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

[Candy Apple]

Curiousity! Dying to know. Also, I will have magazines for people to take from my FE. Remember, the Queen of Magazines! I am sure my arm/elbow will be hurting by the time you see me at the Port, but I am determined to bring them in my carry on.

Is this going to be in the mini-navigator so others can add to them?

 

[LittleDisneyLovers]

Anyhow.....I have been watching the flurry of posts about how we'll know if people in our fish extender group have switched rooms. I'm a little confused by what the final consensus was. Can someone please explain it here (nice and slow...my poor brain is quite addled this summer!! )....AND maybe we should post on page one (or two??) in the post about fish extender gropus the details of what to do onboard to learn if there are room switches.

Sounds like you've been a busy boy!
We have been planning your wedding while you've been away, I volunteered for Flower Girl!
Sue has explained the FE / cabin number plan in detail further along the thread.

So just wanted to know if you saw in your skimming that we're all pitching in to plan your DIS wedding for the middle of the ocean or on Castaway Cay...

See, we're all in on it. We thought the Captain could walk you down the aisle.

Time is really going to go quickly now!!

Part of our anniversary celebrations during this 3 day weekend are to finalize plans for shore excursions, take a stock of what we still need to buy and weigh all our good with DH's new Balanza scale!!

The Balanzza scales are fantastic! We would be so lost without ours! I used to use a fishing thingy, but it wasn't very accurate.

We are surrounded by boxes and we still have a few small things to do. The good thing about packing up - we found about $400 in Disney Gift Cards that we didn't know we had! That will definitely help pay that final bill onboard!

Michael

What a great find! That's a few drinks of the day!

We're Back!!! Actually have been home since Thursday noon, but have had company since an hour after we arrived home. All is quiet now.....there is no way I can read all the pages I missed!

Hope you had a great time

I sign in and there are tons of pages - lots of good talking! Why don't we all meet in the Promenade Lounge or Sessions and have a drink and talk about room numbers that way we can do it all at once instead of people running all over the place. Don't forget the room numbers for the scrapbook exchange and the medications! Okay...just my thoughts (stealing Noel's line).

I'd love to meet in the promenade lounge, but I don't think everyone would make it.

Welcome back! We all missed you - and we planned a wedding for you guys while you were away
OK - Heres the deal... Hopefully this will stop the confusion...

As I have most of the people due tot he FE lists, I have created a master listing of who is doing what. It has DIS name, room number, a spot to list a new room number, and then what all you are doing. Click here to see it.

I will print enough copies for EVERYONE and will also publish a PDF file that people can download. The PDF will be posted here (via link) and the printed copies will be in an envelope in our fish. On the outside of the envelope will be a copy of the list that people can use to make changes if they upgrade, or get moved, or whatever.

The list has FE, Candy Swap, Secret Mickey, Postcards, Scrapbook - and can hold more - just let me kow what I am missing. If you want more details, just let me know what you want listed.

Did I clear it up or make it worse?

Has anyone else heard of FE's being moved to new homes? I guess I need to bring zip ties?

More with the wedding Eric, are you listening?

Sue, that is fantastic, You are so organised. Thanks for doing this!

I am bringing some cable ties for my FE, I read some go walking on the main board.

Wish we were sailing.....[/COLOR]

Don't we all??? I want to wake up on board tomorrow morning and avoid the long flight over too!

Just realized this... PLEASE - don't stop by until after day 10!! Can't say why, sorry!!

Oooohhhhh, Secret Squirrel!!!

Curiousity! Dying to know. Also, I will have magazines for people to take from my FE. Remember, the Queen of Magazines! I am sure my arm/elbow will be hurting by the time you see me at the Port, but I am determined to bring them in my carry on.

I'm with you. My luggage is out of control, but I am determined to bring some magazines!

Yes, i did get your pm. Most company's only do 100 but there's one who does 50 but the price is a bit higher, but next week i will now more.

When the price is okay we will get the 50 pins, but maybe we get more people who like to buy one or more.

I will put a list on the board from who send me a pm or message on the board.

Connie

Thanks for organising this Connie

Some birds, like mockingbirds, can be very territorial and will swoop down on whatever they see as threatening their area. Last time we were in MK, we saw a bird swoop down on a woman, but it was because it was trying to steal her ice cream cone. Scared the daylights out of her!

