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

[pjpoohbear]

As promised the group shot of Pirate's night on the DDD Geek cruise 12/9/06.

 

[Kimmielee]

3. You guys are hilarious......I have began reading from page 1 and am about on page 42...STOP TALKING OR I'LL NEVER CATCH UP (lol)

I was going to answer your questions but you said to STOP TALKING!

 

[Kimmielee]

great pics everyone! Thanks for sharing!! PJ, the group shot makes me wonder how big our group will be and will we be as good looking in our pirate attire??

 

[pjpoohbear]

The signed up group was 210, and the was the largest group showing of the week.

Pj

 

[PaDisneyCouple]

WOW!
We were off the Dis for a whole day due to both of us working. We just caught up on the last 3 pages. Very interesting stuff...at one point I laughed out loud and I think caused Sean temporary deafness (I think it was the comment about Kimmielee and the "hat").

We're glad that there will be others joining us in the fitness center. How about a group meet there? We usually hit the gym by 7am. Should we reserve it?


OK, Sean's nagging me to finish here. He can't exercise today because he's working 12 hours so I must represent the family at the gym.

I have committed myself to a goal that I know will be a challenge. I would like to complete the scrapbook from our last cruise (2005) and from our Oct 2006 WDW visit by the time of our next cruise. Wish me luck. Maybe this will help

Must go exercise now...have a great day.

 

[Disneygrl36]

Oh a fellow scrapbooker...any others out there??
We could do a scrapbook page meet & all bring things to use & make a page kinda thing. :It's ok if you all think I am a geek cause I know I am.


& it's good to know there will be others getting their drink on .
My DH & I did quite a bit of that on our 4 night cruise & enjoyed ourselves alot & ended up feeling like this most nights

 

[Kimmielee]

I had great intentions.... bought all the required "tools" that were popular 4 years ago... have a family of scrapbookers that go for entire weekends to hotels with other scrapbookers, sitting in their pj's doing page after page....

However, being a single Mom 24/7 (no Dad in the picture for Noah) I ended up giving all my stuff to my nieces to use and one of them (bless her heart) took all of our 2006 WDW and Cruise pics and is working on a book for me.

I feed her $50 every now and then for supplies and have "heard" the book is amazing.... but alas, I am one of those that has no time or room to spread out all the pics to be considered a scrapbooker!!!

I have learned from those that "do".... how to take pictures with a scrapbook page in mind! Another fellow DISer that is an amazing photographer is also going to help teach me how to position my pics better.

 

[ohsodisney]

PJpoohbear, that is a great picture! How did you manage to wrangle evryone up for that? We tried it on ours but seemed to fail everytime.

I cannot do a scrap book to save my life, in fact I have not one single crafty bone in my body. Patience is a virtue I simply don't have . ARE WE THERE YET is my modo , ARE WE DONE YET is another

Disneygrl , If we get a chance thou I would love to try and help you out with the scapebook. Might give me a chance to learn a new thing. You may want me to help you thou after I had a couple , everything is just a touch more fun with a little bit of help from vodka , gin and vermoth. especially something I have to sit for more then 10 minutes doing HEHE

Good Morning everyone ​

 

[vital]

Just crap!!!! I didn't win the lottery, but nobody else did either! I may have to make a trip and get some extra tickets! It's going to be up to 188mil. That's MILLION!!!!!!!

One good thing happened yesterday, the Saints won . I bet Bourbon St was rocking last night. Glad I wasn't there. I've been on Fat Tuesday and the crowds can be overwhelming at times.

I feel like a Blowfish today. BOYS COVER YOUR EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Auntie Flo is a byatch! BOYS YOU CAN READ AGAIN.

As for scrap booking, I don't ever print my pics from the computer! Isn't that horrible? I have my pics scrolling as a screen saver and Ethan will sit here and laugh. He's going to be 8 on the cruise for whoever asked, I'm sorry, I don't remember!

