January 8, 2006- 4 night Wonder- Anybody else coming with?

[jordan's cool]

good morning everybody!

well here we are on our last day at home before we leave for florida.
we can hardly stand it
I hope everyone is feeling great and have a safe and fun trip
I will be waking everyone up early in the morning to go out for breakfast and get on the road .
who else is ready ?

 

[UGAFan0829]

Good morning, everyone!
lacourre, thanks so much for the weather updates...It sure is looking a lot better than I had thought!
I have to get home tonight and pack, pack, pack! We are leaving in the morning...and of course I am stressing, but the DH thinks it's no big deal...sometimes his go with the flow attitude stresses me out!! AAAGGHH!
Anyway, for those of you leaving out today, have a safe trip!

 

[jordan's cool]

hey everybody we're closer than ever
who else is ready for a buffet?

 

[UGAFan0829]

I am, I am!!!
I am also ready for some warmer weather!

 

[UGAFan0829]

So how many folks are you bringing along with you, jordan'scool?

 

[jordan's cool]

we will have a total of 5.Me my wife, daughter 9.my younger sister-in-law and a friend of hers.
I'm also ready to walk around in shorts.I'ts a little cooler here today than i'ts been all week.
how many are in your group ugafan?
you will have to remember me in september when georgia and south carolina play.
does anyone know if parrot cay will be open when we get on the ship?I heard they would have a seafood buffet for lunch on the first day.As you can tell i've got food on the mind now.

 

[UGAFan0829]

There is only the DH and I in my group!!
Oh, I will remember you when we play SC! I have a good friend who lives in Columbia, and although she don't dare tell her husband, she really likes the Dawgs to, but her husband loves USC, so she can't tell! heeehee!
I'm not sure about Parrot Cay being open. When we boarded the ship on our last cruise, we were so excited that we went straight to our room...We weren't even worried about eating!
Is this your first cruise jodan's cool?

 

[jordan's cool]

NO.THIS WILL BE MY SECOND CRUISE,BOTH WITH DISNEY.
MY WIFE AND SISTER IN LAW HAVE BEEN ON 4 OR 5.
OUR LAST CRUISE WHEN WE GOT ON THE BOAT WE WENT TO THE POOL AREA AND I GOT A BURGER FROM THE SNACK STAND.I DID'NT LOOK IN TO EVERYTHING LIKE I HAVE THIS TIME.MY WIFE MADE ME GO THE FIRST TIME I DID'NT THINK I WOULD LIKE IT.MAN WAS I WRONG!!!
I COULD GO ON A CRUISE EVERY YEAR IF I COULD AFFORD IT.
MAN AM I READY TO GO!

 

[jordan's cool]

Well If Anyone Is Left Have A Safe Trip And We'll See You On The Ship!



let's Cruise!!

 

[branv]

Well this just sucks...

Who knew 4 nights could pass so quickly?

I had a woooooooonderful time!!! Were we blessed or what? The parks were c-c-c-cold, but we had such wonderful weather for the cruise!! I was so happy to walk off the ship at CC and find it so warm and lovely.

Now I am sitting here on my couch feeling it sway I would really like for that particular side effect to stop.

We had lovely table mates. Service was great. Food..ehhh, but I'm a food snob (I did love that Creamy Sweet Onion Soup at Parrot Cay though). Palo met and exceeded ALL expectations, for dinner I was so full it hurt when I yawned, and brunch, yuuuuuuum! For dinner our server brough us almost all the desserts. Devil man!!

Konk Cooler...overrated and way too sweet. BBC, oh my FREAKIN' goodness! I can't believe how much of a tab this non-drinker ended up with

Our room was great, but we were over equipment that made some hideously loud noises sporadically throughout the night. Lot of noise from closets sliding closed, children pounding down the hall. But it was such a very nice room. I must fess up, and found that all of our tablemates had to fess up to this too...all of us took a nap every single day I think the rocking of the ship acts like a narcotic

Can you believe I never got to get room service, a Mickey Bar OR go to Scoops? Well I'll just have to go back and do that!

