October 22, 2005 Roll call

[pdarrah]

Oh - one more thing! Are we going to try and do a photo swap? If so, do we send CDROM's around or upload to a site like Ophoto or Shutterfly and "share" them? Do people usually edit out the "family" photos or just share everything?

I took just over 400 photos - I suspect some of you beat me by a long shot! I did get a few good underwater photos - we have a special housing for our digital camera that allows us to take it underwater. This was the first time we used it and we are pretty happy with the results. I think they are much better than the disposable underwater cameras we have used before. Unfortunately, we didnt' get much snorkel time. We only did an excursion at St. Thomas (since we thought we were doing one at CC ) and only spent an hour or so in the water.

pdarrah

 

[MNmousecouple]

Pdarrah, very sorry we didn't get to meet you. We really appreciate all you did with the web page and all. We now actually have a pic of the two of us together (thanks Walt & Di).
Everyone, I think Pdarrah and Scrapperjill did a great job for our cruise, Many many thanks

 

[hyandui]

Just checking in to see if anyone had made it home and back online yet. We got home today around 4 PM.

We had an awesome cruise and I enjoyed meeting some of you. Wish I could have met everyone. We only made it to the first meet as we had conflicts (Palos, movies, on the islands, etc) for the others. Thanks again to ScrapperJill for the awesome buttons and to PDarrah for the awesome website!!!

Now, a moment to complain. I caught up on Cass and Rob's ongoing vacation thread today and agree with some of her gripes. We didn't get our Castaway Gift in our stateroom either (THANKS to those Disers at the first meet that told me to go ask for it). Didn't get any of the vacation club info/invites we were supposed to, and totally feel like Cass took the words right out of my mouth - it WAS a magical cruise, but not as magical as our first.

Now this might just be me, feel free to disagree with me (because my husband DOES disagree with me on this point). I REALLY wanted a Western cruise. I KNOW there is always the chance to miss a port due to weather, etc. And I KNOW it's not Disney's fault about the weather. But since this was a TOTALLY different cruise (not just missing a port) I feel like we didn't get what we paid for.

Yes, Disney Vacation Club is refunding the few extra points more it costs for a Western vs. an Eastern. But we used A LOT of points for this cruise, borrowed all our points from next year, and I WOULDN'T have done it for another Eastern. Unless we want to pay cash to go again sooner, it will be a couple of years until we can go again.

My husband feels like "we paid for a cruise and we got a cruise" and that is that. But I'm left feeling a little "hollow" over the whole thing. We were offered nothing "extra" to soften the blow so to speak (unless I missed that, too), and not that they owed us anything, in the past I've felt Disney always goes the extra mile and I didn't feel it this time.

Maybe it's just post cruise let down, after all the weather worrying pre-cruise. Maybe I'm just tired.

ReneeQ, As a long time cruiser, I just like to get away from work no matter where I cruise, on the other hand and I am not special in any way, but in the last 5 years I've had 3 major sugeries, the 1st left me handicapped and the Lord let me make it thru the other 2, now I have a new song that I follow in life, its called (Live Like You Were Dying) now where ever I go, its with a song in my heart.

 

[ReneeQ]

Hyandui,
I hear what you're saying. Really, more than you know. Sounds like we have LOTS in common health-wise. We should have hooked up on the cruise to chat! I've had way more than my share of medical problems, many since birth. And a triple femur fracture two years ago has left me unable to walk as well as before, and I'm probably facing knee surgery. But I thank God I CAN walk, so I keep on going.

I DID have an awesome cruise. I was just disappointed I guess. Thanks for your outlook on things. It's how I "try" to live each day, but sometimes guess I forget.

 

[hyandui]

Hyandui,
I hear what you're saying. Really, more than you know. Sounds like we have LOTS in common health-wise. We should have hooked up on the cruise to chat! I've had way more than my share of medical problems, many since birth. And a triple femur fracture two years ago has left me unable to walk as well as before, and I'm probably facing knee surgery. But I thank God I CAN walk, so I keep on going.

I DID have an awesome cruise. I was just disappointed I guess. Thanks for your outlook on things. It's how I "try" to live each day, but sometimes guess I forget.

