May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 3

[birkner]

Our oldest DD was in combined grade classes and did first, second and third in one year thus graduating a year early. She is 39 and I don't think she or we every regretted skipping the grade. She always (from 2yo) was more comfortable with kids a year or 2 older.

What I regret most was not being allowed to go to Kindergarten. My GF being British taught me as his parents had taught him, to read, write and add/subtract by the time I was 4 When the school found out I could do these things, I was immediately at age 4.9 sent to 1st grade.

 

[Jhalkias]

I was there for awhile but could hardly get a word in edgewise.

Crazy isn't it, we will have to meet in one of the other rooms as our cruise get closer.

Yeah, I really think the chat room is not big enough for both repos . . . it was nice chatting with the other side last night too. It was the MOST people I have seen in that chat room EVER though.

My son also graduated early from hs and college. He was much more mature than our youngest DD. I agree it depends on the level of maturity of the child, not necessarily the academic ability.

Sounds like your son has both the emotional maturity and the academic excellence. I am sure you are very proud of his achievements.

Yes, we are quite proud, but he is still a kid. He wants to go to Europe this summer with his friend from High school. They want to do 3-4 weeks, buy a rail pass, and try to see as much as they can see before he has to hammer the books again in the fall in Med school.

Great Guidelines! Should we post these on the page 1 here or PJ's site so they don't get "lost" in the sea of posts?
When our team was talking, we were figuring about 100 gifts, does that sound like a reasonable amount to people, too high/too low? I know it is hard to guess now because some people actually haven't gotten started Dis'ing for this cruise yet. They might think it is so far away What a silly thought, never too early, right

You know, I want to order ours, and have it done, but I don't know the quantity. I definitely think we should come up with a "sign up" maybe on the website - and have a cutoff date to join.

I do see everyone's point about needing the fish extenders or something like it. On the last cruise, a whole bunch of us got switched staterooms and it was a pain. Since we had no reliable listing, I just walked the entire ship one night at about 1:00 am, and distributed our family's gift. I looked for the stockings, since we sailed around the holidays. I saw parts of the ship I had never seen in six trips!

Of course, with a team, we could actually each take a deck, and it will make things MUCH easier!

 

[Jhalkias]

Good morning! My 1 year old was playing with the phone and called someone. I quickly hung up - but darn caller ID! Person called me back! Lisa

And what did you say?

Katie called the operator once and wanted to talk to Grandma.

Congrats on the . . . our EB friends missed it!

I am here watching Ohio State and Perdue and trying to catch up. So a terrible commercial comes on for Hooters staring Dick Vitale - I mean just AWFUL. And then you guys start talking about "young meat" . . . I just about closed the laptop!

 

[Jhalkias]

42 here and that's as high as it's supposed to get. I think it's our first day above freezing! The snow is almost all gone.

Snow gone here, and 50+ degrees. I spent 45 minutes after work yesterday cleaning up a whole winter worth of dog poop in the yard!

Speaking of fairies, has any one noticed that a certain fairy hasn't dusted any one in our thread. The EB people have frequently.

I am going to post about this over there.

How many of us have passports or will be getting them by cruise time?

We have ours. We used them for our cruise last Feb.

Sophia and I need to get ours . . . I need to get on the stick on this.

 

[Mom323]

Snow gone here, and 50+ degrees. I spent 45 minutes after work yesterday cleaning up a whole winter worth of dog poop in the yard!
I am going to post about this over there.
Sophia and I need to get ours . . . I need to get on the stick on this.

We still have snow in the shady spots. I am not looking forward to the poop patrol either. Fortunately our dog is little.

Good luck with the TF post. We just don't feel the love here.

Good luck with the Passports I think things at the State department are going to get crazier as summer approaches.

 

[Mom323]

You know, I want to order ours, and have it done, but I don't know the quantity. I definitely think we should come up with a "sign up" maybe on the website - and have a cutoff date to join.

I do see everyone's point about needing the fish extenders or something like it. On the last cruise, a whole bunch of us got switched staterooms and it was a pain. Since we had no reliable listing, I just walked the entire ship one night at about 1:00 am, and distributed our family's gift. I looked for the stockings, since we sailed around the holidays. I saw parts of the ship I had never seen in six trips!

Of course, with a team, we could actually each take a deck, and it will make things MUCH easier!

Great idea about splitting up the decks.

 

[kymma]

We sent in our passport renewals a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully it won't take too long to get them. We have time since we aren't leaving the country until August.

It's suppose to get to 80 degrees here today. But I can't really enjoy it since I am still gimping around from my foot surgery.

 

[ibouncetoo]

80 degrees and sunny here today! (why did we skip the 70's??)

Just had lunch and a movie with TiggersPal (saw Wild Hogs....funny, but I'd watch William H. Macey and John Travolta in anything...love them both).

Got my passport last Fall, wanted to beat the rush. PLUS, I'm now ready to hit the road the moment I hit the lottery! (Oh, note to self, pick up ticket later this afternoon....up to 142 million).

I'm also spending a lot of energy avoiding housework (AGAIN) this weekend. Played for a while on www.youtube.com watching people's Disney related videos. There's one of the new cast of Twice Charmed and the girl playing Cinderelly is FABULOUS!!! Now I think I'll check out a trip report or two.

