Self Party Posse Sept. 10th Magic

[Donnica]

Hello all

Reality is starting to set in already and I don't like it, nope not one bit! Is anyone else doing laundry today? Bleck. How did this happen? A week ago we were so happy... walking around Key West or preparing for a wedding. Where did we go wrong? We too a wrong turn somewhere and I want to go back!

 

[Vals]

Well, I was not on the Sept 10 cruise! BUT my son Jason & his GF Teresa were on it! so.... the laundry is here & Yes, he put everything-i mean everything in the wash, even if he didnt wear it! Sounds like that had a fabulous time! & great weather as well. My daugh & I are looking forward to going on the cruise Dec 31! & im off to see Mickey for a long weekend, this THurs. Have a great week Val-

 

[stina]

i feel your pain donnica. MAGICal withdrawal is NOT fun. rather depressing. i had to go online and listen to bits of deck party music from amazon. it was not the same in my living room.

god, i can't wait to go back!!!!!!! i'm already checking out prices for a 4 day cruise in the spring. trying to see if we can swing it and still meet our goals for a week at animal kingdom lodge next september. it'd take some creative financing on our parts, but we're motivated. faith, trust and pixiedust!

we too are doing laundry today. washing everything, especially those semi wet and stinky clothes that refused to dry in our stateroom. NOTHING would dry in that room it was incredibly annoying. christine accidentally wore her tevas in the water at castaway, and we took them out of the luggage and they stank like seawater, eeeww! also we have no food in the house so we are stuck eating ramen and choc chip cookies. ha ha. christine actually said yesterday at the airport when we stopped to eat: "god, i have to put my own napkin in my own lap now" are we spoiled or what?

pulled out our disney cookbook and noticed a recipe for konk koolers in there. hmmmm... i'm thinking we should have a "northern exile" deck party here in mass. what do you think? i'm already trying to put together some music cds to commemorate our voyage. one deck party cd and one self party posse/rockin bar d mix... got any song ideas for either? for deck upside down, celebration, macarena, etc. for rockin bar d: definitely the humpty dance. and i'm sure heather will appreciate "i've had the time of my life" on that cd.

stina

 

[Donnica]

Yummmmmmmmmm Konk Koolers! I only had that one, the one that I believe was supposed to be yours! LOL! It was yummy though. Oh it sounds like we could create ourselves quite a party with that music and the Disney recipe book. I think Jay would just be happy with chicken tenders.

I didn't have any food in the house when I got home either. We went to the 99 when I got home. My boyfriend had a pina colada and I realized I didn't even have ONE on the cruise! What is THAT all about!!!!! I think we might have to have some of those at our party too. My boyfriend has already created a place for all of us to post our pictures. I will send the link to you in e-mail. Oh right... I need your "real" e-mail address to send it to you. I never did figure out how to post pictures or anything here yet. I have a couple of you guys I can send directly to you.

Can we go back yet?

Donnica (aka cruise ho)

 

[stina]

D: I'm sending you a private message with my personal email and phone number.

Yes. You are a cruise ho.
Though Heather is giving you a run for your money is terms of "most people made out with."

Found my chicken maracas from "cahlos and chahlies" today in my luggage.
Better bring those to the party too. Ok so when exactly are we having this party? Soon I hope. I need a party chaser for my vacation.

Did I tell you I have a photo of Jay dancing AND eating chicken tenders. Way too funny.

stina

 

[ibouncetoo]

Yeah! Someone for the 9/10 Magic has checked in! Boy, do I have some questions for you....OK?

Mostly, those of us with a Western cruise in the future just want to make sure the schedule of casual/formal/pirate nights and the menu themes are what we were told to expect. Provided your itinerary didn't change due to weather, did you still have:

Sat/Casual what was the menu theme?

Sun/Casual, same question

Mon/Formal, same question

Tue/Casual, same question

Wed/Pirate, pirate menu

Thu/Semi-formal.......did you have lobster on the menu that night?

Fri/Casual, same question



Now, I'll probably be asking these same questions to the first group that does the Western after dry dock too, just in case Disney makes changes after that.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Jay045]

whats up everyone, Me and my gf, could have done the stingray thing at castaway cay at 2pm for free, but didnt cause we could have only had 1 hour at the adult beach, by the time we got back from our seahorse excursion, oh that was the best! really nice reef, anyways the guys said it was opening today, and $30 a person...

 

[Jay045]

oh yea that sounds right especially thurs night lobster! I had 2 of those lol!

 

[stina]

hello ibouncetoo~

food.... was a hot topic of discussion at my table every night. my overall review was that the food ranged from good to spectacular with Palo being at the spectacular end. my least favorite food was animator's palate and most favorites were Palo and parrot cay. mostly because parrot cay had spicier/more flavorful foods than animator's and lumiere's.

saturday, first night menu: i think it was just creative american. i ate in animator's that night and had chicken

sunday, 2nd night: i ate in parrot cay, don't recall what i had, it was pretty good though

monday, 3rd night: formal night, ate in lumiere's, it was fancy, stuff like duck on the menu

tuesday, 4th night: i think this was chef's night: i seem to recall eating pretty well, i think i has some kind of seafood pasta in animator's palate

wednesday, 5th night: pirate night, ate in parrot cay: food was great, interesting stuff, plus the pirate buffet later on deck is NOT to be missed, so don't stuff yourself at dinner.

thursday, 6th night: captain's gala dinner/semi formal: this was lobster night. although i had the chef's recommendation turkey which was wonderful.

