October 22, 2005 Roll call

[tiggerfantoo]

Hello . . . We just got back from our first cruise on 10/23/04, and loved it so much that we rebooked while still onboard. The 10% discount and $200 stateroom credit helped me make the decision.

My DH, DS (27 at cruise time) and DD (30 at cruise time) will also be on the cruise.

My hubby and I renewed our vows last week at Castaway Cay. What a perfect place to do the vow renewal to celebrate our 30th anniversary!

I know this is probably way too early to ask the question, but will anyone be taking orders for the doorsigns? It was nice to walk down the hallways and see all of the DIS members' doorsigns on the last cruise we took.

Gotta go finish doing dishes . . . I miss the service on the Disney Magic! Remember the old slogan "Calgon, take me away?" Well, right now I wish the Magic would take me away!

~ Gloria

 

[amgpmg]

Welcome Tiggerfantoo! Welcome back from your cruise. Congratulations on your wedding vow renewal! When we went, people had made their own door signs. I did not, but friends of ours did (scrapperjill) and they looked wonderful! I have a year to plan, so hopefully I will find some time to do them this time.

Kathy

 

[Skallywag]

Glad to hear that there will be other sons and daughters on the cruise. Our two daughters 30 and 32 will be travelling with us also. Good to know there are others of their age group.

 

[scrapperjill]

You guys are already planning your door signs? I better get busy...Hey maybe I'll just get some magnet numbers and put them over the top of the old door sign to change the date ...Hee Hee Hee...No maybe I'll use one of the MANY photos I have from this last trip...yea...that's what I'll do. I guess I better get to work on planning it...it looks as if I only have 350 some days left....not much time now.

I wish I could figure out how to post the pic of it on the board...I was going to do that many moons ago after I first finished it.

Well off and running gotta go get Sydeny's flu shot...Shhhh she dosn't know yet.

 

[Skallywag]

Can someone tell me how to do my countdown on the bottom of my posting please.
Perhaps it will make it come even quicker.

Thanks to everyone.

 

[scrapperjill]

Here is the thread to the countdown timer...It should give you simple steps on how to set it up.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?threadid=381216&goto=newpost

Oh...I hope I gave you the right one

Oh it is the right on....go to the very first page....the very first message...then click on the link at the bottom of the first message...

It looks like...

Click here to get your countdown

 

[ThreeSmiths]

Hi Brenda,

Check out the Technical Support board. There is a thread called "get your countdowns here!" where you can easily make your countdown clock.

Good Luck!

Stacy

 

[ThreeSmiths]

Ooops! Looks like Sandy beat me to it! Imagine that! We're on the board at the same!

Eric just said that we're both losers for being on the boards on a Saturday afternoon!

Stacy

 

[scrapperjill]

Hey there is no better way to spend the Saturday afternoon...we may be losers...but were informed losers

 

[Skallywag]

Thank you to everyone for their help will try and set up my countdown clock - Just fancy all the losers on one trip perhaps.

 

[Skallywag]

have followed all links and they just come up as error. think I will have to borrow someone elses countdown clock for the time being. Never mind.

 

[pdarrah]

Howdy Everyone!

We just got back last night from our first DCL Cruise - the 10/23/04 Western. On board we booked the 10/22/05 Western so we will be joining all of you! We had a great DIS group for this cruise and it looks like another great group is forming here already. We are a family of three DW (myself) soon to be 40, DH will turn 39 on the next cruise and DS will be 6.5 for the cruise. He LIVED at the club on this cruise. He made freinds at the sail-away with a 6 yr old girl (older woman!) from our DIS thread and they had a wonderful time together. It also looks like my parents will be joining us.

For our just completed cruise, I had put together a website. The "Links" page has tons of info on the Western ports (includes both Grand Cayman and the alternate Costa Maya) if anyone is interested. It is at www.bwdarrah.com/dcl. Should I put something similar together for 10/22/05? The "Who's going" page was really useful for keeping straight all the different families. I remembered names much better than I usually do since I was able to start learning them ahead of time.

We just got back - the laundry isn't even done - and here I am planning the next one! I'm clearly insane!!!

Pamela

 

[scrapperjill]

Welcome... pdarrah to the group. So tell us how was the weather on your cruise? We went back in September...along with a couple other families...that are on this chat group for next Oct. We were all scheduled for a Western cruise...but were rerouted to a modifyed Eastern due to Hurricane Ivan then Hurricane Jeanne. One of the reasons we picked October for our next cruise...was to avoid the hurricanes. I was guessing the weather is still wonderful in October. I would actually love to do a December cruise...and see the ship all a glow with christmass decor. Oh well...maybe in 2006. Oh...i was also going to say I tryed your link to your info site....and it showed it was unavailable.

