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

[Pinky166]

Thanks everyone...I'm sure she''ll appreciate your replies.

Congratulations to Stephanie!

 

[Beauty & the Best]

Yay, DD got the job

Yay! Congratulations Stephanie! I'm sure it is very competitive out there these days & hoofing it to interviews is hard work. You go girl!

Claire Robinson 5 ingredient fix is the show

Hmmm, I've never seen that one before. There's a place on the food network website where you can look up past episodes so I think I'll check out that dessert Thanks!

 

[Just love Eeyore]

I just want to say that I'm still here. I know that I don't write a lot, but I get very self conscious when writing in English.

We're back from a week at Disneyland Paris. We had a very nice time.

We also just booked the Hawaii cruise I'm so excited. I have always wanted to see Hawaii, but I hate flying (the 9 hours to Orlando is more that enough), so this is a dream come true for me.

 

[3canadianslovedisney]

Yay, DD got the job

Congratulations to your DD!

 

[drewmer]

Hi does anybody have any information about the exercise classes that the magic offers. What’s the spin class like and what does it cost, do you have to book early in the cruise?
I fear I will need to do a few classes to counteract all the lovely food I will eat.
Margaret

when we did the EBTA last year there were several free exercise classes. You just had to show up a little early to be sure that there was space available. I purchased a personal training session and had a great time. Benny kicked my behind. I learned a few new ab moves. I doub't that I will pay for private sessions again but the free ones are good

 

[Pinky166]

I just want to say that I'm still here. I know that I don't write a lot, but I get very self conscious when writing in English.

We're back from a week at Disneyland Paris. We had a very nice time.

We also just booked the Hawaii cruise I'm so excited. I have always wanted to see Hawaii, but I hate flying (the 9 hours to Orlando is more that enough), so this is a dream come true for me.

Don't worry about posting here, your English is probably much better than mine. As for other languages well I can just about manage Hello in French & Spanish and that's about it. So well done you for be able to speak/write in a foreign language.

I'm glad you had a nice time at DLRP. Congrats for booking the Hawaiian cruise.

 

[Tod&Copper]

Congratulations to Stephanie!

Fantastic, well done

 

[magic123]

As far as I know the exercise classes are all free and you just turn up. I don't know why I know as I have never been and don't intend to!!!!

Thanks that's good

DH has taken the spin classes. There is a book in the gym used for sign up, but there are lots of units available so capacity didn't seem to be an issue if you hadn't signed up in advance. As Marilyn said, there is no fee. DH cycles a lot and he found that the instructor he had really pushed them hard, it wasn't an easy workout.

Great thanks for that, I spin a lot, Chirpee expect I'll see your DH in class then. On the cunard last year it was $15 a class and they only had 10 bikes. so even if I only did a few classes that would soon add up, so it's great not having to factor that in

 

[binkytell]

anyone interested?

sorry we dont arrive till late afternoon, we have 2 kids too so im sure you wouldnt want them tagging along but i thought i would reply anyway

hope someone comes along to tour with you

 

[binkytell]

Thanks that's good



Great thanks for that, I spin a lot,n

oh well done you, i dont know how people manage to spin i tried once and it was the hardest exercise ive ever done, never went back

 

[magic123]

Yay, DD got the job

That's always good to hear... congrats to her

 

[magic123]

Margaret, I watched the spinning class in the morning when I was on the treadmill, it was some workout it would definitely keep the lbs at bay if you did that regularly [/QUOTE]
yes it's great exercise, and it's funny but I find it easlier on my knees than running on the treadmill so well done to you I spin four times a week , but I'm a large lady who likes her food so needs must !!

Tood&Copper;40713350]Margaret, we are off our heads this year, check out my signature.... we have a 5 night on the Dream a month before the WBTA too Hopefully that won't be too much damage to shift in the month before the WBTA.

My whole year will be spent dieting I think [/QUOTE]

Isn't that just the way.... my life's default position is "on a diet". But at least you will have had a good reason for that diet, you are going to have a lot of fun

Margaret, I like to workout on a cruise that is this long, so on the EBTA last year I took several of the exercise classes. They are all free as others have mentioned and I remember a few different classes offered each day (maybe like 3.) Classes were spinning, yoga, morning stretch, ab blaster, pilates and I think that might be all. I don't remember having to sign up in advance for any of the classes, but for spinning, I would recommend arriving a little early b/c a few times there weren't enough bikes.

