October 18, 2008- Living Large on the Western!

[cyndid]

Deanna, how scary is that hammock thread??? Any you guys read it? I am not going anywhere near the hammock dept now I can tell you that for nothing!! I would rather lie on the sand, in fact I think I would rather poke myself in the eye!

How funny! I had that thread in mind as I raced down the beach to the far end of the familiy beach to snag a hammock. I plopped my little body down on it, spread my arms and legs and cried, "mine, mine, mine." Then, once DH arrived, I kept telling him that someone had to be on the hammock at all times if we expected to continue to enjoy it. For the first few hours you should have seen us playing musical hammock...one off/one on. You see, DH had visions of eating and then snoozing in the hammock in the shade in the hot sun. (The hot sun never arrived as you will recall.) I finally gave up. No one ever dumped our stuff. Although, truth be told, after reading that vicious thread, I was fully prepared for that to happen and would have been perfectly fine with it...afterall, if we weren't there (for a potty break or a trip to rent a floatie or get food), then why shouldn't they grab it? I just had visions of people lying in wait in the bushes with walkie talkies calling to each other, "CC1 this is CC2...I have one getting ready to get off a hammock, do you copy?" "CC2 to CC1, I copy...be ready to pounce.")

 

[orlandothebeagle]

Actually we had great fun on the hammock, they are not that comfy.Nobody on it all day as far as I could see.
Great pictures and trip report.

We were looking at the east bound repo this am, Shaunie would not be able to come as she has school but she is young and were old ! want to do it while we have the chance , at first I thought I would not fancy it but the more i think about it the more it appeals to me, what do you guys think?
Any body else fancy it?

 

[orlandothebeagle]

Weve booked for the east bound repo
CAn we afford it?? prob not!
Shaunie has school, she is NOT going to be happy!

 

[Colmenares3]

Weve booked for the east bound repo
CAn we afford it?? prob not!
Shaunie has school, she is NOT going to be happy!

What IS it with you people and the eastbound. It's the WESTBOUND that I want to do, and you should too!!

Congrats, Lynne and Melissa, on booking the eastbound, though. Sounds VERY exciting, and I'm a little green here with envy.

Thanks as well, Melissa, for the link to your TR. I absolutely adore looking at wedding photos, and yours are gorgeous!

 

[cyndid]

I'm jealous of all of you that have booked cruises! This trip may be our only one for a long time. :-(

Good picture of you on the hammock Lynne. It even looks like there was sun when you were on it.

The three hammocks way over by the Heads Up Bar were pretty much unoccupied all day. I think it was too cool to want to lounge in the shade. Everyone wanted to be in the sun.

I'm heading over to post this question on the main board, but I'll post it here as well...

Does anyone know how to set marker so that it does not run? We turned in pillow cases at guest services for the characters to sign. I forgot to bring Sharpies, so I have no idea what they signed them with, but they were multicolor. DD2 got in trouble to night and went to bed in tears...called out to me a little while later and said I had to come and look at her pillow case. Two of the signatures were running due to her tears. She's devastated. I can't fix what was already done, but I removed the pillow case and told her I would find out what to do to protect the remaining ones. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Missing everyone

 

[cyndid]

Hey...I just priced out the transatlantic repos and they actually seem to be a bargain! We could cruise either one for 14 days (in a cat 11) for less than it cost for our 7 day cruise CAT 6. Of course the airfare to Spain would be high...and they are during school, so taking the kids out of school for 14 days would be hard.

I was just REALLY surprised.

 

[mommato6]

Hello Everyone! Its my first time back on the boards and its so good to hear everyone has made it home safely! Diane, its nice to hear that my kids weren't the only ones attached to my hip during our trip! None of my four kids had any interest in the clubs but they still had a great time. Our family rebooked for a 3 day Wonder cruise over Halloween for 2009 and the eastbound repo in 2010! I think 14 days on the Magic will be amazing and I think its especially great that others from this trip will be going too! Maybe more of ya'll will consider booking as well...

 

[wendym]

Hi all!
Loving the trip reports and the photos. Melissa, your wedding was just gorgeous. Lynne - I love the photo of you in the hammock. So jealous of all you that are able to book the transatlantics - they are always during school time so totally impossible for me!
Just been listening to the Cds we got in the tag game - we had them on when my 2 year old great nephew was visiting - he loved them and was dancing away. I took most of the candy (yes, we did eat some!) to school for Halloween - I had bought a plastic pumpkin years ago at Walmart which I keep in school. Well the candy went down so well that all of them thanked me for taking it in - and those of you with teenagers know how rare thank you's can be!
Hope the swaying has stopped for you all and we have all caught up on the laundry!!

 

[Colmenares3]

Hi all!
Hope the swaying has stopped for you all and we have all caught up on the laundry!!

I have a pile of misc. cra . . stuff from the trip on my dining room table, that I have yet to sort through. I am determined to get it all put away today, right after I finally get groceries (we've had pizza THREE times this week).

