[LindaBabe]

Hi! Someone recently asked what people are doing to prepare for the Panama Canal cruise----well---today I purchased a nice full-length dress---for formal night---for $15.00 at a local charity shop I'm planning really nice items for our fish-extender goodie bags----hopefully you all are into history----since we work at the National Archives, we have a lot of records dealing with the building of the canal---I'll see what I can copy. Also, since the previous discussion about sci-fi, my husband is willing to bring some sci-fi dvds to watch on the cruise---he insists on bringing our portable dvd player---I keep telling him there won't be any down-time on this cruise!

I am sort-of bummed---I keep watching the weather for Orlando---I fly down on Tuesday for the food and wine festival and for the Halloween party on Thursday before I head on over to the Hurricane Who convention and all I see is rain in the forecast. Sigh. I can still have fun at WDW in the rain---can't I?

You can have a blast in the rain - just take lots of cheap ponchos. One thing is for sure, the lines will be shorter if you have a deluge.

YOU WORK At the NATIONAL ARCHIVES?! WO! Say MECCA for the genealogist / history buff! That would be like my DREAM job.

I would love to find a formal dress in a thrift shop - but who knows what size I'll be by 2011. Heck, I'm not sure what size I'll be by 1/2010. For the cruises next month, I'll be doing some pinning - NOT buying new ones now. LOVE to get down to the point where I could wear a "knock your socks off" dress like Lynne had on in that photo! Couple years ago I found a long velvet cold water creek dress for $20 in the Salvation army, but lately I think the organization that gives prom dresses to poor girls has been getting the donations instead.

Lynne, I was really stressing over flying to Barcelona, so it was an easy choice to me. I would have loved the cruise, but hated the flight!

 

[orlandothebeagle]

I know what you mean about the flight, but we are just used to them.

You know that was the first dress I bought when I lost wt, They never had it in my size, I waited with baited breath to see if they could get my size, it was only 35 pounds, and I got a voucher of the net for 20% of my first purchase, better than my wedding dress and 400 quid cheaper!

 

[Tami0220]

Just thought I'd ask - has anyone started do anything special to save or prepare for the cruise?

I email my husband every week on how much time we have left to wait before the ship leaves.

Major dieting! I've lost 38 lbs only 30 more to go. I have been a Disney Visa card member since day one. So, I had about 3000 reward dollars to help pay for my cruise. My daughter is getting married next year and wont be able to use her reward $ so since I'm helping with the wedding she's giving me her $700DD. My husband and I are also both retired, fixed incomes we like to say. So cutting back on alot of things. We love to RV so cutting back on those trips and selling our RV since we also have a 5th wheel. I was planning on checking out the thirft stores too, but will have to wait til I know better what size I will be.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

Major dieting! I've lost 38 lbs only 30 more to go. I have been a Disney Visa card member since day one. So, I had about 3000 reward dollars to help pay for my cruise. My daughter is getting married next year and wont be able to use her reward $ so since I'm helping with the wedding she's giving me her $700DD. My husband and I are also both retired, fixed incomes we like to say. So cutting back on alot of things. We love to RV so cutting back on those trips and selling our RV since we also have a 5th wheel. I was planning on checking out the thirft stores too, but will have to wait til I know better what size I will be.

Good luck with the dieting, youve got lots of time to do it!
Happy thrift store hunting.

Ive got a funny thrift store story.

I got a little clutch bag once from a charity shop. I showed it to my Mum, and she says "where do get that" I say Cowdenbeath, she was laughing her head off, yip, she had put it in the week before!

 

[Tami0220]

I have an even better thrift store story. I was shopping for a ski suit and thought that would be the cheapest place. Grabbed 3 off the rack to try on. On the last one my foot was getting poked by something as I tried to put it through the bottom of the leg (there was elastic around the bottoms) I just thought there was a pin or something in there. So, I shook out the leg and out popped a very dead, and very flat, but good sized rat. It was it's claws that were poking my foot. Not wanting to make a scene, but hyperventalating as I put my own pants back on. I said to my hubby very quietly there's a dead rat in the dressing room. We went to tell the cashier and again I was trying to be quiet as not to make a scene, but she wouldnt believe me. So finally the person behind me in line heard me and went for a look and of course she started screaming. We left in a rush. My hubby couldnt believe how calm and controlled I was, when I practically ripped my blouse off in public when a bug fell in. I'm not sure how I stayed so composed either, but this is a true story, cross my heart and hope to die.

