November 5th 2011 Eastern on the Magic

[Agent555]

Yup! I - am - CANADIAN!!! LOL
So is my sister, where are you? Great White North can be anywhere, I am in Barrie, Ontario.
Tanya

Hello Tanya,

I am the opposite side of Canada!!! Edmonton, Alberta! Woo Hoo!!!

 

[LovesToRun]

Kathy,
is it dumping rain on you today??

It is here. I am willing to send it your way if your missing all this fun.

Kathy

Kathy,

It was pouring this morning, but cleared this afternoon.... It is just gray now, but no rain. It is supposed to rain off and on all week. Our lovely Seattle fall/winter has arrived!

Does anyone here live in a place where it is mostly blue skies year round (even if it is really cold in the winter)? I have always wondered what that would be like!

Although, Alaska actually has mostly blue skies (frigid cold blue skies in the winter) except when it is snowing, but the problem is there is only a couple hours of blue skies in the winter months because it is dark 21-22 hrs a day! So, I have never lived in a place where it is mostly blue sky (hot or cold out) year round. I have always wondered what it'd be like!!

Kathy

 

[NC2WDW]

Kathy,

Does anyone here live in a place where it is mostly blue skies year round (even if it is really cold in the winter)? I have always wondered what that would be like!

Although, Alaska actually has mostly blue skies (frigid cold blue skies in the winter) except when it is snowing, but the problem is there is only a couple hours of blue skies in the winter months because it is dark 21-22 hrs a day! So, I have never lived in a place where it is mostly blue sky (hot or cold out) year round. I have always wondered what it'd be like!!

Kathy

It is mostly blue skies here in NC. We actually have periods of drought here often. We also have 4 distinct seasons. You would probably love it and here I am complaining about the high being in the low 60's today. I love hot weather and often wonder why we don't move to Florida. We have such minimal rain days, comparatively, that I actually like rain days just because it's something different.

 

[mrp4352]

Does anyone here live in a place where it is mostly blue skies year round (even if it is really cold in the winter)? I have always wondered what that would be like!

Although, Alaska actually has mostly blue skies (frigid cold blue skies in the winter) except when it is snowing, but the problem is there is only a couple hours of blue skies in the winter months because it is dark 21-22 hrs a day! So, I have never lived in a place where it is mostly blue sky (hot or cold out) year round. I have always wondered what it'd be like!!

Kathy

Hi Kathy -

Yup, Texas qualifies as blue skies year round - but we don't get cold in the winter. In Dallas we'll have 2-3 ice storms and maybe one snowstorm (don't laugh - our inch of snow is a big deal to us!). Everything shuts down because we don't know how to drive in it and we don't have the equipment to make the roads safe. Just salt and dirt to melt it down some...

However, we make up for it in the summer - we set a new record for days over 100 degrees this year! 71 days, and the last one was last Thursday!

Michelle

 

[flygrl]

That is great that she has such a multi-cultural life!! I was trying to figure out if you guys were swedish (but you moved to Canada), or if you guys were Canadian, but Darcie moved to Sweden.

So, does her son Dennis speak Swedish as his first language, or English? I would imagine Swedish. I hear Sweden is very very beautiful!!! I would LOVE to visit there some day!!!

I bet you can't wait to see Darcie and Dennis on the ship.... it'll not only be a vacation for you guys, but a family reunion! How cool!

Kathy

Yes we are Canadian.... Well Darcie had to give up her Canadian Citizenship and is actually Swedish now, but is Dual. She can not get health care any more here... Yes it is going to be great that we will be together especially the kids... Dennis only speaks Swedish (a few words in English) but fully understands English when you talk to him. Can't wait... She is coming out to my place on October 26 to spend Halloween and Sean's birthday.... YIPPPEEE

Tanya

 

[flygrl]

Hello Tanya,

I am the opposite side of Canada!!! Edmonton, Alberta! Woo Hoo!!!

You are just a few Provinces over.... Edmonton Mall... Have never been out West before. I am just an hour north of Toronto...
Tanya

 

[wtgilligan]

Canadians? on a Disney Cruise.....they let them do that? Really???? Oh man....Disney will let anyone on that boat....

You know what they say about Canadians right? They have great bacon!!


Just kidding......we love canadians.

So question: When will we get a finalized list for FE.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Kathy,
living 8 years in Florida we had blue sunny skies 99% of the time. Loved the winter sin Florida, 75 and sunny.

Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

So question: When will we get a finalized list for FE.

