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

[pop5]

I saw your door sign too! We were just a few down foward of you! Cute sign. That is so funny that we were so close and never meet. Congratulations, Paige

 

[nlm]

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.

We had APL - 5:45

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!

Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet you.

Here it is Monday and I'm STILL tired! We drove home on Saturday and arrived around 11pm.

We skipped the 6:45 breakfast to sleep in a little. We left our room at 7:45 and saw that they hadn't started letting people off yet. Last cruise, we waltzed off at 8:00 and cruised through customs to get on the road by 8:30. So we turned around and headed for Topsiders (it was packed!) We had breakfast and went downstairs to get off the boat. They let us out to the gangplank (term??) and we waited there for a while. Cast members told us that customs hadn't cleared the boat yet. Anyway, it was really chaotic that morning - to say the least - and we didn't get on the road until 9:30. After a stop at the Disney outlet in St. Augustine, we got home at 11PM.

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

I didn't make it, but I heard carolmp & lizg were both there.

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!

Congratulations! We had early dining and late shows so we didn't see it.

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.

Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet you either! Wow - hope your DS gets cleared today and it's not pneumonia.

Sounds like you skipped the parasailing on CC. DD10 decided at the last minute that she wanted to go, so I gave her my reservation. DH & DD were among the first dozen off the boat on Friday (around 11:15 or so) and raced to Marge's Barges. They took the first 10 to sign in out - regardless of the reservation times. (a lady showed up and was very upset not to be on the first boat since she had an early reservation - she got on the second boat about 10 minutes later) Anyway, they tried to go up at their normal place but it was too windy. Tried again behind the island across from the beach - too windy. Wound up going to the adult beach and made everyone tandem ride because of the wind. DH was happy to get an extended boat ride out of that I heard they canceled the parasailing not long after that because of the wind....

 

[wrightz05]

We had LAP and everything was pretty much the same as I had read. Formal was Sunday, Semi on Thursday. Pirate on Tuesday etc etc.

I have to say that Palo's was everything it is cracked up to be. We had Dinner and Brunch and they were both absolutely wonderful. We had Corinne as our server she was very fun!

We also had a great waitstaff. Ramam was our server and our asst was Micklos. They were AWESOME!!!!!!!!

 

[The_Ryno]

I so miss the cruise right now, and the teens from the Stack. Don't believe I met any of them whose parents posted on here, which doesn't surprise me since there were 225 of us on the ship, and only about 130 ever showed up to the at the Stack.

 

[pop5]

I was just wondering if you met my son, Connor, in the Stack? PAige

 

[lizg123]

I also have a son who spent most of his time in the Stack, Sean. Tall, thin, and only 13? He had a great time there. He also enjoyed Ocean Quest but liked the dancing in the stack.

I was so glad to meet some of you from this board. It sure made the trip more interesting. I do believe that this trip was Magical and loved every minute of it. Hope everyone got home safely. We had an uneventful trip home. Now the work begins cleaning up the basement from the 2 inch flood we had last week when we were gone. Our older son took care of lots of it but we have the details to finish. I am dreaming of next cruise, even though I don't know if or when it will be.

I was disappointed that I never got the Diz Tag on my door. Guess you couldn't find me with all the magnets on my door.

Best wishes to everyone here. Take care and see you in my Disney Dreams!
Liz G

P.S. PixieDusted, we were standing in the crowd watching you get your ring. I didn't take a video of it nor any pictures, sorry!!! Congratulations, it did give me goose bumps.

 

[happymommy]

We had APL - 5:45

So did we!

We were at table 32 - 8 of us. I think we were all at dinner only twice though. My daughter didn't even come to dinner on formal night, and I had gotten her a new dress. Oh well. Next time, we won't bother with having the kids dress up. They'd rather do other stuff.

I've spoken to others on different cruise lines last week. We all agree the seas were unusually rough!

My son is fine - getting better - thanks! I need to bring more asthma meds when we travel.

We're all still tired also!

 

[limati]

My son Dylan (13) absolutely loved the Stack! He often got back to the room about 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. At one point I thought of making up a "Have you seen this teen?" poster

We had an absolutely great time. I think we are spoiled now for other cruise lines. I really hope to go again someday.

My dd (9) also had a great time. She really got into the pin trading and gathering autographs. I bought a scrapbook onboard, but I don't think everything will go into one book.

My mom was crushin' on Christaan! She got her picture taken with him. My dd traded a pin with him.

 

[The_Ryno]

I remember a Connor, he was a Mississippi State fan. Don't remember a Dylan or Sean though.

I was up until at least 3am most nights. I went to be at like 1:20 on the night we had customs, other then that 2:30 was early, the latest I came is was at 4:30 on the LAST night.

