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

[TinkNanny]

Hi Kelly,

I'm glad ya'll had such a great time. I never seemed to be able to catch up with everyone, but I saw Linda all of the time in passing.

We LOVED the cruise!! I am pretty sure we will go again, but we will have to save up. I think we will do 7 day next time. We ran out of time before we got to do everything.

Did you end up with a lot of pix at Shutters? You had so many great ones to chose from. When I would check on ours I would look for everyone elses. You and Jake had a lot taken and they all looked so good. You had that "honeymoon" glow. If you bought all of those pix you must be in the poor house by now!!

I hate that you had such a bad experience going home. Within 15 minutes from leaving our breakfast table we were in our car on the way home. One of my friends took RC and they waited 2 hrs to leave the ship. She was stuck in the movie theater of the ship. I'm glad we didn't have to leave in assigned groups like that!!!

Do you know when everyone else will be back home?
Oh yeah, I planned to ask how NSSHP was, but I never really got to talk to ya'll.

I hope everyone keeps checking in from time to time.
Belinda

 

[SparKeLLy]

Hi Belinda. I thought DCL did a great job getting people off the ship. On Carnival it was nothing like that, we had to wait in a room for a long time before we were allowed off in our group. This was much nicer. Everything was much nicer (x 100) on DCL!!!

The Halloween party was fun...once we got in, but it was way too crowded I thought. Nothing like previous parties we've been to. When we arrived they weren't even allowing people in yet and it was about 7:30...and it was a huge crowd of people..kids getting trampled...it was quite dark where we were all hearded to, couldn't hardly see what was going on...parents getting VERY angry. It was not a good situation. Then it seemed they started closing a lot of things down at 11:30. I plan to send an email to Disney as they had even called and assured me that everything would go smoothly with their new way of doing things and I saw firsthand at least on this night that they did not. We only had our wristbands checked once as well and it was right after we were let into the party.

Also I want to say THANK YOU to Linda and all who helped with our door decorations. We both loved them and it was still such a surprise to see them even though I knew she was going to do it. We were in the room when it was decorated too and we didn't hear a thing. I've saved each heart to put in our scrapbook and I'm going to stick one of the Just Married signs on our apartment door.

 

[Sue88]

Hi Kelly and Belinda!
I am glad you both made it home safe! It might be a few days before we hear from Jules and Linda. They were both going back to the parks after the cruise.
After the last breakfast we took Janet back to her college dorm and then Jane, Alie and I went to downtown Disney and did some shopping before they had to take me to the airport. It was a really nice vacation!
Belinda, we were sorry we didn't get to see more of you! You would have fit in so well with our table of dis-friends!
Kelly, I'm sorry too, to hear about your bad towncar experience. I did Tiffany towncar from the airport to Pop Century at the beginning of my trip and everything was smooth but that is a lot shorter drive than it is from port canaveral of course. We were very happy that you and Jake were at our table too. I wanted to talk to you more but was not sure if you two wanted a little more privacy and I didn't want to be pushy! I really hope your honeymoon was magical. Also, thank you for the little treats (candy, sticker). It was fun getting the little gifts from each other. Both Belinda and Elouise left thank you notes in our room and I felt a little naughty that I did not thank people properly while we were still all together. Linda mentioned that she wanted us to trade addresses via private message when everyone is back so we could keep in touch and also send our thank yous. I kept Elouise's sweet thank you note! I think I should have given it to Jane because she gave the most gifts to Ellie.
Anyway, having everyone together was so great and special! I am already missing you all!
Jane and Alie, Thank you again for taking care of me and for the fishie key chain!

 

[MJ5MOUSE]

Hi everyone,

Boy is it hard getting back to reality
I think I am starting to get that cold that I warded off so well before the cruise. I am sure glad that I decided to take a semester off of school.

Belinda I am loving your TR so far. I am so jealous that you got to see the Magic and Wonder together in PC. What an awesome pic. you got. I am almost done writing my TR but still need to post it. I will need to edit it a bit as it is very very long.

It was WONDERful meeting everyone. I am so glad that we met here on the DIS before the cruise.

Sue, thanks for doing our cool door decorations. My office is now the enchanted tiki room. Not quite as nice as a floating stateroom but a good reminder none the less.

Kelly, Welcome home. It is WONDERful that you now get to start planning your anniversary cruise. Perhaps I will come to the port to see you off and wave bon voyage.

Jules and Linda I hope that your holiday continues to be spectacular and that you all have safe travels home. Talk to you all soon.

Jane

 

[Sue88]

I just wanted to move us to the front page. Sad to see us no longer at the top!

Jane, I have a cold too.

 

[SparKeLLy]

Hello all.

Jane & Sue I never did get to see your door decorations but they sounded great. Did you get a picture of it?

I was sick during the cruise...nothing major..just a sinus infection that I managed to get like the day before the cruise - grrr. But I didn't let it spoil our fun too much, just was an annoyance really and made me feel groggy in the head and probably a bit more irritable than normal hehe. Poor Jacob.

I just found out last night that one of Jacobs sisters who was a bridesmaid in the wedding and was sick at the wedding....well she had/has mono!

