*Sept 10th 2011 WB Transatlantic* From Spain to Space Mountain-Taking the Magic Home

[TotallyAngelic]

It's nearly the weekend and the sun is finally to be shining

The sun is shining here too, the daffodils are starting to bloom, it's beginning to look a lot like spring time here

The sun has arrived in Wales too ....

 

[susie2]

morning, its nice and sunny here in liverpool as well nice change, roll on next week so we can start making our dining reservations for when we get to bcv and pop, its very frustrating seeing our dates but not being able to book yet as we are not in the 180 days, susie

 

[Brookspayne]

Burnice

I hope your Mum gets better soon so they can enjoy their celebrations on board

Just noticed you are from Perth, my DD best's friend is emigrating to Perth on Monday and also one of my friend's emigrated there in 2010, must be a lovely place as we are losing losts of friends to your part of the world

It is a lovely place, have been here for 29 years, orginally from Woolwich, London.

Mum has been told she has a heart leakage so she needs to rest and to take things easy, the cruise and the 10 day stopover at the Boardwalk is still on (for the moment), the week in Las Vegas, we will decide near to September.

Thank you all for your best wishes, have passed them on to her yesterday when I visited her in hospital.

Burnice

 

[Pinky166]

The sun has arrived in Wales too ....

No sun here.

But 175 days will do, so i'll have a little dance.

morning, its nice and sunny here in liverpool as well nice change, roll on next week so we can start making our dining reservations for when we get to bcv and pop, its very frustrating seeing our dates but not being able to book yet as we are not in the 180 days, susie

I'm waiting to book our adr's next week too....not sure what i'm going to book yet though so I think i'll be reading some WDW menu's this weekend.

It is a lovely place, have been here for 29 years, orginally from Woolwich, London.

Mum has been told she has a heart leakage so she needs to rest and to take things easy, the cruise and the 10 day stopover at the Boardwalk is still on (for the moment), the week in Las Vegas, we will decide near to September.

Thank you all for your best wishes, have passed them on to her yesterday when I visited her in hospital.

Burnice

I spent a week in Perth a few years ago when we spent 2 months holidaying in Australia. We loved it and didn't want to come home, shame it is so hard to emigrate!


Hope your mum gets plenty of rest & is feeling better asap.

 

[squitty]

morning, its nice and sunny here in liverpool as well nice change, roll on next week so we can start making our dining reservations for when we get to bcv and pop, its very frustrating seeing our dates but not being able to book yet as we are not in the 180 days, susie

I know Susie...I can't wait to start making ADR's and I have been known to tweak them too

It is a lovely place, have been here for 29 years, orginally from Woolwich, London.

Mum has been told she has a heart leakage so she needs to rest and to take things easy, the cruise and the 10 day stopover at the Boardwalk is still on (for the moment), the week in Las Vegas, we will decide near to September.

Thank you all for your best wishes, have passed them on to her yesterday when I visited her in hospital.

Burnice

Hi Burnice,

Apologies for not seeing your previous thread. Sorry to hear about your Mum and I hope she's feeling better soon.
I'm sure the Cruise & WDW will be nice and relaxing.

 

[Dgentrysim]

Thanks! I'll go check it out this weekend - I know exactly where it is. This should be FUN!
Peggy

Let me know how you like it. Most of our scrapbook stores have closed down in the last couple of years and only places like A.C. Moore, Archivers, and Michael's are left. Sad. I get most of my stuff from Creative Memories but love to get stickers and some paper from other sources.

 

[Dgentrysim]

Just wanted to jump in and post below my friend Linda. I am late to sign on, and have so much reading to do on the cruise and its ports. This is my retirement gift to myself after 34 yrs in education. Look forward to connecting with many of you. Caroline

BIG CONGRATS on your retirement! What a wonderful retirement gift to give to yourself!!!

 

[birkner]

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.

 

[susie2]

I know Susie...I can't wait to start making ADR's and I have been known to tweak them too


Hi Burnice,

Apologies for not seeing your previous thread. Sorry to hear about your Mum and I hope she's feeling better soon.
I'm sure the Cruise & WDW will be nice and relaxing.

i know what you mean, i am terrible for tweeking. john never knows from one day to the next where we are staying or eating, but i get bored easily and tweek lol, susie

 

[Tod&Copper]

morning, its nice and sunny here in liverpool as well nice change, roll on next week so we can start making our dining reservations for when we get to bcv and pop, its very frustrating seeing our dates but not being able to book yet as we are not in the 180 days, susie

The sun has arrived in Wales too ....