I have had 4 people ask me this in the past few days.
We have 3 or 4 posters here who havn't committed to a Yes or No yet so I will try and contact each one of them tomorrow and see what they want to do for sure.

It may take until the weekend to hear back from people since most work during the week.
Anyone who doesn't repsond by Sunday I will assume they are not participating in the Fe and at that time I will let you know.

Since the cruise is about a month away I doubt we will get any more new people. I can be wrong but 4 weeks out you rarely get new people.


Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

If anyone reading this hasn't let me know about the FE for sure, please contact me!!!

Thank you!!

I am off to send out notices to people,

back tomorrow.

Kathy

 

[LovesToRun]

Yes we are Canadian....
Tanya

One thing I find so interesting (and I know none of you have heard me before, but when you meet me you will ), but when we go on vacation where people do not know me or know where I live, I get asked at least a couple times if I'm Canadian! I always find that so funny they ask that, but I've been told I sound Canadian in how I speak! But, when I hear Canadians, I think I sound nothing like them!! There are so many Canadians who live here in Seattle, and I can pick out a Canadian accent really fast, but I really don't think I sound anything like that.

So, anyway, just a funny thing... I speak fast, but really clear, and I've been told that is part of why I sound Canadian, but I don't associate people who speak fast with how Canadian's speak... i will say that the Alaska accent does sound sort of close to a Canadian accent, but I haven't lived in Alaska since 1990, so I think I sound like a Washingtonian, whatever that sounds like!!

So, what about all of you.... do the Canadian's here in this group have obvious Canadian accents, and for the rest of you, do you have accents that give away which state/US region you are from??

Kathy

 

[LovesToRun]

Hi Kathy -

In Dallas we'll have 2-3 ice storms and maybe one snowstorm (don't laugh - our inch of snow is a big deal to us!). Everything shuts down because we don't know how to drive in it and we don't have the equipment to make the roads safe.

Oh, it is the same here in Seattle! When we get snow here (generally a few times in the winter), if it's 1/2 inch or more and sticks in the streets, school gets cancelled, people panic and leave work early, there are traffic jams everywhere... sooooo crazy!!! And, you'd think here in the Pacific Northwest snow would not be a big deal. But, it's because Seattle is almost all hills!!! There seriously is hardly any flat area around here, so if it snows, it's really hard to drive because people get stuck on the hills, or they slide down the hills and hit other cars, etc. So, that is why they cancel school because the school busses aren't safe driving because of the hills, and parents who drop their kids off probably wouldn't venture out to drive their kids to school.

But, coming from Alaska where literally NOTHING having to do with weather will cause school to cancel, I just was in complete disbelief the first time I was in Seattle when it snowed and they cancelled everything and it was like 1/2 - 1 inch. I could NOT believe it!!! We'd get feet of snow up in Alaska, and lived on a big hill, and my school bus still made it up and down the hill.

Anyway, so your story about everthing shutting down in Dallas is just like here!! But, for me, when it snows, I have no issues driivng in it... I learned how to drive in the snow. My biggest worry, though, when I drive when it's snowing, are all the other people around me who don't know how to drive in the snow and who slam on their breaks when they feel their car begin to slide (which is the one thing you should not do when you begin to slide). So, for that reason, when it does snow, I usually do stay home.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Kathy,
its the same here, a half an inch of snow and everything shuts down, they tell you to stay home and off the roads, schools are closed etc..
When I was akid I loved it because no school and we could paly in the snow all day, what little snow there was. Now i look at it like you've got to be kidding me, your closing schools for that??

Plus like you I wont drive for fear of the other drivers slamming into me.

Tonight our hills will be getting their first snow due to a nasty winter storm that will hit this evening. Here will just be strong winds and rain, lots of rain.
Kathy

 

[flygrl]

Canadians? on a Disney Cruise.....they let them do that? Really???? Oh man....Disney will let anyone on that boat....

You know what they say about Canadians right? They have great bacon!!


Just kidding......we love canadians.

So question: When will we get a finalized list for FE.

We are good for Bacon and RYE!!! LOL

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Is Redneck an accent??

No accents here, but I do tend to use alot of old sayings like my mom did.

Like, Thats the way the cookie crumbles
or sodie pop
or as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Stuff like that.

