July 6th, 2010- 5 Night Wonder

[m&m's mom]

DH and sisters family are going deep sea fishing in KeyWest. The girls and I are going in a jet ski tour around the island. My parents are going their normal city tour.
In Nassau most of us are doing the Comfort Suites version of Atlantis and 2 are doing through Disney.
CC we are parasailing and I sssoooo hope it does not get cancelled again. I have done it but the time the girls did it, it was cancelled.
We really wanted to get the beach cabanas at CC but I guess they will not be open yet.

 

[ATL Mus]

We are doing the

pirate scavenger hunt at Key West

Stingtays at CC

Atlantis Aquaventure at Nassau

and ....??

We have a severe nut allergy in our party.

 

[minniemoms]

Wow, we are going to be very boring here. I want to do the city tours on each place, but nothing other than that. Paying for airfare out from CA and then staying 2 days at WDW, and paying for the 18yr old to go to college, the budget doesn't allow for a lot of extras.... Darn....
We have 6 children, 4 married daughters now.. AND..... Daughter #3 and #4 BOTH GOT MARRIED THIS YEAR.... Jan and March... So we have depleated our account,But we will still have fun on the ship......But we can't WAIT to go.

 

[DISNEYGATOR]

I hear you about breaking the bank.. but mine is more splurging then practical things like college

We are just touring Key West on our own....I am soooo ready to get on the ship! Anyone have second seating? I am waitlisted for early seating, but have 2nd as of now..

 

[MN Dis Fans]

For those of you participating in the FE Exchange, I have just sent you the FE list to the personal e-mail addresses you have given me.

Please note that you will receive it 2x (except jkpmac), as I had made a typo when I noted jkpmac's e-mail. (The 2nd one is the corrected version)

If you are participating in the FE exchange, and did not receive an e-mail, please PM me, so I can get it fixed.

We leave in 12x days! I am so ready for it. (And only 3 1/2 more days of work, followed by 2 more travel to get home)

We're also doing KW on our own. I think the current plan is to take in the Harry Truman Little White House, and the Customs House.

In Nassau, Grandpa & Grandma are taking the 2x DS's on the city tour, while the DW & I do the wine & cheese tasting at the GrayCliff.

G&G, and the boys are also doing the StingRays on CC. I'll be on the beach with a cold one in my hand, although the youngest DS & I will no doubt get some snorkeling in sometime during the day.

We've also got 2nd seating. The big advantage of 2nd seating is the last morning. They don't kick you off the boat as early!

 

[jkpmac]

Sorry about the e-mail, it confuses everyone. I just kept my old university one, and now it is too hard to get the ISP to change it.

I was wondering about the drink dispensers on the boat. I am assuming they serve Coke products there. Do they serve gingerale or ice tea? Also is it Barq's Root Beer? I think it is the rootbeer made by coke, atleast up here in Canada. We tend to keep they young lad away from pop (soda) as much as possible, but he loves gingerale and rootbeer. Problem with Barq's though is it has caffeine in it. Do they have juices? I noticed they sell minute maid in WDW.

 

[MN Dis Fans]

My memory is good, but short. I seem to remember they have pink lemonade and ice tea. I did a quick search, and the 3rd response in the attached thread confirmed my memory.

I'm a diet coke man. It mixes with Jack, rum, etc. etc. etc. I'm guessing you get the picture?

Don't think you can get root beer, but I think you can buy ginger ale from the bar?

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2436696&highlight=coke+products

Sorry about the e-mail, it confuses everyone. I just kept my old university one, and now it is too hard to get the ISP to change it.

I was wondering about the drink dispensers on the boat. I am assuming they serve Coke products there. Do they serve gingerale or ice tea? Also is it Barq's Root Beer? I think it is the rootbeer made by coke, atleast up here in Canada. We tend to keep they young lad away from pop (soda) as much as possible, but he loves gingerale and rootbeer. Problem with Barq's though is it has caffeine in it. Do they have juices? I noticed they sell minute maid in WDW.

 

[DISNEYGATOR]

They do have iced tea, just not brewed iced tea.... its unsweetened nestea from the fountain.... I think they have root beer as well.


Two weeks and two days!!!

 

[jkpmac]

WOOO HOOOO Vacation begins

Time is counting down, and I am really geting excited. Well Vacation for me, DW has two more days of work.

I was just curious Minniemoms, do you have one or two rooms? Just planning the FE's part of it will be something for each room instead of each person, although you can all share.

 

[minniemoms]

One room.... Don't you feel sorry for me.. DH 6'4" DS 6'3" DN nephew..well, 5'10" but they are all big guys.... So then there is me... I think I will bring some earplugs and room freshner.....Lots of stinky socks...But it will be so fun. We should have gotten 2 rooms, but at the time wasn't planning to bring the nephew along.. Then it was too late to get another room.

 

[MN Dis Fans]

Hi Everyone:

I have just sent the finalized FE Exchange list out (by e-mail) to those of you participating. If you did not receive, please let me know.

Days to do, definitely are now few.

I'm officially on vacation now as well. Although, saying that, I spent the first day of it working in the yard. I should have just called one of the local farmers, and had him come over with his baler!

Do any of you plan on doing any of the wine / beer tastings on the ship?

