November 7, 2009 ~~~~ AHOY ST.CROIX ~~~~

[Mel0215]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all had a nice day. We successfully made our first turkey and the fixings together! Hope it was good for all of you!

Does someone have the pics from the scrap swap? How were we going to get those out, or will they be on the group page on Facebook?

 

[Laurie from London]

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!

We are settled back into our routines. DD & DS won't take off their kids program wristbands still to this day... also they are still wearing the green wristbands for our group. DD won't take the braids out either. I may have a small problem brewing...

It's their bday party this weekend, so we are looking forward to that.

Hope everyone is well.

 

[SplashMountainManiac]

Hey everybody, sorry I disappeared for a week, school got the better of me again. What an awesome group of DISers. My family and I had so much fun meeting everyone and seeing everyone around the ship. I just requested access to the facebook page so hopefully I will be able to keep in touch with everyone and put up some pics. I hope the double dip went well for everyone.

Tiggerzfan, thanks for the compliment on Pub Night. The moment Katrina walked by me I knew she was putting me on stage, we met on a previous cruise so she likes to torment me, lol.

Linda, while my trip reports are slow to come my topic blogs should be up soon on AllEars so I will pm the links to that when they come up.

I hope to sail again with some of you in the future. You all really helped make our cruise special.

 

[LindaBabe]

Good morning, all!

Our colds/sinus are still with us too. We leave Jacksonville this morning headed home, after a happy Thanksgiving with family. The weather for the first couple days shows sunshine, but apparently it's yucky in the great northeast. Can you tell how excited I am to be going back there??

Hope everyone recovers quickly!

Happy day, all!

 

[TiggerzFan]

Donna, do they ever give Florida resident discounts on holiday cruises? How much in advance do they release FL resident rates? I am just thinking about any potential CA resident rates!! DCL has gotten into the pattern of releasing the dates so soon, it's way too soon to market those dates yet. So the general news media out here hasn't even announced or talked about the Wonder moving to LA, much less when the dates are. No ads or any such out here at all, yet.

Christine

Christine -
Just this year I've noticed FL resident rates on many sailings, including Christmas week! Now, while the prices are reduced, they are not the usual low Florida resident rates for that week. I usually use the website for All Seasons Travel (************* dot com) to see the trends... there's a link just for the FL rates.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2340032

Link to my trip report

Kathy

 

[stampinshauna]

Hi all -- Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving. We are in Zions National Park and St. George, UT for the long weekend with all of my family. It is about 5 hours south of home. While we are enjoying the 50-60 degree weather here as opposed to 30s and 40s at home, I miss the 80s from sunny FL. I need to work on a photo book and trip report once we get home and settle in again. Thanks to those of you who have shared so far.

We are cruising on the Wonder on Feb 7th (our freebie from adding on to our DVC membership) and then we have a cruise on the Dream in Dec 2011.

 

[LindaBabe]

Hi all!

We're almost home. Short day that turned out long due to traffic traffic and more traffic.

Loved the report, Kathy!

 

[bjkjoy]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2340032

Link to my trip report

Kathy

Thanks for the link. I read your report and relived our cruise again through you. It was great.

Bonnie

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Thanks Bonnie,

glad you liked it. I am not good at writing but I added alot of photos to make up for it.

Kathy

 

[TiggerzFan]

Hey all -

Happy DECEMBER!

Yesterday was Maddie's 4th birthday so the never-ending celebration continued at the Magic Kingdom last night. We had dinner at The Crystal Palace for the first time and it was a blast, especially because Maddie is a MAJOR Piglet fan. Poor Piglet was practically stalked by Maddie while doing his rounds in the restaurant. It was a treat (and an expensive one!) because we don't normally have meals in the parks. We usually do half-day visits and eat before or after the park.

So nice to see the MK all dressed up for Christmas! Is everyone in full decorating mode at home?

 

[SplashMountainManiac]

Hey everybody. My first DCL blog is up on AllEars. I wrote this blog based on the Castaway Cay changes I observed on our cruise. Hope everyone has a great day.
http://land.allears.net/blogs/guestblog/2009/12/castaway_cay_enhancements_prep_1.html

 

[bjkjoy]

Hey everybody. My first DCL blog is up on AllEars. I wrote this blog based on the Castaway Cay changes I observed on our cruise. Hope everyone has a great day.
http://land.allears.net/blogs/guestblog/2009/12/castaway_cay_enhancements_prep_1.html

Thanks Mike. Just read your blog and it was great. The pictures were also wonderful. Also learned you were from Grand Rapids Michigan. Didn't know that before so you learn more every day. Keep up the good work and keep us informed.

Bonnie

 

[LindaBabe]

Very nice, Mike! We did see some work going on to the right of the ship dock, but it was quiet. Quite a number of (what appeared to be construction) workers came from various parts of the island to catch the 3:30 ferry back to Abaco.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Donna,
We love WDW when it's all decorated up for christmas. They actually put up the hollywood studios tree on Nov 2nd while we were there.
Many of the parks were decorated but nothing was lite up yet.
We always went to see everything when we lived there. We always took one day to do all the hotels to see their decorations. So much fun.



Mike, great blog, you got several photos I wanted to get but didnt make it back to the area to get them before running out of steam.

Thanks for posting,

Kathy

 

[LindaBabe]

Hi guys!

I ordered up a round of photos this morning and started on my scrapbook pages - HUGE thanks are in order to the scrapbook swap members - instead of sitting there staring at a blank piece of paper for an hour before I could begin - I just "began"! THANK YOU!!!!!

And thanks to Gail for the paper holder that got all my scraps home FLAT and tidy! I've finally gotten everything sorted out and put away.

Tracy - let me know when you're ready to photo chop your pictures, babe.

Hope everybody's haveing a good weekend. I'm off to work on some more photos!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Linda,

Great minds think alike. I got all my stuff out today too so I can start soon on my book, but i need to get an album first. I was looking at all the wonderful pages thinking WOW this si sure going to be a lot easier this time.


I also used Gails gift of a paper holder to get everything home safely.

Have fun getting your pages together.

As soon as i get an album I will be doing the same thing. Actually I want 2 albums because i still have last years cruise to do too. I have all that out today too.

Kathy

 

[stampinshauna]

I wish I could work on my scrapbook, but I'm thinking that will have to wait until after Christmas. I have too many homemade projects to make in the next 20 days. I'm so glad that I participated in the swap because I love the pages and it will make it so much easier (and faster) to make my scrapbook.

Hope everyone is doing well!

 

[TiggerzFan]

AWESOME blog, Mike! Really enjoyed reading it. I didn't get a chance to explore around as much as you did so this is perfect.

Say hi to the family!

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

Hey all!!

Mike, I see that you are going to be on the March 6th Western- DH and I are thinking of booking that for the two of us!! He will be turning (ahem) a number that begins with 4 and ends with 0 that week. We're already going to the Villas at the Grand Californian for my (ahem) similar birthday in February. It would be a grownups-only cruise!!

What do you know about the weather at that time of year? Will it be warm enough to do beaches, snorkeling, etc.? We've never done a Western, and if we can get the cat 12 at $739/pp the price is right! We talked about doing another cruise line but we both loved the Magic so much I think that's where we will be headed. Plus, we have some freebie airline tickets and have enough hotel points to stay free the night before. We've never booked an inside room (other than a SPH) but boy is the price right.

Anyone else wanna bounceback for an early spring break cruise?!?!