Kathy

 

[flygrl]

One thing I find so interesting (and I know none of you have heard me before, but when you meet me you will ), but when we go on vacation where people do not know me or know where I live, I get asked at least a couple times if I'm Canadian! I always find that so funny they ask that, but I've been told I sound Canadian in how I speak! But, when I hear Canadians, I think I sound nothing like them!! There are so many Canadians who live here in Seattle, and I can pick out a Canadian accent really fast, but I really don't think I sound anything like that.

So, anyway, just a funny thing... I speak fast, but really clear, and I've been told that is part of why I sound Canadian, but I don't associate people who speak fast with how Canadian's speak... i will say that the Alaska accent does sound sort of close to a Canadian accent, but I haven't lived in Alaska since 1990, so I think I sound like a Washingtonian, whatever that sounds like!!

So, what about all of you.... do the Canadian's here in this group have obvious Canadian accents, and for the rest of you, do you have accents that give away which state/US region you are from??

Kathy

that is an intresting question... I don't think I have an accent, but Darcie my sister notices that we do have accents, she said we all sound like hicks... guess we will have to compare when we all meet. It is nice to have different accents to idenitify where you are from

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

FE LIST UPDATE!!!

Ok I have heard back from 2 or the 3 people who hadnt said if they were participating.
You can mark your list that
2ksilverbullet and cbork1 are NOT participating.

Phil and Mary Jo and Rob-Jen are the only ones I dont know about yet. I will let you know when I find out.



Plus I will send out what should be the last revised list in a couple weeks., But if you add the above information you will be up to date for now.

kathy

 

[wtgilligan]

Wow, you all freak out over snow....here in the Pittsburgh area we don't even blink for less than 6 inches. 12-14 MIGHT get a 2 hour delay. Once we got 48 inches in about 2 days and then town shut down for a week. They called it "Snowmageddon."

 

[LovesToRun]

Is Redneck an accent??

No accents here, but I do tend to use alot of old sayings like my mom did.

Like, Thats the way the cookie crumbles
or sodie pop
or as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Stuff like that.

Kathy

Yes, Redneck is an accent! I know because my brother who lives in Alaska is a total Redneck, and he definitely has his own accent and language.

Wow, you all freak out over snow....here in the Pittsburgh area we don't even blink for less than 6 inches. 12-14 MIGHT get a 2 hour delay. Once we got 48 inches in about 2 days and then town shut down for a week. They called it "Snowmageddon."

This is like Alaska.... this is what i'm used to with how I grew up... nobody ever blinked an eyelash when it snowed or if it was frigid sub zero temps. If school was closed or everything shut down becuase of snow, ice, and cold, nobody in Alaska would be educated, or would ever be able to shop in town because everything would be shut down all the time. I remember ONE time they closed schools in my entire K-12 education, and that was when we suddenly got a "warm spell" and the ice and snow melted just a little, and then immediately came a frigid cold snap where the temps literally went from like 30-32 degrees one day to 15 degrees below zero the next day and it snowed at the same time, and literally, Anchorage was 100% an ice skating rink.... I'm talking solid ice on every single road, everywhere.... even the sand/salt trucks had trouble getting around to sand/salt the roads! So, they closed schools because the school busses could hardly even leave the bus barn. But, by the end of that day, they had the roads sanded/salted enough to where they had it all under control.

But, that literally is the ONLY day (I was in high school when that happened) when they cancelled school.

So, yes, I'm with you.... I just find it SO strange still when everthing closes here in Seattle with 1/2 inch - 1 inch of snow... but, I must admit, I do look foward to the "snow" days because it's fun to have a day off to just play in the snow!!!

Kathy

 

[LovesToRun]

I was looking at my cruise docs more thoroughly this morning, and nowhere in my docs does it list my port check-in time I registered for online when I did the online check-in and assigned our family a port check-in time (I think I got 11:30 AM).

I wonder why that is not listed, especially if they are strict about sticking to your port arrival time? I can't imagine every person on the cruise will remember which checkin time they chose (I'm not even 100% sure... I think our time is 11:30, but it might be 11:00 AM...it's definitely one of the earlier ones).

Do any of your cruise docs list your port checkin time?? I wonder since we are taking Disneycruisline transfers from MCO -> Port, the checkin time doesn't matter for people who use the disney transportation, and that is why it's not listed in our docs?

anyway, it's not a big deal, because I'm pretty sure we do have an 11:30 checkin time, and I highly doubt we'll be at port before that anyway. But, I've just read all these posts on the main board about how they are strict at Port Canaveral about arriving at your Port Checkin time, but then to not have it listed in the cruise docs is strange.

Just curious....

Kathy