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

[Silly Little Pixie]

Attention, The Higgins' are ready to come back to the Disney Cruise for thier pancakes at Palo!

Welcome Higgins family!!!

Christine

 

[TiggerzFan]

Hey all -

Just checking in from Central Florida, again, to say Hello. Had a bit of Magic this weekend as we spent Saturday evening at Hollywood Studios and Sunday at Magic Kingdom with some dear friends/former neighbors who visited us from PA. Now I love at day at the parks as much as the next DISer, and we go often, but man it's a bit hot and crowded this time of year! We may have to lay low til September!

Attention, The Higgins' are ready to come back to the Disney Cruise for thier pancakes at Palo!

And a warm welcome aboard to my NJ friends, and former shipmates, on this cruise. I had sent them a few emails with "oh so subtle hints" about cruising with us again and so it seems we didn't entirely embarrass them on the first voyage - with the obsessive planning, matching outfits, door signs, etc. (Shhh, I haven't even told them about the addition of Fish Extenders since then).

And I'll let them fill you in on the joke about pancakes in Palo! Hope everyone has had a wonderful summer. School starts here on Monday so ours is just about over.

 

[TiggerzFan]

Welcome Donna!! ...
Do you get to WDW a lot? I see you are AP'ers. We have APs here in California. I'm hoping that DCL moves one of the ships out here permanently one day. The airfare costs are killing us!

Christine

Hi Christine. Sorry I haven't replied sooner... haven't checked in for awhile. Yes, we try to make frequent use of those APs and we've had a whole bunch of visitors this summer (who haven't yet figured out that's the wrong time to come to FL) so they've come in handy. We'll definitely renew the passes. It's so nice to be able to go for half a day or even for an evening.

And, from what I hear it's looking quite likely that y'all will get your own ship(s) out west! The two new ones are contracted to be right here at Port Canaveral, , so no doubt they'll put one out there.

 

[Higgie]

Just let us know what shirts to wear! (How about some Philadelphia Eagles Shirts!)

I especially remember last time sneaking out with the DH of Tiggerz Fan so that we could catch the debut of Terrell Owens and watching the Eagles beat the New York Giants in the ESPN Club rather than particiapte in the opening ceremonies of the cruise!

The pancake story is overrated, but I'll share another time.

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

Just let us know what shirts to wear! (How about some Philadelphia Eagles Shirts!)

I especially remember last time sneaking out with the DH of Tiggerz Fan so that we could catch the debut of Terrell Owens and watching the Eagles beat the New York Giants in the ESPN Club rather than particiapte in the opening ceremonies of the cruise!

The pancake story is overrated, but I'll share another time.

Okay, to be clear: there will be no Eagles t-shirts on this cruise. We are Cowboys fans here. TO is now okay by us. Football on the cruise is one of the things my DH had as a "must". No games were shown on our 7 day Princess cruise last November and I thought it was going to kill him. That was one of the selling points for DCL!! He'd be right there with ya skipping the ceremony to watch a great game.

We'll pass on the Giants too, but we did very much enjoy watching them beat the Pats!!

Just kidding of course... one of my dear friends and fellow teachers has the misfortune to be a lifelong Eagles fan. So my kids and DH bribed the custodian to let them into her classroom this year early in the morning, and they totally decorated the room in blue and silver! Balloons, pictures, Got Five? cards for each student, a personal message from Roy Williams...plus a cake! It was a riot. She of course got "revenge" some months later.

Can you tell I am getting excited for football season? Only a week till my fantasy draft!

Christine

 

[Higgie]

OOOOHH!!! A DALLAS FAN ON MY CRUISE????? Donna, I have to rethink this now.....

We can deifinitely find common ground against the Giants and against the Patriots for cheating in the Super Bowl. I have a feeling our cruise will have a Monday Night Football Eagles/Dallas game on!! MaryLou still has her T.O. Eagles Jersey.

Of course I'll wait till the end of this season to talk some real smack, because I don't have a lot of faith in my team this year yet. We'll see!

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

OOOOHH!!! A DALLAS FAN ON MY CRUISE????? Donna, I have to rethink this now.....

We can deifinitely find common ground against the Giants and against the Patriots for cheating in the Super Bowl. I have a feeling our cruise will have a Monday Night Football Eagles/Dallas game on!! MaryLou still has her T.O. Eagles Jersey.

Of course I'll wait till the end of this season to talk some real smack, because I don't have a lot of faith in my team this year yet. We'll see!

In all seriousness, this should be lots of fun!! I love a good football rivalry! Eagles fans are as passionate as they come and I love that. I'll admit I was not a fan of TO coming to Dallas at first... I didn't think he was fair at all to McNabb... but he seems to have really settled down and gotten back to playing football. We went to Dallas last season to see a game, and had great seats really low...omg the man is so fast, it's unbelievable. The tv doesn't do him justice.

Here's hoping for a great Monday Night matchup on the cruise!! Let's hope it's not something lame like the Vikings or the Rams.