Nice to see, everyone's getting the sunshire now, it fair cheers you up Our daffs are just about to burst open, but it's only 5 degrees C At least there's no snow forecast for this weekend

We are only staying at BWV for one night after the WBTA, so no ADRs for us, we will still be stuffed from 2 weeks of munching

A dash round the parks for the 2 days helps a bit before we head home on the Sunday evening

 

[GA-yaya]

Happy Friday fellow cruisers !!

It's nearly the weekend and the sun is finally to be shining

175 days to go

Yay! It's Friday!
Not to brag, but today & for the weekend we are expecting 80 degrees in sunny Georgia! Spring has finally sprung!
Time to get the yard cleaned up...

 

[karentan]

its done nothing but rain down here in essex. hasnt stopped all day and from looking at the weather radar on the net, it isnt going to either.
oh well, its a good excuse to spend the afternoon watching tv and obsessively pricing up various options for the holiday

 

[Dgentrysim]

Nice to see, everyone's getting the sunshire now, it fair cheers you up Our daffs are just about to burst open, but it's only 5 degrees C At least there's no snow forecast for this weekend

We are only staying at BWV for one night after the WBTA, so no ADRs for us, we will still be stuffed from 2 weeks of munching

A dash round the parks for the 2 days helps a bit before we head home on the Sunday evening

We are also going to be at the Boardwalk after the cruise. We'll stay for 2 nights. Was hoping to go to Halloween party at MK but doesn't look like they will have it those two nights!

The weather is beautiful here also! The sun is shining....80's this week-end, pear trees are bursting with blooms, daffodils/pansies springing up all over the place, and just the excitement of spring in the air! Going to be a "beautimous" week-end! Hope everyone had a wonderful week-end!

 

[squitty]

i know hat you mean, i am terrible for tweeking. john never knows from one day to the next where we are staying or eating, but i get bored easily and tweek lol, susie

If it's tweakable then I will tweak

Yay! It's Friday!
Not to brag, but today & for the weekend we are expecting 80 degrees in sunny Georgia! Spring has finally sprung!
Time to get the yard cleaned up...

Oh to be a few degrees behind you, it's a bit nippy here. I think we got to 9ºc today.
I was just thinking of cleaning the car and getting the garden tidied too.

 

[TotallyAngelic]

If it's tweakable then I will tweak


Oh to be a few degrees behind you, it's a bit nippy here. I think we got to 9ºc today.
I was just thinking of cleaning the car and getting the garden tidied too.

Well we have had a walk into town and had paninis for lunch in our local cinema / arts centre ... the temp has reached about 10.5 degrees and we have washing on the line. Have even seen some ants in the garden so spring is on it's way for sure. Driving to Manchester this evening so DS can visit with his girlfriend.

 

[karentan]

ah man, i'm actually jealous of the 10 degrees! its only been about 5-7 here. roll on summer, i need some heat!


seriously looking at flights now, we'd be flying into barcelona on the 9th, but probably wont be getting in til 9pm (the day flight is about double the price, besides, we did the barcelona touring thing last year). i've found an airport close to the airport for about £70, but we'd have to get the shuttle or a taxi there. or there's one actually in terminal 1 at the airport for £100.
alternatively we could get a hotel in town, but then will have to pay taxi from the airport into town, then again from town to the port. plus we wouldnt get there til at least 10.30pm, so wouldnt really be going out once we got there.

which option would you guys choose? i'm leaning towards the one in the airport, we're only really there to sleep.
i'm too chicken to try and fly in on the day of the cruise! although the flight would only be an extra £10 and then we save the £100 on the hotel.......
ack, i really dont know what to do! especially because the spanish keep on threatening to go on strike!

 

[granmaz]

If we were only there for the night then we would choose to stay at an airport hotel. Seems the Renaissance is the most popular one and I bet a pre cruise drinky time will be taking place the night before!!!

If the flight arrives in the morning of the day before, then I would go and stay in the city to have a wander round though and enjoy some of the atmosphere there.

 

[karentan]

i'm looking at either an evening flight on the 9th (arriving at 9.20pm), or morning flight on the 10th.

who'd staying at the airport renaissance then?

 

[susie2]

i'm looking at either an evening flight on the 9th (arriving at 9.20pm), or morning flight on the 10th.

who'd staying at the airport renaissance then?

we are staying at the renaissance as our flight doesnt arrive till 8.45 at night on the 9th so we decided to stay there and get the transfers and breakfast they have included, susie

 

[karentan]

if you dont mind me asking, how much did you pay for the room?