Oct 30 2010 7 Night Western

[RPhNina]

RPhNina (Lexington, KY) Colin (40), Nina (44) - celebrating our 10th anniversary - late dinner seating

 

[tjbaggott]

UH OH, I think I really did blow the surprise this time for my DS12! One of my daycare parents was asking me this morning when I was taking holidays this summer. I explained to her I'm NOT TAKING holidays this summer as we'll be taking two weeks off in the fall. DS12 was sitting just feet from me when I said this and had a grin on his face. But he hasn't asked any questions. I think he knows though OH well, I suppose that even if he does know something is up, he couldn't know exactly what (though I'm sure he's guessing at it). I still won't mention it though and it'll still be somewhat of a surprise as he'll have no clue as to WHEN!

Beautiful weather here now, yesterday and the rest of this week are practically summer temps! I LOVE IT!

 

[tjbaggott]

Welcome aboard Nina!

 

[sssteele]

RPhNina (Lexington, KY) Colin (40), Nina (44) - celebrating our 10th anniversary - late dinner seating

Welcome! What a perfect way to celebrate your anniversary.

Joanie

 

[JKSWonder]

Welcome aboard Nina!

My DH Mike and I will have just celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary about two weeks before we set sail!

 

[tjbaggott]

Dh and I are celebrating 20 years together next month. Can we still celebrate this on board? 20 years is a BIG deal to me (considering he's the only one of his siblings still married, and me and my younger bro are two out of 4 siblings still married). 20 years, we can celebrate that all year long!

 

[adnil530]

RPhNina (Lexington, KY) Colin (40), Nina (44) - celebrating our 10th anniversary - late dinner seating

Welcome! What a perfect way to celebrate your anniversary.

Joanie

Welcome aboard Nina!

My DH Mike and I will have just celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary about two weeks before we set sail!

Dh and I are celebrating 20 years together next month. Can we still celebrate this on board? 20 years is a BIG deal to me (considering he's the only one of his siblings still married, and me and my younger bro are two out of 4 siblings still married). 20 years, we can celebrate that all year long!

Welcome aboard Nina!

DH Mike and I will celebrate our 27th anniversary on board on our last at sea day. We celebrated our 25th on the Magic (a little late) 2 years ago. We will celebrate again with a couple's massage.
I hope I can stay awake through it this time.

This is a happening trip with all the anniversarys For me, each year is a big deal. It takes a lot of work on everyone's part to keep a job, a family, a home and a marriage together.

DH's birthday is also a few weeks before we cruise. This will be the last year he will be on the southside of 50 which means I will be on the northside by then Oh my! Someone sent me an AARP application this week. Am I really almost a half century young????

Linda

 

[Beachbumpirates]

Welcome, Happy Birthday and maybe we should have an Anniversary Toast Party once onboard. We will celebrate our 18th on 10/17.

Can you believe it is supposed to hit 80 today in Chicago? Hello Spring!

Happy Easter All!

 

[sssteele]

Welcome aboard Nina!

DH Mike and I will celebrate our 27th anniversary on board on our last at sea day. We celebrated our 25th on the Magic (a little late) 2 years ago. We will celebrate again with a couple's massage.
I hope I can stay awake through it this time.

This is a happening trip with all the anniversarys For me, each year is a big deal. It takes a lot of work on everyone's part to keep a job, a family, a home and a marriage together.

DH's birthday is also a few weeks before we cruise. This will be the last year he will be on the southside of 50 which means I will be on the northside by then Oh my! Someone sent me an AARP application this week. Am I really almost a half century young????

Linda

Guess we should celebrate with the rest of the group. DH and I will hit 42 years just 6 days after the cruise.


Maybe we should have one night to celebrate , and count up all our years. Would be pretty awesome!

