March 18, 2006 -7 Day Magic Cruise - Is anyone else booked yet?

[tecdavidt]

Printing out list made by cruisecrzy. Thank you for making that list.

Packing is about 50% complete. I have laundry to do to finish it.

Daughter is back in school and feeling better.

We take off in Des Moines around 12:30 pm and should be in Orlando by 7:30 pm. We have a couple hours of layover in Chicago.
We will spend the night at the Airport Hyatt. Sat. we leave for terminal around 10:30 am.

I will have my trusty faded red DCL visor on. Something lime green, usually a t shirt. My plan is to wear my tropical skirt so I don't have to change for dinner after the sail away but I might wear the skirt to the sail away.

Well, I need to get back to packing and laundry. See all on Sat.

Happy Cruising to all! Kathy

 

[cruisecrzy]

tecdavidt-
I will PM you my cell phone number in case you get into Orlando and realize you need something. From my driveway to where you are staying is 10min....15min if I catch the light on Boggy Creek (the airport road). And you are stopping over where I was born and raised...Chicago. How funny.

As for what we are wearing.... I will be in a grey DCL shirt. It has wonder and magic embrodered on it. I will be wearing my homemade disney barette with the a green mickey and green ribbon hanging from it. My daughter will be wearing her her minnie mouse top (I think it is yellow and turqoise) with matching turqoise shorts and will be on her red elmo harness (kiddie-leash). We will be looking for the red visor and the mickey necklaces. I think the necklace idea PhiLinAK had was great.

It is warm and sunny here today and will be for the next few days. Mid 70's today.

Safe travels to all. tecdavidt we will be looking overhead for your plane tomorrow.

 

[CJLKIM]

For all you lucky cruisers....have a MAGICAL time! All of us poor souls stuck here on the mainland will be anxiously awaiting live posts.....

 

[PHILinAK]

Safe travels everyone.

We are pretty much packed and will be flying out tonight about 2 am. The "red eye" flights are brutal but there aren't many options out of Anchorage. The volcano has been quiet lately (knock on wood) and the weather is fine (sunny but cold ... which just means we will enjoy the cruise that much more).

We've been told that our DCL transportation will get us to the ship by 1 or 2 pm.

I haven't given any thought to what I'll be wearing on the day we sail out (I guess I could wear my Disney tie-died T-shirt, and I have a wide brimmed green hat). I'm sure Cheryl has her outfit planned, but she isn't home from work yet. I do know she has an orange hat with green ribbons, and of course we will have the DIS mickey ears (paint chips) around our necks. Looking forward to meeting you all!

- Phil

 

[krystagali]

Alright, alright, alright!!!

The kids are in bed, the dog is at my parent's house, our luggage is in my in-law's car, DH is in bed, and my packages made it to the IDS facility today at 10:30AM.

I've just got last minute stuff to pack tomorrow (toothbrush, etc).

Kathy - we are also staying at the Hyatt tomorrow night. I'll pm you my cell number if you want to meet for breakfast or something Saturday morning.

Michelle - you can watch for my plane tomorrow too We're on JetBlue (my first time flying with them) and we should get in around 6pm.

I'll be wearing my White DCL shirt, DH will be wearing gray Maleficent as dragon, not sure what kiddies will be wearing yet. Have to find some way to work alien green into my ensamble.

gotta run, dd wants to eat. I'll be on briefly tomorrow morning for any last minute information.

See you all Saturday!!!
Beth

 

[tecdavidt]

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY TO ALL!

I finished packing and now just killing a few minutes before bed. Daughter Stephanie is doing a lot better. The penicillin shot is wonderful, hurts yes but she feels 100% normal.

Thank you cruisecrzy for the telephone number. If we need something, I'll might give you a call. Right now I think all is OK but who knows, maybe I will have forgotten something.

Krystagali, you land 1 1/2 hour before us. The Hyatt is a nice place to relax the night before. Thanks for the breakfast offer but Dave always orders us room service. It is a tradition on our cruises.