 

[LiserAnn]

More exciting - my husband Bob and I are meeting up with someone from this thread next Saturday night....EllaEnchanted....this is so cool meeting people before the cruise. I only know LiserAnn from California (who I adore, and her family....met up 2 years ago on the Mexico cruise and hope to share a dining room table with????????Lisa????????)....

Hey Lucy! Yep, we can share a table!! Guess we need to link our ressies?

Well people, it is 85 degrees here....went to the both boys soccer games in shorts!!!! Our "cooler" weather is to resume next week however.........

 

[LiserAnn]

Sure, do!! He was a real hunk!! However, my all time favorite is still Tom Selleck!!

He really is a good looking guy!

 

[LiserAnn]

Ahhhhh, another woman who cleans like me Typical cleaning session for me....fold one piece of laundry....oh, what was that website so and so told me about, quick visit to the computer, while I am there, must check DIS to see if any great posts are there, then check email...better get back to cleaning and the process repeats itself!
anyone else have that problem?

Queen of Procrastination

ME!!! There are times I need to just shut the computer OFF!

 

[LiserAnn]

How many of us have passports or will be getting them by cruise time?

We have ours. We used them for our cruise last Feb.

We have them but DH and I will need to renew ours in June this year....I should get on that! Thanks for the reminder!!!

 

[LiserAnn]

You know, I want to order ours, and have it done, but I don't know the quantity. I definitely think we should come up with a "sign up" maybe on the website - and have a cutoff date to join.

I do see everyone's point about needing the fish extenders or something like it. On the last cruise, a whole bunch of us got switched staterooms and it was a pain. Since we had no reliable listing, I just walked the entire ship one night at about 1:00 am, and distributed our family's gift. I looked for the stockings, since we sailed around the holidays. I saw parts of the ship I had never seen in six trips!

Of course, with a team, we could actually each take a deck, and it will make things MUCH easier!

It almost seems like you'd have to have fish extenders or Christmas stockings or the like because otherwise how would you know who to deliver it to? And I think the sign up with a cutoff date is a great idea.

 

[Mom323]

80 degrees and sunny here today! (why did we skip the 70's??)

Just had lunch and a movie with TiggersPal (saw Wild Hogs....funny, but I'd watch William H. Macey and John Travolta in anything...love them both).

Got my passport last Fall, wanted to beat the rush. PLUS, I'm now ready to hit the road the moment I hit the lottery! (Oh, note to self, pick up ticket later this afternoon....up to 142 million).

I'm also spending a lot of energy avoiding housework (AGAIN) this weekend. Played for a while on www.youtube.com watching people's Disney related videos. There's one of the new cast of Twice Charmed and the girl playing Cinderelly is FABULOUS!!! Now I think I'll check out a trip report or two.

We made it to 62 degrees, yipee.

I went to youtube. I'm sure most have seen this but just in case. It is from Goofyguy777 EB PC cruise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26hZXSYA4Xw

 

[gouodux]

Everyone in our family including kids and GK's have passports!!

We paid to have ours expediated in time for our cruise in a few days. Almost three hours spent total (line and process) at the Post Office. Passports actually arrived in 10 days. Very glad we did this, but if we had been on top of things it wouldn't have ended up costing $700 for the four of us.

 

[tink1963]

How many of us have passports or will be getting them by cruise time?

We have ours. We used them for our cruise last Feb.

We got ours back in 05 when we did the mexican cruise

Yeah, I really think the chat room is not big enough for both repos . . . it was nice chatting with the other side last night too. It was the MOST people I have seen in that chat room EVER though

It was quite exciting for me for my first experience in a chat room



You know, I want to order ours, and have it done, but I don't know the quantity. I definitely think we should come up with a "sign up" maybe on the website - and have a cutoff date to join.

I do see everyone's point about needing the fish extenders or something like it. On the last cruise, a whole bunch of us got switched staterooms and it was a pain. Since we had no reliable listing, I just walked the entire ship one night at about 1:00 am, and distributed our family's gift. I looked for the stockings, since we sailed around the holidays. I saw parts of the ship I had never seen in six trips!

Of course, with a team, we could actually each take a deck, and it will make things MUCH easier!

Great idea on spitting up by decks.

Venetia

 

[nskjerven]

How many of us have passports or will be getting them by cruise time?

We have ours. We used them for our cruise last Feb.

We've all had our for some time...I figured better to have them and be ready to travel at the drop of a hat than not and not...

It was great fun to have Wilson sign his (renewal) at the DCL check in desk...photo op! Cute for the scrap book too.

Funny AG story. Molly got the Paris outfit for her doll as a gift, it comes with a passport(doll sized)...we filled it out and got it stamped in UK last summer. Tried a few more places, (france/us) no way we can't do that !!! that's okay we are happy to have the UK stamp for her on her mini little passport. The simple thing that make the life a child (& her mom) we talked about how great it was the rest of the trip!

 

[birkner]

We got ours back in 05 when we did the mexican cruise



Great idea on spitting up by decks.

Venetia

No spitting on decks!!!

 

[nskjerven]

No spitting on decks!!!

or spitting up on them

 

[tink1963]

No spitting on decks!!!

or spitting up on them

Busted on a typo. Please no spitting up or otherwise on deck.