October 5, 2008 Wonder Cruise!

[yellowfish78]

I hope we aren't cruising alone!
Stop on in, chat and say Hi!

So far there there are 21 cabins from the DIS:

yellowfish78: me and future husband! - Cat 6, second dining, honeymoon
Heatherplus3: Heather and family - Cat 3, main dining
GaMomof2: Ursula and family - Cat 6 and 11, main dining
Ahibird: DH, Ahibird, DS10 and Mom, Cat 5!
Big Papa Vol: with DW and Dkids 10/2 and inlaws in 2 Cat 6's!
BCVowner2002: with DH, our DGS (12) in a Cat 8 with friends in Cat 11 across the hall! (And a birthday!!)
rcchello: Empty nesters enjoying the peace and quiet of a cruise!
Coach: Celebrating 33 years of marriage!
Lora: with DH in a Cat 11 with D10 and D12 almost 13! Main Dining
Paul6725: Cruising with wife and DD Zoey
PLS5286: Patty and DS (Sean) 11, DD (Dani) 5, and possibly boyfriend
Lisa: with DH, DS 14, DS 8, DS 5 in Cat 4! Also Mom & SIL in Cat 8!
J Cwayman: with DW and their 5 month old!
Courtish: Courtney and Doug on their First Disney Cruise!
22my: Tammy with her two great kids on their Wish Cruise!
Alex's Mom: Carol, Alex (6), Craig, Holly (17) (13) Will be second cruise in one month!
sshaw10060: with wife, DS 2, MIL, and FIL. We are celebrating the in-laws 40th anniversary.
H20sonfam: "second" Disney cruise - after the Big Red Boat!
DindelsPA: with DH and DD9 in a Cat7 with Early Dining!

Who else will be joining the cruise?

 

[sandybobandy]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!! lol!

You're definitely not alone. Joe and I will be there! Lemme do a quick intro:

I'm Sandy (will be 25 yrs old next month!) and Joe (28) will be on our first Disney cruise on 10/5/08. I can't believe it'll be our 5th wedding anniversary (I got married kinda young. lol) We currently live in Minneapolis

We've been going to Disney since we got married and had an amazing Disneymoon. This year we're going 9/29-10/7 and can't wait! We'll be staying at All Star Music. We stayed at ASMo last year and loved it. Year before that was at PoFQ, and before that (our Disneymoon) we di da split between the BW and the CR.

I'm so excited there's a thread!!!! Tell me about yourself Chanon! (what a cool name-how do you pronounce it? Is it like Shannon?)

 

[yellowfish78]

Yep! You got the name right!
It'll just be me (28) and Bob (35) celebrating our Honeymoon!! We are from the Cleveland Ohio area. First honeymoon choice was Hawaii, but unfortunately out of our price range... Maybe for our 5th or 10th we'll finally get there!
This is my second cruise, Bob's first ever. *I'm* the one addicted to Disney - he's going because we are also adding on a few nights over at Universal for their Halloween nights. Booked a Cat 6, and can't wait!

 

[yellowfish78]

And I have to ask...BobAndy??? Where's Joe in the name???

 

[sandybobandy]

You have no idea how giddy I am that you started the thread and we'll get to know eachother over the next year! lol

Congrats on your upcoming wedding! Are you doing anything at WDW before or after the cruise? Currently we're planning to do 4 or 5 nights prior to the cruise at AKL but might (and probably will) change that back to POFQ since we loved it so much. We'll see.

I've never been on a cruise and neither has Joe.

Whoops, just re-read your reply that you're staying at Universal for a few nights. That should be fun. We love Universal but haven't ever stayed on site. Do you know which resort you'll be at?

We're in a Cat 6 too! Did you already book your room? We did and I can't remember off the top of my head which room we decided on. I want to say 6576 or something like that. I know it's a cat 6. Did you guys pick first or second seating? Am I asking too many darn questions? lol

I see you're going this year for Halloween. How exciting! Our home countdown reads 83 days. We drive to Disney and this year are leaving 9/27 to stay over in St Louis, then on 9/28 we'll be in Atlanta, and then arrive to Disney 9/29. Like I said, we're staying at ASMu hopefully in the Broadway building. We have all our ADR's set and are trying a few new places this year. Should be fun!

 

[sandybobandy]

And I have to ask...BobAndy??? Where's Joe in the name???

Are you talking about my screen name? I just love the name game song so it's like, "Sandy Sandy Bo Bandy Banana Fanna Bo...." That's where I get "sandybobandy" Is that what you mean?

 

[yellowfish78]

See the red!!!

You have no idea how giddy I am that you started the thread and we'll get to know eachother over the next year! lol

Congrats on your upcoming wedding! Are you doing anything at WDW before or after the cruise? Currently we're planning to do 4 or 5 nights prior to the cruise at AKL but might (and probably will) change that back to POFQ since we loved it so much. We'll see.
Nope Just the cruise and Universal with Halloween Horror Nights. I love FQ - that's one of my favorites too!
I've never been on a cruise and neither has Joe.

