Roll Call. Oct.19,02

[DisneyDudetteTwo]

Poor DD#3. She is soooo upset about her luggage & so am I but that is her BIG bag but it is only my makeup bag!

DD#1 how is Perditta? Did she enjoy her vacation and was she spoiled rotten? Poor Dodger Dog really missed me. As a matter of fact, we are playing ball right now!!!!!

DD#1 remember to call USAir about December.

It was so great meeting everyone. It may the cruise really special If anyone is interested the Dudettes are going to WDW from 12/7/02 until 12/13/02 & staying at The Dolphin.

Hope everyone has a safe trip home (along with their luggage)! Toodles

 

[Schrolls]

We got in around 2:30am (or 1:30 depending on if the clock had been set back an hour). I did not have anything on my pillow, there was no towel friend to greet me, and I have a headache!!! I think it is withdrawals. Where are all the great desserts???

Once the boys get up, we'll have to unload the car. We didn't bother when we got home.

We had a wonderful trip, despite Turner's sleepwalking - do you think he was looking to walk the plank? On the ride home he sat up from a deep sleep and asked me to take him to where Pluto was. He wasn't even awake but I believe he was somewhere back on the Magic!

Bonnie: I'm having my coffee. . .where are you???

 

[Mickey02'sMom]

Hi everyone.....well, Jaymee and I got back safe and sound in spite of the airline flights.....it all started when we went to the CS airport and they told us we weren't booked on any flights...sent us to Denver and they weren't going to let us board...finally I got someone to actually look at the agenda Barb had written out and they actually looked at the confirmation number and gave us a boarding pass. That should have been the end of it but no, in Detroit they weren't going to let us on either....finally we got on board with new tickets printed for our return trip. At the Orlando airport they said aaaoh and went to find a security guy. He was busy so the first nice guy we did business with took us in, got us through the long line and straight to security..they took our luggage and ran it through their machine, gave us a boarding pass. Went to board and the man at the boarding gate went and talked to a security lady and sent us there and she made us take off our shoes, they searched our carry on and us. Finally they let us board and in Memphis they didn't stop us to check our teeth or anything....got to Denver and my husband was so happy to see me ( I think the 4 dogs, ours and Barb's) was getting to him. I told him as we were going to get our luggage if it was there I would be really surprised and I was. It was there!!!! We landed at 6:30 and by the time we got home it was ll. Dick wanted to know if I was hungry and I said I have had enough to eat to last me for a week, all I needed was sleep and went to bed.

 

[Mickey02'sMom]

Now for the trip....it was wonderful and loved meeting the ones we saw but was sorry we didn't see more of them and the rest of you. I saw Sandy, Lori and Bonnie the most and that wasn't often enough.

I left Patti, Ken and Barb and family in Orlando...they are leaving today. They are already planning the next trip in 2004 for our 55th wedding anniversary....hopefully more of our family can go then...we could almost fill the ship....lol

Now to get the pictures developed and get going on the albums....I told Patti I would do hers and Barb is here so I can keep her going doing hers as she likes to do her own.

Today I am spending the day watching football....go Broncos!!!

 

[disneydudette1]

Mom I will get my pictures developed tomorrow but it will take 2 days as I like to have them on CD rom. Then I will start on a new dudette cruise scrapbook!. Thanks again mom for the materials to get me started! What a mess with the airline!


Sue, it was great meeting you, Paul and the wonderful sleepwalking Turner. What a terrific kid he is! I know you are quite proud of him as well you should be. I was here for coffee but didn't here from anyone else so dozed off as I was doing the 4th load of wash.

I think I developed a labrynthitis from the plane ride as the room is still rocking a bit and a little spinning!

I wish I got the chance to say goodbye to all.

Sandy and Ted missed saying goodbye to you both so big hugs to you! Will keep in touch...haven't found the email address yet but it is here somewhere. I am still laughing when I think of us rolling in the surf at Magan's Bay.

Sue & Paul do you still have mine? I have yours already.

Mom-you'll have to have someone take pictures of your scrapbook pages and email them to me so maybe I can steal some ideas! Tee Hee.

Strissel-didn't see you the whole cruise except for the wine party-did you guys jump overboard after meeting us? As you can see you were all alone that last Friday being the last to post.

Lori Ben et al-What a great family! Katie...I need a joke!

Diana and Gregg-Great PJ picture! I have the RC Mountie above my bed!

I haven't forgotten the rest. More later...I don't want it to get too long. Nothing on Joyce's luggae yet. I hope she spent the night adding up the cost. We had the trip insurance thank heavens but still...

 

[disneydudette1]

Lets see if this works...

 

[disney6]

It was great meeting everyone! WE HAD SOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!! My parents ended up buying into the vacation club and are doing the western next fall -- I want to go with them!!!!!!

Annika (the youngest) cried almost all the way to the airport! Lianna wants to live on the big boat! The kids loved it! It really was alot different for them this time (and they loved it last time too). I think Ian and Oliver wore the room service team out!

Have to start unpacking -- think I'll just dump each suitcase straight into the washing machine!

