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

[Faith&Hope]

Hi guys! Sorry to keep you waiting for the countdown! Photobucket keeps crashing my AOL (8 times and counting)

So here it is! We have always done one from 30 days and counting but couldn't help ourselves this year!! My older daughter helped the most with it. THe Mickey heads are paint chips from Home Depot that she put in the order she wanted them in and then she wrote the numbers on them. They are held on with repositionable adhesive. The letters and characters are cut out of my cricut (scrapbooking machine).

You can write a title or use stickers! Have fun! Hopefully Home Depot won't catch onto our little secret!!

I think we took off 45 tonight!! We always take one off before going to bed!

Have a great night!
Kym

 

[mother_hen]

Kym, that is SO ADORABLE!
great job you are too clever!

 

[Marcy Mouse]

I didn't have a chance to read the whole thread. I will try to catch up.

Meanwhile, I will introduce myself.

Marcy 34
Dh - Chris 36

We are from Canada. We live in Ontario for six months (spring til fall) and then PEI for fall to spring. We will be driving down from Ontario (22 hours) to the port.

I booked the cruise a couple of months ago. I got one of those sweet deals on a cat 12. My father and his family were supose to join us but they had to opt out. So, it will be just the two of us; however, we do have a 15 year old son who won't be joining us. He is in school and he really didn't want to come. Go figure!

I have booked the Grand Caymen city tour and the Zip Line and Sknorkle for Mexico. I think we are just going to walk around and check out Key West. The Zip Line sounded like fun and I booked the tour so that we would have something to do. Maybe we can find a nice beach afterwards.

Anyway, I hope you don't mind one more joining in eventhough it is a little late.

Marcy

 

[tsarina13]

We have one of those countdown clocks left over from the new millenium. I've been using it ever since! I use it to count down to every vacation I have, and sometimes even for family visits. I've only had to replace the battery once in 9 years! I think because we've always used it Carissa has a pretty good sense of time, and it doesn't bother her too much to see 365 days on the countdown clock. She knows that sooner or later it will be down to 1.

We're flying in from NJ to Orlando on Friday the 15th and staying at the Hyatt. I belong to mypoints.com and I've been able to get gift certificates to the Hyatt so it really it won't cost us much of anything to stay there. We usually fly on Spirit out of Atlantic City. Cheap flights and a much better airport than Newark!

 

[tinkattude6]

I didn't have a chance to read the whole thread. I will try to catch up.

Meanwhile, I will introduce myself.

Marcy 34
Dh - Chris 36

We are from Canada. We live in Ontario for six months (spring til fall) and then PEI for fall to spring. We will be driving down from Ontario (22 hours) to the port.

I booked the cruise a couple of months ago. I got one of those sweet deals on a cat 12. My father and his family were supose to join us but they had to opt out. So, it will be just the two of us; however, we do have a 15 year old son who won't be joining us. He is in school and he really didn't want to come. Go figure!

I have booked the Grand Caymen city tour and the Zip Line and Sknorkle for Mexico. I think we are just going to walk around and check out Key West. The Zip Line sounded like fun and I booked the tour so that we would have something to do. Maybe we can find a nice beach afterwards.

Anyway, I hope you don't mind one more joining in eventhough it is a little late.

Marcy

Welcome Marcy & Chris,

 

[tinkattude6]

Hi guys! Sorry to keep you waiting for the countdown! Photobucket keeps crashing my AOL (8 times and counting)

So here it is! We have always done one from 30 days and counting but couldn't help ourselves this year!! My older daughter helped the most with it. THe Mickey heads are paint chips from Home Depot that she put in the order she wanted them in and then she wrote the numbers on them. They are held on with repositionable adhesive. The letters and characters are cut out of my cricut (scrapbooking machine).

You can write a title or use stickers! Have fun! Hopefully Home Depot won't catch onto our little secret!!

I think we took off 45 tonight!! We always take one off before going to bed!

Have a great night!
Kym

Kim, That is so cute. My family does the chain link countdown. Thanks for sharing. Crystal,

 

[shasess]

I didn't have a chance to read the whole thread. I will try to catch up.