We found that one of our favorites places on the ship was Diversions. Not sure why, it was just nice and relaxing.

Castaway Cay...brrrr..who braved the water? Serenity Bay was lovely until these two loud mouth couples decided to come along and be a little obnoxious. Kind of killed the relaxation buzz. But thankfully they departed after a while and we were able to achieve a nice sunburned Zen state. We even saw a tiny little hermit crab. Ready to go back!!!

As for the parks, didn't care for POP at ALL, finally had a Dole Whip and it now has me in its control mmmmm, completely awed by Animal Kingdom Lodge, wish we'd stayed there. Boma was great, but Le Cellier, OMG!!!!! The good thing is that all that walking aided in keeping us warm, but not my much Dared Mission Space and loved it.

You wanna hear a couple of strange things? We were standing in line in Soarin' and we heard this couple in front of us just start chatting to these two strangers behind them. They asked them where they were from yadda yadda. The people said, "oh we're from Austin" the first couple said, "oh really, how funny, so are we!" At that point, I tapped them on the shoulder and said, "you won't believe this, but we're from Austin too!" I mean, 60 minute wait in a huge line, all of us in a row, what are the odds? And THEN, when we had time to kill after we disembarked we decided to go to Downtown Disney and have a sundae. As we're sitting there, our table mates from the cruise walk in!! None of us had even talked about going to DD. Really funny.

Ok, so that's my short trip report. Can't wait to hear everyone elses!
I also saw my share of head shaking and/or mouth dropping behavior, but it certainly made for some interesting viewing. We'll have to share those

 

[JoyCrazy]

Hello everybody. I hope everyone had as much fun as we did. I'm so sorry that we didn't get too the 4:15pm meeting but we just didn't have time. What with not getting on the boat till 3:30 and the safety drill and take off party. Everybody was busy and I was feeling too shy to go on my own at that point. (I used to be super shy and sometimes relapse).
Crusin I'm especially sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you. It's so cool you noticed our door signs. I tried calling your room and stopped by but you were probably out having fun. At least I hope so!
branv I never got to scoops once either. I can't believe there was free ice cream and I didn't go.
By the way how cool were those shows. I saw them all. I've got alot more to say but it's 3am and my cats missed me . Talk to you some more in the morning

 

[UGAFan0829]

Hey guys! Just got home this morning at about 1 am. Had to stop in Dowtown Disney only to find out that Pooh Corner was closed!
I'm really sorry that I didn't get to meet JoyCrazy and Branv, but I know that it's sometimes hard to make it to everything!
We really enjoyed this cruise MUCH more than the last. It seemed to have lasted much longer, even though it was only 1 day longer. By the 2nd day, we had done so much more, yet relaxed so much more than our other one!
I know I will probably get flamed for this, but I was NOT impressed with the food this trip, and I will not ever go back to Palo for dinner. I was not impressed with it at all. We went there on CC night. The food was good, but the server brought us way TOO much food, and then made us feel that we had to at least try it. We ended up having 4 appetizers, 3 main courses and 5 desserts. I felt so bad that we went straight back to the room and didn't even think about Pirate Night. We went to bed, and I woke up at 2 am feeling VERY sick. I prayed that I would not get sick on that ship, and thankfully I didn't, but I felt bad the next day as well. I don't think there was anything wrong with the food, I think it was just that I ate so much and that it didn't mix together very well.
The shows were wonderful. Disney Dreams was very sweet, and Michael Harrison was hilarious at the adult show! We also loved Match Your Mate which was very funny as well.Was a little disappointed that our late seating was a little slow, so we had to get up and leave to be able to make it to the some of the shows, and even ended up missing the "Til We Meet Again"!
All in all, we had a great time, and know that we will cruise again! Before, we had thought that we would probably rebook a 7 night on board, but now the DH wants to experince the parks since neither one of us have ever been, so we are thinking of doing the land and sea package so that we can still cruise and see the parks.
Oh, we also had some great tablemates! We were really happy to have actually had people at our table since last year we were alone for the whole cruise. 2 of the couples were DVC members and we really enjoyed their knowledge of the parks. The other couple was on their honeymoon, and are originally from Japan, but are currently living in Atlanta while the husband attends college.
It was great to have met laccoure and her DH and DS, which I saw quite often, attagirlx2, who was super sweet, cruisin', who left a note on my door, and txsleepingbeauty, who I had the same dinner rotation as us, and VickiHD who was also very sweet! I think that I ran into Jordan'scool a couple of times, but he always had his family with him, so I didn't want to bother him!!

