May 6, 2007 - 4 night Wonder

[skylynx]

Hi...I will clarify

I suggested deck 10 on the side closest to the terminal building because if I said port side that means the left in nautical talk, even though the actual "port" happens to be on the right, and that would be REALLY confusing! Just wait until you are walking down one of those endless corridors on a stateroom deck trying to figure out which direction you are heading and struggling to remember which color on the anchor design on the carpeting points to the bow...is is blue for bow (front) or blue for "back" (stern). I always forget.

The party dance floor is on deck 9, but lots of people like to stand on deck 10overlooking it (plus you have an open air view there over the rail at sailaway time, rather than watching through the plexiglass walls on deck 9. Parents can keep your eyes on your kids down on the dance floor from deck 10. There are stairs there, so it's pretty easy to migrate up and down those two decks where the party is.

 

[DisneyPhD]

That sounds good to me. To make it easy we will all wear our Tie Die mickey head shirts in my siggy.

I still don't know where you are talking about, but I am sure Cinderelly31 my SIL will so I will leave it to her.

 

[Lesley Mahler]

That sounds good to me. To make it easy we will all wear our Tie Die mickey head shirts in my siggy.

I still don't know where you are talking about, but I am sure Cinderelly31 my SIL will so I will leave it to her.

I'm not sure where they are talking about either...I was gonna go to deck 10 and look for the terminal...but I'm lost too

 

[ktstewart]

I am just going to look for the group of "happy" people!!

 

[Heironymous]

Hello again, everyone.

As for an introduction, my name is Domenic (DH). I am 45 and have been happily married for the last 10 years to my wife, Cindy (DW),. We will be celebrating our 11th anniversary in May (5-26-07), though not on the cruise. However, Cindy's birthday is 5-8-07; which will fall on the Castaway Cay day on the cruise.

We have 2 precocious children. Anthony (DS), who is 7, and his little sisiter, Amelia (DD), who is 2.

We reside in the Washington DC area (Bethesda MD), but my wife went to graduate school in Pittsburgh (Carnegie - Mellon), and lived in Detroit for 3 years and attended Wayne State, for a year.

Also tagging along on this trip will be my sister, Donna, who lives in San Juan P.R. I had to invite her when i found out that the last time she went to WDW, there was only one park, the Magic Kingdom.

I currently work as a financial supervisor for a large publishing company based in New York. However, I actually work at one of our distribution facilities in suburban Maryland.

Cindy is currently an associate professor of Computer Science, but she is leaving her position in June in order to work for a federally funded research company that she used to work for before she met me.

Anthony is in 1st grade and is into swimming, basketball, tennis, Pokeman, bowling, science, and playing on his computer (he wants to follow in mommy's footsteps). He can be shy at first around adults (even his relatives), but is always very social with other children. He makes friends easily.

Amelia attends pre-school. the school is just a few blocks from our house. She is into sunglasses, dancing, Blue's Clues, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Build-A-Bear, and gathering up anything she can find and then putting it back where she found it.

We all love to travel. We have been to WDW several times, various water parks, various other amusement parks, New York City (a different kind of amusement park), San Francisco, Boston, etc.

This is our first cruise. We were actually suppose to go with other members of our family, who had asked US if we wanted to go on a cruise with THEM. But, one by one they all dropped out until we were the only ones going. We could have done the same and dropped, but we figured we might as well find out if we are the "Cruising" kind of family. We shall soon see.

As for a cruise meet, you can count us in. I have printed up my deck maps, so if its to be on Deck 10, no problem.

 

[bethzfl]

Got cruise docs today! YAYAYA.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Got cruise docs today! YAYAYA.

We didn't. Good to know they should be coming soon.

Heironymous, both DH and myself went to WSU for grad school. He was getting his PhD (Chem) and my MSW so he was in school there a lot longer then me. We even lived on campus for 5 years (1993 to 1998). It was an old grad housing building and it was lovely. It was the ONLY place on campus I would live.

 

[bethzfl]

I don't want us getting lost in the shuffle here!

And I wanted to see my ticker

 

[wholovesthesun]

Hi all - my DH and I are going on our first Disney cruise on the 6th too!

We are newlyweds (married 6/18/06) from Birmingham, AL. My husband's name is Jeff and he is currently a PHD student at UAB (he's doing biomedical research). He got is BS in Microbiology from UA. He's a bit of a computer geek, plays guitar and bass, and he is a fabulous cook.

I'm an engineer at alabama power (though i got my degree in civil engineering also from UA - Roll Tide! by the way). I love working in our yard, doing anything outdoors, music, reading, and eating good food. Oh yeah - I love traveling! (for fun that is - not so much for business!)

