**Mickey's Merry Cruisers** 12/13/09 4 night Wonder

[flechette]

Hi Paula!

Hi Michelle, welcome to "MMC"

Have you been on a cruise ship before? - I know what you mean about travelsickness, i'm not a great traveler at all and was dreading our 1st Disney cruise 3yrs ago. I booked it for DH 40th birthday, seemed a good idea at the time until reality hit me "OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE"!!

I have a thread over on the Passporter boards labeled "Gulp - we're doing what?!" so I completely get the "WHAT HAVE WE DONE" feeling! Nope never did a cruise ship this size; ferrys and one of the dinner ship cruise things are about it. Strangely enough; I love roller coasters and have no issue but then again I keep my eye closed for most the ride

1) I hate water, I get sweaty palms and palpatations just going over brigdes

2) I feel sick on any mode of transport, car, trains, planes etc I just couldn't understand what possested me. to book a cruise!!

We have tried some of your travelsickness remedies whilst over in the USA but they have always made us really drowsy which is not great when you've got to look after 2DD'S to look after

My DD also gets car sick, so a few years ago I discovered some soft & chewy pastilles called Traveleeze. It contains Meclozine Hydrochloride?? and also ginger. It's strawberry flavoured and basically you take it about an hour before travel or if you feel sickness coming on and it dosn't make you feel drowsy.

I made everone take them before we got an the ship, and then just took one every morning throughtout the cruise and nobody in my family was sick, in fact we didn't even feel it once. (oh what a lovely conversation!!). I'm notsure if you can buy them in the USA or whether there just for the UK market..

Unfortunately, looks like Traveleeze is only over in the UK, and the US version is called meclizine aka Bonine, dramaine II and a few other things - all of which I react to poorly to say the least. Thank you for the suggestion tho

I've got a couple of long car trips between now and Dec so I'll see how ginger pills and Sea bands do on that. Not that I get really car-sick but after about 5 hours, queasy is a good description~

Anyway long and short of it was that we had such a fantastic time, loved every single minute of it and are counting the days until 13th December until we sail again!!!

My DD's are busy making there door magnets etc, there are 11 in our party, we are celebrating my parents 40th (Ruby) wedding anniversay and on 15th Dec the day we are at CC it's my DD's 10th birthday so lots of celebrations for us!!

Hope to hear from you soon
Paulaxxxxx

Thank you so much for the welcome, Paula!

Hi Michelle,

Welcome to the Disboard, so glad you joined us.

I'm sure you'll be bumping into quite a few of us. If you PM me with your Rm # would like to try and meet up with you.

Don't feel bad about not joining in the FE, it's your choice.

Thanks Carol~ I was relaying all this info on the FE to hubby who got a pained look on his face and asked "could we hold off on jumping in with both feet? At least can we wait til we're sure we should jump?"

PM is coming your way shortly, <cough>tho knowing me I've already posted the number somewhere

Thanks again everyone! I'll probably lurk more than post (4 years on the Passporter and Dis boards and neither account has over 350 posts...) but I will be around!

Michelle

 

[westgirl]

Hi Michelle and welcome

Don't worry bout the FE we'll have fun whatever

But no pressure if you did want to join you'd be in my group so I'm sure we could deliver your gifts if you were feeling a bit ick.

I missed a lot on the first night of our last cruise due to rough water down passed Miami but wore my seabands from the nesxt day and was fine - hopefully you'll find your cure

 

[Carol G]

See Michelle, you didn't have to worry about the FE. We're just a partying group who's looking forward to meeting up with one another.


Kathryn, where have you been? Paula and I were getting worried about you. Now we know you didn't fall off the face of the earth.

 

[FLORIDA_GIRL]

Welcome Michelle Glad to have you join us. My husband and I are both AD AF...so tell your husband he's not alone...we couldn't pass up that military discount either!

 

[westgirl]

Hello Everyone

Just got back from a soggy week camping in Scotland - unfortunately although as beautiful as it is there's no phone coverage.

I'm all set now to start planning for our wonderful trip.

 

[Carol G]

Hello Everyone

Just got back from a soggy week camping in Scotland - unfortunately although as beautiful as it is there's no phone coverage.

I'm all set now to start planning for our wonderful trip.

Great Kathryn Get ready to Party :

 

[porkey61]

wow im so excited about this cruise so any progress on the fe we are still checking out gift ideas how many so far i hope you have our names and ages already if not let me know and i will send you the info still dont have cabin# yet

 

[Carol G]

Hi Debra,

Not to worry I still have your info.

I have started a list, shocking but true ~ even my assistants, Paula, Kathryn and Linda ~ haven't a clue ! ! !

(I'm a little scatter brain, especially now with my work load -reason for 3 assistants~God bless them)
Please inform me if you are not on the list, missing rm numbers, sex/ages children.