Christine

 

[TiggerzFan]

Cowboys and Eagles fans?? OH MY!

I'm a New Englander. Once a Patriots fan (and Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins) always a Patriots fan.

 

[lanand3]

With the cruise so far away, I feel the need to bring this sailing back to the front page and pass some time. Boy,how am I possibly going to wait another 15 months Patience is not one of my strong points

 

[A10560]

Hi Everyone,

We just returned from the 3 night Bahama's cruise this past weekend and are ready to head back out! It will be four of us my husband and I and our boys who will be almost 4 and almost 2 years old. We are coming from Cincinnati so it will be a much needed break from the cold.

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

Welcome!!

I know, the wait seems like forever...! But I keep telling myself, I booked our land/sea last August when it was 15 months out, and now I am at less than 2 months!!

I am glad to see more people joining this cruise! Has anyone else done the Eastern before?

Christine

 

[TiggerzFan]

Woo Hoo!
We just booked a 4-night Wonder cruise for Nov 9th to try to help ease the pain of waiting so long til next year's cruise. We can celebrate our 11th anniversary onboard! DH and I decided that the 11th year symbolic gift is water; water= cruise! That's our story and we're sticking to it!

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

Woo Hoo!
We just booked a 4-night Wonder cruise for Nov 9th to try to help ease the pain of waiting so long til next year's cruise. We can celebrate our 11th anniversary onboard! DH and I decided that the 11th year symbolic gift is water; water= cruise! That's our story and we're sticking to it!

Yea Donna!!! We're on the November 9th cruise too!! I can't WAIT!! After that it's just a 12 month countdown ...

Christine

 

[TiggerzFan]

Yea Donna!!! We're on the November 9th cruise too!! I can't WAIT!! After that it's just a 12 month countdown ...

Christine

Christine -

What a small world!! And now, looking back at posts on the other thread, I'm finally connecting the dots!

And let's not talk football for awhile... we Patriots fans are feeling PAIN!

 

[Higgie]

I'm very angry at your Patriots because I picked them last week in my suicide pool, but they lost to the Miami Dolphins??? One quarterback goes down and the whole team falls apart?????

For those of us who are not cruising every 3-4 months, football and baseball is all we have!

The Phillies are on their way to the World Series!

 

[AverysMommy]

Hello Everyone

I started this Board and then after a few months we started thinking that we might not be able to go ......... but the good news is that we are back on for the November 7th Cruise.

More details to follow...........I have to go back to read the notes but I am so excited.

Talk to everyone soon

Jessalynn

 

[AverysMommy]

Hi, just found this thread. We will be on this cruise also. It will be my DH, my daughter, DGD who will turn 12 the day after we get off the cruise, my DGS who will turn 11 two months later, and myself. We booked this cruise the day it came out, while on the Western Dec. 1-8 cruise. My daughter was able to get SPR 5520 and I was able to get SNV 7120.
My Dh and I are going to Hawaii the end of Feb. We just got our flights last night. We will be staying in our time share on the Big Island, and can't wait to go!! Any advice on what to do or not to miss would be greatly appreciated. I have always wanted to go to HI and can't believe I am finally going. Anyway, glad that I found this thread, maybe we could plan a meet while on this cruise.
Vickie

Hey there - your grandson will be the same age as my son - the big TEN! Hopefully as we get closer to the date, they will be able to communicate. My Son's name is Spencer!

 

[AverysMommy]

Hello Everyone! I just put a deposit down on this cruise today. We will be first going this Nov 1st on the Disney Magic for a 7 night Western cruise and it will be so nice when we leave that we will be returning the following year. It will be me Jeanette, my husband Brian, my son Logan (will be 9 when we cruise) and my daughter Kelsey (will be 6 when we cruise). Just wanted to drop by and say hello!

PERFECT FIT for my kids

My son Spencer will be 10 like Logan and my daughter Avery will be 6 like Kelsey.

We cruised in 2007 and the kids really liked the fact that they knew the names of some kids before they even got on the ship.

I have to see if I can remember how to post pictures, I used to do it all the time - does anyone remember?

 

[AverysMommy]

Hi everyone! I just booked for Nov.2009 Eastern to St Croix
It seems so far away but hoping to get to "know"some people before then! I am sailing w/my DH and 3 kids who will be 6ds 6dd and 11dd.The kids do not know yet as we are going to wdw in may09 for 8 nights so I will wait until after that trip to tell them,but honestly I am more excited about the cruise than WDW!!!

WOW - 6 year old twins -so cool! I had wanted twins but wasnt lucky enough.

Hopefully our kids can get connected.

 

[AverysMommy]

PERFECT FIT for my kids

My son Spencer will be 10 like Logan and my daughter Avery will be 6 like Kelsey.

We cruised in 2007 and the kids really liked the fact that they knew the names of some kids before they even got on the ship.

I have to see if I can remember how to post pictures, I used to do it all the time - does anyone remember?

Getting caught up - I see now that this family has cancelled - thats too bad!!

More families to come soon!!!!!!!!!