October 27, 2007 - Cruising around the Moon - A Magical All Hallows Eve

[Kimmielee]

So nice to have you here on your first post! Will you be joining us on the cruise?

Sarah's already on our list!!! She's our sitter!!

 

[Kimmielee]

Hi Kim it's Sarah. I figured out today how to make an account name and everything. I need to learn how to make cute pictures and fonts and stuff!

You found us!! Way to go!!! Before you know it you will be addicted!!

Fellow Cruisers... say hello to party # 3 in our cabin.... Sarah, our sitter!

 

[Babs417]

Hi Sarah you will have such a great time I cant wait. To hold me over Im going th Nigril Jamaica With my daughter and my grandchildren. We areleaving in 10 days.

 

[rer1972]

You found us!! Way to go!!! Before you know it you will be addicted!!

Fellow Cruisers... say hello to party # 3 in our cabin.... Sarah, our sitter!

HELLO Sarah

 

[PaDisneyCouple]

Hello,
We just booked the 10/27/07 this past Monday. Our plan was to go on another 4-night with a WDW stay, but decided to change. This will be our 2nd ever cruise. We might even get off the ship this time (only got off at CC last year). Now we must research shore excursions and all things 7-night.
Not sure where to stay the night before. Anybody with experience to share? We're thinking of arriving in the afternoon and staying at the airport Hyatt, for something different. We did AKL the night before last fall, and it was nice, but resulted in 3 transfers (MCO-AKL, AKL-PC, PC-MCO). This is our "leave the driving to others" vacation, so we weren't planning on renting a car.

 

[Babs417]

Welcome S and C more people yay

 

[Kimmielee]

PJPoohbear & her Mom (59)
Love*2*Shop with DH, DS (Kyle - 8) and DD (Madison - 6) ***Celebrating Wedding Anniversary on 10/25 and Rachel's B-day on 10/29!!!
Kimmielee (aka Kim1)- with DS (Noah - 8) and Sarah (our sitter) ***Celebrating her 24th birthday on 10-24!
Hockeychic (aka Kim2) - with DD (15)
KimSue68 (aka Kim3) - with her DH, DS (6) and DD (4)
Babs417 - KimSue's Mom!
***KimSue68's Sister - with her DD (12), DS (8) and DS (4) and MIL too!
LoriLuvsDisney - with her DH, DD (12) and DS (10) ***Celebrating 25th Wedding Anniversary and DD's birthday on Halloween night!!!
Vital (aka Paula) with DS (Ethan - 8)
Mr. Gent (aka Chris) - with DW (Hazel) DD (Jess - 22), DS (Ryan -13) and DD (Rosie - 13)
rer1972 (aka Ronnie) - Single Gentleman ready to dance!
Lynnderella (aka Lynn) and 2 other families - with her DH, DD (6) and DS (5), 2 DH's and 2 DW's, DD (6) DS (4), DD (4) and DB turning 1!!
PaDisneyCouple (aka Sean and Christine) ***Celebrating their 10th Wedding Anniversary!

 

[Kimmielee]

Hello,
We just booked the 10/27/07 this past Monday. Our plan was to go on another 4-night with a WDW stay, but decided to change. This will be our 2nd ever cruise. We might even get off the ship this time (only got off at CC last year). Now we must research shore excursions and all things 7-night.
Not sure where to stay the night before. Anybody with experience to share? We're thinking of arriving in the afternoon and staying at the airport Hyatt, for something different. We did AKL the night before last fall, and it was nice, but resulted in 3 transfers (MCO-AKL, AKL-PC, PC-MCO). This is our "leave the driving to others" vacation, so we weren't planning on renting a car.

Welcome!! Based on your signature notes... I'm assuming you are going to be married 10 years in October '07? Congrats!!

My DS and I did the 4 day this past Easter and we only got off a CC too. We are looking forward to doing more on this cruise. You will like the gang on this meet thread, everyone is very nice!

