May 25th, 2008 West Coast - Mexico

[MousseauMob]

Opened our box from Disney shopping yesterday and imagine our suprise to find a bit of extra pixie dust. They had included a Power Ranger lunch box, with a matching water bottle in it. Disney say's to keep it with their compliments. The only problem is, my DS12 has never liked Power Rangers and at his age, he's really rather against it! So, while pondering what to do with this, I thought about bringing it on the cruise and sharing the pixie dust to a little power ranger fan. So, if you have a little power ranger fan that would like a new lunch box, please let me know.

 

[tinkmischief]

Hi Everyone
OK so far I have the following participating in the fish extender fun:
tinkmischief
MousseauMob
MrSanderz
4campers

jrp & MaryAZ I believe you both also expressed interest but I don't have any of your details yet. Anyone interested please PM me with cabin#, people in cabin with ages of children. Again, you have until two weeks before the cruise to decide to join in. I will PM everyone with the list at that time.

Also just want to clarify...I am only organizing the fish extender exchanges. The 3PM meet and any other gift exchanges were proposed and organized by other lovely cruisers. My brain can only handle so much organization We will be using the 3 o'clock meet to distribute final lists to the fish extender folks only because that way we can take into account the GTY folks and any upgrades

 

[tinkmischief]

been working on our door signs too. Here is what I have so far but I am in desperate search of a picture of rocket chaged into the pirate ship to add in the water otherwise may have to use a magnet we have of Rocket as a sub

Also got these from the infinitely more talented people on the DISign boards.
from Millie

and from Michelle

Sorry the first one is so big! I keep trying to resize but it's not taking

 

[MousseauMob]

tinkmischief, Awesome! Your signs look great. Love the picture of El Arco. We also got our names done by Michelle - they turned out adorable!

 

[4campers]

been working on our door signs too. Here is what I have so far but I am in desperate search of a picture of rocket chaged into the pirate ship to add in the water otherwise may have to use a magnet we have of Rocket as a sub

Also got these from the infinitely more talented people on the DISign boards.
from Millie

and from Michelle

Sorry the first one is so big! I keep trying to resize but it's not taking

Melissa!

Love these!! Oh, no, I think I may have to start one. I was thinking the 'fish thing' was enough, but, now I must DO more!

Why do our brains what more

 

[JennyW]

I'm thinking about it, if I have time to make a fish extender and come up with a good gift idea! We have a crazy April, so I'll get back to you soon. It sounds like such a fun thing to do, especially if there aren't 50 or so gifts to get!

Hi Everyone
OK so far I have the following participating in the fish extender fun:
tinkmischief
MousseauMob
MrSanderz
4campers

jrp & MaryAZ I believe you both also expressed interest but I don't have any of your details yet. Anyone interested please PM me with cabin#, people in cabin with ages of children. Again, you have until two weeks before the cruise to decide to join in. I will PM everyone with the list at that time.

 

[tinkmischief]

OK We are all WAY too quiet!!
Everyone must be busy creating door signs Anyone else feel like time is flying by - and I still have so much to do and pack!

A couple people have PMed questions regarding the fish extenders so I will just clarify here. How much or little you do is completely up to you. You can do 1 gift per cabin or 1 for each person in the cabin. You can do gifts once, every day or anything in between. It is completely up to you and what you want to /are able to do! The fish extender threads have a lot of great suggestions of things to put in them if you haven't checked those out yet.

Ok I think I'm done rambling Everyone have a great rest of the weekend!

Oh! And come back and post I talk to myself enough as it is

 

[4campers]

OK We are all WAY too quiet!!

....



I'm here

Busy with the 'fish' thing and door sign. Now, I'm making some for my friends who are sailing on May 10 and bringing her over to all of us

We are having the most beautiful weather right now! It's in the 90's

 

[MousseauMob]

That's me, busy busy busy! Here's some of our door signs I'm trying to finish up. I updated the last one just a tiny bit, and the name tags there's one for each of us!

ooohhh, I hope you keep that lovely weather until we're there!

 

[4campers]

That's me, busy busy busy! Here's some of our door signs I'm trying to finish up. I updated the last one just a tiny bit, and the name tags there's one for each of us!

ooohhh, I hope you keep that lovely weather until we're there!

Oh gosh Ellen, I wish I knew how to do these! I'm finding the clip art and now I'm hoping to put it all together.

I LOVE the pirate one!

We are heading out to Cost-co now

 

[MaryAz]

Melissa I sent you a pm

Ellen My DD would flip over that princess door magnet!!

Ok, for my husband the "beer snob" Anyone know what kind of "premium" beer they have on the ship?? He brews his own so he is picky.

