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

[bevtoy]

Question?
When I go to the Yahoo! group site there is a question in the data base under October 13th cruisers that reads :

DIS-tagY/N(info to follow)

Is that a question as to whether you use the Alien Green Micky heads from Home Depot as a tag to signify you are a DISer?

 

[d'Isigny]

Happy Monday to all!

I just wanted to say Thanks to Kevin for putting together a great Yahoo board. I got the chance to look through it this weekend & read some of the links posted. I especially liked the history of Castaway Cay! That was great! And I'm printing the 90 page guide out this morning for future reading!

Thanks for taking the time to put it all together!

Nicole

Happy Monday to all (ARrrrrrrr another monday),

Nicole...thank you for your kind words. I truly credit Paul (Lloylf - on the Dis) for setting up this tool on our last cruise. Am glad you like it - after only ~1 week....we've got some great 'stuff' already loaded.

The "Magical Disney Cruise Guide" is an awesome resource!!! Other than 'The-DIS', it's prob the best place for someone that is interested in a Disney Cruise to start their research.

k

 

[DMoss3377]

Welcome to all the newbies! I love to see our group growing so well.

Well, my weekend was quite fun and relaxing, which is a change of events for me. Spent time at the pool, shopping with friends, and enjoyed some wine and good times at a wine party. I've never been to one before but it was quite interesting and fun. I usually stick to the wine festivals or the wineries themselves, but this was fun. And I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with the amount of wine we all drank, I mean tasted. (hiccup)

We had one heck of a storm roll through Saturday night that knocked out all the humidity, so it was a gorgeous weekend. Hope everyone else's was good.

I also checked out the yahoo site and kudos to all those involved in putting it together past and present...I see this becomming quite a useful tool.

Oh...has anyone seen Devil Wears Prada? Just saw it with some girlfriends and I have to say...loved it! Hilarious!

 

[tidoublegger]

Welcome to the newest members of the group!! I emailed Kevin to join the Yahoo group and look forward to checking it out!

Tracy : )

 

[d'Isigny]

Question?
When I go to the Yahoo! group site there is a question in the data base under October 13th cruisers that reads :

DIS-tagY/N(info to follow)

Is that a question as to whether you use the Alien Green Micky heads from Home Depot as a tag to signify you are a DISer?

Hi Bev,

Honestly....I was hoping to 'slide under the radar on this' - just for a little bit...LOL. Oh well...let’s just ‘test the waters’ and see what happens.

Our last sailing, we had a large DIS group – 30+ participating in the thread on a daily/weekly basis – close to 50 if you count the lurkers and those that contributed every now and then. To say we had fun...was an understatement...it was a blast!!! We had some; great sharing of information, persons that linked diner reservations together, a baseball rivalry and some that booked 3rd party excursions together (saving $$). Most importantly – we supported each other and it helped passing the time till we sailed.

Other than a couple of DIS-Meets, we wanted to hold an extra activity – called ‘DIS-Tag’. I am going to offer an explanation that Brenda gave in her post-cruise trip report (posted on our yahoo site – under files) – take it away B...

Lessee...how do I explain tag without really confusing everyone here, including me?

Well, basically we had a list of people who agreed to play tag on the ship and we had two very nice people who helped organize it: Paul, who set up a secure Yahoo database for the cruise, and Kevin who set up the rules and really pulled the game together.

The game starts out with everyone receiving a list of players and a magnet. The idea is to start with the person / cabin listed just below your name on this list - you tag them by leaving the magnet and a little tag gift (we tried to make it easy by suggesting that people leave something indicative of their hometowns / states). Then you have to wait for someone to tag you in the same manner before going on to tag the next person on your list - you keep going until you reach your name.

It was a blast! And people were very creative - Kevin made a vacation / party mix CD for everyone, Suzie left a diabetic coma-inducing bag of sweets to take to the movies, Wayne and his family left a bag o' stuff from England including some keychains and a recipe for yorkshire pudding (Yum!).

Our tag was a grab-bag of stuff that was supposed to play off the name we'd given our cruise thread - The Molar Express. A bunch of us suffered a rash of broken teeth through the year...so I found little toothbrush / teeth eraser sets, and watermelon flavored billy-bob candy teeth and put those in a bag with some other goofy stuff.

If you can get enough people to agree to play and get it organized it adds a whole extra dimension to the week. Jason and I had so much fun with it - we can only hope everyone else did to!

 

[Tinker326]

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

Oh...has anyone seen Devil Wears Prada? Just saw it with some girlfriends and I have to say...loved it! Hilarious!

I saw it Dana! And I loved it too! I wanted to read the book first, but never got around to it.... too busy researching and planning certain cruises! I wonder if the book is the same as the movie or way different?

We've had some nasty storms come though here too the past week! I feel like this whole summer has been just 'rain'! My kids are getting stir crazy being cooped up inside all the time. We have a family reunion in Detroit this weekend and I'm hoping the rain finally stops!

Oh, and I started to read that 90 page guide to crusing posted on the Yahoo site last night with the intention of reading a few pages every night. Let's just say... I finished it! Great resource for us first time Disney Cruisers!

