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

[aimathy]

I'm a bit overwhelmed with this board right now. I just found it and I'm sooo happy that I did! We are on this cruisea and I'm so happy to "meet" some others who are on it as well. It'll be my husband, myself, DD (12), DS (9, his birthday is the day we sail) and DD (10 months). We're excited and I can't wait! Any help or info you may have for me would be hugely appreciated. In the meantime, I'll poke around and see what I can find out for myself! Thanks!

 

[SpeedFigure]

I really wish I could keep up all day long with this board, darn work!!!

What Cinda, you mean that you want pay for everything I do onboard! Too funny, they didn't even ask me this and I was the one that linked the ressies. So you, JorDan, and I are all linked and I did request the 6 pm rotation. DCL told me that they put the request down for the specific rotation but that it cannot be guaranteed. They also asked that Cinda and JorDan also call their TA and have them request the 6 pm rotation too for the best chance. We booked directly through DCL so there wasn't a problem. It would be nice being near everyone else.... maybe since we all requested the same rotation we may just get lucky. I told my DH that this will be great because our table mates hopefully won't look at me like I'm crazy when I want to take pictures of our meals (I said they're from the disboard, they get it). He thought I was absolutely crazy everytime I wanted to take food pics on our disneymoon!



Cinda, I think that would be a great idea to get all the meets posted together in one place. We could have like our own group's mini Navigator!! I'd be happy to put all the meet time togethers and e-mail it to everyone, but I'll need to know what we want to do first. I'm also thinking that we should have "unofficial" meets like the Cove Cafe and try to pick areas of the ship so we can be in the same areas for some of the deck parties, or sit in the same areas during the shows, or even on Castaway Cay. Val - I think you mentioned a few of these many many posts ago so you probably even have some better ideas!

I will be calling Disney on Monday to talk about my ground transportation. Since I booked through Travelocity, I'm my own TA. So I'll put in a request for 6 PM as well.

Great idea about having our own mini navigator!!
From what I remember at the deck parties...a great place to meet up would be at the back of the pool between the hot tubs. Then those that want to dance can and those that don't can mingle or go up top.
I know for me, once I'm done stuffing myself at Dinner, I'll go straight to the theater and stand in line to get seats. I always LOVE sitting a few rows from the front in the center (like 8-12 rows back). So anyone that wants to join me in line is more than welcome! I think we can save a few seats, but I can't save them all!!!
Oh and no worries about taking food pictures, I do the same thing. Plus my family will want to know the details...
As for the meets, maybe we should choose a few places some of us know we'll be at to put on the mini navigator...Like if you are going to do Bingo on one of the Day at Seas? Or tastings? Those who NEED their morning java fix, what times do you expect to be up at the Cove??

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

I'm a bit overwhelmed with this board right now. I just found it and I'm sooo happy that I did! We are on this cruisea and I'm so happy to "meet" some others who are on it as well. It'll be my husband, myself, DD (12), DS (9, his birthday is the day we sail) and DD (10 months). We're excited and I can't wait! Any help or info you may have for me would be hugely appreciated. In the meantime, I'll poke around and see what I can find out for myself! Thanks!

to our cruise thread!!! I'll add your info (and anything else you want me to put--pics, excursions, etc.) to posts #1&2!



So here's what I've posted before about some of the previous DIS meets for me (anyone else with different meets, PLEASE post those, too, so we can decide!).

And just because it's set up as a "DIS meet," don't feel like you have to be at every single one of them either. We kinda hit & missed the ones last time. Here's some that were set up for our group last time, as well as some we've already talked about:

SATURDAY
***In the terminal. Most of us arrived right at 10:00, so we had quite a bit of time to meet & greet with everyone. The photos we all posted beforehand really helped us recognize each other from across the room!!
***The Mickey Pool (for those of us with younger kids) right after embarkation. I'm sure there may have been something going on at the Goofy Pool, too, for those with older kids but we weren't part of that.
***Walking Ship Tour 2:30-3:15 per Navigator
***3:00 in the Promenade Lounge. I forgot about this one, so we didn't attend. Oops!
***Deck 10 for the Sailaway Party. We did have trouble finding everyone, though, so there may have been several small groups of us spread out. We had just a few others DIS'ers right around us.

