June 23rd 2012 - Commandeering the Disney Fantasy - Pirates back in the Caribbean

[got2travel]

You may have released me from my earthly bonds and blew me up into a million crabs, but you will never be rid of me Jack Sparrow.

Tia Dalma will be sailing with you again.

 

[got2travel]

Is anyone else getting goosebumps, or even a tear or two, at the anticipation of sailing with each other again?? I am so excited. I swore I would not do another Western, but couldn't pass up the chance of an epic reunion.

 

[Downrivermama]

Is anyone else getting goosebumps, or even a tear or two, at the anticipation of sailing with each other again?? I am so excited. I swore I would not do another Western, but couldn't pass up the chance of an epic reunion.

Yep! I'm excited too. Threads to follow and plans to make. Nothing beats sailing with the peeps!

 

[cruisin'Mike]

I sent an email to my TA to switch our Dream cruise to this one. Hopefully all will go well. I'll let you know how we make out!

Looking forward to sailing with old friends and meeting new ones!!

 

[villagesbarbara]

All good intentions to watch the bottom line closer swept aside, Dave and I are in. Now just waiting for the rest of the crew to make up their minds. We are llGTY. This is the first time I've ever had GTY. How close to the cruise will we know our cabin #?

 

[Nick Charles]

So I promised Laurie I'd be more involved this time. (already, I've posted 2 more times then I did all of the last time).

So, we were planning on doing Aulani next year for our 20th, but this one is too strong to resist. Instead, we'll sail the Fantasy to the world's end with the Captain. Still planning on keeping this year's 6/26 Dream trip for now, but that may change.

 

[MrsScooby]

Is anyone else getting goosebumps, or even a tear or two, at the anticipation of sailing with each other again?? I am so excited. I swore I would not do another Western, but couldn't pass up the chance of an epic reunion.

Feeling the same way

 

[MrsScooby]

All good intentions to watch the bottom line closer swept aside, Dave and I are in. Now just waiting for the rest of the crew to make up their minds. We are llGTY. This is the first time I've ever had GTY. How close to the cruise will we know our cabin #?

We were gty for the EBPC repo cruise in 2008 and didn't get our cabin number until a month or so before the cruise But we had a cat 6 gty and no upgrade. Maybe you'll luck out with an upgrade

So I promised Laurie I'd be more involved this time. (already, I've posted 2 more times then I did all of the last time).

So, we were planning on doing Aulani next year for our 20th, but this one is too strong to resist. Instead, we'll sail the Fantasy to the world's end with the Captain. Still planning on keeping this year's 6/26 Dream trip for now, but that may change.

 

[cruisin'Mike]

It's official! We're now booked on this cruise!

It will be myself, my wife Linda, and our kids Zack (14 when we cruise), Hailey (12), and Nick (12).

We have late dining and the 7:00 PM show time.

I've caught up on the thread. Looks like a fun crew! I look forward to getting to know those of you that I haven't met yet over the next year and a half, and to catching up with old friends as well.

 

[shmoogrrrl]

Seems like we have a lot of people with older kids! Hoping for a few more with kids (preferably girls, because boys have cooties at this age) who will be around the 9-10 age! This will be the first cruise that it looks like we won't have friends sailing with us, so I'd LOVE for my daughter to meet someone her age (She will be newly 10 when we sail) to maybe hang out with in the clubs.

Of course, we could consider not telling her about it until her 10th Birthday (Which would be 23 days until we sail!).

 

[cruisin'Mike]

We are Amanda and Milton

We are in room 2523

I started a FB group here if anyone has FB also

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/home.php?sk=group_155732701131223

Heading over to FB now. Thanks!

 

[castoff]

Good morning fellow cruisers. Another week has gone by.
We now have only

weeks to go to the Fantasy.

Thanks for the countdown. Very cool !

Oh, we may be right behind you Mary Ann. Not sure if we can manage both (never know when something will break in the house/car and need expensive repairs) so the Dream cruise this summer may not happen for us either

Plus I think wenches are automatically allowed to board, it is the guys that need permission

Same here, we switched our Aug. Dream cruise for this one.

We'll be there!

Maybe a mini-meet ?

Is anyone else getting goosebumps, or even a tear or two, at the anticipation of sailing with each other again?? I am so excited. I swore I would not do another Western, but couldn't pass up the chance of an epic reunion.

It's why we switched our cruise to this one.

It's official! We're now booked on this cruise!

It will be myself, my wife Linda, and our kids Zack (14 when we cruise), Hailey (12), and Nick (12).

We have late dining and the 7:00 PM show time.

I've caught up on the thread. Looks like a fun crew! I look forward to getting to know those of you that I haven't met yet over the next year and a half, and to catching up with old friends as well.

Interesting about the dinner and show time. We have 6:30 dinner & 9:00 pm show.

Looks like this will be a easy thread to keep up with.

 

[gydell]

Maybe a mini-meet ?

Sounds good! But you can't mention this exact cruise as my family knows nothing about it. We'll just say that we met on the boards!

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Checking in Me,DW,@ time of cruise DD17 and DD11.

 

[castoff]

Sounds good! But you can't mention this exact cruise as my family knows nothing about it. We'll just say that we met on the boards!

What a great surprise for your family ! Sending you a PM for details.

Checking in Me,DW,@ time of cruise DD17 and DD11.

Hi Roger This is shaping up to be a great cruise !

 

[alexandmaddie]

Hi,

We just booked this cruise. We were scheduled for a double dip in Nov 2011, but we can't take the kids out of school anymore, so it's summer only cruising for us for the next few years.

It will be me (Krista), DH, DD (16), DD (12) and DS (10). I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone over the next year and a half!

Krista

 

[TIGGER/POOH4]

cool
love the count down

Glad everyone likes the countdown. It is something we look forward it each week reminding us the cruise is getting closer.

It appears a lot of cruisers know each other. We are new to cruising this time of year and look forward to meeting all of you. We usually cruise in October over Columbus day but the kids are too old now to take out of school at this point. We are getting one more October cruise this year on the Magic before this cruise. Embarkation day will our son's b-day and he is all excited to do Aquaduck on his b-day.

We have been on 2 Western's before so if any newbies with any questions, please do not hestiate to ask.

To get in the spirit and escape the cold here is a picture from Cozumel looking across the water to the Yucatan as the sun sets.

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Sounds good! But you can't mention this exact cruise as my family knows nothing about it. We'll just say that we met on the boards!

Sneaky, sneaky. I love it!

It'll be a secret between you and Tina ( and a couple hundred other close friends!)

when are you planning on telling them?

 

[dahuffy]

Sneaky, sneaky. I love it!

It'll be a secret between you and Tina ( and a couple hundred other close friends!)

when are you planning on telling them?

Hi Mike! We're on the FB Pirate Chat board now.

 

[Nick Charles]

Hi,

We just booked this cruise. We were scheduled for a double dip in Nov 2011, but we can't take the kids out of school anymore, so it's summer only cruising for us for the next few years.

It will be me (Krista), DH, DD (16), DD (12) and DS (10). I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone over the next year and a half!

Krista

Welcome to the insanity that is about to start.