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

[ottermouse]

Hey everyone,

It is getting closer for our cruise, just over 6 weeks to go. We are excited and can't wait. The kids are watching the DCL dvd so much I think it is getting worn out...lol....This is our second cruise and we are even more excited. In a few weeks we will be finishing our "Cruise attire" shopping. To help with the countdown, we decided to wait until mid April to finish shopping for what we need.

Is anyone else doing anything to help with the countdown or make the time go faster? Also, on May 17th, it is our 12th wedding anniversary and we will be celebrarting it with reservations at Rasul Spa and Palo. Has anyone experienced the Rasul Spa and if so, how was it?

 

[indigodisney]

Happy Saturday everyone!

I think I need to get my act in gear re: fish extenders....I think I am signed up for this, correct? can someone email me the list? ALso, let me know what information you need from me and I can get this organized and I can also send our cabin number as it has changed.

I think I am going to just use a canvas bag or something like that maybe with indigodisney on it or something like that.

I think for dining we will just stick with a table with my parents and us....smaller group is better but looking forward to meeting everyone at one of the meets - definitely!

have a great day!!

Indigo

P.S - Val, you are so sweet to remember about my kidney stones, they are still in there - close to 50 of them according to the last xray that I had....they are monitoring right now. Surgery hasn't been ruled out....but it is very doubtful that I will pass them so hopefully that means I can wait on it. I must say I was relieved it was stones and not a tumour like they originally thought! Thanks again and I hope you are feeling much better today.

 

[dznyacct]

I would kill for your legs. Seriously.

Sonya ~ I have a feeling I am going to like you a lot ! Thanks for the nice compliment. ~ Kathy

 

[austin77]

Im just touching base!!!

Jane, i will let you know later tonight if we will link, ( I have to confirm with the Boss{ash} lol) I hope thats ok?


I hope we get a shuttle launch, But it does seem to be very unorganized...lol

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS....We are growing like crazy!!! Its getting to the point where if when we all meet on the ship, it might just flip over to one side!!!! lol

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Im just touching base!!!

Jane, i will let you know later tonight if we will link, ( I have to confirm with the Boss{ash} lol) I hope thats ok?


I hope we get a shuttle launch, But it does seem to be very unorganized...lol

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS....We are growing like crazy!!! Its getting to the point where if when we all meet on the ship, it might just flip over to one side!!!! lol

That's fine. If you decide to just PM me your confirmation number and last name. If you went through a Travel Agent, you may need to call them to link us. Just let me know and I'll send your our info (and Belinda's).

J

 

[SpeedFigure]

Is anyone doing the DCL Shuttle from MCO Hyatt?? If so, did you have to reserve your time?

 

[Bellamickey]

Just checked our cruise on the DCL website. They are showing availability for cat 12, although the price (for 2 adults) is ~ $600 more than we paid. I think there are going to be a lot of free upgrades from all those cat 12 cabins they are selling !

WOO-HOO!! That's good news right Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Has anyone tried MotionEaze for motion sickness? http://www.motioneaze.com It's an oil that is placed behind the ear and is supposed to work almost immediately. My mom says it worked for motion sickness (on land, though), but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it for sea sickness or air sickness. Lennon got sick on the plane last time, so I really want to have something handy for him. I'll try this, but I'm scared of what I'll do if it doesn't work!

I'm with you Val. Shawn got so sick the last time we took the eastern. He never took anything. Just slept it off. We've never used motion sickness medicane so I'm up in the air on what to take with us?
If you find anything good or get some good reviews, let me know pleezzz.

I am soooooo excited!!!!!

My fish extender arrived by UPS today! I love it!!!!

and

My fisher extender gifts for the little ones arrived in the mail today! Everything is all coming together!!!! The cruise will be here before we know it.

Hey you!! Yea! On getting your FE!! It's getting so close. I look foward to your weekly countdown! It keeps me on my toes!!!
Everytime I see it, I stop, drop and bust a move!!! literelly!!! I'm a nut!

Here's just a short post to check in! I have to do some errands and we have an engagement party to go to tonight for some friends. I'm planning on sitting down and printing out the meet options so I can put them all in one place! It will be a start anyways.

so anxious to see when they start assigning room numbers for use gty 12 folks!

Lysney, thank you for taking to time to do the meet options. I know we all appreciate it. Very nice of you.

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.

I just talked to my uncle (he was very surprised to hear from me!), and I asked about the May 15th shuttle launch. He wasn't sure because he apparently hasn't looked that far ahead on the calendar, but he's going to do some checking tomorrow and let me know. Since the last launch had problems, he wasn't sure if it was pushing everything back a bit or not. I'll update as soon as I hear back from him!

