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

[birkner]

To all of you who have responded to me with payments for pins and contributions to the lanyard team, a huge thank you!! I will try to respond via email soon but am busy working on the website!!

 

[Aurore]

Whaww thank you for the pics auntlynne!!

September is not coming as fast as I would !!
I can't wait to visit Gibraltar ^^

But am I the only one who are a little bit scared of the monkeys ??

 

[susie2]

Whaww thank you for the pics auntlynne!!

September is not coming as fast as I would !!
I can't wait to visit Gibraltar ^^

But am I the only one who are a little bit scared of the monkeys ??

i will admit i am a bit worried about the monkeys, i read that they can bite but really want to see them,

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Whaww thank you for the pics auntlynne!!

September is not coming as fast as I would !!
I can't wait to visit Gibraltar ^^

But am I the only one who are a little bit scared of the monkeys ??

No ... I am terrified of the things .... I want to go up and take photos but I will run if the apes come anywhere near me !!

Photo op on The Rock (with the Med in the background):

Part of the cable car rigging - you can see a majority of Gibraltar in these two photos:

Looking across "The Frontier" to Spain; the airport runway is between the two countries

Downtown Gibraltar:

Off to the next port

Stunning photos Lynne .... can't wait to see these views for myself as last time it was too windy and overcast.

 

[birkner]

Whaww thank you for the pics auntlynne!!

September is not coming as fast as I would !!
I can't wait to visit Gibraltar ^^

But am I the only one who are a little bit scared of the monkeys ??

i will admit i am a bit worried about the monkeys, i read that they can bite but really want to see them,

Just be sure you don't have any open bags, backpacks or food around them as they are very aggressive.

 

[granmaz]

All they want is food, pure and simple, and we aren't supposed to give them any. You are supposed to keep very still if one comes on you.

 

[melonz]

All they want is food, pure and simple, and we aren't supposed to give them any. You are supposed to keep very still if one comes on you.

If one comes on me I'm sure i will break the 100m world record.....for men

 

[binkytell]

All they want is food, pure and simple, and we aren't supposed to give them any. You are supposed to keep very still if one comes on you.

i'm sure I read somewhere you can be fined if caught feeding them!!

 

[karentan]

i think there's signs up everywhere saying not to feed them, but people still ignore the signs and do it anyway

 

[smootenloopers]

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September. My first cruise ever was a 3-night Bahamas cruise on the Wonder last October. Now I have three more booked! Didn't see much of the ship as I was busy swimming with the dolphins (yee haw!) and the cruise was so short, so I'm looking forward to the at sea days.

I live in Maryland but will be flying out of Philadelpha since there is a direct flight from there to BCN. Staying at the Renaissance the night before the cruise.

I'm a bit of a loner, but am up for coordinating dining (early seating). Please don't be offended when I don't show up on formal night!

 

[Schmendrick54]

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September.

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I live in Maryland but will be flying out of Philadelpha since there is a direct flight from there to BCN. Staying at the Renaissance the night before the cruise.

Hi Tammy,

We look forward to meeting you. We are hoping that we will be joined by my in-laws, who also live in Maryland. My mother-in-law is very nervous about flying so my father-in-law was planning to take a non-stop from Philadelphia to Madrid and then take a train or car to Barcelona. He was even going to pay extra compared to taking the BWI-PHL-MAD connection to avoid the extra takeoff and landing. Isn't it strange that you pay less when you take the extra hop?

If you don't mind my asking, I was wondering if your flight is non-stop from Philadelphia to Barcelona, and if so,which airline? My father-in-law might want to use that connection instead.

Thanks and see you in Barcelona!

Regards,
Jerry (who has lived about 1/3 of his 57 years in Maryland.)

 

[MandyGirl]

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September. My first cruise ever was a 3-night Bahamas cruise on the Wonder last October. Now I have three more booked! Didn't see much of the ship as I was busy swimming with the dolphins (yee haw!) and the cruise was so short, so I'm looking forward to the at sea days.

I live in Maryland but will be flying out of Philadelpha since there is a direct flight from there to BCN. Staying at the Renaissance the night before the cruise.

I'm a bit of a loner, but am up for coordinating dining (early seating). Please don't be offended when I don't show up on formal night!

Welcome aboard, Tammy!! This is our first Disney cruise and our first TransAtlantic! Have cruised a few other lines though over the years, but looking forward to trying DCL!

 

[birkner]

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September. My first cruise ever was a 3-night Bahamas cruise on the Wonder last October. Now I have three more booked! Didn't see much of the ship as I was busy swimming with the dolphins (yee haw!) and the cruise was so short, so I'm looking forward to the at sea days.

I live in Maryland but will be flying out of Philadelpha since there is a direct flight from there to BCN. Staying at the Renaissance the night before the cruise.

I'm a bit of a loner, but am up for coordinating dining (early seating). Please don't be offended when I don't show up on formal night!

Welcome aboard Tammy!! 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. We are also staying at the Renaissance so we may see you there!

