Congrats to everyone getting upgrades!
We have never had an upgrade, but we have also never booked GTY. Our first cruise was an outside & the other 4 were a veranda. DH likes being mid-ship, so we always pick a specific cabin.
Where does a 13yo fit in the chat spectrum? He's a teen, but he won't be in the teen club - he'll be at Edge. Does it make sense for him to join the Teen Chat? Will there be a chat for the Edge age group?
Are there any kids that are in Edge that would be interested in exchanging emails with my 13yo?
Back to the "Questions of the week" from way back that I've been answering
Family Hobbies:
Other than our Disney obsession, I can't think of many hobbies shared among all 3 of us. DH & I both sing in a community choir (mostly oratorio). DS13 joins DH with some of his hobbies.
DH is a serious gardener (flowers & veggies), in the winter he does all of the work renovating our 100+yo house. He is somewhat insane about Xmas lights - to the extent that he has controllers for turning them on/off in sequence & an FM transmitter to set them to music! He also likes collecting things. Our house is full of depression glass and the current obsession is Disney pins. He listens to a LOT of audio books while gardening & working on the house.
My hobbies include reading (mostly SciFi/Fantasy & romance - occasional non-fiction), photography, technology(I'm the geek who messes with computers, phones, software, etc.). I also play the hammered dulcimer. I've been involved in Disney theme park fandom for over 20 years. My first online "home" was on Compuserve (it was called the Florida Forum) and we started doing meets with online friends all the way back then. We met a couple of our closest friends right here at the Disboard Cruise forum! I'm also involved in an online fandom for a pop star and have a bunch of friends there as well.
DS13 is a VERY active kid. He loves both art/music and science/technology. He plays the fiddle (during the school year, it magically turns into a violin for the orchestra

) and has just stopped Irish step dancing this fall (the classes moved to the middle of Saturday afternoon & it was just impossible). He is a boy scout. He also learns Tang Soo Do karate. He loves to draw and to create things on the computer. At the moment he is into a game called Minecraft. He also games a lot on his iTouch and DS. His Star Wars
lego models are trying to take over my house!