We don't have any children, but we are both kids at heart and still love things from our childhood (muppets!, disneyworld, cartoons, etc.)

We are looking forward to the trip!

 

[DisneyPhD]

Hi all - my DH and I are going on our first Disney cruise on the 6th too!

We are newlyweds (married 6/18/06) from Birmingham, AL. My husband's name is Jeff and he is currently a PHD student at UAB (he's doing biomedical research). He got is BS in Microbiology from UA. He's a bit of a computer geek, plays guitar and bass, and he is a fabulous cook.

I'm an engineer at alabama power (though i got my degree in civil engineering also from UA - Roll Tide! by the way). I love working in our yard, doing anything outdoors, music, reading, and eating good food. Oh yeah - I love traveling! (for fun that is - not so much for business!)

We don't have any children, but we are both kids at heart and still love things from our childhood (muppets!, disneyworld, cartoons, etc.)

We are looking forward to the trip!

Welcome! You won't be the only couple with out children from the Disboards there (or course souvenirs are always a possibility)

My DH has a PhD in chemistry so they will have a bit in common. Hope to see you there.

On other notes I think I found myself an outfit for the pirate party, but not sure if I am going to bring or wear it. How many other people are dressing up?
Mary

 

[bethzfl]

On other notes I think I found myself an outfit for the pirate party, but not sure if I am going to bring or wear it. How many other people are dressing up?
Mary

We're not dressing up 100% - I got a cute PoTC hat and sandals at the Disney Store and my DH will wear a pirate t-shirt.

 

[bethzfl]

Hi all - my DH and I are going on our first Disney cruise on the 6th too!

We are newlyweds (married 6/18/06) from Birmingham, AL. My husband's name is Jeff and he is currently a PHD student at UAB (he's doing biomedical research). He got is BS in Microbiology from UA. He's a bit of a computer geek, plays guitar and bass, and he is a fabulous cook.

I'm an engineer at alabama power (though i got my degree in civil engineering also from UA - Roll Tide! by the way). I love working in our yard, doing anything outdoors, music, reading, and eating good food. Oh yeah - I love traveling! (for fun that is - not so much for business!)

We don't have any children, but we are both kids at heart and still love things from our childhood (muppets!, disneyworld, cartoons, etc.)

We are looking forward to the trip!

Hi! We're newlyweds (5/7/06) too, and will be sailing w/ you. I'm sure we'll be seeing you at the adults areas

 

[ktstewart]

WE GOT OUR VACATION DOCUMENTS!!!!!!!

We officially leave on Wed. May 2!!!! WOO HOO!!!

 

[Lesley Mahler]

We didn't. Good to know they should be coming soon.

Heironymous, both DH and myself went to WSU for grad school. He was getting his PhD (Chem) and my MSW so he was in school there a lot longer then me. We even lived on campus for 5 years (1993 to 1998). It was an old grad housing building and it was lovely. It was the ONLY place on campus I would live.

We are definatley all dressing up!!! Only 13 days to go til we board the ship!!!

 

[skylynx]

All four of us will be decked out head to toe in pirate gear...on our last cruise on Magic this past January there was a great photo op with Jack Sparrow on Pirate Night..hope they do that on Wonder as our pirate costumes looked great in our photo with Cap'n Jack! I know more people dress up on Magic than on Wonder, but it is really fun to see all those pirates. Our costumes were retrofitted from ones we wear to the Renaissance Fairs, and accessoried with some really awful gawdy jewelry and chains from the clearance rack at JC Penney.

We are leaving May 4...seems impossible that we will be ready to go.

 

[bethzfl]

I should've planned WDW before the cruise - I'm jealous that I don't leave until the 5th!!

At least I can enjoy Disney until the 12th?

I mentioned this before I think, but my friend sails on the April 29th wonder - she keeps talking about how she has a week left!!

 

[DisneyPhD]

Doc's came just a few min ago! (UPS). It is all becoming real now.

Should we bring pillow casses or T-Shirts to be signed??????

 

[ktstewart]

I had pillowcases embroidered from a lady on e-bay. They are beautiful!! She embroidered "Disney Wonder 2007" in the Disney font and even matched the thread to match my daughters' rooms. I am excited to see them once they are signed!!

 

[bethzfl]

Doc's came just a few min ago! (UPS). It is all becoming real now.

Should we bring pillow casses or T-Shirts to be signed??????

Yay - glad you finally got your documents

 

[DisneyPhD]

I had pillowcases embroidered from a lady on e-bay. They are beautiful!! She embroidered "Disney Wonder 2007" in the Disney font and even matched the thread to match my daughters' rooms. I am excited to see them once they are signed!!

I saw a thread on that. Not sure I have time for that now. Should of thought of that sooner.

Oh well always next cruise!