GREAT!!! Thanks so much...also is anyone thinking of doing the butterfly garden or dolphin research center? I'll have to check and see if the trolley stops near there.
Is there a plan as to what time to meet to get on the trolley or is everyone just going themselves with their family? I will check out more info. on it...sorry if I'm being a pest! I know 2 things we definitely wan to do...eat frozen choc. covered kl pie and go to the southernmost point!
So far we don't have a time to meet- it's just something that has been discussed very recently once we realized how many of us are doing the trolley on our own. LOL
I, for one, am a go for meeting somewhere (like on our last cruise we meet in the atrium area before going to the fort en masse
) as long as it's not too early! I really don't want to get up early if not necessary. I don't know if that will work for everyone else's schedule but DH is not diving until after lunch- and won't be back for main dining- so I booked Palo late that night- and so I really don't want to have to get up everyone early. Is everyone else thinking of going early in the morning? Just curious...... maybe we can find a compromise if a lot of you are wanting to leave early for the trolley?
(ps. you are not being a pest at all!!!!)
I'd like to try some key lime pie there- only because my whole life (almost 40yrs of it LOL) I've heard about key lime pie in Key west- but other than that we'd rather eat on the ship (ie: not have lunch at Key West)- no sense spending that much on stuff I won't eat much and the kids will just want stuff we can get on the ship anyway... for free! LOL But the pie- yes. LOL
Thanks bruce... you had a lot of typing to do so I didn't really blame you for getting my long name misspelled.
Boy our FE list is getting longer isn't it! Last I heard it was 36... it's grown! woohoo!
Okay finally someone (in a group I've been in) is all for lime green- NOW I really REALLY have to lose weight so I can fit into my lime green shirt again. LOL Wearing something lime green or adding something (like something pinned on, etc.) works for me! hey what if we wore our lime green stuff at Key West when we make a mad exodus to the trolley- AND if we all got off to get key lime pie? Would they think we're a cult and key lime pie is what we worship?
I thnk that would be funny. they might be a bit confused what is going on with all the lime shirts. LOL
Same here- except we usually go every 2yrs and just went to Panama Canal last summer- then booked 2010 end of summer.. then whamo changed the baltic to this cruise not too long ago. It's very weird for us to be already getting ready to go cruising again!
OMG I just realized I need to make different magnets for our doors! Most of the ones we have were personalized for that PC cruise! ack!
Oh and about meeting on sailaway.... we usually do that on deck 10 but we (personal family I mean) don't usually stay up there long! It's so hot and sun beating down on you. It seems to always be pretty quick and everyone coming and going- meaing not everyone stays for everyone else to meet them. I wish we could figure out another place to do it if we don't have too large of a group. Even on the cruises I've been on that had HUGE groups of Dis'ers- there never seemed to be so many people up there during that- that we couldn't do it somewhere else! I dunno... they usually do it right before we have to get our lifevests on. I dunno- something about the time and being up on deck 10 in the heat of the sun -we just never went up there but for a moment and it seemed like everyone else was only popping up there for a moment too- so not too many there at once. I don't really know a solution to this (time/place) but just expressing what I have experienced- even with massive groups of DIS'ers going- and our group isn't that big (yet! LOL)
And another thing.. the first cruise we had special shirts made- but ofcourse no one wore them on the same days and such- I never really saw the shirts. (someone also made awesome buttons but we hardly ever saw anyone wearing those either!) I also never really saw hardly ANYONE from our large group the entire time and it was kinda disappointing. I knew they were there- just didn't know WHO was from DIS and who I'd been talking to for over a year and a half on the thread. yanno? I think I had it in my head that I'd be seeing people from the thread and talking to them throughout the cruise and it just didn't happen because we didn't recognize one another on the cruise.
On the 2nd cruise (also a large group of DIS'ers) we had lanyards and rubber wristbands- (plus had posted photos on a seperate website made just for that group/cruise) and I recognized a lot more people that way during the cruise- mostly from the lanyards we had. I know we don't have those things this time.... that's why I like the idea of meeting up for the trolley- it's early in the cruise and atleast I'll be able to meet and recognize SOME people from our thread! LOL It was quite a bit more enjoyable to be able to recognize and say hi, chat for a moment -you know... throughout the last cruise. The first one was kinda lonely- when the kids weren't with us it was just me and DH the entire time.... except for a few moments out of the entire cruise- and I mean a few moments- that I recognized like 2 ppl- the entire cruise! LOL So lonely..... LOL As a family of 5 we were even seated at a table by ourselves- and not even close to the DIS group (first cruise is what I'm talking about) like we were supposed to be (supposed to be linked but
DCL messed it up and put us clear across the room near those who used the same TA as us- complete strangers!) 2nd cruise we ended up dining without the kids and so we shared our table of 6 with another DiS family of 4 that was there- that was much more fun. This time kids will eat with us again (main seating this time) and I just know we'll end up at a table by ourselves again.
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We are on the 90 day or less countdown. 