My DH John and I have created a website for you view other cruisers and sign in with your information. If you want to add your picture, you can send it to us at nbirkner@yahoo.com

WBTA Website

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. Plans are to do this event on Monday September 19.

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. Claire (Pinky166) is organizing a Lady's High tea at Palo's. If you are interested, send her a PM for details.

16. Squitty (Michelle) is oganizing private Mixology and Mojito tastings. If you are interested, send her a PM for details.

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

18. 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.

 

[auntlynne]

...But am I the only one who are a little bit scared of the monkeys ??

No, apparently not; they can get big and aggressive.

If you will notice, we saw little apes. Our taxi driver did not take us where the big ones were. And yes, you will notice he breaks the rules and feeds them peanuts - if you look at the pictures, the last 2 show the ape reaching in his pocket, the final time the pocket was empty.

I can only speak from one experience - with an excellent guide - but this seemed to be a relaxing way to see the Rock. Arrangements can be made in advance or you can go outside the port terminal when you arrive and meet up with a taxi driver. Ours was 25 euros or 22 GBPs per person, six person mini van. Our guide was Paul Del Mar (a Google search of his name + Gibraltar and you will get more info about him).

 

[auntlynne]

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September. ...

I'm a bit of a loner, but am up for coordinating dining (early seating). Please don't be offended when I don't show up on formal night!

Depending on your tablemates, you can come to formal night in whatever you choose to wear. I am the type that won't be offended by normal clothing, as are many of us sailing.

If you decide you need to send a PM (personal message) - as you would if you wanted to join in any activity listed in birkner (Noel)'s post, you need to have 10 posts. They can be as easy as posting a number - they don't need be epics.

WELCOME!

 

[PFlamingo]

But am I the only one who are a little bit scared of the monkeys ??

i will admit i am a bit worried about the monkeys, i read that they can bite but really want to see them,

No ... I am terrified of the things .... I want to go up and take photos but I will run if the apes come anywhere near me !!

Just be sure you don't have any open bags, backpacks or food around them as they are very aggressive.

All they want is food, pure and simple, and we aren't supposed to give them any. You are supposed to keep very still if one comes on you.

If one comes on me I'm sure i will break the 100m world record.....for men

I worked with similar monkeys for three years in grad school and while I'm not scared of them, I do have a healthy respect for their strength. I've been bitten and scratched by them and it hurts! However, there's no way I'm going all the way to Gibraltar and not seeing them!

Dennis, on the other hand, will probably run away like a little girl! Assuming he gets his leave approved. I really shouldn't tell tales on him!

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September. My first cruise ever was a 3-night Bahamas cruise on the Wonder last October. Now I have three more booked! Didn't see much of the ship as I was busy swimming with the dolphins (yee haw!) and the cruise was so short, so I'm looking forward to the at sea days.

I live in Maryland but will be flying out of Philadelpha since there is a direct flight from there to BCN. Staying at the Renaissance the night before the cruise.

I'm a bit of a loner, but am up for coordinating dining (early seating). Please don't be offended when I don't show up on formal night!

Welcome aboard! We are Pat and Dennis, and this is our 3rd cruise (all on DCL), but our first for more than 4 nights. We're really looking forward to the at sea days, too!

 

[middleofamerica]

Just thought I would share some photos of our trip to Yorkshire last weekend.

Is this Hardrian's Wall? Matt and I did a lot of travel in England in college and this reminds me of Hadrian's Wall. It's great to get to see pictures of everyone's adventures!

 

[missjudit]

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September. My first cruise ever was a 3-night Bahamas cruise on the Wonder last October. Now I have three more booked! Didn't see much of the ship as I was busy swimming with the dolphins (yee haw!) and the cruise was so short, so I'm looking forward to the at sea days.

I live in Maryland but will be flying out of Philadelpha since there is a direct flight from there to BCN. Staying at the Renaissance the night before the cruise.

I'm a bit of a loner, but am up for coordinating dining (early seating). Please don't be offended when I don't show up on formal night!

Welcome Tammy. We are from Arnold, Maryland and flying out of Philly, too, but into Madrid on 9/1. Look forward to meeting you. Judi

 

[Chirpee]

to all the new cruisers! As you may have noticed from all of the pages for this cruise meet, we are a very chatty group

 

[Pinky166]

Great photo's Lynne.

Hi, everyone. My name is Tammy and I'll be sailing solo on the WBTA in September. My first cruise ever was a 3-night Bahamas cruise on the Wonder last October. Now I have three more booked! Didn't see much of the ship as I was busy swimming with the dolphins (yee haw!) and the cruise was so short, so I'm looking forward to the at sea days.

I live in Maryland but will be flying out of Philadelpha since there is a direct flight from there to BCN. Staying at the Renaissance the night before the cruise.

I'm a bit of a loner, but am up for coordinating dining (early seating). Please don't be offended when I don't show up on formal night!

Welcome aboard Tammy. Feel free to join in here as much or as little as you want.

We are Claire & Lee (DH), this is our 3rd cruise.