SUNDAY
***FKLP Tour. We don't have to do this as a group, but I think a few people are interested in doing this, so maybe we could meet up somewhere along the way to compare our favorites and "ooooh" and "aaaaaah" over them!

FRIDAY
***CC--far end of family beach.
***'Til We Meet Again (character show) in the lobby Friday night. As an impromptu meeting that was set up just hours earlier, we did end up with quite a group and probably ended up being the largest meet that I attended.

VARIOUS
***All the tastings had groups in it. Wine, margarita/tequila, martini, and beer.
***Palo brunch, tea, or dinner, if you want to do this with a fellow DISer.
***Bingo
***Galley tour (I know we want to do this!)
***Karaoke

 

[Bellamickey]

I think it's great that everyone is getting so excited at our 50 day mark!

I know most everyone is linked up for dinner.
We're not linked with anyone for the "late" dinner seating. I just hope and want everyone to know that I look forward to meeting all of you on the dis meets!!

Val- I'm glad everything went well

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

I guess I started this post on a different computer and then moved upstairs to post the DIS meets. Sorry!

We have been on the DCL Western cruise a few times and tried both the Blond Giraffe and Kermit's and a few more. My wife considers herself a Key Lime Pie connoisseur and I am one in training. We both vote hands down for Kermit's. Also, Try their Key Lime cookies. Their Key Lime juice and cookbooks make great gifts.

Kermit's is the one I tried!! It's also called Key West Lime Shoppe This is the sign that was at the ice cream shop where I had mine.

Paypal would be fine by me!

Paypal is fine with me, too.

Maybe we could set up an area in the cruise terminal that for all of us to try and congregate. Just a thought!

I think that sounds good, too, BUT it sounds like anyone taking the DCL transfer bus won't be there until later. I know I'll be heading straight to the Mickey Pool when they call my boarding # (hopefully 2 or 3!), so I'd hate to have someone miss out on getting onboard early because they're waiting in the terminal for others to show up.

DCL told me that they put the request down for the specific rotation but that it cannot be guaranteed. They also asked that Cinda and JorDan also call their TA and have them request the 6 pm rotation too for the best chance.

I'm glad we were told the same thing! DCL CM was going to go through all 10 reservations and request it, but once she was seeing TA's involved, she stopped and said the TA would have to call.

So out of the 10 that Mati linked, who all has a TA? My parents & I do, and Mati obviously does. Who else? If you don't have a TA, apparently you can just call and request the 6:00 APLLAPL seating. I'll see if my TA is in the office tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll call on Monday morning.

I told my DH that this will be great because our table mates hopefully won't look at me like I'm crazy when I want to take pictures of our meals (I said they're from the disboard, they get it). He thought I was absolutely crazy everytime I wanted to take food pics on our disneymoon!

I know I've gotten some funny looks before, too!

Cinda, I think that would be a great idea to get all the meets posted together in one place. We could have like our own group's mini Navigator!! I'd be happy to put all the meet time togethers and e-mail it to everyone, but I'll need to know what we want to do first.

Wonderful idea!! Thanks for offering to do this! Once it's finalized, I can post on #1 also so it's all handy for future quick reference, too.

So what is everyone else thinking? Here's what I've posted in the past. If you want to copy & state your opinion on these, you can and maybe even add some extra ideas for us to comment on.

 

[Bellamickey]

I was wondering......There are quite a few people that Val has listed on page one that we really don't see on the boards much anymore.

Are we going to somehow reconfirm with them that they are "still" participating in the FE exchange.

I would just hate for everyone to bring all this extra stuff, being the luggage laws now, and then them changing their mind and not participating.

Just a thought......

 

[lucyddr]

If anyone has a ressie at Palo for brunch on a sea day. I think Monday or Thursday. Could you add me to your reservation. I really won't be much of a bother. I don't eat much lol. Crystal,

If you are serious, just PM me! I don't know of it will let me online, but I could probably call and see about adding you!

