Magic - January 12, 2008

[jhannah]

Our family of 10 will be on this Western Caribbean sailing. Anyone else out there have this cruise booked?

 

[cmacf1]

Yes! Our family (DH, DD3, DD5 and me) as well as my mom and MIL are going on that cruise. In addition, at least 4 other families we know will be cruising then too, all of us on Level 6. Just over 300 days to go!

I put up a thread back in November on the Cruise Meet board, but it wasn't very active. Hopefully others will join us!

 

[my 3 ducks]

Hey all! My family is going on this cruise!! I have an (at cruise time) 8, 6 and 4 yrs old. This is our first cruise and we can't wait!!

 

[Eeyore77]

My DH and I will be joining you as well. We will be celebrating our 1 year Anniversary on the cruise. This will be our 5th DCL cruise. I am really looking forward to getting back onboard again.

 

[Eeyore77]

Hey there everyone just thought I would bump this up!!! Where is everyone!!! The cruise is still monthes away but I am so excited. I am ready to go on another cruise tomorrow...

 

[abbs25]

My sister (20) and I (29) will be on this cruise. We have done the 3 day, but are thrilled to be doing the Western. I have been reading cruise reports over and over! I don't know if I will be able to wait until January!

 

[Eeyore77]

My sister (20) and I (29) will be on this cruise. We have done the 3 day, but are thrilled to be doing the Western. I have been reading cruise reports over and over! I don't know if I will be able to wait until January!

I am so glad that you and your sister will be joining us on the ship. I am getting antsy. I went on our last cruise this past January and I am soooo ready to get on the ship again. I am always so sad when I get off the ship and I am ready to book our next cruise and hop right back on again....

 

[MarissaMouse]

I am so excited to be going on the cruise! I will be 17 years old myself at the time of sailing, and my mother (50+) and father (50+) and two younger brothers (15 and 2 and a half) will also be going. Are there any other teenagers out there? I'd love to correspond with someone before the cruise starts... I'm a bit of a wallflower and it would be nice to know someone on board ahead of time!

This is something like my 6th cruise... I did the Big Red boat at 2 years old when it was still Disney and then at 4 years old after it went to Looney Tunes. Then I went on a DCL 4 day when I was 10. We did two weeklong trips in the next two years and another four day in 2004, but we haven't had a chance to go since.

I am really anticipating this cruise! This will be my first and only chance to take part in the teen activities, so I am glad I'll get to experience that. Plus this will be my first western cruise! Maybe I'll actually be able to use that spanish I spent four years learning!

Anyway, yes, I'm babbling... but I'm just so excited! I can't believe its over 6 months away... I'm ready to go on it NOW! Anyway, I'd love to talk to anyone who's 13-23 years old... though I doubt anyone over 18 really wants to talk to me, lol... but I really want to know someone before I go on the cruise! If any of you who mentioned family and friends going know someone in that age group, I'd really appreciate it if you could introduce us online!

Okay, babbling again... anyway, I look forward to seeing all of you guys in 6 months!!!! I'm so excited!!! I keep looking at all the pics and stuff from my last cruise, lol...

~Marissa

 

[Eeyore77]

Where is everybody? We have just over 6 months till we cruise so I wanna know who else is on there with us....

 

[abbs25]

I am not going to be going on the Disney Magic in January now. My other sister is working in Florida right now and so I am going to go visit her in December and I just couldn't swing both trips. The only consolation I have is that I am going to be able to try out another Deluxe!

 

[Eeyore77]

I am soooo sorry you won't be joining us anymore.... Well I hope that you will enjoy whichever Deluxe you choose. Do you know which one you wanna stay at?

 

[cmacf1]

Our little group of families has now grown to 7 or 8 families with 32-35 people in our group! I'm the only one of the group who is on disboard.com (as much as I've told everybody in our group how wonderful this board is!!) so nobody else from our group has answered this roll call. Our group includes 16 kids who will be between the ages of 1 and 7, most between 3 and 6. My nearly 3 year old is not potty trained yet and shows no interest, even though I keep reminding her that she won't be able to go with ALL the other 3+ year old kids to the fun clubs. I'm starting to freak out about that. We've still got 6 months so there is hope.

I'm totally excited however that we've bought our plane tickets, made reservations to stay in Orlando the night before and we have a limo reserved to take us to the Magic on Saturday morning!!!!

