March 15-22, 2008 Eastern - Way-Way Early Check In

[carolmp]

Well, I'm done packing except for the carry ons. So that shouldn't take too long. We have 5 bags of varying sizes. Seems like a lot, but I think I need it all! I'm sure I'll bring back 30% of it having never been worn. Oh well....

See everyone Saturday.

 

[pop5]

I am so overwhelmed with all of our sports stuff still going on that I cant get in cruise mode yet. I will still be shuttling kids for a couple more hours.

 

[Pammy jo]

I think we're ready. The van is all packed - leaving school at noon tomorrow for the long haul. I think we're going to stop somewhere for about 5 hours of sleep. See ya'll in the terminal VERY SOON!!!!
(And yes, those darn flippers are taking up almost a whole suitcase themselves!)

 

[limati]

We are packing up the van. I have 2 checked bags and 4 carryons. I tried to have only one checked bag - yeah right!!!

We have an early flight in the morning. Meeting up with rest of family around lunch time.

Probably my last post before we leave. Looking forward to a great week and a chance to meet new friends.

 

[happymommy]

Same here - almost done with my packing. Only one pair of shorts! Slacks, 3 dresses, 3 bikinis (oh my god I have gained weight also, yuck), cover ups, tops, don't know what else. Oh yeah, pj's and stuff.

I think we have 3 larger suitcases, all checked, 2 smaller ones (could carry on, but checking) for the kids, plus smaller carry on bags for all of us. Gosh it's a LOT more than we ever travel with! When DH and I went to the Caribbean last summer, we only took one carry on each, and still didn't need it all! I never check luggage! I am always afraid of never seeing it again, but we're flying direct, so hopefully it'll be fine.

So... have a good flight/drive everyone, safe travels, and see some of you onboard I'm sure!

Amy

 

[The_Ryno]

We are almost done packing, or I hope so. Im letting my mom do most it while i tangle with making sure cameras, iPod's, PSP, other electronics are charged/charging.

I will be a little rebel on Saturday and be wearing a orange Halloween shirt in evening.

Not sure if me and my mom will be at the terminal meet, we plan on getting there about noon or so and walking right on, with no waiting around. I believe she plans on trying to go to at least one of the meets(not sure if I will be able to draw my self away from the stack long enough, unless there is a basketball game on).

 

[pop5]

I cant believe this thread is coming to an end!! Just in case we dont get to meet everyone, lets all check back on this thread after the cruise. Hope to meet you all, Paige

 

[nlm]

Well, we're just about done packing. Two big suitcases, a garment bag, and two small carry-ons. Whew!

Hope everyone's trip to port is uneventful. See you all soon!

Nancy

 

[Mozart]

Well, I don't know if you guys have heard or not, but they changed the dining rotations on the Western cruise right before you guys. Everyone on the main board is going nuts trying to figure out what the new rotations are so we can have our Palo's ressies straight etc...

When you guys get back, can you post what menus were featured each night, and what your rotations were? We're all in a panic now.

Thanks, guys. Hope you had a great time.

 

[Daytonamom2]

Welcome back you guys. Please post any updates. Thanks

 

[PixyDusted]

Welcome back everyone! I am SO EXHAUSTED I can't even think straight. That 6:45am breakfast this morning really wore us out. And we only had an hour drive back to Orlando. I cannot imagine how tired someone of you (most I'm sure) that had to FLY after are!

I was at Diversions on Monday night at 10pm and didn't see anyone there so we left. Did anyone else go?

I am one lucky girl - my boyfriend proposed to me at Sunday's 6:15pm Golden Mickey's. Did anyone see? I have to say I think it was a better show for those in the theater than it was for us. Jason planned and planned and planned for it and, by no fault of his own, it didn't exactly go according to plan. That's okay - we had a lovely dinner at Palo after and I went back to a wonderful surprise of roses, rose petals, and towel swans on the bed of our room after dinner!

I posted a thread here asking if anyone taped Sunday's pre-show. They stream a live feed into the audience of the Golden Mickey's "red carpet" pre-show but don't record it. So as you can imagine I was upset to find that out!

Please please please check out this thread! Thank you!!!
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1763177

 

[DisDancerina]

Welcome back everyone! I am SO EXHAUSTED I can't even think straight. That 6:45am breakfast this morning really wore us out. And we only had an hour drive back to Orlando. I cannot imagine how tired someone of you (most I'm sure) that had to FLY after are!