 

[tecdavidt]

Ahh, Pixiedusted is engaged!!! congrats. Our son popped the question to his girlfriend at Great Bay beach in St. Maarten and she said yes. What a place to propose. He wanted to do it on the Dumbo Tron but we thought it would have been impossible. Your husband to be had a great idea to propose during the preshow of the Golden Mickeys! You will never forget that moment. Kathy

 

[pop5]

Yes, that is my son. The MSU fan. Too funny. Hope he was behaving.

 

[DisDancerina]

Yes, that is my son. The MSU fan. Too funny. Hope he was behaving.

Doubt it.

I remember a Connor, he was a Mississippi State fan. Don't remember a Dylan or Sean though.

I was up until at least 3am most nights. I went to be at like 1:20 on the night we had customs, other then that 2:30 was early, the latest I came is was at 4:30 on the LAST night.

Now I really wish I had gone! That would have been sooo fun!

 

[PixyDusted]

PixieDusted, we were standing in the crowd watching you get your ring. I didn't take a video of it nor any pictures, sorry!!! Congratulations, it did give me goose bumps.

As in by the merchandise stores by the camera and us or you were inside the theater? I thought no one but crew people and Christian and the camera man, Corin, were there? It'd be cool if other people were standing around.

 

[lizg123]

I was standing by the chairs in the theatre lobby waiting for my son to show up. I watched the whole thing!! It was great!
Liz G

 

[DiszyGram]

We all had a magical time on the cruise. It was so nice meeting some of you and especially meeting wonderful Liz and family. It seemed everywhere we went around the ship, I would turn around and there was Liz.

My daughter made a slide show of our trip. I'm going to post the link here and hope it works. She is a good photographer. Seeing them, some of you we didn't meet in person, might recognize us. Especially since we all three dressed up for pirate night. Hope you enjoy them.

One of the days, when the ship was rolling with the waves, we met a woman who was getting seasick. She saw my daughter was wearing blue cloth wrist bands. My daughter told her what they were and suggested she buy them. The next day we met her again and the woman was ready to hug my daughter. She had them on and did not get sick.

I had to laugh at myself on the last day. My voice sounded just like Minnie Mouse. All I could do was squeak out my words. I literally could not speak normally as hard as I tried. It was really funny when my sister introduced me to some friends after the cruise. I squeaked out my hellos. It's back to normal now.

Here are the pictures.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=xuve3ip.92fyprjd&x=0&y=-fo55ps

 

[limati]

Gail your pictures are wonderful. We wanted to go to a butterfly farm but there wasn't time - Maybe next time!

We were so lucky with our weather weren't we? It was kind of hard coming back to weather in the 30's.

I was amazed that even though the ship was full, it didn't seem crowded to me. Occasionally near the dining rooms and in the main lobby it got busy - not too bad.

We are already sharing memories and laughs from our trip. We had such a good time.

Lisa

 

[DiszyGram]

Hi Lisa, the butterfly farm was a short walk from the ship. It was beautiful. We went to one on another Disney cruise but the wind was so strong, the butterflies were stuck on the nets. This time they were flying all around us.

Since I am older than most of you, never could swim very well, like being on the beach more than being in the water, and would probably end up drowning while snorkeling , I only waded in up to my knees. I absolutely love looking at the colors of the ocean.

 

[DiszyGram]

There is a new posting thread about our cruise in the "Cruise Reports" forum. It is titled "Just off the Magic, March 22." Some of our group has already starting posting there. I just transferred my photo link post to it.

You all can do the same thing if you want to cut and paste your posts here and move them.

 

[PixyDusted]

I was standing by the chairs in the theatre lobby waiting for my son to show up. I watched the whole thing!! It was great!
Liz G

That's awesome, Liz! I'm happy a fellow DISer was there! And it makes me so happy to know people were standing around other than the crew. I really thought it was just a few crew members standing around. I'll have to let Jason know you were there because it was part of the effect he was going for! THANK YOU for letting me know that!

 

[arabians207]

^I was sitting in the Theater when I was saw him propose!! It was so sweet!

So did we!

We were at table 32 - 8 of us. I think we were all at dinner only twice though. My daughter didn't even come to dinner on formal night, and I had gotten her a new dress. Oh well. Next time, we won't bother with having the kids dress up. They'd rather do other stuff.

I've spoken to others on different cruise lines last week. We all agree the seas were unusually rough!

My son is fine - getting better - thanks! I need to bring more asthma meds when we travel.

We're all still tired also!

I was sitting at table 30! Was Shantol your server? If we were next to you and talked sometimes, hi again! We had four at our table, we talked to a group who one night (at Parrots, I think Tuesday night) who lost like 3 people during dinner because they didn't feel good.. was it you?

We are mostly recovered from our trip although our suitcases are not fully unpacked yet Its so much harder to unpack than to pack.