July 20th, 2011 – 10 Night Mediterranean "Mickey's European Explorers"

[clarasunnyside]

Hello fellow cruisers! It's so great to discover that more families have signed on.

So far it seems we are a group of seven. I count the following:

Keever - DW, DH, DS 15, DS 13, from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Cabin 5022
jtw999 - DS 13, DS, 11, DS 8, from British Columbia, Canada
nikitta29 -DD 13, DD 11, DS 9, DD 7 from Buffalo, New York ,USA
wendyk - from Alberta, Canada
liemge
thetriplegang
clarasunnyside -from Sunnyside, New York, USA



Any ideas for naming this thread?

Anyone want to participate in fish-extender?

Only 388 days to create stateroom door magnets!

Keever

We would love to participate in the fish extender.

We need to get a name so more people can find us and sign on...Only 388 days Oh biy need to start working on those

 

[Keever]

Great! A fish-extender enthusiast! How many in your party? Ages? Let the crafting begin!

I haven't had a flash of insight for a catchy name for this thread. My unoriginal idea is "Magic Med Mousekeeters" -includes the ship, the destination, the people. Or DIScover Med Magic - includes the DIS boards.

I've included AnalAnnie's and msabol's ideas (before they jumped ship, so to speak):

Mickey's Roman Empire Tour
Pirates of the Mediterranean
Mickey's Mediterranen Mates
Mickey's Mediterranean Mouseketeers
Mouseketeers in the Med
Mickey's Magical Mouseketeers take the Med
Mickey's Maritime Mediterranean Marauders on the Magic
Magical Maniacs sail the Medirterranean
Mickey's Magical Med Maniacs
Mickey's Magic Med Marauders
Mickey's Magical Mates
Marauding Magical Meditteranean Mates
Mickey's Marauding Maniacs
Mickey's Marauding Mouseketeers


These have been taken:
To Barcelona and Beyond! - Why didn't I think of this one?
Mickey’s Maurading Mates –Anal Annie chose this one.

I don't know of an easy way to check what names have been taken.

What do you think?

385 days!

Keever

 

[Anal Annie]

Great! A fish-extender enthusiast! How many in your party? Ages? Let the crafting begin!

I haven't had a flash of insight for a catchy name for this thread. My unoriginal idea is "Magic Med Mousekeeters" -includes the ship, the destination, the people. Or DIScover Med Magic - includes the DIS boards.

I've included AnalAnnie's and msabol's ideas (before they jumped ship, so to speak):

Mickey's Roman Empire Tour
Pirates of the Mediterranean
Mickey's Mediterranen Mates
Mickey's Mediterranean Mouseketeers
Mouseketeers in the Med
Mickey's Magical Mouseketeers take the Med
Mickey's Maritime Mediterranean Marauders on the Magic
Magical Maniacs sail the Medirterranean
Mickey's Magical Med Maniacs
Mickey's Magic Med Marauders
Mickey's Magical Mates
Marauding Magical Meditteranean Mates
Mickey's Marauding Maniacs
Mickey's Marauding Mouseketeers


These have been taken:
To Barcelona and Beyond! - Why didn't I think of this one?
Mickey’s Maurading Mates –Anal Annie chose this one.

I don't know of an easy way to check what names have been taken.

What do you think?

385 days!

Keever

Hi Keever!! Glad to see your thread is picking up with some new peeps (I'm still subscribed ). My Maurading Mates cruise is running a little slow - I think August is not for sale full blast yet on all the cruise websites. I picked up a couple of peeps but they don't chat all that much (I get lonely)!! I looked the other day on CruisesOnly.com and my August date didn't come up as a choice - I think it's restricted to whatever's available 12 mo. out maybe. I am hoping to pick up some more peeps in a month or so. But on the BRIGHT SIDE when DCL started discounting the 2011 Meds we decided to upgrade to a balcony cabin for only a little bit more than what we WERE paying in our SPH cabin. They didn't discount the inside cabins as much as they did the balconies so it seemed like a good deal to upgrade! After our rebooking discount and with the increased OBC from DU it's only costing us $388 more to go from the 10A to a 5C!! I'm psyched!! A REAL balcony - plexiglass, not Navigators or solid white wall but an actual REAL balcony!! The SPH cabins are a great value but this seemed like a real deal too!!

