Offical Check-In List 10/30/04 "Magic"

[Lynda Silk]

Hi everyone!

We are celebrating up here in Canada because our team just won the World Cup of hockey yesterday night against Finland! We are mad about hockey up here (and after our underwhelming performance at the Olympics....only 12 medals) so this is a big deal for us! It also looks like it might be the last hockey we see for a while because the NHL and the Player's Association are at odds and it looks like there will be a lockout. Winter is awful enough but without my beloved Leafs?!!!!!! I'll just have to concentrate on the cruise and forget about what happens after that!

Wendy: please stay safe; we are all thinking about you and New Orleans and Ivan!

Karen: please tell Emma to have a GREAT time! This is a once in a lifetime kind of trip and I'm looking forward to hearing about her experiences on the cruise! I went to Japan a long time ago (because I'm of Japanese descent) for a vacation and it was wonderful! I'm sure China will be just as fascinating! Plus Emma deserves such a great trip after all the work she did and the great results she received in her exams! I still can't get over the fact that she had to write 13 exams!

Michelle: I went back to Curves after a 2 week layoff (too busy with back to school and last minute vacation activities) on Monday. Had to tell myself to go so I would be in decent shape for the cruise! Planning on going again tonight. Re the bridal salon, maybe you should just have a coup, oust the owner and take over yourself (although it sounds like you're doing everything already!)! Hang in there, only 6.5 weeks until vacation!

Judi: I couldn't access your label (they block everything here at work because of viruses) but I'm sure it's fine! Thanks for doing all this work (labels, boats, etc)!

Shari: I laughed my head off when I read your post about taking your suitcase with you! I'm not packed but I have my list that I've revised a million times! I went on a RCI cruise in April and overpacked, so I vowed that I would not do that on the Disney cruise! But I probably will still bring too many things. Michelle, you're right, it's those shoes that manage to find themselves in my suitcase!

Scott: I know, isn't it unbelievable how fast time is going?!! We booked around the same time you did and it seemed forever! This thread and Shari's website really helped though; it's so neat to "talk" to folks before you actually meet them on the cruise!

Have a good day everyone, and especially Wendy, take care!

 

[taswira]

Originally posted by Lynda Silk
Shari: I laughed my head off when I read your post about taking your suitcase with you! I'm not packed but I have my list that I've revised a million times! I went on a RCI cruise in April and overpacked, so I vowed that I would not do that on the Disney cruise! But I probably will still bring too many things.

Yes, but imagine how I would have felt if I had come home to find everything wiped out (not likely, but always a <I>possibility</I> with hurricanes) and been left with a paid-in-full cruise but nothing to wear!

FYI to those registered on the mini-forum of the website: I posted there yesterday about the new nighttime parties related to the <I>Golden Mickeys</I>. I only track a few threads on the DIS, so don't know if it is posted here also.

 

[Lynda Silk]

Shari, you're absolutely right! I actually laughed because I would have done the same thing and I was glad to see that I was not alone!

 

[mdvasquez]

Good morning everyone.

WENDY: My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family this morning. Keep safe!

We are finally getting back to some sort of normality around here since Frances hit. Brendan finally went back to school yesterday. YEA. That went pretty well. Ashley has been doing her school work all along. I figured, let her do it now so she can take the time off for the cruise and not be too far behind.

My youngest sister, who is a teacher, went back to work on Tuesday, however, her day care provider did not have power yet, and now has mold on her walls, so I am watching my niece Olivia (13 months old). My other sister Kim, who is 8 weeks pregnant was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday, due to severe vomiting and dehydration. So I am also watching my other neice Kayla (3 and 1/2 years old). I feel like I am running a day care center! But what was I going to do, I couldn't say no.

Judi: I couldn't access your lable either, but whatever you come up with is fine with me.

Ginger: I think someone is a little obssesed with Joe!! You make me laugh! I think a few posts back you asked me about Emily and her bedtime. I have tried everything that I could think of to get her to sleep longer; putting her in later, giving her tylenol, motrin, rubbing brandy on her gums, giving her a bath with camameil and lavender body wash. She just doesnt sleep all night. She seemed to finally start getting into the habit of sleeping longer, just before the hurricane came. Then when we spent the time out at WDW, she started getting up again. I have to move Ashley out of the room again and just let Emily cry herself back to sleep at night. I just hate to do that.