Thanks, do you know if the spins bikes have cycle shoe clips on them for spd cycle trainers....is it worth packing them

I did look up the fitness center on the Disney Magic and this is what I found as far as classes are concerned - http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/ships-activities/ships/magic/fitness-spa/fitness-center/

Thanks for the link

oh well done you, i dont know how people manage to spin i tried once and it was the hardest exercise ive ever done, never went back

I really enjoy it, but I wish I could do classes like yoga. Funny thing is I'm useless at riding a real bike because when I look over my shoulder to see what's behind me I fall off just have no balance. Shame you won't be sitting on a bike next to me then

 

[Julie2009]

Hey Michelle, do congratulate Stephanie from me Our daughter also works for Tesco bank, and yes she does get a discount on her shopping (think it's 10%).

Wow so a lot of you exercise on board. I'm impressed

 

[goofprincess]

For me its the Elemis Exotic Hand Ritual with Manicure and Elemis Sole Delight Foot Treatment with Pedicure.

I always have them running together so it is 100 mins of pure pampering and relaxation.

It's a must for the start of every cruise it just wipes away the major stress I have to organise my caseload before I leave and you get gorgeous hands, feet and nails for the cruise.

Mind you, I do need to go back for a fingernail re-paint on week 2 as the sanitising wipes turn the french manicure yellow after a week I was only charged about $15 plus tip for the re-paint last WBTA which is fantastic and half of the price of home

THANKS. I get my nails done at home and its sounds great.

 

[goofprincess]

Congratulations to your daughter on her job.

Our middle son just got a job as well. He learned to be a radiology tech in the Army and has been looking for a job in the field for a year and a half. Even though it is a temporary job and part-time, his foot is in the door and we are SO thankful.

 

[Seraphine]

Hi everyone!

We are joining you, and are all really excited! I'm still working on my post count so I can PM the leaders of this board to be added to the list, but in the meantime... count us in!

We signed up last July, but I just found DISboards and love the sense of community you've already achieved before this sailing - it sounds like you've all known each other for years!

So, we are Dawn and Steve, from Scotland. This is our first Disney cruise and our first TA, although we've sailed with Carnival 4 times and RCI once.

We have two children - Calum will be 6 and Eilidh will be 2 years + 4 months. Calum's counting the days already, and talks about meeting Mickey on the ship all the time. Eilidh (pronounced AY-Lee) is that fun age that's just a bit too young for the kids clubs but will probably be bored in the nursery.

I'd love to contact some of the families with little ones under 3 - we should set up some play mornings (unless this has already been done and I'm just late). We've met some great families on board cruises before, but it would be really neat to get to know people in advance.

I see Tod & Copper and Binkytell are also from Scotland - anyone else from here? I'm Canadian as well, and I saw lots of maple leaf flags about on here

So, that's us - I've got tons of reading to do to get us caught up. Only 4 more months!

All my best
Dawn

 

[birkner]

Hi everyone!

We are joining you, and are all really excited! I'm still working on my post count so I can PM the leaders of this board to be added to the list, but in the meantime... count us in!

We signed up last July, but I just found DISboards and love the sense of community you've already achieved before this sailing - it sounds like you've all known each other for years!

So, we are Dawn and Steve, from Scotland. This is our first Disney cruise and our first TA, although we've sailed with Carnival 4 times and RCI once.

We have two children - Calum will be 6 and Eilidh will be 2 years + 4 months. Calum's counting the days already, and talks about meeting Mickey on the ship all the time. Eilidh (pronounced AY-Lee) is that fun age that's just a bit too young for the kids clubs but will probably be bored in the nursery.

I'd love to contact some of the families with little ones under 3 - we should set up some play mornings (unless this has already been done and I'm just late). We've met some great families on board cruises before, but it would be really neat to get to know people in advance.

I see Tod & Copper and Binkytell are also from Scotland - anyone else from here? I'm Canadian as well, and I saw lots of maple leaf flags about on here

So, that's us - I've got tons of reading to do to get us caught up. Only 4 more months!

All my best
Dawn

Welcome aboard Dawn and Steve!! 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.

 

[Dgentrysim]

Hi everyone!

We are joining you, and are all really excited! I'm still working on my post count so I can PM the leaders of this board to be added to the list, but in the meantime... count us in!