I'm a bit overwhelmed with this board right now. I just found it and I'm sooo happy that I did! We are on this cruisea and I'm so happy to "meet" some others who are on it as well. It'll be my husband, myself, DD (12), DS (9, his birthday is the day we sail) and DD (10 months). We're excited and I can't wait! Any help or info you may have for me would be hugely appreciated. In the meantime, I'll poke around and see what I can find out for myself! Thanks!

Welcome! Your son and I have the same birthday (only I'm 22 years older)! It will definitely be a great day!

Lyndsay and Jordan: You'll see the credit card link-up option when you do your paperwork online. Yes...I've already done ours because I know I'm going to be on call the weekend before we leave and the Wed. night before we leave on Sunday. So, I can't afford to procrastinate...Plus, I'm excited!

Belinda: I agree. It would be nice to know for sure as it would help with packing!

 

[texfinn]

Wow -- just goes to show -- I know SQUAT about this cruising stuff!

Val, will email Walt (my TA) and request the 6:00 APLLAPL seating. I know he already requested the 6:00 seating but it sounds like that doesn't make much difference without the letters next to it! I can email Kym about it too.

I am good with whatever meets y'all decide. I do know we are planning on using car service (anyone at Swan area on the 16th and want to share?) and plan on being at the port by 10 so hopefully will be on board early, eat and see you at the Mickey pool.

I will post the tasting info again next week. Still scrambling to get the house ready for MIL.

 

[Bellamickey]

Mati- I hope your presentation went well this morning! I sent you a text at 5am

Val- I think your dis meets that you have lined up are great! We're up for anything as well.

I don't think that we will arrive at the port until well after 1:30 since POFQ wont be picking us up until 12:05pm!!!!!!
Hopefully I will get to see you guys at the sail away party or the mickey pool! I'd love to see my hubby try and go down that slide!!! kidding!! LOLOLOL

 

[NoodlesMom]

So out of the 10 that Mati linked, who all has a TA? My parents & I do, and Mati obviously does. Who else? If you don't have a TA, apparently you can just call and request the 6:00 APLLAPL seating. I'll see if my TA is in the office tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll call on Monday morning.

We are using a TA as well so I will give them a call Monday.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

I had it done yesterday, and everything went fine! I was SO surprised by Matt being in the bottom 3! I think I slept through that one, though, because I woke up & saw him & Michael standing there and COULDN'T BELIEVE IT!!!! There's NO WAY Megan did that much better than Matt and Scott (although I wasn't too impressed with Scott anyway, but I definitely think Megan should be GONE!).

Val - so glad you are feeling better and everything went well - hoping the results comeback quickly and are EXACTLY what you want.

I totally agree with you. Megan should have been gone last week. Her performance was TERRIBLE this week. I was shocked with Matt being in the bottom three. Maybe people thought he was safe and didn't vote for him. I'm SURE that if he was in the bottom that the judges would have used their save.

I'm a bit overwhelmed with this board right now. I just found it and I'm sooo happy that I did! We are on this cruisea and I'm so happy to "meet" some others who are on it as well. It'll be my husband, myself, DD (12), DS (9, his birthday is the day we sail) and DD (10 months). We're excited and I can't wait! Any help or info you may have for me would be hugely appreciated. In the meantime, I'll poke around and see what I can find out for myself! Thanks!

Welcome aimathy!! I've sent you a PM (private message) to tell you all about the FE and wrist bands that we mention on the boards. You will need to post at least 10 times to be able to PM back (forgot about that when I sent you the message). Just post to the boards if you would like to be added to either of those groups by 4/1.

So here's what I've posted before about some of the previous DIS meets for me (anyone else with different meets, PLEASE post those, too, so we can decide!).