It was fun driving away waving at you Bonnie (and Jeanne and Joyce) -- like we really were leaving home.

 

[disneydudette1]

Diana-welcome back! I'm so glad I got to wave goodbye at least. I hope your parents share their vacation club! One of these days I hope to join.
So happy to hear the kids had such a good time. I wanted to cry also as we were leaving.

My cat is finally speaking to me. My neighbor who was watching her didn't want to give her up. The worst part was that she had appenicitis Last Tuesday and went in for an emergency appendectomy!! Luckily her husband continue to mind Perditta.

 

[DisneyDudetteTwo]

DD#3's luggage along with mine was delivered early this AM & Joyce delivered mine to me. She was very happy to get her big suitcase.

I can't believe it is over The time went much too fast.

We loved meeting each and everyone of you. What a great group!

Just wanted to check it and see who made it home so far. Toodles

 

[Schrolls]

If anyone is interested in staying in touch via email, just send me you address via personal message and I will do the same. I really enjoyed meeting you all and sharing our magical moments. I do have some great pictures of the group from the wine tasting and a few candid shots of some of you I'd love to share.

The sail away was great and so was the wine!! But most of all the "Roll Call Oct. 19, 02" DIS family was wonderful!!

Hope everyone has made it home or will make it home safely. For those interested, the Schrolls will be back next year on the 11/29 Eastern (unless we change our mind to the Western).

Can't get enough MAGIC.........EVER!!!

 

[DreamsDoComeTrue]

No jokes from Katie today! Katie has been in the hospital. You know those 'colds' we had picked up on the last night? Katie's asthma really took a bad turn on our final flight home. We took her nebulizer machine with us as carry on and treated her at the Orlando airport before boarding plane #1, and planned on doing her again in Dallas. Unfortunately, someone didn't show up to the plane yet their luggage did. So we sat on that dang plane for 25 min while the luggage was located and removed. (Duddettes, have your airline look in Dallas )So, there went our layover and we barely made it to the next flight. I gave Katie hits from the pocket inhaler on the flight, but it didn't help much. By mid-flight she was really needing a nebulizer treatment, but there are no outlets on the plane. That's surprising I thought, anyway, we got off the plane in Denver and parked on the floor by the first outlet in sight, treated her there, then got her home. Tried for an hour and a half to get her turned around at home but she was just getting worse by the minute. Cody meanwhile is also having a milder asthma attack with his cold, and I felt like crap from mine, so Ben took Katie to the local ER and I stayed home to care for Cody. The local hospital ER tried for a few hours but couldn't get her turned around either, and wanted to intubate her. Ben called to give me an update with that, and I asked the respiratory therapist if maybe this was time to transfer her to The Children's Hospital. I wasn't too comfortable with having this serious of stuff done on my kid at this hospital (I work there, I know their limits!) She assured me that it was fine but somewhere along the way, the attending MD decided to transfer her to (guess where...) Children's Hospital! They went ahead and sedated and intubated her, and they used the 'Flight for Life' ground unit to transfer her while on a portable vent. I was home doing nebs on Cody and watching his resps. soar, so Ben was definitely the Hero of the night for keeping up with all of this with Katie. By 3AM they had her stabilized on the vent in the Peds ICU at Children's.
I got there at 5AM with Cody who seemed to be 'holding his own', and had his pulse ox checked by the ER triage nurse, but it was 92 so I didn't have him seen. Katie's Dr. peeked at him in the hallway where he was bouncing around looking fine and said that if he had what Katie had than Zithromax is what would be Rx'd for him and we had the bottle that I'd brought on the trip for 'just in case, so that was handy. Ben went on home with Cody from there and got him started on it. He's doing much better already. He'll make it to school Tuesday if not tomorrow.
Katie meanwhile was kept sedated most of the morning while weaning down the O2, then around 2 they let her come out of it and see if she could stay awake 10 mins. (while bucking and gagging?) then took that sucker out. Other than having to endure severe thirst (with only one little sponge stick to wet her mouth with), for 4 hours, she seemed to be on the mend. I traded places with Ben again and picked up Cody from my Moms to come home. AND HERE I AM!! Yakking for half an hour on here! Well, thanks for listening, I feel better already. Whatever that was that we caught on board is a nasty one. I hope no one else's kids took as hard a hit from it as Katie did. Oh also, her eyes are still producing goo, and the nurse questioned the cleanliness of the swimming pools (hummm ) Still waiting for cultures to come back and see just what she has.
So glad everyone is making it back OK. I'll get on again tomorrow night if all goes well. Talk to you later. Lori

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Hi guys! We are home now, too. Got home today. Spend Saturday at Magic Kingdom. Word of advice. Don't go to WDW after a cruise with sea legs. Oh my gosh, we have the worst case of sea legs. Anyone else?

It WAS great meeting everyone. I couldn't believe that I didn't see very many of you around. Saw lots of the crazy Dudettes and Lurker Laurie. Every once in a while we saw Lori and Ben and Susan and Paul. Garry and Julie were just on the other side of the ship so we met a lot at the elevators.

