May 25th, 2008 West Coast - Mexico

[MousseauMob]

Mary, no food or candy issues here. I did get a couple of candy things to give, though. I may have to re-think this.

Can I tag along too? Hi, I'm with Kim and Ellen - Kim brought wine.

Cool, we can be Kim's posse!

Saw this while looking through my pics and no, DH does not know I'm posting it See..the lifeboat drill isn't all bad-he actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

LOVE the Minnie Ears!

 

[traceye]

Rebecca, that is so funny and before reading your post I thought he must not know this is being posted!

Question from your picture....was that Formal or Semi Formal night for you? And who took that picture? Was it on your camera? Just someone standing around or a cast member? I read that you can give your camera to the castmembers and they'll take a pic with your camera, even when they are taking the cruise photos. I always feel uncomfortable with that kind of stuff. I'll have to figure out how to post a photo....then I have to find a photo of the 4 of us, that will be more difficult.

Your girls trip sounds like FUN! I could use a good ol' girls trip!

By the way....my DD Kaylie, 6 is going to love your daughter. I'm so glad we have so many little girls in this group. My DD is the one with some separation issues. I've been bribing her to do things around the house for quarters that she's saving up for spending money on the trip. I have a feeling I'll be bribing her to stay in the kids club! I can only hope that it works. I better add a roll of quarters to my stuff to pack list! If she finds a few friends she'll be so much better. She's a social butterfly so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!


Tracey

 

[4campers]

Saw this while looking through my pics and no, DH does not know I'm posting it See..the lifeboat drill isn't all bad-he actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

I vote for Jim to be our Official mascot

 

[traceye]

Mary, no food issues here either.

Tracey

 

[4campers]

Mary, no food issues here either.

Tracey

DITTO

 

[MrSanderz]

Rebecca, that is so funny and before reading your post I thought he must not know this is being posted!

Question from your picture....was that Formal or Semi Formal night for you? And who took that picture? Was it on your camera? Just someone standing around or a cast member? I read that you can give your camera to the castmembers and they'll take a pic with your camera, even when they are taking the cruise photos. I always feel uncomfortable with that kind of stuff. I'll have to figure out how to post a photo....then I have to find a photo of the 4 of us, that will be more difficult.

Your girls trip sounds like FUN! I could use a good ol' girls trip!

By the way....my DD Kaylie, 6 is going to love your daughter. I'm so glad we have so many little girls in this group. My DD is the one with some separation issues. I've been bribing her to do things around the house for quarters that she's saving up for spending money on the trip. I have a feeling I'll be bribing her to stay in the kids club! I can only hope that it works. I better add a roll of quarters to my stuff to pack list! If she finds a few friends she'll be so much better. She's a social butterfly so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!


Tracey

My DD Elise loves making friends and is a chatterbox. She is looking forward to the kids club so hopefully we can introduce them at the meet. On our first cruise DH and I had Palo dinner and brunch booked and a spa treatment so my DD's HAD to go to the club. She surprised us by asking to go to the kids club instead of dinner one night so maybe your's will surprise you too!

This pic was from semi-formal and yes, a cast member took this pic with our camera. We didn't even really have to ask. We always had our camera and they often offered to take our pic. The CM who used our camera was never the same one taking the cruise portraits, so they would take the cruise photo and then ours right after. They are so gracious and helpful, don't worry at all about asking.
BTW, my DH wore the same suit for Formal night...

 

[MousseauMob]

I vote for Jim to be our Official mascot

Well he's definitely swillin' and he's looking pretty swanky in the Minnie ears and couture life jacket! I'll second it - Jim for mascot!

 

[4campers]

Can I tag along too? Hi, I'm with Kim and Ellen - Kim brought wine.


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Hi I'm Kim, part of the Swanky, Sexy, Suite, Swillers, and these women & (men) are all my friends and yes, I brought the wine

 

[MrSanderz]

LOVE the Minnie Ears!

As the Dad to two 'girly' girls he gets to attend lots of tea parties, play with lots of dolls and wear minnie ears (maybe even a tiara now and then). And he loves it!

I vote for Jim to be our Official mascot

I'm sure he'd be honored...I'll bring the ears to the DIS meet!

 

[4campers]

....

I'm in a wedding June 8th and tomorrow all us girls are going to Vegas for 4 days.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

Have fun!!!!!

 

[tinkmischief]

Melisaa-AKA "fishy queen" if we have multiple small gifts can we spread them out during hte week or should we plan on giving them all at once??
Mary

You can do either. I am planning on spreading mine out (you know and calling it exercise ) but you can do it all at once too. I believe we are a willy-nilly type school of fish

Saw this while looking through my pics and no, DH does not know I'm posting it See..the lifeboat drill isn't all bad-he actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

[traceye]

We're planning on giving our fish bait daily. That's the plan anyway. If we miss a day because we didn't get to it we will double up on the next day, but the plan is to do it daily.

Thanks to Melissa for encouraging me to get on board with this (no pun intended!). I've really enjoyed planning the gifts and shopping for them. My Fish extender arrived today, I ordered one on e-bay since i didn't have time to try and make one. When it arrived it all made sense to my daughter, all the buying and stuff laying around everywhere and she said "now I'm so excited to go....when do we leave?" It was so cute, it was like it all came together. My kids are really looking forward to the little acts of kindness showing up at our door. So a big Thank You to melissa from me!

I think we said it didn't matter if we put our names on the fish bait right? Some of mine it's easy to do. What are other's planning on doing?

I had one more thing to ask and I can't remember what it was. I guess I'll post back when it comes to me.

Tracey

 

[MousseauMob]

Here's the map showing the path the Magic is taking. She is through the Gatun lock at the top of the map.

And here's a little animation of the images I captured

 

[MousseauMob]

Here's the animation by awoltoday, I like it better than mine, because their's shows the ship lifting in the lock.

 

[MousseauMob]

awoltoday shared their screen shots with me, so I combined the two for:

 

[traceye]

Those pictures are so cool!

Can someone post a link to the current may 10th cruise board? I can't seem to find the current one, I keep getting one that hasn't been posted on since January.

Thanks,
Tracey

 

[traceye]

Oh, I have another question. For my DD6 should I pack at least one princess dress up dress? Rebecca when I saw your DD wearing one, I wondered if all the little girls dress up. We have never worn one to Disneyland, but this seems different. Opinions please?

Tracey

 

[MousseauMob]

Those pictures are so cool!

Can someone post a link to the current may 10th cruise board? I can't seem to find the current one, I keep getting one that hasn't been posted on since January.

Thanks,
Tracey

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1814082&page=165

Oh, I have another question. For my DD6 should I pack at least one princess dress up dress? Rebecca when I saw your DD wearing one, I wondered if all the little girls dress up. We have never worn one to Disneyland, but this seems different. Opinions please?

Tracey

We're bringing some.

 

[traceye]

THANKS!

I have yet another question.. I thought I posted this before, but either nobody answered, I missed the answer or I never actually posted it.

How does the whole internet thing work on board? If I bring my own laptop do I still need to purchase internet from them? Or can I just link into their wifi?

Thanks,
Tracey

 

[MousseauMob]

THANKS!

I have yet another question.. I thought I posted this before, but either nobody answered, I missed the answer or I never actually posted it.

How does the whole internet thing work on board? If I bring my own laptop do I still need to purchase internet from them? Or can I just link into their wifi?

Thanks,
Tracey

You still have to buy internet access and it's rather slow.