ReneeQ, I am not trying to bust you, there is so much good that happened that it over shadowed the bad. We had the smoothest cruise when you consider all that was going on around us. I am sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you and your husband, I walk around very slowly with a cane and leg braces, the good side to that is it drives the TSA crazy.
I am not trying to stick up fpr Disney but, if you remember they were on the Eastern Cruise the week before, and 1. the Islands have other ships coming in that they service also, so now Disney is trying to get openings for excursions opened up for us, 2. then is there a dock free and will it be in the walking side of the island or will we have to cab over, and 3. (wow) how about those drivers.
My wife and I saw the two boys who ran free, being a pest to all they encountered, but there were some super young people there, lets give a hand to all of them. And last but not least, I remember all the people who lost everything it the wake of the storms, so I had to settle for the Eastern Cruise, boy am I a lucky person.

 

[hyandui]

Pdarrah, very sorry we didn't get to meet you. We really appreciate all you did with the web page and all. We now actually have a pic of the two of us together (thanks Walt & Di).
Everyone, I think Pdarrah and Scrapperjill did a great job for our cruise, Many many thanks

I didn't get a chance to meet Pdarrah, I did get to meet Scrapperjill and I would like to thank them both for the job they did, Our (4 kids) are grown now with the youngest being 21 , but I know that Pdarrah and Scrapperjill went the extra mile planning out their meets and activities fot all the Disers , Scrapperjill, thank you for the buttons, I forgot that I used my e-mail name when we ordered the pins,when I came to the main Dis meeting ZI was looking for the 2Goofytotravel name, they look great and will be amoung my scrape books for the years to come, I have alot of pictures that can be shared with anyone wanting them, also I have about 2000 Disney Clip arts pic's I have collected over the years, if someone needs any just yell. How do you like your keys? Well I will close for now as I need to get packing for next October's cruise.

 

[scrapperjill]

Scrapperjill, thank you for the buttons, I forgot that I used my e-mail name when we ordered the pins,when I came to the main Dis meeting I was looking for the 2Goofytotravel name

OMG!!!! I can't tell you how bad I felt ALL week long...thinking I overlooked your request for buttons...and after we chatted so much before the cruise. I couldn't figure out how in the world I missed it..but when you said "2GoofyToTtravel" I knew I didn't make button with that screen name....but kept thinking your real name seemed so familar....and I thougth for sure I made buttons for your group...I even started to think maybe I really messed up and put your real names with someone elses screen name. Yea...I really bothered me all week long....matter of fact I've been thinking of ways to make it up to you....and I even went back through all the requests to see where 2Goofytotravel put in the order...and I never found it. Whew!!! I can't say how much post cruise stress was just lifted....I'm glad you got them....Were they one of the ones I deleived to the staterooms? I had a bunch that Jesse and I ran around and dropped off at doors.


ALSO....I was going to post about the Photo Swap...but wanted to give everyone a few days to get back into the swing of everything. What I think works best is burning CD's and mailing them off. Of course it'll depend on how many people we get to do the swap to see how many we'll be burning and mailing off. I don't know how everyone else is...but I like getting all my prints made at one place...and not ordering them from diffrent online places...there is just to much diffrence in photo labs.....Why don't we start by just getting to see who is intrested in doing the photo swap...then we'll go on to swapping addresses and more details.

I also think it really will be up to each person on what they want to send....Last year I sent EVERYTHING...but others only sent photos that didn't have ANY of their family members in the pics at all. I think it's fun to look at all sorts of photos...people, groups, opjects...and so on....so in my book everything goes. One thing that's fun is looking at other peoples photos of groups or events and spotting yourself or someone else you know. I can't wait to see what everyone else took photos of.

So if your intrested in participating in the PHOTO SWAP....send me a PM and/or post a reply of intrest on this thread. After we get an idea of who we have we'll go from their. I don't want to post any person information (ie address) on the open fourms so we'll use the PM's for that.

PHOTO SWAP SIGN UPS....

1.) Scrapperjill
2.) Pdarrah
3.) Disneyfan551
4.) 2GoofyToTravel (aka Hyandui)
5.) American Scrapper
6.) MNMouseCouple

 

[Mrs.Abuboo]

We're signed up to go on the Disney Wonder 4-night for Spring Break. We're really looking forward to it. We received these awesome looking documents for the DisneyWonder Cruise. Wish they would've done something like that for the Magic.

