~~~ May 16, 2009 ~~~ Western Magic ~~~

That is so great that you will be there too!! :woohoo: I like the sound of the resort - gorgeous and peaceful are just what we need! We have stayed at ASM, Pop, AKL so far and I am hell bent on trying them all!

I just finished booking our ADR's and making the rest of the plans for the trip today.

Please tell me what the Magic Cookie Bars are - they sound good...must go and look at your trip report.

2 weeks at Disney - I would be in heaven - very lucky!!

Oh, which ADR's have you gone for? Sorry - I am food obsessed!!:rotfl:

If you click on the food report in my signature, magic cookie bars are on the first page - POR is one of only two resorts in the whole of WDW where you can get them :thumbsup2 They are the main reason I talked Tony into upgrading there from Pop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there a picture of you on page one - I will go check . . that way I can keep an eye out!!
 
Oh, which ADR's have you gone for? Sorry - I am food obsessed!!:rotfl:

If you click on the food report in my signature, magic cookie bars are on the first page - POR is one of only two resorts in the whole of WDW where you can get them :thumbsup2 They are the main reason I talked Tony into upgrading there from Pop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there a picture of you on page one - I will go check . . that way I can keep an eye out!!

I am going to your food report right now! I love that you talked Tony into moving because of the magic cookie bars - :lmao: That's awesome!!

We have Prime Time Cafe for dinner and Tony's for dinner as well (dinner is supper in this part of the world) We did have a breakfast reservation at CRT but it was pretty expensive and I thought she would see enough princesses on the cruise.

I love counterservice at DHS - the backlot express and I love pinocchio's salad...the best.

What do you have booked? If you are on the DP, you must have lots booked...so exciting, it is not that far away now!!
 
woohoo! I just saved $400 switching from CBR - pirate room to Port Orleans - Riverside - amazing!! Has anyone stayed at POR? It looks really nice from the website....and since we are only there 3 nights before leaving on the cruise, I am thinking no one will miss the pirate theming....Now I have that $400 that I budgeted to spend on something else - :thumbsup2

texfinn - good luck with MIL!!!

We have stayed at POR. It has been a few years ago. One of the best things that my kids liked was the boat ride down to Downtown Disney. We would go there in the evening after going to the parks.

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That's really kind of you to do us all our own "navigator" - I love that idea!!!

I've been peeking in on a few other cruise meets and trying to get a few ideas so I'll see what I can come up with!

I know, I keep checking the website every day for a stateroom number. Be sure to post when you get yours and I will too!! Hopefully it will be soon.

Me too! I was doing so good until just a few days ago and now i'm addicted to checking!

My new favorite is Mint Oreo with chocolate ice cream! Slurp!

Yum-o! That's the one I had the other night and it was wonderful. I'm a sucker for anything that's chocolate and mint. (Plus of the small sized blizzards it's actually one of the better options as it as much less calories than the reece's or cookie dough.) Yes Sonya they do make one with reeces cups or reeces pieces mixed into the ice cream!!!

Hi Jim!!! Thats so great that he is reading! Try get him to join our Facebook group, I think Tony is the only man at the minute!:rotfl2:

I think my DH finally joined our pie-rates facebook page so the men are starting to grow!

woohoo! I just saved $400 switching from CBR - pirate room to Port Orleans - Riverside - amazing!!
That's wonderful. Jason and I stayed at POR for our honeymoon a few years ago and loved it. I posted a few pics awhile back on the resort board. Here's the link if you are interested:http://http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=396424&page=101
 

We have stayed at POR. It has been a few years ago. One of the best things that my kids liked was the boat ride down to Downtown Disney. We would go there in the evening after going to the parks.

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Cool!! I didn't realize there was a boat from the resort to Downtown Disney - that will be a lot of fun:cool1:
 
Aww... I hope you and Ash decide to join us! I think we'd have a great table group!!!:grouphug:

we have decided To!!! I think your right! We will have a great table!!! and no one has 7 children!!! LOL:rotfl:

Jane can you conferm you got the post??? Thanks :hippie:
 
I've tried to list every cruiser's info on posts #1&2 with specifics on birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Check it out! You'll find we have lots of celebrations!!



Of course, they brought this to us after we had already ordered two desserts each, so we barely even touched it. :rolleyes:

Thanks for the picture of the cake and the heads up not to order desert which is the same thing that happened for my son's birthday.
