halloween cruise/ Magic: October 28th-nov..4th 2006

[captaincrash]

I just had to do it.... post #2100

Karen

Good score Karen for your 2nd posting to the thread... Woo Hooo! That's the Spirit. This posting is my 300th!!!!!!! And I have YET to beat AWOL or Buckifan to one of the big posting way points! I think AWOL got 2000 and Buckifan got 1500!!! Oh well... I'm just gonna have to step up the neurotic intensity!!!!

So hoz everyone doing this fine summer weekend? My spouse just took off for an annual pow wow with her company. Leaving poor ol' me to fend for myself with the kids. Which means we'll be stocking up on chocolate milk and chef-boy-ardee!!!! Well... maybe NOT.

So - my new lense is sharp and problem free. I'm a happy camper so far. I'm still checking it for functional performance... and so far it is fine.

Aside from that (yeah, I kno... I'm a nut ... and I'm sure no one is surprised at that admission!) ... we have another swim meet tomorrow morning. I'm not sure how we're gonna get up for that!

Cheers!

 

[awoltoday]

WHAT? We were on page 2! We can't have that!

I hope everybody had a great weekend!

Happy anniversary choc_marg!

 

[Choc_marg]

WHAT? We were on page 2! We can't have that!

I hope everybody had a great weekend!

Happy anniversary choc_marg!

Aren't you sweet??? Thanks a bunch Happy Anniversary to you too!!

Thanks to XLT, Kritter & PrincessOlivia for the extra prayers for Cody. He's doing pretty well, but we are all anxious to move on to the next phase. Once we get back from the doc Wed afternoon, I'll let you all know how it went & what the plan is for the next few weeks!

Happy late Bday to Tim!!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. This week is looking busier & busier by the minute!!

 

[LaRue]

Thanks for getting us back on our rightful page AWOL!

Happy Anniversary to the two love birds

We are all paid up for the cruise and are all geared up to start making Ressie's this week-end.

AWOL, GDAC will sign you up for a couple

Have a great Day!

 

[torontodisney]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

 

[princessh]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

Hi and welcome!

We have a lot of DIS activites planned for the cruise. We are holding our own trick or treat. We are having a DIS meet. We are having an oce cream eating contest and more! We have a website that has all the information and details. If you are willing to supply us with some information, we can send you an e-vite to view the site. Here is an idea of the info we would need. This was in a post a few pages ago. We would love to have you join in the activites.

Good evening All,

Just a reminder since we have some new members to our thread...

Heather and I have been working oh soo hard on a web site for our cruise... A moderator recommend to us that having all of our information on a secure web site that can only be accessed by all of us. In turn, we will be able to include much more valuable information about the cruise and all of our activites. Below you will find the information that we will need from each of you to put in the web site.

This is only for the DISers who are posting to this thread. Please have an adult in your group send the following & I will add it to the site & send you the link once I have updated the link. I will add your email to the group list so that you will be notified when the site has been updated with more info.

DIS ID: If you don't include this info, we wont know who you are.
Family name:
Individual names of family members (please include the children' ages at the time of the cruise so that I can put them in the right grouping)
Birthdates: so that we can add them to our cruise list
Celebration:
Stateroom:
Dining:
Hometown:
Pre/Post Cruise Plans: (Date arriving in FL & where you will be staying Friday night & if you plan to stay at WDW after the cruise. This info allowed some of us to arrange meets prior to the cruise.)

A short note with where you work & what activities you like to do.

Please send a picture of your family to be included. This way we will be able to reconize all of you...

For those with children, please send an individual picture pf each child to be put on the DIS Kids page by age group so that the kids can get to know each other a little better. Let the kids tell the others their age, grade in school, favorite thing to eat on the ship, favorite Disney character, & their favorite activity on the ship...whatever they want to write about.

We will have also have a page to list Palo resie times & excursions to help make plans.

stolteheather@yahoo.com

kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net

 

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

Welcome aboard torontodisney!!! We will be traveling with two DDs as well, ages 7 and 5.

AWOL, GDAC will sign you up for a couple

AWOL + Banana Boat =

 

[princessh]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes for Tim.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Jen,
The pictures looked great! I bet Olivia was surprised!

Choc_marg,
Glad to hear Cody is doing ok. Pixiedust that he will continue to improve! Happy late birthday to you, and Happy Anniversary to you and Awoltoday!

Capt.,
How did you daughter do in the swim meet?

Got to run. Hope everyone has a great Monday!

Also, just a reminder that we are in need of people who are willing to hand out candy from thier staterooms. We are getting a good amount of kids signed up for trick or treating. It would be great if we could get a few more people to hand out candy! I you can help please send an e-mail to Kristin or myself!

 

[awoltoday]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

I saw from your post on the main boards that you last sailed a western about 4 years ago? There are a few changes on the ship that you will notice! Starting with the Dumbotron over the goofy pool. Scoops is gone in favor of a self serve ice cream machine. I'm sure there is more... I don't think you or your dd's will be disappointed. How can you beat 80 degrees in Oct/Nov, some beaches, shopping, an ice cold drink, and lobster night?