 

[Eeyore77]

Our little group of families has now grown to 7 or 8 families with 32-35 people in our group! I'm the only one of the group who is on disboard.com (as much as I've told everybody in our group how wonderful this board is!!) so nobody else from our group has answered this roll call. Our group includes 16 kids who will be between the ages of 1 and 7, most between 3 and 6. My nearly 3 year old is not potty trained yet and shows no interest, even though I keep reminding her that she won't be able to go with ALL the other 3+ year old kids to the fun clubs. I'm starting to freak out about that. We've still got 6 months so there is hope.

I'm totally excited however that we've bought our plane tickets, made reservations to stay in Orlando the night before and we have a limo reserved to take us to the Magic on Saturday morning!!!!

WOW!!!! It sounds like you have everything all ready to go. For us it is a matter of getting in the car and making the 2 hour drive to the port. It makes life very easy. I have one last payment to make to DCL ad that will be done tomorrow and then we are all ready to cruise. Well except for that one small issue of the cruise being 6 months away and all. I just need to get in touch with the Grand Floridian Bakery and see about getting the top layer of our Wedding Cake remade and brought on the ship for our anniversary. Our real top layer was damaged on the trip home from WDW after the wedding at the Wedding Pavilion. Gotta have that for our 1st anniversary!!!

I can't wait to see everyone on board. I wish that we were going there tomorrow!!!! Yeah Mickey Boat here we come.....LOL

 

[MarissaMouse]

I'm still here! And still waiting for news that another teenager will be on board, lol...

 

[Eeyore77]

I'm still here! And still waiting for news that another teenager will be on board, lol...

I am sure that there will be others. Hopefully they will see this thread and you can make a ew friends before you get on the ship. I am sure you will meet a few really nice people if you go to the teens only area onboard. They always seem to be having a great time when I use the elevator near there.

 

[MarissaMouse]

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm sure I'll meet plenty of teens in the club... but I'm still hoping one will find this thread!

 

[jhannah]

We're still around, and anxious to set sail. Our team will include:
Granddaughter age 8
Granddaughters (2) age 6
Grandson age 4 1/2

 

[laura_hattaway]

Hi! My dad is the original poster, and my family of three (husband, 6-year-old daughter) is among the 10 he mentioned. (Dad, you need to change your profile! You're not in Vegas anymore. )

We're pretty much ready and just twiddling our thumbs here now... My parents paid for the cruise itself (THANKS!) as well as our tips, my sister and her husband got us a FREE (rewards stuff) night pre-cruise stay at a beachfront hotel on Cape Canaveral (THANKS!), we are waiting the arrival of our Passports, and I've already reserved and paid for a car rental via Hotwire.

Oh, and the clothes... We've been planning this trip forever now, so I started picking up stuff on sale at the Disney Store, on eBay, and at DisneyOutlet.com. The other day while my husband and daughter were on an outing, I finally laid everything out, removed tags, and organized it. HOLY COW. I needed the reality check. NO MORE STUFF.

My daughter doesn't know about the trip, and we plan to wake her up one morning for a "surprise field trip," which is a tradition in our homeschooling family. We are SO excited! Well, my daughter doesn't know about it. But she'd be excited to the point of insufferability if she DID know. Hence the secrecy. Two years ago, my parents took all 10 of us to Disney World, another trip we planned for a year. We didn't tell my daughter until three weeks before we left, and she cried for three days because she wanted to leave NOW! We learned our lesson that time! She enjoys surprises, and we enjoy no whining.

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

 

[Diznut84]

Checking in! My wife and I will be cruising with our DD13 and DD10. Two other families might be joining us as well!

 

[Eeyore77]

I am so happy to see some more people checking in. I finally got our cruise all paid off a few weeks ago and I am ready to get on there and relax. I need a break from work.... We will now be heading over to WDW after the cruise for 2 days to stay at the Animal Kingdom Villas Concierge for one night and then rounding off the Anniversary trip with one night at the Polynesian in Concierge as well. I am going to be sooooo spoiled after those 10 days off of work and I am never going to want to go back to work...

I can't wait to see everyone onboard. I am counting the days until I can book excursions online. I just wanna be doing something to get ready. I guess I will just have to wait.