June 6, 2009--Anybody going?

[kat123]

I can not believe how quickly the last couple of months have gone.....wasnt it recently that it was the holidays! My 8 DD is no longer counting the # of days left until school lets out, rather she announces the cruise count down every day. My 11 DS is still counting down until school lets out (for him it is the day before we leave).

I am so excited about our FEs. Made it last week and doing it made me feel like the cruise is almost here. Now starting on pulling together the exchange goodies (both for the FE and kids).

Counting down!!!

 

[Principessa]

Don't worry too much about pants. I have worn everything from jeans to capris to shorts in the dining room (NOT short shorts, more like bermudas). He could wear jeans and be just fine. There may be people that look down on that, but I've never noticed anyone giving me the evil eye for the way I was dressed (although I could just be clueless and in my own little world).

I haven't started packing but have a list and have a few things laid out on the guest bed. I'm with you 'though. Haven't completely unpacked from my last trip this weekend.

Nobody responded to the lunch at Topsiders at 11:30 on Sunday. We're still planning on that if anyone wants to meet up for a longer visit then.

Suz

I would like to meet on Sunday. I think the pool kids' swap will go really fast.

Suz D - I like the idea of meeting on Sunday. I would like to check out the navigator before committing. How about we make it breakfast?

Uh oh, breakfast...as in be somewhere on time early?
Never having been on the ship before, I'm just worried to commit to something I can't do properly. (I'm not a morning person, despite also being an educator.) I'll agree to anything though, just happy to be going and meeting some new friends to top it all! If I had to vote, I guess I'd say 11:30.

Is Topsiders the "regular" place to go eat breakfast?
Would some of us be having the assigned character breakfast on Sunday?
For as much as I read these boards, you'd think I'd know more!!!

 

[Principessa]

I can not believe how quickly the last couple of months have gone.....wasnt it recently that it was the holidays! My 8 DD is no longer counting the # of days left until school lets out, rather she announces the cruise count down every day. My 11 DS is still counting down until school lets out (for him it is the day before we leave).

I am so excited about our FEs. Made it last week and doing it made me feel like the cruise is almost here. Now starting on pulling together the exchange goodies (both for the FE and kids).

Counting down!!!

I'm going to make our FE this weekend - did you use any particular instructions or ? I haven't looked all over the site, but if you have any ideas on design or making the FE I'd love it if you could share them!

Thanks!

ps. What do you think about trying to meet on Sunday?

 

[CRUIZEN MAMMA]

I would like to meet on Sunday. I think the pool kids' swap will go really fast.



Uh oh, breakfast...as in be somewhere on time early?
Never having been on the ship before, I'm just worried to commit to something I can't do properly. (I'm not a morning person, despite also being an educator.) I'll agree to anything though, just happy to be going and meeting some new friends to top it all! If I had to vote, I guess I'd say 11:30.

Is Topsiders the "regular" place to go eat breakfast?
Would some of us be having the assigned character breakfast on Sunday?
For as much as I read these boards, you'd think I'd know more!!!

Some will have character breakfasts based on the dinning rotation, We have Palo Brunch scheduled for Sunday, Topsiders is the normal breakfast spot but you can dine in Luminer's too for a more sitdown breakfast which starts a little later than topsiders. I think topsiders opens 7 am and Luminer's 8 am.

 

[Suz D]

Suz D - I like the idea of meeting on Sunday. I would like to check out the navigator before committing. How about we make it breakfast?

Initially I thought breakfast would be the best idea too, but there is a good possibility that at least some would have a character breakfast since it's a sea day. I was thinking an early lunch might catch a few more of us.

The other option is a 10:00 breakfast but on previous Navigators it says that the "Art of Entertaining" is at 10:00 I know that some of us would probably like to go to that. It looks like 11:30-12:30 has the least things based on that Navigator (of course keeping in mind that past Navigators are subject to change). People could come and go whenever they'd like to (if you're at something until noon you could come late, if you have something you want to go to at noon you could leave early kind of thing.

Here's the link to the Navigator for that day...

http://www.wdwinfo.com/Photos/DCL-Navigators/1-17-09-dm/pages/Disney Cruise Navigat#26906.htm (hope it works)

Any other thoughts anyone?

I'm working on FE gifts again today and we're having a Disney Theme night tonight, "Cars".

