October 19, 2006 3 day

[MN Dis Fans]

Looks like my DW has set up our own little "excursion" I just returned Stateside last night, and as she points out, am the over planner in our family. I think I've been called "Super Commando" on more than one occasion.

Anyway, just going through the thread, and it looks like piratepresleyrocks, disneymomforlife, and dizzny have all expressed interest in doing this.

Are there any other lurkers out there interested in joining us as well?

Let's plan on 0930 Level 3 (Lobby / Atrium). We actually will get off the boat Level 1 forward (if memory serves correctly), but this is a good central location to meet up.

Days to Do, Now definitely few!!!!!!!!!!!!

We've not actually done the museum either, but from looking at the map, I don't think it will be to difficult to find.

 

[OceanLvr]

To all who are traveling, safe journey...Looking forward to seeing everyone onboard.

Still counting the days, not very many left (Thank God). Mrs. was up late last night packing and I started this morning, This trying not to over pack is difficult.

Will check back later to see if anything new is happening.

Joel

 

[MN Dis Fans]

I'm up for anything, time to relax, meet new friends and HAVE FUN!!!!!! If it's all going to be adults, why not meet at Signals (Deck 9 forward) by the adult pool? From previous cruises and Navigators, it opens at 12pm. Anyone?

Joel

We'd love to meet up and make some new friends as well. We've got 2x Ds's (11 9 ) and I believe the kids clubs aren't open to take them on in the afternoon, so, wouldn't near the Mickey Pool be better? I see several of our other Disney Friends have also talked about meeting up there. At least one of us in our group will have a lime green Mickey sticker to help identify us as Disney Fanatics! Perhaps before the sailaway celebration while it's relatively quiet?

 

[rdollman]

Hi to all,

We are all sooooo excited about this trip, even my DH, who really isn't much of a Disney fan.

To Renee and Kat,

If you check your emails while in Orlando, we will meet you at the pool after embarkation. There are four of us in matching Disney hawaiian print outfits. As far as the pirate museum in Nassau, we are going to boat bums for the day.

Also, we are in Tampa and thought if you are at any of the Disney parks on Sunday, we (the girls and I) could drive over and try to have a meet and greet. We have passes and would enjoy making the connection for the girls prior to our cruise. My cell phone is 813-727-8889.


See you real sooon, as Mickey would say.

Robin

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

So it looks like the Pirate Museum on Nassua day is a GO!! 9:30 am in the Lobby/Atrium area ... I'm excited!!

I'll be doing our packing tomorrow. I'm going in for a minor surgical procedure on Tuesday at noon which will require me to be on bedrest for 2 days (shhhhh, i won't tell if you don't, lol) so I can't do anything from that time to getting up to go to the airport on Wednesday morning. We are super excited to be surprising the kids and taking them to see La Nouba!!

As far as our first DIS meet, I'm not sure the best way to do this. We will be heading straight to the kids pool and meeting up with DIZZNY at least initially.

Robin, we'll be on the lookout for your Hawaiin prints and I think I'll be wearing a white baseball hat with Tink on the front and maybe i'll even put a green mickey head on my hat, too!!

I know Joel and his wife will be traveling kid-free this time so he'll probably be as far away from the Mickey pool as possible!! As far as our first official DIS meet, what is the order of events?? Life jacket drill at 4pm, I think? and then the Sail-Away Celebration? can anyone confirm? Maybe we can come up with a time inbetween or around all that? We have the early dinner seating!!

Kat

 

[OceanLvr]

Ok,

Maybe I'm still a kid at heart, by for crying out loud...Could time be moving any more slowly? Packed, repacked, did we forget anything? I hope not...Anyway, enough rambling.

Like you said Kat, we are traveling "kid free" so it looks like we'll try to find you folks at the family pool...I think with the amount of color you will be wearing we should have no problem...

Joel

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

I was giving my daughter a hug this morning and she whispered in my ear "Mom, I just can't wait anymore!" ... talk about WONDERful moments!!

