May 12, 2007 -- Taking the Magic to the Mediterranean -- 14 day Repo Cruise!

[Hygiene99]

Lots of fabulous ideas getting thrown around on here....Whoo!!

Jason and I have been trying to think of some fun things we can contribute to the cruise....haven't come up with any truly brilliant yet but we got lots of time!







p.s. I actually am a dancer and a gymnast.....maybe I'll get a ballet class going on the cruise for ya!! Actually, funny disney story.....ironically on our last cruise in Feb. the night of the Pirate Party I was dancing away with all the kiddies and it put me in a dancing mood and so after the party ended i was just kind of goofing off and dancing and stretching up on the deck (using the handrails like ballet bars and acting like dork) and a guy who I had see in the "dj booth" on deck during the Pirates show was walking around and came over and introduced himself to me....and told me he was the choreographer on the DCL boats and he had done the choreography on the Pirates "show" and had also done the Cinderella Twice Charmed Show (which I know many of you have seen because it was unveiled on the Magic last year...but Jason and I have only ever been aboard the Wonder so we haven't seen it yet) and he asked me if I ever considered auditioning for DCL or theme park shows. We hung out with him several times during the cruise...he was very fun. (And actually I told him that every time I drive by the Disney Casting building at the World I tease Jason that I'm going to go in there and audition JUST to see if I could get hired......or that one day soon I'm gonna just quit my life here and go dance in the Festival of the Lion King at Animal Kingdom!! hehehe)

Paws Up !!

 

[bonzie1]

Hi Everyone!

I'm hoping to get back into everything on this thread soon. Things have been quite hectic with Mom's stroke. Life has been turned upside down a bit. I'll work on catching up!

In the meantime, a tidbit... We went to Pirates in the Big Apple this past Friday for the POC Dead Man's Chest Event. Jason Surrell is working on getting on next May's Repro crossing to the Med, and asked that we write letters to DCL to request him coming. Jason is an Imagineer who has worked on many WDW projects. This was available on the disneygallery site:

Jason Surrell is an author, screenwriter, and Show Writer/Producer for Walt Disney Imagineering, where he develops concepts, scripts, and storylines for new attractions, shops, restaurants, and resorts on land and sea. Some of his Imagineering credits include a “haunted” tombstone and Madame Leota’s book of spells at The Haunted Mansion and show concepts for The Great Movie Ride, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – Play It!, Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream, The Making of the Haunted Mansion Movie, The Magic of Disney Animation, a Pearl Harbor-themed special effects show, Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, and a variety of shops, restaurants, and nightclubs. Jason is currently working on new show concepts for the Disney-MGM Studios, Typhoon Lagoon, Disney Cruise Line, and Disney Vacation Club. He is also a Show Director for Walt Disney Entertainment, where he creates live shows, parades, and events for both domestic and international audiences.

Jason is the author of The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, The Art of the Haunted Mansion, Screenplay by Disney: Tips and Techniques to Add Magic to Your Moviemaking, Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies and contributed essays to The Imagineering Way and The Imagineering Workout. He also wrote for Walt Disney Television's internationally syndicated television series “Secrets of the Animal Kingdom.”

Jason is currently working on his next book, The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at its Peak. He is also developing two novels and a feature film.

I am thinking, if the premier of POC III would be over Memorial Day, it would be fun to have him on board to share any info he already has on the last part of this trilogy.

He is also trying to talk Crash McCreery into coming. He did the special characters (i.e. Davy Jones) for POC II.

So... start that letter writing campaigh now!

Here's a shot of both of them from the Big Apple Event. Jason on left, Crash on right.

 

[EpcotKilterFan]

I think that would be cool! I loved listening to Jason Surrell!!!!!

Where should we write????

Debbie

 

[padalyn]

I am not sure if this software is worth the couple of hundred dollars that it can cost - but my co-worker who taught high school Spanish for years tells me that learning phrases is most likely the best. As soon as one of us opens our mouths to speak they will know we are not fluent and will treat us accordingly (speaking like we are numbskulls I guess!).

I speak some phrases - but they are all medical - so I am going to try to learn some phrases and I am considering taking an adult ed class in Spanish, but I want conversational not linguisitic.