Everyone get and stay healthy. When do Jules & Ian and Linda, Wayne & Elouise get back? Hopefully everyone comes to chat and share photos and all that

I scanned in all our photos that we bought on the ship yesterday, now I need to start scanning in wedding photos from the disposable cameras we had on the tables - there are quite a few good ones surprisingly.

Ok, better get back to work!

 

[Sue88]

It seems strange that any of us could be sick after the cruise. We must have used enough hand sanitizer to kill every germ in the hemisphere!

Kelly, I'm not sure when our UK friends will be getting home. They did get nice long vacations! I am sure they plan to come back to the dis when they get home. We did take pictures of our door but I have not yet mastered the picture posting. I know I should get that figured out.

 

[MJ5MOUSE]

Here it is.

 

[SparKeLLy]

Wow that's really neat! Very nice job Sue

 

[TinkNanny]

I've got a cold too!! Yuk!! I told Robert that I am so grateful that I didn't have it last week. I agree that we should be very sanitized from our cruise. I think it's really just a sinus infection starting. I get them very easily. I've had 4 sinus surgeries, so I try to keep from getting sick. I could have taken 10 cruises for the amount of $$ I have put in these "holes" in my head!! hehe

Don't ya'll love the pix of Kelly & Jacob in her signature? Soooo cute!!!

I hope our freinds from over yonder check in soon. I bet Ellie is worn out (Linda too!).

Take Care & Stay Well!

TTYL,
Belinda

P.S. I'm gonna try to add some pictures!!

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[TinkNanny]

This is the Magic & Wonder in port together on Sat. The Magic was leaving.

Lindsey and Robert on our snorkeling excursion.

I din't really get very many pictures. Lindsey took more, but she use disposable cameras and they have to be scanned.

Post your pictures everyone!!

 

[TinkNanny]

Hey ya'll... I just noticed that I am no longer "earning my wings" on my tag. Now I'm a "Mouseketeer". I wonder when that happened?

 

[Mdavison]

We have also made it back in one piece. We got back in on Thursday about 10:30 a.m., seeing that we live so close to the port. It has been crazy trying to get back to the real life after the cruise. We loved the cruise so much that we booked another one next year, but this time we did a 7 day Eastern Carribean. We booked on the ship and got a great deal. Our girls said that they would rather go on the cruise for 7 days than go to Disney. What a break for us as parents, the cruise is much more relaxing.

Linda, Wayne, Elouise we sent some pics to your email address of Elouise and the girls. They keep asking about Elouise, they had a great time with her. Thanks again for the Tea With Wendy tickets. You guys probably need a vacation from your vacation. Hope the rest of your trip went well, look forward to talking to you guys again.

MJ the honey is great, thanks again for the gift. Keep in touch, its not like we live that far away.

Belinda, we didn't get a chance to see you that much, but everytime we did you always had a smile on your face.

Jules, I hope you took advantage of the handicap rules on the ship, due to your broken elbow you didn't even know you had How's the weather back in the UK?

Everyone else that I missed you guys were great throughout the wait here on the Dis boards, I think it kept us all up on the need to know cruise tips and also make the time pass!!!!!!

We will try to sort through some of our many digital pics and post them to share with everyone.

 

[mj5mousedd17]

I just wanted to move us to the front page. Sad to see us no longer at the top!

Jane, I have a cold too.

HA it was janet! she was the sick one in the stateroom, so you can blame it all on her.

 

[Sue88]

Thanks for the compliment on our door Kelly. I had fun making the decorations. Someone on the cruise did take one of the very small magnets but we had plenty more to replace it.

Alie, I didn't realize that Janet was sick. I wouldn't hold it against her and I am not convinced that I didn't catch this from my famous coughing co-worker. I feel terrible today. I don't know why I am working! I am using a crazy amount of tissues and aspirin.
I am VERY glad I was not like this for our cruise!

 

[TinkNanny]

Jen,
I wish we would have booked on board. I read that it was really smart to do that, but I forgot all about it!! How much of a discount did you get? I guess it's to late for me to worry about it now.

I'm glad you had a great time. I can't believe the girls would rather cruise than go to WDW.

Hope you all are well...... Seems like JANET , shared her cold wtih everyone!! haha

 

[Mdavison]

Belinda,

It saved us 10% and got a shipboard credit of $200. Well worth it we thought. If your plans change you can also cancel up to 90 days before you cruise and receive your deposit back. No lose situation.

 

[mj5mousedd17]

Thanks for the compliment on our door Kelly. I had fun making the decorations. Someone on the cruise did take one of the very small magnets but we had plenty more to replace it.

Alie, I didn't realize that Janet was sick. I wouldn't hold it against her and I am not convinced that I didn't catch this from my famous coughing co-worker. I feel terrible today. I don't know why I am working! I am using a crazy amount of tissues and aspirin.
I am VERY glad I was not like this for our cruise!

i was just blaming her so that you wouldnt blame me. haha

 

[Sue88]

I wouldn't blame YOU sweetie!

 

[TinkNanny]

I'm trying to keep this thread alive....

When to the overseas clan get back?