May 6, 2006 - 7 nite Western - Anyone Crusing?

[jillane88]

Hello everyone . My stomach is already tied up in knots, I hardly slept last night. We leave at 3:30am so this will probably be my last post. Hope everyone has happy, healthy, and safe travels! I really hope to meet all of you over this next week. We will definitely be at the terminal bright and early Saturday morning. Hope to see you there!

Heather

 

[MickeyD]

Just wanted to let everyone know that may not be reading the main cruise board that the beachline and I-95 continue to be closed due to smoke issues from the fires. Before you head to the port, check your route. I pray it will be open and the fires extinguished prior to Saturday...not only for our sake, but for the folks in Orlando dealing with the fires!

Have safe travels! Hope to see you all at the port or on the ship!

Lisa

 

[Oo-de-lally Gal]

Safe travels everyone!!! Hope you all have a Magical week!!


See you at the Buffet!
-Wendi

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Just wanted to let everyone know that may not be reading the main cruise board that the beachline and I-95 continue to be closed due to smoke issues from the fires. Before you head to the port, check your route. I pray it will be open and the fires extinguished prior to Saturday...not only for our sake, but for the folks in Orlando dealing with the fires!

Have safe travels! Hope to see you all at the port or on the ship!

Lisa

Good point. Over the last couple of days there have been intermittent closures of those two roads. If you are driving down once you hit Daytona find an Orlando radio station and listen for the traffic reports. This fire has been going for a week now.

 

[pearlieq]

T-minus 3 hours!!!

This will probably be my last post as well. Just have a few things left to do and then we're off to the airport!!

We took the change jar in this morning and got a healthy $350 in pocket money! We were both pretty stoked!!

I've done all of the last errands, just got back from my mani/pedi (I LOVE the color!) and set my Out of Office for work.

I'm officially on vacation!!!

I wish you all safe travels and I can't wait to meet you all on board!

 

[mazzarafe]

Wishing safe travels to everyone and looking forward to meeting you all! I will be trying to get to the 3:00 & 10:00 meeting as well as my meeting up with Melissa and her family in front of the model at the port.

I will be wearing my a keychain with the Mickey head from Home Depot on my straw purse.

Have a "magical" trip everyone!

 

[new2cruise]

Bon Voyage everyone !

It is so cool to see everyone's tickers reading less than 1 day !

 

[dvcmagic]

Have a safe travel everyone!!

We headed out yesterday and drove through the night. We will be at port in about 3 hours. We are spending the night at Residence Inn tonite (hopefully we can check in early). Going to try to get a good night sleep prior to sail. May be too excited.

Looking forward to a "Magical" Cruise!!

 

[pearlieq]

Greetings from Cocoa Beach!

Our flight came in smoothly and we had an uneventful drive to PC on 528. We saw some smoke and a notice about 95 being closed, but we were not diverted.

Can't wait to get on the ship tomorrow! Safe travels to all who are leaving today!

 

[Verandah Man]

Have a MAGICal week and take good care of the ship for us, we board next Saturday!!!

Disney Magic sailing past the Two Palms cam on Saturday May 6, 2006

 

[imheather]

Whos back????

I had the BEST time, booked another one.
Can't wait to hear about all of your time on the ship. I will post tomorrow

Heather

 

[sammatt]

Welcome home, everyone! I have been thinking about your cruise all week, wondering if any of you met my friends Dave and Tricia. I'm so curious to know how everything went for them, and if any of you were blessed through conversation with them. I'll be checking back in with y'all!

Lisa

 

[pearlieq]

Welcome home, everyone!!!

DH and I made it home around 10:00pm last night. After a long and joyous reunion with the kitties, we collapsed into bed.

Unfortunately, our neighbor thought that 8:45 on Sunday morning was a perfect time to begin sawing stones for his patio, so I've been up for a while. Trying to get my thoughts together for a trip report/review.

I hope everyone had safe travels!

Edited to add: I got my trip report finished today (or it never would have happened!). Here's the link:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=12683165#post12683165

 

[new2cruise]

I hope everyone had a great time and got home safely. I so wanted to meet some of you but we got stuck at the airport for over 2 hours when the port got closed and didn't board until 4pm and then missed the 10pm meet too. I hope those of you who did get meet enjoyed it and will fill me in.

 

[mazzarafe]

We got back just at midnight on Saturday. We had plans to meet up at the terminal at 11-11:30 but I did something very, very stupid....I left my drivers license at home in my cell phone case! Didn't realize it until we got the the airport (a good hours drive) when I was asked for my id. We only had 1-1/2 hours until our flight was leaving so I called my parents to help get it to me before the plane left. They missed it by 5 minutes and SWA sent my license on their first non-stop flight Saturday morning that got in at 12:40pm. So I cried all the way to the long DCL bus line clutching my license and found out about 15 minutes later that the port was closed. We did not leave the airport until 2:30pm and by the time we got to port and made it thru the long lines for security and checked in we got onboard just as they were saying "5 minutes until life boat drill" so we ran to the room and got our life jackets. I have to say that I was not on vacation until my first glass of wine was finished at dinner!

