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

[colkath2005]

it is odd, but hi neighbour, we promise to be quiet lol

Hi back ITs ok if your not quiet as long as I can join in any noisy fun
Colette

 

[susie2]

Hi back ITs ok if your not quiet as long as I can join in any noisy fun
Colette

lol, anytime

 

[3canadianslovedisney]

thanks! been missing the dis! yes... tent with restrooms about 100 yds away and cold water only. for showers had to drive back into estes park.

Wow Mandy, you are very brave!!! I'm definitely not an outdoorsy kind of gal, so that sounds like not too much fun.

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

I'm almost done with mine as well! Took me longer than I thought it would to get what I wanted, but in the end I'm quite pleased.

This is what she looks like:

What a beautiful girl! When I told DD that your DD was working for the summer in WDW she started thinking ahead 10 years or so to when she is in college.

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?

What a great FE. Did you use a pattern for that or did you just do it on your own?

Well we have finished our FE after tweaking many times.

Those are great!!! Good job.

Good Morning All! I am official now, and did my on board check in last night! So glad to be rooming with Evelyn! (fly4free2). I love meeting new folks! I'm still on the fence about flights. I would love to go up to Finland first perhaps. I have family there. Found some really inexpensive airfare from Helsinki to Barcelona on Air Baltic ($126 one way) with a stopover in Latvia. Does anyone know anything about that airlines? I once flew Aeroflot (USSR) in 1986 between Moscow and Simvatapol and it looked like lawn chairs for seats! No seriously, those seats could easily be removed, maybe to make them military aircraft?

Also, is anyone doing any private touring in Gibraltar other than the monkeys, caves, and seige tunnels? They are definitely not to be missed but I have already visited them twice. Great shopping in Gibraltar too and tax free! I think I'm going to invest in a better pair of binoculars. You get to see so much ship action thru the straits. I sailed from Tenerife to Morocco on my big 3-0 and saw tons of gray ships during the start up of Desert Shield. My dad was a merchant marine and sailed these waters from the US to the Med for over 50 years and crossing the Atlantic on a ship like he did so many times has a very special meaning for me as this will be my first time!

A hearty felt "get well soon" to anyone under the weather, recovering from surgery, undergoing testing. This cruise sounds like the ultimate R&R (relax and recover).

We flew Air Baltic 3 years ago to get from Ukraine to Lithuania. The flight was awesome. Very comfortable seats and they even had gifts for our DD. Service was amazing! I'd fly with them again in a heartbeat.

 

[TotallyAngelic]

What a beautiful girl! When I told DD that your DD was working for the summer in WDW she started thinking ahead 10 years or so to when she is in college.

Thank you. She has wanted to do it ever since she first went to WDW and saw the students working there on the college programme. Her real dream is to be a dancer in the parade or a UK character like Alice in Wonderland. She may yet apply for the year long CRP because if she gets accepted onto that then she can audition for performance roles and face characters if she is the appropriate height.

 

[3canadianslovedisney]

Thank you. She has wanted to do it ever since she first went to WDW and saw the students working there on the college programme. Her real dream is to be a dancer in the parade or a UK character like Alice in Wonderland. She may yet apply for the year long CRP because if she gets accepted onto that then she can audition for performance roles and face characters if she is the appropriate height.

That would be soooo fun! I would have loved to do that at her age. My DD is so outgoing and if she doesn't change too much in her adolescent years, I could see her trying out for something like that too. I don't know if it would be an advantage or not, but she knows 2 languages fluently and 2 others not as fluently - at least yet - and if we continue to live here in Ukraine she will know 4 languages fluently plus possibly some French. (The four languages are English, of course, and Russian fluently, Tatar, which is very close to Turkish, and Ukrainian, not as fluently.)

Anyway, we are hoping that the extra hard work she's put into this part of her life will be a benefit to her forever.

 

[3canadianslovedisney]

Well, it's so late here now and I should be in bed. We made 9 litres of hot salsa today and then went to a birthday party this evening. I should be really sleepy, but I think I'm overtired.

Hope all of you just starting your day have a great one and those of you ending your day have a great sleep!

ONLY 7 WEEKS TO GO!!!

 

[TotallyAngelic]

I don't know if it would be an advantage or not, but she knows 2 languages fluently and 2 others not as fluently - at least yet - and if we continue to live here in Ukraine she will know 4 languages fluently plus possibly some French. (The four languages are English, of course, and Russian fluently, Tatar, which is very close to Turkish, and Ukrainian, not as fluently.)

Anyway, we are hoping that the extra hard work she's put into this part of her life will be a benefit to her forever.

WOW that is amazing .... a lot of people around here are bilingual in English and Welsh but my we only know partial Welsh, and really thats not much use unless you are in Wales, or maybe Patagonia!

I am sure knowing those languages will be very beneficial to her throughout her life, particularly if you can stay in that area .... or if Epcot build a Russian pavilion !

 

[TheViking]

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did.

It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

Look forward to reading through the massive amount of posts about this cruise and get to know other Disney fans!

 

[susie2]

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did.