And we got our confirmation in the mail along with a postcard from Mickey. My daughter was thrilled at this. I mean THRILLED to get a postcard from Mickey. This vacation is already working it's magic! We followed the postcard with an hour talk regarding where we would find Ariel in the water around the boat. She's so excited about this vacation. Unfortunetly she's 4 & thinks we are leaving tomorrow! She doesn't understand the concept of time!

Hope everyone has a good day! Time to get back to work!

Nicole

 

[jenny2]

I haven't seen "Prada" yet - I don't think I'm going to convince DH to see this one with me, lol.

Kevin, that game sounds fun!! I'm signed up, lol.

And Nicole - too cute about your DD. We make a countdown chain for each of our trips (out of construction paper - where you remove 1 chain each day) so the kids have a better idea of when we're going. Well.. our next trip isn't till Feb. and my DS4 keeps asking to make a countdown chain. I counted the days and we'd need to make 198 chains!! They're both determined to make this chain though... so my DD6 cuts the strips of paper and my DS staples them together. The thing is huge - and they're only 1/3 of the way done, lol.

 

[bevtoy]

We have a chain and its draped on our fromt windows, maybe I should post a picture. DD found some printable links with Disney figures to use for the last two weeks! I better go sign up for that Dis -tag game, it sounds fun.

 

[Tinker326]

Good idea on the chain! We'll start one for our land vacation this year & when that's over make the one for the cruise. All 365 links. ouch! THe idea of putting printed characters on the last two weeks is great too! Maybe that'll give us something to do on our drive to Detroit this weekend. Thanks for the idea!

Also I went back in to sign up for that tag too but couldn't figure out how to edit my record that I already created. Jenn could you let me know how you did it? I also noticed we are a few staterooms away from each other!

 

[d'Isigny]

Also I went back in to sign up for that tag too but couldn't figure out how to edit my record that I already created. Jenn could you let me know how you did it? I also noticed we are a few staterooms away from each other!

Hi Nicole...sorry to step on Jenn's toes - but, I had our group site open and made the correction.

When you are viewing your record in the database...click on 'EDIT' (far right). this will bring up your record for you to make any adjustments. When you are finished, click on 'SAVE RECORD' (bottom right - blue button). That's it - you're done!!! Hope this helps.

If any want additional databases written....just let me know - I'll post what the group needs.

I am glad to see there is interest in 'DIS-Tag'...this was one of the many highlights of our cruise.

hope all are having a great week........k

 

[DMoss3377]

Hi Nicole! I didn't read the book either, usually do before watching movies, but didn't get around to this one. I have to say, the movie totally made me want to go shopping afterward and stop eating for like a month! Hehehehe....

Jenny2 - I don't think I would have been able to convince my Ex-Husband go see this movie...it's more of a chick flick! But worth it if you can get a night out with the girls.

The Tag game sounds like fun! I'm totally in, just got to go edit my profile.

This is going to be so much fun! I may make one of those chains for myself...hehehe...I'm such a kid!

 

[DMoss3377]

Okay...not sure why, but I don't have the option to edit when I go into the Yahoo group...

Can someone add a YES for my DIS-Tag option please???

Thanks!

 

[bevtoy]

Dana just edited your information to read "Yes" for the DIS_tag game.

 

[DMoss3377]

Thanks Bev! You're awesome dude!

 

[Tinker326]

Thank you Kevin for changing my info!

 

[jenny2]

LOL Kevin - no toe stepping here! I modified the yahoo tables so everyone can edit their entries. When anyone creates a table, just make sure you give people access to edit their entries.

And no Dana, DH is definitely not coming to see Prada with me. It's just gonna have to be a girls night out (oh darn, lol!).

Oh and Bev... definitely post a picture of that chain!!

 

[bevtoy]

Its pretty long so I had to take 3 pictures to fit it in.

This is up close for the charecter links:

It wraps around the windows twice, the kids love it and each person takes turns removing the link of the day. Each week is its own color. 443 days left

 

[soccerfreak_08]

Its pretty long so I had to take 3 pictures to fit it in.

This is up close for the charecter links:

It wraps around the windows twice, the kids love it and each person takes turns removing the link of the day. Each week is its own color. 443 days left

The disney characters are for the last two weeks. If you wanted to get really complex you could stick in special links for other "major" events such as bdays, anniversarys, etc.

 

[Tinker326]

Bev, I love your chain! I was thinking to do it all in white paper...but the colored is so much more fun...... I'll have to hang mine up high otherwise I can see my baby walking off with the entire chain- or my cats playing with it. Out of curiousity (and by the way, I apologize now, I'm a horrible speller!) how long did it take you to make that chain?

I am so doing this this weekend! Thanks for posting the pics!

 

[seagee]

Bev Your chain is super! What a clever idea.
Kevin, vote us in for Dis tag. We played a simular game last time except for the little present part. Unfortunately the last person never did post the tag back here. Also GREAT job on the Yahoo site!