Thanks for getting us back on our rightful page AWOL!

Happy Anniversary to the two love birds

We are all paid up for the cruise and are all geared up to start making Ressie's this week-end.

AWOL, GDAC will sign you up for a couple

Have a great Day!

Thanks! Are you doing the "all-in" dance?

Welcome aboard torontodisney!!! We will be traveling with two DDs as well, ages 7 and 5.




AWOL + Banana Boat =

You will need to get me liquored up pretty good before I'm getting on that thing!!

 

[kritter]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CHOC-MARG AND AWOL!!!!

How many years and what did you do to celebrate???

Hope that COdy is doing better... I have been praying for him and thinking of you all...


WELCOME TORONTODISNEY!!!

 

[gocar24]

We are booked on the October 28 Disney Magic Cruise. This is our second Disney cruise. We took our first one in September 2005. I will be with DH, DS 5, and DD 4. Would love to meet other people who will be on the cruise!

 

[kritter]

We are booked on the October 28 Disney Magic Cruise. This is our second Disney cruise. We took our first one in September 2005. I will be with DH, DS 5, and DD 4. Would love to meet other people who will be on the cruise!

Welcome welcome we have a great bunch here and some great activities planned for halloween....kristin

 

[awoltoday]

We are booked on the October 28 Disney Magic Cruise. This is our second Disney cruise. We took our first one in September 2005. I will be with DH, DS 5, and DD 4. Would love to meet other people who will be on the cruise!

You couldn't have picked a scarier group to join up with! We also have a DS 5 (Cody) along with our DD7. How was your Sep '05 cruise? Did you hit all the ports you were supposed to or were you on one of the redirected tours?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CHOC-MARG AND AWOL!!!!

How many years and what did you do to celebrate???

Hope that COdy is doing better... I have been praying for him and thinking of you all...


WELCOME TORONTODISNEY!!!

Lucky number 13 for us. We are celebrating by letting choc_marg work while I take DD for a dip in the pool. NO! Wait! I'm taking her on a cruise in October! Maybe I'll do something "special" for her when she gets done working and the kids are comatose. And again for thinking of Cody! He's getting better every day.

 

[nschnoor]

Hi! My husband and I have a question hopefully you veteran Disney Crusiers can answer for us. This is our first Disney cruise, however we have been on numerous cruises. We are use to the formal night being that, formal - either dark suit or tux. However, I have read conflicting information on this board. What is the norm, if there is one?

Thanks,
Nancy

 

[awoltoday]

Hi! My husband and I have a question hopefully you veteran Disney Crusiers can answer for us. This is our first Disney cruise, however we have been on numerous cruises. We are use to the formal night being that, formal - either dark suit or tux. However, I have read conflicting information on this board. What is the norm, if there is one?

Thanks,
Nancy

Nancy,
I have only been on one cruise, so I'm a veteran by the slimest of margins...

I didn't feel uncomfortable in my (el cheapo) tux. BUT, I wouldn't have felt uncomfortable if I had been wearing slacks and dress shirt either. There was such a range that I don't think anybody would feel out of place. I am NOT a dressy person. Heck, I wear shorts and a T-shirt to work. I just felt like for my first cruise I would do it the "traditional" way. And since I bought the "el cheapo" tux, I'll probably haul it along this time too. My advice is don't stress over it and dress how YOU and your DH would be most comfortable. Oh, and avoid reading the "dress code" threads on the main board! You'll just get the extremist view from that. And remember it is YOUR cruise too and it just doesn't matter what they think!

 

[captaincrash]

NOW....

AND sjcubedofct,

May I volunteer a few (say 3) designs for our little pirate band to consider for the T-shirt designs? I am considered by some to be a bit creative and maybe even a fair freehand artist... so if you'll all allow me a week or two to come up with some concepts... I'll photo graph them and post a photo link... (I'm low tech) ... unless someone emails me then I'll send the oringinal doc.

May I ask whether it's OK to work in more than one color. As it gets a lot more fun with two or more colors. I don't think we need to make it a precise 4 color process thing... but I had in mind a graphic kind of thing. ALSO... I will entertain any suggestions on design ideas from ANYONE (Not that I'd take anyones' suggestions... LOL) .... plus I'll tolerate criticism from the peanut gallery once the images are available for folks to consider here. AND... I'll be happy to share in the design submissions with anyone else who would like to contribute concepts. In the end a brief voting period on the final 3 conceots seems tolerable and democratic to me.

SO may I ask... are we talking plain T-shirts? Will there be a pocket option on the shirts? Or how abount the potential of having the T-shirts start out as a certain color? I happen to be partial to royal blue (shades of blue) or possibly even a ??? a black T-shirt so we can work in orange and green colors for the Halloween theme? AND... for another Q... are we talkin' about Ts for just the kids or is it we can request T shirts / shirts for adults or who ever asks (and pays) for them? I do have some spare change and I would probably like the pocket option and I do prefer quality in the T-shirt material!