Joanie

 

[tjbaggott]

GOOD FRIDAY EVERYONE! And I did receive some Good news today! I received an email to print off our Park Voucher tickets from the Disney Give a Day Get a Disney Day Volunteer Program. I had been worried because after I heard that the program was now closed to all new registrants, I checked our account online, and noticed the volunteer event was only listed beside my name, and nothing beside DH and both DS's. But the email indicates ALL our names and a link to print a voucher for each of us! Now I just have to get my printer working.........

 

[adnil530]

GOOD FRIDAY EVERYONE! And I did receive some Good news today! I received an email to print off our Park Voucher tickets from the Disney Give a Day Get a Disney Day Volunteer Program. I had been worried because after I heard that the program was now closed to all new registrants, I checked our account online, and noticed the volunteer event was only listed beside my name, and nothing beside DH and both DS's. But the email indicates ALL our names and a link to print a voucher for each of us! Now I just have to get my printer working.........

I wonder how long you can hold off printing the vouchers out. Do you have to print all the vouchers out at once? I can't decide between DL, WDW or the pins!

Just found out yesterday that I need to go to Florida at the end of this month to take care of some business with the house over there. I'm taking my 31 year old DD, who is the biggest Disney nut, err I mean fan, that I know. We are going to be able to stay for 9 nights. The flight fees were the same for 2 days or 9 days, so yea for us! We'll be doing Disney this trip so I am so excited

I still don't know if I should go ahead and redeem the voucher now or save it for when the 4 of us can all go together. We are not going to able to go pre or post cruise in October timewise. Humm.

Linda

 

[tjbaggott]

I wonder how long you can hold off printing the vouchers out. Do you have to print all the vouchers out at once? I can't decide between DL, WDW or the pins!

Just found out yesterday that I need to go to Florida at the end of this month to take care of some business with the house over there. I'm taking my 31 year old DD, who is the biggest Disney nut, err I mean fan, that I know. We are going to be able to stay for 9 nights. The flight fees were the same for 2 days or 9 days, so yea for us! We'll be doing Disney this trip so I am so excited

I still don't know if I should go ahead and redeem the voucher now or save it for when the 4 of us can all go together. We are not going to able to go pre or post cruise in October timewise. Humm.

Linda

Yes you can use the voucher for either park. The bottom of our vouchers have a paragrah indicating we can do so if we change our minds on which theme park, WDW or WDL. THere are certain dates you can't use the vouchers for at both parks, and I think it's because those are Holiday times.

 

[Grandma4ever]

I thought I would drop by to wish everyone a blessed week-end. I pray that your higher power, whatever you call him or her, will be with you this week-end.

Happy Easter​

I hope that this note finds everyone well and deep into planning for this cruise. We have begun to look at what we want to do at each port. Since we are doing a back to back I need to be reasonable. So at Castaway we will just kick back and relax as well as snorkle off the beach. At Key West we will walk down Duval Street and just enjoy the city. Grand Caymen is Capt Marvins. Can not wait to do this excursion for my 3rd time.

That leaves St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Cozumel to plan for. We are thinking about doing a Maya excusion in Cozumel on on the island. St Thomas and St Maarten we want to do either beach. Cozumel does have a Dolphin excusion that has my eye but it is 100.00 more per person than the maya one I am looking at.

Decision they are hard for me to make but I do have till sometime in July.

One day closer and still counting!!!​

One final note. I really like the idea of having a get together to celebrate our joint anniveraries. Janet and I alway celebrate on our cruises which have most often been serveral months past our true anniversary. August 29,2010 we will celebrate our 23rd anniversay. But these cruises will be the real celebration. Lois

 

[tjbaggott]

August 29,2010 we will celebrate our 23rd anniversay. But these cruises will be the real celebration. Lois

HERE HERE! (CHEERS)

 

[nenner1]

RPhNina (Lexington, KY) Colin (40), Nina (44) - celebrating our 10th anniversary - late dinner seating

Aboard, Nina and Colin! Glad to have you sailing with us!

Welcome aboard Nina!


My DH Mike and I will have just celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary about two weeks before we set sail!

