Drinks: I know for a fact hubby wants to bring wine for me and he will probably bring some beer for himself for when he isn't drinking wine with me. Water I am REALLY picky about and even bottled water in a glass is gross to me...lol makes sense huh? I am bringing drink bottles for everyone so I am sure if the tap water on board is good that will make me drink it rather than a glass. Don't ask, I'm an odd duck...lol.
We are definitely bringing wine, and just bottles of water to refill on the ship. I thought the water was just fine.
T Shirts: I ask that if we do go with meet t-shirts and we have all the same color, that it not be red! It makes my hair look orange....lol. Ok, I really don't care but remember my warning! I love the cast member tag on your shirts Kelli and I must say you look as beautiful as ever! If we have someone do up a design they need to email it to me so I have it right. I have been too busy to even play with any of my creative programs on the laptop.
On our meet for that cruise, we just did whatever color shirt you wanted. I wanted royal blue but couldn't find that color in all the sizes I needed. I'll have to remember who designed that tag. I did have some issues getting it to the size I wanted. Must have printed out about 10 different sizes (thankfully on paper!) before getting it to the size I wanted...
Cards: I will be brining cards. Most of my favorite games require more than one deck so I will make sure to have enough to cover whomever may want to play. I cannot find the rules to the one game I mentioned earlier (Oh $#!t) so my mom and I are recreating some varriation of it. I am also making sure to bring pens and note pads to keep scores.
Good idea! I'll bring some cards too, and will bring our Princess Uno deck. That is a great game, but we do have a rule that you can't sit next to a spouse/significant other to play as it could cause a divorce! Or at least a major fight!
Rooms: We are staying on the 6th floor, anyone else going to be on the same or is everyone on the 7th? We stayed front and port side to try to avoid smokers. My daughter has allergies and I would like her to be able to actually enjoy the veranda and not have to be confined ot the room because of a neighboring passengers smoking.
DCL said that we had a better chance of non smokers on Port side so we listened... guess we will find out if it was the right time to start listening or not.... We are also the 3rd from the front so we should be relatively safe.
Bleh! Didn't think of smokers. Hopefully we will not be near any...
Cigars: Neither DH or I smoke at all. We have enough bad habbits anyways, don't really need another.
The DH used to every now and then, but it's been awhile. I do like the way some of those smell. Not nearly as bad as cigarrettes...
Magnets: I am kinda excited about the magnet exchange! Now.... are we going to try to keep it relevant to our home town or are we doign Disney as well? I prefer home town type magnets personally. It is alot more fun to see where your fellow passengers are from than Mickey that you can buy yourself. Any thoughts?
I did Disney ones, just because there isn't anything all that interesting in our town. We lived in Charleston, SC for years. If we were still there, I would have tons of magnet ideas.
Meets: When are we planning on doing the meet and greet? Fist day obviously but will it be a before we sail thing? an after dinner thing? Any thoughts?
Usually a first day one around 3:00ish, but that seemed so rushed. Maybe one that day and set up a couple of others too. We'll need to set up a meet for the scavenger hunt and a couple of card meets too...
FE's: Ok, I am still trying to figure something out with the FE's. Remeber this is my first cruise so I am new to all of this... Do we set up days that certain people do their FE deliveries or is it a whenever thing? I read somewhere that they had a schedule for deliveries so you didn't have a single day without goodies. How have you guys done this in the past?
Once the FE list is closed out, I'll assign days for everyone to do them so they are spaced out. If you have a preferance for a day, just let me know.
Onboard Movies: Ok, dumb question but I figured someone here has to know... do they only show Disney Movies onboard?
I think so, but on ours in January, it wasn't all kids/animated ones.
Dinner: We are second seating for dinner and I have another silly question... if you want to sit with someone specific, do you have to plan it ahead of time or is it something you can change on the fly, providing your at the same seating for dinner? My biggest fear with dinner is having someone with really messy kids that doesn't understand that DD and I cannot have any cross contamination when it comes to gluten and our food. Had lunch with my one neice the other day and she had crumbs half way accross the table (she is 15) and was complaining that it doesn't matter, why did I make a fuss and move DD.... Well, if DD even gets one of those crumbs in her food and eats it, she will be visiting the onboard doctor.
Yikes! Don't sit with us then! Alex is the crumb queen. Not all over the table, but still...
I would say to have them make a note on your cruise reservation. You might want to ask for a table for just your family to be extra safe. On embarkation day, go by Beat Street (I think) where they are doing Palo, spa, etc. reservations and they should be able to tell you if that was set up for you.
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