OK... maybe I'm a little psychotic (bringing 2+ costumes for each of us not counting the monkey suits in black and white - still shopping for a nice black monkey suit though). 
- and we have no control over that. My spouse and I have always regarded Halloween as a wierd sort of holiday occasion. 
But - this being a Disney cruise we figured this would make it the LEAST scary of any Halloween event.... plus it would be an especially FUN opportunity to gather with a number of similar thinking fun loving DCL enthusiasts. 
I would otherwise almost say - spend the money and go back to watching TV the rest of the evening!
TTFN!
captaincrash said:Awww......
.... we're not all that crazy!?
Of course, we might have a scary cruise too
On our last DCL sailing (sept labor day - our prior usual DCL date) we had some 104 individuals as I recollect. Of these perhaps 2 dozen left less than a half dozen posts. And we only had some 75 or so show up for the cruise meets.... consistent with the number of active thread participants. Plus a varying sub group of 50 joined in our private little side antics (the scavenger hunt, ice cream speed eating contest, custom T-shirt thing, and the pot luck of treats we gathered for our children). So - if you wanted to return to our sailng at a future date - then it would not be unreasonable to "lurk" on the thread - and or ship w/o mixing with the folks at the meet.
At any rate - your transfer is a sad little footnote to our little thread - and we know no matter which date you sail on - it will be a wonderful trip (as usual). So my spouse and I bid you a sad temporary farewell... and remeber that our gangway will always remain open to you should you decide the date of our sailng returns to favor for one reason or another.
OK..... at any rate, I just wanted to add - I liked the two recipies posted and I hope to try one of them some time soon. I'll report on how it comes out when I do so.
And KITTER... on Orbitz - note that there are a number of POWERFUL search matrixes availab le on Orbitz. One in paricular - is the +/- 2 day option combined with the expanded airport search stretching the search radius up to 80 miles from your primary airport. SO - you can in effect search for the lowest prices over a +/- 2 day span on the out and return legs from all airports within 80 miles of the primary point you designate. At one glance you can pick up if a certain unexpected date combination favors saving more. Sometimes there is little difference - sometimes NOT.
Otherwise searching 4 outbound and return dates against 2 or 3 (valid) region airports on each end could create about 36 different search combinations - and that would be pretty psychotic to run through all that to save a hundred or two.
Anyways - on the cruise I'll let ya'all know how it turns out - but I can't imagine it matching up to DCL. Consider - how do the Disney parks compare against the other amusement parks? Yeah - some might have bigger or faster coasters (we never miss that) - and some might be cheaper and have just as many "rides" - but there is a lot more QUALITY in the disney parks. It goes unquestioned how DIsney is cleaner (they win all the comparisons on how quickly trash is picked up in random tests)... and everyone knows the ambiance and attention to detail at the Disny parks is unmatched anywhere (that I know of) for an amusement park.
But - maybe I should explain - we're only doing the Carnival thing because we had some sort of $500 (or $800?) discount with icruise for having spent some large sum on their affinity system with a group booking I ran 2.5 years ago - and it was a use it or lose it sort of thing. Plus - it was NOT good on Disney (or Princess). SO - we sort of choose Carnival by default because they had a large number of sailngs all over the globe within a "no issue" price range. We were considering all sorts of sailngs from Europe to AK - but we settled on Mexico since it was so close and yet we had not done one in about 20 sailngs?! So it seemed time to try it - and why not if it is about 16-26% below their already decent fares?
Oh well .... that might have been more than anyone needed to know - but I am once again semi-immobilized with a sleeping toddler on my lap - and I have a spare moment to indulge in a little chit chat.
K... I'll go find me some other threads to HOG UP space on....
We're really looking forward to our modestly "eventful" little escapade this Halloween! Your remarks serve to underscore the potential for some "extra" good an' clean fun. 
