Hi all,
Well, we are starting to get really excited. So far, the girls are half-packed. I have not started, and DH never packs until about 12 hours before we leave (that drives me crazy!). Last year, though, he accidentally forgot to pack 2 pairs of pants and had to send everything for dry cleaning mid-week, so I am hoping he has learned his lesson!
We are going to be renting a car in MCO on the Thursday when we land and then heading to Residence Inn in Cocoa Beach - is anyone else staying there before the cruise?
The Promenade Lounge sounds good for a meet. Another option is Deck 9 near Goofy's Galley, especially if the weather is nice and the kids want to stay swimming. We will go wherever the group decides - it's definitely nice to take a few minutes and meet everyone, because then you recognize a few people all week long and can say Hi as you bump into one another.
If anyone out there on this thread has 11/12 year-old or 7/8 year-old daughters, please PM me - my girls are very interested in getting to know some kids before they board - maybe we can even find one another in the cruise terminal as we wait for our boarding number to be called. We found last year that friendships formed on the first day made the whole week (time in the clubs, rendezvous's at the pool, and the afternoon at the beach at
Castaway Cay) infinitely more fun!
We have not been upgraded - my TA thought we might be because it's our third sailing, but so far online we appear to still be in our sideways Cat 11 on Deck 5 forward. We did get moved up from Second Dinner seating to Main, but now DH is thinking maybe he would like to try out Second seating - we will mull that one over for a few days...
And now, the waiting which has seemed to drag on forever, is almost over!
Can anyone from the US tell me whether you can easily purchase Bonine in FL? We used to be able to buy Bonamine (Canadian brand name for Bonine) at
Walmart and elsewhere here, but apparently it's no longer available in Canada. I rely on it for enjoying my trip, and I am hoping to get it at Walgreens after we land. Please let me know if I need to arrange something different!!!
See you all soon!
I am in a workshop and schools are closing right and left trying to get kids home before it is a total mess..... Worst of all this is delaying my cruise documents and finding out what my cabin number is!!! 
I am worse than kids when it comes to weather making me useless to get anything done. If there is weather mess I have to deal with on my flight down from the tundra of Iowa, it is not going to be pretty. 
) It will be great to meet people on the ship. 3pm should work. Everyone seems way too organized for me. I will be throwing things in my suitcase about 3 hours before the plane leaves and up late the night before deciding what to put on the magnets.... I am teaching a workshop and facilitating a budget cut discussion the morning before I leave. I think they are going to wish they had found someone else. 
So..the meet is 3pm in promenade? I'll be the one at the bar. 
There's ice under that new fluffy stuff! After getting towed out I kept thinking sunshine, cruise, water that's NOT frozen! (Except for maybe little chunks in a boat drink!)
