June 12 Eastern Disembarkation and Pictures too!

musicgirl

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Cast: Dh-41, ds-13 and myself, dw-40

Yes, this is definitely the last one. Its's very difficult for me to do anything abbreviated!!!

Ok, last day:( Ds doesn't seem to realize that we must exit our room at 8 since we are eating breakfast with our tablemates. If you are sitting down to bk, you go to the same restaurant that you ate in the night before. If you have the early seating, bk is at 6:45 or some horrible time close to that. Since we had the late seating, we get to eat at 8 :tongue: .

It is 7:40, dh and I are all ready and ds is still in bed. It is at this moment, that he decides to tell us he wants to take a shower. Now mind you, we all woke up at around 7 to get ready and ds has not moved. Arghhhhh! Goooooooo! He showers, we wait. He dresses and comes out at 7:55. Have you brushed your teeth? He responds in that wonderful teenage tone that I have missed most of the week, "I'm going as fast as I can, geesh!"

No you are not, you are sitting on the couch and Garry is waiting at the door!!! Let's move. Ok, he moves, like a snail. I'm sure you all know what I mean!

Finally, we are out the door to bk. Very hurried, but understandable. The CM's need to prepare for later. We all give hugs, except the boys! It is time to go. Only my dh and ds can hear me chanting in true disboard style, Hell no I won't go!!! You can't make me. I am deperately looking for a hiding place. You don't get to go through the Mickey entrance. It is all closed up.

We hear the last musical tones for an annoucement of "Get off the ship". No just kidding, but it doesn't feel any better.

Art's shuttle is right there by the tent to take us back to the airport. We check in quickly and off to wait until 3 for our flight. Well, those of you who have read my post will know what I am about to do.......Shop!!!! It is unbelievable how many people from ship we see!!!

I try a number of times to join the lines of the new DCL passengers that are going to be taking over my ship and my room!!! I know it won't work, but hey, I can pretend for a while!!!

Well, we eat ( what do you mean you won't accept my KTTW card) and it is time to go through security to the tram to wait to board. More shops, but just a few. A little girl with braids sits down next to me. I see a yellow Magic luggage tag. you guessed it, they just got of too!! Of course we must share our stories.

Back to Columbus, Ohio, reality and a diet. I hope you enjoyed my rather long posts! I know when I was anxious for my trip, the more the better!!! here's a link to our pictures. Let me know if you have any problems. There are about 18 pages with about 8-9 pictures per page. This time it was dh, not me!

Lorie

http://groups.msn.com/WhatIdidonMySummerVacation/magic2004.msnw?albumlist=2
 
Lorie thanks for the great reports, we'll be travelling with DS13 in october and i know that tone of voice well :D did your ds go to the stack / make friends easily etc ?
 
Lorie, great posts! I can't wait to go on our cruise! You kept such a postive attitude when you encountered "stumbles". I hope I can do the same! When you joked about the elevator (pushing the buttons because you were there first), I would have been serious about it! LOL I loved all of the details in your posts! Thanks a bunch!
BTW the pictures are great! What kind of camera do you have? And with what camera did your DH take the underwater pictures? I'm shopping for a digital camera now for our cruise!
 
I travelled with teens also (DS14, DD18). The minute they climbed out of bed for a nature call, I pounced. By the time they finished in the bathroom, their bed was made and had been miraculously transformed back into a sofa.

Great pictures and a great trip report ~ Thanks
 

Traycie2201,

My ds-13 is very social. He went to the Stack on the first night and found a group of boys and a few girls.

Tina,

I really did try to keep positive about everything because I figure why get stressed out over things I can not control or others behavior. I wasn't about to let something like a wrong drink order or being late to a show due to dinner ruin our vacation. We had planned way too much to let that happen.

I must say though, I did over hear people who complained about everything. I think some people expect perfection all the time from Disney. I also believe that some people will never be happy no matter how fantastic something is.

The camera that he used underwater olympus D390. It was not a very expensive digital camera, but we bought it on purpose. We had purchased a waterproof camera box at the scuba shop in columbus, ohio. It was around $45 and it can be bought on line. We used the olympus in the box instead of our good digital Sony just in case it did leak. We didn't have any problems with it leaking though.

I am going to title the pictures asap.

Lorie
 
Great report and wonderful pics. Thanks for posting.
 
Lorie - loved the pictures!! We were on the same cruise and as soon as I saw your picture I recognized you. I saw you around the ship many times, just didn't know it was you. :-)
 
Lorie - loved the pictures!! We were on the same cruise and as soon as I saw your picture I recognized you. I saw you around the ship many times, just didn't know it was you. :-)
 
Lorie,

I have so enjoyed all of your posts. I am convinced we are somehow related and our 13 yrs old sons MUST be cousins!!!! Thank you so much for the reports and now the pictures. I just feel like I know ya!!!!

Hope I can do some good reporting after our July 24 cruise!

Looking forward to seeing more of you on the boards as you cruise again.

MamaQuack
:Pinkbounc :bounce: :Pinkbounc :bounce:
 
I'm glad you have enjoyed my posts. It's helping me get through my after-cruise blues!!!

I have to admit that I really want to re-book. I thought that once I did a 7 night, I would have satisfied my DCL taste. Boy was I wrong!!!

For those of you who have a cruise scheduled, I'M SO JEALOUS!
Actually, I hope that you have an awesome trip.

Lorie
 
Wasn't it fun seeing people from the cruise at the airport?! We saw people at the taxi/shuttle tent that we'd chatted with throughout the trip before we headed to WDW. Everyone was smiling!

Hey, our hiding places did not work! Should'nt we REALLY be returning tomorrow?! LOL!

Take good care, we'll be MAGICal friends for life now!

It was awesome sharing the cruise with you guys!!!

Miss you all!

Barbara
 
Musicgirl - As soon as I get a free moment to post pictures I will.

I am a teacher, and I unfortunately had to attend staff development classes this week. :-(
 
pittcrew,

as a fellow teacher (did you guess music! LOL)

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WORKING DURING THE SUMMER?

No, just kidding. I know people always think that teachers have 3 months off in the summer. Let's see June 9-Aug 24. That's hardly 3 months. Oh and let's not forget that band camp for us starts on Aug 9 for 2 weeks, oh and let's not forget the teachers meetings at the beginning of school. How about the summer classes we have to take to re-certify. Let's see cleaning the rooms after school is out, preparing the room before school is in!

Mind you I'm not complaining at all. But it always bugs me when people say that we have 3 months off in the summer!!!

Well, I guess we'll have to cut you some slack!!!

Lorie
 
Musicgirl -

Our schools got out May 25th for students and May 27th for teachers. Teachers start back on August 2nd and students on August 9th. So, we only have about 2 months off. :-( (And it goes much too quickly)

Of course, what teacher is really going to wait until Aug 2nd to start setting up their room. Our building will be open for us to come in July to start working. Since I am changing grade levels, I will have more work/thing to do than usual.
 
im still techno-doodling our digi- pictures (getting them ready for printing at the Costco.)
hope to have an album at ofoto soon.

overall, really liked our time! i was amazed that just a week off was relaxing!
hoping to do again.

back to work tomorrow- gotta gear up for the CC bill a'comin :scared1:!
 


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