We have magpie season here, when their young are born they swoop you if you walk within a proximity to their nest. They are medium sized black and white birds, and they are vicious. They will easily draw blood! It happens the same time every year for a few months.
Does anyone else have magpies, or are they Australian?

 

[BoosGram]

By the way, a dinner at Topsiders would be wonderful - especially if we have different seating times and don't get a chance to talk. Second formal night anyone?????>

Sounds like a plan to me, especially since we'll miss all the later seating folks. Guess we'll need some kind of compromise time.

Marc was the driver in this area. I LOVE the beach, the heat (yes, I can go to Palm Springs with 120 degree temps (no humidity) and be VERY happy), the lounging by a pool with beverages brought to me by wait staff, the heat, the beach, heat - have I said I love the heat? I moved to L.A. from the U.P. of Michigan with a stopover of 18 months in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. ANYTHING, in my mind, is better than those two places weather-wise.

Marc, while happy in L.A., is not a "heat" person at all. He gets redder than a beet if he's out in the sun for more than, oh, 5 minutes. He's put up with me for 24 years now (2 of those married - the anniversary was yesterday!) and when he was talking about retirement he mentioned that he had been looking around for a place to retire that would be both economically feasible and a wonderful area. We both love Mexico (me the beach, he the mountains) and it was time for me to realize that this all wasn't about ME! If he could put up with me and all my foibles for this length of time, I sure as heck could learn to love any place that we decided to light down.

San Miguel de Allende (SMA) is a jewel. He researched it, bought books about it, put them down where I could pick them up and read about it, read blogs about it, and it didn't take much to convince me!

Our first time there was early March of this year. We spent 3 days there and loved it! Met one of the ladies and her partner of 30-some years who wrote one of the books that convinced us about SMA as well as the blog that we read and we just had a grand time. By the time we got home they had sent an e-mail suggesting a new place for us to think about renting (the first place we wanted, very Gaudiesque, just wasn't right for us) and we were back down there at the end of March to take a look at that; 4 days that visit. The next visit was at the end of April and we were there for 7 days! In total we've only been there 14 days but have become enamored of all things SMA. We've met some wonderful people in our short time there and we know we've made the right choice. Some might say we've chosen hastily and one couldn't argue with them! But we're darn happy right now! Almost gay!

What makes it even better is we've got to work a bit while there. Our Spanish is horrendous! Our neighborhood is a working-class Mexican neighborhood. There is one other gringa on our street and that's it. We can't retreat behind our housing walls and expect to make it. We've GOT to get out and meet the folks.

One could live in a palace down there, but you don't need to! Yes, there are enclaves of expats in million-dollar homes but that is so unneccesary for us. We've got a great home at a great rent (4 months rent there = 1 month mortgage here) for a house more than twice the size of what we have now, LOTS of cultural stuff going on every single month, and, if we need to, we can get back to the states easily - or just take the $20 airfare I just found from Guadalajara to Cabo and spend a few days at the beach.....

We're gonna have fun! Life, no matter WHAT they tell you, IS an adventure!

That sounds amazing. You did know it's hot there, though, right?

Sounds like you've been a busy boy!
We have been planning your wedding while you've been away, I volunteered for Flower Girl!
Sue has explained the FE / cabin number plan in detail further along the thread.

See, we're all in on it. We thought the Captain could walk you down the aisle.

I could be mother of the groom (you could fight over me ).

I'd love to meet in the promenade lounge, but I don't think everyone would make it.

We could try...

We have magpie season here, when their young are born they swoop you if you walk within a proximity to their nest. They are medium sized black and white birds, and they are vicious. They will easily draw blood! It happens the same time every year for a few months.
Does anyone else have magpies, or are they Australian?

I doubt they're exactly the same, but I know we saw birds they called magpies when we went to Utah.

 

[TChrist05]

Hey guys....a quick question for you....we just upgraded our phones at Verizon and we got two $50 debit cards. Can we use them on the ship to pay for things?
What do you think?
Thanks.
Tom

 

[birkner]

It's LEDERHOSEN.

