Sept 18 2010 WB TransAtlantic Pirates/Capt Jacks Re-Repoing Repossession Cruise Pt.7

[FrauP]

Will there be one or two formal nights?

Are any of the men bringing tuxedos?

How "formal" are you all thinking?
Andrea

I am not thinking super formal. As I already did on our other cruises.

I want to pack veeeery light. And even consider only packing for about one week and then use the washing machines.

But I came up with this idea of buying me a "Dirndl" for one of the formal nights. A typical Bavarian dress...

You guys know what I mean?

So, maaaaybe. I'll do that.

 

[birkner]

The original fish to the left of the door to which the fish extender is usually attached was designed so that DCL could lodge envelopes, cards etc.

Albert

Thank you for responding. My concern is that they might be "misappropriated" like sometimes happens with magnets or FE gifts.

 

[HallsofVA]

I am jealous. I put a call into my TA, she sent me an email saying she was gonna check, but have not heard a word back. Guess I will shoot her a reminder.

Hence one of the reasons I do not like using a TA. I am a bit of a control freak and when you surrender control to someone else this is what happens.

I am a control freak too, but have had great luck using Tracy from DU. When I saw the military rates come out, I emailed her that evening (around midnight), and she had us rebooked at the military rates by noon the next day. We'd previously discussed her looking out for the rates for us, but a) as a self-proclaimed control freak, I was checking myself every day for months; and b) they weren't published on the DCL website as available until the following Monday, so we ended up finding them before she had the chance to find them for us. I think our folks went from a 5 to a 6 and saved over half of the original cruise price, and we upgraded from 10 to 6 and still saved almost $1000 more.

 

[woody73]

I will volunteer to have the lists on our door. Tell me how you want them formatted. I could do excel spread sheets with names and room numbers and attach a pen so people could change their numbers. My only concern is do you think people would come by and randomly change numbers? I guess I could follow up and call people to be sure??

Oh yes they might but I'm sure not that many people would would they? Most people are good at it and if we say all room changes need to be noted on the first day then we should be able to see if someone comes along and alters it later?

I have no problem for doing it for as many groups as you need. Seems like it is easier to have one place to go. I could just pass the info to the point persons or just leave it up for them to collect.

On the EBTA, we had one centrally located dry erase board for cabin changes and other announcements. Cabin changes were noted:

NAME . . . . . CABIN
Mickey 123 - xxxx
Donald NY - xxxx
Goofy abc - xxxx​

Unfortunately, some other cruisers (either accidentally or on purpose) smudged the information. This happened often.

We found it was better to have the cabin changes on a sheet of paper (held with a magnetic clip).

I suggest not posting a copy of the Excel spreadsheet (the full cabin list) on a cabin door. That information should kept within the DIS group.

On our WBTA, people could note their information and groups as follows:

NAME . . . . . CABIN . . . . . GROUPS
Mickey 123 - xxxx - Kiwi Group
Donald NY - xxxx - Postcard Exchange
Goofy abc - xxxx - Kiwi Group, Secret Mickey
​

My two cents.

Woody

 

[birkner]

I think its being converted into a booklet pdf so not sure whether this takes longer as I'm not doing this bit of it. Im happy to send the word version out to anyone that wants it early anyway and assuming it doesn't take long to do what I was thinking was releasing an initial version in early August then I can keep updating as we go until nearer the time - probably 2 weeks before so people who are flying in can get it.

Anyone who is flying in earlier I'm happy to bring some extras with me and I'm hoping someone else will offer to do the same (incase I either forget or they get damaged on the way)

All I know is that DH has told me that as long as you have the fully licensed Adobe package that allows one to create PDF's, He says it is relatively easy to convert to a booklet PDF if you know what buttons to push, even the Word document is up to 50 pages. He has done both manually and with Adobe many times for DD's school auction programs.

DH will probably convert our cruise plans stuff when we are finally done into a PDF file so we can view it offline on computer so we don't have to print it.

Just my thoughts...

 

[Hoagie Pie]

Noel, thank you so much for the wonderful compliment. I always try to look at life as the glass is half full. Sometimes you can get down and out, but I have to much not to smile!!

I know nothing about soccer so congrats to Netherlands for beating Brazil. I am sure everyone is celebrating.

I agree with Woody, I don't think I would want my cabin number posted for all to see that is not dis. What about if the person that has their cabin changed or upgraded, takes charge of their cabin and informs the people that need informing, FE list, secret Mickey, tastings, etc. That way you are responsible for yourself instead of someone that has 100 names be responsible for everybody. It might be easier!

Okay, that is my 2 cents!!

 

[birkner]

I am not thinking super formal. As I already did on our other cruises.

I want to pack veeeery light. And even consider only packing for about one week and then use the washing machines.

But I came up with this idea of buying me a "Dirndl" for one of the formal nights. A typical Bavarian dress...

You guys know what I mean?

So, maaaaybe. I'll do that.

 

[birkner]

On the EBTA, we had one centrally located dry erase board for cabin changes and other announcements. Cabin changes were noted:

NAME . . . . . CABIN
Mickey 123 - xxxx
Donald NY - xxxx
Goofy abc - xxxx​

Unfortunately, some other cruisers (either accidentally or on purpose) smudged the information. This happened often.

We found it was better to have the cabin changes on a sheet of paper (held with a magnetic clip).

I suggest not posting a copy of the Excel spreadsheet (the full cabin list) on a cabin door. That information should kept within the DIS group.

