July 6, 2010 - 7/6/2010 ~ Pounds to Rubles ~ Mickey invades the Baltic Sea

[nzdisneymom]

Carol - thanks for the news about II / RCI. I guess I should hang out on the DVC boards a bit more - seems like I am only here right now - hhhmmm... could it have something to do with the fact that I'm cruising in 16 days! LOL. Our very first timeshare stay was through RCI - my BIL/SIL gave us one of their weeks. We stayed in Williamsburg. I'm actually thinking the RCI will be better for us than the II because RCI has more places we'd like to go than II did. But I guess the Marriott in Boston is off my list.

And to make this "on topic" - the boys and I got the AAA maps out yesterday to look at where all our ports are in relation to each other. We are pretty much hitting a straight latitude for Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, and St. Petersburg. And I got my bearings on Warnemunde (which I keep thinking is at the end but it's actually our third port)... We had been talking about Berlin but see that Hamburg seems a wee bit closer and are wondering if DCL will offer an excursion to Hamburg. Then that made the boys want to find Hammelburg (they like to watch Hogan's Heroes) and Dusseldorf (because it's mentioned in Hogan's Heroes) so we had a nice little Germany geography lesson. And who said DCL isn't educational????!!! (that's what we say about t.v. or video games whenever we find there is actual "learning" going on while something is especially fun.)

 

[DMMarla07860]

how's everyone doing, I've finish all my shopping for christmas, now planning my back-to-back cruise for Febuary 21st-march 7th, 2009. Western then St. Croix Eastern

 

[jship210]

Got my AAA travel books $8 each (cheap) full of great info. I got the Europe and Britain books. Cover price was around $18 and $20 each w/o membership

 

[DW2DH&DS]

Have a great weekend everybody!!!!

 

[sshaw10060]

I finally got out and took some pictures. I'll try to get a video soon since the lights dance to music.

- Scott

 

[scottishwee35]

I finally got out and took some pictures. I'll try to get a video soon since the lights dance to music.

- Scott

Beautiful thank for showing us....

Scottishwee35

 

[DW2DH&DS]

I finally got out and took some pictures. I'll try to get a video soon since the lights dance to music.

- Scott

NICE!!!!!! Check you out with your festive self. Love it. I wish I had half the size of your yard. so, how long did that take?

 

[scottishwee35]

NICE!!!!!! Check you out with your festive self. Love it. I wish I had half the size of your yard. so, how long did that take?

Hi

I love your new logos of flag.... Can you find the Scottish Flag? for me

Scottishwee35

 

[CarolAnnC]

Beautiful pix of the Christmas decorations! Thanks for sharing..

Have a great Saturday everyone! Heading out to do a bit of shopping!

 

[sshaw10060]

It takes 4 weeks. I started the first weekend after Halloween and finished just in time to turn on the lights the the Friday after Thanksgiving. We start on the inside today.

 

[DW2DH&DS]

Hi

I love your new logos of flag.... Can you find the Scottish Flag? for me

Scottishwee35

I found one on another forum but am not what you would call computer savvy. http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/misc.php?do=showsmilies here is another as well http://www.visitedscotland.com/forums/misc.php?do=showsmilies

i got my wavy england and russia from this site.

http://smileys.on-my-web.com/categorie1-Flags.html

the ones underneath the thread logo i downloaded into photobucket. there was none for scotland. i am still looking for that site. unfortunately, i did not bookmark it.

maybe someone else will know how? i am still working on it though.

 

[DW2DH&DS]

yeah I saved it onto my desktop. pm me with an email address and i can email it to you!!!! or you can cut and paste to your desktop, put it into photobucket and then add it to your siggie!!!! that is exactly what i just did!! yeah for me. not feeling as stupid now

 

[DisTeach]

It takes 4 weeks. I started the first weekend after Halloween and finished just in time to turn on the lights the the Friday after Thanksgiving. We start on the inside today.

Great pics! The weeks of work definitely shows.

I've missed everybody! lol. I haven't posted in a while as I've been extremely busy with work and graduate school. I've seen a few commercials on TV about things happening in 2010, and it tricked me into thinking our trip is not all that far away.

 

[OurDogCisco]

just can't hold in the excitement!!! They broke ground this week in Ko'Olina Hawaii at the new DVC and hotel.....we love it there. We own at Marriott's there at Ko'Olina and visit almost each year. It will be perfect....one week at Marriott's and one week at Disney!!!
Here is a link to the news report about the ground breaking....

Hawaii television coverage of the ground blessing.
http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/11600/245/

Very cool.. Thanks for the link. We own at Marriott too. I just got our 2nd trade to Ko'Olina for next Thanksgiving. We loved the place when we visited a few years ago. We are anxious to go back. We just visited Bay Lake Towers Model at Saratoga Springs over Thanksgiving and we loved the step-up even thought we could manage in a studio with the step-up. We really want to add more points too since we are always in the borrow mode.

We also own Marriott at Lake Tahoe, Shadow Ridge & Waiohai. Since we don't get enough vacation time to use all these timeshares, I rent them alot. We can't wait until we are old enough to retire and use them all for many vacations.

 

[scottishwee35]

yeah I saved it onto my desktop. pm me with an email address and i can email it to you!!!! or you can cut and paste to your desktop, put it into photobucket and then add it to your siggie!!!! that is exactly what i just did!! yeah for me. not feeling as stupid now

Oh thank you for your help

I copy it then send it to photobucket for logo...

Scottishwee35

 

[DW2DH&DS]

Oh thank you for your help

I copy it then send it to photobucket for logo...

Scottishwee35

It was my pleasure!!! looks good

 

[tinkerbell_29]

Just wanted to pop in and say hi to everyone. I just finished and signed off of my last class before a nice long holiday break. Becasue of the Christmas cruise im' taking off from classes until 1/6. I'm looking forward to a long break. Hope everyone has had a good week so far.

Lissa

 

[nzdisneymom]

I was working on my door signs for our upcoming Christmas cruise and I have to say that they were not nearly as fun to work on as when we went to the Med. So now I'm thinking already about door signs for the Baltic In fact, Zachary (DS11) saw me working on the door signs and asked me why I was working on them so early (oops - good thing he didn't see the one with the Dec. 2008 dates!). He enjoyed helping me with our Med signs, so when it's time to start working on the Baltic ones for real, I'm going to have him help me.

 

[DW2DH&DS]

Have a great weekend!!!!

 

[scottishwee35]

I was working on my door signs for our upcoming Christmas cruise and I have to say that they were not nearly as fun to work on as when we went to the Med. So now I'm thinking already about door signs for the Baltic In fact, Zachary (DS11) saw me working on the door signs and asked me why I was working on them so early (oops - good thing he didn't see the one with the Dec. 2008 dates!). He enjoyed helping me with our Med signs, so when it's time to start working on the Baltic ones for real, I'm going to have him help me.

Oh lucky... he didn't caught you in times ... phew.

Money exchange still not good... dollars and euros are worst in UK...

Scottishwee35