Oct 3, 2009 Wester Carribean

[ajwaspooh]

Where is the list of late comers for the FE? I can look to see if I have enough to add you on. How many cabins are there and how many kids? Let me know and I'll try to add you on. Especially if you're down on deck 1 with me, we can't leave you out! Heck, I'll grab a piece of fruit or something to give to you. since we'll be down there sleeping with the produce, we'll know where to go for those late night snacks, right down the hall.

Heather:

Would you add my DD4 and DD6 room 7604? I would greatly appreciate it. We're one of the "Late FE's".

I can look for your info. on the website or you can post it here so I can return the favor. Thanks!
Amy

 

[kpflillirpf]

Heather D - Love the idea of adhesive glue spray. Will have to mention that to the hubby. I'm assuming the glue held very well? Let me know how easily it cuts please.

Heather B - Alright you had me laughing out loud with the whole fruit thing. LOL You will have to toss some up to me! Maybe we can open our portholes and I can bring a fishing rod. LOL Alright, yes I know the portholes don't really open but it was a great thought!

Re: Space Center - We don't get to FL until dinner time on Friday so we won't be going anywhere but our hotel to "chill". Great idea though.

Well, I"m at work. At lunch right now. Wish the day would be over alright. The 3 girls are going swimming at a friends house tonight. Tomorrow, since my boss is off all day, my girls are coming to visit me at work. Should be fun. Everyone likes to see how they have grown. This weekend we go to Virginia on Friday after work and then we'll be home Saturday evening. Lilli starts school on Monday!!! Mom's excited. I think Lilli is too.

Chat atcha all later! Kristi

 

[jcarlson]

If we have enough supplies to include the late arrivals, do we need to let someone know, so they can add our cabins to this list as well, or will late FE's just be using the orginal FE list + adding the new late FE's?

Just a little confused?

Jennifer

 

[HeatherD]

We're going to the Space Center Friday. There will be 5 of us, DH, DMIL, DU, Amaya and me! Hope to see you there!

Terri

Yay! I'll mention that to Sam - she emailed Amaya this morning (don't know what she actually wrote, though I suggested a few things to say). Are you NoCal or SoCal?

Heather D - Love the idea of adhesive glue spray. Will have to mention that to the hubby. I'm assuming the glue held very well? Let me know how easily it cuts please.

Re: Space Center - We don't get to FL until dinner time on Friday so we won't be going anywhere but our hotel to "chill". Great idea though.

So far, so good on the glue. It's an Elmer's brand we got at Aaron Bros (for a different project involving a WDW family photo puzzle). I sprayed the entire sheet with the adhesive and immediately put the paper on it (start by lining up at top and smooth down). It was a simple cut-in-half job, but none of the edges have peeled up or anything. I've gone ahead and printed the rest of the pages - I'll be using a total of 24 magnet sheets. Some have doubles on them and some are duplicates so that each door has one. I didn't personalize all of them, so I'm deciding whether I should put a label on the back with our info so it doesn't get taken (or will be returned if taken).

In addition to KSC (typing that always makes me want chicken! ), we'll keep a look out for people hangin' at the Radisson pool Friday night. I may not know who you are, but I'll hopefully recognize faces from the website! If you see someone trying to be casual about looking at you, just ignore her... Even though I've only listed my DH and kids, we are a party of 6 for this trip...

 

[jmo]

Wow. We are getting closer!!

I finally booked our air tickets and hotel for before the cruise. We fly in Thursday around 4:50 and will be staying at the Marriott in Cape Canaveral. We will either be doing a beach day or Space center on Friday depending on the weather.

We also have been assigned our cabins. We booked cat 12 and were assigned two connecting cat 9 on deck 1 (#1050 & 1052). Time for deck one party.

I was a late comer and came just a couple days after the FE cutoff. Many of you graciously added us on. I added you all on. However I would be happy to start a late comer list if people are interested. I only see the two new bees who asked. I will start one going, does anyone mind?

36 days till we fly out.

are you still going to do a list of late comers for FE's?

 

[dolphingirl47]

Corinna----Ummm don't forget me!!!! I got my room assignment....room 2500! Deck 2 cat 9 upgrade!! I am soo glad I got an oceanview....love those rooms and love the split bath!!! Wasn't sure how we were gonna handle anything under a cat 10! Well ok I could have handled it cause as Andrea reminds me...I was off the boat for a few weeks there! Anyhow U are right we only have Pam to report her room and we will have all rooms for the fish extender!

Btw....if anyone takes an upgrade at the port ,please make sure if u are in the FE that u come to the meet and greet cause I think that is the only way we will find out!

WELL off to work....we are getting closer. Will be so exciting to start hearing that we all start getting documents!!! in the next 2 weeks I think we will see some people getting them!

No, I had not forgotten you at all. I saw that your room number had been updated on the website and checked it out in my Passporter. So I realised that you had received a rather nice upgrade. I did not want to steal your thunder though.

Congrats to all you who got your room numbers (and upgrades no less)! Woo Hoo!!!! Can't wait for the documents to start arriving.