And just because it's set up as a "DIS meet," don't feel like you have to be at every single one of them either. We kinda hit & missed the ones last time. Here's some that were set up for our group last time, as well as some we've already talked about:

SATURDAY
***In the terminal. Most of us arrived right at 10:00, so we had quite a bit of time to meet & greet with everyone. The photos we all posted beforehand really helped us recognize each other from across the room!!
***The Mickey Pool (for those of us with younger kids) right after embarkation. I'm sure there may have been something going on at the Goofy Pool, too, for those with older kids but we weren't part of that.
***Walking Ship Tour 2:30-3:15 per Navigator
***3:00 in the Promenade Lounge. I forgot about this one, so we didn't attend. Oops!
***Deck 10 for the Sailaway Party. We did have trouble finding everyone, though, so there may have been several small groups of us spread out. We had just a few others DIS'ers right around us. I think the location that JorDan suggested is a great one.

SUNDAY
***FKLP Tour. We don't have to do this as a group, but I think a few people are interested in doing this, so maybe we could meet up somewhere along the way to compare our favorites and "ooooh" and "aaaaaah" over them! We need to decide on a specific start time, if the ship docks at 12:30 would a 1:00pm meet be too early?

FRIDAY
***CC--far end of family beach. We'll be heading over to Serenity Bay most of the day - Adults on the loose join us there!
***'Til We Meet Again (character show) in the lobby Friday night. As an impromptu meeting that was set up just hours earlier, we did end up with quite a group and probably ended up being the largest meet that I attended.
****How about the Farewell Party?

VARIOUS
***All the tastings had groups in it. Wine, margarita/tequila, martini, and beer.
***Palo brunch, tea, or dinner, if you want to do this with a fellow DISer.
***Bingo
***Galley tour (I know we want to do this!)
***Karaoke

The activities that I/we are planning on are:

Sunday
Spa Jackpot Bingo @ 7:15pm

Monday
The Art of Entertaining on Monday (@ 10:15am on an old Navigator)Making of the Magic @ 1:00pm
3:00pm High Tea (we can try and add more once we are on the ship)

Tuesday
So You Think You Know Your Music @ 10:30pm

Wednesday
Pirate Party - would the location between the hot tubs be a good place to meet for this party?

Thursday
Final Jackpot BINGO @ 3:30pm

Friday
I might try the Yoga on the Beach (Serenity Bay)

I'm going to try and hit the gym as much as possible. If I wake up early I'll do it first thing in the morning (get it done early)
Cove Cafe - if we don't have anything to do, we'll probably check this out in the late afternoon to see what nibbles are there and play some games.

I think it's great that everyone is getting so excited at our 50 day mark!

I know most everyone is linked up for dinner.
We're not linked with anyone for the "late" dinner seating. I just hope and want everyone to know that I look forward to meeting all of you on the dis meets!! [\quote] Hey Belinda - We'd be happy to link for dinner with you. I can try and call link us up if you want to PM me your confirmation number. I was hoping to shoot for 8:00pm if that works for you. Any others want to join?

I brought home a big foam core poster from work tonight. I think I'm going to put together a countdown calendar. I'm getting SO excited!!!

Jane

 

[texfinn]

Mati- I hope your presentation went well this morning! I sent you a text at 5am

Val- I think your dis meets that you have lined up are great! We're up for anything as well.

I don't think that we will arrive at the port until well after 1:30 since POFQ wont be picking us up until 12:05pm!!!!!!
Hopefully I will get to see you guys at the sail away party or the mickey pool! I'd love to see my hubby try and go down that slide!!! kidding!! LOLOLOL

Hmmmmm...,didn't get the text. I just texted you -- let's see if it worked! If it did, will program the # into the cell so I can track you down in Epcot! I will need a drinking buddy!

Welcome aimathy!!!! We are glad to have you join us! Important deadlines coming up on April 1. FE if you want to participate in the FE exchange, bracelets if you want one to identify you as part of the DIS and we are linking dinner ressies if you want to do that. It is overwhelming but exciting!!!

It is getting closer and closer!!!

Ok -- text worked. Saving your number. Time for bed -- shouldn't really be drinking the night before MIL arrives should I? well....making me sleepy -- off to bed! Good night everyone!