Those transatlantic voyages are a bargain . . . and last time around they had even steeper discounts in the final months. For those of you who booked, make sure to keep checking the prices, as if the price goes down, Disney will reduce your price, but only if you call and ask.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

I was bugged |I did not rebook on board, but we were all set to do a eastern , so we were a bit on the back foot when it was not an option, we thought about the baltic but in the end it was over priced.
I do feel bad about Shaunie but she is young and can do it later, I can not take her out of school for 2 weeks!
Erica thanks for the price check tip!
Wendy I hope it was not too painful going back to school! It was great to meet you and your Mum.
Cindi, they were the hammocks in question, nobody was on them all day.
I have to say i was surprised at the east repo prices, we did not look at the price for the west repo, it is great, no jet lag or horrible flight to finish your holiday with, Len talked me around(didnt take long) I mind mommato 6?(Shaunie loved your hair by the way!) saying she was booking for it and I said i did not fancy it. I was only looking at the prices out of interest and got thinking about it(I think too much!)
Any way with only 1 big airfare it is a good deal.
I really miss you all,

It is a lovely day here in Scotland, bright blue sky, lots of leaves diff colours and -2. Amazing dog walking weather!

I am getting ready to watch to last F1 race, should be exciting!
Back to work tom! I am luck I enjoy wy work, nice to get back and see everybody!

I really miss you all,
Take care

 

[Skylarr29]

Thanks to everyone who stopped by my TR and thanks for all the compliments! I can't believe how many of us will be cruising the EB!!!!

 

[cyndid]

I want to do the EB Repo.

Looked at airfare to Spain for kicks and giggles....airfare alone is the same price for our family of 4 as the cruise is! (of course I couldn't price it this far out..just priced it into April 09.)

Miss everyone. I'be been mostly posting on my TR...but I'll try to get over here from time to time to say "hi." I hope you all will, too.

I've been having a really hard time getting back into the swing of things with work. Could be that I came back to third quarter payroll taxes, plus other large bills....that'll make anyone want to crawl back in a hole.

On my TR I've posted through our impromptu meet-up in the terminal.

Have a great day.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

I know about the airfares Cindy, thats why it appeals to us only paying for 1 way rather than 2! For what its worth I wish you were going on it too.

 

[thecooley]

Hi all! Just checking in to let you know we are still here! I've been so depressed that we had to leave the Magic, that I couldn't bring myself to look at the boards! Plus, they blocked the website at work, so that seriously cut down on my browsing time.

I cannot put into words how much fun we had on this trip! It was great to meet everyone and have familiar faces all over the ship. Plus, no computers, no deadlines, and all the drinks of the day we could stand!

We talked about rebooking while on board, but by the time we decided to go see the rebooking lady, the line was all the way past the DVC desk. Nevermind! We really have to think about it some more anyway, because I think we want to go stay in Bay Lake Towers next year with our shiny new DVC membership.

When Arthur gets done organizing all the pictures, I'll try to post some.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

It is great to hear from you, I bet you have some great photos, you 2 seem yo be really photogenic!

 

[Twinprincesses]

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We talked about rebooking while on board, but by the time we decided to go see the rebooking lady, the line was all the way past the DVC desk. Nevermind! We really have to think about it some more anyway, because I think we want to go stay in Bay Lake Towers next year with our shiny new DVC membership.

We just bought as well at Bay Lake. We will be staying next Oct. We were one of those people in line to book a cruise the last day. I think I finally got up there to book at 11:30pm I felt so bad for that girl but I had to talk my DH into rebooking.

 

[Twinprincesses]

Well it does not look like I will be getting my memory card back. All my pics of the ship I took on my first day which of course is on that card. If anyone has any pics of the ship in general, like the pools empty, beat street, stuff like that I would love them. My email is spankysash@sbcglobal.net.

Thank you

 

[Colmenares3]

Well it does not look like I will be getting my memory card back. All my pics of the ship I took on my first day which of course is on that card.

Thank you

Chrissy, that completely sucks. I'm sorry. I didn't take that many photos, period, but if I have anything, I'll send it along (although I still haven't found the cord to upload photos. I may have to bite the bullet and buy one).

 

[cyndid]

Well it does not look like I will be getting my memory card back. All my pics of the ship I took on my first day which of course is on that card. If anyone has any pics of the ship in general, like the pools empty, beat street, stuff like that I would love them. My email is spankysash@sbcglobal.net.

Thank you

So sorry to hear that. I have a bunch of pictures. Some of them you can go and "steal" from my trip report as I'm posting the embarkation day now. I have more generic ship pictures, too that I can send you. However, I don't do email on the weekends so I'll have to send them to you later.

What were your twins wearing the first day? It's possible that I have pictures of them at the sail away party. There were some cute twin girls in red/white polka dot shirts beneath us on deck 9. Maybe they were your kids?

 

[Tigger1221]

Well it does not look like I will be getting my memory card back. All my pics of the ship I took on my first day which of course is on that card. If anyone has any pics of the ship in general, like the pools empty, beat street, stuff like that I would love them. My email is spankysash@sbcglobal.net.

Thank you

I am really sorry to hear this. Do you also want pictures of the shows. I have a lot of pictures with no one in them and some of the shows, I could send you. Let me go try to round them all up.