Brian (bwkwpw) DW, DS(7)
Debra (Porkey61) 2 DGM, DGD(2), DGS(1)
Shannon (FloridaGirl) DH, DS(9) DD(4) #2510
Paula (PSB71) DH, DDs(13,10) DPARENTS, DB, DSIL, DD(17), DSs(6,2)
Kathryn(WestGirl) DB, DPARENTS
Melissa (NARANJOFAMILY) DH, DDs(11,8, 5)
(Madry2009) DCHILDREN (5, 7)
Jenn DH, DD(4)
(Tde1969) DH, DS(11)
ShirleyR DD, DSIL, DGS(11)
(Trigal)


If my math is correct we have a grand sub total of 45 MMCs
11 men, 17 women, 17 children and 1 teen

I'm sure there are several missing from the list, but not intentional. Please note if you have more info send me a PM or email.

 

[porkey61]

great job it looks to be comming along nicely,

 

[Carol G]

Oh my goodness, it's been quiet here the past couple days ~ did I shock everyone with a starter list for the FE? ? ? I didn't mean to. I wanted to update everyone on what's happening.

Remember there are more out there that I need info from ~including stateroom numbers. If you don't have them, not to worry, I'm patient...we still don't know the number of our room.

How's everything coming along with the FE gifts?

 

[FLORIDA_GIRL]

Hey Carol and other Merry Cruisers! Just stopping by to say hello...getting excited as the time for our cruise is nearing. I'm currently deployed and won't be home for another couple of weeks, so I haven't had a chance to even begin planning my FE gift yet...I hope I'm not too far behind the power curve.

 

[PJB71]

Hi Florida Girl

We are getting really excited 2, my DD's go back to school this week so once were back into the school routine I'm sure thatl the time is going to fly by, infact it's only 15weeks today not like were counting of course!!

Looking forward to meeting you all

Paulaxxxx

Hey Carol and other Merry Cruisers! Just stopping by to say hello...getting excited as the time for our cruise is nearing. I'm currently deployed and won't be home for another couple of weeks, so I haven't had a chance to even begin planning my FE gift yet...I hope I'm not too far behind the power curve.

 

[porkey61]

Hi Debra,

Not to worry I still have your info.

I have started a list, shocking but true ~ even my assistants, Paula, Kathryn and Linda ~ haven't a clue ! ! !

(I'm a little scatter brain, especially now with my work load -reason for 3 assistants~God bless them)
Please inform me if you are not on the list, missing rm numbers, sex/ages children.

Brian (bwkwpw) DW, DS(7)
Debra (Porkey61) 2 DGM, DGD(2), DGS(1)
Shannon (FloridaGirl) DH, DS(9) DD(4) #2510
Paula (PSB71) DH, DDs(13,10) DPARENTS, DB, DSIL, DD(17), DSs(6,2)
Kathryn(WestGirl) DB, DPARENTS
Melissa (NARANJOFAMILY) DH, DDs(11,8, 5)
(Madry2009) DCHILDREN (5, 7)
Jenn DH, DD(4)
(Tde1969) DH, DS(11)
ShirleyR DD, DSIL, DGS(11)
(Trigal)


If my math is correct we have a grand sub total of 45 MMCs
11 men, 17 women, 17 children and 1 teen

I'm sure there are several missing from the list, but not intentional. Please note if you have more info send me a PM or email.

granddaughter 1 yrs and grandson 2 yrs

 

[Carol G]

Hi Debra sorry I got it backwards. So anxious to post the list ~

Okay folks, anyone else ready to email/PM me with an update on FE list.

It's getting closer. Come Friday we start double digit countdown ! ! ! !

 

[bwkwpw]

Hi everyone!

I hate to have to say this but we have had to change our cruise date. We will be going on the 4 day that leaves on Valentines day instead. I hate that we will not get to meet all of you and that we will not get to see the ship decorated for Christmas.

I hope you all have great cruise and look forward to some cruise reports afterwards.

Brian

 

[PJB71]

Hi Brian

Just wanted to say sorry you and your family wont be joining us, but wish you all a happy Valentines Cruise

Paula

Hi everyone!

I hate to have to say this but we have had to change our cruise date. We will be going on the 4 day that leaves on Valentines day instead. I hate that we will not get to meet all of you and that we will not get to see the ship decorated for Christmas.

I hope you all have great cruise and look forward to some cruise reports afterwards.

Brian

 

[Carol G]

Hi Brian, Sorry to hear you won't be with us on MMC, looking forward to meeting you, DW & DS. Have a wonderful time on the Valentine's Cruise ~ Love will be in the air. :thumbs up:

 

[Carol G]

LATEST UPDATE ON FE LIST

Brian's name taken off list
~ change in cruise date

 

[JennBri]

Hi Carol,

I promise that as soon as we get our room # I will give it to you.

This may be a dumb question, but it's our first cruise and first time doing the FE so we're still a little confused. When everything is set, will we have the ages of everyone on our list, right? And we drop off a gift for each person every night of the cruise, is that correct? I just want to make sure I have the basics down.

We just got back from our summer vacation on Sunday (Ocean City, NJ) and now the countdown begins! Is it December yet???

Jenn

and just for the record, my dh's name is Brian and my dd is Addison

 

[JennBri]

I have a question for those of you that have cruised before with children. We will be celebrating our 9 year anniversay while on the cruise and we were wondering about the Disney's Oceaneers Club. We thought maybe we'd have dinner alone together that night but we just don't know how we feel about leaving her somewhere that we're not familiar with, you know? Can you tell me if your children have enjoyed time spent there? Did you feel safe leaving them there? Thanks!

Jenn