Thank you Val!! That would an awesome sight to see. Thank you for keeping us posted.

Im just touching base!!!

Jane, i will let you know later tonight if we will link, ( I have to confirm with the Boss{ash} lol) I hope thats ok?

Aww... I hope you and Ash decide to join us! I think we'd have a great table group!!!

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Hey everyone,

It is getting closer for our cruise, just over 6 weeks to go. We are excited and can't wait. The kids are watching the DCL dvd so much I think it is getting worn out...lol....This is our second cruise and we are even more excited. In a few weeks we will be finishing our "Cruise attire" shopping. To help with the countdown, we decided to wait until mid April to finish shopping for what we need.

Is anyone else doing anything to help with the countdown or make the time go faster? Also, on May 17th, it is our 12th wedding anniversary and we will be celebrarting it with reservations at Rasul Spa and Palo. Has anyone experienced the Rasul Spa and if so, how was it?

There seems to be a lot of annivesary celebrations on this cruise!! Congratulations. I've read about the Rasul Spa but haven't experienced it. We are going to try Palo for brunch this time as everything that I've heard about it is amazing.

I don't know what blizzards are, but I do like the sound of them.

From reading your food report you would proabably love them. I've only seen comercials as there isn't a Dairy Queen anywhere near us, but I think it is soft serve ice cream blended with a mix in (M&M's, Oreo's, etc).

Mati - we are going to be driving to the port and I want to get there about 10 - 10:30. From what I understand it takes about an hour. We'll probably be so excited we'll leave around 8:30 - 9:00am.

I guess the trip is now sufficiantly close enought for Jim to get excited. I've been talking about everyone on this thread since I joined last July. Yesterday I mentioned he should check it out and he opened a DIS account and has been reading the tread from the beginning to get to know everyone! He will most likely just lurk, but now I can tell he's getting excited. I'm not alone anymore in my constant thoughts about the trip!! He's just on page 80 or so right now - Hey Jim, post when you catch up to date!

Jane

 

[Bellamickey]

There seems to be a lot of annivesary celebrations on this cruise!! Congratulations. I've read about the Rasul Spa but haven't experienced it. We are going to try Palo for brunch this time as everything that I've heard about it is amazing.

Jane

Wow! There sure are. That's so great! Congrats to everyone. I think it's gonna be the DCL/LOVE boat

That raised a question? Does DCL have annivesary and birthday buttons like WDW does?

With all of us that are celebrating something special, it would be a nice keepsake!!

 

[SpeedFigure]

Wow! There sure are. That's so great! Congrats to everyone. I think it's gonna be the DCL/LOVE boatk

We could almost remain the group from Key Lime Pie-rates to the Happily Ever After Cruise! haha

That raised a question? Does DCL have annivesary and birthday buttons like WDW does?

With all of us that are celebrating something special, it would be a nice keepsake!!

Good Question!! I'm not sure about buttons, but I know you can call DCL and request a birthday cake OR an anniversary cake. They'll deliver it to your table when you celebrate your special occasion....and it's FREE!!!

For my table mates...we are having anniverary cake for us on our first night (since our anniversary is on the 14th). We all can share it!
(PS My hubby doesn't know )

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

I think I am going to just use a canvas bag or something like that maybe with indigodisney on it or something like that.

That's probably all I'll do, too. Nothing fancy for me! My mom already thinks I'm crazy for having cyberfriends! She'll probably $h!t a brick when she finds out about the FE!!

P.S - Val, you are so sweet to remember about my kidney stones, they are still in there - close to 50 of them according to the last xray that I had....they are monitoring right now. Surgery hasn't been ruled out....but it is very doubtful that I will pass them so hopefully that means I can wait on it. I must say I was relieved it was stones and not a tumour like they originally thought! Thanks again and I hope you are feeling much better today.

Holy buckets!!! 50?!?! Wow...hopefully you won't be passing them. I'd be out of my mind passing that many. Passing one was more than enough for me! (I've had 3 but only passed one.) Keep us updated on what happens. Would surgery be before the cruise?

Its getting to the point where if when we all meet on the ship, it might just flip over to one side!!!! lol

LET'S DO IT!!!

I've only seen comercials as there isn't a Dairy Queen anywhere near us, but I think it is soft serve ice cream blended with a mix in (M&M's, Oreo's, etc).

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! 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!