 

[Bellamickey]

Hey! I've been checking in almost daily. Just didn't have much to add to the conversation, I guess heee!

No, I haven't looked at the website, but I am REALLY excited about that tour! I think we'll get awesome photos and it looks like a really fun one. I can hardly wait!
I have been wanting to do a Disney Cruise for SOOO LONG!

I am so glad you are going to be on the tour with us! It's going to be great to "know" someone else!

Are you getting snow today? Looks like this storm is headed your way! Stay warm!

I'm glad to have someone on the tour that I "Know" as well! I think its going to be a lot of fun!!!

No snow yet, just very light sleet! I'm hoping it doens't get to bad overnight. I hate driving in that stuff!!

 

[texfinn]

Almost forgot -- presentation went well -- THANKS for asking!!!!

 

[shasess]

I think it's probably just best to pay via paypal or mail a check??? (I don't want to be standing in the promenade taking cash from people & have Disney asking questions)

Paypal works fine with me!!!!!

I'm a bit overwhelmed with this board right now. I just found it and I'm sooo happy that I did! We are on this cruisea and I'm so happy to "meet" some others who are on it as well. It'll be my husband, myself, DD (12), DS (9, his birthday is the day we sail) and DD (10 months). We're excited and I can't wait! Any help or info you may have for me would be hugely appreciated. In the meantime, I'll poke around and see what I can find out for myself! Thanks!

Welcome Aimathy!!!!!

 

[dznyacct]

OK guys, here's my attempt at posting a family photo (from last years Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot) :

Val ~ please move this to page one whenever you have time. I hope you are taking it easy today . ~ Kathy

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

I was wondering......There are quite a few people that Val has listed on page one that we really don't see on the boards much anymore.

Are we going to somehow reconfirm with them that they are "still" participating in the FE exchange.

I would just hate for everyone to bring all this extra stuff, being the luggage laws now, and then them changing their mind and not participating.

Just a thought......

I totally agree! I've PM'd everyone that I didn't have an email address for and to let them know about the 4/1 deadline. I'll send another message on Sunday just to make sure. There are only 2 cabins that originally signed up for the FE list that I don't have an email address for that haven't posted on the boards lately.

Just in case anyone is lurking the total numbers as of right now are:

Total # of cabins: 32
Total # of People: 93
Men: 34
Women: 36
Girls (under 18): 9
Boys (under 18): 14

The list includes:
2 Eagle Scout
austin77
BellaMickey
briarroselynn
DevinDemi2
DevinDemi2
Disgirl83
dznyacct
dznyacct
Faith&Hope
Hudson5&Lennon3
indigodisney
jhart901
jhart901
krishouse
lillygator
lillygator
lucyddr
minniemmom
Noodlesmom
Pooh's-Honey-Pot
pwoodson
shasess
SpeedFigure
Texfinn
tigger2002
Tink113
Tink113
Tink113
Tink113sMom
Tinkattude6
yanjan

The deadline for adding to the group is 4/1.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

OK guys, here's my attempt at posting a family photo (from last years Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot) :


Val ~ please move this to page one whenever you have time. I hope you are taking it easy today . ~ Kathy

GREAT Picture - can hardly wait to see all the great topiaries in May!

 

[shasess]

OK guys, here's my attempt at posting a family photo (from last years Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot) :

Val ~ please move this to page one whenever you have time. I hope you are taking it easy today . ~ Kathy

Lovely family!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!

 

[Bellamickey]

Hmmmmm...,didn't get the text. I just texted you -- let's see if it worked! If it did, will program the # into the cell so I can track you down in Epcot! I will need a drinking buddy!

YEA!! Me too!! I'll be your buddy!!!

We are flying from DFW and land at around 11am. We probably won't get to Epcot till late afternoon. BUT, its open for extra magic hours that Friday night!! (we just gotta get up early, darn)

OK guys, here's my attempt at posting a family photo (from last years Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot) :

Kathy, Thats a great photo!!! Makes me so excited for the flower festival this year!!! Thanks for sharing.