Good luck choosing a name for your cruise thread!! I found that 'Mediterranean' can get hard to spell after awhile - especially with iffy typing skills!!! I am glad I chose a name that didn't include it!!! FWIW I like the idea of including the DIS in the name!!! On my last cruise meet we were called the "DIS-Functional Wonder peeps".

Anyway....just checking in to say hi!!

 

[Keever]

Annie! It's so good to hear from you!

How exciting about your fancy cabin! Wonderful! I've seen pics and dreamed of a balcony - lucky you!

Do keep checking in with this thread. We're just getting started. I've been checking your link. Now that summer's here I have some time to do some research and planning.

Any assistance with a thread name is welcome. I found slogan generator sites and this is what popped up when I put in DIS Med Cruise:

If there is a will, there is a DIS med cruise.
DIS med cruise is going places.
DIS med cruise right as rain.
DIS med cruise one size fits all.
DIS med cruise is the buzz.
Create your kind of holiday on DIS Med Cruise.
DIS Med Cruise - Just a Smile Away
DIS Med Cruise is a ten!
Go farther with DIS Med Cruise.
I can’t believe it’s DIS Med Cruise.
DIS Med Cruise. We build smiles.
DIS Med Cruise never sleeps.
Life’s beautiful with DIS Med Cruise.
Because I’m worth DIS Med Cruise
A tough DIS Med Cruise to follow.
Silly rabbit DIS Med Cruise is for kids.
More DIS Med Cruise please.
DIS Med Cruise? You bet.


Perhaps my travel-mates will have ideas. DIS Med Cruise is a ten! could be unique to our ten night sailing.

I'll wait for the rest to weigh in with ideas. Too much thinking on my holidays!!!!

How many sleeps 'til your cruise?

Keever

 

[clarasunnyside]

Hi Keever,
Magic Med Mouseketeers is my first choice
DIS Med Cruise is a ten! is my second choice.


Its me DH, DS (will be 11) , DS (will be 10)

My sister and her family are also coming will check and see if she is interested in participating on the fish extender.

 

[Keever]

Hi Clara! A big hello to you, your sister and families!

Thanks for weighing in on names for the thread. I've got a few more ideas - variations on Disney taglines. How about:

Ship of a million dreams
Eight ports, one ship (aka four parks, one world)
Come live the Magic!
Zippity cruise dah!
The happiest ship at sea

From pirate68 on micechat.com: Magic happens!

Or for our group:
Mouseketeer Cruising Association
Fans of Towel Animals

Just for fun I ran these through the piratespeak translator, if we want a Jack Sparrow Twist

Ahoy, ship of a million dreams
Arrrr, eight ports, one ship. Garrrr.
Arrr, come liv' the Magic. Aye, me parrot concurs.
Ahoy, come liv' the magic. Aye.
Arrrr, mouseketeer cruisin' association
Aye, magic happens, aye.


Do any of these appeal to your family?

I promise not to generate any more ideas. My DH says I'll scare people!!! Really, I'm just playing around with the computer to avoid getting started on some chores!

Is this your first cruise?

Keever

 

[clarasunnyside]

Hey there.