Shari: I also laughed when I read about you taking your cruise suitcases. I always try not to pack too much, except for shoes!! My DH on the other hand, packs for a month!!

Well, thats about all of my news for now. Have a great day everyone.

Dena

 

["Ginger"]

Hi all

Dena, I feel for you, I did daycare for 5 years.
Obssesed, NO not at all... just crazy about the man for the past 34 years. He should have looked for me when he was loking for a wife. He wouldn't have all the problems he has today. LOL

Shari, I thought it was a great idea to pack your cruise bags and take them with you. I can't say I would have thought to do that. Your a true organized planner.
Thanks for the information on Golden Mickey, I looked for the show last year on the Magic but it was not playing aboard yet.

Wendy I hope everything is going well with you.


Off to workout, you all have a good day.

 

[drm]

Hi everyone,
Just one of my periodic posts. Lynda you struck a nerve. I am also mourning the possible loss of the NHL season. I don't know what to do without my Flyers. I had a little hope when we saw some of the players at their training rink last week. Oh well at least I have my DS's youth team to watch all year.

DEbbie:

 

[taswira]

I love the <I>Golden Mickeys</I> show. It sounds like the two new nighttime after-parties are supposed to be like the post-Oscar parties, so I'm hoping they do have something special in addition to the normal Karaoke stuff. Maybe they will be very "glitzy" parties. I wear my dressiest stuff to the <I>Golden Mickeys</I> for the "red carpet walk".

 

[Jamashp]

Lynda,

As you being a Canadian, I just thought I'd let you know our trip to Nova Scotia last month was wonderful. It was something we were looking for: completely different than we were used to.

The ferry from Portland, ME to Yarmouth, NS was hard, not for any sea-sickness, but rather the late night and early (5:00AM) morning. I was surprised by how few people live in Nova Scotia. I described the highway as driving in a tunnel. There are dense forest on both sides of the road. All you see are trees and shrubs on both sides of the road, and since there is rarely any elevation change, the forest is about all you get to see for much of your travel away from the shoreline.

The shoreline though is GORGEOUS. There is more untouched shoreline here than I have seen anywhere. The views of beaches, and forests growing along side are priceless. We saw dozens of lighthouses, and had the most delicious lobster dinner at a restaurant literally on the water (waves lapping under the deck). We were in awe of the colorful sunset to the west and moon rising in the east. Then, the mosquitoes came and we quickly finished our meal! No desert that night!

All-in-all, it was a nice place to visit. Probably a little too slow for the children, yet I still think they enjoyed themselves. If I were to do it again, it would be just me and my wife, and we would take the faster ferry (3 hours from Bar Harbour), rather than the 11 hour overnight ferry that we experienced. It made that first day there quite long.

Canada is a wonderful country. We love to visit, and it's so close. We are hoping to again go skiing in Quebec between Christmas and New Years. (We love to travel!)

Scott

 

[Rose_Greenthumb]

I've just had my second to last rehearsal before I go to China on Tuesday! We got given our t-shirts last week and this week it's all the luggage tags and reciept for the flights! I don't know how I'm containing myself. God help the teachers at college on Monday, we'll all be bouncing off the walls!

 

[taswira]

Just curious because I have forgotten since it was first posted - -

Which one are you in the photograph in your signature?

 

[Lynda Silk]

Scott, so glad you enjoyed your trip to Nova Scotia! It is a very unspoiled place and the seafood is so delicious! I've been to Halifax a few times and just loved it! Very pretty, great food, very friendly people, it was just lovely. I've only done a bit of driving around Nova Scotia itself (and I was pregnant with my first child and had that all day morning sickness!) and I found it so pretty and peaceful. Lunenberg was very nice and so was Peggy's Cove.

