March 21, 2009 Western Magic

[BobandLee]

Hi everyone.
Put us down for this cruise.
This will be our 10th cruise.
This time we will have our two grandkids with us.

Should be a good time.

 

[iloveokw]

This is our 7th DCL cruise. DH, DD 17 and me. Can't wait.

 

[Tinkbellfan]

Well, this morning was the booking window. We booked the dolphin swim in Cozumel, but we are looking into the different options if you book on your own. My friend also booked me a message on Castaway. That should be fun!

90 days! What did you schedule?

 

[BobandLee]

Good Evening.
Good to see some posts.

Well, we have signed up for the Dolphin excursion at Cozumel also.
This is the the first time for us to do that.
We have been to Cozumel twice. Did the Xcaret Ecopark and 4 wheel drive/beach thingie.

Been trying to add excursions for Castaway and Grand Cayman, but no luck. Too much server traffic I guess. Will try later.

It's hard to believe that the cruise is getting so close.
We just did the 5 night back in September.
Lots of people we knew on that one. Know no one on this cruise. Yet.

 

[jdutch]

Hi everyone,

I've never posted here before, but I had to chime in that my family will be on this cruise too: DH, DS 10, me. We did the 7-day Western about a month ago on Nov 29, and we had so much fun that we booked onboard for this one during Spring Break. We're really looking forward to it, especially because the weather prevented us from tendering at Grand Cayman on the last cruise, so we'll be glad to experience that this time. On this one, we've booked the White Knuckle Boat Ride for Key West, the Boatswain's Beach Adventure Marine Park for Grand Cayman, and the Four Elements Mayan Adventure for Cozumel. Anyone done any of those? We also booked the Personal Watercraft Tour for Castaway Cay for my DH and DS. They did it on the last cruise and had a blast, so they wanted to do it again. (Fine by me....gives me another chance to order a Conk Cooler and relax by myself on the beach.)

Glad to meet everyone.

 

[BobandLee]

[FONT="walt disney script v4.1"]2009[/FONT]
[FONT="walt disney script v4.1"]To all of our Dis-Friends,
From Leora & Bob[/font]​

 

[iloveokw]

72 DAYS

 

[BobandLee]

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[magicron]

We'll be on this one for Spring Break. Me, DW, DD(13), DD(9). We've been to WDW many times, since my mom lives in Sarasota. But, this will be our first Disney Cruise. My wife and I cruised on RCCL a couple times, years ago, before kids.

July 2009 is our 25th wedding anniversary; we've been wanting go on a Disney Cruise for some time. We decided on a family cruise with DCL to celebrate our anniversary (even though a few months early).

We just told the kids on Christmas day. They opened a box with DCL brochure, DVD, and a couple door magnets I made.

Have not booked excursions yet, but am considering Captain Marvin's tour of Stingray City and a snorkelying stop in GC, followed by seven mile beach on our own.

Hard to believe this will be here soon.

 

[BobandLee]

Welcome to the thread magicron.

We have a grandson 13 and a granddaughter 9 on this cruise. First one for her.
Took the grandson 7 years ago on a western also.

We did the Captain Marvins Stingray a few years back. Very nicely done.

Less than 10 weeks.

 

[huntbrown]

Looks like several 9 year olds. My dd is 9 and ds is 5.

getting close

 

[amybethchristiansen]

Well, we will have a 6 year old ds, so that is close to the 5 yo ds. I also have my 4 yo dd, and a 9 month old ds.

 

[BobandLee]

Brrrr. Here in the midwest, it will be COLD the next few day.
Makes you appreciate the cruise coming up in just 9 weeks.

 

[iloveokw]

Yep here in Central IL we didn't get much snow, but have sub zero temps for tomorrow - they have already called off school. I am READY to cruise today. LOL

 

[Momfromva]

Hello Everyone! I haven't posted here in quite a while.
We're so excited about our upcoming cruise! We have one ds who will be 6 and another ds who will be 4 1/2. Our last cruise was a little over a year ago.
As for excursions, we're doing the island tour on Grand Cayman, Nachi Cocum on Cozumel, and the personal watercraft tour for my DH and I on Castaway Cay. At this point however, the thing I am most excited about is the warm sun!

 

[BobandLee]

Good Morning All
Yesterday morning it was -21ºF actually and a windchill of -40ºF. (that would be -30ºC and -42ºC). That was on top of 4" of snow.
Today is to be much better.

30º at WDW. Not much magic when it is that chilly.

Got all of the arrangements made for this cruise.
DVC came thru with a night at AKV before the cruise.
Will do the disney transportation. That takes care of moving the luggage around.
We will do a pirate extravaganza at GC and swim with the dolphins at Cozumel.
Key West will be .......Key West.
Castaway will be a lazy day at the beach.
Just waiting for the next few weeks to pass.

After that cruise it will probably be 2011.

Looking forward to seeing everyone. I think everyone on this one will be new for us.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.

 

[Tinkbellfan]

Hi all - as I look outside to yet more snow and cold (but not as cold as Bobandee; at least it's in the double digits today) I wanted to catch up with everyone here. It does look like we have a few 9yr old young ladies attending. I know mine will be looking forward to finding a few friends to hang out with. Our friends will have a 9 yr DS and their 13 yr old DD too.

BobandLee -Can we use your experience to help plan a meeting on board? Last year on the 4 day cruise the Dismeet was right before the sail away party. It was so crowded on deck that I never found the group. In your past cruises what seemed to work?

FYI - I have been to Grand Cayman numerous times. The stingray tour is worth it only if you are not deathly afraid of sea creatures. They knock you around and flap all over you. My dd never left the boat and I had to be helped back by our tour guide. We did a private boat during an off time (cruise ships not in that day) so I didn't embarrass myself to badly. Maybe when there are alot of bodies in the water it won't be as bad. They seemed to gang up on me - . Either way, Capt. Marvins has a good reputation.

 

[amybethchristiansen]

Momfromva, looks like our kiddos will be in the same age groups.

 

[Momfromva]

You're right amybethchristiansen! I hope we can all find the time to meet at the beginning of the cruise!
On our last cruise, my ds 6 loved going to the kids club. My younger one didn't like going as much. I have a feeling that won't be the case this year, however.
Yesterday, we made a paper chain so we could countdown the days until we leave. That chain is a lot longer than I thought it would be! I hope the time goes by quickly!!

 

[BobandLee]

....
BobandLee -Can we use your experience to help plan a meeting on board? Last year on the 4 day cruise the Dismeet was right before the sail away party. It was so crowded on deck that I never found the group. In your past cruises what seemed to work?
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my experience?
O.K., on the last four cruise we have done, our group was very fortunate to have folks willing to plan stuff. Not me.
Basically, we had a short meet at about 3:30 before the muster drill to kinda get to know each other.
Then after the drill, the group met again at about 4:30 for the sailaway.
The meeting spot was on deck 10, starboard (right, facing front). Seems like it worked.
Some folks seemed to really enjoy it, others not so much.
This cruise, I will be a little more low key since the kids will be with us.

On past cruises, we had lanyards and/or t-shirts to recognize each other. But that might be a bit much considering the participation on this thread.
So, I guess we will just have to mill around and try and figure out who is who.
Whatever happens, I am sure that it will be a fun cruise.