I will never be fluent (Spanglish anyone?) but can make myself understood for the most part.

My hunny and "mother-in-law" speak not a word - should have seen us in Acupolco!! We were looking for a pharmacy and I am not sure who laughed harder - us or the sales people!!!

This is always part of the fun of traveling - one has to learn as one goes. In Alaska I realized I knew more Russian than I thought...since it is spoken more than English. Suprised me!

 

[padalyn]

I spent the day today looking for a new mattress. Made my final car payment yesterday, so had to figure out some way of spending money It is an interesting process to pick out a mattress. Think I found one, just waiting for this credit card statement to close and will go and order one!

I found one of the "tempur-pedic" type toppers at CostCo for 100.00 that made such a major difference in my old mattress that I didn't replace it after all!

 

[Scott H]

I’ll third that in getting Jason Surrell on the voyage with us. That way we will have an offering to the Kracken, sorry Jason if you are reading this... Seriously where should we write.

 

[bonzie1]

I’ll third that in getting Jason Surrell on the voyage with us. That way we will have an offering to the Kracken, sorry Jason if you are reading this... Seriously where should we write.

Jason mentioned DCL...

I will call later today and ask.

 

[Scott H]

If he does get to go on the sailing with us, he owes us each a mug of RUM!!!!! and no

“Why izzzza rum always gone?’’ excusses!!!


Ahhh, the power of the Lanyard People.....

 

[CSNYDER]

I only know three phrases in Spanish (despite having grown up in Los Angeles), but they have worked well for me...

"Dos cervezas, por favor" (two beers please)
"Un mas." (one more)
"Donde esta el banos?" (Where is the bathroom)

 

[ssnyder]

=I actually Sign fluently, as well, (American Sign Language)

Curt and I know a little (very little) sign. His special needs daughter didn't vocalize for a long time and we needed to use sign for communication.

I also helped out in the computer lab at the California School for the Deaf when we lived in Riverside. I was there long enough to get my name sign. That was a special day for me. For those that don't know what a name sign is, it is a special sign created to refer to people you frequently interact with. (It would be very difficult to spell out someone's name every time you are referring to them.) Protocol says you can't pick a sign for yourself - it has to be given to you by the deaf community. It frequently is a combination of signs that include some special characteristic about you and the first letter of your first name. Mine is a combination of the sign for smiling (I laugh a lot) and the sign for the letter "s".

It might be fun to get some refresher practice while cruising. We were at a B&B recently with a deaf person. We realized then how much we had forgotten.

 

[milestogo]

Welcome new folks to our fun thread....

Everyone knows that "Donde esta el bano" is the most important thing you ever need to know!

Although I'd better find out how to say "I'm allergic to shell fish" in every language. Languages are a dyslexic nightmare for me (being dyslexic!)

Saw POC2 last night, Loved it. You're right Erik, big monsters eating boats - SCARY! Can't wait for the next. By the way, not a little kid's movie!

Anyone going to be at Sea World San Diego this week?

I love the idea of Jason coming - love that stuff. which makes me wonder....

What was your favorite onboard class that you've attended?

Mine was napking folding, and any cooking class (cuz, I'm all about food!)

 

[Scott H]

"I'm allergic to shell fish"

Yo soy alergico el mariscos , or there abouts should work.

 

[tig82174]

Curt and I know a little (very little) sign. His special needs daughter didn't vocalize for a long time and we needed to use sign for communication.

I also helped out in the computer lab at the California School for the Deaf when we lived in Riverside. I was there long enough to get my name sign. That was a special day for me. For those that don't know what a name sign is, it is a special sign created to refer to people you frequently interact with. (It would be very difficult to spell out someone's name every time you are referring to them.) Protocol says you can't pick a sign for yourself - it has to be given to you by the deaf community. It frequently is a combination of signs that include some special characteristic about you and the first letter of your first name. Mine is a combination of the sign for smiling (I laugh a lot) and the sign for the letter "s".

It might be fun to get some refresher practice while cruising. We were at a B&B recently with a deaf person. We realized then how much we had forgotten.