Has anyone gone on the 4-night cruise? Do they do Formal Night? Pirate Night? Thought I might be able to find some costumes on sale post Halloween.

 

[disneyfan551]

Sign me up for the photo swap!! I'll be glad to send all photos or generic (w/o family/friends...) either way!

Is anyone else out there still sick? I went to the Dr. and I have bronchitis & acute sinusitus. After 13 days of this junk, I want rid of it!

edited to add...did anyone rebook for the 10/14/06 CC double dip?

 

[Dyerneeds]

hyandui...
We can relate. I almost lost my DH a few years ago. We have the same philosophy. So glad things worked out for you. Keep the philosophy and you'll get the most out of life.

The wild boys...
We ran into them daily. Several times the parents of one of them was scolding him and then let him go on his merry way. They were in rockin bar d waiting for freddy fusion, had a bag of cheetos with him and had them thrown all over the floor. He thought it was a big joke. It was abvious all of the adults were very annoyed. Later the parents came in and scolded him and let him go on his merry way, once again.

I can't really say they impacted us. I just can't imagine letting my child have the run of the ship.

 

[hyandui]

Sign me up for the photo swap!! I'll be glad to send all photos or generic (w/o family/friends...) either way!

Is anyone else out there still sick? I went to the Dr. and I have bronchitis & acute sinusitus. After 13 days of this junk, I want rid of it!

edited to add...did anyone rebook for the 10/14/06 CC double dip?

Disneyfan551, I would like to be counted in for photo's, with or without names,
Sherry & I rebooked for the October 14th trip, also Brenda Hanvey, a friend of ours and my sister Kim are on board for next year.
Sherry(DW) came home with a mild soar throat but that was after an additional 3 days at the park,
I wonder if they could pull some banana boats behind the ship for us to ride on?

 

[hyandui]

hyandui...
We can relate. I almost lost my DH a few years ago. We have the same philosophy. So glad things worked out for you. Keep the philosophy and you'll get the most out of life.

The wild boys...
We ran into them daily. Several times the parents of one of them was scolding him and then let him go on his merry way. They were in rockin bar d waiting for freddy fusion, had a bag of cheetos with him and had them thrown all over the floor. He thought it was a big joke. It was abvious all of the adults were very annoyed. Later the parents came in and scolded him and let him go on his merry way, once again.

I can't really say they impacted us. I just can't imagine letting my child have the run of the ship.

Mike & Robin, Super to hear from you again, it was a great trip! Did you sign up for next year yet? RK

 

[hyandui]

OMG!!!! I can't tell you how bad I felt ALL week long...thinking I overlooked your request for buttons...and after we chatted so much before the cruise. I couldn't figure out how in the world I missed it..but when you said "2GoofyToTtravel" I knew I didn't make button with that screen name....but kept thinking your real name seemed so familar....and I thougth for sure I made buttons for your group...I even started to think maybe I really messed up and put your real names with someone elses screen name. Yea...I really bothered me all week long....matter of fact I've been thinking of ways to make it up to you....and I even went back through all the requests to see where 2Goofytotravel put in the order...and I never found it. Whew!!! I can't say how much post cruise stress was just lifted....I'm glad you got them....Were they one of the ones I deleived to the staterooms? I had a bunch that Jesse and I ran around and dropped off at doors.


ALSO....I was going to post about the Photo Swap...but wanted to give everyone a few days to get back into the swing of everything. What I think works best is burning CD's and mailing them off. Of course it'll depend on how many people we get to do the swap to see how many we'll be burning and mailing off. I don't know how everyone else is...but I like getting all my prints made at one place...and not ordering them from diffrent online places...there is just to much diffrence in photo labs.....Why don't we start by just getting to see who is intrested in doing the photo swap...then we'll go on to swapping addresses and more details.

I also think it really will be up to each person on what they want to send....Last year I sent EVERYTHING...but others only sent photos that didn't have ANY of their family members in the pics at all. I think it's fun to look at all sorts of photos...people, groups, opjects...and so on....so in my book everything goes. One thing that's fun is looking at other peoples photos of groups or events and spotting yourself or someone else you know. I can't wait to see what everyone else took photos of.

So if your intrested in participating in the PHOTO SWAP....send me a PM and/or post a reply of intrest on this thread. After we get an idea of who we have we'll go from their. I don't want to post any person information (ie address) on the open fourms so we'll use the PM's for that.

