Oct. 15, 2006 (4 nights on the "New" Wonder)

[Lindy Loo]

Thanks Mike for posting your girls photos, thanks Kelly for getting it so we could see it...... Its a pain to do, but once you get a couple sent ok, Mike, there will be no stopping you.............. look at me Your girls look so cute. Elouise was waving to them ???!! This is from Eloise to them ( her choice of icons, with no logic to them )

Wow Kelly and Jake your party looks great fun, and as ususal you seem to have had everythig well organised, with lots of attention to "Disney detail" Your necklace is stunning,and will certainly be a wonderful family keepsake, as it will be your wedding jewerely (sp?) Jules, you are right about picking up the idea for recipies etc, thats not done here, ( perhaps we should ??) most young women today, can just pop a ready meal in the microwave!

Jane and Mike.... we are very grateful for people who work for the army, navy, fire fighting etc. you should both be very proud, the jobs are so important. Unfortunatley, often in the UK the salary, in my opinion, are not reflective of their skilled and testing work.

The thing we realy loved when at Sea world, was the way the the national anthem was played and EVERYONE stood still, some people sang. It really touched me ( we dont seem to be so "proud" of our country or forces etc, in the Uk, as you guys) We also loved the the way forces personnel get free entry and get cheered by everyone in the Shamu stadium.

We are very proud to be English, however this can be confussed with being Racist. With the exception of when the world cup is on, you cant really hang flags in your garden/house/car etc, as the local councils worry it may upset "non English" people. We LOVED the USA flag on the porch of the villa.


Did anyone see the 4 year old conjoined twins from Salt lake city? They are having an operation to seperate them today. My heart goes out to them and their family. One girl will have the kidney they share and one will have another vital organ. They will only have one leg each. However doctors are using their dolls to explain the op to the girls. What an amazing thing to do,( modern medicine is mind blowing ) my fingers are crossed that all goes well.

 

[SparKeLLy]

Jules, no it's not a tradition about the recipes, but it's a fairly common thing at bridal showers I think. I'm glad they did it for us as Jacob loves to cook and I like to "try" haha, plus we need recipes so we can make use of the new mixer A few people brought old recipes from my grandmas so that is very special to me to have some of them.

The photo confetti I made. There used to be a website that you could order it from, but they shut down about a month ago, so I figured it would be easy enough to make it myself and less expensive as well. I just bought a large circle punch from a scrapbook store as well as a mickey shaped punch for the solid confetti, printed off the pics on my printer and punched them all out, it was FUN!

I saw a report about the conjoined twins last week I didn't know that the surgery was today, I hope it goes smoothly. It is a miracle that they can even attempt it.

I just realized today is exactly 2 months to my wedding!!

 

[saratogagirl]

Kelly I have just skown Ian the piccies, he is interested to know what the phrase means on the picture behind you ??

 

[Lindy Loo]

Jules Congrats on it being just 2 months away!!! cos that means we are all almost Two months from our cruise !!

Wow Jules, Ian is very "eagle eyed" I didnt spot that. emmmm it now has us wondering too, what does it mean?

Jen, did we frighten you away??? please come back we arent all crazy?

I was wondering will we all meet up on the boat, or perhaps even in the terminal ???? Is it possible or would others want to see if we can get 2 big tables near each other for meals? I would love to meet everyone for pirates night. I guess alot of the people dressed up will be Disers, cos we will know about it in advance, and we kind of like planning!

 

[Lindy Loo]

Hi just registared Elouise to kids club, soooo easy and quick.

It gave me an option of who to selelct to be authorised to collect her from the club, I scrolled down and clicked Waynes name, then saw some other names. I thought thats weird, then as I called them out to Wayne, joking " Hey these people might want Ellie if shes on " meltdown"..... when...........I realised these "people" are all you guys on our table.


so the link is still there for our table............ yippee............
and Ive put you all down as responsible for Elouise, in case me and Wayne are tooo drunk to get her







only joking!!! got you worried, didnt it !????

 

[SparKeLLy]

The phrase on the sign is Gra Go Deo which in Gaelic means "Love Forever"

My cousins made that sign for the party and got ideas from our wedding invitations.

Jacob's wedding band will actually have gra go deo as the design with a Celtic Saint Andrew knot inbetween each word, here is a picture of his
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/KellyRiley/GRA-GO-DEO-Yellow.jpg

 

[Mdavison]

Lindy Loo

The girls are also excited to see Ms. Elouise. My 4 year old is so happy that she knows someone her age is coming. She is a little shy at first but watch out after she gets comfortable with you. We are so looking forward to our trip. We still have to register the kids for the oceaneers club, didn't know that you could do it now. By the way is anyone doing the Dolphin excurscion, we are thinking about it, but don't want to waste the money if the kids are to young to enjoy. Nicole and Kylie want to send Elouise a message: Nicole; Kylie;
They also want to see a picture of Eloise if possible.

Sparkelly
My wife is reminiscing about our wedding day after she saw your pictures. They are great, we envy you. Thanks again for the help with the pictures. I think I might have the hang of it now.

Everyone
I am a firefighter in Indian River County, FLorida. Have been for about 11 years now. I wouldn't dream of doing anything else. My wife is an Office Mgr. in an Orthopedic office. I was born and raised in Florida and my better half is from Canada, she is glad to be in the warm weather now. This is our second cruise, our first was with Royal Carribean (3 day) just to see if we would like it, we didn't bring the kids with us though. This trip will be the first for the kids, they are still trying to imagine how big the boat is.