Dh and I are celebrating 20 years together next month. Can we still celebrate this on board? 20 years is a BIG deal to me (considering he's the only one of his siblings still married, and me and my younger bro are two out of 4 siblings still married). 20 years, we can celebrate that all year long!

DH Mike and I will celebrate our 27th anniversary on board on our last at sea day. We celebrated our 25th on the Magic (a little late) 2 years ago. We will celebrate again with a couple's massage.
I hope I can stay awake through it this time.

This is a happening trip with all the anniversarys F

Guess we should celebrate with the rest of the group. DH and I will hit 42 years just 6 days after the cruise.

One final note. I really like the idea of having a get together to celebrate our joint anniveraries. Janet and I alway celebrate on our cruises which have most often been serveral months past our true anniversary. August 29,2010 we will celebrate our 23rd anniversay. But these cruises will be the real celebration. Lois

Wow, congrats to all of you for so many wonderful years together!

I guess we could celebrate one too, Ron and I will be together 20 years in January '11 (married for 11).

I still maintain I am not old enough for that. LOL!

hope that this note finds everyone well and deep into planning for this cruise. We have begun to look at what we want to do at each port. Since we are doing a back to back I need to be reasonable. So at Castaway we will just kick back and relax as well as snorkle off the beach. At Key West we will walk down Duval Street and just enjoy the city. Grand Caymen is Capt Marvins. Can not wait to do this excursion for my 3rd time.

That leaves St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Cozumel to plan for. We are thinking about doing a Maya excusion in Cozumel on on the island. St Thomas and St Maarten we want to do either beach. Cozumel does have a Dolphin excusion that has my eye but it is 100.00 more per person than the maya one I am looking at.

We are still deciding about Cozumel too. I think we plan on Nachi Cocom but have Chankanaab as a backup. We are moreso on a budget this time after just having got off a cruise a couple of months ago.

Lois, I have a couple of suggestions. In St. Maarten/St. Martin, if you just want to relax on a beach ... we went to a gorgeous one in January..it is on the French side and it is called Happy Bay Beach. It is clothing optional like Orient but is so unpopulated. Quiet, unspoiled. GORGEOUS! We did a private boating excursion there through Captain Alan's. They were great. I highly reccommend them if you are looking into doing that sort of thing. It wasn't terribly priced (~$80/pp).

In St. Thomas we went to Trunk Bay, St. John which was also beautiful but a bit of a hectic trip and really very expensive for all of us with all the taxi's and ferries. (~$300 )

(we are doing another Eastern next year, can you tell I am already looking forward to it? )

Happy Easter, everyone!

 

[Fastpaks]

@tjbaggott- Your Graphics are killer! I was thinking about making some of the MAgnetic Images for the fridge. SO, How do you make your images, were do you get them and then have you found prices on sheets of paper under $2p/sheet. Does 8mil or 12 mill matter?

@nenner- How goes the Lanyards? I like the vertical ones with the the zippers(ziplock style). I just saw them for the first time. I m so used to the styles at work where once you get the plastic on.. nothing is coming out of them. Then again I may never wear one but w/e. Another souvenir is awesome.

 

[tjbaggott]

Fastpaks, thanks for the compliment! Honestly, I don't print them onto magnetic sheets anymore. I find it too expensive for the number I make. I print them onto plane card stock then laminate them and stick adhesive magnets to the back. I get the adhesive magnet sheets from our Dollar store, they come in a 5x7 size. I cut them usually into large squares and stick on the back of my magnets. I find that when laminated, they last longer, so I'll be using some from my last cruise for this upcoming cruise too.

 

[nenner1]

@tjbaggott- Your Graphics are killer! I was thinking about making some of the MAgnetic Images for the fridge. SO, How do you make your images, were do you get them and then have you found prices on sheets of paper under $2p/sheet. Does 8mil or 12 mill matter?

