May 13.2006 Eastern

[Cali-Mouse]

Verandah Man - glad to hear the surprise went well. My family, all four of us, will be on that 10am shuttle from the Raddisson, so I look forward to meeting you there.

 

[TSirgey]

Thanks for reminding me. We just reserved the 10AM shuttle for the Radisson too. Did anyone receive a confirmation number for the shuttle? He just took my information and said they will tell us what to do when we check in.

 

[Verandah Man]

Thanks for reminding me. We just reserved the 10AM shuttle for the Radisson too. Did anyone receive a confirmation number for the shuttle? He just took my information and said they will tell us what to do when we check in.

We've used the Radisson shuttle twice before and never got a confirmation number. What we did was check in with a person that was near the front door with a clipboard on Saturday morning. On the clipboard is a list of names and times for the shuttle(s). I know the Radisson has one large bus, and one or two vans, so there could be a few 10am shuttles leaving near the same time, that's what happened the last time we took the shuttle in 2004. My family was in a van and the bus pulled out right after us.

 

[bxirishrn]

Hey Verandah Man,

Your party sounded like it was loads of fun !!

How long does it take to get to the port from the Radisson? we're on the 10:30 shuttle. Yours sounds like it's gonna be the party bus!!

Kerri---you bet I'm packing my statue!! It's going to be in our window at the
Radisson


Kathleen

 

[Verandah Man]

Hey Verandah Man,

Your party sounded like it was loads of fun !!

How long does it take to get to the port from the Radisson? we're on the 10:30 shuttle. Yours sounds like it's gonna be the party bus!!

Kerri---you bet I'm packing my statue!! It's going to be in our window at the
Radisson


Kathleen

Depending on the traffic, it only takes about 5 to 10 minutes to get to the port from the Radisson.

 

[Verandah Man]

Good Morning Folks,

I just arrived back home after dropping my mom off at the airport, next it will be time to take my DD to school, then after that I am meeting a fellow DIS'er for breakfast at a local restaurant, after that I'll be stopping by at work to pick up my paycheck, stop at CVS to pick up the pics from my mom's party this past Sunday, then it's HOME!!! What a morning!!! I'm sure glad I took a vacation day today!!!

I told my mom as she got out of the car, the next time I see you will be at the Orlando Airport, then we will be heading over to the port area for our cruise!!!

Have a Happy Wednesday everyone!!!

7 weeks from today we will be in St. Thomas!!!

 

[TSirgey]

Thanks for the info Verandah Man! We do not want to miss that shuttle!

DD and I are making a paper chain of days until the cruise tonight! We are getting so excited!!

 

[littlebunny]

Thanks for the info Verandah Man! We do not want to miss that shuttle!

DD and I are making a paper chain of days until the cruise tonight! We are getting so excited!!

TSirgey, we got the same idea! Next week the girls have spring break and since we're not going anywhere I was trying to think of fun things for us to do and that was one of them. We're going to make a paper chain and then take off one each day until the cruise! I think I'll have them each make a chain. There's not that many days till the cruise, plus I don't want them fighting over who's going to take the chain of the day off.

 

[TSirgey]

TSirgey, we got the same idea! Next week the girls have spring break and since we're not going anywhere I was trying to think of fun things for us to do and that was one of them. We're going to make a paper chain and then take off one each day until the cruise! I think I'll have them each make a chain. There's not that many days till the cruise, plus I don't want them fighting over who's going to take the chain of the day off

We were talking about how excited we are and I was trying to explain how many days it was until we leave on the way to school this morning. I have heard of other people doing this and I thought it would be fun. We decided on Mickey colors (red, black,white and yellow). That will be so adorable! Now I just have to find the time to make the door hanger!!

 

[Cali-Mouse]

Littlebunny & Tsirgey - I can tell you both have little ones like me...we are also doing the cruise countdown chain! We did the same thing for counting the number of days until Christmas and they both really liked it. I do like the idea of doing 2 chains, great idea Tsirgey!

My DW asked me to ask all of you how big are you making your door signs. She is really excited about making one. I'm guessing about 14" x 16"-ish.

Michael

 

[Verandah Man]

I use the magnetic sheets of paper that I can run through my printer, they are 8.5" X 11" for our door signs.

 

[bxirishrn]

Are any of you guys going on the Anguilla dolphin encounter? If so, what time are you going?

I tried booking it directly through their website, but then we would have to get to the French St. Martin, then get us to Anguilla, through which we would have to paass immigration, THEN get us to Anguilla. All for a 45 minute encounter!

Kathleen

 

[Hanover]

We are doing it! We originally signed up to do the second dolphin excursion of the day, but I quickly realized we wouldn't get back until dinner had started (we have early dining). It will be pirate's night and I did not want to miss it since we had such a fun time last year during the pirate's night dinner on the Wonder. I rescheduled for the earlier time. I'm not too thrilled about having to get up so early to get off the ship by 7:30, but it should be fun. We will make sure to go to bed at a decent hour the night before so we get up on time and are rested. We'll be done by 3:30 so we could go back to the ship and the kids could get a quick nap before all the festivities that night. We'll have another early morning the next day at St. Thomas. We are doing a snorkel/beach excursion to St. John.

Verandah Man- Where did you find the magnetic paper that fits your printer?



We also do the paper chains. The boys love counting down the days. A couple more days and we can say our cruise is "next month!"

 

[Verandah Man]

This is where I buy my magetic sheets of paper. I buy in bulk (usually 50 sheets at a time) so it pays me to buy from this company.

http://www.decalpaper.com/magnetic-decalpaper.html

 

[arndtge]

I'm working on our door signs, but the clipart I've downloaded prints out 'grainy' looking and not very clear. Any suggestions?

 

[Verandah Man]

I'm working on our door signs, but the clipart I've downloaded prints out 'grainy' looking and not very clear. Any suggestions?

I have the same problem with some of the clip art I use, I haven't had much luck with trying to get rid of the grainy look either.

 

[bxirishrn]

Hanover,

That's great! We'll be in the same boat! DH doesn't want to get in the water. I had to talk him into going as a spectator or whatever it's called. I said he can take the photos. This is going to be such a great experience for DD, I said he'd miss out on that if he didn't go. Besides, he has to hold all our stuff!!

Just 43 days!!!

Kathleen

 

[TSirgey]

Can someone refresh me on the dinner schedule? I'm starting to get confused. We booked Palo on Wed. night at 8:30. Just wondering if we were going to miss anything.

 

[Hanover]

bxirishrn- I'm glad to hear you guys will be joining the excursion. We did the Blue Lagoon Dolphin excursion last year in Nassau and the boys just loved it and still talk about it. DS8 thought the dolphins felt like eggplants!

Tsirgey- We are also doing Palo Wednesday night, but at 7:30. We chose that night because it wasn't a night that had one of the main shows. If you check out the Yahoo page Dr. Cavin set up, he's got a link for a file with the days and shows, etc. listed. It's under his signature on his posts.

I'm not sure if anyone's used this site for clip art, but I saw it on a post about autographs and how some Disers print the clip art on sticker paper to make stickers...
http://www.geocities.com/disneyclipart/

It is finally is starting to feel like spring outside!

 

[bxirishrn]

Does anyone know if bridge tours are available?

Thanks kids!!
6 weeks


Kathleen