Got a princess fish extender from Ebay! My older DD will love it!
Mary

 

[NicoleDisneyFan]

Anyone celebrating anything on the ship? My dd and ds will be celebrating their birthdays on the ship. My sons birthday was in March and my daughters is in April but my ds couldnt celebrate because of the surgery and my dd wanted to celebrate with her brother on the ship. Has anyone celebrated a birthday on the ship? I think it will be so much better to have a quiet celebration with the family only. We just found out that our ds will have to go back to the hospital in the end of June to get a hole closed in his heart so celebrating is hard to do this year but will make the best of it. We are looking forward to the fish extender. Just went to the store today to buy the stuff that I need to make one. (I am not the best at creativity or sewing so I hope it comes out ok) I heard about theif of the fish extenders so we will put our names on it someone suggested and use the zip ties. Well off to my dd girl scout meeting, I am a daisy girl scout leader, yeah. May 25th please come soon, I am ready to go!

 

[MaryAz]

Nicole
Sorry DS has to go back to the hospital. I hope his health improves. My nephew will be turning 2 on the cruise. My MIL is having Disney do something.
Mary

 

[MousseauMob]

We are heading out to Cost-co now

Oh, good luck with that - I can never go there without spending a small fortune!

Ellen My DD would flip over that princess door magnet!!

Ok, for my husband the "beer snob" Anyone know what kind of "premium" beer they have on the ship?? He brews his own so he is picky.

Thanks, I got the images from the link about magnets. You know, I've seen an online menu that had the wines and beers. If I can find it again, I'll post it. ... ah found it - http://www.wdisneyw.co.uk/dclmbar.html

Anyone celebrating anything on the ship? My dd and ds will be celebrating their birthdays on the ship. My sons birthday was in March and my daughters is in April but my ds couldnt celebrate because of the surgery and my dd wanted to celebrate with her brother on the ship. Has anyone celebrated a birthday on the ship? I think it will be so much better to have a quiet celebration with the family only. We just found out that our ds will have to go back to the hospital in the end of June to get a hole closed in his heart so celebrating is hard to do this year but will make the best of it. We are looking forward to the fish extender. Just went to the store today to buy the stuff that I need to make one. (I am not the best at creativity or sewing so I hope it comes out ok) I heard about theif of the fish extenders so we will put our names on it someone suggested and use the zip ties. Well off to my dd girl scout meeting, I am a daisy girl scout leader, yeah. May 25th please come soon, I am ready to go!

We celebrated birthdays in 2005. They had all of us sign up, but that was just TOO much cake. We gave the last two to concierge - they said they greatly enjoyed it. This year, we have just the 3 kids celebrating. I might have posted this before, but here's a picture of my son celebrating his "birthday" on pirate night. The cool pirate hat was actually our server's, he put it on his head when we delivered the cake.

 

[4campers]

I think I posted this before, but since you asked
They were so wonderful about making a cake for us and we loved our server. I'll be looking for her again! Morgan loved her birthday moment. Everyone in the dinning room sang I was crying, it made me so happy

We will be celebrating our 8th wedding annv this cruise. Yep, we made it after 7 years

Are we there yet

 

[MousseauMob]

Okay, confession time - How soon do you start packing?

We are 38 days from when we leave - do you think it's too early?

 

[4campers]

Okay, confession time - How soon do you start packing?

We are 38 days from when we leave - do you think it's too early?

For me, it's never too early

 

[NicoleDisneyFan]

Its already to late for us. We should have started 1 month ago. I love rushing at the last minute because if I was on time then it wouldnt be a real vacation.

 

[MrSanderz]

Okay, confession time - How soon do you start packing?

We are 38 days from when we leave - do you think it's too early?

Oh wow...definately not too early. I've had a box for months with our pirate stuff, lanyards, Bonine, etc... Been buying clothes, shoes, swimsuits for the girls. I love getting ready for a trip.
We had a hot weekend-temp's in the high 80's really put me in a summer frame of mind. I am SO ready for this cruise!!!

 

[jrp]

Hi All
Nicole sorry to hear about DS situation with his heart..Also look for a pm from me about something special.. I myself have a cast on my left foot which should be off in time for the cruise. I don't think I will be doing any congo's any time soon.. DW and I went to JoAnn's fabrics thi last weekend to get fabrick and iron ons for the fish extender--At least she can use the sewing machine to get-er-done As I stated before I will host the 3:00(1500)meet and greet by the I think Mickey pool on deck 9 due to the young ages or do you prefer the family pool? Please give me some idea of what the group prefers.. As discussed earlier we can get room numbers together at that time and even draw for exchages for those who will be participating I am sorry again for not poating all that much.. The door magnets are awesome people and I have the camera all warmed up.. jrp and dap aaaarrrrrggghhhh