Hello, it has been a very long time since I was on the DIS boards, but my daughter has posted a couple of times to the teen thread (silversapphire) for this Thanksgiving cruise, and has been urging me to join in (personally, I think it is because she is grounded from the computer for a week and just wants to know what is going on, but that's a whole 'nother story!

).
Anyway, my family is going on the Thanksgiving cruise in 2 weeks with the rest of you! Our family consists of me, the mom, dad, daughter (15 - the grounded one) and daughter (10). This will be our 4th
Disney cruise, we have done two 4-day cruises and one previous 7-day (with the SIL

- this one will be much more enjoyable!).
I have done some reading of this thread, and wow, you all sound like a fantastic bunch! I only wish I had listened to my daughter earlier and joined in a few months ago, so that we would have some fun people to hang out with, but I shall do my best to ingratiate myself into your bunch over the next 2 weeks!
Hmm, just curious, is anyone on here driving from the Chicago area and perhaps staying in Ormond Beach on the way down? We will be leaving Thursday evening and driving straight thru, hoping to make it to the hotel in Ormond Beach before sunset. We had thought of trying for Port Canaveral, but I think that last hour of driving will put us over the edge. I just hope DH and I don't kill each other during the drive down - what on earth was I thinking, agreeing on a straight drive down?
I suppose we shall be the family at the port with the very large circles under our eyes, yup, that is how you will know it is us!