 

[jkpmac]

One room.... Don't you feel sorry for me.. DH 6'4" DS 6'3" DN nephew..well, 5'10" but they are all big guys.... So then there is me... I think I will bring some earplugs and room freshner.....Lots of stinky socks...But it will be so fun. We should have gotten 2 rooms, but at the time wasn't planning to bring the nephew along.. Then it was too late to get another room.

You can lament with my DW. I snore loud enough to drown out the engines (according to the DW). And the DS has the unique ability to sneak into bed with us, but then again that tends to only wake me up for the rest of the night, when he manages to stick his foot in my left ear. I am actually a little jealous, because the top bunk looks cool!!!

I don't know about the tastings, but I want to try the appetizer demo, galley tour, and ship tour. ****newbies**** We are missing the Palo brunch in favour of supper on our anniversary.

 

[m&m's mom]

We will try one or more of the tastings. I hope they have the tequila and or margarita tastings.

 

[jkpmac]

Just wanted to say thanks for the great work you did MN Dis fan, on the FE Exchange.

Can't wait to get on board!!!


Oh, I assume we follow the order on the list for delivering our FE's?

MN Dis Fan First Night
ATL Mus Second
DISNEYGATOR third
jkpmac fourth
minniemoms the last night?

 

[MN Dis Fans]

You can deliver your FE Gifts whenever it's most convenient for you. We tend to deliver them all at the same time.

m&m's mom: I would hope they will have them. There was a thread the other day with the 5-nt KW Navigator's on them. The OP deleted the photo's from the thread, but here is the link where you can find them.

http://s1021.photobucket.com/albums...205%202010/?action=view&current=P1020827.jpg&


2x more days to go for us!

Just wanted to say thanks for the great work you did MN Dis fan, on the FE Exchange.

Can't wait to get on board!!!


Oh, I assume we follow the order on the list for delivering our FE's?

MN Dis Fan First Night
ATL Mus Second
DISNEYGATOR third
jkpmac fourth
minniemoms the last night?

 

[minniemoms]

What???

Oh, I assume we follow the order on the list for delivering our FE's?

MN Dis Fan First Night
ATL Mus Second
DISNEYGATOR third
jkpmac fourth
minniemoms the last night?

We are supposed to follow this order??
so I would only deliver to MN Dis Fan only the first night?????

What If I want to deliver them all the first night??? I might be bringing something that would be native to my area.... I have 3 boys in my cabin that might want to eat what I brought for others...
So what about that??? If these are the rules I will do them, but I would like to be able to thank you if I see you on ship for what I got, and if I am the last night, I might not see you to thank you later on cause we would all be leaving the next morning...

 

[MN Dis Fans]

Hi minniemoms
You must not have seen my reply to jkpmac. I have re-copied it here again. I hope this clears up the confusion?


Delivering FE Gifts:

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You can deliver your FE Gifts whenever it's most convenient for you. We tend to deliver them all at the same time.

What???

We are supposed to follow this order??
so I would only deliver to MN Dis Fan only the first night?????

What If I want to deliver them all the first night??? I might be bringing something that would be native to my area.... I have 3 boys in my cabin that might want to eat what I brought for others...
So what about that??? If these are the rules I will do them, but I would like to be able to thank you if I see you on ship for what I got, and if I am the last night, I might not see you to thank you later on cause we would all be leaving the next morning...

 

[jkpmac]

Minniemoms,
I was just wondering if that was the case or not. Everyone just delivers them when it is convienient for you to do so. I guess with three men (boys) you may want to get any treats out of the room as fast as possible. I am thinking that might not be too bad an idea for us too, DS has been oggling a few things I picked up at the store today.

By the by I noticed in a local store some key chains with a uniquely Canadian design that can act as bottle openers, okay for the two 18 yr olds? I wouldn't want to be responsible for leading them astray with regard to beer bottles, even though most are twist cap now anyhow.. Legal drinking age up here is 19.

ATL Mus,
there are going to be 4 adults and 4 kids in your party total? I checked with any treats we are bringing and there is only one thing that may contain nuts or trace of nuts, so we will just substitute with something else for your group.

 

[minniemoms]

Well, anything you give to us, would be just fine. As far as the bottle openers, they would get a kick out of them. None of us drink alcohol. But they would probably think that was cool anyhow. But as I said, what ever would be great.

Now as far as "Nut allergies" who has them???? I live in "Almond Country" Seriously , there are thousands and thousands of acres were I live. Probably tens of thousands, so I was thinking of almonds in some fashion, but I don't want to bring any problems to you guys. Let me know quick..There are almonds right next to my property right behind us, in the neighbors fields....
Everywhere....... My son in law's family grows them.
here are the facts. My county alone produced "$455,600,000." of almonds in 2009. That is a lot, and that wasn't the top agriculture producer, Milk was.. How's that for some facts, I didn't even know that, I just looked it up.
So now if you don't get almonds, don't be sad or mad at me.

 

[jkpmac]

They can use them to open cola bottles

I posted a while ago asking if anyone had a nut allergy, ATL Mus mentioned one person in their party had a nut allergy. I am just going to substitute out the nut containing item for something else equally as yummy.

As for us, I love Almonds, my wife loves almonds , and our son,....well to be honest we would probably eat his almonds too!!