 
woohoo! I just saved $400 switching from CBR - pirate room to Port Orleans - Riverside - amazing!! Has anyone stayed at POR? It looks really nice from the website....and since we are only there 3 nights before leaving on the cruise, I am thinking no one will miss the pirate theming....Now I have that $400 that I budgeted to spend on something else - :thumbsup2

DH and I stayed at Port Orleans for our honeymoon last May. We loved it!!!!!

Me too! I was doing so good until just a few days ago and now i'm addicted to checking!

I thought that I was the only person who checked on a regular basis!!!!:lmao: I can't wait to find out our room number.



It was such a pretty spring day here today that we decided to have our first barbeque cookout of the season. John makes the most wonderful fresh corn on the grill that he calls "drunken corn". I am sooo stuffed. I have completed screwed up my pre cruise diet. I guess I'll have to work twice as hard on the elliptical on Monday.
 
WHAT?!?! No Blizzards for either of you?!?! Boy, oh boy, are you missing out!!! In the summer, we usually make a nightly trip to Dairy Queen! :blush: My new favorite is Mint Oreo with chocolate ice cream! Slurp! Or cookie dough with chocolate...or the limited edition cotton candy (that one with vanilla, though!). It's weird how even their most chocolateyist, ooeyist, gooeyist (like Chocolate Extreme) comes with vanilla ice cream! You have to specifically request chocolate even if it has a name like that! :rolleyes:

:welcome: TO OUR CRUISE THREAD, JIM!!! You'll have to pop in & post once in awhile! I'm not sure I could get Justin to even look at it. :rolleyes2 He has his own forums that he goes to (motorcycle or music related), so he's on those all the time. He'd probably keel over at all the info I've shared over the last 1 1/2 yrs! :rotfl: He is getting SUPER excited, though, too!! I think it's about time to pop in the DCL DVD again and get everyone's excitement up to the next level :hyper: (it's already up there, but since it's getting so close, I think we need a bit more excitement!) Seriously, it's ALL I think about all day long!! And meeting you guys, too!! :grouphug: I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Ok, is there a Dairy Queen near WDW or on the way to the port? Those sound SO good. I love chocolate and mint stuff (and the best part about that is no one else in the family does, so if I order it ITS ALL MINE!!!

He's been reading it all day still hasn't caught up yet. He isn't on FB but I'll have to be better about checking out the group site and letting him look over my shoulder.

I think Palo is amazing no matter when you do it. So who else is celebrating their anniversary? We celebrated my sons birthday on a November 2008 cruise and the castmembers were great. I read in the Passporter book to call DCL three weeks prior to let them know the occassion and they will have the surprise waiting for you. We are excited about Rasul. DW and I have not spoiled ourselves to anytype of spa treatments. :woohoo:

Quick reference for anniversaries:

SpeedFigure 5th Anniversary on May 14th
Tazgirl1981 10th Anniversary
krishouse 12th Anniversary on 5/17
ottermouse 12th Anniversary on 5/17
shasess 1st Anniversary on 5/17
DisneyTripReports 20th Anniversary on 5/20
2 Eagle Scout 25th Anniversary
Mother_Hen 25th Anniversary


LOL!! :rotfl2: My mom is the same way, I am going to break it to her today when she is over for a visit. Maybe I can recruit her to help me get them ready....I have some ideas of what I am going to do. I think a canvas bag is more my style rather than a full FE, but I do like to admire everyone else's:)

We started training for the half marathon yesterday and wiped ourselves out - no one can walk around here today!! Then whatever good I did while out exercising, I undid when I had half a bag of licorice last night. :eek:

Happy Sunday everyone!!
I haven't mentioned any of the cruise/DIS boards/FE stuff to my mom. She doesn't understand how the whole internet stuff works and thinks we are crazy for going to the same place every vacation. Some people just don't get it and never will...:confused3

woohoo! I just saved $400 switching from CBR - pirate room to Port Orleans - Riverside - amazing!! Has anyone stayed at POR? It looks really nice from the website....and since we are only there 3 nights before leaving on the cruise, I am thinking no one will miss the pirate theming....Now I have that $400 that I budgeted to spend on something else
SWEET! I'm hoping that we get the gas surcharge back so we can use that to pay for some of our food at WDW!