Meanwhile, I will introduce myself.

Marcy 34
Dh - Chris 36

We are from Canada. We live in Ontario for six months (spring til fall) and then PEI for fall to spring. We will be driving down from Ontario (22 hours) to the port.

I booked the cruise a couple of months ago. I got one of those sweet deals on a cat 12. My father and his family were supose to join us but they had to opt out. So, it will be just the two of us; however, we do have a 15 year old son who won't be joining us. He is in school and he really didn't want to come. Go figure!

I have booked the Grand Caymen city tour and the Zip Line and Sknorkle for Mexico. I think we are just going to walk around and check out Key West. The Zip Line sounded like fun and I booked the tour so that we would have something to do. Maybe we can find a nice beach afterwards.

Anyway, I hope you don't mind one more joining in eventhough it is a little late.

Marcy

Welcome Marcy Mouse!!!

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

Marcy 34
Dh - Chris 36

to our cruise thread!!! I'll put all your info on post #2! (Any pics to share so we can recognize you?!?!)

Here's a belated to JorDan!!! Sorry I didn't get it posted yesterday!!

 

[Tink113]

Just wanted to remind everyone that today is the cut off date for wristbands!
I'm ordering tomorrow!

Faith&Hope - Thanks for the offer to help out, but I think we are good to go! You are too sweet.

Pickup times & locations
10am until time to board -----PC Cruise Terminal
3pm ------------------------1st cruise meet (Mom will be there at 3!)

For anyone who still hasn't gotten their wristband, I will put them in my FE outside my stateroom for you to pick up. (Will post the stateroom as soon a "I" know)

I'll give everyone a total when I order, but it should be really close to what I posted the other day: $1.75 each

Austin - I gotcha on the list

Please see below to confirm that you have been added

DIS NAME(s) Adult Wristbands/Youth Wristbands
2 Eagle Scout 2
austin77 3
briarroselynn 2
Disgirl83 2
Faith&Hope 1
Hudson5&Lennon3 1/3
jhart901 2/3
lillygator 4/2
lucyddr 2
Noodlesmom 2/2
Pooh's-Honey-Pot 2
SpeedFigure 1/1
Texfinn 2/2
Tink113 7/3
YanJan 4
aimathy 3/1
dznyacct 4
Mother_Hen 2/1
princessljw 6
shasess 2
Tinkattude6 4/1
tsarina13 3/1
Tazgirl1981 2
TOTALS 63/20

 

[DevinDemi2]

Welcome Marcy and Chris!!


Kym I love the countdown calendar!!! I am going to home depot today to get those mickey paint chips... keep your fingers crossed for me

Happy Belated Birthday Jordyn.. I love The Cheesecake Factory.. too bad there aren't any in MI.
Sorry about the bad service..

We will be cruising next month.. hooorraayy!!

 

[texfinn]

Ok -- whew. A few minutes of quiet time between work and MIL/MILDH being here. Let's see if I can catch up first. For the sake of length -- not going to quote unless I think I need to.

Val -- Thanks for sharing your experiences on the mug. I know Yoni prefers drafts but when the glass is too big, and he doesn't chug it down (which I hate it when he does that) the beer can get warm so we were on the fence on buying it.

Shawan -- the Excel is AWESOME! I will definitely use that. Thanks for sharing!

Val -- called my TA and he put in my dining request. Hopefully it will work out and we will all stay linked and have that 6pm dinner time!

Shauna -- what is a Disney in Home Celebration? Never heard of that....

Ottermouse -- love the countdown calendar idea -- it sounds like something I could actually pull off unlike...

Kym -- your countdown is FABULOUS! I am not creative at all and have NEVER created a scrapbook so, don't think I could even try.....although the Home Depot paint chips are pretty darn cute!

Carole -- thanks for looking into the paypal option for the wristbands! Sounds like that will work!

Shawan --We cruise NEXT Month! Yes, I like the way that rolls off my tongue too!!! Woo Hoo!!!