Scrapperjill, Please don't feel bad for me, I think its super when someone takes on a project for everyone who signs up, you said you checked your e-mail and I probably didn't send back a request, BUT I still received 2 buttons and that's super.
If all the world would would do something for just one person, the world would over flow with love, there wouldn't be room for anything else
. All the last week before the cruise I had so many things on my schedule to get done, including the sign for our door, but the last day I planned to come into the shop early, finish up a few loose ends and then spend the rest of the day (we left at 2 pm) just for Disney stuff, it didn't work, we had customers coming in all day.
Thank you for all the hard work you do for the Diser's RK
PS Did you happen to catch the skit the crew put on Friday night, if not I have pictures.

PHOTO SWAP SIGN UPS....


1.) Scrapperjill
2.) 2Goofytotravel

 

[hyandui]

We're signed up to go on the Disney Wonder 4-night for Spring Break. We're really looking forward to it. We received these awesome looking documents for the DisneyWonder Cruise. Wish they would've done something like that for the Magic.

Has anyone gone on the 4-night cruise? Do they do Formal Night? Pirate Night? Thought I might be able to find some costumes on sale post Halloween.

Mrs Abuboo, In 99 we were scheduled for a cruise on THE BIG RED BOAT, because of a medical problem we didn't make thatone, then in September of 99 we were the on the 17th cruise of the Magic for a 3 day, toooooo short next we tried the 4 day cruise and that was just a wee bit better then came the 7 day and I have been hooked on it ever since , Next year will be our 10 Disney Cruise and we treat it like a vacation club, a little money down and just make payments thru the year As for formal night, yes on the 4 day but I don't remember the 3 day dress code, I usually go dressed as a tourest, you know, flashie shirt, missed matched shorts and a big grin
Brenda brough her friend and up too a week before he started saying he wasn't sure if he would still go, and as the weather reports got worse he started worring, you see he had never flew in a plane of sailed in a ship, he even talked about the Titanic and a cruise ship that was hit by a big wave, I told him what a great trill it would be to go down in history, after all they're still talking about the Titanic. Oh well , enough stupid things said for today. hyandui

 

[MelissaE1]

Hyandui I just wanted to say that I love your attitude. Sorry we didn't get to meet on the cruise, I would have loved to chat with you.

ReneeQ, I think saying that something was missing doesn't mean you had a terrible time, so don't feel bad about it. Especially on this board of all things Disney (and I am definitely a Disney girl) you will see the negative discouraged. Although I don't see any way around changing the itinerary, we were treated extremely rudely when we called for information and living in a hurricane prone area I know for a fact that they knew they had to change it long before they stopped pretending they weren't going to. RCCL had a change of itinerary and the offer to rebook posted days earlier. IMHO it was badly handled and that's all there is to it. If I had never cruised either itinerary or had cruised the Western before or had the funding to cruise again in a year it probably wouldn't have bothered me as much. It doesn't mean that we didn't enjoy ourselves at all or that we will never cruise Disney again. I just think it's OK to be disappointed.


As for the wild boys, they didn't really bother me too much, but I did wonder where the heck their parents were. And because of all the threads on the board about how people dress I looked around a little. It didn't really bother me when people weren't dressed as nice as recommended, and I saw very little of that, but I did see one thing that I thought was interesting. On semi-formal night we were waiting to go into Animator's Palate and ahead of me several feet there were people with a little girl with wet, tangled hair, I think she may have been wearing a swim cover up, and get this... bare feet! They were taking her to dinner that way. Although it didn't affect my dinner or enjoyment in any way, I thought it a bit over the line.

Did anyone see the quintuplets? I kept running into them. Dressed to the nines all the time, and really cute. I could see the family had money so when I got home I googled them and it turns out Dad is Melvin Mora, centerfielder for the Baltimore Orioles. Thought that was kind of interesting.

 

[hyandui]

Hyandui I just wanted to say that I love your attitude. Sorry we didn't get to meet on the cruise, I would have loved to chat with you.