 

[lacourre]

Hi UGAFan! It was nice running into you during the cruise and at Parrot Cay for lunch! Sorry that you had a bad experience at Palo's. We went on the 2nd nite and had to leave after appetizers bcs DH was sick!!!!!! I don't know if anyone's left Palo's before! The appetizers were really good though! The sent the rest of the food down to our room... I ate, but DH really couldn't enjoy anything. They did get us into Palo on the last night, too - to make up for him being sick and leaving... maybe it is what you order, but to me the 1st time the food was better than the 2nd time.

I am sorry that I missed Match your Mate, but it was on the 1st night and we didn't have babysitting then. I enjoyed the comedian/ventriloquist family show, but do wish we could've seen the adult show... he was crazy!

There was so much to do that we really didn't relax that much, we didn't want to miss anything! We definately want to do it again! It was so nice to meet all of you on the ship. I was hoping to see more of VickiHD since we had the same dining rotation, but I guess our tables were too far away (or my 2-year was taking up all my attention?).

UGAFan, the parks are nice... so if you haven't done them then do it on your next vacation! Remember that they are big, so don't try and do more than one park per day. There is a LOT to see!!!!

My best to all you!!!
Lacourre (Larisa)

 

[branv]

UGA - I see you did the same portraits we did. What did you think of the photographer? Sort of lost my favor when he said "Suck in sweety" at least twice, and if he'd called me "honey" one more time I was going to go find my shoe and toss it at his head I told DH, "you notice he didn't tell YOU to suck in?"

Sorry I couldn't make the meet either. We had a sewage smell prob in our bathroom, and so we just decided to go ahead and focus on unpacking while they had a maintenance guy in and out of the room. Luckily they fixed it!

LaCourre, sorry your DH got sick! Was it the waves? I DEFINITELY felt them, DH thought I was losing my mind and even had me fill up a glass of water to prove to him that there was actual movement. He has not only an iron stomach, and has never had any prob with motion. I luckily had the scop patch on (and lucky me, no side effects like dry mouth or dilated eyes), plus took my Ginger pills, and I was good to go. I felt a little, errr, "off" for a bit at dinner the first night, but kept eating and managed to get by. We had a great time that 2 & 3rd night when the seas were at 4-8 ft watching everyone take a meandering path down the halls.

But I do definitely agree that Palo was one heck of a close call on the "overdone it" Had to walk that off quite a bit

So was anyone else on the 1st deck? We were in 1046 (had 2 door signs, just down from midship), was just wondering if anyone else heard the same noises we did. We luckily brought a fan for white noise. The last night that we had to go without it, we barely slept b/c of the noise bleed from people sliding their closets quite hard, slamming dresser drawers, ship machinary down below, and people pounding down the halls. Otherwise loved the 1st level, but wouldn't recommend that particular room.

Anyone else here now addicted to the chocolate croissants from breakfast? DH was still talking about them today. Tonight I asked DH, "What should we do about dinner?" and he said, "why don't we go on up to deck 9 and see what they have" Now I know he thought he was being funny, but all I could think about was how much it sucks that when I want to eat I actually have to do something more then catch an elevator.

