November 18, 2006 Thanksgiving Magic Special Western 2X Castaway Cay 11/18/06

[DiszyGram]

So far, most of Florida has been blessed with good weather this hurricane season. My sister bought a new SUV this past spring so she and her husband would have lots of room to pack evacuation items in it if a hurricane headed her way. Hasn't happened yet but she still loves the SUV.

I'm taking two large suitcases this time. I love my own pillow and am bringing it with me. That plus more dressy dinner clothes to bring will fill up one whole suitcase. Need the other one for everything else.

 

[mollygirl13]

I just purchased some things to put on our table for Pirate Night . Thanks for the info.
Today I made our "Our First Disney Cruise" matching t-shirts for the family to wear when we board the ship. I think they came out great! DH will wear his only because I want him to! He is such a good sport.
I wonder what I'll be doing 3 weeks from today..........

 

[ICEMANPAD]

It is nice to finally see some life in this thread, although next year's thread is up to page 24 - we are booked on that one too. We always take the late meals b/c our 7 year old son would much prefer the kid's club to a two hour boring meal w/us..LOL. It is also much easier to get ready for the late rotation after shore days or the Palo brunch.

On the first day, we will be in the terminal and then on deck 10 midships for the sailaway party in the flourescent green shirts which signify Disboards. At 6'8", I am tough to miss and Lisa approaches 6' as well. For various reasons, the rest of the last 2 years' Turkey Day Gang is taking this year off, although several are booked for next year, but we hope to meet plenty of new friends and continue the tradition.

Our door well be marked by a Turkey Day Gang sign (5020 secret porthole cabin).

Chuck

 

[ICEMANPAD]

Oh and by the way for whoever mentioned attending a Disney wedding, they are lots of fun. Lisa and I got married at the wedding pavillion / Grand Floridian ourselves back in 1999. Disney does a great job and the food happens to be very good.

Chuck

 

[cruisecrzy]

Lets do meet at the sailaway partysince most of us will be going. How about Deck 10 port side.

We plan on leaving our house at 9am which would get us to the port by 10am, but more realistic will be 10:30am. We will be anxiously awaiting the opening of the doors and the opportunity to get on the Magic.

As of now we are in 7520. Deck 5 is my favorite, but that is the verandah they gave us and we are happy to have it. We have never been on Deck 7 so it will be new for us.

We have lots of door signs. At least one per day plus the welcome one for our daughter, the one for my daughter to find the door, and whatever else I end up with. I have mickey heads that I am hanging streamers from like balloons.

So much to do so little time....less than 20 days left.

See y'all really soon

 

[DiszyGram]

It is nice to see some some action on here. Anyone want to come up with a time to meet? Also, where on the portside is a good spot? I know we will be having a life jacket drill sometime soon after we sail away.

Deck 10, portside sounds good. Just have to look it up again and see which side is the port side. Wild guess...left side since I read "port" has the same number of letters as "left". Won't that side be facing the ocean as we sail away?

Gail

 

[mollygirl13]

Oh and by the way for whoever mentioned attending a Disney wedding, they are lots of fun. Lisa and I got married at the wedding pavillion / Grand Floridian ourselves back in 1999. Disney does a great job and the food happens to be very good.

Chuck

DH and I are going this Friday to a Disney Wedding! In fact, we had our own Disney Wedding in 1999 also! July 20th to be exact. We had our ceremony at the Pavilion and a Reception at the Grand Floridian. Best day of my life! This wedding we are going to on Friday will be very similar to ours so it will be nice to be a guest at a Disney Wedding.

 

[cruisecrzy]

As far as time I say if we just pick an area and be there for the sailaway party we should all run into each other. This is what we did for our cruise last March.

And i appologize I did not mean portside. What I mean is Deck 10 above the stage and on the side of the ship that is up against the terminal. That way we can see everyone wave to us from the terminal with the giant Mickey hands. I think the younger kids will love that....at least they did on our last sailing.

