November 15, 2008 7 night Western 11/15/08 11-15-08

[MommyTo5]

Hey Mommy to 5...or 6... (9months until the cruise!?!) Just teasing.

I see you are looking for a hanging toiletries bag. I think the Mary Kay is too small for your gang. I might suggest the Mary Kay for your Mommy things and a Medium LLBean for the shared items for the rest.

Just a thought!

Good suggestion! I'm getting lots of great feedback on that... and I think I'm now aiming towards 2 bags. Then again, I don't know if we will have the room for 2. Decisions, decisions! We'll have the usually slew of meds and first aid products (just in case), going to aim for all trial sizes of all of the health/beauty products (I even bought 2 of the cutest mini hairbrushes! LOL), then DDs #2 and #3 will have some hair accesories that I'd love to squeeze in there, and of course, my daily contacts & make-up. I'm wondering if maybe 1 of the LL Bean large bags might even work? Just thinking out loud here. I suppose I could order and return if the size isn't right.

I want to start packing now!

 

[MommyTo5]

Perhaps someone familiar with the ship (I'm a newbie) could suggest a meeting spot for sometime after we board.

I'd love to meet you all on Day #1!!! Maybe we could get together for the Sailaway Party? I have a great spot in mind. We could grab some tables on Deck #10 and we'd overlook the action without being imersed IN the action.

Our view would be similar to this... (post #113)
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1709938&page=8

We could hopefully secure tables a bit closer to the stage though. Anyone that wanted to stand along the railing could - obviously.

 

[dmja716]

Meeting up at the Sailaway party sounds like a great idea.

I kind of did start "packing". I put stuff I have bought already in a drawer, like my over the door shoe organizer (Target $5.99) , Downy wrinkle release spray, and a few other travel size toiletries.

I found some great websites for matching family Hawaiian style outfits if anyone is interested just let me know.

I am already getting jealous of my fellow cruisers who are planning to stay at the parks for a few days around this vacation. Im really trying to talk DH into it. Wish me luck

 

[LauraLap]

Morning everyone! So, it's now LESS than 9 months, right? Does that mean we can say 8 months? LOL.

The exciting thing happening for us is that we're looking at buying a new washer/dryer set.....very exciting. I think we're getting candy apple red set, too bad I can't get it with white dots so I can channel Minnie Mouse as I'm doing my laundry.

dmja716 - I'm very impressed with your early packing. I'm sure I'll be packing on November 12th or so.

Mommyto6 - Sounds like a good place to meet for the sailaway party. I'll follow your lead.

 

[bambilin]

OK I am really lost, don't knwo anything about the "fish extenders" but I will try to find out what you are all talking about. If anyone would be kind enough to PM me that would be great! LOL

My Mom had her right hip replaced yesterday and between that, a 3 year oldf and an almost 6 month old, I do not get much time for the computer, LOL.

No problem Laura, I think I can use my code till 3/21 if you change your mind!

I arranged a Cruise Critic get together on NCL for my last Cruise. They arranged a spot for us, had cookies, coffee, juice and sent several of the ship's officers to greet us. We could still meet for the sail-a-way party but I would be happy to check if they can arrange it for us on the Magic. Everyone OK with me checking?

Anyone know how many of us there are so far? They will ask that and probably won't confrim anything this early but it's good to check.

I haven't started looking into airfare yet, guess I better get moving.

 

[bambilin]

I meant I would check to see if they do the same via the DIS boards !!

 

[bambilin]

Oh boy, guess what? I have two Fish extenders" in my son Dillon's room. I bought them for $1.99 each at a 99 cents and up store before my RCCL cruise in 2005. Used them for milk and juice boxes, lotions, etc, in our cabin. Have a blue one and a green one both with Mickey on them, I use them for the boys' shoes. Who knew?? LOL

Sorry to monopolize with so many posts!!!

 

[dmja716]

Good morning.

So far there are 66 of us, including kids. Wow that is a lot of us.

I dont mind if you check Lin.

Im definitely going to make my fish extender in the next couple months and get it over with. Maybe at work I can go through the thread, take notes, and then make a plan of attack.

Have a nice day

 

[LauraLap]

Hey everyone! Did some shopping this morning and we're now going to be the owners of new front loading washer/dryer set I'm hoping having a red laundry set will make me more happy to do laundry!

My grandmother is a sewer/embroiderer......I'm emailed her some of the dis threads re: the fish extenders and I'm hoping she'll make one for us as she's soooo talented.

Other than that, I've been obsessively reading these boards and I'm in full Disney mode - not good considering it's still 9 months away!

Lin - So, we've decided to go 2 nights before, do you think I could use the code if we're going for two nights? I'm fine with you looking into having a little party for us. I met some people from Cruise Critic on my Liberty cruise (Royal Caribbean) and that was really cool.

