January 19,2008 / Eastern Magic / "The January Thaw Cruise"

[plenam]

Hi everyone!!!

Well, we just booked our cruise and it looks like we will be joining you on the ship!!
Let me introduce my family, my name is Beth, hubby is Rick and we will be cruising with 2 of our sons, Stephen (17 at cruise time) and Michael(10 at cruise time). We are retired Air Force and still working at the base here in NC.

This will be our 4th Disney cruise, our 2nd 7 night one, and our first time to the Eastern side. We took a double dip cruise last July with our friends..That being said, let me tell you about the rest of our gang.

Joining us will be our friends John and Shirley(also Air Force)
Their daughter and son(adults)
Their other daughter and son in law(Air Force stationed in Guam)
Our friend Angie(Air Force) and her 2 daughters (18 and 13)
And possibly 2 other families.
We all cruised together last summer. Get the feeling we are military?? LOL

I look forward to counting down the days till the cruise with all of you!!

Beth

Welcome Beth,
Glad to have y'all on board. This will be our second Eastern, we especially like it for the extra day at sea.

Brett

 

[chepic]

Welcome to the crew Beth.....looking forward to chatting with you over the next 10 months. Only one in our crew has a child in your age group....boy 12 at sailing. And, because of my OCD issues... ...I fit in with the military view point. Not only that, most of my patients think of me as a drill sargent.

Have a great day.
cheryl

 

[Bethipooh4]

Thanks everyone,
We are really looking forward to the trip and meeting everyone.

 

[greatwhite]

Hello Beth, glad to have you and your family and your friends with us. I will be sailing with Cheryl who wrote above. We have been friends for about 20 years now and we also work together. My son Jake will be 12 at sailing time. His worst nightmare is having to spend time with his sister Abby who will be 7 1/2 on this cruise. My brother is also Air Force. He has been out now for a while. My son loves to hear about his station in Turkey with Desert Storm. Have a good day and we will be talking. Tricia

 

[Bethipooh4]

Well our little group is growing...

We are now up to 17 of us going!!!

I feel for our poor servers already....

 

[chepic]

Do the group dance....

Yeah for you Beth. We talked to the reservation person to link all of our group members to eat at the same time. She said she couldn't fit us at the same table...(didn't think you could)....but she would try to get us to sit near one another. They'll have their hands full with us too.

cheryl

 

[plenam]

 

[Bethipooh4]

Good morning from a warm NC...
We had a high of 82 here yesterday, and another warm day being forecast for today.

Our list keeps growing....
We are now at 18, with a possibility of number 19 booking and another cabin.
So far we take up 7 cabins....with number 8 a possibility. Talk about a group photo...LOL

 

[chepic]

Beth....that is not very nice of you. Apparently a Nor'Easter is heading in our direction and we could end up with snow starting at 7:00am Friday, with it all wrapping up on Sat. with a possible 6+ inches when it is all done!!!

With just 10 months to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Che

 

[jsheridan]

Hi, all. I just booked our cruise for 1/19/08! It will be me, DH & DS4 (at cruisetime). My husband & I used to cruise a lot BC (before child) but this will be our first one since our honeymoon in 2002!

I'm surprised there aren't more of us here - early dinner seating is already booked out and we are waitlisted for the early seating (I can't imagine bringing DS to the late seating). Does anyone think that will be a problem getting changed?

We have never done a Disney cruise & are really excited. We have been to the World 2x (1/07 & 3/06) with our son and look forward to seeing our friends again soon.

Do any of you out there have kids that will be in the 3-5 age group for this cruise?

By the way, I am hoping that we don't get much snow here tomorrow night, too. We are just up the road from you, chepic - we are in northern MA right on the NH border.

Julie

 

[Bethipooh4]

Ok so I jinxed myself, after a balmy 84 yesterday(we ate ice cream outside), I woke up to a cold rainy windy day. We had a high of 34 this afternoon.
So for everyone who is having snow...I am sorry I gloated all this week .

 

[plenam]

Ok so I jinxed myself, after a balmy 84 yesterday(we ate ice cream outside), I woke up to a cold rainy windy day. We had a high of 34 this afternoon.
So for everyone who is having snow...I am sorry I gloated all this week .

84 yesterday? We won't see that till late May or June

Brett

 

[chepic]

Julie....welcome aboard....in our group we have a 4 y.o. boy also, so I think you have the right group!!!! We are all in the early dining. Having cruised with our son before, we knew that the late dining would be bad. I have read on the boards that getting the time change is usually accomplished, so you should be o.k. How much snow did you get? We ended with about 6 inches and then all turned to mush!! Good for business though, in PT we see alot of motor vehicle accident patients.

Beth....see what you brought upon yourself!! "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature."

10 MORE MONTHS

Can't wait.

che

 

[jsheridan]

I just got our confirmations & we somehow got the early seating! So, one less thing to worry about.

We got about 10" here last Friday, but luckily it is melting. Supposed to hit 50 for the next few days! Heat Wave!

Chepic - I'm glad the snow is good for your business. It stinks for mine - I am an insurance agent & get to deal with people who forget how to drive!

Less than 10 months! Anyone have an actual countdown going? I don't know how to do that... I can barely spell computer...

 

[chepic]

It is amazing how quickly we all seem to forget how slippery snow can be. But again, for me, it is not such a bad thing.....sorry you get the claims!!! Our snow is all but gone.

Che

 

[plenam]

Less than 10 months! Anyone have an actual countdown going? I don't know how to do that... I can barely spell computer...

Julie, welcome aboard, I have a counter at the bottom of my page....as of today (Sat.) we have 300 days to go

Brett

 

[chepic]

Hey Brett.....how's the weather? We had snow on Sunday AM and then last night a thunderstorm came through and rocked the area....very strange happenings!!

How do you get the counter on your signature?

Thanks,

Che

 

[plenam]

Hey Brett.....how's the weather? We had snow on Sunday AM and then last night a thunderstorm came through and rocked the area....very strange happenings!!

How do you get the counter on your signature?

Thanks,

Che

Cheryl
Weather here has been great the past few days, upper 70s Sat, Sun & Mon, but today only in the 50s, back to reality.

Use this link, http://v50.net/cdgenerator.php, and they should walk you through putting a countdown clock in your signature, or if you have any trouble, you can go to the DIS tech board and get help there.

Brett

 

[Bethipooh4]

Snow in March?? Yuck, last time that happened to me was when we were stationed in Idaho.

Sunny and 84 here today, with even warmer temps tomorrow.

I know, I will probably jinx myself again, especially with DH and DS going scout camping this weekend. LOL All I have to do is a bridal shower for my daughter....

 

[chepic]

o.k. Brett: I tried it, now let's see if it worked.

Beth...tried to get reservations at Hilton Head to come visit your area, however all booked up. I wouldn't mind having that weather again...it is slowly coming.

che