Hiya fellow DIS DCLers! School is out for the summer and in less than four weeks, we'll be in London! Yay yay yay! I'm catching up on things this afternoon (mostly DIS reading!).
First of all, let me say we're sending {{{ healthy vibes }}} to all our fellow passengers and their loved ones who may not be going -- we want everyone to be healthy for traveling and those that are staying behind to be healthy, too, so those of us going won't have to worry about them!!!!
Secondly, thanks to Joanne for putting together the FE list - and for putting the list in Cabin Number order - that was brilliant! I've coordinated the list before and never thought to do that!
As for packing, DH is not bringing a tie nor dress shoes. I will likely pack one skirt with a couple of tops that are interchangable should I feel the need to wear a skirt to the dining room - and mostly because it packs so nicely and doesn't take up much room at all. Deb, you mentioned going to Topsiders for dinner - let me tell you, we did that on the Christmas 2008 cruise several nights and absolutely loved it. It was quiet and intimate, the food was on par with what they had downstairs (considering it's basically the same), and the fact that we didn't have to do more than wash up before going was fabulous. We ate Christmas dinner in shorts and t-shirts somewhere in the middle of the ocean
I was just telling Gary that we should coordinate some time with you all to meet for a Topsiders dinner.
As for excursions, I see there are several of us on the Monday night Evening Canal excursion in St. Petersburg. How fun would that be to be a canal boat full of DISers??? 2littlestitches, we're on the Historical Stockholm and Sigtuna with Lunch with you all. I know that there are a couple of others doing the St. Petersburg Shopping on Monday afternoon as we are as well.
We're doing Norwegian Adventure from Oslo, City and Harbor Tour from Copenhagen, Molli Steam Train from Warnemunde, the Shopping Experience and Evening Canal Boat tour in St. Petersburg on Monday and the City Highlights and Hermitage on Tuesday. Wednesday in Helsinki finds us with the Panoramic Helsinki in the afternoon for a short motorcoach excursion because we're meeting my third cousin Tuomas for the morning... he will show us around and we'll have lunch with him and his family - we are so super excited about that! We've met via email and now on facebook and cannot wait to meet live and in person. Then on Thursday we're doing the Historical Stockholm and Sigtuna excursion as mentioned above.
For packing, we are planning six days worth of clothes and doing laundry twice. We have the washing sheets that have the detergent and fabric softener in them - we used them at
Disneyland last summer and they worked fine - plus are way easier to pack.
(love the laundry icon).
Yay yay yay - it's coming up so soon!
awhile back. I know he lurks on our thread from time to time.
I'm so glad you'll finally meet my DH! 
), but I do hope they post trip reports. I wonder if any of them are planning to keep blogs as they go? I can't wait to get some first-hand information!!!!!!!