Kathy

 

[tecdavidt]

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[krystagali]

Kathy - have a great flight. Enjoy your room service. Sounds like a good idea really, perhaps we will do the same.

I'm OFF!!!

 

[tecdavidt]

Daughter is in shower, car is being loaded. It is time! See all of you soon.

Kathy

 

[GeneralMax]

Okay all packed ans suitcases locked.

We are definately using curbside check in and hoping they do not weigh anything to carefully!!

See you all tomorrow!

Ruth

 

[Daytonamom]

Hi Michelle I guess we are the only ones left in town. What do you think the weather is going to be tomorrow. The weather web site said 72 and windy. Channel 2 said 80 this morning. Hope everything is well at your house this last min stuff takes forever. On more trip to target and I am done. See you soon. Lynn

 

[cruisecrzy]

Lynn, How funny. I was just thinking that a little while ago. Just you and I left in our houses. How lonely it is being the last two left.

I made my list trip earlier to BJ's to pick up some candy. We decided that we are going to make up bags of chocolates to give out as thank yous to some of the staff. I read that in the kids club post. A former CM said that they really like getting candy and that is not something they need to turn in and share with team like the tips. We'll see how it works out.

Accordin to Newschannel 13 they are saying 80 tomorrow then 82 and then 86 (I thought) for Monday. Tht sounds promising to me. I am planning for low 80's tomorrow.

We are almost all packed. When DH gets home we will finish up. Then we just wait until 9:30 am and then hopefully be heading to the port.

Good luck finishing up. Can't wait to meet everyone tomorrow.

 

[habibi]

I'm still here and not even packed yet but my flight isn't until 7 something tomorrow morning so I still have a little bit of time. They have kept me incredibly busy at work and I cannot wait until they hire another person!

 

[tecdavidt]

We made it to Orlando with no problems. Right now we are at the Airport Hyatt. Dinner was great at McCoy's. We were told by the bell staff that 500 families were staying at the Hyatt headed towards the Magic tomorrow.

We did notice the Hyatt has had a renovation since our last stay Dec. '04. They did a nice job.

Tomorrow morning on to the Magic. Kathy

 

[cruisecrzy]

Kathy- Glad to hear you made it safe. I hope ayou are enjoying our Florida weather. Wow, 500 families seems like alot.

Habibi- Hopefully you are all packed by now. Have a safe trip. See you at the port.

We are packed and ready to go. See everyone tomorrow on the Disney Magic.

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

Have a MAGICal cruise!!!

 

[NCardella]

What a week! Here's a picture of one of our pillowcases we had signed. The girls were thrilled with this great surprise waiting for us in our room. Thanks to all the DIS board members for such a great idea, I would have never known about it without you!

 

[NCardella]

Oops, that's the before picture, here's (hopefully) the "after" picture!

 

[Daytonamom]

Hi Everybody

We were back in the driveway in Daytona at 10:20am Saturday. The post cruise sleepies hit right away. We did get everything out of the car before we hit the sofas. I didn't come out of the fog until Sunday morning. Much to my surprise I had no one to take my order for breakfast, no one to bring me juice and coffee and worst of all no one to clean up after me and find my shoes.

Someone in my house was nice enough to make me a cute towel animal. It took me awhile to figure out what it was because it was so big. Oh Wait a minute. It's not a towel animal it's the laundry shaped like mt. Everest. I know we did not take all this stuff with us. Hope everyone is home safe and I will get some photos together soon.
LYNN

 

[GeneralMax]

Day two at home and I am finally almost done with the laundry. Just when I thought it was safe to go into the back hall out pops a suitcase that..."oh was I supposed to bring that upstairs for you".

We definately have the post vacation blues. This was the best of our four cruises in large part due to the great copnay we kept!

Can't wait to see pictures. I have to call Abby to find out how to download them.

By the way I want to change he name of our thread but keep it going. Does anyone know how?

Ruth