and I never get around to it! So I know we are too late for the FE, the lanyards etc...However we would love to meet up with you all at 245 on the 16th, if that is okay. It will be myself. My DH, My DD (6) and DS (2) Thanks so much....so excited its almost here!! Julie 
Hello fellow fantasy cruisers
I am late putting us on the roll call list... This is our 6 th cruise and I keep saying we need to meet up with some fellow disney geeks
Hi there all
We will be with you cant wait!! Just one question though---I know its late but is there any way I could just get our DD added to the FE list?
We always do FE but with the late notice this time I fear I will have to tell her its too late. I guess we will just put our FE out and I will prepare for some other cabins.
Only problem I have is I am used to the communication being through this board and am disappointed that no one is talking much here---we are not on facebook and dont plan on it. Having said that I dont even know how I can get the list of cabins for us to deliver to but I will try
---if someone here could PM me I would love to give our information that way--ex.. state room and age of DD etc--If there is any way we could be considered we would be grateful and as I said before it would be fine to just do our DD for the FE.
Hope Im not asking too much. Thanks everyone
I will try to pm you later today I really do appreciate your offer.
---last time we missed Castaway Cay so we are so hoping we will make it this time!!time4somemagic--Thank you so much for the welcome
I've taken some time to really reflect on this but it is still bothering me.
Trust me I wasn't expecting to be included in one of the FE lists at this point--I know how it works--that is why I posted for just my DD only--but I guess my post came off as asking for too much and I did not feel so welcomed. I am sorry.
I simply wondered if there might be a few other people in my situation and that maybe we could help each other out. I do know on our last cruise we had several people that came in late and there were even some people kind enough on other already confirmed set up FE lists who included them IF they had any extras---it wasn't alot and no one expected it but at least these new families were able to recieve a little magic. I feel now maybe I shouldn't have even posted.
As far as facebook being private---its far from that and I would never feel comfortable setting up an account just for a cruise and there are others who feel just as I do. It doesn't make any of us right or wrong it just leaves people out.
We have had many other secure ways to post the personal info for everyone on all of our past cruises. Maybe others who like facebook should really consider that there are alot of people that will get left out because they feel the same way ---In all of our past cruises I loved being able to follow the group and everyone getting ready for the big day---now here I can't do that because its all on facebook? Sorry, but it does leave people out that have legitimate reasons for not wanting to participate that way.
But, as I said before I wasn't looking for anything I was just trying to see if there were even a few others who were in the same situation. I definitely won't let this affect our excitement of the cruise ---we are all so excited and can hardly wait
---this is the first meet ever where no one talked much here---so how could I assume it would be any different?--there are other meet threads close to their cruises right now that are talking on the disboards so I'm confused as to why anyone would question the amount of talking here--I thought a cruise meet thread was for that intended purpose and have never encountered communicating elsewhere or having it moved to facebook--hence why I brought up that maybe some or many are being left out. 
kiwi mom--Thank you for your kind thoughts and response back---with both your post and mariaelenak's back to back it just felt like I was bothering someone with even asking a question. I guess I felt that way mostly because right off you were suggesting that I prepare gifts for my DD and then mariaelenak's first comment back was "excellent suggestion"--it really did make me feel as if I was asking something I shouldn't have. I am aware that preparing gifts is an option for me but is not as fun or surprising as the real FE so I was just asking if there were any other options and was totally OK with whatever the outcome because I knew that the list had just closed days before I posted.
---it's fine and maybe I took it the wrong way but if you go back and look at the posts you might be able to see what I was feeling because right after my post the next 2 new cruisers to post both got "Welcome to the Group!"--I think it was after I saw that, that I felt as if no one wanted to welcome me because of the question I asked( maybe assuming I was asking for too much) and because we didn't want to be involved with Facebook.
I was simply trying to express mine and many other dissers feelings here about not wanting the disboards to turn into facebook----I did put in my post that no one had to be right or wrong so I thought that would take care of that there were no hard feelings--- Thank you though again kiwimom and I didn't in any way feel you were being spiteful I probably as I said, took it the wrong way. We too can not wait for the day to come!!
Mariaelenak--why didn't I feel welcomed?? because simply as I stated above to kiwimom I wasn't and probably took it the wrong way but felt that maybe I wasn't because I didn't want to join you all on facebook and because of what I was inquiring about the FE's.
I have no doubt that you have probably worked very hard and then some to head everything up but, I was only inquiring about the FE because we typically dont do the Group meet---not because we dont' want to meet others but we simply never seem to have enough time to make it with all of the other things going on around sail off. I didn't ask for a Lanyard and don't think my post sounds assuming that we could be included in the FE--I was just inquiring and then did say if it was possible only for my DD.
Also, this is not fair--"its so off base"----I'm telling you exactly how not having things here on the disboards anymore affects not only me but many others that you may not know about or those who haven't spoken out about it---there are many posts of others who feel this same way.
Facebook is maybe a great option for some but not everyone feels safe with it and for good reason. I won't go into it here but I have very good personal first hand experience reasons for facebook NOT being safe---trust me if you had it happen to you, you would feel the exact same way--there is NO such thing as privacy on facebook or privacy in a closed group---its just what the world wants everyone to believe
---there are many ways and things that can happen to shatter that assumption trust me. I have no problems with respecting the fact that you have chosen to use it --if it's working for you great but I was just trying to get across that there are many people like me that are left out and its' too bad because this is the first cruise where we have'nt been able to get the info like we were used to on all of our past cruises.
You asked me just how much conversation I was expecting in the last few weeks before the cruise?-- but that is what I had come to expect from a disboard meet thread on all of our other cruises
There really are no hard feelings---Lets just say its cleared up now.As I said I respect your decision to communicate that way but wont' do it after what I have been through and experienced.
A thank you to those who have offered to include our DD but I don't want anyone else to think we are asking for that so just disregard my original post and we will all enjoy and look forward to this cruise that is coming up sooo fast!! Time to get packing!!
Welcome to the group! Love the February birthday! Don't suppose she was born on the 26th???
I cant help but laugh as i went thru the last page or so of this thread. And for the record...I am one of the "hell no's" to sharing info on facebook. To the woman who is pro facebook that compaired it to using snail mail... youve lost your mind. using snail mail doesnt open up your whole life to people you have no idea who are. you said you have 104 people in your group there...that 104 people who you really dont know the first thing about knowing everything about you. they know your family, have your pictures your schedule and where youre from. your whole vetting process is someone sending a request. it would take me 4 minutes to create a fake acount complete with pictures and history. No one gets on my facebook unless i actually know them in real life. technology is great, and it is how people are sharing these days, it is also very dangerous and opens you up to things you onbviously dont have a clue to. this is why people turn to THIS kind of forum, people only know what you want them to know, not what you want your family to know. We are on this cruise and we are very excited, we dont care to meet anyone, and i normally wouldnt even post here, but you made me chuckle..thanks for that...good luck to all the honest people on your facebook group, im sure 99% of them have nothing but good intentions...