Please tell your husband you could never scare us away..We are a Mickey Crazy family..

so I went over the names with the boys

my DS(8) says you should pick the name since you have done so much work trying to find the perfect name. So Cute

My DS(10) just added another name to the mix..Mickey's European explorers

 

[PrincessBelle39]

Hi Guys
We haven't booked yet but are hoping too shortly. Everything depends on work at the moment and whether I can get someone to look after things while I'm away. But I'm moving ahead as though we are definitely travelling.
We are Me, DH, DD6 and DD9. It will be our second cruise with DCL and we plan on seeing a bit of Italy while we are in Europe and also spending a week at Disneyland Paris.
We have played around with dates a bit and really wanted to do the 11 night cruise but its just a few days early for us. But we are really happy with this one.
Just wanted to say hi.

 

[msabol01]

Hi Keever,

Since you're now the defacto leader please PM when the group comes up with a name. I think I have to change it since I started this thread. Hope you are well and I sure an wishing I was joining you, we continue to second guess our decision to switch out to a Thanksgiving 7 day since the kids may be a bit young for a Med Cruise (ie lots of walking ).

 

[clarasunnyside]

I was booked on the med cruise for 8/18/10. but had to reschedule for this one. One of the women on the blog started a web page for the cruise. I think if we can get someone to do this for our cruise it would be great.

http://web.me.com/mnconnoll/Magical_Mediterranean/Welcome.html

 

[Keever]

I love "Mickey's European Explorers". Well done, DS aged 10. I say we go with this name for our thread. I envision lots of cool graphics involving antique compasses - perhaps with ears. Shall I PM Mike to get him to name the thread?

Welcome PrincessBelle39and clarabelle's sister's family. Yay, more peeps! More FEs. The fun continues!!!!

I checked the link to the website. Very cool. I would love to create one; alas, I have no skill set. (I am proud of my ability to put text in a PowerPoint -that is my level of technological achievement.) However, if no one else possesses the ability to create a website I'm keen to track down someone who can help me. DS 14 and niece 24 say they know hmtl which I gather is useful in the process? I'm off to Chapter's to look at "Websites for Dummies" if no one volunteers...

Along the technology line, as I am still earning my ears, can anyone let me know how to add all the pics and details under my signature?

July 19th today - one year, one day to wait.

Keever

 

[Anal Annie]

Hey Keever - you can surely do the website! Take a look at this one too - Weebly.com is the freebie one that I used to start the site for my Aug. 13 cruise (which is sinking fast)!! Anyway, it is pretty easy to figure out. Very basic but workable. Click on this link to watch a demo on how it works.

http://www.weebly.com/?login=1

This is the one I started with Weebly before I got sidetracked (just so you can see what you can do with it): http://mickeysmaraudingmates.weebly.com/

Of course I started out full ahead with the website then lost steam this spring when I got busy. Never finished adding in more hotels & sightseeing. Never got around to working on all the port pages. Now I am losing peeps to the Aug. 27 cruise because it is cheaper and so I really have no heart in working on finishing it. I DO wish we could've stayed on the longer cruise but I am not switching AGAIN. The cost of the 7-nighter fits our budget better. But I am about to give up on my Maurading Mates tho. Two jumped ship & two went on vacation & never came back!! I just hope it will mean more discounts or free upgrades later down the road!! Glad you are not lonely any more!!

 

[clarasunnyside]

I love "Mickey's European Explorers". Well done, DS aged 10. I say we go with this name for our thread. I envision lots of cool graphics involving antique compasses - perhaps with ears. Shall I PM Mike to get him to name the thread?

Welcome PrincessBelle39and clarabelle's sister's family. Yay, more peeps! More FEs. The fun continues!!!!

I checked the link to the website. Very cool. I would love to create one; alas, I have no skill set. (I am proud of my ability to put text in a PowerPoint -that is my level of technological achievement.) However, if no one else possesses the ability to create a website I'm keen to track down someone who can help me. DS 14 and niece 24 say they know hmtl which I gather is useful in the process? I'm off to Chapter's to look at "Websites for Dummies" if no one volunteers...

Along the technology line, as I am still earning my ears, can anyone let me know how to add all the pics and details under my signature?

July 19th today - one year, one day to wait.

Keever

If it works then lets name it.

