*Sept 10th 2011 WB Transatlantic* - From Spain to Space Mountain - Part 5

[PFlamingo]

I am afraid I am very much a fair weather camper ( ie wimp )

I'm with you! I grew up going on camping trips with my family, in a tent-camper (my mom refused to sleep on the ground). We stayed in some fairly "primitive" campgrounds (read: no running water; a.k.a. "pit" toilets).

As a result of that trauma, I now consider "roughing it" to be a hotel without room service.

 

[Tod&Copper]

Hi all,

Someone said something about a DIS meet up in Orlando next week I think for the kids? We're at WDW all next week. If this is going on, please advise.

Keri

That was me, the kids are meeting up for our cruise on the Dream on 2nd august, DD isn't coming on the WBTA with us.


We are at WDW next week too

 

[karentan]

hazel, not sure i can make the 13th august for the kent meet up, is there any other date cliffy can make or is that it?

 

[Tod&Copper]

We got our assignment last year 45 days out. Good luck everyone and I hope there's some pixie dust out there. I'll check in next week from WDW to see what everyone gets.

Have a lovely time Mandy, you're braver than me, I can't do outdoors, too scared of creepy crawlies

Off to finish packing, 2 sleeps till Mickey Mouse

 

[Dgentrysim]

Have a great trip Mandy - sounds fantastic.

Well my material for the FE has arrived - wish me luck, I am going to need it

You will do just fine with you FE's! I'm just about done with mine. Whew!

 

[poohluv2u]

We don't but if you ask Claire, she got the exact same bag in a recent disboards exchange!

They were selling them on the disboards ... how did I miss that?

Hi Karen,

I have this bag. It is not made of fabric it's like a thin canvas type of material. Although I really like the bag personally I wouldn't use it for a camera bag, my SLR is too precious. I think the camera would get knocked about and scratched by everything else in the bag.

It's more of a hand luggage type bag or an overnight bag.

Hope that helps.

Wow what a small world, I want that bag and you have it

For some time now I have been looking at this bag for my camera:

and the inside is cozy like this:

but it will end up costing $130, so I was thinking I could sew up some padding for the inside of the Minnie bag, as the dimensions are much the same. The minnie bag is about $30 so I like the savings, and the fact that it's somewhat unique as a camera bag, but do you think the bag is strong enough to hold up. It's advertised as having a carry strap, is that something different than the handles that are attached? I am undecided as to what I should do, Ed said that he doesn't want to carry a Minnie bag, so I would always have to be the one that ends up carrying it

 

[hazelandannie]

hazel, not sure i can make the 13th august for the kent meet up, is there any other date cliffy can make or is that it?

Not sure I'll pm and find out. What other dates can you make?

 

[karentan]

basically any other saturday. its just that i found out that i've got that whole weekend off work (never ever ever been given the WHOLE weekend off work) and thinking we might try and get up to scotland to see garys parents.

 

[karentan]

We got our assignment last year 45 days out. Good luck everyone and I hope there's some pixie dust out there. I'll check in next week from WDW to see what everyone gets.
:

you can check in from WDW with a nice cup of english tea

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Have a great trip Mandy - sounds fantastic.

Well my material for the FE has arrived - wish me luck, I am going to need it

Did you manage to find the instructions?

We are at WDW next week too

If you are going to Hollywood Studios ... pop into Mickey's of Hollywood and Keystone Clothing stores ( left side as you enter the park ) to see if you can spot Taryn. Sometimes she can be working at a hub cart on the left hand side of the hat.

This is what she looks like:

When on the hub carts she wears something different .... shirt and long shorts with a white cap. Didn't get a photo of that costume though as she hadn't done a shift on those until we left.

 

[poohluv2u]

This is what she looks like:

Cute picture Sarah, and I love those mickey icon scarves in the background .. what fun

 

[squitty]

you'll have to show us the finished product michelle

I will do Karen - if it ever gets finished

If all else fails, remember, the glue gun is your friend!

When I said I "eye-balled" mine, I mean I just kind of played with fabrics to see what would go together. As far as measurements go, the only thing you have to watch is the width (as someone mentioned previously). Mine is 8in wide. I think 8.5in is about the max.

Thanks Pat - I will go and buy a glue gun just incase

You will do just fine with you FE's! I'm just about done with mine. Whew!

Deb you could've done mine too if I'd of known you were making one

Did you manage to find the instructions?



If you are going to Hollywood Studios ... pop into Mickey's of Hollywood and Keystone Clothing stores ( left side as you enter the park ) to see if you can spot Taryn. Sometimes she can be working at a hub cart on the left hand side of the hat.