ReneeQ, I think saying that something was missing doesn't mean you had a terrible time, so don't feel bad about it. Especially on this board of all things Disney (and I am definitely a Disney girl) you will see the negative discouraged. Although I don't see any way around changing the itinerary, we were treated extremely rudely when we called for information and living in a hurricane prone area I know for a fact that they knew they had to change it long before they stopped pretending they weren't going to. RCCL had a change of itinerary and the offer to rebook posted days earlier. IMHO it was badly handled and that's all there is to it. If I had never cruised either itinerary or had cruised the Western before or had the funding to cruise again in a year it probably wouldn't have bothered me as much. It doesn't mean that we didn't enjoy ourselves at all or that we will never cruise Disney again. I just think it's OK to be disappointed.


As for the wild boys, they didn't really bother me too much, but I did wonder where the heck their parents were. And because of all the threads on the board about how people dress I looked around a little. It didn't really bother me when people weren't dressed as nice as recommended, and I saw very little of that, but I did see one thing that I thought was interesting. On semi-formal night we were waiting to go into Animator's Palate and ahead of me several feet there were people with a little girl with wet, tangled hair, I think she may have been wearing a swim cover up, and get this... bare feet! They were taking her to dinner that way. Although it didn't affect my dinner or enjoyment in any way, I thought it a bit over the line.

Did anyone see the quintuplets? I kept running into them. Dressed to the nines all the time, and really cute. I could see the family had money so when I got home I googled them and it turns out Dad is Melvin Mora, centerfielder for the Baltimore Orioles. Thought that was kind of interesting.

MelissaE1, Thank you for the reply, I knoq where you are coming from, We started on our 31st year of business on May 1st and I know if customers are not treated with respect you will loose them in a moment, with that in mind we cater to everyone who walks thru our doors. The only sticking point that I would have to say in Disney's behalf would be if they didn't have all the permits to dock at the islands that week, other cruise ships who had 1st priority for all ready being scheduled that weekcame 1st and we docked on the other side of the island and had to cab over and wow are they lously drivers.
As for Melvin Mora, my youngest son age (23) would have loved to meet him, ut then they wouldn't get a rest. All in all we still had a super time, now I have to walk off the extra pounds. hyandui

 

[scrapperjill]

Did anyone see the quintuplets? I kept running into them. Dressed to the nines all the time, and really cute. .

We ran into them a few times...and boy were they cute. Couldn't help but smile everytime you saw them.

Update on PHOTO SWAP...see thread #1087 on page # 73 for list of whos signed up so far.

 

[Dyerneeds]

Mike & Robin, Super to hear from you again, it was a great trip! Did you sign up for next year yet? RK

hyandui...
It was an excellent trip. No, we thought about it, but decided to wait until the following year. We'd like to take the 10 day next. We're trying to cruise every other year and then we take a 2 wk vacation at Disney World on the off year. Then an occaisional 1 wk trip over Christmas or in the spring. We would like to go to Disney in Sept. next year.

We followed up with a day at the Magic Kingdom after the cruise on Saturday and boy, was it packed. It reminded me of one of those summer crowds. It was largely due to Wilma. There were tons of Miami people there talking about the damage to their homes. (That Wilma impacted us no matter where we went.) I guess I shouldn't complain...At least I had a home to go to. A lot of the people I heard either had damage or no power or gas.

I'm sorry we never got the chance to meet you and many others. I saw a lot of buttons though. We did get the chance to meet several groups. In fact, we hung out with Walt & Di quite a bit and ran into them at the Magic Kingdom after the cruise. They're still down there having fun. Lucky people.

It is kind of hard getting adjusted to home and work life again. My mind is still on the ship. The only thing that keeps me going is that we're leaving in 6 weeks for Disney for Christmas.

 

[hyandui]

hyandui...
It was an excellent trip. No, we thought about it, but decided to wait until the following year. We'd like to take the 10 day next. We're trying to cruise every other year and then we take a 2 wk vacation at Disney World on the off year. Then an occaisional 1 wk trip over Christmas or in the spring. We would like to go to Disney in Sept. next year.

We followed up with a day at the Magic Kingdom after the cruise on Saturday and boy, was it packed. It reminded me of one of those summer crowds. It was largely due to Wilma. There were tons of Miami people there talking about the damage to their homes. (That Wilma impacted us no matter where we went.) I guess I shouldn't complain...At least I had a home to go to. A lot of the people I heard either had damage or no power or gas.