 

[VickiHD]

Hi everyone. Wasn't that a Wonderful cruise. Besides our honeymoon that was truely our best vacation yet. Next time we will try the 7 day and we are sold on DCL. (Sorry Princess Cruise Line) We got in very very very late last night and still swaying back and forth. It's too bad we're not still on the ship.
It was great meeting EVERYONE and it was also fun running into you guys throughout the cruise. I only wish I had a chance to visit everyone a bit more. I'm so glad the weather warmed up for all of us. Since the Saturday before we sailed was freezing. I mean it was warmer in San Francisco than Florida. Burrrr
LaCourre...DH and I were hoping to visit with you and your family at dinner but we never saw you.
Palo's brunch was good but the main course was overrated. I had the beef and it was overly done and cold. The beef dish I had the night before was much better in PC. I did enjoy the sea food. Sorry to hear some of you got sick. Did anyone else notice that the portions were getting much smaller through out our cruise. The first night my steak was HUGE and as time went by the portions were smaller and smaller. I'm not complaining just making an observation, I still gained 5 lbs. Did try room service but no Mickey bar. Went to scoops a few times for ice cream and to create "coke floats".
We loved the atmosphere of the cruise along with the activities and shows. We did walk out of Hurcules.....just could not take it but we loved the other shows and of course Pirate night. I also loved having the characters on the ship. I'm just a big kid at heart. We were in room 2124 aft near the elevators and enjoyed our room. Did not see any other door signs around us at all. I wish I had a chance to see what your door signs looked like. Castaway Cays was heaven and Serenity Bay was perfect. Falling a sleep in the sun and sand was really what I needed. I'm so happy I came home with a little color. Enjoyed going to the towel animal demonstration but I have no skills in creating these at all. I'll guess I will leave it to the experts. Having a car at the port was nice. The porter brought all our bags out to the car for us and we were on our way. Pretty easy and we were on the road by 8:45 am. We spend Thurs. resort hopping, visiting the Animal Kindom Lodge and the Boardwalk area. It's amazing what you can do with a car vs taking Disney's transportation buses. We then took a nap at the Caribbean Beach resort's pool before heading out to DTD for dinner at the rainforest. It was nice to slowly get back into reality vs getting kicked off the ship then dealing with the airport. We will be booking another cruise for either late this year or early next year. The hard part is deciding the dates. How about everyone else?? Looking forward to hearing about everyone's vacation.

Did anyone else cry a little when leaving the ship?

 

[Cruisin]

Hi guys.

I just wanted to check in and let everyone know we have arrived safely at home.

I don't have time to totally catch up on the thread but I will and will post later.

 

[Cruisin]

We even saw a tiny little hermit crab.

Were you the couple that were sitting beside me and my parents on the beach

We were sitting by a couple who pointed out a small hermit crab to us just as we were getting ready to leave the beach.

If that was you, how strange. I know we never got the chance to meet at the DISmeet, too bad we didn't realize who each other was.

 

[Cruisin]

Crusin I'm especially sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you. It's so cool you noticed our door signs. I tried calling your room and stopped by but you were probably out having fun. At least I hope so!

There was one day when I was next door with my parents and when I returned my husband said he thought he had heard the phone ring while he was in the shower but I checked and there was no message.

Also one morning my dad said that he saw some lady knocking on our cabin door while we weren't there. That was probably you.

I'm sorry that I missed you too, but I got to talk to your sister for a minute

 

[Cruisin]

My only regret was that I didn't get to the DISmeet early enough to have time to figure out who everyone was.

Our cabin steward dropped by to introduce himself and then I had to run down to the Promenade Lounge and everyone was eager to be on their way. I didn't have enough time to memorize some faces so that I would recognize them later.

 

[branv]

OMG Cruisin, it was us! And can you believe that I knew the people next to us were Canadian by the slight accent. I thought for a minute "wouldn't it be funny if that were Cruisin'" since I knew you were there with your parents, but I was too shy to ask a few strangers, "uh hey there, do you Dis?" And then I reminded myself of how MANY Canadian license plates we saw in the POP Century parking lot alone, so thought I was being silly. How stupid of me!

I didn't blind you with my ubber pale skin did I Got a nice little, eerrrrr, sunburn that day.

I did all kinds of goofy things that day. Turns out our table mates were immediately to our right! When they told us that they saw us there, I said, "I thought we just had two obnoxious young couples next to the right of us!" And they said, "oh no, we were the people just before them trying to block out their comments about bodily functions".

I kept trying to be good and get some reading in, but zoning won out

So DH braved his very health by snapping this picture of me on the beach, are you the lady next to me?