 

[Lindy Loo]

Hi Mike
Click here fro picture of Elouise !
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j...rent=DSCF0106.jpg&slideshow=paused&interval=3


this is Elouise after she got a postcard from a kind Diser, about our cruise she was soooooooooooooooooo excited!

she kind of looks older here than normal, dont know why???

 

[Lindy Loo]

Thought I had posted this one from our holiday last week?http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j...rent=DSCF0035.jpg&slideshow=paused&interval=3

 

[Mdavison]

Lindy Loo

The girls say that Elouise is beautiful. Kylie wants to know why she was upside down (I told her thats the way the pictures are), she didn't understand. I have posted some more pics for Elouise to look at, it should work in the thread I put in for the photo album. Let me know if it worked.

 

[saratogagirl]

Hi Everyone

Linda I read the news about the twins, I so hope that all goes well, have you head any update on the ?

I it very good idea about the recipes jelly, as Linda says most young women over here worship the microwave and cant boil an egg so this is a very interesting idea, it must be very special to get some of your grandmas recipes. Thanks for sharing with us the meaning of the phrase, that is so romantic , and Jakes band looks really nice, Ian has designs like that on his, it is Welsh Gold, bleieve it or not it is his third band, he outgrew one, broke one, I have told him that this is the third and last

I am looking forward to taking parental responsibility for Ellie when you and Wayne are too drunk too walk Linda

I am looking forward to meeting you all so much, but dont know if we will be able to de the terminal as we are taking the Disney transfer so will probably be there much later than everyone else

Mike your children are beautiful, sounds like them and Ellie are going to have a lot of fun. They must be very excited, fire fighting is such a worthy job I think you are very brave

 

[Lindy Loo]

Hi everyone

Nothing to really say, just bumping us up, for any newbies to find us !!!

 

[MJ5MOUSE]

Linda, did you look at the pictures on Mike's link? Elouise is going to love the little princes pictures of Nichole and Kylie in their dance recitle digs.

I think we should set up a DIS Meet on the ship around 3:00 either on Deck 10 or near the Micky Pool. Those are the 2 places I have read work well. But in addition to that I think it would be really cool to get together with whoever wanted too, someplace like Downtown Disney either Friday night or sometime Saturday since most everyone is doing somthing Disney before the cruise. Of coarse we may not be able to accomadate everyone because everyone has their own scheduals, but if we just decide on a time and place then who ever is interested could come.

Kelly, Jakes Ring is very cool.

Hope everyone is having a great week

 

[Lindy Loo]

( from Elouise, even though its not anyones b/day!!!)


We LOVE the photos of the girls, they are very very pretty. Elouise says they are "sweet" and would like to play and dance with them. She says shes wants to be their friend! direct quotes from her, this is soooo much fun, and really adding to the cruise build up for her!

Whats the name of your dog? Me and Kelly have the same breed, a Keeshond! How strange is that!

Jane Hi there we will def meet up on the cruise, 3pm by the pool would would be good for us and the kids. Elouise wants to dance with the girls at the sail away party! We cant meet Fri as we are booked for meals etc , sorry!!!

These pictures are from Elouise to everyone....

 

[saratogagirl]

Hi

Jane would love to meet up by the pool as I think this would suit everybody as Linda says, I do not time we will get to the port, but if we are not there by 3.00, I am sure you can crack on without us and we can join you when we get there. I will need to check with Ian about the Friday/Saturday, we fly in on Friday land late Friday afternoon so i guess by the time we get ASM, check in and get settled Friday would not be good for us, but we had planned to spend Saturday relaxing by the pool and possibly visiting Downtown Disney so this may be good for us, we are not planning on doing any parks before the cruise, all our parks will be after, so I will check with him about the Saturday ..

Linda this is to Ellie

 

[SparKeLLy]

3 pm by the pool on the ship sounds doable for us, we'll try to make it

We won't be able to do anything the Friday or Saturday before the cruise. Friday we have dinner plans and Saturday we'll be in the Magic Kingdom.

 

[Sue88]

Hi everyone!

I am trying to catch up on all that has been said and all the nice pictures that have been posted recently.
Kelly, your hair is much longer now than shown on previous pictures! I am glad I am up to date on that now. Thanks for sharing the party pics.
Linda, I just love the picture of Elouise on the carousel! That is really adorable!
Sadly, my work situation is keeping me from joining in as much as I used to but I am with you in spirit!

 

[saratogagirl]

Hi Sue

It is lovely to hear from you, we miss you

Are you very busy at work these days ??

 

[Lindy Loo]

Hi Sue, sorry work is keeping you soooo busy!

Dont worry we wont forget you.Glad you dropped in for a "catch up" though.

I know what you mean about the photo of Elouise its so "her" !!!

 

[Mdavison]

Thanks for the comments about our girls everyone.

We too would like to meet with everyone, we will probably be getting to the port about 11:30 or so. If things go as planned we will try to meet at the pool at 3:00, by the way which pool is it.

Lindy Loo our dog is a ****zu, but I think the one that was posted was my mother in laws dog which is a lhasa apso. There look about the same though.

Is anyone doing any of the excurscions in Nassau and Castaway Cay.

The Girls tell everyone HI!!!!!!!!