 

[DiszyGram]

Great, Michelle. I did wonder if you had picked the other side because it would have less people on it. My grandson will be waving right back at the Mickey hands.

What's a good time to try to find each other? Or should we just say hello to all green shirted people. Unsuspecting people, who have no idea they are wearing a Disboard green colored shirt, might like having strangers greet them. Hey, I worked with the public for many years. I'm not shy with anyone.

Gail

 

[ICEMANPAD]

The green shirts are the easiest way to meet b/c it symbolizes disboards and b/c you really stand out. Of course at our height, we really stand out antway. That said, we will be in the flourescent green shirts.

Chuck/Lisa

 

[cruisecrzy]

I think it will be easy to spot the Icemanpad crew since those shirts certainly stood out last year.

I say lets not try to pick a time, but just say at the sailaway party since we cannot predict if the ship will be leaving late or early. We know the ship won't be leaving without the party....that is for sure.

I will be wearing my bright green tinkerbell shirt.

We may not need to worry too much. I donot think we have that large of a group. It seems like just the four of us families are active on the board. Surprising since I know there were so many last November and even for my March cruise.

 

[DiszyGram]

Our shirts are not a bright lime color but they are the light green polo shirts with the small Mickey icon embroidered near the collar. I'll keep an eye out for lime green ones. We met some wonderful people from here on our last cruise. One of them was Ibouncetoo, who is a very active poster here. She joined our group for brunch at Palo.

Another family won their cruise from the "Make a Wish Foundation" because of their beautiful, severely handicapped daughter, who loves Mickey Mouse. I still hear from her.

I think I'm going to add a Disboard decal to the shirts. Ink Jet now has dark T-shirt transfers that you can iron on colored shirts. Last year I only found ones you could use on white shirts. I'll add my board name on mine, Diszygram. It's short for ditsy grandmother, and I am.

Less than three weeks!

 

[DiszyGram]

For anyone who might be interested, here is my cruise report from last year. The cruise was a gift from me to my children and grandchildren. It also gave them the Disney Cruise fever. A very addictive fever. That cruise was on the Disney Wonder.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=958007&referrerid=&highlight=

 

[WMILLER86]

Makes you wish you were going, doesn't it willie? of course we will be sure to post live updates from the boat. and yes, i had a long chat w/John.

Chuck

OK Bowser, er I mean Chuck, You really know how to hurt a guy!

 

[ICEMANPAD]

Well, thanks to Willie, you now know what Lisa and I look like. That is Lisa to my right and Mason in the forefront.

Chuck

 

[DiszyGram]

Only 18 days away! Where is everyone? We've slid off the first page on here and are getting buried by cruisers leaving a long time from now. Some leaving over a year from our cruise. We may be a small group but we can be a friendly one and good representatives from the Dis boards.

 

[cruisecrzy]

Well online check-in is ow completed for us. I finished up the giftbags for all the kids traveling in our group.

Diszygram I agree. The list made it look like there were a lot of people in this group, but where is everyone???? Maybe they are all packing since we are getting so close.

 

[DiszyGram]

Here in order are me (Gail), Mickey, and my sister, Debby on a Disney Wonder cruise two years ago. I haven't changed much. Just two years older.

 

[GreenGirl8]

Good news..Disney Cruise Line called us and let us know that documents were being sent out today. They should make it in our hands by Friday or Monday!

 

[cruisecrzy]

The funny thing is I live 20 min in a straight line up the Osceola Parkway from where the cruise docs are and I am almost always one of the last to get them. They still get routed through some UPS clearing house. As long as I get on the ship it is all we care about.

Greengirl8 great to hear from you. If you would like to give us your room # or deck # and dinner seating I can add you to our list. I do not believe I have you on the list with room #'s and dinner times.

How are all your plans going?

Our honeymoon was also on the Magic...it was several months after out wedding, but it was still great.

I will post a picture when I have the chance to get it off the disk.

I finished my dd pillow for autographs. I will take a picture and post it when I have the opportunity.