We have stayed at POR. It has been a few years ago. One of the best things that my kids liked was the boat ride down to Downtown Disney. We would go there in the evening after going to the parks.<
If you take the boat you'll be passing right by Old Key West! We LOVE the ride to DTD - Jim said that would be his dream Disney job. Just driving the boat back and forth and getting to talk to vacationers.

we have decided To!!! I think your right! We will have a great table!!! and no one has 7 children!!! LOL:rotfl:

Jane can you conferm you got the post??? Thanks :hippie:
Got it! I'll call in the morning.

We took the dog on a 4 mile walk today (getting in shape for all the walking at WDW) I'm amazed at anyone that is training for marathons. I could probably walk it, but I don't do the running thing.

When we got back home I returned to working on our FE. Ours will have more of a knapsack type of feel instead of the pocket type. I've finally finished the actual bags (I was able to find some cloth bags at the dollar store, but they had this weird decoration on the flap and were really thin. I bought extra bags, ripped off the flap, created a lining and re-created the flap. Once I'm done with the decorations, I'll post a picture. Can anyone tell me what is the distance from the top of the hanger to the top of the pocket? I've sewed a strap on mine, so I hope I guessed right on the lenght.

I was going to work on the countdown calendar poster, but that just didn't happen this weekend... Where is the time going? Not that I'm complaining, but there is so much to do before we leave...

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I'll be sending out the updated FE/Cruisers list tonight. I've formatted it so it should print out easier to read. If you haven't been recieving the list and would like to just PM me your email address and I'll add you to the group distribution.

Not to keep bugging anyone, but if you want to joing the FE group or would like to have the wrist bands, the deadline is April 1. Just post your request and we will add you.

Jane
 
Thats where we will be for 14 nights before the cruise, so see you there!

That is so great that you will be there too!! :woohoo: I like the sound of the resort - gorgeous and peaceful are just what we need! We have stayed at ASM, Pop, AKL so far and I am hell bent on trying them all!


Wow!!! You guys will practically be our neighbors!!! We will be at POFQ:woohoo:

And now you got me really wondering about these magic cookie bars!!! Sounds YUMMMMM!!!:cloud9:

we have decided To!!! I think your right! We will have a great table!!! and no one has 7 children!!! LOL:rotfl:

YEA!!!!!!!:yay::yay::yay::yay::yay:That made my day! It's going to be a blast! We can't wait!!
 
Quick reference for anniversaries:

SpeedFigure 5th Anniversary on May 14th
Tazgirl1981 10th Anniversary
krishouse 12th Anniversary on 5/17
ottermouse 12th Anniversary on 5/17
shasess 1st Anniversary on 5/17
DisneyTripReports 20th Anniversary on 5/20
2 Eagle Scout 25th Anniversary
Mother_Hen 25th Anniversary


Jane

Please add us too. We are celebrating our 10 year annivesary with the vow renewal on Thursday, our last sea day.:lovestruc

:love::love:THERE'S GOING TO BE SO MUCH LOVE ON THIS SHIP:love::love:

:lovestrucPERFECT:lovestruc
 
It was such a pretty spring day here today that we decided to have our first barbeque cookout of the season. John makes the most wonderful fresh corn on the grill that he calls "drunken corn". I am sooo stuffed. I have completed screwed up my pre cruise diet. I guess I'll have to work twice as hard on the elliptical on Monday.


Ok girly, I have to ask, What's "drunken corn"?:goodvibes
 
When we got back home I returned to working on our FE. Ours will have more of a knapsack type of feel instead of the pocket type. I've finally finished the actual bags (I was able to find some cloth bags at the dollar store, but they had this weird decoration on the flap and were really thin. I bought extra bags, ripped off the flap, created a lining and re-created the flap. Once I'm done with the decorations, I'll post a picture. Can anyone tell me what is the distance from the top of the hanger to the top of the pocket? I've sewed a strap on mine, so I hope I guessed right on the lenght.

I was going to work on the countdown calendar poster, but that just didn't happen this weekend... Where is the time going? Not that I'm complaining, but there is so much to do before we leave...

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I'll be sending out the updated FE/Cruisers list tonight. I've formatted it so it should print out easier to read. If you haven't been recieving the list and would like to just PM me your email address and I'll add you to the group distribution.