I guess the trip is now sufficiantly close enought for Jim to get excited. I've been talking about everyone on this thread since I joined last July. Yesterday I mentioned he should check it out and he opened a DIS account and has been reading the tread from the beginning to get to know everyone! He will most likely just lurk, but now I can tell he's getting excited. I'm not alone anymore in my constant thoughts about the trip!! He's just on page 80 or so right now - Hey Jim, post when you catch up to date!

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. 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! 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 (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!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!

 

[ottermouse]

There seems to be a lot of annivesary celebrations on this cruise!! Congratulations. I've read about the Rasul Spa but haven't experienced it. We are going to try Palo for brunch this time as everything that I've heard about it is amazing.
Jane

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.

 

[Hudson5&Lennon3]

So who else is celebrating their anniversary?

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!!

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.

This is what we got last time when we celebrated our 10th anniversary!

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

 

[adedward]

We are very excited about the cruise and all the wonderful folks onboard, but do not need wristbands for the cruise, so you can remove us from that list. Thank you though!

 

[indigodisney]

That's probably all I'll do, too. Nothing fancy for me! My mom already thinks I'm crazy for having cyberfriends! She'll probably $h!t a brick when she finds out about the FE!!

Holy buckets!!! 50?!?! Wow...hopefully you won't be passing them. I'd be out of my mind passing that many. Passing one was more than enough for me! (I've had 3 but only passed one.) Keep us updated on what happens. Would surgery be before the cruise?

Hi Val!

LOL!! 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

I think the surgery discussion will wait until I have my next follow up appointment in June....my family doctor told me that if it was her she wouldn't have the surgery as it is too invasive. The resident who was with the urologist looked like she was going to have kittens she was so excited to be dealing with my weird case.

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.

Happy Sunday everyone!!

 

[texfinn]

Just popping in real quick to comment on a couple things. I will be lurking when I can -- just can't hid as much as I am used to...

Has anyone been following the thread about the new menus? I really don't want to scour through all the pages just to find them, so I'm just curious if anyone else knows the scoop! Is it all 7 nights of new menus, just rotational menus, etc.? Does Palo have a new menu, too?

Hi Val! I read that the new menus don't start until June on the Magic. I think that is a good thing right???

NOOOO
want to be with everyone if ya'll will have me!

V -- we would love to have you sit with us! After reading your TR -- I think you would be a BLAST to sit around at dinner!

Jane -- think it is awesome that Jim is checking us out! Welcome!!!

Thanks for the tip on driving -- guess we will have the car pick us up at 8:30 so we have time to stop off at the grocery store.

Shawan -- I can't wait to get my FE so you must be THRILLED! How exciting!

JorDan -- thanks for the tip. Need to make sure I order Yoni a birthday cake. We will be at Palo that night but might still be a nice gesture.

D -- I finally took the cooler out of the package -- it is NICE! A lot bigger than I thought!

Indigo -- 50 kidney stones --- EEP! I hope you don't have to pass them!

Ok, gotta run again. Have a good day everyone!

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

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I guess the trip is now sufficiantly close enought for Jim to get excited. I've been talking about everyone on this thread since I joined last July. Yesterday I mentioned he should check it out and he opened a DIS account and has been reading the tread from the beginning to get to know everyone! He will most likely just lurk, but now I can tell he's getting excited. I'm not alone anymore in my constant thoughts about the trip!! He's just on page 80 or so right now - Hey Jim, post when you catch up to date!

Jane

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!

That's probably all I'll do, too. Nothing fancy for me! My mom already thinks I'm crazy for having cyberfriends! She'll probably $h!t a brick when she finds out about the FE!!

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! 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!

!!!

Oh I think I had one in Vegas at Christmas!! It was mint choc chip icecream with oreas crumbled on it - it was superb!

On the "cyber friends" thing, tell me about it! The friends we are cruising with (and Tony!!!) think I am a complete geek for being on this site all the time, so I haven't even told them about Fish Extenders - when they see them I hope they will be suitable jealous! They could have joined in if they hadn't mocked me so hard!!

Thanks everyone for the heads up about dinner times - I didn't realise that the "late" seating was then split again in to three more times! Have asked my travel agent to request 8pm!

 

[indigodisney]

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 -

texfinn - good luck with MIL!!!

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

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 -

texfinn - good luck with MIL!!!

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

We stayed at PO French Quarter last year, so we're trying the Riverside part this year. You will love it - it is a gorgeous, peaceful resort. AND the foodcourt sell Magic Cookie Bars - to die for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[indigodisney]

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

We stayed at PO French Quarter last year, so we're trying the Riverside part this year. You will love it - it is a gorgeous, peaceful resort. AND the foodcourt sell Magic Cookie Bars - to die for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is so great that you will be there too!! 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!!