Starting to pack today ... I can't stare at packed suitcases for very long before I get stir crazy so today and tomorrow it will be. I'll be on bed rest on Tuesday so I have to finish it, lol.

Joel, how gracious of you to meet us at the pool!! We won't keep you for too long ... maybe just long enough to meet and get familiar with each other so we can recognize each other going forward from that point!!

And actually, here are a few pics of us so that anyone looking for us can find us!

My daughter and I:

Shawn, myself and my husband:

Gabi and Shawn:

My husband and I:

Sorry they are so huge!! Can't wait to meet everyone!!

Kat

 

[piratepresleyrocks]

We'd love to meet up and make some new friends as well. We've got 2x Ds's (11 9 ) and I believe the kids clubs aren't open to take them on in the afternoon, so, wouldn't near the Mickey Pool be better? I see several of our other Disney Friends have also talked about meeting up there. At least one of us in our group will have a lime green Mickey sticker to help identify us as Disney Fanatics! Perhaps before the sailaway celebration while it's relatively quiet?

We'd meet you at the mickey pool when we get on the ship. I know "little man" (now 9!! ahh! ) is going to be looking for some buddies and he can't wait to go on the slide. He's a total water freak. lol! Plus after travel and waking up in Disney world, him playing/swimming and me sitting sounds like a good plan. lol!! His swim trunks are navy with orange flames and he has a matching orange tank top that goes with it. I'll be wearing a black t-shirt with a white pirate ship on it.

We'll also be in the level 3 lobby to go to the pirate museum with everyone in nassua at 9:30.

Well I hope we can all make our connections and have a great time

Two days til we leave!!!!

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

How about some more first names and descriptions of family, clothing, etc? I will take what we have in a day or so and post it together in one post so that we can print it out or learn it or whatever!!

This is the inclusive list of everyone who has posted in our meet thread:

DisneyMomForLife - Kat (Kathy)
OceanLvr - Joel
DIZZNY - Renee
Rdollman - Robin
PiratePresleyRocks - ?
MN Dis Fans - ?
LaurieP - Laurie
jesters - ?
mikiclements - ?
dadorzey - ?
PiperG - ?
swcruiser - ?
morakai - ?

there are a few that we haven't heard from in a while so maybe they will check back really soon!!

Kat

 

[piratepresleyrocks]

Ok I'm Cori. With me I have Ethan who's 9, and my parents are also coming they are Kris and Larry.

I'd post a pic but I don't know how, so I'll just decribe.

I'm 24, about 5'7 with strawberry blonde hair. ok this sounds like a bad personals ad now. My mother is short with dark hair, my father is tall with a mustache. Ethan is my ball of energy lol If I don't find anyone at the pool the first day, I will be sitting reading a magazine nearby while he swims. We are disney veterans but have never cruised so I'm sure a confused/stressed look will be on my face. lol Soon to be fixed by a cocktail and some sun I'm sure As I said above I plan to wear a black t-shirt with a white pirate ship on it and light colored pants the first day.

Hope this helps

We're going on vacation! We're going on vacation!

 

[PiperG]

Ok I'm Cori. With me I have Ethan who's 9, and my parents are also coming they are Kris and Larry.


Ethan is my ball of energy QUOTE]

Hi Cori!

Our DS is also 9 (Hayden). We will be wearing green bracelets. Please look for us so that we can hook up Ethan and Hayden. There is another DS9 on board (son of MN Dis Fans). Although our cruise is short, I am hoping we can find a way to connect the boys. Hayden always goes to the lab after dinner, so maybe they can look for each other there.

What time are you planning to be at the terminal? We can also look for you there.

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

You guys rock ... ask and ye shall receive!!

I will keep updating until Tuesday afternoon or so and post a master list!!

We will be getting to the terminal around 10am when they open. We are staying at the Residence Inn and arriving by rental car the next morning.

Hi Cori! and PiperG ... are we calling you Piper??