Not to keep bugging anyone, but if you want to joing the FE group or would like to have the wrist bands, the deadline is April 1. Just post your request and we will add you.

Jane


Wow Jane. It sounds like you had a busy day! I can't wait to see a picture of your FE! It sounds perfect. I love things that are hand made and original. It makes it that much more special:)

I know, the time seems to be slipping away! Before you know it, we will all be on the ship talking face to face rather than in far away places on the computer!! WOOO-HOOO:cool1::banana::cool1::banana:

Shawn and I are so excited to join you and Jim for dinner! It's going to be an awesome vacation!!


Oh, and before I forget (can't believe I kept forgetting) We want 2 wristbands!!:thumbsup2
 
Ok girly, I have to ask, What's "drunken corn"?:goodvibes

:rotfl:
He takes fresh corn (still in the husk), cuts a slit in the husk, put a few slices of butter in the husk, adds a few spices, pours a little Budweiser beer in the husk, wraps it in aluminum foil, and slowly cooks it on the grill.....
 
Please add us too. We are celebrating our 10 year annivesary with the vow renewal on Thursday, our last sea day.:lovestruc

:love::love:THERE'S GOING TO BE SO MUCH LOVE ON THIS SHIP:love::love:

:lovestrucPERFECT:lovestruc

I'm so sorry I missed you!!!

what is the total on the FE? (as in # of people) I want to order my gifts......

As of right now we are at:

Total # of Cabins: 35
Total # of People: 104

Breakdown:
Men: 37
Women: 39
Girls (under 18): 12
Boys (under 18): 16

The deadline is April 1 so there is a chance that there will be some additions.

I'm prepping the spreadsheet update...

Jane
 
SWEET! I'm hoping that we get the gas surcharge back so we can use that to pay for some of our food at WDW!

We took the dog on a 4 mile walk today (getting in shape for all the walking at WDW) I'm amazed at anyone that is training for marathons. I could probably walk it, but I don't do the running thing.

When we got back home I returned to working on our FE. Ours will have more of a knapsack type of feel instead of the pocket type. I've finally finished the actual bags (I was able to find some cloth bags at the dollar store, but they had this weird decoration on the flap and were really thin. I bought extra bags, ripped off the flap, created a lining and re-created the flap. Once I'm done with the decorations, I'll post a picture. Can anyone tell me what is the distance from the top of the hanger to the top of the pocket? I've sewed a strap on mine, so I hope I guessed right on the lenght.
Jane

Jane (and anyone else who paid the fuel surcharge) - there was a note on my reservation online (I booked with Disney direct) that this amount has been credited back to my account as an onboard, fully refundable credit....which just rocks!! $133....coming back to me.

Your FE sounds great, I can't wait to see it.

a 4 mile walk sounds impressive to me....add another 9 miles and you have a half marathon :lmao: I know it is insane to do it, I just hope to finish

:rotfl:
He takes fresh corn (still in the husk), cuts a slit in the husk, put a few slices of butter in the husk, adds a few spices, pours a little Budweiser beer in the husk, wraps it in aluminum foil, and slowly cooks it on the grill.....


This sounds amazing!! I bet you feel stuffed right now!!

:banana:
 
I'm so sorry I missed you!!!



As of right now we are at:

Total # of Cabins: 35
Total # of People: 104

Breakdown:
Men: 37
Women: 39
Girls (under 18): 12
Boys (under 18): 16

The deadline is April 1 so there is a chance that there will be some additions.

I'm prepping the spreadsheet update...

Jane

Jane, thanks for this information! Not to sound like a dummy, but do most people give for each person or each cabin or each cabin with extra for the children? I have some ideas of what I am going to do...but before I get too far I am curious about how it works....
 
Quick reference for anniversaries:

SpeedFigure 5th Anniversary on May 14th
Tazgirl1981 10th Anniversary
krishouse 12th Anniversary on 5/17
ottermouse 12th Anniversary on 5/17
shasess 1st Anniversary on 5/17
DisneyTripReports 20th Anniversary on 5/20
2 Eagle Scout 25th Anniversary
Mother_Hen 25th Anniversary

Us too!! 10th Anniversary on May 12th! We'll be at the Boardwalk then!
 




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