Here's what we're doing/having

Dinner:
Lightening McQueen's speedy sandwiches (chicken salad on a hoagie bun with pretzels for axels, cucumber slices for wheels, and black olives for headlights)
Doc Hudson's Deviled Eggs
Sally's Sweet Orange Slices
"Mack" a-roni salad
Pit Crew Carrot sticks & dip
Mater's Motor Oil Sundaes Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge topping

Our activities will be:
Stop and Go game (outside weather permitting). I have a sign that I made for the children's choir that is a stop sign on one side and a green light on the other. We'll run in the front yard until the sign says "Stop" and then go when it's green.
Where is the world is Lightening McQueen? We have a matchbox type LM car and we'll hide it around the house.
Fillmore's traffic lights to go with our sundaes. Graham cracker sticks with a bit of chocolate frosting to hold one each of a red, yellow, and green M&M
Cars coloring pages who doesn't like to color?
Watch Cars

For decorations I have red placemats, red serving bowls and plates, and we'll eat off pie tin "hubcaps". The centerpiece will be tomorrow's breakfast treat or tonight's late night snack. A stack of mini-chocolate covered donuts stacked like Louigi's tire stack.

It wasn't hard to put together (mostly food) and I think it will be lots of fun. My family doesn't know what we're doing, just that we're having a fun family night.

 

[wwtbamrob]

I'm working on FE gifts again today and we're having a Disney Theme night tonight, "Cars".

Here's what we're doing/having

Dinner:
Lightening McQueen's speedy sandwiches (chicken salad on a hoagie bun with pretzels for axels, cucumber slices for wheels, and black olives for headlights)
Doc Hudson's Deviled Eggs
Sally's Sweet Orange Slices
"Mack" a-roni salad
Pit Crew Carrot sticks & dip
Mater's Motor Oil Sundaes Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge topping

Our activities will be:
Stop and Go game (outside weather permitting). I have a sign that I made for the children's choir that is a stop sign on one side and a green light on the other. We'll run in the front yard until the sign says "Stop" and then go when it's green.
Where is the world is Lightening McQueen? We have a matchbox type LM car and we'll hide it around the house.
Fillmore's traffic lights to go with our sundaes. Graham cracker sticks with a bit of chocolate frosting to hold one each of a red, yellow, and green M&M
Cars coloring pages who doesn't like to color?
Watch Cars

For decorations I have red placemats, red serving bowls and plates, and we'll eat off pie tin "hubcaps". The centerpiece will be tomorrow's breakfast treat or tonight's late night snack. A stack of mini-chocolate covered donuts stacked like Louigi's tire stack.

It wasn't hard to put together (mostly food) and I think it will be lots of fun. My family doesn't know what we're doing, just that we're having a fun family night.

Can I come?


Sounds like a lot of fun. Of course, having the in-laws visiting tonight may make it sound even more fun to me than usual.

 

[CRUIZEN MAMMA]

Very cute -sounds like a fun night.


My guys will be flying solo- so I see Sonny's BBQ in their future, while I go out scrapbooking with the girls, need to get my albums caught up before this cruise if possible so I can start this one when we get back.

 

[Suz D]

Can I come?

If we still lived in Indiana you could just come on over!

 

[Suz D]

Very cute -sounds like a fun night.


My guys will be flying solo- so I see Sonny's BBQ in their future, while I go out scrapbooking with the girls, need to get my albums caught up before this cruise if possible so I can start this one when we get back.

I wish I was going with you. I haven't touched a stamp or my scrapbooks since we moved 9 months ago. The FE gifts are getting me motivated to start scrapping again. It would have been fun to have a little crop on the cruise, but there's just so much to do onboard.

On our cruise in 2007 I did a class for all of the 8-13 yo girls and they made a mini scrapbook out of coasters. It was a lot of work but so much fun and we really got aquainted with people. We're hoping to cruise again for Thanksgiving 2010 with one of the families that we met.

 

[MelanieSandres]

I was also too late to get into the gift exchange so a different meeting time would be nice.

 

[MelanieSandres]

My daughter has 2 count-downs going on in her room. She has one wall where she is counting down the days to the last day of school and next to it she is counting down the days to the cruise.

 

[MelanieSandres]

Is anyone going to be staying at the Raddison Resort Friday night? We are driving in from New Orleans and will be staying there the night before the cruise.

 

[AStamm]

Are you going? I was thinking that it was cutting it a bit close for us since we're staying near the airport on Friday night. I'd love to go 'though!

The clock is really ticking now!

Suz D

Yes, at this point I'm planning on going. June 6th is DS's 10th birthday, so the original plan was for us to have breakfast at Chef Mickey's at 7:45 am, head over to MK to get his birthday gift card and ride POTC and HM, and then head off to the ship. I've rented a car we're picking up when we get to Orlando on the 5th and will be dropping it off at the port, so we don't have to worry about any scheduled transportation and can take our time getting to the ship.

 

[Suz D]

Yes, at this point I'm planning on going. June 6th is DS's 10th birthday, so the original plan was for us to have breakfast at Chef Mickey's at 7:45 am, head over to MK to get his birthday gift card and ride POTC and HM, and then head off to the ship. I've rented a car we're picking up when we get to Orlando on the 5th and will be dropping it off at the port, so we don't have to worry about any scheduled transportation and can take our time getting to the ship.