We are staying at the Hyatt the night before as well... and then staying one night at the Poly AFTER the cruise to do MK. We can't be that close and not see the Castle... or Buzz... or Pirates of the Caribbean... or... oh, you get the idea!

Welcome! We look forward to getting to know you a bit before we sail!

 

[vital]

Hello,
We just booked the 10/27/07 this past Monday. Our plan was to go on another 4-night with a WDW stay, but decided to change. This will be our 2nd ever cruise. We might even get off the ship this time (only got off at CC last year). Now we must research shore excursions and all things 7-night.
Not sure where to stay the night before. Anybody with experience to share? We're thinking of arriving in the afternoon and staying at the airport Hyatt, for something different. We did AKL the night before last fall, and it was nice, but resulted in 3 transfers (MCO-AKL, AKL-PC, PC-MCO). This is our "leave the driving to others" vacation, so we weren't planning on renting a car.

Hi and welcome to our thread! I'm taking my son who will be 8 at the time of sailing on his 3rd cruise and it will be my 5th, but it will be our first Disney cruise. I've been to St Thomas 3 times and St Martin once. I know we're going on the Doubloon sail and snorkel to St John when we are in St Thomas. You get to sail over on a "pirate ship" and snorkel with sea turtles and other fishies. Then on the way back, they tattoo you with pirate tattoos *fake of course* and they bust out the Painkillers and other adult drinks for the pirates and wenches and sodas for the little ones. They let the kids sail the boat while the adults chill and enjoy the rrrrrrum!

I'm still researching St Martin and I'll get back to you on that one. Last time we were there we got off the ship and just went to the beach right at the dock. I'm going to venture out and explore more. I know if you google st martin you'll find some awesome beaches. I'm just trying to decide which one I want to go to. Maybe some of y'all will help me decide and we can do it together.

As for activities on the boat......I know I'm signing up to do some martini and beer tasting . It is vacation after all! I've got some dances reserved, right ? I'm sure we'll all have a great time!

We are driving down the Thursday evening before and staying at WDW and going to the Halloween party the Friday night before. When we were at MK this past June they were refurbishing the Pirates of tne Caribbean ride and DS was mad we missed it. He has an inner pirate that kinda scares me .

Anyway, didn't mean to be so long winded but welcome to the cruise!

 

[Kimmielee]

We were buried on Page 2.... hope everyone had a great weekend!!

Noah had his 3rd soccer game. He was the goalie for part of the game and stopped them from scoring 3 times!!

Back to work tomorrow...

 

[Hockeychic]

Hey everyone,

Yaaa Noah!!!!!!!

We have been to St Marten and St Thomas before so not too sure what we will do, we figure in St Thomas we will just got to Paradise Peak or Peak Paradise can't remember and get one of those drinks...can't remember what it is called, we wanted to go there last night but did a tour with Sunny Liston instead and didn't really have enough time to get up there. If anyone is looking for a great tour, Sunny was amazing...$20 PP and he took us on a tour, shopping and a beach break it was so much fun.

St Marten last time we did the under 2 flags tour with Disney, it was OK but don't need to do it again. I just think we might take the water taxi over to the shopping area and beach and hang out.

Castaway Cay, we hope to Parasail this time, last time it was cancelled due to high winds so we hope to do it this time.

And of course Palo for brunch once or twice, can't do a dinner as I will have DD with me and I don't want to leave her for a dinner.

Hope everyone stops in to chat soon, welcome to any newbies I might have missed.

have a great day all.

Kim

 

[vital]

Just checking in to say hi. Been busy with new job and Ethan's flag football. I feel like I'm watching the Bad News Bears movie sometimes when I see his team play!

I see we have slacked off a little on the conversation lately. Hopefully everyone will settle into new routines and can stop by more!

Have a good day!

 

[pjpoohbear]

Hi Everyone!

For St. Marteen I am thinking of doing the Speedboat Lagoon thing(?) looks like fun! St. Thomas who knows, myabe just the tram for some great shots and a visit to the town. We did a tours of each island last time, and this time it is up in the air. I will be doing excursions on my own or with DISers.