I can't wait to get back the pictures. Bonnie, Jeanne, and Joyce-Ted is threatening me with the pictures of all of us ROLLING in the waves. I can't believe someone else has my giggle. Too funny! And then of course, the pictures of all of us at Paradise Point. Remember that Bonnie????? Oh that's right, you probably don't after THOSE drinks! Hey, I got the recipe for the bushwhackers so if you are interested let me know.

Just to let you all know. I did survive parasailing. It was a lot of fun. After a few quiet screams, I safely got back.

Miss you all. Where is everyone?

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Oh my gosh, Lori. We were posting at the same time. Sooooooo sorry to hear about Katie and Cody. Let me know if I can do anything, please. I, too, am sick. I think I am getting worse. I already have a scheduled Dr. appt for Wed. so will try and hold off. I just can't believe everything you went through. Hope everyone is on the mend and feeling great in no time.

 

[disneydudette1]

Katie, Katie, Katie!!!! Get better soon. That was a rough one after a week of fun! My prayers to you sweetie! See if you can pick up some good jokes in the hospital now that you're feeling a little better. I was wondering where your mom was.

Sandy- I finally found your email address so I will be emailing some pics to you. Unfortunately I don't have any of us rolling in the surf. That was fun! I do remember the 2 Bushwackers!!! Boy did they hit fast! Sea legs? How about sea head! The room is still moving. We had the best time with you all. Hey how about booking for next Nov. 29th with Sue & Paul? IF we did Dudette #3 would prabably bring Hubby Les along.


Sue I agree the 19'ers are the best. I think I still have your address from the whistle test but I will email each and everyone with my address. Do you still need mine? Good morning by the way. Having your coffee or running late for work?

 

[Schrolls]

Lots of prayers and pixie dust to Katie (Lori, Ben and Cody, too). Hope everyone is back to normal soon. You all must be exhausted. Keep us posted on Katie's and Cody's condition.

Sandy - you get better too!

Bonnie - I sent you a personal message. Yes, we do have your email address. If you didn't get the personal message let me know and I will email you the same note. No work for me today. I go back tomorrow. Turner has a teacher work day today and he will be busy doing his make up work while I supervise. In other words, a FULL day of homework hell!!!

Sandy - I'd like to bushwhacker's recipe. I didn't have one but if they will make me think I am rolling in the waves, bring 'em on!!!

 

[disneydudette1]

Sue I got it after Iposted. I will email some pics tonight. Re thinking we were rolling in the surf? We were rolling in the surf literally with all of Magan's Bay beach goers staring at us!

Good luck with the homework. I'm glad those days are over! I will probably spend the day reading emails at work. YUK!

 

[Denine]

Hello all!

We made it home safely. It seemed like a very long drive this time. We were anxious to get home!

Lori: I hope Katie is on the mend. What a very scary experience!

We saw Kaleigh yesterday. We bring her home today at 3 PM!

The bushwhacker was good, but I'd leave out the kalua.

 

[disney6]

Oh Lori! Annika has the cough but nothing like what you guys are going through!!! Glad to hear she's doing better but, wow. Good thing you weren't delayed any longer! Prayers your way!

Lia's eye is doing better! She fell in the club on Thursday night and has a HUGE knot and black black black eye! They were great about it there! And luckily I had my Doctor Dad on board with us!

Wish I knew you all were going to Megan's bay -- Greg wanted to go into town with my parents and I was too nervous to take the kids by myself so we stayed on board and played at the Mickey pool! It was fun!

Hey new mom Denine - guess we won't be hearing from you for awhile! Hope you got lots of rest on your 2 week holiday! You know, newborns sleep for the first 2 weeks and then THEY WAKE UP!!!!! You are gonna LOVE it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bonnie - thanks for the pictures! They are great! My pj's covered more than most people had on and they were comfortable! I highly recommend walking around on deck 10 early in the morning in pj's!!

 

[DisneyDudetteTwo]

Poor Katie. How scary that must have been for the family. Glad the kids are on the road to recovery. Ben, Lori, Katie & Cody - really enjoyed the talent show.

I will never forget "rolling" in the surf at Magen's Bay with DD#1 & Sandy. I just hope there aren't any videotapes out there of the three of us! I was in St. Thomas once before but all we did was shop. I really enjoyed it this time (especially the drinks!).

Hope we can all stay in touch even if it is only by e-mail. It really made the cruise SPECIAL knowing so many people on board.

Denine & Jerry good luck with your new bundle of joy!

Hello to Turner the sleepwalker from Pluto.

Just wanted to stop in & say Hello. It is time to restock our food supply & catch up on wash. Miss you all. Waving good-bye at the port for everyone we missed!

 

[Mickey02'sMom]

Lori, sorry to hear about cutie katie....and you and Cody too. What a way to end a wonderful trip...glad you are all getting better.

I have a headache this morning but our weather is due to change so guess that is why, otherwise all our group is ok as far as I know. Patti and Ken got home safe and sound yesterday and Barb and family are on their way...due in tomorrow or Wed.

Everyone have a great day!!!!