*Sept 10th 2011 WB Transatlantic* From Spain to Space Mountain - Part 3

[Pinky166]

sorry Claire

actually now that I have eaten it I do feel a bit

Serves you right.

You could always send me what is left.

 

[3canadianslovedisney]

Hey everyone!

Happy Mother's Day to those of you celebrating today! Our mother's day isn't until May.

Happy belated birthday Sarah (binkytell)! Did your DD get my DD's email? She was so excited about the WDW pics so she sent a couple from our trip to DLP in the fall.

Love the Mickey vest and tie Sarah (totallyangelic)! I wanted to rent DH a tux, but got the so I'll have to settle for shirt and tie.

I've been trying to catch up on the board all weekend, you guys ROCK!

 

[auntlynne]

Actual cruise-related question here! ...
Oh, and what's "banoffee pie?"

Another British thing. They are tasty, though. Got one at "Eat" in Heathrow.

...portmanteau ...

What a great word.

We are thinking of pre ordering from http://www.cruiselineformal.com/ This was we don't have to worry about size issues as they have a tailor on board as well.

They work first with DCL so pretty good I think and only like 100 bucks....

Dan

Competition for best-dressed heats up - looks like somebody out there will need to be wearing a dress for the first time since her wedding day...

 

[melonz]

Spot on Noel .... that is exactly what it is ....

Looks a bit like this .....

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[karentan]

ah man, now i want banoffee pie too..........

 

[PFlamingo]

From the DCL website under Onboard Services:
Question
Does the ship provide religious services?
Answer
During certain religious holidays, onboard clergy perform services. Check your Personal Navigator for more information, including locations and times.

Banoffee pie from Wikepedia:
Banoffee pie (also spelled banoffi, or banoffy) is an English pastry based dessert made from bananas, cream, toffee from boiled condensed milk (or dulce de leche), either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. Some versions of the recipe also include chocolate and/or coffee.
Its name is a portmanteau constructed from the words "banana" and "toffee".

Thanks, Noel! Guess Dennis will just have to be a heathen like me for a couple of weeks.

Spot on Noel .... that is exactly what it is ....

Looks a bit like this .....

Ooooh baby! I think you might have to share the recipe. That looks downright sinful!! Of course, it has bananas in it, right? Bananas are healthy...

 

[birkner]

Thanks, Noel! Guess Dennis will just have to be a heathen like me for a couple of weeks.



Ooooh baby! I think you might have to share the recipe. That looks downright sinful!! Of course, it has bananas in it, right? Bananas are healthy...

You are welcome!!

 

[auntlynne]

Because you are a GOLD member, you can start booking onboard fun and Port Adventures on May 28, 2011.

That's only about 55 days from now.

Wow. Are we trying to do any group Palo brunches?

 

[Pooh's Pals]

Hi All

My DH Tony and myself, Jane have recently signed up for this cruise, thanks to our good friends Mary (Todd&Copper) and StevieKay (not that we needed much persuading ) This will be our fourth Disney Cruise but our first cruise without the kids
After taking most of the afternoon to catch up on this thread I can see that you are all a chatty bunch and look forward to joining in the chat before meeting you all in September.
Better go and update my ticker now

Jane

 

[birkner]

Hi All

My DH Tony and myself, Jane have recently signed up for this cruise, thanks to our good friends Mary (Todd&Copper) and StevieKay (not that we needed much persuading ) This will be our fourth Disney Cruise but our first cruise without the kids
After taking most of the afternoon to catch up on this thread I can see that you are all a chatty bunch and look forward to joining in the chat before meeting you all in September.
Better go and update my ticker now

Jane

Welcome aboard!! We are Noel and John and this will be our 5th cruise on DCL. Our last cruise was the 2010 WBTA so if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask or PM me.

Please check this first page link of the thread to orient yourself about the cruise, DIS members on the cruise and all the activities planned.

To help you with all the activities that are planned, here is some information to help you decide if you want to participate:

01. If you are interested in participating in the Fish Extender Exchange (FE), please PM Pat (PFlamingo) with the following details:
Send her your stateroom number, Disboard name, first name of each person in the stateroom, realtionship to you (DH, DW, DD, DS, etc) ages and gender of children. You can cut and paste the format below.
Stateroom #:
Disname:
First name:
Age:
Disname:
First name:
Age:

02. If people are interested in being in the same area as other DIS'ers to send Dan (Cliffy97) a PM with Lead Passenger name, your booking number and if you are Early or Late seating. Dan was told by Disney today that this is all they need to put folks together. .

03. If you are interested in the Candy Swap, please PM Jacqueline (goofieslonglostsis).

04. If you are interested in Secret Mickey Exchange, please PM Karen (karentan).

05. If you are interest in getting a WBTA lanyard, please PM Noel (birkner). See this lanyard link for example of the previous 2010 WBTA lanyard.

Hopefully, a group of DISers will volunteer to underwrite the lanyards as they did last year so they will be free to the rest of the DISers. We already have several people offering to be part of the lanyard underwriting group. If you wish to join, please send Noel (Birkner) a PM. If we get enough members, the cost should be $10 or less per member.

06. If you are interested in a WBTA lanyard pin, please PM Noel (birkner). See this pin link for example of the previous 2010 WBTA pin.Cost will be approximately 4,5 or 5 Euros per pin.

07. If you are interested in purchasing a WBTA t-shirt printed with a variation of the cruise meet logo, Karen (Pixie_Dust_For_Me) has kindly offered to organise this for our cruise. Price will be approximately $7 per t-shirt, and sizes range from Youth XS (size 2) to Youth XL; Adult S to Adult 4XL.