That's very fun! I'm always up for a fun sign conversation! (that's about the closest to a signing smiley I could find on the menu here! )

Jason, my DP, doesn't sign a stitch so I never sign at home...unless I want to yell at him and have him not understand it!!

I, on the other hand have a very unoriginal sign name.....the practice of getting a "cool sign name" that combines with some personal characteristic is very often used when a person gets or changes their sign name later in life like as a kid, adolescent, or adult. If you're given your sign name as small child or baby just for the sake of convenience (like I was) you usually get the first letter of your name in one of three places....if you're a boy you get it by the temple, if you're a girl you get it by the chin/cheek, and if the person naming you is TERRIBLY unoriginal you get it just on the left chest/shoulder Mine is of the unoriginal variety and it's just stuck forever...so it's an "E" signed with the right hand and placed at the left shoulder........although that is also the location of lots of other signs that I have jokingly claimed over the years like "cop" "guilty" "lazy"...and in my big ego days even "lord"

 

[tig82174]

Welcome new folks to our fun thread....

Everyone knows that "Donde esta el bano" is the most important thing you ever need to know!

Although I'd better find out how to say "I'm allergic to shell fish" in every language. Languages are a dyslexic nightmare for me (being dyslexic!)

Saw POC2 last night, Loved it. You're right Erik, big monsters eating boats - SCARY! Can't wait for the next. By the way, not a little kid's movie!

Anyone going to be at Sea World San Diego this week?

I love the idea of Jason coming - love that stuff. which makes me wonder....

What was your favorite onboard class that you've attended?

Mine was napking folding, and any cooking class (cuz, I'm all about food!)

if it's an emergency you could also just fidget a lot and yell "Bano! Bano!"

My favorite "class" that we've done on a cruise was Don "Ducky" Williams teaching us how to draw characters and then also his lecture on how he became an illustrator/artist for Disney. He's a hoot!!!....and I'd LOVE to have HIM on the cruise again....Jason and I won some of his art on the last trip, as I think I said before, but we also went to his class to learn to draw Mickey and Goofy and Donald and we framed our "versions" of the characters and htey hang on the wall in our basement (which is my shrine to all things Tigger and Disney )

 

[ssnyder]

My favorite "class" that we've done on a cruise was Don "Ducky" Williams teaching us how to draw characters and then also his lecture on how he became an illustrator/artist for Disney.

I was also hoping Ducky would make it on to our cruise.

I think my favorite classes are the wine tastings, followed by the food classes, and then the beer tasting. I don't think I did any other classes. (Too much eating and drinking, I guess.)

 

[CACruisin']

:Languages are a dyslexic nightmare for me (being dyslexic!)

Took 3 years of HS french and didn't do me a lick of good. I think I am language impaired . Luckily DH has enough survival spanish to get along.

Anyone going to be at Sea World San Diego this week

Thinking about going down tomorrow morning. When are you going?

What was your favorite onboard class that you've attended?

Tequila tasting! I didn't know tequila could have different tastes, but it definitely does.

 

[padalyn]

WOW - that is a tough one...

I liked (in this order I think!)

1. the Martini Tasting,
2. The kitchen tour (the soup "pots" are big enough to bath in!!!)
3. Ducky's seminar
4. the auctions (does that count as a class???)

 

[padalyn]

Hey - Debbie - could you maybe make your link to the list of who is going into a message that is a "sticky"? that stays at the most current post? Otherwise one has to go find it again....

 

[tig82174]

Hey - Debbie - could you maybe make your link to the list of who is going into a message that is a "sticky"? that stays at the most current post? Otherwise one has to go find it again....

Actually I can't get the roster page to open at all for some reason....is the page down while Debbie updates it maybe?



so......tequila tasting, martini tasting, beer tasting, wine tasting......GEEZ!!! I can tell this is gonna be a rowdy bunch....sounds like a frat party from my college days!!

 

[Scott H]

Just got flights done for this trip, 5/10, DEN to MCO on FF miles. BCN to MCO on Virgin Atlantic, with an overnight in London. Holiday Inn Express near Gatwick, rewards points, close to Train Station to get to Victoria Station. 5/27 to MCO and AKL for the night. then home on 5/28. Where ever home will be by then???? Should be fun