Sept 4-8 2005 Wonder S.S. Member Cruise! Part 2

[MarkRG]

Nasa is having a scheduled press conference right now. Points of interest.

1) They hit a bird just upon launch, they had not even cleared the tower at that point. It collided with the fuel tank and they feel that impact was no damage to the tank.

2) Something came off the fuel tank after they jetissoned the solid rocket boosters. It didn't come anywhere near the shuttle, came off the side of the tank where the boosters were attached. They don't know how big or small it is from the 1 camera angle, they have others they are still looking at.

3) They did lose a piece of a tile right behind the nose gear doors. No impact, it just fell off. They don't seem too concerned by it, they have had the orbiter return with tile damage before, not all the tiles are as critical.

None of the above are mission threats at this point, they are still looking at data and they already have a plan in place to use the new arm to examine the entire underside of the shuttle. They also have equipment onboard that they can repair damage to a point to keep a safe return. They will have more to know and tell by Thursday.

 

[seaulater]

Wouldn't it be funny if we show up to the Bon Voyage party and they are all standing there holding fish extenders and mickey binders and wearing blinkies!! Somehow, I just KNOW someone is reading all this taking notes and ready to tease the heck out of us once we get on board!!

Well I know for a fact that many DCL cast members were reading our thread before we got on for the PC cruise. And once we were on board Rachel and Daniel (Rachel-Cruise Director; Danial-Dining Room Manager) both asked me for my DISBOARDS personal navigator that I had done for everyone on the disboards with all our activities in it.

They used it as a guide to know what we were doing! (Although, we had many other things planned, but they didn't know it!) I think the funniest things we did that they were amazed at was the Stateroom to Stateroom Tour so we could all see different catergory staterooms; the digital camera scavenger hunt and the Kingdom to Kingdom Scrapbook class.

They should have hired us to plan their activities! We were just way too much fun.

Linda

 

[alikat99]

Ok, here's a funny conversation that I had with Emily at dinner tonight.

Emily - "T-O-Y toy"
Me - "Did you just spell toy?"
Emily - "T-O-Y toy"
Me - "You just spelled toy. Who taught you that?"
Emily - "T-O-Y toy"
Me - "Where did you learn that? Who said that?"
Emily - "Woody says that. T-O-Y toy"

She's been watching Toy story lately, and I guess that she learned it from Woody. Who says Disney movies don't teach children anything?

 

[bcvprincesses]

I would love to have a Stateroom to Stateroom Tour so we could all see different catergory staterooms. We have never been on the cruise and would like to see all the different cat. so we can plan for future cruises. We have a cat 4 room (only because that was all that was left when my dh called) and would love to see all the different kinds. Anyone else interested?

 

[WDWLVR]

I'm up for a tour. We've only been in a 5, 6 & 7. Would love to see the others. Especially Mary's sideways room.

 

[Mikem861]

Count me in - we have only been in cat 6.


Lisa

 

[HookdonWDW]

I'd be interested... Cat 6 here

 

[alikat99]

I've only been in a cat 6 on our last cruise, and this time we have a secret porthole room.

 

[bcvprincesses]

I would love to see what the secret porthole room is all about. So how do we do this?

 

[TENNDVC]

WOW haven't been online for awhile and had a lot of reading to do. Stateroom tours sound like fun. Everyone always wants to know what the other categories look like. We have only been in 6,7, & 11. What is the dgital scavenger hunt about? Trying to get DH to dress up for pirates night but don't think he will.

 

[Diana Lyn]

I'd love to see the secret porthole room! Count me in!

We're in a category 11 aka keep Diana away from the windows room!

I just got back from Office Max. DH came with me, and the angel that he is didn't even ask what we were going for. Up and down all the aisles I go, about 5 minutes into the store, he says, What the heck are you looking for?? I told him I was afraid to tell him! Our Office Max had slim pickins. I got a yellow binder. They had one other yellow and a green. And I got a pink folder. They had 2 yellows and a blue left. Did you guys raid my Office Max??

 

[cherylp3]

I'm not dressing up much either. Planning a tshirt and will have a pirate potato but that is it for me!

Cheryl

 

[#1Mouse]

I'm up for a tour. We've only been in a 5, 6 & 7. Would love to see the others. Especially Mary's sideways room.

We've been in Cat 5, 7 & 11. This time we are in a 6. Our friends had the sideways 11 and seemed to be bigger than our regular 11. We would be up to doing the tour - when would be a good time.

Hey Mary what happened to our timers?

 

[Diana Lyn]

I'm not dressing up much either. Planning a tshirt and will have a pirate potato but that is it for me!

Cheryl

I read this WAY too fast and I thought it said you were planning on wearing a pirate potato!! I was like oh, no, something else I need to hunt down and buy?

 

[#1Mouse]

Yikes ! Just came back from two Office Max's and the pickins were very slim. For those that I was getting binders/folders for I will pm you with what I was able to purchase. Before I do that I have 3 more Office Max stores that I can check out.

On Sunday there was a shelf full of the binders, folders and notebooks. Today the shelf was just about empty. Must be a popular item.

 

[Diana Lyn]

Yikes ! Just came back from two Office Max's and the pickins were very slim. For those that I was getting binders/folders for I will pm you with what I was able to purchase. Before I do that I have 3 more Office Max stores that I can check out.

On Sunday there was a shelf full of the binders, folders and notebooks. Today the shelf was just about empty. Must be a popular item.

If you let me know what else we are looking for, I'm hoping to go to another Office Max tomorrow. I can see what they have. I think we only have 2 Office Maxes around here.....but I'll double check.

 

[ILuvDVC]

We were on the first Member Cruise. The pin will stay at home (only have one left - traded the second one away to a DIS friend). We will bring the lanyards but my guess is that we'll be getting new ones. We are bringing our shirts and wearing them to the Bon Voyage party on Saturday night.

That's a great idea! I forgot we got shirts

 

[WDWLVR]

We've been in Cat 5, 7 & 11. This time we are in a 6. Our friends had the sideways 11 and seemed to be bigger than our regular 11. We would be up to doing the tour - when would be a good time.

Hey Mary what happened to our timers?

Must be a problem with that website. I'm sure they will be back!

 

[iluvdisney]

A tour would be fun!

The sideways room - Cat 11 seems so much bigger to me than the regular inside staterooms so we've take to requesting it when we do get to cruise.

See ya in a few weeks

 

[WDWLVR]

Mary - you and John are up for dressing up for pirate's night aren't you?

Gail's John isn't so sure because he's so shy.