October 13th, 2007~"Cruise-A-Palooza"

[kpflillirpf]

Thanks Jen for the travelers checks info. And I'm thrilled to learn we just have to pay the tips out and the excursion is on our bill. Thanks for the help.

David! Thank you so much for the info. I'm gonna go on this morning before I get ready for work (ugh).

And to everyone, I can't wait to see/meet you all on board or at boarding day. YEAAAAAAAA, only 4 days left of work and then we leave. See you soon. Kristi

 

[seagee]

Hi Everyone! Heather your blog is very cool. It's a day of packing and buying all those little things from Walmart. I actually prefer Target but you really can't beat WM for their prices. Plus hopefeully I can pick up the last item for my Dis Tag bags.

We'll have beads on- (could not find lime green). I just find it so hard to believe our cruise is just about here! Safe travels Dis Friends. Cathy


Oh yeah It's DD 9th birthday today.

 

[Magic3forme]

Happy Birthday!!
My dd is 9 also!
Safe travels to all those who are leaving today. We leave Thurs night, our plane flies out on Friday.
We all have matching tan shirts for the sailaway. I cant see my son and husband wearing beads.

 

[d'Isigny]

Hey to all (all says hey),

Good morning - sorry for missing a post last night...we had a long day at Epcot and the heat was a little much. In watching the Florida news...it appears the heat and humidity will drop a little. This is great news as yesterday/today was a little uncomfortable.

Epcot was fantastic...we really enjoyed the new Nemo ride (DD 7 was all smiles) and Talking with Crush is really-really cool. If you want to ride these and Soarin'...get there early. We got fast passes for Soarin' and went to the Nemo/Crush...when we got back to Soarin' - fast passes were 2+ hours away and the stand by line was already at 50 minutes.

We had the most fantastic lunch at Canada - great food and the service was exceptional. Nan and I filled out a comment card as our Server was OUTSTANDING!!!

Well....this morning is Magic Kingdom - I'll tell Mickey you all said HI!!!

Here is a quick photo of The Smith Family at Epcot.

 

[bevtoy]

Sunday October 14, at 2:00 in the afternoon Deck 9 Midship at Cove café is our DISer meet.


Welcome chefmur!

Also wanted to add that the DIStag game meeting will take place at2:00 for about 5 quick minutes right before the regular DISer meet so we can pass out information needed to play the game.
We still need confirmation of room numbers from
XLT800 (AKA - Dave)
and
Tinker326.
If you are posting please PM us with the information.

 

[TnRobin]

I am so jealous of 'the smith family' once I saw that picture. I will just keep telling myself, 3 more day, 3 more days.

We board our 737 at 6:30AM on Friday and we should be at WDW by 10ish - given we don't spend forever on ME.

 

[jenny2]

Looks like the Smith family is having a great time at the World!! OhMyGosh... it's almost cruise time!!!

I've still got some last minute things to do (like get an oil change for my car... why do I always wait till the last minute to do that?!). DH and I are sending the kids off to school on Friday morning and then we are hitting the open road at 8:30am. We're staying at the Country Inn and Suites Friday night - anyone else staying there?

 

[APOOHFN]

We're staying at the Country Inn and Suites Friday night - anyone else staying there?

Jenny2 ~ we're staying @ the CI&S Friday night, too!! Don't know what time we'll check in since we'll be spending the day at WDW. Maybe we'll see you Sat morning! I posted a couple of pics of my family in our Yahoo Group

 

[margaritaqueen]

We, too, are staying at Country Inn & Suites, but shouldn't be there until around 7:30 or 8pm. We will be a group of 7 - 4 very attractive (almost celebrity status) looking adults and 3 kids, equally as attractive and well-behaved (considering they have just been traveling for the last 7 hours.)

Seriously, though - it will be fun to meet others the night before already! I am sure we will have to hit the pool once we get there (or the kids will never let us rest!)

All of you staying at the CI&S - hope you cashed in on that Fall Book Break special. Hotel rates were CHEAP and kids even get something free. I didn't get it originally when we booked (it wasn't offered) but we called back and they gave it to us. They were very nice!