I also am not very computer savvy , but will help if needed

I will Tell Anil he will be so happy you likes the name...

If you go to "quick links" on the upper right hand corner..it will have the edit signature you can go on there and change your signature.

 

[msabol01]

It's been done.

I love "Mickey's European Explorers". Well done, DS aged 10. I say we go with this name for our thread. I envision lots of cool graphics involving antique compasses - perhaps with ears. Shall I PM Mike to get him to name the thread?

Welcome PrincessBelle39and clarabelle's sister's family. Yay, more peeps! More FEs. The fun continues!!!!

I checked the link to the website. Very cool. I would love to create one; alas, I have no skill set. (I am proud of my ability to put text in a PowerPoint -that is my level of technological achievement.) However, if no one else possesses the ability to create a website I'm keen to track down someone who can help me. DS 14 and niece 24 say they know hmtl which I gather is useful in the process? I'm off to Chapter's to look at "Websites for Dummies" if no one volunteers...

Along the technology line, as I am still earning my ears, can anyone let me know how to add all the pics and details under my signature?

July 19th today - one year, one day to wait.

Keever

 

[msabol01]

Hey Keever - you can surely do the website! Take a look at this one too - Weebly.com is the freebie one that I used to start the site for my Aug. 13 cruise (which is sinking fast)!! Anyway, it is pretty easy to figure out. Very basic but workable. Click on this link to watch a demo on how it works.

http://www.weebly.com/?login=1

This is the one I started with Weebly before I got sidetracked (just so you can see what you can do with it): http://mickeysmaraudingmates.weebly.com/

Of course I started out full ahead with the website then lost steam this spring when I got busy. Never finished adding in more hotels & sightseeing. Never got around to working on all the port pages. Now I am losing peeps to the Aug. 27 cruise because it is cheaper and so I really have no heart in working on finishing it. I DO wish we could've stayed on the longer cruise but I am not switching AGAIN. The cost of the 7-nighter fits our budget better. But I am about to give up on my Maurading Mates tho. Two jumped ship & two went on vacation & never came back!! I just hope it will mean more discounts or free upgrades later down the road!! Glad you are not lonely any more!!

Wow! That Looks AWESOME Annie! We've contemplated going on the 13 Aug 7 day, but we still struggle with our kiddies being a tab young for a European trip. So we are doing the 2011 Thanksgiving 7 Day.

 

[Keever]

Annie, come back!
Mike, come back!
This cruise is going to be fun!

Keever

 

[PrincessBelle39]

I love the name. I think we can have lots of fun with this one.
I can't believe its just a year away now.

 

[Keever]

ONE YEAR to go!
I'm sure it will fly by!


Thanks to Anal Annie, I am now a website designer. Here's the address to the bare bones website I created in less than thirty minutes this morning. Send me any details you wish to include.

http://mickeyseuropeanexplorers.weebly.com

Keever

 

[Anal Annie]

ONE YEAR to go!
I'm sure it will fly by!


Thanks to Anal Annie, I am now a website designer. Here's the address to the bare bones website I created in less than thirty minutes this morning. Send me any details you wish to include.

http://mickeyseuropeanexplorers.weebly.com

Keever

Way to go Keever!! You done good girl!! I like the "home port" thing - very clever!! I told ya you could do it!!

 

[Anal Annie]

Wow! That Looks AWESOME Annie! We've contemplated going on the 13 Aug 7 day, but we still struggle with our kiddies being a tab young for a European trip. So we are doing the 2011 Thanksgiving 7 Day.

Well, just so you can think about it there are now 3 SPH cabins available again on my Aug. 13 cruise (5020, 5520 and 5022)!!!! I had one that we gave up in order to upgrade to a 5C after the price cuts a couple weeks ago, one of my cruise mates also had one that she gave up in order to upgrade and the other one opened when another girl jumped over to the Aug. 27 date in order to upgrade without adding any cost to her fare.