Quebec is also a beautiful province and we'd like to go skiing there one day too! If your children want something a little 'more happening', come to Toronto! It's a very vibrant city with lots of theatre shows, sports teams, multiculturalism, museums... I could go on and on!

Glad to hear you love travelling and that you like Canada so much! And I'm really looking forward to meeting you on the cruise!

 

[Rose_Greenthumb]

Second from the right

 

["Ginger"]

Emma, I'm excited for you. Have a great time and again take lots of pictures.

Oh!!!! Shari, I have the perfect outfit to wear for the Golden Mickey. I just have to find Ashley's out feather boa.
Do you know what night they will be showing it?

 

[skoi]

Michelle: You can never have too many shoes. Never. We had an entire suitcase full of shoes last time. You never, ever know when you'll need that certain pair of shoes. You can see why dh hates the run up to vacation, not to mention carrying all our bags.

I like looking at those countdown clocks.

We were watching the weather channel, and when dd saw TS Jeanne she asked if there were going to be any islands left to go to. Has this been a really bad hurricane season? Not in the numbers, but just in the fact that so many are hitting land?

WARNING, every time we plan a vacation something bad happens. I won't run down the list, but it's pretty bad-- including but not limited to 1 tropical storm (2001), 1 hurricane (last year), and an outbreak of St. Louis encephalitis (I'm sure I spelled that wrong). And that's just the natural disasters. The man made ones-- I don't even want to discuss.

 

[mhb]

Good evening everyone

To all my shoes friends: How many have you packed in the past? I am going on the Golden Eagle Catamaran excursion, do you think I'll need to have water shoes? do you think I can wear my sneakers or should I wear my flip flops?

Emma: Have a great time in China. Take lots of pictures and please bring them on the cruise. We would all love to see them!!!

Lynda: I have been trying to hit the gym 3 times a week. Hard to do. I get up and just push myself to go. As far as the shop goes, I don't think I want all the headaches, but if I did own it I would do things differently. Now I just do things her way, it's not even that, she isn't there enough to get anything done and things just sit around.

Dena: Looks like you have your hands full. Here's hoping Emily will sleep through the night when we cruise.

Well, that's it for now. Chat with you all tomorrow.

BTW, has anyone had this happen to them. I go to post and I must be on long, then when I'm finished typing to everyone and try to submit it tell me I wasn't logged in when I am. Please don't tell me it's usere error. That's my DH's line!!!

See ya
Michelle

 

[shannonbri]

Hi there. My family and I will be on the Magic for Halloween. Is there anyone organizing any type of Trick or Treating on board? Does anyone else have a 12 year old girl traveling with them? Thanx. Looking forward to getting involved with all this chat before the cruise. Trish

 

[taswira]

Originally posted by shannonbri
Hi there. My family and I will be on the Magic for Halloween. Is there anyone organizing any type of Trick or Treating on board? Does anyone else have a 12 year old girl traveling with them? Thanx. Looking forward to getting involved with all this chat before the cruise. Trish

Welcome! All the info is in the multitude of pages of this thread! LOL.

Ginger is in charge of the DIS onboard trick-or-treat. You should also visit our special "Halloween Magic 2004" website <a href="http://www.primateprojections.com/103004/">HERE</A>. If you provide me with your complete info via PM, e-mail or this thread, I will add you to our <a href="http://www.primateprojections.com/103004/list.html">Cruiser List</A> on the site. Take a look at the list to see an example of the info needed.

 

["Ginger"]

Day: Sunday, October 31, 2004

Time: 11:00 A.M.- till we finish

Meeting Place: Deck 3 in the Atruim Lobby

This event is only being offered to "DIS" posting members children ages 13 years and younger.