friday, 7th night: i had palo reservations, so i dunno but think the theme was "around the world"

one of the food highlights of the trip was the thursday day at sea midday barbeque on deck, steak, chicken and grilled marlin, they were grilling it right there by the pool, it was fantastic along with a little live calypso music. oh i wish i was back!

i also didn't have any room to sample anything from the fabulous midnight dessert buffet which was thursday night, but i have amazing photos. wish i had tried something. my photos aren't very edible!

enjoy your trip~
stina

 

[hannacanna]

hey everyone! as far as the food goes, i agreed with stina. the food was good or spectacular, depending on where and what i ate. palo was spectacular all around. some dishes in parrot cay and lumiere's were spectacular. i didn't care for animator's palate. but you know, the menu themes (except for pirate night) weren't all that meaningful to me. maybe if it was a 10 day cruise, where 4 nights were special themes, maybe then it would mean something. but really, the captain's reception was on monday night i think but the captain's gala menu was on thursday. that really didn't make sense to me. also, having an Around the World menu is odd, considering that every menu had items from Around the World. except for the pirate menu, which was tied into the whole night's entertainment, the special menus were just like regular menus. i thought it would be nice to have 3 different menus for the 3 different resturaunts, and maybe 2 special menus (captain's gala and pirate). that way when i came back to parrot cay, it would have the same menu and i could have 2 things off the parrot cay menu.

on tuesday night we told our head server that the food wasn't flavorful, not spicy enough for us. on wednesday night there was a marked improvement in our dishes. still not SPICY, but more flavorful. we were glad about that change.

the best food was at palo and the deck parties. don't miss out on the special deck parties and the dessert buffet.

i was thrilled and absolutely amazed by everything about my disney cruise except for the food. most of the food was good but didn't knock my socks off the way the entertainment/parties/service/drinks/atmosphere/stateroom/etc did.

 

[Donnica]

[ didn't knock my socks off the way the entertainment/parties/service/drinks/atmosphere/stateroom/etc did.[/QUOTE]

What about the PEOPLE? HUH! What about the Self Party Posse!!! Food is temporary... we will bug ya forever!!!!

 

[mcraft17]

Another Sept. 10th cruiser checking in! We got to do the stingray excursion at Castaway Cay for free. It was really cool they have removed their stingers so that you can't get stung. They brought out a platform so you could see them closer and feed them. Then you got to swim with them it was really fun except it took my husband a little bit to get used to them swimming near him. I agree I am ready to go back!! I keep telling my husband can we make another reservation?

 

[stina]

donnica: yeah i have a feeling the self-party posse will be haunting me forever! lucky me.

so...the stingrays at castaway have their stingers removed? is that the case with the stingrays at grand caymen? because i swam with the rays at GC and they were fine, nobody got stung, even those my foot accidentally stepped on a stinger tail, it felt prickly but no sting. seems kind of odd to remove the stingers, kind of takes the thrill out of interacting with a really WILD animal.

i do have to report though that the stingray experience at GC was amusing. on the boat ride over there were about a million kids just as excited as could be to jump in the water. and when we got there and actually got off the boat and the rays started swarming us, general panic ensued, there was much screaming and crying and kids climbing up their parents yelling "get it off me!" i think some of them got back on the boat, and the rest of us stayed and it was fine. actually more than fine, amazing. those rays really responded to the squid we fed them. i really liked feeding them. they were like big cats just rubbing up on us waiting for their "treats."

stina

 

[hannacanna]

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[hannacanna]

ahh, yes, Donnica. how could i even add the Self Party Posse to my list of spectacular things about the cruise? you all were not spectacular. you did not knock my socks off.

there was kissing of mexican cab drivers. there was water squirted at unsuspecting fellow cruisers. there was much dancing with chicken tenders. there were some of us who almost missed the boat out of 2(!) ports.

you were so much more spectacular than spectacular. and i only ever wore flip flops, so i had no socks to knock off. only the words of the Self Party Posse motto can express the way i feel about you...

"We do not join the party. We bring the party."

 

[fltink]

Hey, all fellow self-partiers! I miss all of you!

 

[Donnica]

LOL!!!!!

Well there ya have it!!!! We had so much fun with you guys, we all just fit so well together. I couldn't be happier that you guys also live in the same state! How great is that! This way we don't have to just wait until the next cruise to bring the party home!

I talked to Jenn today and she was also already asking when we are going to get together. Man I'm gonna miss her (them) when they move back to Florida. I know it gives me a reason to go there but I can't just drive down and have dinner for the night like I can now. Ok ok ok.. no sadness talk lol

Are we back there yet?

 

[fltink]

Donnica, is a perfect excuse to cruise more too! I'm sure we'll see plenty of one another and we'll talk all the time. But I will miss you tooo!!!!!!!

 

[Donnica]

Ok so who were the two that I had to run back on the ship with in Cozumel? We spent a good amount of time in Carlos and Charlie's together and then the ships officer informed us that we had to run! LOL Of course I found out later that we weren't in fact "late" but that everyone else was already on the ship so they wanted to leave early. Well, don't make me RUN for THAT! I remember they were from Canada and they were in their early 20's. I think we had somebody who fit that bill her of the boards but I can't remember their names! I know, I know but domn I was there 4 hours.... would YOU be able to?

Are we back there yet?

 

[fltink]

I think it was Jay, wasn't it???? You should ask on the old thread we were using. I think he's still posting there.