On our WBTA, people could note their information and groups as follows:

NAME . . . . . CABIN . . . . . GROUPS
Mickey 123 - xxxx - Kiwi Group
Donald NY - xxxx - Postcard Exchange
Goofy abc - xxxx - Kiwi Group, Secret Mickey
​

My two cents.

Woody

Noel, thank you so much for the wonderful compliment. I always try to look at life as the glass is half full. Sometimes you can get down and out, but I have to much not to smile!!

I know nothing about soccer so congrats to Netherlands for beating Brazil. I am sure everyone is celebrating.

I agree with Woody, I don't think I would want my cabin number posted for all to see that is not dis. What about if the person that has their cabin changed or upgraded, takes charge of their cabin and informs the people that need informing, FE list, secret Mickey, tastings, etc. That way you are responsible for yourself instead of someone that has 100 names be responsible for everybody. It might be easier!

Okay, that is my 2 cents!!

Sandi, you deserve the praise. You do have a great outlook on life!! No thanks necessary.!!

As for the posting changes, I am up to doing whatever people want to do about making the changes.

Perhaps, if someone had a change, they could call my stateroom, leave a message and I could forward to the appropriate person in charge. I think this would probably work as most changes would be mostly likely in the the first few days.

I leave it to the event organizers to decide how they want to organize posting or not the changes once we are aboard.

Just my thoughts...

 

[woody73]

Perhaps I should have said it like this (instead of using xxxx for cabin numbers).

On our WBTA, people could note their information and groups as follows:

NAME . . . . . CABIN . . . . . GROUPS
Mickey 123 - 2345 - Kiwi Group
Donald NY - 6789 - Postcard Exchange
Goofy abc - 7890 - Kiwi Group, Secret Mickey

Woody

 

[alexandmaddie]

I just returned from a walk around the lake where I was attacked by a bird. It was so weird. The dumb thing came right at my head and it still hurts. I'm trying to decide what I should do tomorrow when I walk by that same spot. This isn't the first time I have had issues with birds at that spot, but this is the first time I've been physically assaulted by a bird!!

Any suggestions?

 

[woody73]

I just returned from a walk around the lake where I was attacked by a bird

. . . I'm trying to decide what I should do tomorrow when I walk by that same spot.

Any suggestions?

Wear this outfit.

Woody

 

[paulcrsb]

Wear this outfit.

Woody

Very nice! Didn't someone make a movie once about people getting attacked by birds?

 

[birkner]

I just returned from a walk around the lake where I was attacked by a bird. It was so weird. The dumb thing came right at my head and it still hurts. I'm trying to decide what I should do tomorrow when I walk by that same spot. This isn't the first time I have had issues with birds at that spot, but this is the first time I've been physically assaulted by a bird!!

Any suggestions?

Wear this outfit.

Woody

No suggestions other than to find another trail!! Of course, you could get a slingshot....

Hilarious Woody!! You have the greatest lines and find the best pics!!

 

[Hoagie Pie]

Very nice! Didn't someone make a movie once about people getting attacked by birds?

Alfred Hitchcock! I remember that movie. I got attacked by a bird once and I just flapped my arms around my head area and it flew away. It was very scary - it sounds funny, but it does happen. Mine was just a little bird and I think it was sick. After I went into the house, it committed suicide by diving into my glass patio door trying to come after me. I had nightmares for a few days! I am not a bird fan.

 

[got2travel]

September 6 is my son Trevor's birthday also... can you request a cake in the dining room?

Janice

Wow, Sept 6 and almost the same name. My son does get called Trevor a lot though as hardly anyone has ever heard the name Trevoy.

You can have DCL put it on your reservation now and/or tell your server or head waiter once you are on board. They will bring a small cake after dinner on the night you choose.

 

[pjpoohbear]

Good idea! Thanks Woody! I know I need Penny (pjpoohbear) will then need to do a bit of magic getting it to PDF so not sure when she wants it? Let me know when's easiest!

Sarah is correct I am converting her newsletter into a normal PDF for use on electronic gadgets and a half fold booklet PDF so a final copy can be easily be printed when Sarah sends them out to us.

you can even tell your server the first night of the cruise. Our Patrick only likes chocolate cake, so they brought him a chocolate cake! A friend of ours DS doesn't like cake at all, so they brought him a huge bowl of strawberries, which he absolutely loves! The servers are wonderful

Ok the bowl of strawberries has me intrigued.


Pj

 

[cquick]

BTW, oh captain-my-captain, it seems that there are too many copies of the morphed logos still linked to my photobucket account and it's making me exceed the bandwidth each month. (earlier & earlier each month it appears...) Would it be possible to request that people move the logos to their own account and link to there instead so they don't turn off so quick? (or so I don't have to upgrade to the pro account?) Thank you, thank you!!

I will do it immediately!

 

[birkner]

Sarah is correct I am converting her newsletter into a normal PDF for use on electronic gadgets and a half fold booklet PDF so a final copy can be easily be printed when Sarah sends them out to us.

Pj

I am glad to know. Just wanted to be sure you had the right tools. Sounds like you are all checked out.

 

[nordkin]

Wow it is hard to keep up with you guys. I'm away a few days and I can't catch up.

I hope all of those in the USA have a wonderful July 4th weekend.

 

[pjpoohbear]

I am glad to know. Just wanted to be sure you had the right tools. Sounds like you are all checked out.

It was fun to look for a program that would do the job. I have learned a new skill and get to help out Sarah and the cruise group too. I was feeling lazy because I wasn't doing anything for the group and now I get help out in a small way.

Pj