Posting members names, staterooms number to be visited by the T-or-T'ers, childrens first names and their ages.

alwatlers ---- 7574 ---- TJ 8 & Alan 13

BethC--- 6556--- Melanie 11 & Jake 9

cheysdad--- 7067---Cheyenne 8

cheysdad's neighbors--- 7619--Gabby 9, Julie 6, & Christina 5

cmcj---7004--- Patrick10, Connor 7, Kyle 3, & Katie 2

dis4me ---8578--- Kyra 9,, Kayla 8 & James 2

Disneediva--- 6087--- Austin 10 & Gabby 11

Disney_Newf--- 2004--- Ryan 4

Donnainnj--- Cat 11--- Sarah 11 & Erin 7

Dms_cruisers04--- 7503--- Samantha 4

Drm--- 6609--- Danielle 13 & Keith 12

DVC Bob---- Josh 11 & Kate 9

Ginger--- Ashley 7

Goofymom67--- 2100--- Stephanie 12, Courtney 9, & Katie 7

Jamashp--- 8528--- Ashley 12, Jamie 10 & Bryce 6

Jaypd--- 8046--- Zach 4 Also joining Zach will be his new baby sister who arrived on: 5/30/2004 Miranda

Jewelray--- 6015--- Dd 10

Jimbo--- 6098--- Kayla 10 & Andrea 7

Letsgodisney--- 6078--- Ryan 3

Lynda Silk-- Robert 12 & Elizabeth 10

Mdvasquez--- 2071--- Ashley 13

mhb--- 6108--- Kyle 13 & Rachel 11

Njfamily--- 8030--- Emily 7 & Adam 5

rocadonismom--- 7567

ShirleyR---- 5520--- Hunter 6

Skoi--- 6018--- Sadie 10 & Sig 6

Srm--- GTY--- Regan 10

Strissel--- 5624--- Robert 7

Taswira--- 7628

Tluvs2talk--- 5001

Wjbc--- 6062--- Courtney 7 & Brandie 10

GROUP GUIDES:

Vikingfans---- Laura and Chris
KEH and Rose_greenthumb--- Karen and Emma
"Ginger"--- Ginger and Bill
DVCBob----Bob and Debbie
Lynda Silk----Lynda and Peter

52 trick-or-treaters

The closing date for this event is Oct 1, 12:00 a.m.. Please sign on early as I will not be able to sign anyone up pass the closing date. Please don't ask.


__________________

 

[disneediva]

Hi all,

Well we made it back, the traffic was horrible going out of town. The drive to Baton Rouge ( where my beloved Tigers play) was 9 hours ,its normally a 1 1/2 drive. But better to be safe than sorry. We arrived back this morning and only had some branches down. After seeing the pics from Pensacola I am VERY VERY happy that Ivan turned, not for them mind you but we live in a fishbowh here in New Orleans.

Trish my 12 year old niece will be traveling with us, PM me and maybe they can chat before the cruise.

Well off to unpack but at least now my suitcases are out I won't have to bug my husband to do that for me..

Wendy

 

[mdvasquez]

Good afternoon all. This is day three and daycare central, and I am going crazy!! When my kids were younger they were ages 4 1/2, 1 and a newborn. Not too different from the ages I am watching now. Boy, I don't know how I did it back then!!

Emily is trying to be just like her cousins now. She crawls all over following them. If they are drinking from a cup, she wants a drink from a cup. If they eat a snack, she wants some too. If they are standing at the coffee table, she pulls herself up to stand at the coffee table!!!!!! I am not ready for that yet And now, when I put her in her crib for a nap, she pulls herself up to stand!! I keep trying to tell her she is too little for that, but she will not listen to me!

She did however, sleep from 7pm- 4am got up and age and then slept from 4:20am- 7:20am. YEA!!

WENDY: Glad to hear you are safe and sound. I will be glad when this hurricane season is over!

WELCOME TRISH: I sent you a pm about your DD emailing my DD.

MICHELLE: I LOVE SHOES!! The last cruise we went on I brought one of those hanging plastic shoe racks for the closet to keep my shoes in and I loved it. I usually bring: 1 brown and 1 black pair of sandles, 1 pair beach flip flops, 1 pair of canvass keds, 1 pair walking sneakers, 2 pairs black open toe high heels, 1 pair open toe 1 inch heels, and 1 pair closed toe heeled dress shoes. I will probably bring the same shoes this time as well. I just feel like I need all those shoes.

Well, thats all for now, I am going to call Debbie at DCL and see if I can make my REAS ressies today.

Dena