 

[LindaBabe]

Good luck with the dieting, youve got lots of time to do it!
Happy thrift store hunting.

Ive got a funny thrift store story.

I got a little clutch bag once from a charity shop. I showed it to my Mum, and she says "where do get that" I say Cowdenbeath, she was laughing her head off, yip, she had put it in the week before!

That's hysterical!

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I have an even better thrift store story. I was shopping for a ski suit and thought that would be the cheapest place. Grabbed 3 off the rack to try on. On the last one my foot was getting poked by something as I tried to put it through the bottom of the leg (there was elastic around the bottoms) I just thought there was a pin or something in there. So, I shook out the leg and out popped a very dead, and very flat, but good sized rat. It was it's claws that were poking my foot. Not wanting to make a scene, but hyperventalating as I put my own pants back on. I said to my hubby very quietly there's a dead rat in the dressing room. We went to tell the cashier and again I was trying to be quiet as not to make a scene, but she wouldnt believe me. So finally the person behind me in line heard me and went for a look and of course she started screaming. We left in a rush. My hubby couldnt believe how calm and controlled I was, when I practically ripped my blouse off in public when a bug fell in. I'm not sure how I stayed so composed either, but this is a true story, cross my heart and hope to die.

HOLY CR*P! I will DEFINiTLY SHAKE THE CLOTHES from now on! And congrats Tami, on the weight loss. I'm only a couple pounds ahead of you - down 42? last time I weighed. And I'd be Thrilled if I could double it - but - well, already pretty happy

Lynne that is definitely a fabulous dress!

now, I have a screamer story - only I didn't, either. Last year, right after we retired, we went on a 6 week trip. Down the east coast of the United States, right on the coast, outer banks, etc, to Vero beach, back to WDW and then out to the panhandle and up on the backside of the Smokies. We'd been on the road about 5 weeks and paused to catch our breath in a cabin on a ridge in the mountains.

This cabin was all rustic wood, but it had a tiny ground floor bedroom, right off the kitchen and next to the bathroom. Being an unfamiliar place, we left the bathroom kight on at night so we could find our way without turning on the light. Well the second night, I go in and sit down and there . . . about 6 inches in front of my bare foot, was this big BLACK SHRIMP with legs.

Now, i'm not particularly bright in the middle of the night, but even I KNOW shrimp don't have legs like THAT. So i'm sitting there, bare A$$, Bare foot and there's this THING on the floor. hmm. SCORPION! OH CR*P. WHAT am I going to do????

So, I finish my business, flip the edge of the bathmat over it to protect my foot (and hold it still) while I stomp on it. Then, I flushed it and went out and turned every light in the place on to find my way back to bed - and we NEVER got up in the dark again as long as we stayed there!

 

[ACDSNY]

Tami that story is too funny! I'm sure they would have heard me screaming in the next shop over. I live in the country, but don't like snakes, mice or rats.

 

[JenKatt]

I'm impressed (and jealous) of the weight loss on this board. Kudos to ya'll. I'm having a really hard time with my weight. I run out of time in the day to do everything. School, work and Jack suck up every available moment. The semester ends in 5 weeks and I have to get on some sort of system I can carry on with during the school semesters. I really want to be down 50 pounds by the cruise.

Ever cruise I manage to find a great dress on clearence somewhere for dirt cheap. Last cruise was the black dress I'm wearing on the PC website. It's a Calvin Klein designer dress. It was somewhere between 400-500 bucks. I got it for $80. It was "last season" but it's timeless, very 40's glam. I'll probably start scouring the shops this time next year for clothes, I find that early in the Christmas shopping season has a lot of great deals.

 

[shushh]

Thank you all for the amusing stories...

It is lifting me up somewhat as we've just booked our rather expensive flights to Barcelona for the med cruise. For the flight that works for us, it is around US$1800 per adult! Hmmm, multiply that by 2, add another 3 at 75%...

I love getting gowns at bargain prices as well. The selection here isn't as good as overseas so I try to buy in Asia/overseas when I can. Jen, your dress for $80 is a steal! You look gorgeous in the photo!