It also looks like several of us might need a liver transplant after the cruise! I want to confirm that I like to have a beer or 5 on vacation but I am NOT a lush at home . Most likely you will see me with a beer or the drink of the day in my hand, but not staggering around (unless my exMIL comes and can take care of Ethan )

I want to ask y'alls opinion on something. I'd LOVE to stay at WL for the 2 nights we'll be there. Here's my delimma. We won't get to the room the first night until after midnight. Then we're getting up and going to MK that Friday during the day to make sure we get to ride POTC. We'll go back to the room around 2 to take a break and change for the MNSSHP that night. Then we'll be out until around 11 or so. I'm having a hard time justifying spending that amount of money for a few hours in the room. I'm now thinking of POFQ or a value. Please give me your opinions. I've stayed at POFQ and fell in love. I've never stayed at a value. It'd probably be ASMusic since I've heard horror stories of the other ones. I'll have my car so I can drive to the park if busses are a problem. HELP!!!!!!!

 

[ohsodisney]

Well good morning lady Vital

We are staying 2 nights prior which this time we are opting for a cheaper resort so we picked the All Star Movies. We can take the bus from there right to Animal Kingdom Lodge on Saturday to get the Disney Cruise bus. It leaves there at 12:30 but they told us to get there at 12:00 , we may go eatlier and let the girls swim there. We stayed at ALK in April and thats where we left for the 7 day cruise.
My girls picked Movies because of Toy Story and the Dalmations.

Come join us it would be fun to meet someone before the cruise

 

[Kimmielee]

I'm having the same dilemma... although... I did the Poly for 2 nights... Noah and I are arriving about 1:00 in the afternoon on Thursday. Sarah isn't coming until the same time the NEXT day....

I booked the Poly for close proximity to leave MK, go back to the hotel to rest, meet Sarah, get changed for MNSSHP and then back to MK within a few moments via the boat across the lagoon.

It's horribly expensive but my thought was the valuable time that we'll save. Being able to stay later in the park the night before the cruise... but I could easily cut the price in half by staying at POFQ (good choice Paula - that's my fav mod too!).

If we were to stay in the same place... then you could follow the town car to the pier... so perhaps POFQ is a better choice?

The difference for me (mostly for Noah) between the Value and the Mods is the lack of a pool slide. That's Noah's favorite part of WDW. We stayed at AllStarMovies last year for the first 5 days of our 12 day dream trip, then the cruise for 4, then POFQ for 3 and by far, he talks about POFQ the most because of the slide. We spent a day at the Poly due to the main pool at AllStarMovies being closed and THAT slide was amazing!!! Since we are arriving on Thursday afternoon and doing MK on Friday... I only bought park passes for 1 day for each of us. I thought we'd do the pool and downtown disney on Thursday.

 

[vital]

OK, did some research this morning. Here are the prices I came up with.

1. Swan/Dolphin $338 for 2 nights plus tickets. I get a nurse discount!

2. ASMovies $384.16 with tickets

3. POFQ $504.56 with tickets

4. WL $729.56 with tickets

That's not including MNSSHP tickets. Is the Halloween party really worth going or should I get a park hopper and go to say, MGM that night? Just throwing the question out there. We'll be at MK most of the day Friday.

Boy, when you look at the prices like that it's a no brainer which ones should be the top 2. I'm going to join AAA so that will give me a little more discount, but not much.

What category stateroom did y'all book?

 

[pjpoohbear]

PJpoohbear, that is a great picture! How did you manage to wrangle evryone up for that? We tried it on ours but seemed to fail everytime.

I cannot do a scrap book to save my life, in fact I have not one single crafty bone in my body. Patience is a virtue I simply don't have . ARE WE THERE YET is my modo , ARE WE DONE YET is another

Disneygrl , If we get a chance thou I would love to try and help you out with the scapebook. Might give me a chance to learn a new thing. You may want me to help you thou after I had a couple , everything is just a touch more fun with a little bit of help from vodka , gin and vermoth. especially something I have to sit for more then 10 minutes doing HEHE

Good Morning everyone ​

Ok, did you see the pic of the DIS Captain Sparrow, several pages back? We were on early rotation for dinner, but took the picture at 8:45 pm. So we invaded, yes invaded, the late DIS dinning rotation and took the late DISer's captive for the photo, it was a blast! We had pirate flags, were lead by Captain Jack and even the Banana was involved, lol.

Pj

 

[Kimmielee]

OK, did some research this morning. Here are the prices I came up with.

1. Swan/Dolphin $338 for 2 nights plus tickets. I get a nurse discount!

2. ASMovies $384.16 with tickets

3. POFQ $504.56 with tickets

4. WL $729.56 with tickets

That's not including MNSSHP tickets. Is the Halloween party really worth going or should I get a park hopper and go to say, MGM that night? Just throwing the question out there. We'll be at MK most of the day Friday.