We signed up last July, but I just found DISboards and love the sense of community you've already achieved before this sailing - it sounds like you've all known each other for years!

So, we are Dawn and Steve, from Scotland. This is our first Disney cruise and our first TA, although we've sailed with Carnival 4 times and RCI once.

We have two children - Calum will be 6 and Eilidh will be 2 years + 4 months. Calum's counting the days already, and talks about meeting Mickey on the ship all the time. Eilidh (pronounced AY-Lee) is that fun age that's just a bit too young for the kids clubs but will probably be bored in the nursery.

I'd love to contact some of the families with little ones under 3 - we should set up some play mornings (unless this has already been done and I'm just late). We've met some great families on board cruises before, but it would be really neat to get to know people in advance.

I see Tod & Copper and Binkytell are also from Scotland - anyone else from here? I'm Canadian as well, and I saw lots of maple leaf flags about on here

So, that's us - I've got tons of reading to do to get us caught up. Only 4 more months!

All my best
Dawn

From across the Atlantic...... to you and your family! Look forward to chatting with you on disboards!!!

 

[Beauty & the Best]

I just want to say that I'm still here. I know that I don't write a lot, but I get very self conscious when writing in English.

We're back from a week at Disneyland Paris. We had a very nice time.

We also just booked the Hawaii cruise I'm so excited. I have always wanted to see Hawaii, but I hate flying (the 9 hours to Orlando is more that enough), so this is a dream come true for me.

Nice to meet you! Disneyland Paris - ahhhh, I would like to go there someday but I've only been to Paris once and there just wasn't time.

I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time on the Hawaii cruise, the itinerary sounds very relaxing.

oh well done you, i dont know how people manage to spin i tried once and it was the hardest exercise ive ever done, never went back

lol, it is hard but since you have control of the intensity, you can tailor it to your level. I DON'T like those screaming instructors though, so if the instructor is a yeller, I'll only take one class!

Thanks, do you know if the spins bikes have cycle shoe clips on them for spd cycle trainers....is it worth packing them

Sorry Margaret, I do not know the answer. I never noticed shoe clips on them, but I don't know what shoe clips look like so if they were there I wouldn't have known anyway

Hey Michelle, do congratulate Stephanie from me Our daughter also works for Tesco bank, and yes she does get a discount on her shopping (think it's 10%).

Wow so a lot of you exercise on board. I'm impressed

Working out is part of my routine at home, so I'd feel weird if I went 14 days w/o doing it. Also, getting back into exercise is sooooo hard after taking weeks off, its easier just to stay at the same level.

Congratulations to your daughter on her job.

Our middle son just got a job as well. He learned to be a radiology tech in the Army and has been looking for a job in the field for a year and a half. Even though it is a temporary job and part-time, his foot is in the door and we are SO thankful.

Sandy, congratulations to your son! Especially after he'd been looking for over a year - that is tough.

Hi everyone!

We are joining you, and are all really excited! I'm still working on my post count so I can PM the leaders of this board to be added to the list, but in the meantime... count us in!

We signed up last July, but I just found DISboards and love the sense of community you've already achieved before this sailing - it sounds like you've all known each other for years!

So, we are Dawn and Steve, from Scotland. This is our first Disney cruise and our first TA, although we've sailed with Carnival 4 times and RCI once.

We have two children - Calum will be 6 and Eilidh will be 2 years + 4 months. Calum's counting the days already, and talks about meeting Mickey on the ship all the time. Eilidh (pronounced AY-Lee) is that fun age that's just a bit too young for the kids clubs but will probably be bored in the nursery.

I'd love to contact some of the families with little ones under 3 - we should set up some play mornings (unless this has already been done and I'm just late). We've met some great families on board cruises before, but it would be really neat to get to know people in advance.

I see Tod & Copper and Binkytell are also from Scotland - anyone else from here? I'm Canadian as well, and I saw lots of maple leaf flags about on here

So, that's us - I've got tons of reading to do to get us caught up. Only 4 more months!

All my best
Dawn

Welcome Dawn and family!!! I just joined this meet last week and got such a warm welcome, you will feel at home in no time.
So happy you are coming along & look forward to knowing you better!

 

[Chirpee]

Thanks, do you know if the spins bikes have cycle shoe clips on them for spd cycle trainers....is it worth packing them:

Hi Margaret, the spin bikes don't have cycle shoe clips, just need to wear regular trainers/running shoes.