That sounds like a GREAT plan! Where are you staying on the 5th? We are doing the same type of thing on the 13th (which is my BD). Going to MK to pick up the pass and then to DTD to shop!

I'll be thinking of you on the morning of the 6th. Seriously wish I was going to the sale!!

Suz D

 

[AStamm]

That sounds like a GREAT plan! Where are you staying on the 5th? We are doing the same type of thing on the 13th (which is my BD). Going to MK to pick up the pass and then to DTD to shop!

I'll be thinking of you on the morning of the 6th. Seriously wish I was going to the sale!!

Suz D

I'm surprising DS with a Pirates-themed room at CBR. Our plane gets to MCO around 2:00, so Friday will probably just be a day to enjoy the resort and get ready for the early morning, little bit of time at MK, and cruise on Saturday.

What a happy thought...we'll be relaxing by the pool at CBR in 3 weeks!

 

[disneydka]

Is anyone going to be staying at the Raddison Resort Friday night? We are driving in from New Orleans and will be staying there the night before the cruise.

We are staying at the Raddison the night before. We are leaving bright and early Friday morning and driving down. DD and I will probably head over to DTD for a little shopping and Rainforest Cafe and maybe some DW resort tours, all depending on what time we make it in. We are booked on the 10:30 shuttle to the port.

 

[kat123]

I'm going to make our FE this weekend - did you use any particular instructions or ? I haven't looked all over the site, but if you have any ideas on design or making the FE I'd love it if you could share them!

Thanks!

ps. What do you think about trying to meet on Sunday?

I found some general info on line and kind of played with it from there. Making sure the width wasnt greater than 8 inches.

The two really helpful ideas I came across was for the trim using extra wide double fold bias tape (as I am not a sewing person, had to ask the sales rep, who kindly pointed me in the right direction) - but this worked great as trim. The second idea was to use double sided fusible tape. Get the "no sew" kind that you use an iron to "bond" the two pieces together. I used the "Heat n Bond" brand Again, I dont know how to sew, but easy to iron the edges with the tape attached and it seems to hold nicely.

I didnt seem to take too long, I think I spent more time walking around Joann Fabrics looking for materials (and picking out which cloth to use) than making it. I actually really liked doing it so I used extra materials and made one for my mom. Now my daughter wants me to make one for her room to keep all of the little stuff in one place.

Hope that helps

 

[degrapevine]

Hi, all!

Now that there's only 3 weeks left before the cruise, I've really got to get moving on those FE and Kids' Exchange gifts. We are really looking forward to meeting everyone. My DD8 has been emailing with 4 girls (Hi to Abi, Izzie, Jeanne Marie, and Katy!) and is eager to have some fun with them. My DS11 and 14 just contacted a few boys to get started emailing soon so they'll have some friends onboard, too.

I know with some families not being "in" on the FE and Kids' Gift Exchanges that we need to find another time to meet with those folks. I know that some of us (a 1/3 of the ship, anyway!) will have their character breakfast Sunday morning and since it's a sea day, many others will be doing Palo Brunch. So, maybe an after lunch time would work - sometime between 12 & 2? From the past Eastern Navigator in the FAQ's, it looks like that time is pretty open - or even later around 3 in the Promenade Lounge for snacks might work, too.

We are only 2 1/2 hours away from the port and DH can't take off any more than a week for the cruise, so we'll just be driving over the morning we leave. I'm really tempted to stop the van at Downtown Disney for that Passholder Sale at WOD. There's no way I could be there at 6:30 when they open, but I'm not sure how long the sale lasts. Does anyone know? I didn't get a Mickey Monitor, just read about it here. We're headed to MGM tomorrow after church for DS11's birthday (turning 11) to get the birthday fun card. I'll be thinking of you all when I drop on TOT!

See you in 3 weeks ...

Rose

 

[AbsyBabsy]

I'm going to make our FE this weekend - did you use any particular instructions or ? I haven't looked all over the site, but if you have any ideas on design or making the FE I'd love it if you could share them!

Thanks!

ps. What do you think about trying to meet on Sunday?

I found this link to make fish extenders - good luck!
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=30302583&postcount=609

 

[lrensin]

Suz D - I like the idea of meeting on Sunday. I would like to check out the navigator before committing. How about we make it breakfast?

I think breakfast would be great, too. We're new cruisers and I feel a little overwhelmed with all the options right now. There's a great list of people on the first page of this post that I'd love to get to meet and have my kids meet, but I think the later we make our meeting, the harder it'll be to get everyone together (since we all know the kids are going to want to go in 1 million different directions). Whatever we decide, will there be a spot we can choose or something we can wear so that we'll know who to look for?

~Lia