captchris
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Hello everyone! Let me take this time to introduce myself. I am Christian, and travelling with me is my DW Elaine, DD9, and DS7. We are from Eastern Connecticut. We are getting totally psyched for our upcoming cruise with a great group of people that we have been talking to for exactly a year now.
This is going to be our 3rd cruise overall and our 2nd time with DCL. Both of our previous cruises have been to the Western Caribbean, so we are very excited to be going to the Eastern Caribbean this time around.
Our previous cruises were...
7 Day Western Caribbean from Tampa and RCCL Nordic Empress aka Empress of the Seas. Intinerary was, Tampa, Grand Cayman, Belize, and Cozumel. We never made it to Belize due to a medical evacuation on our sea day between Grand Cayman and Belize. It was a great first cruise and the price was right!
3/20/04-3/27/2004
7 Day Western Caribbean from Port Canaveral on DCL Magic. Itinerary was Port Canaveral, Key West, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, and Castaway Cay. This cruise was the first with Disney and the first with our extended family. My parents and sister joined us. I became hooked on DCL! 9/9/2006-9/16/2006
We had kicked around the idea about taking another cruise in 2009, but money was a little tight. Last June (2008), my parents and sister gave us an offer we pretty much couldn't refuse. We decided to join them on their upcoming falll 2009 cruise. There had been a few dates kicked around, but nothing was booked, but we were convinced and comitted to doing the cruise. At first we were looking at a September date, I honestly can't remember which one.
Then we settled on the 10/10 sailing. My dad checked his calendar further, and realized that the 10/24 sailing would work better, and if I remember right, it was slightly cheaper. Hey that works right!?!?! 
Well my sister, who lurks on the board tells me after the decision was made that the cruise meet thread for the 10/24 cruise was among the most active cruise meet threads she had ever seen. I said to her, "should I jump on and say we are going?" She encouraged me and I immediately joined i believe it was Thread #9 and say that we were going. I was immediately welcomed by some of the regulars and added to the first page "cast of characters" list. This was a year ago this week. I was officially a BOBer, a member of the Bash on the Boat!
After a quick week of vacation to the Delmarva, we returned back and booked our cruise through DU, and was able to get a Category 11 on Deck 7 midship. I was satisfied with this location as it is very convenient to all of the excitement on Deck 9, and the lower mid decks.
For the next few months, I spent a lot of time on the DIS getting to know the other BOBers. We talked about the cruise and life in general, it was a great time. Here is an example of me getting to know the fellow BOBers while being...ahem at work!
Before we knew it flights were opening up, and people were sharing their various successes and failures at scoring ideal flight times.
Another thing we were looking to do is Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party. We will be disembarking the Magic on Halloween night so we thought it might be nice to swing over to WDW and get our MK fix in. My parents haven't been to WDW since 1996, so they are excited to ride all of their favorite rides and spend that time with their only grandchildren.
More planning to come...
This is going to be our 3rd cruise overall and our 2nd time with DCL. Both of our previous cruises have been to the Western Caribbean, so we are very excited to be going to the Eastern Caribbean this time around.
Our previous cruises were...
7 Day Western Caribbean from Tampa and RCCL Nordic Empress aka Empress of the Seas. Intinerary was, Tampa, Grand Cayman, Belize, and Cozumel. We never made it to Belize due to a medical evacuation on our sea day between Grand Cayman and Belize. It was a great first cruise and the price was right!
3/20/04-3/27/2004
7 Day Western Caribbean from Port Canaveral on DCL Magic. Itinerary was Port Canaveral, Key West, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, and Castaway Cay. This cruise was the first with Disney and the first with our extended family. My parents and sister joined us. I became hooked on DCL! 9/9/2006-9/16/2006
We had kicked around the idea about taking another cruise in 2009, but money was a little tight. Last June (2008), my parents and sister gave us an offer we pretty much couldn't refuse. We decided to join them on their upcoming falll 2009 cruise. There had been a few dates kicked around, but nothing was booked, but we were convinced and comitted to doing the cruise. At first we were looking at a September date, I honestly can't remember which one.
Then we settled on the 10/10 sailing. My dad checked his calendar further, and realized that the 10/24 sailing would work better, and if I remember right, it was slightly cheaper. Hey that works right!?!?!
Well my sister, who lurks on the board tells me after the decision was made that the cruise meet thread for the 10/24 cruise was among the most active cruise meet threads she had ever seen. I said to her, "should I jump on and say we are going?" She encouraged me and I immediately joined i believe it was Thread #9 and say that we were going. I was immediately welcomed by some of the regulars and added to the first page "cast of characters" list. This was a year ago this week. I was officially a BOBer, a member of the Bash on the Boat!
After a quick week of vacation to the Delmarva, we returned back and booked our cruise through DU, and was able to get a Category 11 on Deck 7 midship. I was satisfied with this location as it is very convenient to all of the excitement on Deck 9, and the lower mid decks.
For the next few months, I spent a lot of time on the DIS getting to know the other BOBers. We talked about the cruise and life in general, it was a great time. Here is an example of me getting to know the fellow BOBers while being...ahem at work!
Before we knew it flights were opening up, and people were sharing their various successes and failures at scoring ideal flight times.
Another thing we were looking to do is Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party. We will be disembarking the Magic on Halloween night so we thought it might be nice to swing over to WDW and get our MK fix in. My parents haven't been to WDW since 1996, so they are excited to ride all of their favorite rides and spend that time with their only grandchildren.
More planning to come...
Boston was showing airfare at $218, for direct flights, but with a 6:50 am deparature. I checked Westchester, NY, and there was very reasonable airfare from there, $160 roundtrip, but due to that catering primarily to corporate aviation, there is virtually no parking. That scared me. 
