July 1st, 2006 070106 07/01/06 20060701 07012006

[MrShiny]

OK, here are my other photos with folks in them (including my wife and daughters in the first 2):

 

[DVC98]

I hope you were not "innappropriate swimsuit couple" (they had boys, so I think I'm safe!)

My D7 loved it, but my DD11 (skinny, glasses, blue & green suit) watched from the boat after a minute.

Here are some group shots of the boat (we aren't in these, but maybe you are!) I aso have a coule of pics of them explaining the rays with other folks in them.

No - we weren't in your pics - different boat - yours was a larger boat than we were in.

Sheila

 

[happyatdisney]

Hi Sheila!! Nice to hear from you! I was wondering how your time at WDW was after the cruise: Dan and Melissa said all day Saturday when we were at MGM how they wished we had gone to the parks after the cruise.........but now after what you said, I guess I am glad we did it the way we did!

Gotta tell ya, after what you were telling us about overstuffed suitcases on the cruise: We get to MCO Saturday evening to check in our bags, and Dan's weighed in at a whopping 63 pounds!! I nearly died. He had all our dirty laundry in his, and I guess it weighs alot. I was getting ready to pay the extra, rather than trying to rearrange everything, and the woman at Southwest said: "I can give you a box, and you can put some things in it. You will still be under your allowance for number of bags, and it will just take a minute." I was so grateful for the idea, I must have thanked her a hundred times. "No problem" she says. "We do this all the time after people come back from cruises. We keep a bunch of boxes by the counter just for that purpose!" You should have seen us trying to stuff all those clothes into this long box........ I'm sure the people behind us were just thrilled.........

So, Mr. Shiny and Patti: I am now sooooooo curious about "inappropriate swimwear couple" and "Backstreet Boys". I feel like I may have missed some major entertainment on board!!

 

[MrShiny]

We were in the morning - I think there were a couple groups - we left @ 9:15ish, I know there were several different buses. The boat we were on had a couple of younger guys - they were very nice, very gentle w/the stingrays...I remember a little blonde girl next to us that was snorkeling - she was talking w/us on the boat ride.

Sheila

We were on the 7:30 (which was great - very uncrowded at Stingray City).

 

[Husker4040]

We were on the 7:30 (which was great - very uncrowded at Stingray City).

We were on the 9:45.



Patti

 

[GAKoch]

Did any of you do the Native Way excursion in GC? We went out on a 32 ft. boat with about 10 people and it was really nice. The sting rays were so cool! Then we went to rum point beach and had lunch and played in the water there, it was a beautiful beach. I think it cost us $260 for 6 people. I don't know how much the Disney excursion was because we were so late in booking, anyone know?

We did that - Were you the group with the 2 little boys? They were so good! We were the other family with the boy and girl. We loved that excursion. When they stopped and dove for starfish we felt like it was a special treat. We had a hard time getting trent in to snorkle - he thought a fish was going to come up and attack him. Once he got started he didn't want to stop. We all snorkled again at Castaway Cay. Did you get your dvd yet? We can't wait to see that. Abby is 10 but Chris only charged he her the child rate (under 10). We appreciated that!
Georgianne

 

[JustKaren]

Hi Laura,
People stole magnets off our door too! They actually put them on their own door two staterooms down from us!! My daughter was floored, but I figure if they wanted them that badly then just take 'em! We just laminated the Mickey heads and threw magnetic tape on the back...not worth stealing if you ask me!! We were at the end of the hall, near that little deck off the back (which I loved by the way), so very few people would see it anyways. I never heard any yelling, by the way, although I did myself when my DD11 did not meet me at our meeting spot at CC (after my lovey cabana massage)...she went back to the ship!! I had some loud things to tell her when I found her!

How funny, Shiela, that those people were from Massachusetts! We were seated with a single Dad and his 15 year old daughter who were both very nice. I had asked to be seated at a large table with a bunch of people, but it was only the four of us. I wonder how they pick the tables? We were at the early seating at table 73 with Phillip and Kira as our servers. Phillip was great with the girls!

My DD and I would have not done well with the stingrays...I would have freaked out having them swim near me! I am surprised so many kids did that excursion!

Karen

 

[Deb in IA]

OK, here are my other photos with folks in them (including my wife and daughters in the first 2):

I SEE US!!!!


In this one http://www.jmcarey.com/scs5.jpg , just above the stingray, the guy with his back to the camera with the light yellow vest is my husband!! And to his right, past the tour guy, is our daughter, with the darker yellow vest, black swim suit, and the pink snorkel tube!! Is that you, Mr. Shiny, holding the stingray in that photo?

And in this one http://www.jmcarey.com/scs7.jpg, in the row of people up at the top, the 3rd one over from the left is our son, in the blue swim trunk and squinting at the stingray. Just behind him, partially obscured by the boy in the green and black trunks is ME!!!

Wow, how funny. We were on the same excursion!! I wish we had a better way of figuring out who were DIS'ers . . . I would have loved to visit with you guys on the boat! Were you sitting on the lower or upper deck of the boat that took us to the sand bar? We were on top, on the starboard side.

Mr. Shiny, did you purchase any of the photos onboard? We did, and haven't received them yet . . . hoping they aren't lost!!

Hmmmm. I'll have to see if I remember the "swimsuit inappropriate couple" . . .

 

[Deb in IA]

We were on the 7:30 (which was great - very uncrowded at Stingray City).

Despite some initial hesitation, our 15 year old DD said that this was her favorite excursion!!!