This is what she looks like:

When on the hub carts she wears something different .... shirt and long shorts with a white cap. Didn't get a photo of that costume though as she hadn't done a shift on those until we left.

I am just going off the ones on the first page of this thread Sarah.

Hope Taryn's still having a great time Wish we were going soon we would pop in and say hi.

 

[poohluv2u]

For the Fairy lover in you I just bought a few Disney pens for Ed's birthday and came across this great deal on a Tinkerbell pen and pencil set for $20. They arrived yesterday and they are sooo cute and great quality too, so I thought I'd pass the website on to you. http://www.executiveessentials.com/Retro-51-Disney-Tinkerbell-Pen-Pencil-Set/RET-PS-PR1TB1

ETA: the Tink pens were for me not Ed

 

[TotallyAngelic]

I am just going off the ones on the first page of this thread Sarah.

Thats what I did. I have just retrieved mine out of the drawer and found it needs a few repairs doing to it.

 

[auntlynne]

Australia

1. Great Barrier Reef
2. Ulura-kata Tjuta National Park
3. Greater Blue Mountains Area
4. Sydney Opera House

Africa

1. Dougga/Thugga (Roman Ruins) - Tunisia
2. Mosi-oa-Tunya/Victoria Falls - Zambia & Zimbabwe
3. Le Morne Cultural Landscape - Mauritius
4. Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Tanzania
5. Serengeti National Park - Tanzania
6. Mt Kilimanjaro National Park - Tanzania
7. Medina of Fez - Morocco
8. Historic City of Meknes
9. Amphitheatre of El Jem - Tunisia
10. Archaeological Site of Carthage - Tunisia
11. Medina of Tunis - Tunisia
12. Kairouan - Tunisia
13. Medina of Sousse - Tunisia

The Americas

1. Belize Barrier Reef - Belize
2. Antigua Guatemala - Guatemala
3. Tikal National Park - Guatemala
4. Maya Site of Copan - Honduras
5. Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
6. Everglades National Park - USA
7. Grand Canyon National Park - USA
8. Great Smokey Mountains National Park - USA
9. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - USA
10. Independence Hall - USA
11. Monticello & the University of Virginia in Charlottesville - USA
12. Olympic National Park - USA
13. Statue of Liberty - USA
14. Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena - Colombia
15. Mammoth Caves NP - USA
16. Morne Trois Pitons National Park
17. Pitons Management Area
18. Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
19. Mesa Verde National Park
20. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
21. Yosemite National Park
22. Carlsbad Caverns National Park
23. Historic District of Old Québec

Asia
1. The Great Wall - China
2. Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing - China
3. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in Xi'an - China
4. Classical Gardens of Suzhou, Jiangsu - China
5. Summer Palace - China
6. Temple of Heaven - China
7. Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qin Dynasties - China
8. Te Wahipounamu (Mt Cook) - New Zealand
9. Jongmyo Shrine - Korea

Europe

1. La Grand-Palace, Brussels - Belgium
2. Paris, Banks of the Seine - France
3. The Loire Valley - France
4. Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs - France
5. Piazza del Duoma, Pisa - Italy
6. Archeaological Areas of Pompeii - Italy
7. City of Valletta - Malta
8. Blenheim Palace - UK
9. City of Bath - UK
10. Tower of London - UK
11. Old Town of Corfu
12. Venice and its Lagoon
13. Costiera Amalfitana
14. Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
15. Works of Antoni Gaudí
16. Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd - Wales
17. Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church
18. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
19. Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
20. Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
21. Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Hadrian's Wall)
22. Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
23. Maritime Greenwich
24. Historic Centre of Vienna
25. Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
26. Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
27. Wachau Cultural Landscape
28. Old City of Dubrovnik
29. Palace and Park of Versailles
30. Vézelay, Church and Hill
31. Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments
32. Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
33. Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Squar
34. Cologne Cathedral
35. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
36. Acropolis, Athens
37. Archaeological Site of Olympia
38. Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter & Andrássy Avenue
39. Historic Centre of Rome
40. Historic Centre of Siena
41. Historic Centre of the City of f
42. Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
43. Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
44. Historic City of Toledo
45. Historic Centre of Brugge
46. Historic Centre of Prague
47. Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
48. Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
49. Vatican City
50. Historic Centre of Florence
51. Venice and its Lagoon
52. Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
53. Old City of Berne
54. Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
55. New Lanark
56. Royal Domain of Drottningholm - Sweden
57. Cathedral of Notre Dame, Reims - France
58. Medieval City of Rhodes - Greece
59. Historic Centre of Naples - Italy
60. Historic Centre of Krakow - Poland
61. Wieliczka Salt Mine - Poland
62. Auschwitz Birkenau - Poland
63. Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem, Lisbon - Portugal
64. San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titanocor - San Marinosa
65. Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex - Belgium
66. Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay - France
67. Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen - Germany
68. The Wadden Sea - Germany
69. Historic Centre of San Gimignano - Italy
70. Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia - Italy
71. Defence Line of Amsterdam - Europe
72. Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout - The Netherlands
73. Historic Centre of Cordoba - Spain
74. Hierapolis-Pamukkale - Turkey
75. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - UK
76. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape - UK

125 UNESCO World Heritage Sites visited among us so far.

 

[granmaz]

Taryn is such a pretty girl Sarah. She looks so young, but then you don't look old enough to have children the ages they are. So, must be genetic!!