I was just quoting this site so I stand corrected.

http://hausofbavaria.com/ If you click under men's wear, the click bundhosen

 

[Hoagie Pie]

Hey guys....a quick question for you....we just upgraded our phones at Verizon and we got two $50 debit cards. Can we use them on the ship to pay for things?
What do you think?
Thanks.
Tom

I hope so Tom because I got one $100 that I want to use for a massage! You use it like a charge card. That is what I did last time.

BoosGram - we can decide on a time, depending on the show that night - how does that sound? I am excited!!!

 

[ReAnSt]

Landyardpins

A list of people who are interst in the landyardpins:

Connie

What is a lanyard pin???

Is it a button like the Disney celebration buttons or more like a Disney trading pin type thing, a pin that hangs of the bottom of the lanyard or something else? A picture would be helpful, even if it is not exactly what these will look like.

Thanks!

 

[ReAnSt]

Does whoever created this design have a larger format of it they could either post or email to me?

Thanks!

 

[birkner]

Some birds, like mockingbirds, can be very territorial and will swoop down on whatever they see as threatening their area. Last time we were in MK, we saw a bird swoop down on a woman, but it was because it was trying to steal her ice cream cone. Scared the daylights out of her!

I have seen pigeons and crows be aggressive but not smaller birds. Live and learn!!

 

[birkner]

Marc was the driver in this area. I LOVE the beach, the heat (yes, I can go to Palm Springs with 120 degree temps (no humidity) and be VERY happy), the lounging by a pool with beverages brought to me by wait staff, the heat, the beach, heat - have I said I love the heat? I moved to L.A. from the U.P. of Michigan with a stopover of 18 months in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. ANYTHING, in my mind, is better than those two places weather-wise.

Marc, while happy in L.A., is not a "heat" person at all. He gets redder than a beet if he's out in the sun for more than, oh, 5 minutes. He's put up with me for 24 years now (2 of those married - the anniversary was yesterday!) and when he was talking about retirement he mentioned that he had been looking around for a place to retire that would be both economically feasible and a wonderful area. We both love Mexico (me the beach, he the mountains) and it was time for me to realize that this all wasn't about ME! If he could put up with me and all my foibles for this length of time, I sure as heck could learn to love any place that we decided to light down.

San Miguel de Allende (SMA) is a jewel. He researched it, bought books about it, put them down where I could pick them up and read about it, read blogs about it, and it didn't take much to convince me!

Our first time there was early March of this year. We spent 3 days there and loved it! Met one of the ladies and her partner of 30-some years who wrote one of the books that convinced us about SMA as well as the blog that we read and we just had a grand time. By the time we got home they had sent an e-mail suggesting a new place for us to think about renting (the first place we wanted, very Gaudiesque, just wasn't right for us) and we were back down there at the end of March to take a look at that; 4 days that visit. The next visit was at the end of April and we were there for 7 days! In total we've only been there 14 days but have become enamored of all things SMA. We've met some wonderful people in our short time there and we know we've made the right choice. Some might say we've chosen hastily and one couldn't argue with them! But we're darn happy right now! Almost gay!

What makes it even better is we've got to work a bit while there. Our Spanish is horrendous! Our neighborhood is a working-class Mexican neighborhood. There is one other gringa on our street and that's it. We can't retreat behind our housing walls and expect to make it. We've GOT to get out and meet the folks.

One could live in a palace down there, but you don't need to! Yes, there are enclaves of expats in million-dollar homes but that is so unneccesary for us. We've got a great home at a great rent (4 months rent there = 1 month mortgage here) for a house more than twice the size of what we have now, LOTS of cultural stuff going on every single month, and, if we need to, we can get back to the states easily - or just take the $20 airfare I just found from Guadalajara to Cabo and spend a few days at the beach.....

We're gonna have fun! Life, no matter WHAT they tell you, IS an adventure!

Your story is just so amazing!! I love how adventurous the two of you are!! Not sure I could convince DH to live in Mexico but you have inspired me to look beyond my comfort zone!!

I am like you prefer the beach but California coastline is not sunny in the mornings. I like to wake up to the sun!!

 

[birkner]

Okay, I just have to ask. Where did you suddently find all these great little animated pictures? They're so cute!!

Smiley central on the web. Aren't they fun?