We did have a good time. Disappointed I did not get to meet more of you. We were with Sneezy63 (Melissa) and her family all week, our daughters spent every moment they could together, so adorable. Saying goodbye was very hard on my daughter. Also meet Hokey, our daughters were in the club together and found each other, also very cute to see them together.

Hope all are back safe, sound and healthy!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a great cruise. We got home between 9 and 9:30 AM on Saturday. I spent the day unpacking, grocery shopping and washing the avalanche of clothes.

Just a word about the terminal evacuation and "suspicious" luggage...that was one of the fastest responses I have ever seen from JR and his gang (the Brevard County Sherrif's Office Bomb Squad). It could have been a lot longer. The bomb squad first has to assemble in Titusville. And the team is located all over the county. Then they have to move from Titusville to wherever the call is. In this case, the Port. The Port is a good 30 to 45 minutes away from Titusville. The Bomb Squad was on scene in under an hour. So that is practically AMAZING. The evacuation never made the local news as far as I know. As for what we were evacuated for...I still don't know the full story. All I do know is a dog alerted on a bag. What would cause a dog to alert? A number of things...someone mentioned fertilizer...a possibility, but I have not heard of that before, especially just a transfer from putting a bag in the grass. If someone had stored a gun or ammunition in a bag prior to using it for this travel, a dog could alert on that. I'll see if I can get more info. Can't guarantee it though.

As much fun as vacation was, it was so nice to get home.

 

[Oo-de-lally Gal]

Hey everybody!! Welcome home. I really wish Restu, our stateroom host were here to make my bed for me this morning. What a harsh return to reality! It was so great to get to meet a few of you! How fun to hve a few familiar faces to encounter around the ship. We had such a wonderful time! The entertainment crew, Travism Pikey and Michael kept Gram hopping and she really enjoyed her visits with you Chris!
I hope everybody made it home safely and is not too overun with laundry. Seems like I've been washing clothes nonstop since we arrived home. At least it is good and warm here in CA so we are still soaking up the sun. Now i'll just have to be content with my essential oils from the spa, If I close my eyes it almost feels like the Rainforest room...

It was a pleasure sailing with you all!!!
Wendi

 

[slg]

Hello everyone:

We made it to WDW and also to the cruise. We had a great time and have booked one for next year, April 28! Last Eastern before the Magic sails off to Europe. Anyone else on that one? There's probably a meet already for that one out, so I'll find it later.

My biggest disappointment is that I didn't meet all of you. In fact, in general, my dh and I would have loved to have made some friends on board. We met one family, hi Lynn, and they were great, but we never arranged to spend some time together, and we just ran into each other.

In a boat full of people, we still felt a bit lonely. And I'm a friendly person!

Our suitcases all arrived, and there were too many of them!

I feel very jet lagged right now as we were up 23 hours on Saturday! (we had to get up at 5:30 am to go to the immigration thing for aliens, and then our flight didn't leave until 6:15 p.m.We arrived in our home at 1 am Sunday morning which is 4 am florida time!

AAAAA.... and then my mom phoned at 8:30 a.m. Sigh....vacations leave you so tired! At least mine all do.

We should compare notes! Loved the shows, the food was good, the restaurants very noisy!

Anyone booking again, and for what cruise?

Sandra, from Canada eh.

 

[jillane88]

Hi everyone! Welcome back. We had a wonderful time. The kids especially - they had a blast. We are all still fatigued - mostly from the time change from east to west I presume, but also because I got sick on the cruise and so did one of my DS5. On Tuesday I woke up with a scratchy irrated throat. Didn't change much until late Wednesday when I completely lost my voice and had a sore throat. It didn't stop me from having fun but it made conversation pretty hard. I just smiled and waved alot! Then DS5 got sick on Friday night - he woke up crying at 4:00am (actually Saturday morning). He was burning up with fever. Thankfully I had lots of meds with me but still I was thinking about our long trip back home with a sick little boy. Thankfully after dosing with Tylenol, he felt much better until it wore off and I just dosed again. We arived home at 10:30pm west coast time and had been awake since 6:00am east coast time to get off the ship. Talk about a LONG day!

We had rented a car to get back to the airport for our 5pm flight - in hopes of hanging out at downtown Disney or something, but we were so incredibly tired, we just went to the airport and hung out for 7 hours before our 7 hour flight home. Not fun.

It was fun meeting many of you. I kept running into Melissa (Sneezy) all the time - it was great, I also saw Heather (imheather) many times. So fun to see some familiar faces. I was sad not to meet Chris and the rest of ya. All in all, it was really a great trip, we did not rebook though.

More later...

Heather

 

[ganurse]

We are home as well. Spend the weekend in Orlando and now we are home in the land of Atlanta. I was at my mother in laws pool. waiting for someone to come around saying "bar service??" It never happenned.

my report will be at www.xanga.com/amychristopher
and pics are starting to come up at www.winkflash.com
go under amymichaelchristopher and password is lucy2005


i met the nicest people on the cruise.....who wants to forget the monsoon at Castaway Cay! My five year old niee screaming,,,,its a storm, its a story,,,my dads gonna die! She has gone through one too many hurricanes..

keep in touch everyone!
amy