Skallywag...Keep trying the countdown link...I'm guessing there server is just having problems of some sort....it sometimes dose that then you can't get to all the links or pages. After I posted it I gave it a try to make sure it worked...and at that time it did...but I just tryed again...and now it's hung up...so just keep trying. Ive found if your online durring a real prime time you have more trouble getting around...their servers just can't handle the volume of members at certain times.

 

[pdarrah]

Hi Scrapperjill,

We had wonderful weather. The closest we came to "bad" was a 1/2 hour rain at Costa Maya in the late afternoon and it was a little overcast (no rain) and windy on Thursday at sea. I actually liked the overcast - not quite as hot (still warm) and easier on the eyes and skin. We had gorgeous weather for Key West, Cozumel and Castaway Cay and most of the day at Costa Maya was also good. The first night as we sailed to Key West, the seas were a little rough - bothered a lot of us a bit - but after that is was mostly smooth. Maybe a little rocky on the very windy day at sea on Thursday.

We are re-doing the Western because of missing Grand Cayman this time and we had a wonderful time in Cozumel. We booked our own snorkeling trip and will do the same with the same company next year. The only port we didnt' thoroughly enjoy was Key West and it wasn't terrible or anything, just not as much fun as the others. We may just stay onboard and enjoy the ship next time for Key West.

Maybe I typo-ed the website - it seems to be up and running. Once again, it is at http://www.bwdarrah.com/dcl

Now I really should quit browsing the boards and go start unpacking!

Pamela

 

[amgpmg]

Welcome pdarrah. Wow! Your sight is wonderful! I put together the dismeet list for our last cruise and it did not compare in the least to what you had put together. Scrapperjill, we must be thinking alike. I am trying to figure out how I can get Jim to go for booking in Dec. 2006 Here I go, I have not even been on our next cruise (almost a year from now) an am planning 2006. Stacy, tell Eric that we may be losers, but how much fun would he have had on your last cruise if you did not live on the Disboards! I keep reminding Jim of the same thing.

Kathy

 

[scrapperjill]

amgpmg I think your right...we must be thinking alike. I like the stops there making in 2006 also...so many of them have two days at CC...wouldn't that be great!!

pdarrah..I've never been to Key West...but that port is at the bottom of my list for picks of ports on the Western. I'm not sure why...but it was and still is my least fav port were stopping at. We were looking first at doing late to mid november instead of the Oct 22....because they skip Key West on the Western and hit CC twice...but then we found out it was Thanksgiving week...and didn't think that would be the best pick of times to go. I rechecked your site...looks good. I like how you have soooo much information all in one place...I don't think anyone of us would not like to have a handy info site to head to for our cruise.

Should I put something similar together for 10/22/05?".... I say go for it..."

 

[ThreeSmiths]

Welcome pdarrah!

I'm going to check out your site right after I post this. Sounds great! Who did you book your Cozumel snorkel through?

Kathy -- Eric is a "loser" himself, because I have caught him scoping out the boards a couple times since we've been back from our cruise. He's definitely a cruise addict now....he just cannot wait until 10/22/05. And I do remind him quite frequently of the fact that we might not have met our "cruise buddies" were it not for the DISboards.

Well, gotta get off the boards and go to bed....this daylight savings time change is killing me!

Stacy

 

[Skallywag]

Strange how little things make some of us excited. Just wait until I actually get to the port. Wonder if my clock will work now.

 

[amgpmg]

Stacy - That is too funny! Jim has not yet started searching the boards, he leaves that up to me. I am on them sometimes long enough for the both of us.

Pdarrah, we are from the Chicago area too. We are in the South Suburbs, are you North or South?

Skallywag, It doesn't look like your timer is working yet. Did you test it on the Tech board? That is where I got my countdown. They may be able to help you if you cannot get it working.

Kathy

 

[pdarrah]

Hi amgpmg,

We are actually from the far Western suburbs. Since our town has a rather confusing name of "West Chicago" which most people want to interpret as "west side of Chicago" and we are actually 30 miles west of the city, we usually just say "Chicagoland" and avoid the confusion! My DH is originally from the South Suburbs (Park Forest) and his Dad is in Palos Park.

On the Oct 23rd cruise this year, we made friends with another DIS couple that lives less than 10 miles from us! We all had such fun together we plan to continue the friendship now that we are home. It seems so strange to go on a cruise to meet people that live so close!

I have started working on our trip report for this year's Oct 23 Western - it looks like it is going to be very long... When it is finished, I'll let you folks here know since at least some of it should be similar to next year's cruise.

Pamela