June 4 2005 West Coast Cruisers

[poohs4me]

Normally from Pensacola, right now I am temporarily in Arizona, so we are going to drive out on Friday, which also brings me to my availability posting. It seems by the time I get to post everyone is gone.

I also like the laynard thing. I do not know if I the home depot nearby has any of the right shade of green though. I will have to check.

I am not sure about meeting at the sailway party. There is so much activity going on that we might miss someone, plus I always lose my boyfriend (he loves watching the ship cast off).

 

[poohs4me]

We are staying at the Sheraton the night before.

 

[Mickeyfan66]

According to Disney, the transfers from the Resort Hotels are are supposed to start leaving for the port at either 10:00 or 10:30 confused3 can't remember and I am not at home to look at my papers). We plan on being on the first shuttle. We want to get on board as soon as possible. We have only been on The Wonder so we want to be able to explore as much as possible.

 

[diznefan76]

I also like the laynard thing. I do not know if I the home depot nearby has any of the right shade of green though. I will have to check.

I am not sure about meeting at the sailway party. There is so much activity going on that we might miss someone, plus I always lose my boyfriend (he loves watching the ship cast off).

We can pick some paint chips up for you if need them. We have several Home Depot's near us.

Also what about meeting at a specific time after Sail away??

 

[MousseauMob]

We were going to try and arrive around 10:00 or 10:30. Although the thought of waiting in a long line with a 2 year old makes me a shiver...

 

[diznefan76]

Hey guys...I just noticed..I'm a Mousketeer!!!!

 

[poohs4me]

Congratulations!!!

Thanks for the offer to go to Home Depot. I am going to check mine tomorrow.

I hope the people on the May 28th cruise provide some live reports, so we can gauge when they will start checking people in. I would hate to get there too late, but I also don't want to be all by myself waiting in line.

 

[MousseauMob]

Congrats!

Here's a good thread on the area around San Pedro and Long Beach, if you're looking for activities, maps, or pictures.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=745887

 

[tarheel_girl]

Hey everybody! I'm new to the Disboards since my last cruise too. I like the idea of meeting, but have no clue about the games you guys are talking about. Can someone fill me in? I'm actually leaving NC on Thursday afternoon. I'm planning a LA excursion Friday since I've never been. I like the idea of door magnets as well. Can't wait to be there!!

 

[diznefan76]

Thanks! I've seen this thread before...lots of good information! I can't wait to hear the live posts from the May 28th cruise. That way we can actually get an idea of what to expect at the port. Like Mickeyfan66 said we are going to get on the first shuttle from PP to the port. We've heard that they start leaving the Dland resort at 10am.....

It's just around the corner!!!!

 

[MousseauMob]

Hey everybody! I'm new to the Disboards since my last cruise too. I like the idea of meeting, but have no clue about the games you guys are talking about. Can someone fill me in? I'm actually leaving NC on Thursday afternoon. I'm planning a LA excursion Friday since I've never been. I like the idea of door magnets as well. Can't wait to be there!!

I think the problem is: Most of us are newbies. But, we've been reading the other threads to come up with ideas. I'm going to do a room tag game. I'm making a magnet and will put it on a fellow disers door when we arrive. When that person has discovered it, they will put it on another door etc. I'm hoping to have the list of staterooms on the tag so we know the numbers to take it to. Do you know your stateroom number yet?

It's amazing all the things some of the other groups are planning. The repo cruise has been talking about little gifts everyday - I have no idea how they are doing this. Also, the May 28th cruise is planning Champagne, Beer, and Wine tasting parties. As well as I saw something about a basketball game. I'm considering hosting a party - but I have to talk to DH first . I'm not sure I can talk him into it but I'm going to try.

 

[Mickeyfan66]

I like the idea of meeting, but have no clue about the games you guys are talking about. Can someone fill me in?

I may be wrong, so someone please correct me if I am. As I understand it, there is a magnet with everyone's user name and stateroom number on it. It is then placed on one of the doors like you would "tag" someone. Then you take it and try and "tag" another door with the magnet. However, the goal is to not be seen while doing this. Have I got this correct?

 

[windermerejudy]

You are correct. See guys now we got it going here. MousseauMob is right I think we are all newbies so its the blind leading the blind (I guess that makes us 3+ blind mice as in Mickey)

I tend to be kind of a spur of the moment girl on vacation but there are some definites:
Mickey Pool 11:30 or so
Boat Drill 4:00?
Sail Away 5:00 or so it may start before this Meet right hand side near stage. Come ready to party and dance, jump, sing and cry when they play the horn. For you guys who haven't been before, this is a interactive dance character show.Bring video cameras and enjoy your kids faces.
Dinner 6:00
Show 8:30 Welcome aboard variety show. Brand new on our Xmas cruise awesome with characters. We could meet on right side of Walt Disney Theatre.

I will tell you I am not usually a person to play bingo but when we went at Xmas we took my mom and I went with her to play everyday. The bingo staff is hilarious fun and they get to know you throughout the cruise. I won $100 about day 4 but being that it was a 10 day cruise the jackpot accumulated to be around $8000. "Trust me it is a wild party time. I also love the Trivia challenges. Between all of our careers, we are bound to have the bases covered.

If you guys go over to Cruisetoberfest Papa wrote us advice about what we should be doing.

 

[windermerejudy]

Anybody have a count of our numbers of people not cabins.
We are-- 6
Poohs4me-- 3
MickeyFan66--1
Diznefan76--1
tarheelgirl--? and we don't know your cabin number either
dizneykids---8
jmatias---5
bearjon---4
MousseauMob--- 4
WRH3MD---?
Skeegan---?

 

[diznefan76]

cool....sounds like we have plenty of times where we can meet...and as long as we all have our green mickey heads on then we will be able to find each other!!! I'm getting excited about this now...

so how many of us are there??? Mickeyfan66 and I were thinking about bringing something that represents Washington state for everyone.

 

[diznefan76]

Windermerejudy...you and I were thinking the same thing!...lol

 

[windermerejudy]

What should I bring from Florida---- hurricanes or lightning or gators? Just joking. Of course we have DW here. Lots of Mouse House stuff.

 

[diznefan76]

No Hurricanes!!!!!..lol .....the sunshine would be great though!!!

 

[windermerejudy]

Ok so now what did we decide to do for embarkation. Sounds like you DL crew won't arrive until 11. Mickey pool maybe the first time we meet up. We will be the ones with the white towels LOL.

I am not sure if we should count some of these people in our numbers or not. Some of these names were fromfirst thread and they may have even canceled. What do you say we just go on who has posted here since this is current. I hate to bring something for someone who doesn't exist.

 

[diznefan76]

That's a good idea. We should go by this thread... We are hoping that we won't hit too much traffic on the way to the port from Anaheim. What time do you think that they will start boarding? So we will meet up at the Mickey Pool at what time????