So... while we're at it ... shall be adopt a nick-name for our little band of Magic maniacs? Oh... well now... how do you like that for a nick name for our little band... "The Magic Maniacs"... or how about "The Magic DIS Maniacs".... or maybe we should just stick with no nick name and keep and verbage to something like "Sailing on the Disney Magic ~ St Thomas, St Maarten, Castaway Caye" followed along below the graphic design at the bottom a caption like " The Fabled <or "scarey"> 2006 Haunted Sailing ~ October 28-November 4th".

OR... we might have a halloween pirate themed design with a parchment look..... and perhaps a treasure map... or maybe ??? Or maybe I think I need a few days to sketch a few concepts then I might aire out some ideas before I committ any serious effort to a final finished graphic.

I also need to know what format your sister needs this in order to reporduce it sjcubedofct. SO.... just let me know... or if it is easier just private message me her contact number and I'll call and get the info straight from her - which might be easier for YOU then to hand it off to me here.

OK... enuf of that...

TTFN!

Here's a emotion of me n' my hot chocolate...

As mentioned some time ago - I am going to post 1 or 2 new t-shirt designs a day for the next few days. I can ADD ANY LANGUAGE to these and I can make modifications to the designs as we go. Each one will be numbered 1, 2, 3 and so on. Modified versions will pick up a letter with number.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR OPINIONS as to what is OK or NOT. Volunteer language ideas - or simply say "That's IT!!!"

Design #1​

Design #2

Note, the grey lettering at the bottom is a private note to myself on the type face I used. Also, you may note a slight mismatch onthe BLACK and GREY fields where I spliced in the "DIS" and "2006". On a final image for the printer I will get the colors to match closer (maybe) so you can't see the splicing lines.


Design #3A

So ... what do you think??? Remember - all your opinions COUNT.... as if I'm really listening though... LOL! More to come every day!

 

[captaincrash]

Hi! My husband and I have a question hopefully you veteran Disney Crusiers can answer for us. This is our first Disney cruise, however we have been on numerous cruises. We are use to the formal night being that, formal - either dark suit or tux. However, I have read conflicting information on this board. What is the norm, if there is one?

Thanks,
Nancy

The norm is NO tux for most folks IMHO. However, my family now packs 2 tuxes for formal and the semi-formal nites (black tux and white dinner jacket). Plus we pack semi-matched pirate costumes. AND since this is our 1st Halloween voyage - we're also packing moderately sophisticated costumes (if my spouse lets me bring the whole shea-bang!). Oh yeah... we also bring clothes to wear when we're NOT in costume too ... plus diapers for the kids. FOr toothbrushes and underwear we just go 'round knocking on cabins till we can borrow some from someone else...

Oh well... here's a pix of me in one of the tuxes...

See... my daughter at the lower edge of the picture cannot bear to look... more spousal abuse!!!!! Aaarrrghh!

OK... gotta go change a stinky diaper and get the kids to bed...

TTFN!

 

[cthimes]

Hi, We are booked on the Halloween cruise as well. This is our second time on the Magic. Will be traveling with dh, and dd's 11 and 7. DD 11 would love to meet someone ahead of time and perhaps email so she will not be as shy. What will we expect on a Halloween cruise??? Thanks.

Hi Torontodisney,

Welcome aboard. I am traveling with four children and the two oldest are around the ages of your kids. We are keeping the trip a surprise right now but I am sure that my daughter Rebekah (9 on the trip) and Patrick (10) would enjoy meeting your older daughter while Colin (7 by the trip) will be enjoying meeting some friends.

The trip is a surprise for my father in law who is having a BIG birthday. My DW and mother in law are afraid that the kids will spoil the surprise so we are not telling them until the end of August. At that point we could exchange emails for the kids.

We will be in Orlando with my family the entire week before the cruise doing the Disney thing. Depending how the schedules fall, I mentioned to Kristin about having a get together at our resort. We could keep it simple and bring in some pizzas and stuff. We have a timeshare condo in Lake Buena Vista.

Chris

 

[GoofyDrivesACar]

As mentioned some time ago - I am going to post 1 or 2 new t-shirt designs a day for the next few days. I can ADD ANY LANGUAGE to these and I can make modifications to the designs as we go. Each one will be numbered 1, 2, 3 and so on. Modified versions will pick up a letter with number.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR OPINIONS as to what is OK or NOT. Volunteer language ideas - or simply say "That's IT!!!"

Okay Captain, I have a question, before I can cast my vote, what color is the shirt going to be? By the way, I think you did a great job on the designs.

 

[XLT800]

to gocar24 and torontodisney.

Torontodisney....we also have a 11dd. I am sure that she would love to email with your DD.

nschnoor.....Formal night a suit is fine and semi-formal night you will see more casual dress then dress up. We always schedule our PALO for formal night because wearing a suit once on a cruise is enough for me.

Captain.....great designs. Where are you thinking the design will go? Full size on the back or pocket size on the front? On our last cruise we had a pocket size design on the front and the itenerary was listed on the back.


Dave