I got my stickers printed out last night and made sure the size of our embarkation shirt iron-on is ready to go. Made a couple of realizations. First, I need iron-on stuff for dark shirts, not the light ones I have for the last time around. Ooops. That's what I get for thinking I can just use what I have. LOL And second, we may have to find somewhere else to print our magnets. My printer doesn't wanna accept my magnet sheets. We're gonna try once more and if it doesn't work we'll have to figure something else out. I've got TONS of magnets to print out and I have the magnet paper. Hmmmmm, maybe I can beg Trina to help me out. After all, she works at a reproduction center. Guess I've gotta start kissing up just in case. LOL

Well, I'm not dressed yet for work and I should leave here in about 5 minutes so I'd best be going now. Chat atcha all later! Kristi

I don't trust myself to get the transfers printed properly and ironed on straight. I will have my t shirt printed. I will order it on Friday. I won't do any magnets. Again, I don't trust myself to get it right.

Yes, I have been checking everyday on DCL's website. So far, I have not seen any openings. I did call DCL directly and their IT dept. looked at what I had done online. Apparently, I did not push a crucial "book it" button at the bottom of the page! I thought it showed up on our Plans page, though. Either way, I will know from now on to write down that confirmation number! Lesson learned.

DCL has made the ship aware of our little mix-up and will hopefully already have something booked for us once we are on board. So, I'll be in line at 1pm.

Thanks for everyone's help.

On another note, I think our Septic System is having issues. We just moved in to this house that is only 2 years old and I walked around the house after my walk this morning to find a gurgling pipe. This cannot be good. I'm new to Septic so this should be quite the learning experience. Crossing my fingers that the service can come out before the weekend....

I hope that they can get you a Palo reservation.

I also hope that they can come out to service your septic system sooner rather than later. I did not know that they still existed.

I'm on Plan B, which is to spray adhesive regular paper to the magnet paper. That way, I can still cut around it and it's a full magnet and all that. I've tried it with one, though I haven't cut it yet, to see how well the adhesive holds - wanted to make sure the glue was dry!


I've been reading several posts about people going to the Space Center on Friday. Who all's going? We'll have to keep an eye out for each other! Or maybe, when we get onboard on Saturday, we can point and say "I saw you yesterday!"

We still have not made it to the Space Center in all our visits to Orlando. I quite fancy it, but DH is indifferent to it. I am sure eventually we will make it there. I am planning to go to Seaworld on the Friday.

Well, I booked a hotel near the airport in the UK for the night before we fly out today. So the only bigger thing still outstanding is my MNSSHP ticket, which I will take care off on Friday.

Corinna

 

[disneydiva16]

Hello everyone!! Just wanted to say that I can include all the latecomers in the exchange. I found more of the things I am giving at a great price and couldnt pass it up. So, adults and kids are all taken care of. Now I just have to figure out how I am getting this stuff to Florida!!!!

Congrats everyone on your upgrades. How exciting!!!

 

[jmo]

Hello everyone!! Just wanted to say that I can include all the latecomers in the exchange. I found more of the things I am giving at a great price and couldnt pass it up. So, adults and kids are all taken care of. Now I just have to figure out how I am getting this stuff to Florida!!!!

Congrats everyone on your upgrades. How exciting!!!

That is EXTREMELY nice of you!!!! Good luck getting it all to Florida

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Holy Moly!! Everyone went to town today!! Just give us cabin numbers and the chatting begins....

Thanks Corinna for not stealing "my thunder"
I am happy with a oceanview...we have sailed on deck 2 in cat 9 before too and it's fine. Love the huge window! I am just stoked about the split bath cause if we got a cat 11 I wasn't sure how we were gonna handle that with 3 of us girls...

So besides Andrea...who is going to MNSSHP on Oct 1st(thursday)??? We are!! Well I bought the tickets just impatiently waiting!!!! Very impatiently!! :
Also since Andrea ditched me at the Residence Inn Friday night...who is staying there??? Terri and Laura....right? Anyone else?

Ok BBL off to make dinner.....

 

[kimmcbee]

WE ARE FLYING, ALL OF US!!!!!!!! We were just having kyle and DFIL fly down friday night and the others were driving on Thursday night. Found a Ding on southwest to Tampa today and DH said book for ALL of us. So we have a flight to get there, rental cars(2 different flights, DH and I are coming with 2 kids in am, and Kyle and DFIL coming at night after school), still staying at residence inn Friday night. Now I have to get us home. Not sure, probably fly home on Sunday. Maybe we will get another Ding.

Kim

 

[disneymeister]

Congrats all on your room upgrades/assignments! That must mean we are getting super CLOSE!

I have Palo reservations on the first night which I am not crazy about, but haven't been able to switch with any other night except the Pirate night...which is worse.

I'll keep checking, but not expecting too much to change around at this point.

We are roughing it and camping over Labor Day weekend. I need to start thinking about that and not the cruise or we will be eating hot dogs for every meal!!

Have a great week!

 

[disneymeister]

oops posted 2x...