Whoops, just re-read your reply that you're staying at Universal for a few nights. That should be fun. We love Universal but haven't ever stayed on site. Do you know which resort you'll be at?
I'd love to stay at Hard Rock, but Royal Pacific is more in our price range. We've stayed there before and loved it, but the rooms at HR look AWESOME!
We're in a Cat 6 too! Did you already book your room? We did and I can't remember off the top of my head which room we decided on. I want to say 6576 or something like that. I know it's a cat 6. Did you guys pick first or second seating? Am I asking too many darn questions? lol
You have got to be KIDDINGME! We are right around the corner!!! Second seating - but still hoping for the 8pm and not the 830pm - dinner cuts kind of close to the Pirates Party when you enjoy good wine, food and company...we almost missed the fireworks!
I see you're going this year for Halloween. How exciting! Our home countdown reads 83 days. We drive to Disney and this year are leaving 9/27 to stay over in St Louis, then on 9/28 we'll be in Atlanta, and then arrive to Disney 9/29. Like I said, we're staying at ASMu hopefully in the Broadway building. We have all our ADR's set and are trying a few new places this year. Should be fun!
The October trip is actually with some girls from the DISign Board and families. I think we have about 12 people going! You can always find me on the DDA Thread too - and feel free to pop over and say hi to everyone!

 

[yellowfish78]

Are you talking about my screen name? I just love the name game song so it's like, "Sandy Sandy Bo Bandy Banana Fanna Bo...." That's where I get "sandybobandy" Is that what you mean?

Yep! Thought it might be pet's names or something! I was reading it as Sandy, Bob, Andy....

 

[sandybobandy]

No way! Get outta town!!!!!!!!!! That's so crazy! And don't worry-we're not the type of folks that'll knock on your door at 7am and see if you want to go for a walk around the ship or anything. Haha! I am pretty excited right now but don't want you to get the wrong idea

So how/when do we find out which seating we'll have? We too signed up for the second seating...didn't realize there were several late seatings. Guess I missed that part

Okay, you mentioned the "DDA" thread. What's DDA?

 

[yellowfish78]

Disney Design Addicts. We are a bunch of crazy ladies (and a few men) that started off making T-Shirt designs for Disney and ended up being like a second family. (One just gave birth today!) It's over on the Creative DISigns Thread.
No worries about scaring me off! You'll have to definately figure out what stateroom you have - so I can move! JK!!!
Apparently seating is staggered because of the three restaurants...so there is a 8pm, 8:15pm and an 8:30pm depending on which dining rotation you have. Somewhere on the cruise thread it'll mention what rotation goes where depending on what times and restaurant you have...I know 1/2 hour doesn't make much of a difference, all I want is good food!
I'm excited too! I love that "register your cruise" site - I wish more people would use it! especially since the search function isn't working well - I couldn't PM you - so I used your email! Worked fine I guess!
Have you thought of shore excursions?? I think we are planning on doing horseback riding on Nassau (not a Disney sponsored excursion) and kayaking on Castaway Cay.

 

[sandybobandy]

Haha! Although, I suppose it could be awkward since we're both there for ummmmmmm romantic celebrations. lol Just kidding!!!!

Gosh, we haven't thought about shore excursions much at all. We're trying not to plan too much so far in advance because if it were up to me I would have everything set and then we'd have nothing left to plan next year! So we're trying to hold off. It's not going well so far-I am on that castaway cay website all the time!

I'm going to bed now. It was so nice to "meet" you. I think we'll have fun over the next year

 

[yellowfish78]

What?! You're not an obsessive planner??!!
It's only a year and 2 months away!!! Let's see how many more people will join by then!
Have a great night!

 

[sandybobandy]

OMG-dont' get me wrong. I'm terribly obsessive. Girl, I started packin already! lol!

Talk to you later!

 

[yellowfish78]

Morning! Just bumping for everyone else!

 

[sandybobandy]

Good morning Chanon!

Yesterday morning I decorated a Folgers coffee container with Disney scrapbooking paper to use as a piggy bank for our trip. I'll have to take a picture and upload it. It's so cute! lol

Hope you have a great day today!

 

[yellowfish78]

Good morning Chanon!

Yesterday morning I decorated a Folgers coffee container with Disney scrapbooking paper to use as a piggy bank for our trip. I'll have to take a picture and upload it. It's so cute! lol

Hope you have a great day today!

You know those massive jars of pretzels you can buy from Sams Club or Costo?? They look like a big barrel? That's my change jar!
It looks like I'll just miss you this year too! We check in on the 17th..

 

[sandybobandy]

Hahahahaa! Oh no you didn't! That's hilarious.

Aw shucks, that's right! You'll be there a little after us.

Are you having your wedding at Disney too?

 

[yellowfish78]

Nope - the grandparents would kill us. We are doing the church wedding here with a reception at a nearby hotel. Everything is done with wedding details, except dress and flowers. :thumbsup: And favors. I keep changing favor ideas. Go figure!

 

[sandybobandy]

Ahhh I see We never even considered getting married at Disney because we knew we couldn't afford it. But we did splurge (a lot) on our Disneymoon...now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure our Disneymoon cost more than the wedding itself. Totally worth it

Do you have anything Disney themed in your wedding? Our invites had the wedding Mickey and Minnie on them and our cake topper was wedding Mickey and Minnie. I wish I had done more but my love for Disney hadn't quite peaked yet. lol

I'm off to work. My last day! I got a job at Balou's (our 2 year old cocker spaniel) doggy daycare. I'm soooo excited

 

[yellowfish78]

Just some small touches. Our cake topper is Mickey and Minnie in a car, and we are dancing to "You Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story. Background music during dinner is just some Disney instramental from Jim Brickman. (I think that's his name!)

Are you offically doing a land and sea package or is it separate? I stayed at the AKL in 2006 and loved it, and that was only for one night!