I'm sorry we never got the chance to meet you and many others. I saw a lot of buttons though. We did get the chance to meet several groups. In fact, we hung out with Walt & Di quite a bit and ran into them at the Magic Kingdom after the cruise. They're still down there having fun. Lucky people.

It is kind of hard getting adjusted to home and work life again. My mind is still on the ship. The only thing that keeps me going is that we're leaving in 6 weeks for Disney for Christmas.

Mike and Robin, yes it was a long time coming and now its gone, what a quote, We went to the park after the cruise and yes the park was very full both Saturday & Sunday, But Monday and Tuesday was wonderful, Our to grown daughters flew done and met us at the park for the week, we arrived home at 11pm on Tuesday along with our oldest daughter, while the younger daughter landed in Phila about 1/2 hour ago. You will probably have a great time at Disney over Christmas, I bet its beautiful, we do go to Disney every February for a week to get away from the snow and cold, it stays in the single digits here during the winter. Well we wish you and your a super year, stay on the disboard, we are working on a time machine to speed up the time between vacations.

 

[American Scrapper]

Hello all! I would also like to do the photo swap! The more pictures, the merrier. I agree with doing CDs as I like to print my own.

I cannot believe it is almost a week since we got off the boat. IT took me until late Sunday afternoon to stop rocking. I didn't notice at first, but then after thinking about it realized that it wasn't the building rocking, just my body! I almost fell over at the airport after standing back up from helping my son do his homework! LOL!!

Speaking of my son, and I am sure I will be flamed for this (I feel as if I already have by several), but I cannot help but step in regarding the "unruly boys" and their "irresponsible parents". My son was part of a crowd that did do some "running" around on the cruise and yes, he is in the approximate age group in question. I apologize if he was in anyway a disturbance to any of you on this board. We made the decision to allow him in & out privledges on the cruise (the age allowed to sign themselves out is 8 & older) with strict rules that if he in anyway did not follow our rules he would loose that privledge. Yes, we had rules for him and did know where he was (or at least a general vacinity) at all times. I often checked in on him (without his knowledge) and did not witness any of the things discussed in the recent posted. I am not saying that it didn't happen, as they are boys and heck, if I was a kid am sure would be doing the same thing. We were a group of 10 adults & 9 kids, so he was aware that there were "eyes" watching him. Often one adult or another in the group would mention they saw him. After reading some of the posts I asked him about some of the things that were being said. He did not deny the cheeto incident & did say he dropped the bag on the floor and that the boys were all laughing (him included), but also said he did pick them up. We were not the parents that reprimanded him in that incident (he said that another boy's parents said something to that boy) but did say that an adult (guest) in the Rockin Bar D came up to him and told him that he was acting the best in the group. I have to say that that made me proud to know that even with a group of boys acting up, that someone would point out to him that he was behaving (or at least better than the others). I have taught him to be respectable towards adults and do know that he is a very caring young individual and that to the best of my knowledge, he followed our rules. He often left the group if they were getting too wild & checked himself into the club, went to see a movie or reported back to us at his scheduled check in time (approx. every two or three hours). So while he did run around with a crowd (he found the kids club things quite boring in most cases), to say that he had irresponsible parents hit a nerve with me because we are not irresponsible parents. I try to give my child some independence to learn and if he makes mistakes, we work together to fix them so they don't happen again. I don't think my decision was wrong, just different than the next person - that is what makes us all individuals. Some choose to keep their child with them at all times, others choose to allow their kids to go in the kids club (where they can run around all they want in an enclosed place away from guests & adults) & others choose to let their kids have some freedom. I choose the later for my son & my daughter decided she liked the club. I could go on about how teenagers were also pushing all the buttons on the elevators (and heck, even some adults) or how adults were taking the space at the railings or during character times and not allowing small children to get infront of them to see, but decided that, while it irritated me at the time, I wasn't going to let it ruin my vacation. So I learned to ignore it.

I do sypathize with the families that had situations in the kids clubs with their children being hurt, and would definitely complain about that.


Anyway, enough of me defending my decision. I just couldn't come onto the boards and continue to read about how irresponsible I was or my husband because, if you knew us, would know that is not the case at all. I felt like my integrity was questioned and I had to get it off my chest. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and I do respect that, I just wanted to come to back to these boards with great memories of a wonderful cruise and not feel like I was being bashed for a decision I made.

Kathy