08. If you are interested in participating in a Mickey Mouse Club night, please check out this Mickey Mouse club post.

09. I am thinking of organizing the same tour I did last year in Madeira. Here is the Madeira link to a PDF file that gives more information about the 2010 tour. If you are interested, please send Noel (birkner) a PM.

10. We are also going to do a Champagne Girls meet. The Champagne Girls event originated on the WBPC cruise in 2008. Women get together dressed in pink to drink champagne or non alcoholic bubbly and chat. Pictures of the first meet are in this post and pictures from the last WBTA are in this post. Please PM (Clare)Pinky166 to add you name to the list.

11. If you would like to join in the Scrapbooking Exchange, please PM Clare (Pinky166) with your name and room number. The idea is to give your fellow exchangers some scrapbooking embellishments for use in your scrapbooks after you return home! For more info check this post.

12 Join us for a Pajama breakfast on September 18 at 10:00 AM at Lumiere's. We will meet outside Lumiere's at 9:50 AM to take group pictures. If you are interested, please PM Mandy (MandyGirl) with the number in your party.
Here is the picture from the PJ breakfast on last years WBTA.

13. Sarah (TotallyAngelic) is organizing a Gibraltar Dolphin Watching Expedition if you are interested in joining. Please PM Sarah with the number in your party if you are interested.

14. Mandy (MandyGirl) is organizing a Tortola Excursion of a private day sail on a power catamaran to Jost VanDyke with Tortola Charters. Please PM Mandy with the number in your party if you are interested.

15. We hope to organize a Stateroom Tour of all the SR categories but we do yet have an organizer. Stay tuned for more details!!

16. If anyone wants to organize a postcard exchange, please feel free to start one. What we did las year is bring a postcard from where we lived and left in each other's FE. It is best to limit the number of participants no more than 25 as cost and weight to bring become an issue.

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Hi All

My DH Tony and myself, Jane have recently signed up for this cruise, thanks to our good friends Mary (Todd&Copper) and StevieKay (not that we needed much persuading ) This will be our fourth Disney Cruise but our first cruise without the kids
After taking most of the afternoon to catch up on this thread I can see that you are all a chatty bunch and look forward to joining in the chat before meeting you all in September.
Better go and update my ticker now

Jane

Welcome aboard Jane and Tony, we are Sarah and Tony from Wales.

 

[MandyGirl]

Hi All

My DH Tony and myself, Jane have recently signed up for this cruise, thanks to our good friends Mary (Todd&Copper) and StevieKay (not that we needed much persuading ) This will be our fourth Disney Cruise but our first cruise without the kids
After taking most of the afternoon to catch up on this thread I can see that you are all a chatty bunch and look forward to joining in the chat before meeting you all in September.
Better go and update my ticker now

Jane

Welcome abord, Tony and Jane!!! This is our first Disney cruise and first WITH the kids... LOL. We've had eight others on other cruiselines, but they were only 7-nighters... so this will be an entirely new experience for us! And yes, this IS a chatty board... I found myself with a drifting mind during the sermon at church today thinking "I wonder how many pages of posts I have missed this morning" but abstained from sneaking out the phone to read....

 

[auntlynne]

...And yes, this IS a chatty board... I found myself with a drifting mind during the sermon at church today thinking "I wonder how many pages of posts I have missed this morning" but abstained from sneaking out the phone to read....

We might need to do an Intervention.

 

[GA-yaya]

Hi All

My DH Tony and myself, Jane have recently signed up for this cruise, thanks to our good friends Mary (Todd&Copper) and StevieKay (not that we needed much persuading ) This will be our fourth Disney Cruise but our first cruise without the kids
After taking most of the afternoon to catch up on this thread I can see that you are all a chatty bunch and look forward to joining in the chat before meeting you all in September.
Better go and update my ticker now

Jane

Welcome Aboard!

 

[Dgentrysim]

Hi All

My DH Tony and myself, Jane have recently signed up for this cruise, thanks to our good friends Mary (Todd&Copper) and StevieKay (not that we needed much persuading ) This will be our fourth Disney Cruise but our first cruise without the kids
After taking most of the afternoon to catch up on this thread I can see that you are all a chatty bunch and look forward to joining in the chat before meeting you all in September.
Better go and update my ticker now

Jane

Definitely a chatty group! Can always use new cruisers to join it!

 

[eblong]

We were on the WBTA last year and spent some time in Barcelona. This year, we want to spend a few days in Madrid before going to Barcelona. Anyone have any recommendations for good and reasonable priced hotels hotels in Madrid?

 

[Chris&Jeremy]

We are thinking of pre ordering from http://www.cruiselineformal.com/ This was we don't have to worry about size issues as they have a tailor on board as well.

They work first with DCL so pretty good I think and only like 100 bucks....

Dan

We haven't decided what to do yet - suit or tux, rent or buy; Mens Wearhouse often has buy one/get one offers, which would allow us to get a suit AND a tux for one price. (I need a new suit anyway, and as Jeremy pointed out, if we start going on cruises yearly, a tux may be a good investment!)

 

[MandyGirl]

We might need to do an Intervention.

Hey now... I kept the phone IN my purse! And I do remember it was Genesis ch 2 And really... all those people reading the scripture from their iPhone... I at least had The Book open in my lap

 

[Namsupak]

Sarah- that looks amazing! You've definitely got me salivating.

Hotel list has been updated... if there's any changes I need to make or additions just PM me.

 

[JessicasMom]

Happy Mum's Day to all the UK mothers!

Paula Deen made a banoffee pie on one of her shows, and I remember salivating then. This one looks different, but just as delicious.