Does anyone remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon called Waikiki Wabbit?? Where Bugs is on a Hawaiin island and he meets up with those two guys who are starving and dying to get off the island and then the large ship comes at the end?? They yell "we're goin' on a boat ... we're goin' on a boat!!" ... well, that's what we have been saying for the last month ...

"we're goin' on a boat!! we're goin' on a boat!!"

 

[PiperG]

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Hi Cori! and PiperG ... are we calling you Piper??

Yep, you call me Piper! Believe it or not, there is another Piper at my company. She is Piper L. (I am obviously Piper G.) so I used it as my Dis name.

I am currently trying to get some work done, but I got distracted watching the Wonder sail by on the two palms webcam.

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

Thanks for the info!! Piper!!

So where is that twopalms.com website for that the Wonder is sailing by now?

Kat

 

[PiperG]

http://www.twopalms.com/

This is the link to the two palms web cam. On Sunday and Thursday you can watch the webcam between 5:25 and 5:35 EST to watch the Wonder sail by. At this juncture, the ship has made a right turn out of the channel and is starting to head out to sea. On Saturday, you can see the Magic at about the same time.

http://wx.local6.com/orlpn/sh/wx/popup_frame.cfm?ImageID=8541

This is the link to the Port Canaveral webcam. Sometimes you can see the Magic or Wonder docked via this webcam. However, recently it has not been focused on our ships.

There is also a Radisson webcam, which an individuals can line up to control. Usually on sail days a Disser gets the cam and makes sure we all get a good look at the ship before it heads off down the channel.
http://www.opusad.com/radissonwebcam/

Do I sound like a nut?

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

yeah, like a DIS NUT!!

thanks for the great info!!

kat

 

[piratepresleyrocks]

Hi Cori!

Our DS is also 9 (Hayden). We will be wearing green bracelets. Please look for us so that we can hook up Ethan and Hayden. There is another DS9 on board (son of MN Dis Fans). Although our cruise is short, I am hoping we can find a way to connect the boys. Hayden always goes to the lab after dinner, so maybe they can look for each other there.

What time are you planning to be at the terminal? We can also look for you there.

I'm still figuring out when to go to the terminal We will be flying down wed and staying over at the caribbean beach resort (my fav after the contemporary ) Then we have a character breakfast before heading over to the ship. Not sure how much or little we should be rushing to get there? Any advice?

 

[mikiclements]

How about some more first names and descriptions of family, clothing, etc? I will take what we have in a day or so and post it together in one post so that we can print it out or learn it or whatever!!

This is the inclusive list of everyone who has posted in our meet thread:

DisneyMomForLife - Kat (Kathy)
OceanLvr - Joel
DIZZNY - Renee
Rdollman - Robin
PiratePresleyRocks - ?
MN Dis Fans - ?
LaurieP - Laurie
jesters - ?
mikiclements - ?
dadorzey - ?
PiperG - ?
swcruiser - ?
morakai - ?

there are a few that we haven't heard from in a while so maybe they will check back really soon!!

Kat

that was nice of you to pull this list together. my first name is Miki Last name Clements.

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

No problem!! And thanks Miki!!

I will add to it what people will be wearing, etc ... or other recognizable characteristics so we can find each other!!

So far it's Mickey Pool upon embarkation or shortly thereafter and then to the Pirate Museum on Friday morning, meeting at 9:30 in the Atrium/Lobby area.


kat

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

I'm still figuring out when to go to the terminal We will be flying down wed and staying over at the caribbean beach resort (my fav after the contemporary ) Then we have a character breakfast before heading over to the ship. Not sure how much or little we should be rushing to get there? Any advice?

I would say don't rush through the breakfast to get there early, but that would be my game plan since we love character dining so much. If your breakfast is early enough, you won't need to rush. The gates open at 10 from what I understand but embarkation is at least an hour and a half after that, if not more ... someone please correct me if I am wrong??!! I would just say to keep your ears open to local traffic conditions if anything.

Kat