 

[kpflillirpf]

Hey, love the picture Kevin! You all are looking like you're having a blast.

Jenny, we're doing our car on Thursday! LOL. Although we're not really driving (other than to the airport), we are now behind on getting the oil changed and such. What else is new.

I can't believe in 4 days we'll be meeting each other and getting on board the Magic. We're heading out tonight to pick up some of the last minute stuff and will do whatever is left on Thursday night. Yahoo! See you all soon! Kristi

 

[mommasita]

Great pictures!!!

We fly out Thursday, and are standby, so we may arrive only Friday ..The flights are filling up, this is why we are leaving early than originally thought....

I hope to see all onboard!!

Save travels to all.

 

[CrazyZeus1]

It's so hard to believe that some of us have left & others are leaving every day on our way to Port! How awesome

Not sure if we'll make it to the DIS meet or not--I have to play that by ear with DS's nap...he's a *little* grumpy if he wakes up too early or goes to sleep too late! So we'll see...

Hope to see all of you!

www.OurFamilyTruckster.blogspot.com

 

[Kborn]

Afternoon all...for those of us that are still stuck at home, the travel channel is running the Disney Cruise Line show at 4. That's 4 central time, I know, I know, everyone has seen it at least 20 times, but it is fun to get excited this close to the cruise. According to Josh, we have 3 more naps before we leave. He does not take naps, he calls sleeping all night naps!!

For everyone leaving in the next few days, I'm including some pixie dust for safe travel...

 

[bevtoy]

Heres another photo to identify:

 

[tidoublegger]

Hey all my **sniff** former Cruise-A-Palooza cruisemates~ in the midst of all of this we had some decisions to make since I bought my cruise insurance too late to cover 'pre-existing' conditions. UGH. We called our travel agent and changed the date until 12/8. This is the latest time that the cruise is about the same price. It jumps up a ton of money after that for close to a year! What's up with that?!?!? Long story short, changing everything cost us about $750. If something happens and we still can't go in Dec., then we'll change it until next October. We just didn't have a couple of thousand to change it to early next year and my husband wanted to try it this way.

Anyway....for those of you that haven't left yet, have a magical, wonderful, amazing, safe trip!

 

[tidoublegger]

Hey to all (all says hey),

Good morning - sorry for missing a post last night...we had a long day at Epcot and the heat was a little much. In watching the Florida news...it appears the heat and humidity will drop a little. This is great news as yesterday/today was a little uncomfortable.

Epcot was fantastic...we really enjoyed the new Nemo ride (DD 7 was all smiles) and Talking with Crush is really-really cool. If you want to ride these and Soarin'...get there early. We got fast passes for Soarin' and went to the Nemo/Crush...when we got back to Soarin' - fast passes were 2+ hours away and the stand by line was already at 50 minutes.

We had the most fantastic lunch at Canada - great food and the service was exceptional. Nan and I filled out a comment card as our Server was OUTSTANDING!!!

Well....this morning is Magic Kingdom - I'll tell Mickey you all said HI!!!

Here is a quick photo of The Smith Family at Epcot.

Awesome picture!!

 

[jenny2]

Wendy and Michelle... how fun we'll be at the same place! We'll probably get to CI&S around supper time. We're not rushing the drive, so it might be a little after that. And no Michelle... I didn't get any good rates on the room because my procrastinating self just booked the hotel a few days ago, lol!! And I'll be sure to be on the lookout for celeb lookalikes

And *ouch* Tracey - I'm sorry on top of all you're going through you've got to shell out that much to change the dates. Well, I'm sure the Dec. cruise will be great - get on their meet thread right away!!

 

[bevtoy]

Awesome picture!!

Yes that is a great picture. I am glad you are able to reschedule your cruise.

 

[bevtoy]

We are flying out of here at 5:00 in the AM this Friday. I am curious who is leaving last, is it me? I mean someone has to turn off the cyber lights and lock the door.

 

[jenny2]

LOL Bev - nice visual of turning out the lights. We're leaving around 8:30 on Friday morning so we can put the kids on the bus before we go.