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

[PattieP]

I've been packing & repacking and making lists and Yikes! I wanted to finish today. We're leaving Friday after school's out and the market is closed. We're staying in St Louis overnight as our flight leaves at 7:04 am.

Where do I get the green wristbands? Are they the stretchy kind? If not, I will try and improvise. Most of my time has been filled with designing door signs for our two traveling parties and packing. Luckily DH packs himself and the DS's are pretty much finished. It's all the carry-on, keep-the-kids-busy stuff that takes the most time.

Welcome turk! I, too, am a newbie to this thread & board. I only found it one week ago. I love guide dogs, actually animals, but the service ones hold a special place in my heart. At one point, I thought it would be nice to help train the puppies. I hope to meet you & Jolene and find out more about her.

 

[LauraLap]

Only 2 more sleeps and we are leaving!!!!!! We'll be wearing green wristbands, hope to meet you all soon

 

[bambilin]

Welcome Turk82! It will be very hard to keep my boys away from Jolene. They absoultely adore all animals, think they got that from Mom. I explained to Dillon in a restaurant recently why he could not pet the nice doggie as she was working and had to be ready to help her lady. He is not 4 yet but I think he understood and he waved to the dog instead and told me the dog was a very good doggie! Now Trevor is another story, he is 14 1/2 months old, and if he called Jolene, "Imba" it is because we have a Cat named Simba, and every animal is "Imba" right now!! Looking forward to meeting you and everyone else on the ship. The kids stuff is actually alredy packed. Have not begun on me and DH!

PS Deck 10 starboard sounds great and I am going to make one more attempt to get a response from Treva about a formal meet. I am SOOO sorry this has not materialized as of yet. Finger crossed!

 

[Turk82]

Wow, you all are so sweet! I especially liked hearing about "Imba"! Deck 10 starboard side it is! I so have to finish packing!!!! I have already measured out 43 cups of dogfood! We leave first thing on Wednesday and are planning to spend that day at Epcot (arrive MCO 10:52am!!!). Thursday is supposedly at MK and Friday is still kinda up in the air (I was so crazy as to be thinking MVMCP that night, but now I'm just not sure that I have that much energy!!). I can't wait to meet you all!!!!!! SEE YOU SOON!!!

 

[cottoncandy1980]

I need to finish packing!!!!

I called today and they gave me our dining rotation!!! I got the time that I wanted, but I would of liked different restaurants on certain nights, but oh well!!

We have 8:00pm, LAAP

 

[bambilin]

I've been packing & repacking and making lists and Yikes! I wanted to finish today. We're leaving Friday after school's out and the market is closed. We're staying in St Louis overnight as our flight leaves at 7:04 am.

Where do I get the green wristbands? Are they the stretchy kind? If not, I will try and improvise. Most of my time has been filled with designing door signs for our two traveling parties and packing. Luckily DH packs himself and the DS's are pretty much finished. It's all the carry-on, keep-the-kids-busy stuff that takes the most time.

Welcome turk! I, too, am a newbie to this thread & board. I only found it one week ago. I love guide dogs, actually animals, but the service ones hold a special place in my heart. At one point, I thought it would be nice to help train the puppies. I hope to meet you & Jolene and find out more about her.

Welcome PattieP, yes, the wristbands we ordered via ebay are the rubbery, stretchy kind, and ours are a lime/neon sort of green.

 

[Disneyday]

Looking forward to meeting you and your doggy!

Well, the cases are packed and piled up in the bedroom.Only 2 more days to work
We leave 5am Thursday and should arrive about 3pm. No plans for Friday as yet apart from stocking up on anti-nausea meds!

See you all on deck 10
Sue

 

[LauraLap]

We leave in a couple of hours!! See you all soon!!!

 

[ALawley]

Looking for a couple of folks who'd like to join us in the group room! We are holding a Tuesday evening the 18th at 6;00pm ressie in the group dining room, it's our group of 9 + two DISser's Tami & Dan, and we need at least one more adult to complete our party and can accommodate 2-4 more. So send me a PM if you're interested, we will be wondering around EPCOT today and I'll check my phone for emails...I need to call them ASAP! So if you were unable to get Palo, give me a shout and we will get ya signed up!

See you all soon.

 

[bambilin]

Well.............Treva got back to me.

They are holding

Studio Sea, Deck 4 Midship

but the only time they could give us is

Monday 11/17 from 5-6 PM

I realize that this will interfere with anyone who has early seating dinner and possibly with hair salon appointments, pictures, etc.

BUT...............I told her to go ahead and hold it for us and I am hoping most of us will be able to at least stop by and say hi coming or going?

No word if they are setting us up with any goodies or sending any officers, I will be contacting Jonathan in "Groups" upon boarding.

Sorry this didn't work out a buit better, but at least she did come through!

 

[o0lissa0o]

Looking for a couple of folks who'd like to join us in the group room! We are holding a Tuesday evening the 18th at 6;00pm ressie in the group dining room, it's our group of 9 + two DISser's Tami & Dan, and we need at least one more adult to complete our party and can accommodate 2-4 more. So send me a PM if you're interested, we will be wondering around EPCOT today and I'll check my phone for emails...I need to call them ASAP! So if you were unable to get Palo, give me a shout and we will get ya signed up!

See you all soon.