It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

Look forward to reading through the massive amount of posts about this cruise and get to know other Disney fans!

hi and welcome, we are leaving our children at home as well, this is our first ever cruise and we are really looking forward to it, susie

 

[liesbeth1012]

We love the California Grill I booked Cali Grill for Stevie's 40th and we saw the fireworks from our table, I would recommend it for a special occasion. It reminds me of Palo, mind you I think Palo was modelled on it

We booked California Grill on our last evening in WDW. And we can see the fireworks then. We are looking forward to be there.

 

[birkner]

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did.

It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

Look forward to reading through the massive amount of posts about this cruise and get to know other Disney fans!

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.

Why don't you tell us your names and a bit about your family?

My DH John and I have created a website for you view other cruisers and sign in with your information. WBTA Website
If you want to add your picture to the website, you can send it to us at nbirkner@yahoo.com
Please check this first page 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:
Cutoff date for joining the FE is August 1, 2011.

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. . Linked Dining
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 the lanyard link above for example of the previous 2010 WBTA pin. Cost will be 5 Euros per pin. Payment is to be made by June 30, 2011 to birkner@needinfo.com on PayPal. Contact Noel (birkner) if you have more questions about pins. * Just a quick note on Lanyard pins. I have ordered a couple extra pins so if you want a pin, pls PM me, first come, first served until the pins are all sold.

07. 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 at both early and late seating dinners. We will all wear our Mickey Mouse shirts and ears!!

08. I am organizing two tours in Madeira. West we did last year and also one for East Madeira. Here is the a PDF file that gives more information about the 2010 tour. If you are interested, please send Noel (birkner) a PM.

09. 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.

10. 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.

11 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.

12. Mandy (MandyGirl) is organizing a Tortola Excursion of a group rate 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 in being added to the standby list of this full excursion.

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

14. Karen (Pixie Dust For Me!)is organizing stateroom tours, but we can't do it without you! PM me with your stateroom assignment and room number and we will tour as many staterooms as possible. It would be great to get one in every category!
When: Definitely on a sea day....stay tuned for which day!
Time: TBD
Where: You will be given a list of participating stateroom numbers and categories the day after we embark (to account for all those upgrades, don't you know )
Refreshments: Optional per discretion of stateroom participant.

15. If you want a designed DIS tee shirt for this cruise, follow the instruction in this post. DIS Tee shirt

16. Cliffy 97 (Dan and Bruce) are organizing a typical English pub crawl on Friday, September 16 from 1:00PM until 5:00PM. We can then restart after dinner.
Those who were interested will in one of the bars for ( Traditionally a half pint pounded, I would suggest a drink of your choice) and then visit (Crawl) every other bar on the ship at least once.
As we do not have to worry about anything closing or how we are getting home, I would imagine we can spend 20-30 min at each location versus the 5-10 min you have on the monopoly pub crawl in London.

Tee Shirt Order Site
More details on the pub crawl here: Pub Crawl

If you are located outside of the USA and want a t-shirt, please PM Chris&Jeremy and he will send you the artwork so you can have your own shirt printed locally.

17. 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.

18. If you are interested in joining us for a farewell lunch, contact Claire (Pinky166) to be added to the list.
Come & join us for a farewell DIS lunch on the last sea day. Thursday 22nd Sept at 12.15pm, we are not sure which of the three rotational restaurants will be open on that day, should there be more than one open I have put them in order of preference - 1st Lumiere's, 2nd Parrot Cay or 3rd Animator's Palate.
Please make sure you check your Navigator that morning to see which restaurant is open for lunch as I won't be able to tell you in advance.
Please PM me if you'd like to join us and I will add you to the list, then once onboard notify the restaurant so they can seat us together at some large tables.

19. Hard Rock Cafe Meet. Some of us are hoping to meet up for drinks/a meal the evening of Friday 9th September at 6:30 PM at the Hard Rock Cafe on Placa Catalunya and is being organized by Sarah (Totally Angelic). Please send her a PM if you want to join in the fun!

20. Jane (We'reAliens) is organizing a Book Exchange. The idea is that a large bag will be hung on handrail outside stateroom 7120 available for anyone to borrow and, of course, donate books.

21. Jill (TxMermaid1) is organizing a dive in Tortola. Here is the info on the dive trip for Tortola Group leader lead by Jill Bouska, PADI Master Scuba Diver Instructor. Tortola Dive
(http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41602319&postcount=2002)

22. Nancy (Lionessa) wants to know if anyone interested or know about The Dolphin Royal Swim on Tortola? She is looking at booking it directly and would be very happy to share a taxi (minivan) with others who are interested. If you book ahead of time directly with the company you receive a discount. The Dolphin Royal Swim is for adults & children age 8+. ($149.00 adult) ($129.00 child) For the two, the total would be 278.00- discount= 208.00 US There are 4 shows as possibilities: 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. Since the ship leaves at 3:45, she doesn't think the last 2 are good possibilities. Please PM her for details and more information.

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did.

It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

Look forward to reading through the massive amount of posts about this cruise and get to know other Disney fans!