DM is staying on the ship, she is old and she said she didn't feel safe on the islands. It may have had something to do with our crazy drivers, lol.

Pj

 

[rer1972]

Hi hockeychic. That Sonny Liston tour sounds interesting; i like the price too.
I definitely want to go snorkeling; never have done it and I want to try.

Not sure what else is good. I don't care too much for shopping unless it's something really different; I can go 20 minutes south accross the border and get silver jewelry, alchohol, and other stuff pretty cheap where I am.

SIDENOTE:
I was watching tv and this commercial came on. It had a scene of a beach with waves rolling in, and from the right this hand with a bottle of Corona kept coming into & out of fram. Everytime it came into frame a hand on the left would try to grab it(looks like the right hand is teasing the left hand). The camera then pulls back and you can see that there's a girl in a hammock swinging back and forth on the left and a guy doing the same on the right. She finally grabs the bottle; he was trying to hand it to her. Seeing the hammocks so made me want to be on one of those beaches in the Caribbean and chillin out.

 

[rer1972]

My Cruise Concierge Team(boy that sounds fancy pants like )member asked me what time I want for Dinner seating (8:00, 8:15, 8:30). Any recommendations?

 

[A fat english gent]

Just playing about

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Sorry am just playing about with HTML,Or as ryan will say to his mum "..."H"e's "T"erminated "M"y "L"ap-top" again!!...."stop playing with things you know nothing about"....or... "do you know how long it took me to mend that last time you played with it?"....."am only trying to workout how these things work son"...."well don't,i don't what with homework,playing out with my mates and watching TV i simlpy don't have the time to run round mending PC's and LAP-TOPS after you've been having a "play"..

Looks like i maybe sent to bed early tonight (without supper )and am only a couple of hop skip and jumps away from the "dad you need to pee" home too...
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[Kimmielee]

Just playing about

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Sorry am just playing about with HTML,Or as ryan will say to his mum "..."H"e's "T"erminated "M"y "L"ap-top" again!!...."stop playing with things you know nothing about"....or... "do you know how long it took me to mend that last time you played with it?"....."am only trying to workout how these things work son"...."well don't,i don't what with homework,playing out with my mates and watching TV i simlpy don't have the time to run round mending PC's and LAP-TOPS after you've been having a "play"..

Looks like i maybe sent to bed early tonight (without supper )and am only a couple of hop skip and jumps away from the "dad you need to pee" home too...
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I think I just peed my pants...

 

[Kimmielee]

My Cruise Concierge Team(boy that sounds fancy pants like )member asked me what time I want for Dinner seating (8:00, 8:15, 8:30). Any recommendations?

You can specify which of the seatings you want? I didn't realize that!

 

[Kimmielee]

I was flipping channels late last night and ended up on The Learning Channel. I had heard the show "Big World, Little People" advertised before... but had never caught an episode.

It was always interesting to me because my during my first year of college, on of my roomies was a little person.

So.... I had nothing else to watch and then BOOM... the Mom, Amy, on the show appears and I almost choked! I think it IS my roomie from college! I listened intently to see if there were any references to Michigan.... where she went to school, etc... but none.

So... I went on to the web, found their home website and emailed her and it IS her!! Wow, we haven't spoken in over 20 years and there she was on TV and now in my email box!! How cool is that?

 

[rer1972]

I was flipping channels late last night and ended up on The Learning Channel. I had heard the show "Big World, Little People" advertised before... but had never caught an episode.

It was always interesting to me because my during my first year of college, on of my roomies was a little person.

So.... I had nothing else to watch and then BOOM... the Mom, Amy, on the show appears and I almost choked! I think it IS my roomie from college! I listened intently to see if there were any references to Michigan.... where she went to school, etc... but none.

So... I went on to the web, found their home website and emailed her and it IS her!! Wow, we haven't spoken in over 20 years and there she was on TV and now in my email box!! How cool is that?

That it is cool. That is really an neat show & neat family.