 

[Dis-Bits]

Morning everyone! I have a 20 minute break between girls here at the gym (preparations for fall try outs have kicked into high gear...so i'm typically coaching tumbling Monday through thursday from the time I get out of work at 5 pm until 9:30pm and on Saturdays from 8am to at least 4pm---AAAAHHHHH!!!----at least it pays well, though....and subsidizes these crazy vacations I take...even if it does mean I never get to see my poor dear partner!! )

Are you a gymnastics coach? Both of my daughters are in gymnastics. Haley (7) is in level fun 4 and Bella (6) level 2. They both started when they were 3

 

[birkner]

What is a lanyard pin???

Is it a button like the Disney celebration buttons or more like a Disney trading pin type thing, a pin that hangs of the bottom of the lanyard or something else? A picture would be helpful, even if it is not exactly what these will look like.

Thanks!

A lanyard pin is a pin you attach to your lanyard by pressing the pin through the lanyard and fastening in on the back. I use special pin holders to be sure the pin is safe. You can buy the fasteners where ever you buy your pins.

Here is a picture of a pin that you would attach to a lanyard.

 

[Futurist]

Everyone on this thread has been so supportive and generous in so many ways, that I almost want to commit High Heresy....

So, sorry, Cap'n, I was wonderin' if you'd mind if the rallyin' cry of this here cruise became:


GIVE WHAT YA CAN!

and the reply


ACCEPT SUMPTIN' BACK!


I know, I know - it's not the pirate code, but somehow.......

just a thought....

 

[Diznyfan68]

Hey guys....a quick question for you....we just upgraded our phones at Verizon and we got two $50 debit cards. Can we use them on the ship to pay for things?
What do you think?
Thanks.
Tom

We have 3 of them and plan on using them to give ourselves OBC's

 

[mdwoodman]

Lanyardpins with Cruiselogo



I think this will be a good desgin for a pin, maybe whitout the cuts. And i don't now if we can put Mickey on it?




Connie

Connie, I was concerned about this, too. I think there may be a trademark issue if we use Mickey on the pin and Disney isn't getting a cut (percentage). The pin company can probably give you a reading on this.

 

[paulasillars]

How the candy/chocolate swap works
Each player (or stateroom in some cases) will bring 1 small snack/treat sized candy/chocolate bar for each other member of their designated group.

For example, I am playing in 3 groups (2,3&4) so I need to bring 27 candy bars - 9 for each of the 3 groups I am in.

If you would like to play there is still time to join in - I will close participation towards end of August. Just PM me with how many groups you want to be in and your stateroom number.

For those playing - please confirm your details as below - I still have 4 people/cabins who haven't got back to me yet

1) you still wish to play
2) that you are down for the right number of "groups"
3) your stateroom number if I don't have it noted

Any questions, please ask

 

[paulasillars]

I still have a few of these MM beads to give away for a Pandora or similar style bracelet if anyone else is interested - its just the bead only, not the actual bracelet. Just PM if you want one. I don't want anything in return (though of course chocolate would not be turned away )

 

[paulasillars]

I will probably be the first to get my Fe's delivered, as there is some food as part of my gift, It would be too tempting to have all that yummy food in our cabin! And as for the Candy Swap, I've already had to replace them a few times!

We'll probably do our FE gifts and candy swap on one of the sea days - gives us something to do so we don't get bored

Nope - I don't mind at all. I do a lot of things like this at work - spreadsheets, pivot charts, power points... I can do it at the office nd no one will be any the wiser... I can also make it a pdf and post it to my photobook so people can have it ahead of time...

WOW! That looks amazing, I'll check it out a bit more later - the Candy swap is still juggling about so please don't set it in concrete just yet.

Since we just booked this cruise and I have never been on this board before, I am trying to get up to speed on the all the past posting. Unfortunately, I can't send any PMs until I have posted 10 messages (kinda of a strange rule). Therefore, is it ok to put the responses to some of the postings, i.e. flight, hotel, Madeira tour lists here? Maybe someone has another suggestion?

Just do a bunch of nearly empty posts to get yourself up to 10 messages - looks like you are at 4 already so I'm sure no one would mind a bunch of nearly blank messages

For anyone still trying to get a pre-cruise room in Barcelona, Disney advised me they do not have any available rooms at the 4 hotels they can place you with. So I tried the one many of you are listed as staying at; the Praktik Rambla. I was only able to book online for the 14th departing the 17th and a phone call to the hotel confirmed I could only get the first 3 nights. However, I sent an e-mail asking to extend through the 18th and they immediately e-mailed me back with a new reservation number with the 4th night. Sure nice to have that worry taken care of.