 

[ajwaspooh]

On another note, I think our Septic System is having issues. We just moved in to this house that is only 2 years old and I walked around the house after my walk this morning to find a gurgling pipe. This cannot be good. I'm new to Septic so this should be quite the learning experience. Crossing my fingers that the service can come out before the weekend....

Funny that someone said they are surprised septic is still around. I'm right with you on that one!

So, we have some type of pump that then leads to a public sewer system. That is what is broke. Hopefully someone will be here soon to fix it. But, on the upside... we got to stay at the Ritz last night. If the hotel wasn't sold out tonight, I would be begging the guys NOT to come and fix the pump, today. There's always a silver lining in every cloud!

I'm going to try and make magnets on our printer for the first time. You have all inspired me. Are there any tips/tricks to this? I should probably get going on creating a design so they are ready to print when my paper comes.

Also, what do we need to do to be "added" to the FE list for those that said they can add a couple people? If possible, if you are able to add us (DD4 and DD6), would you send a message to me so I can return the favor?

Congrats to all the upgrades and room assignments! Very cool!

 

[DisneyCruiser83]

WE ARE FLYING, ALL OF US!!!!!!!! We were just having kyle and DFIL fly down friday night and the others were driving on Thursday night. Found a Ding on southwest to Tampa today and DH said book for ALL of us. So we have a flight to get there, rental cars(2 different flights, DH and I are coming with 2 kids in am, and Kyle and DFIL coming at night after school), still staying at residence inn Friday night. Now I have to get us home. Not sure, probably fly home on Sunday. Maybe we will get another Ding.

Kim

That is great news! I am really happy for you!

Ajwaspooh; I am really sorry about your septic system, I hope everything goes smoothly today!

Well, not much to report just wanted to check in with everyone. Have a great day!

 

[dismom73]

Well, I have discovered that there are not enough hours in the day, not if I want to sleep during any of them.
I'm trying to find the time to take Ashley and Riley to look for formals and unless the stores are going to do a special opening at 2am, there just doesn't seem to be any time to do it. I wish I could order them online, but with Ashleys body type it's impossible. I could probably get one for Riley online, but she is very "picky" about how things "fit" her.
I used some coupon codes from mousesavers and got a better deal on our rental car. Now I just have to round up all of our "old" reservations and start canceling them.
Does anyone need a full size rental car for Friday night and drop off Saturday morning? I got a REALLY good deal months and months ago, but we are coming in Wednesday night now so we can't use it. The car company said I can change the name on it. I hate to waste such a good rate, so if anyone is interested PM me. (first one to me gets it )
Well, I finally did it! I joined a gym last night and I have started working out We'll see how long it lasts...hopefully at least 4 weeks and 6 days. I think I'm going to try and do the 5K on CC. Ashley and Riley might do it too. I'm sure they will get really good times (they run a lot for soccer) and I'll be dragging my self the whole way.
Well, off to get the younger two to school. Chat with you all later!
Andrea

 

[HeatherD]

I have Palo reservations on the first night which I am not crazy about, but haven't been able to switch with any other night except the Pirate night...which is worse.

I'll keep checking, but not expecting too much to change around at this point.

We have ressies at Palo for pirate night and I'm not too fussed about it (in fact, it was our first choice). They're for 6:30, so we'll have plenty of time to eat and then get the kids before the party starts. No matter what night we go to Palo, I knew we'd be missing a "new" menu, so I didn't let it bother me that I'd be missing the pirate menu. Though, there is a soup I want to try, so I may beg (very sweetly) my Palo server to procure me some melon soup!

OK, more days are gone....5 weeks from this moment, we'll be in the air, probably approaching the Grand Canyon....
(yeah, I'm excited - I'm also avoiding )

 

[dismom73]

Heather, that's so funny you say that (about the plane) cuz last night when I was putting Riley to bed (at 9pm) I told her we will be landing in Orlando exactly 5 weeks from this moment (our flight lands at midnight east coast time). You wouldn't believe what she told me...she said, "Mom, sometimes your crazy with this Disney stuff." I couldn't believe my own flesh and blood turned traitor on me!

 

[jcarlson]

If we have enough supplies to include the late arrivals, do we need to let someone know, so they can add our cabins to this list as well, or will late FE's just be using the orginal FE list + adding the new late FE's?

Just a little confused?

Jennifer

I guess I should have mentioned I can also include the late FE's as of right now or until I runout of what I have bought. If you would PM me to let me know your interested. I will then PM you the info I need and all my families info.

On another note who was doing the email exchanging for the 9-10 yr old girls? I think my daughter would love this.

Thanks,
Jennifer

 

[jmo]

This is for ajwaspooh (it wouldn't let me ps you because I do not have 10 posts yet - sorry for everyone else who has to read this)

I was wondering if you had a response to your post for FE's to respond to you. It seems as though there are a few who want to do the FE's but were late and some who are willing to include the latecomers but it seems so crazy I don't know if I did join now (which I would love to do) how it would work and who I should give to? So I was wondering if you had a response to your last post and what you were planning on doing. thanks so much.

 

[jmo]

I have a quick question just to satisfy my own curiousity:
What was the secret mickey?