) - of course. Just enjoy the formal nites on the sailng. I heard we're having two formal nites (I might be mistaken - maybe it's the upcoming Carnival cruise that has 2)... and now I'm looking for a formal black tux. Something classic and not just a dinner tux in black. 
awoltoday said:Let the record show that cruisers were scared off this thread BEFORE I ever posted here! There have been some accusations in the past (yes, you Nov 12 '05) and they were all false! Well, mostly false anyway. There might have been some very slight basis in fact, but it was grossly over exaggerated.
Looking forward to getting to know you all and having a great cruise! I'll be bringing my DW, DD7, & DS5 to keep me in line.
Captain:
I'll be joining you in wearing a tux on formal night. We picked one up at tuxedodirect.com that was really cheap and the quality was good for the price. I'm not generally the tux wearing type, but for a couple of hours at dinner one night, it is kinda fun. There is definitely a WIDE range of attire on formal night, so you can wear almost anything and you won't feel out of place. I was very attentive on our first dis cruise after all of the debates on formal night and what you could and should wear.
BTW, I think there is another lurker out there that needs to come out!
buckifan said:
kritter said:
kritter said:
and feel sad that I didn't check here months ago! I feel like I've missed out. You all seem to be getting to know eachother very well. So I'll try to keep up. 
Disney cruise, (6 total, but the others were 2 RCC, 1 CARNIVAL, and they don't count, only DCL from now on) all prior cruises were western, so we are happy to check out new ports. to another one of your threads last week, (before I found this one) about favorite cruise memories. I also enjoyed reading that thread. Thanks for starting this one too. I had NO idea anyone would be starting one last summer, so I didn't even look,...silly me, only TRUE Dis'ers here!!! 
.... AWOL... I actually LIKE your avatar! I don't quite know HOW to use an avatar other than those offferered by DIS. So... this leads me into asking whether your avatar implies that we can expect something extra out of you halloween costume this year? As I'm lookin' to pack some fun costumes for ourselves. Plus the pirate gear to boot~! And the tuxes (that will be plural IF I get a decent black tux... I'll have to check out your tux site referral!).
I think it's wonderful to see a huge family gathering on our sailng! I organized a gathering with 41 people about 2 years ago to Alaska (half were family and firends and half were folks that worked for my firm) and it was a blast ... but it was also a ton of work!
And yeah... I can hardly believe it - we may actually have our first casualty based on excessive enthusiasm. Well... actually - the truth should be known.... I don't believe it! It must have been something else as our DIS gathering is only a fraction of the passenger manifest and I do believe we have NOT engaged in (or remarked on) anything that might offend anyone. 
So I am assuming we'll have a large and harty band of DIS enthusiasts 
! ... we've been to the island a few times - and have NOT been there yet. i think the last time we were there this past September we rented a van (splitting it with another DIS family) and we ran all over the island - and we missed the Coral thing - but that's OK. Or was it the butterfly farm we were heading to - that was on St Maarten? And was COral World on St Thomas?.... yeah ... on St Thomas it was NOT a rental van... but rather we were planning on getting a taxi to visit the Cpral World anfd then hit the adjacent beach... OR... we were going to catch a ferry to St John then rent Zodiacs to motor around St John to secluded beaches and unexpected venues.
captaincrash said:Yooo-- Ho --- Ho ....
More swabbies fer our ship! Arrrrgg ... Arrr... Arrr... (they don't call me "the Capt'n fer nuttin!")....
And welcome aboard to our scary little cruise AWOL, Holly & Joe!
So, I wanted to say & ask
TTFN!
Holly&Joesmommy said:
awoltoday said:Yeah, it was really rough. There were lots of green faces and little dots (patches) behind the ears. We heard several crew members say it was the worst they had ever seen it, but we guessed they say that on every cruise. It wasn't too bad by the time we got to St. Maarten, but a lot of excursions were cancelled. So, we just went shopping and hung out all day, which wasn't all bad