Glad you got a room sorted - seems like there are a lot of us staying there

At least we haven't turned the internet/cable system off yet! We can surf, we can surf, we can surf!!!

Thank goodness for small mercies

As I have most of the people due tot he FE lists, I have created a master listing of who is doing what. It has DIS name, room number, a spot to list a new room number, and then what all you are doing. Click here to see it.

The list has FE, Candy Swap, Secret Mickey, Postcards, Scrapbook - and can hold more - just let me kow what I am missing. If you want more details, just let me know what you want listed.

Its saying I don't have permission to see it on that site. Can we have a "comments" column and note things like the books & magazine swap cabins - just in case they shift too.

By the way, a dinner at Topsiders would be wonderful - especially if we have different seating times and don't get a chance to talk. Second formal night anyone?????>

Sounds like a nice idea.

We have magpie season here, when their young are born they swoop you if you walk within a proximity to their nest. They are medium sized black and white birds, and they are vicious. They will easily draw blood! It happens the same time every year for a few months.
Does anyone else have magpies, or are they Australian?

Aha I know about this! In great detail actually

The Australia White and Black Backed magpies are indigenous to Australia but have been introduced to New Zealand. They aren't related to the similarly named birds in the Europe/US but are in fact related to the Crow family. They are very territorial which makes them aggressive especially in the nesting season.

The got named by the early european settlers who wanted things to remind them of "home" so just because they were black and white, they got so named. They are very good mimics and even when "tamed" they can be aggressive and do not make very good pets.

My parents have had a series of disabled and rehomed adult pet magpies over the years, they can not be rehabilitated back into the wild or introduced to a new family group due to their territorial natures.

They only have 2 left now, Josie is 20+ years old and Bruce is about 8. I lived with Josie for over 10 years before I left home and she attacked me on a daily basis - usually only once per day just to ensure I knew where I belonged in their strict heirachy.

Lesson over

 

[roseburghughes]

Random thoughts:

I do not do the Tux thing, but I will wear a jacket and tie on formal nights. I was unable to book Palo on one of our formal nights, so my wife and I will have 3 formal nights, unless we decide to go to the buffet.

I agree with those who say you don’t need to wear a tux or suit to formal nights. I remember guys in Dockers and a polo shirt on formal night.

My wife and I have started looking at clothes for the trip and I was surprised to find that we are both taking 4 pairs of shoes (I‘m wearing sketchers, bringing running shoes, dress shoes and sandals). My wife has three times the shoes I have in the closet. How about you? How many shoes are you bringing? Guys? Ladies?

to all the newcomers. I was trying to think how it would be to book a cruise just two months before you leave, instead of two years ahead like a lot of us.

I have completed most of our planning. My wife does the budgeting and helps with the final decisions for the plans. I have enjoyed the Disney boards for quite a few years now (mostly lurking), but now she is hooked on DIS (She enjoys reading, but not the posting part).

We are both getting excited now that our countdown is below 100 (72 days until we fly to Barcelona).

I got a Kodak (ZxD) pocket video camera for the trip and have been playing with it to figure it out (nervous about our larger camera with the Barcelona theft problems). No case or attachments , just shoot and slip into my pants pocket (with my hand over it, so the pickpocket wont have room for his hand).

When I have caught up on reading DIS posts , I watch Disney cruise videos on youtube (some people are very talented in editing their videos) and take a walk around Barcelona on Google streetview.

We are still working a few other details, like communication. We are going to upgrade our cell phone plan to International Texting and I’m looking into Skype (video) to stay in touch with our grandkids. Our grandkids and our daughter live with us, so my wife and I will miss them , as we will be gone for a month (Travel days, Barcelona, Cruise, and Walt Disney World).

We are traveling to Reno (old hometown) at the end of the month and we will buy Euros for the trip there (Wells Fargo International Banking Center) so there will be no fees.

Is it just me or have some of you printed a deck plan with fellow DISers marked in cabins near you and made a list of names of other DISers from your home state (Oregon for us)?

Thank you all for the multiple pages of posts. My wife and I check all the new posts every night and discuss tips, ideas and other info from this board .

Looking forward to the cruise.