Boy, when you look at the prices like that it's a no brainer which ones should be the top 2. I'm going to join AAA so that will give me a little more discount, but not much.

What category stateroom did y'all book?

I think that MNSSHP is a must do! The park is transformed for the party... the characters dress up in their own Halloween costumes. The parade is one of a kind.... it sets the mood!

Ok, here's the differences for me... but I have 3 people in my party and I included Disney Dining so we can use our table services for a suprise dinner for Sarah....

3 people, 2 nights, 1 day ticket (no hopper) for Friday and dining

Poly $1250.41
WL $980.03 (Paula, does it have a slide?)
POFQ $800.03
AllStars $607.51

I'm nuts to be staying at the Poly.... lol Looks like I'll be calling and switching to POFQ after all....

We booked a Cat 6... I have to have a verandah when cruising... I get claustrophobic!!

 

[vital]

I think that MNSSHP is a must do! The park is transformed for the party... the characters dress up in their own Halloween costumes. The parade is one of a kind.... it sets the mood!

Ok, here's the differences for me... but I have 3 people in my party and I included Disney Dining so we can use our table services for a suprise dinner for Sarah....

3 people, 2 nights, 1 day ticket (no hopper) for Friday and dining

Poly $1250.41
WL $980.03 (Paula, does it have a slide?)
POFQ $800.03
AllStars $607.51

I'm nuts to be staying at the Poly.... lol Looks like I'll be calling and switching to POFQ after all....

We booked a Cat 6... I have to have a verandah when cruising... I get claustrophobic!!

I only ate there and walked past the pool. I think they have a slide, but I can't really remember. The boat ride to MK was the main reason I wanted to stay there. Laziness at a price! I still can't justify in my mind paying that much more just to sleep there. Hell, I should pack a tent and stay at the campground! It's right across from MK! I'll have to talk to Ronnie and see how his Feb trip goes. Maybe I can talk him into camping with us so nobody bothers us at night! *minds out of gutter* I've asked some questions on the swan/dolphin thread ans will see what they have to say. I'm curious if we could go to Epcot and hop on the monorail to MK from the Swan. That would be great!

I'm pretty sure we'll do the MNSSHP. I just like to throw options out b/c you never know what you'll hear.

 

[ohsodisney]

I'm so jealous , I don't think we will be doing the Halloween party because my parents would like to do Sea World. I may double think this. I said for over a year now that I would really like to see Disney at Halloween . What day do they start decorating? They didn't have any information on it when I called about it.
I wonder if Sea World decorates for Halloween. does anyone know?​

PJ , I really hope we can all get a picture like that , it would make a wonderful momento.​

O.k I guess I am jumping the gun since I just tried to call Disney dining and book Boma's just now LOL , the gentlemen on the phone must have thought I was a nut. OPPPS forgot 6 months out is the earliest we can book .​

Looks like I am keeping the Pirate costume since you all are dressing up, well most of you. It was about 8 sizes too big for me so I am going to see about having it altered.​

Kimmilee sounds like you have alot of choices, if it was me and could get the Dolphin thats the way I would go.​

Where are the men today?​

 

[Kimmielee]

Where are the men today?​

Vital can get the Dolphin at a discount since she's a nurse.... and the above question... I've been asking that for the last 7 years!!!

Just kidding fella's....

The park is "decorated" but not as fully as it is during MNSSHP.... get them to do Seaworld during the day... and come to the party that night!

 

[pjpoohbear]

If we have a final count of kids on our cruise (DIS kids) maybe we can get some extra TandT bags at MNSSHP for them to use on the ship for a DIS TandT.

Pj

 

[ohsodisney]

Hi Pj , thats a perfect idea, no sense packing anything extra from home. Our luggage usaully is bursting from the seams as it is.

Holly and Kenna thats 2 for us.

Here Kimmilee , for you , sorry Ronnie Chris and other men on this board. I'm sure this will be taken off

 

[vital]

Hi Pj , thats a perfect idea, no sense packing anything extra from home. Our luggage usaully is bursting from the seams as it is.

Holly and Kenna thats 2 for us.

Here Kimmilee , for you , sorry Ronnie Chris and other men on this board. I'm sure this will be taken off

Hey men, I think this is the suit for all of you! Why don't y'all check and see if it comes in lime green!