I was at Diversions on Monday night at 10pm and didn't see anyone there so we left. Did anyone else go?

I am one lucky girl - my boyfriend proposed to me at Sunday's 6:15pm Golden Mickey's. Did anyone see? I have to say I think it was a better show for those in the theater than it was for us. Jason planned and planned and planned for it and, by no fault of his own, it didn't exactly go according to plan. That's okay - we had a lovely dinner at Palo after and I went back to a wonderful surprise of roses, rose petals, and towel swans on the bed of our room after dinner!

I posted a thread here asking if anyone taped Sunday's pre-show. They stream a live feed into the audience of the Golden Mickey's "red carpet" pre-show but don't record it. So as you can imagine I was upset to find that out!

Please please please check out this thread! Thank you!!!
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1763177

Oh my gosh! What a WONDERFUL surprise!

Sorry I couldn't help; I wasn't on the cruise!


Hope you guys all return safely and had a great time!

 

[limati]

Mozart,
We started out at Parrot Cay, then Lumiere's, then Animator's Palate. The formal dinner was Sunday for our cruise. We had PLAPLAP. We had the last seating of the late dinner seating (8:30).

We had the best time. There were so many great memories made. We got to visit every port and we had great weather. We had very rough seas for about a day and a half. My dd and ds did get seasick , but it did not last long . I'll write more later, but I really need to sleep. We just got home about 30 minutes ago.

Lisa

 

[wrightz05]

Welcome back everyone! I am SO EXHAUSTED I can't even think straight. That 6:45am breakfast this morning really wore us out. And we only had an hour drive back to Orlando. I cannot imagine how tired someone of you (most I'm sure) that had to FLY after are!

I was at Diversions on Monday night at 10pm and didn't see anyone there so we left. Did anyone else go?

I am one lucky girl - my boyfriend proposed to me at Sunday's 6:15pm Golden Mickey's. Did anyone see? I have to say I think it was a better show for those in the theater than it was for us. Jason planned and planned and planned for it and, by no fault of his own, it didn't exactly go according to plan. That's okay - we had a lovely dinner at Palo after and I went back to a wonderful surprise of roses, rose petals, and towel swans on the bed of our room after dinner!

I posted a thread here asking if anyone taped Sunday's pre-show. They stream a live feed into the audience of the Golden Mickey's "red carpet" pre-show but don't record it. So as you can imagine I was upset to find that out!

Please please please check out this thread! Thank you!!!
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1763177

I thought that was you. I was in the Golden Mickey's that night and when you FINALLY walked in the camera view where we could se you, I told my wife HEY I think that is one of the DISERS!!! Congrats!!!!!

 

[cozit]

Well, I don't know if you guys have heard or not, but they changed the dining rotations on the Western cruise right before you guys. Everyone on the main board is going nuts trying to figure out what the new rotations are so we can have our Palo's ressies straight etc...

When you guys get back, can you post what menus were featured each night, and what your rotations were? We're all in a panic now.

Thanks, guys. Hope you had a great time.

Parrot Cay
Lumiere's
Animator's Pallette

 

[cozit]

Welcome back everyone! I am SO EXHAUSTED I can't even think straight. That 6:45am breakfast this morning really wore us out. And we only had an hour drive back to Orlando. I cannot imagine how tired someone of you (most I'm sure) that had to FLY after are!

I was at Diversions on Monday night at 10pm and didn't see anyone there so we left. Did anyone else go?

I am one lucky girl - my boyfriend proposed to me at Sunday's 6:15pm Golden Mickey's. Did anyone see? I have to say I think it was a better show for those in the theater than it was for us. Jason planned and planned and planned for it and, by no fault of his own, it didn't exactly go according to plan. That's okay - we had a lovely dinner at Palo after and I went back to a wonderful surprise of roses, rose petals, and towel swans on the bed of our room after dinner!

I posted a thread here asking if anyone taped Sunday's pre-show. They stream a live feed into the audience of the Golden Mickey's "red carpet" pre-show but don't record it. So as you can imagine I was upset to find that out!

Please please please check out this thread! Thank you!!!
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1763177

Oh!! That was you! Congratulations!