 

[poohluv2u]

Thats what I did. I have just retrieved mine out of the drawer and found it needs a few repairs doing to it.

I made this one for our last cruise, but we had a very small FE group, and I'm hoping it will still work. The pocket is 7"W x 6"D will it be ok do you think? We never got anything too bulky as a gift, and with the crazy baggage allowance that most people will choose something fairly small .. am I right?

 

[colkath2005]

I made this one for our last cruise, but we had a very small FE group, and I'm hoping it will still work. The pocket is 7"W x 6"D will it be ok do you think? We never got anything too bulky as a gift, and with the crazy baggage allowance that most people will choose something fairly small .. am I right?

I love this!
Colette

 

[PFlamingo]

We're booked on the Dream for a 4-nighter in October for our 2nd anniversary, followed by 3 nights at WDW. We've been discussing the possibility of cancelling that and going to WDW for the full week.

The cost would be roughly the same as we are getting a military discount on the room at WDW. No discounts for Dream cruise, except our early booking discount. We would be staying at the WL, Club Level Honeymoon Room. We would also be using the new Military Salute tickets that start in October.

So here's the thing:

We can have a more relaxed time at WDW than we usually do when we take the cruise and then try to do F&WF. We'd have to buy meals (which are included on the cruise) but we usually snack our way around Epcot and do counter service meals, and we can get breakfast and snacks at the Club lounge. Might splurge on one or two "grown up" meals - maybe at Artist's Point or Boma. It would also give us 3 choices for MNSSHP instead of just one. And our bar tab tends to be less at WDW than on the cruises!

It's looking like the Dream is going to be sold out (or close to it) and it's unlikely we'd get to book Palo brunch (heard those are already booked) or Remy or get a cabana at Serenity Bay, which we really wanted to do.

On the other hand:

We did get a good price on the cruise - not sure we could do that well any time soon. And it IS the Dream.

What do you think we should do?

 

[Pinky166]

They were selling them on the disboards ... how did I miss that?



Wow what a small world, I want that bag and you have it

For some time now I have been looking at this bag for my camera:

and the inside is cozy like this:

but it will end up costing $130, so I was thinking I could sew up some padding for the inside of the Minnie bag, as the dimensions are much the same. The minnie bag is about $30 so I like the savings, and the fact that it's somewhat unique as a camera bag, but do you think the bag is strong enough to hold up. It's advertised as having a carry strap, is that something different than the handles that are attached? I am undecided as to what I should do, Ed said that he doesn't want to carry a Minnie bag, so I would always have to be the one that ends up carrying it

They weren't being sold on here, it was a gift exchange.


I guess we both have good taste. That bag is cute but $130!

I think you could sew some padding in to it, to create some sections. I think you would need to do a little padding for the bottom too as it is a very thin canvas but seems fairly strong.

I guess for $30 if it doesn't turn out to be a great camera bag then you have a cute shopping bag or flight bag.

Oh and mine didn't come with a carrying strap just the two handles on the top.

For the Fairy lover in you I just bought a few Disney pens for Ed's birthday and came across this great deal on a Tinkerbell pen and pencil set for $20. They arrived yesterday and they are sooo cute and great quality too, so I thought I'd pass the website on to you. http://www.executiveessentials.com/Retro-51-Disney-Tinkerbell-Pen-Pencil-Set/RET-PS-PR1TB1

ETA: the Tink pens were for me not Ed

See great taste again!!! What cute pens!

I did wonder why Ed wanted them.

I made this one for our last cruise, but we had a very small FE group, and I'm hoping it will still work. The pocket is 7"W x 6"D will it be ok do you think? We never got anything too bulky as a gift, and with the crazy baggage allowance that most people will choose something fairly small .. am I right?

That is ADORABLE!!!!!!

I guess it depends on how many groups you are in, if you get several FE gifts & some Candy on the same day then you may not have room in the one pouch. Could you add another two pouches, with your names on below? Or an idea I had for the Dream MV (there were over 100 cabins taking part) was to also hang a gift bag behind that FE incase it was full then people could use that too. They also hang flat when empty so no big deal if it doesn't get used.