Ok -- so our plans for getting to Florida. We are coming from Austin and will fly with Southwest. Sabrina has an early release from school that day and technically, Yoni and I are working so we will probably head out to the airport @3:30 and still check email/etc from there. Once I set foot on that plane, our vacation starts! We arrive late in Orlando via Houston (@10:45pm) and will have a car service pick us up and take us to the Swan. Then we get to visit Epcot in the morning! Woo Hoo! Just has me excited thinking about it!

Sonya -- we are leaving Cuervo with a friend instead of a kennel. We are bit nervous about it but will try it first this weekend when we head to Vegas. Hopefully that works out otherwise, we will have to do the same thing....

Tigger -- had no clue who Mike Super was until you posted the thread and info! Thanks for sharing. Told Yoni and he was excited!!!! It looks like a cool show!!!

Chasity -- LOVE LOVE LOVE the magic fact on Gus! The kids love magic so it would be great to have him do some for us and the kids! We will ask him and of course, call him the Great Gusdini!!!

Lynsey -- you are so awesome for putting together navigators for us. Thank you for doing that!!!!!

Kym, Shawan, Tiffany -- you guys are so awesome with trying to get the gal on Cruise Critic over with us. Glad it worked out but just warmed my heart as to how sweet and welcoming you guys are.

JorDan -- I am glad you had a wonderful birthday! I love the CF. It is a bummer that the guy blew off your birthday. Obviously he didn't realize you were a PRINCESS!!!! I am glad you still go your cheesecake and I hope you enjoyed it!!!

Marcy -- WELCOME! This is a GREAT group and I am so glad you are joining us!!! The first entry is a good summary of who we are with some pictures too! Post one or two when you can so we can recognize you at the port!

BTW ---- ummmmm....where is PEI? Sorry, didn't understand that....

Tammy -- love the countdown clock idea! I wish I had one! I never thought to use it for other things!

Amanda -- thanks again for organizing the wristbands! I think it is so great that we will all have a way to identify each other!

Ok -- back to work. Will try to post pictures from MIL visit (in case you guys are interested) later tonight.... Only 2 more days and we go to Vegas! Woo Hoo!

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

Cinda?!?!
Belinda?!?!
Jamie?!?!

Where have you guys been? We're missing you!!!

 

[SpeedFigure]

Real quick, thought I'd share my awesom birthday cakes my mom and sister made. One is Cruise ears and the other is the Cruise room number plaque. Loved them!!

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

Real quick, thought I'd share my awesom birthday cakes my mom and sister made. One is Cruise ears and the other is the Cruise room number plaque. Loved them!!

I want to see them, but they're not showing up!!!

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

Quick question . . . is there a "Diversions" on the Magic? Apparently I can get excellent chicken wings there! I love me some wings!

 

[ottermouse]

Hi everyone! I hope this messages finds everyone doing well. I am off today because of a promotion test tomorrow. I am taking today to review, relax, and surf about DCL online. We are excited say we are cruising next month. We booked our cruise on 2 Dec 08 and the time flew by. I think this month will be gone in no time since it will be busy for us. Saturday we are going to do more cruise attire shoping with our friends that will be cruising with us. DW and DD are more excited about saturday then me and DS, i guess it is a lady thing. By any chance did anyone experience the Pirate Encounter at Grand Cayman? If so, how was it? Well I am going to get going, I will check back later.

 

[SpeedFigure]

Ok let me try the pictures again

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

Quick question . . . is there a "Diversions" on the Magic? Apparently I can get excellent chicken wings there! I love me some wings!

Yes! It's one of the bars. I think that's where the margarita/tequila tasting was at.

 

[aimathy]

I feel almost famous! I saw that someone found my post on cruise critic when I was trying to find this board. I'm here! Hooray! Thanks for caring though and I'm glad that I finally found this board. We're really excited that the cruise is next month. We'll be flying out of Newark, NJ on the 15th and staying overnight at the Residence Inn Marriott. I'm a bit nervous about flying with our then 10 month old...but hopefully it will work out. We can't wait!

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

GREAT CAKES, JORDAN!!!

Is there any left to share with us?