That was the one show we missed (I had a cold, and the kids and DH weren't excited about it that night).... but I did pass by your door frequently during the trip as you were just down the hall from us. I loved the changing Mickey at the top of your whiteboard. I was hoping that someone might have seen the plea and helped you out before the end of the cruise :-(

Good luck with the search for video!

 

[cozit]

I was at Diversions on Monday night at 10pm and didn't see anyone there so we left. Did anyone else go?

I'm allergic to cigarette smoke, so Diversions is out *any* time of the day for me (those on the crew who told me that the smoke went away overnight as no one had been in there for hours before the morning events in there were gently but firmly corrected by me... it's an allergy that really stinks to have (the only one that can definitely trigger an asthmatic reaction so far, btw)...

I was also trying to get rid of the cold I found on board that day :-( (hey, I had fun anyway - just more sleep and less activities than I'd hoped for... and *far* less work than I *needed* to get done)

 

[PixyDusted]

I'm allergic to cigarette smoke, so Diversions is out *any* time of the day for me (those on the crew who told me that the smoke went away overnight as no one had been in there for hours before the morning events in there were gently but firmly corrected by me... it's an allergy that really stinks to have (the only one that can definitely trigger an asthmatic reaction so far, btw)...

I was also trying to get rid of the cold I found on board that day :-( (hey, I had fun anyway - just more sleep and less activities than I'd hoped for... and *far* less work than I *needed* to get done)

I hear ya! I HATE cigarette smoke or the smell of it. I actually didn't even realize you could smoke in Diversions though. It didn't smell at all to me. What DID smell was the Cove Cafe area. Seemed to be the place to hang out if you were a smokers, which was unfortunate for us because we're not. So we didn't enjoy that area as much as I wished we did. I did get a Mochachino as was recommended on the DIS boards and it was YUMMY!!! Worth the calories and the money! Did I say YUM?

And Liz, I'm glad you saw our door! I was proud of it. LOL. I brought my "supplies" (fun foam, scissors and glitter glue) on the ship so that's why we were able to get the "just engaged" piece on the door. Funny short story - I made that Sunday evening and was letting it dry on the "desk" in the room. Jason decided to lay out his ties on the desk before we went to bed. I didn't know until the morning when I went to get the now-hopefully-dry glitter-glued Mickey ears - which weren't dry...Jason laid his ties out DIRECTLY on the glitter glue! So of course we spent a good amount of time picked the glitter glue off his 2 ties.

Thank you for the congrats on our engagment! Yup, it was me - a DISer! Not like my name is so common - there was probably only 1 Mikkel on the ship! I haven't had any luck on anyone video taping it. I'm still hoping someone turns up sometime in my life that did. A girl can dream! We enjoyed a nice dinner at Palo after he proposed and then we returned to the room (this was my favorite part) and I was shocked to find red roses, red rose petals on the bed in the shape of a heart, 3 "towel swans", a bottle of champagne, a cheese platter and chocolate-covered strawberries! It was so romantic and I completely wasn't expecting it.

We have great photos from everything despite not having video!

I got a little "seasick" that terrible night (Wednesday?) but no vomiting. Just VERY dizzy. I actually think I was better off around the ship because when we went to our room to lay down it seemed worse. It was VERY noticeable that it effected a ton of people though - the shows were all half full, at best!

Here's some photos for your viewing pleasure:

 

[carolmp]

I was at Diversions on Monday night at 10pm and didn't see anyone there so we left. Did anyone else go?

Yep. My husband and I were there at 10:00 wearing our green beads. I saw someone poke their head in and look around and thought that might be a DISer. Liz showed up about 10:15.

Congratulations on your engagement!

 

[happymommy]

Liz - sorry to hear you got a cold! My DS got bronchitis, spent part of Thursday at the medical center getting nebulizer treatments (his asthma got very bad) and I took him to CC for only about a couple of hours. It was windy anyway, but good to get him a bit of fresh air. I'm getting an xray for him today to double check it's not pneumonia. Of course he's running around like mad, typical boy, but coughing up a storm.

The doctor and nurses were so nice there!

It was so nice to meet you - sorry it was the end of the cruise. We were so busy with my DH's friends we didn't really meet too many other folks.

I don't remember what we did after dinner Monday night - it was DD's birthday. I know we skipped the show, but don't remember what we did!

PixyDusted - CONGRATULATIONS! The photos are so cute!