 

[MrShiny]

No, that's not me with the ray - I was holding the camera. It was just a good shot of a guy with a ray. We bought some photos too, but I thought they said up to 4 weeks.

Here's a pic of me from the trip with the girls:

 

[MrShiny]

We were sitting on the bottowm on the port side. I think I recall seeing you actually! We'll just need lime green Mickey forehead tattoos next time!

 

[LongIslandMouse]

Hi Laura,
People stole magnets off our door too! They actually put them on their own door two staterooms down from us!! My daughter was floored, but I figure if they wanted them that badly then just take 'em! We just laminated the Mickey heads and threw magnetic tape on the back...not worth stealing if you ask me!! We were at the end of the hall, near that little deck off the back (which I loved by the way), so very few people would see it anyways. I never heard any yelling, by the way, although I did myself when my DD11 did not meet me at our meeting spot at CC (after my lovey cabana massage)...she went back to the ship!! I had some loud things to tell her when I found her!
Karen

Wow that's friggen ridiculous! If that happened to me I would have been knocking on their door! Holy cow I can't even believe the nerve! As you probably saw, Katie did the same thing with our mickey chips along with our names and a long ribbon so they looked like balloons. If I saw Jack's missing balloon on someone elses door I would have been banging till they opened! And yeah, I would have been p.o.'d if Katie or Ryan left to go back to the ship without telling me...kids!! They are in a dreamland sometimes ya know?

Here are a couple of photos I took from the sting-ray excursion. It was about 10am I guess and there were a bunch of other boats out there next to ours. Does anyone see themself? Mr. Shiny?

 

[LongIslandMouse]

We did that - Were you the group with the 2 little boys? They were so good! We were the other family with the boy and girl. We loved that excursion. When they stopped and dove for starfish we felt like it was a special treat. We had a hard time getting trent in to snorkle - he thought a fish was going to come up and attack him. Once he got started he didn't want to stop. We all snorkled again at Castaway Cay. Did you get your dvd yet? We can't wait to see that. Abby is 10 but Chris only charged he her the child rate (under 10). We appreciated that!
Georgianne

OMG that was us! I remember your son! He was hanging around by the boat when everyone else left (but us) to go snorkle right? Of course we couldn't snorkle with a 2 and 3 year old, plus my dh can't swim (hahaha!!!) So we just had the life preservers on and floated around by the boat with the little ones. I took turns snorkling with my dd when she came back and used her stuff. That was neat they dove for the starfish! Here is a pic. I took of you guys! Is that your dh? He seemed like a fun guy! Adorable kids!

I have to order the dvd because we didn't bring a credit card with us so he gave me his card so I could order it. They only charged the little ones $10 each too. I just tried to re-size it so it looks like the quality stinks. If you want I can email the orig. to you, PM me! Here is us:

I don't know why the quality is so different on these. I resized yours to 170K and mine to 122K and look how much bigger mine is.....sorry...I hate photobucket, grrr.

 

[MrShiny]

Here are a couple of photos I took from the sting-ray excursion. It was about 10am I guess and there were a bunch of other boats out there next to ours. Does anyone see themself? Mr. Shiny?

There I am! I am the very white big guy in the middle with his back to the camera in blue and white trunks.

 

[Deb in IA]

We'll just need lime green Mickey forehead tattoos next time!

 

[GAKoch]

That is an awesome picture! That is not dh - I think he was one of the guys off the Carnival ship. I'm right behind Abby taking a picture. I saved that pic of yours to my pc and it looks great - don't worry about the resize. He charged $45 for each child - better than the $60 adult fee! That's nice he gave you a break for the little guys. I couldn't believe how well they did for that whole day on that little boat! Wasn't it great having so few people? He even let Abby and Trent drive the boat as we went into the beach - they loved that.
Georgianne

 

[Deb in IA]

Here's a pic of me from the trip with the girls:

GREAT pirate outfits!!!

 

[LongIslandMouse]

That is an awesome picture! That is not dh - I think he was one of the guys off the Carnival ship. I'm right behind Abby taking a picture. I saved that pic of yours to my pc and it looks great - don't worry about the resize. He charged $45 for each child - better than the $60 adult fee! That's nice he gave you a break for the little guys. I couldn't believe how well they did for that whole day on that little boat! Wasn't it great having so few people? He even let Abby and Trent drive the boat as we went into the beach - they loved that.
Georgianne

I was sitting up on the flying bridge with my 3 yo. when he let your kids drive the boat! He also let my 3 yo. sit on his lap and drive, so cool! I should have brought my camera up there, but it was enough to hang on to a 3 yo. wiggler! Yes, the captain was very nice. I was asking him if he was from GC and he told me he was from Ecuador, I think. He had an accent that I couldn't place. But he told me he has been doing this for 20 yrs. and loves the water. Nice guy! The people who own Native way, or at least the girl, is from NY City. What a nice gig they have huh? I mean, their boat isn't as big as that catamaran, but the group was nice and small and that means alot.

Mr. Shiny, you have some great pirate outfits there dude!

 

[GAKoch]

Chris told us he grew up in Honduras - that was a different accent. They were all so nice. We were a bit leery when we first got there and saw the boat, but I had only heard good things about them. And they were all true - we couldn't have asked for a better day. We would go with them again in a minute.
Thanks again for the picture.
Georgianne

 

[Deb in IA]

There I am! I am the very white big guy in the middle with his back to the camera in blue and white trunks.

MrShiny, I think I see you in some of our pictures!!! We used one of those disposable underwater cameras, so the pictures are not digital. I'll have to ask DH to scan them for me this weekend, and I'll try to post them here next week . . .