Hey Audie! Tried to PM you but your inbox is full...thats not a good sign for me! If you still have room in your reservation, we would love to join you. We have a group of 5 adults and 3 kids...just 3 of the adults (myself, sister (ledsed) and BIL) will join you guys if possible and we'll send grandma and grandpa with the kids to the show. Let me know if that will work with you guys.

Hope you're enjoying Epcot-have some pastries in France for me!!!

Thanks!
Melissa

**back to packing **

 

[ALawley]

Hey Audie! Tried to PM you but your inbox is full...thats not a good sign for me! If you still have room in your reservation, we would love to join you. We have a group of 5 adults and 3 kids...just 3 of the adults (myself, sister (ledsed) and BIL) will join you guys if possible and we'll send grandma and grandpa with the kids to the show. Let me know if that will work with you guys.

Hope you're enjoying Epcot-have some pastries in France for me!!!

Thanks!
Melissa

**back to packing **

Awesome! Hey Melissa we would love to have you guys join us! I need your names, first and last to get it complete and official! So glad you will be joining us, it should be such fun! I emptied my box, sorry - I neglected to do it before heading out to EPCOT - but no worries now, you can PM or email. We look forward to meeting you and seeing you onboard!

 

[bambilin]

I am a little scared because Treva from DCL left me a message that I should call Jonathan the Group Manager because he wants to know more about our group, when I check in on the "Wonder" Hmmmmm. I wonder if we really have Studio Sea booked for Monday. I am going to call Treva tomorrow from Disney but will have no access to email. I will try to get somebody to post on here for me what I find out.

If not will fill you all in at the Sail-a-way party!

 

[LauraLap]

Hi Everyone! Well, I didn't meet ANY of you onboard Well maybe I did and just didn't know it. Did you end up having a party?

What a FABULOUS time we had. I can't believe it's all over. The weather could have been better, and yeah, the boat rocking wasn't much fun.......but other than that, it was fantabulous. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's pictures to see if I recognize any of you.

Laura

 

[alexturner74]

We're back, and we had a great cruise. The weather could have been a little better (as on our previous two November cruises), but we had an awesome time anyway.

We re-booked for the 9/18 trans-Atlantic cruise in 2010, and can't wait...

Alex

 

[bambilin]

Sorry I did not get to meet all of you but it was great chatting with those of you we did get to meet.

Our Group Meet was kind of sad, almost nobody showed up, the time was awful. They did not send any officers, no coffee, not even water. But Dillon, Trevor, Patty, Rhiannon, Ainsley and Connor had a great time dancing for us at Studio Sea!!

We had late seating so every time somebody left a note on our door to "meet" it was way too late, sorry!

Dillon was sound alseep in the diningroom on Pirate Night and when all the hoopla woke him up he was petrified, hubby went up on deck for a bit and then we were fortunate enough to have a great view of the fireworks from our balcony.

I am soo upset, the reason I wanted to do the 1st night of the Fish Extenders was because I had bought Clothespins and put little notes on them for everyone to use to keep their towels and clothes on the lounge chairs. They would have come in handy except I left them at home on my bed!!!!

The kids got some GREAT little gifts, thank you all!

Hey Meghan, Dillon and Trevor loved meeting Jolene and I hope she wasn't too upset that trevor did indeed call her Imba!!

We need a vacation from vacation now! Happy Thanksgiving to all!

 

[LauraLap]

Anyone recognize us???

 

[coastiewifern]

Hi everyone! Laura, I was saying to some of the others I met that I never met you or Audie! I was bummed about that. I met quite a few awesome DISers along the way. We had a great time on the cruise. I couldn't have been happier with the kids club. The kids absolutely loved it! They were crying the last night because they didn't want to leave. They are not in school this week for the holiday and they are "so bored" now that there isn't someone there to entertain them from sun up to sun down!
We joined the DVC while onboard and I am pretty uneducated about that. Not at all like me to jump into something without researching it for months before. So I guess I'll be lurking/learning on that board for a while. We are looking at booking our next cruise. DH and I can't agree on the 5 day bahamas with 2 stops to CC or the 7 day Eastern...............hmm we have 24 hours to decide!
Oh I am having terrible computer problems and cannot post pics yet from this computer. Stay tuned I'll post some ASAP!

 

[MommyTo5]

Hi Everyone! We're home too!

We had such a wonderful cruise and it was GREAT meeting so many DISers!!!

• Christie, Les, and Tami (and totally awesome husbands) - you ROCK!!! I'm so glad that we were able to... *consume adult beverages*... together! You'll be part of my cruise memories forever... I'll never forget you!
• Sue - I'm so glad I got to meet you! I have some wonderful pics to share with you of your daughter parasailing. I'll upload them to the web and send the link so you can order prints if you wish.
• Audie - I'm so glad I was finally able to meet you during the last couple days of our cruise! You are so fun and I really enjoyed chatting (and parasailing) with you!
• Dana - I really wish we could have hung out together more... we'll have to arrange to cruise together again!
• Fish Extender Participants - You added soooo much to the cruise! My kiddos absolutely loved receiving all of the cool gifts! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Like Christie, we are new DVC members!!! I'm so excited!

If anyone is looking for a great deal on a great cruise, check our the April 2010 Transatlantic Repositioning Cruise. We are paying just a few hundred dollars more than we paid for this cruise (seriously)! We're moving down a category, but the cruise is twice as long so I'm willing to sacrifice!

 

[coastiewifern]

I also wanted to thank everyone for the FE gifts. My kids loved checking their pockets each day. I myself was thrilled with the new magnets for my door. How awesome!