 

[Disneyday]

Laura
What do you mean 9 months away! Its 8 months and 4 weeks and I won't accept any hours, minutes or seconds more than that

Lin
That would be great if you could organise a get together. I'm sure I read that they will section off a part of a lounge or restaurant for you. Trouble is I read so much on these boards I can never remember where I've seen it.
Sue

 

[LauraLap]

Laura
What do you mean 9 months away! Its 8 months and 4 weeks and I won't accept any hours, minutes or seconds more than that

Sorry, what was I thinking adding time like that?

 

[crazykunis]

I would definately love to do this...and bring something from pgh to share with all!! I have to read up on a little more but count me in.

Definately think meeting place a great idea!!

 

[bambilin]

I emailed my TA to find out if they will allow you to do 2 nites since we are using the code for only 1.

Will let you know when I hear back from him

 

[LauraLap]

I emailed my TA to find out if they will allow you to do 2 nites since we are using the code for only 1.

Will let you know when I hear back from him

Thanks! You're too sweet helping a completel stranger

 

[izma]

LauraLap - fellow canuck, we are staying at the park before the cruise but we are booked on the disney bus to get to the port. I figured it was just part of the disney cruise experience. If anyone here can give me a worthy reason to arrange transport other than the disney bus (like gettting to port extra early in hopes of receiving a cabin upgrade) perhaps we could share some kind of transportation to the port? I guess we'll just see.

A change in laundry equipment helped my attitude towards Mt. Washmore last year, hope the red serves you likewise!

OK Mommytofive where are we meeting!

 

[ALawley]

Just got through reading the whole thread and wanted to say howdy from Texas and we are sailing on the Western 11/15 as well! We are a group of friends who sailed together on our first cruise Halloween '07, on the Eastern cruise and LOVED it so much we all booked onboard for the 11/15 Western. There will be 8 of us total from 3 different families:my husband & me, bf, bf's husband & daughter (16), bf#2, bf#2's husband & daughter (16). This is our second cruise together and our 5th vacation together! We cannot wait & look forward to meeting & greeting ya'll onboard!

My hubby & I have been disney vacationing quite regularly since 1992 and our DVC members as well, we will do a week before and 2 days after! Our friends will do a couple of days before and a couple of days after.

We are so excited as this will be our first trip to Castaway Cay.....Hurricane Noel decided to visit CC the night before we were scheduled to arrive, so we were diverted to Nassau Bahamas! We actually woke up to the sounds of 'battling' ship horns, as the Disney Wonder was ported right next to the Magic and they were blasting away! It was quite a sight!

We shall keep checking for plans to meet!

 

[Disneyday]

ALawley

Looking forward to meeting you and your BF's

Shame about Castaway Cay last year. Fingers crossed it doesn't happen again

I saw a video of the 'battling' ships horns on You tube, it must have been an awesome sound to wake up to.

Sue

 

[LauraLap]

LauraLap - fellow canuck, we are staying at the park before the cruise but we are booked on the disney bus to get to the port. I figured it was just part of the disney cruise experience. If anyone here can give me a worthy reason to arrange transport other than the disney bus (like gettting to port extra early in hopes of receiving a cabin upgrade) perhaps we could share some kind of transportation to the port? I guess we'll just see.

A change in laundry equipment helped my attitude towards Mt. Washmore last year, hope the red serves you likewise!

I don't know what we're doing for transportation yet. I would really love to get a Palo reservation so I probably need to be really early onboard, so I'm thinking about renting a car. But I haven't decided yet. Too many decisions....I could have worse problems though

 

[bambilin]

Hey Laura, bad news. With my "special offer code" any of the other two rooms booked would also have to be for only 1 night at the Caribbean Beach. I know you want to stay for two so I guess that is not much help.
If for any reason you change your mind and only need the one night, I will be happy to give you my TA info. We know we are only using the one room, so why not help my fellow cruisers if possible!!

For you first timers at Castaway Cay, it is just beautiful!! We spent most of the time at Serenity Bay last time (single then!) but did go over to the family beach to meet up with our family and friends and go snorkeling. We had a blast. And since we have been, they added the stingrays, and towed in the Ghost Ship, so I am sure it will be even more fun this time around.

I am hoping I can convince Dillon (3) to be a pirate for Halloween because then Trevor can be one as well and we can bring the costumes for the priate party. Not sure how much influence I have though, at 16 months Dillon announced that he wanted to be Emeril for Halloween. My MOm said, "Elmo?" and he said "no Nanny Emeril, BAM!" So you see he definitely has a minf od his own!! LOL

 

[LauraLap]

Thanks Lin! No worries. I think we're going to use airmiles to book and I'd like to stay at the POFQ I think. Dillon sounds HILARIOUS!!