Hi and welcome aboard. We are Sarah and Tony from Wales, on our second Transatlantic cruise with Disney. We loved it so much last year

 

[Beauty & the Best]

That would be soooo fun! I would have loved to do that at her age. My DD is so outgoing and if she doesn't change too much in her adolescent years, I could see her trying out for something like that too. I don't know if it would be an advantage or not, but she knows 2 languages fluently and 2 others not as fluently - at least yet - and if we continue to live here in Ukraine she will know 4 languages fluently plus possibly some French. (The four languages are English, of course, and Russian fluently, Tatar, which is very close to Turkish, and Ukrainian, not as fluently.)

Anyway, we are hoping that the extra hard work she's put into this part of her life will be a benefit to her forever.

Wow, that is impressive. Well done to your DD (and you who I'm sure helped with the language learning)!! There seem to be more Russian travelers these days, so I'll bet she would be very much in demand at wdw.

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did.

It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

Look forward to reading through the massive amount of posts about this cruise and get to know other Disney fans!

Welcome! We are Liz & Joe and this is our 2nd TA - we did the EBTA last year and it was a great time. Tell us a little about yourself! You'll quickly find out that these boards are very friendly

 

[hazelandannie]

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did.

It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

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WelcOme!!! We are Annemarie and Hazel from Kent UK and this is our first ever cruise! You are sure to find all the info you need on these pages and things to sign up for also!

 

[TheViking]

We are Heather and Erik, and we live in Minnesota. Our kids are 15,13 and 10, but won't be joining us for this trip. They will however join us in Disney World in December when we stay at the Bay Lake Tower for the first time, we just became DVC members last year after a stay at Saratoga springs using an RCI exchange.

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I've put my wife in charge of making an account here to get to know you all as well, since she is the official Mickey nut, I'm just the adopted one.

We are looking forward to getting to know all of you and meeting up on the cruise! It was kind of a last minute thing for us to book this, we just came across it as an option about 3 weeks ago and decided to book it.

Now I just hope I can find a low milage Delta award in business class to Barcelona, we're currently booked in Economy using my miles, but would love to make it Business class instead.

We'll be staying at Le Meridian in Barcelona for 2 nights, it will be our first time there - I've been to southern spain before, but never Barcelona, its Heather's first trip to Spain.

Thanks for all the great information so far, the summary post with it all in one place was great!

Erik

 

[fly4free2]

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did.

It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

Look forward to reading through the massive amount of posts about this cruise and get to know other Disney fans!

Hi I am Evelyn, We are all going to have a wonderful cruise. This is my second Trans Atlantic, but first Disney. You will find this thread to have soooo much imformation. There are so many things to get involved in IF you want to. Auntlynn does a wonderful recap each week of the hi lites of the week. So, read on and don't get cross eyed See ya soon.

 

[birkner]

We are Heather and Erik, and we live in Minnesota. Our kids are 15,13 and 10, but won't be joining us for this trip. They will however join us in Disney World in December when we stay at the Bay Lake Tower for the first time, we just became DVC members last year after a stay at Saratoga springs using an RCI exchange.

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I've put my wife in charge of making an account here to get to know you all as well, since she is the official Mickey nut, I'm just the adopted one.

We are looking forward to getting to know all of you and meeting up on the cruise! It was kind of a last minute thing for us to book this, we just came across it as an option about 3 weeks ago and decided to book it.

Now I just hope I can find a low milage Delta award in business class to Barcelona, we're currently booked in Economy using my miles, but would love to make it Business class instead.

We'll be staying at Le Meridian in Barcelona for 2 nights, it will be our first time there - I've been to southern spain before, but never Barcelona, its Heather's first trip to Spain.

Thanks for all the great information so far, the summary post with it all in one place was great!

Erik

John and I have stayed at Le Meridien before and it is a great hotel. Le Meridien is very convenient for walking around on La Rambla, getting to the Hard Rock Cafe and to the El Corte Ingles.

 

[LindaBabe]

Hey all!

A friend of mine told me about this forum when I told her that we just booked this cruise as our first disney cruise!

We're going without the kids (me and my wife, both 37) - my wife is the Disney nut of the family, so as we talked about doing a trans-atlantic cruise, and I came across this one, she told me to just stop looking and book it, so I did. It will be our third cruise, but first trans-atlantic and first on Disney. We booked a guaranteed verandah for this cruise, and are spending 2 nights in Barcelona before the cruise.

Look forward to reading through the massive amount of posts about this cruise and get to know other Disney fans!

SMART MAN! Welcome aboard!

Any repeat cruisers know which terminal or dock in Barcelona?

 

[giraffe104]

I went to Cheese Cake Factory this week for dinner with a few coworkers and they had chicken with Madeira wine sauce... i had to order it. And it was delicious.

 

[birkner]

I went to Cheese Cake Factory this week for dinner with a few coworkers and they had chicken with Madeira wine sauce... i had to order it. And it was delicious.

DD Samantha who works now at Cheese Cake Factory in Hawaii had us try that and it was delicious!