Fastpaks, thanks for the compliment! Honestly, I don't print them onto magnetic sheets anymore. I find it too expensive for the number I make. I print them onto plane card stock then laminate them and stick adhesive magnets to the back. I get the adhesive magnet sheets from our Dollar store, they come in a 5x7 size. I cut them usually into large squares and stick on the back of my magnets. I find that when laminated, they last longer, so I'll be using some from my last cruise for this upcoming cruise too.

^^That's what we do now too! I just tried it for the first time after being a magnet paper snob (LOL) and really it did work great! I didn't even laminate and they still held up well on the card stock for 9days/8nights!

I decided to just use the card stock since the magnet paper is so hard to find and so expensive. I had found a place previously that had it cheap and used that two cruises ago but the ink smudged off everywhere and you know when little kids would walk by they would touch them, get ink on their fingers then wipe them off on our door or on other magnets. Wasn't so good by the end of the cruise.

@nenner- How goes the Lanyards? I like the vertical ones with the the zippers(ziplock style). I just saw them for the first time. I m so used to the styles at work where once you get the plastic on.. nothing is coming out of them. Then again I may never where one but w/e. Another souvenir is awesome.

Thanks so much for the input, I will make sure to try to include a design like you mentioned to choose from (I had my eye on one but with slide in plastic instead of zippered but I am sure I will be able to find the ziploc style.)

Lanyard Lab lets you totally customize each part, so you can pick and choose the features independently of each other. The only downfall with using them is that their choices are way limited on orders of 100 (or less- not sure if we can even break it down smaller than that) AND I am not sure if we can get a DCL design or Micekyhead printed on they lanyard itself going through them (copyrights and all that jazz. I know of a company that will let me do that if we go through them, but some of their styles don't excite me...so I am still looking around)



I will narrow it down and get some examples posted up so everyone can see what they like and see approximate prices.

 

[Fastpaks]

@tjbaggott- Your Graphics are killer! I was thinking about making some of the MAgnetic Images for the fridge. SO, How do you make your images, were do you get them and then have you found prices on sheets of paper under $2p/sheet. Does 8mil or 12 mill matter?





^^That's what we do now too! I just tried it for the first time after being a magnet paper snob (LOL) and really it did work great! I didn't even laminate and they still held up well on the card stock for 9days/8nights!

I decided to just use the card stock since the magnet paper is so hard to find and so expensive. I had found a place previously that had it cheap and used that two cruises ago but the ink smudged off everywhere and you know when little kids would walk by they would touch them, get ink on their fingers then wipe them off on our door or on other magnets. Wasn't so good by the end of the cruise.



Thanks so much for the input, I will make sure to try to include a design like you mentioned to choose from (I had my eye on one but with slide in plastic instead of zippered but I am sure I will be able to find the ziploc style.)

Lanyard Lab lets you totally customize each part, so you can pick and choose the features independently of each other. The only downfall with using them is that their choices are way limited on orders of 100 (or less- not sure if we can even break it down smaller than that) AND I am not sure if we can get a DCL design or Micekyhead printed on they lanyard itself going through them (copyrights and all that jazz. I know of a company that will let me do that if we go through them, but some of their styles don't excite me...so I am still looking around)



I will narrow it down and get some examples posted up so everyone can see what they like and see approximate prices.

A slide sounds good too. I saw some ones with a different holder than the work issued ones. I just never payed attention to any of them until then.

 

[sssteele]

Back in February, I was at a hunting cabin with 5 other guys for a weekend. I realized at some point that we were all married to our original spouses. We totaled up the years, and came up with some number over 200 We (the guys) decided that we should be nominated for group sainthood or something, and duly patted ourselves on the back for being "perfect husbands", forgetting about the fact that our wives are those who truly deserve to be canonized. I suggested a plaque of some kind, with changeable numbers so that next year, hopefully, we can add six years to the total. These guys will not be on the cruise with Joanie and I, but we'll raise a glass to them as well.
Sam (Saint Sam?) Saint Joan sounds better - we live behind Saint Joan of Arc, the community Catholic church.