September 17, 2006 - 11 Night Southern Caribbean Part 2

[BobandLee]

Elaine just called:

THE BUTTER TARTS
HAVE MADE IT
THRU TSA SECURITY!!!!! ​

Now.. if she can resist eating them while she waits 3 hours at the airport... then we're home free!!! I don't know that I could be that strong.......

Not worried about Elaine.
What scares me is what happens to them after she is picked up at the airport.

 

[BobandLee]

...., a little last minute packing, now we have to wait till tomorrow morning to leave..... but hey

I AM ON VACATION

I am really looking forward to meeting one and all
....

Lucky stiff! Two more days for me. (maybe)

Looking forward to meeting all of the oldies but goodies
and all of the newbies I haven't met yet.
Will be a great time!

 

[Scott H]

Lucky stiff! Two more days for me. (maybe)

Looking forward to meeting all of the oldies but goodies
and all of the newbies I haven't met yet.
Will be a great time!

got called back into the office, now I might be on vacation

Ditto what Bob says.....


Time to go back home,

 

[BobandLee]

got called back into the office, now I might be on vacation

Ditto what Bob says.....


Time to go back home,

DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE, SCOTT!

 

[DisneyPinDiva]

got called back into the office, now I might be on vacation

Ditto what Bob says.....


Time to go back home,

What??? That's not fair!!! Once you're gone I would not answer the phone...

 

[icunurse_celeste]

Thanks Scott...I'll start that tonight. Anything to feel normal again...okay...semi-normal !

Have you seen a neti pot?

 

[icunurse_celeste]

Thanks Georgie!!!!
Thanks for the donation!

 

[captaincrash]

Anyone know what's going on?? There has always been extra rooms for this cruise. Then suddenly an hour ago everything went crazy. Now there is only cat 4's. I just called Disney and they said there are only 8 of those at this time. ?????? This morning there were at least four different types of rooms and cat 3's . I just don't get it.

They must have given them to deserving staff or special guests. Like ( dare I guess )... MAW kids? Or who knows... maybe someone ran up and bought them? OR management might have decided to upgrade a string of cabins and then they gave away the bottom catagory of paying patron's cabins to ?????

So - I've been watching the cabin availabiity too with interest. It sure was looking lightly sold fpr some time - especially the 12-4 (not 5) range as they were ALL open....

In fact, I'm gonna go double check availability and my on-line record. Maybe someone gave me an upgrade?!?!? Yeah, like that's gonna really happen...

 

[mickeymom923]

Hi everyone,

My computer died so I can't print out the boarding passes etc. Maybe Lindsay will let me use her computer. This Friday, we are going to the MNSSHP. Then the cruise. Then on 9/29 we are going to Universal Halloween Horror nights. (I'm not going to that one because I'm a big chicken) . We're celebrating 2 birthdays on board and meeting tons of new friends . Sounds like an awesome time to me.

CYA Real Soon.

Bev

 

[captaincrash]

Yesterday in Santa Paula

Of all places! My old sister-in-law grew up there. There was a market called Lee's Market or something like that. Well - that was her Dad's place. I remeber going out to visit when I was a kid and they always had this really cool electric "ride on" toy truck. Oh well...

So - a bomb scare in ... Santa Paula. Amazing... and also not so.

 

[Q's My Princess]

Have you seen a neti pot?

Neti Pot

Okay...I googled it and had to laugh

 

[icunurse_celeste]

Neti Pot

 

[Q's My Princess]

We wish you were going to be there too Georgie and Joe.
I will have one of your gifts with me to remind me of you guys.

Bob,
Last night I pulled our BIG cruise bag out and there was Georgie & Joe's gift! Q keeps hers on her princess luggage!

 

[dan and scott]

In fact, I'm gonna go double check availability and my on-line record. Maybe someone gave me an upgrade?!?!? Yeah, like that's gonna really happen...

Didn't you get upgraded from a Cat 12 ot a Cat 11? You should always book the room Cat that you are comfortable with and not expect Disney to just give away upgrades. I know upgrades happen but don't be upset when it doesn't.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Dan

 

[Scott H]

Lynn uses the Neilmed Sinus rinse, seem to help her.

 

[Hygiene99]

Peter

I took the time to count this morning (slow day at the office) and we have 304 names on the cruise list!

Ken

Hey Thanks

 

[BobandLee]

Bob,
Last night I pulled our BIG cruise bag out and there was Georgie & Joe's gift! Q keeps hers on her princess luggage!

Cool.
We had so much fun at our table the last time with them and Joe & Leslie and Ron & Janis.

 

[pahrumpgirl]

Not worried about Elaine.
What scares me is what happens to them after she is picked up at the airport.

I had the same thought myself Bob. Isn't Leslie (DPD) the one picking up Elaine at the airport. Isn't that like having the fox watch the hen house.

Doug

 

[icunurse_celeste]

Lynn uses the Neilmed Sinus rinse, seem to help her.

Same kind of concept- I just don't know if it runs out the other nostril?? I'll admit it, I've used a neti pot before. After doing "nasal saline irrigation" on patients, I tried it and have used it in the winter with dry nasal passages. Worked well, isn't hard to use but it does feel kind of funny.

 

[captaincrash]

Didn't you get upgraded from a Cat 12 ot a Cat 11? You should always book the room Cat that you are comfortable with and not expect Disney to just give away upgrades. I know upgrades happen but don't be upset when it doesn't.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Dan

Yeah ...

... I kno... we've had a number of sailings and we did get the 11. Saved some cash and are happy about that. And I'm not upset - just wondering if there was wiggle room for anything more. Being a quad - and CC repeat patron I ran a poll and surveyed the results (several MATH ALERTS). It seems that when you are CC the odds of getting a better assignment off a guarantee is LOWER then if we were 1st time patrons. And I sort of looked on an 11 assignment as the minimum we could have received since we were a quad cabin. SO - in a way I'm not surprised and in another way I was hoping for a little bit more... like a real upgrade above the minimum for a quad - like a 10. It really does not matter in the end though. We got our relief bands, spare batteries and our bags are about 90% packed. Almost everything is set except I'm waiting for some more stuff to come in with fedEX or UPS. My birth certificate arrived yesterday and things are cool. We've never booked a guarantee catagory before in all of our past sailings. So - this was a bit of an experiment. We were prepared for a 12 until we noted they had no quad 12s. Then we figured there was a small chance for an 8 -9 or 10. An 11 was the minimum we could have expected - and as the minimum I was neutral with getting it.

On the other hand... we're good to go! Besides - our assigned cabin is right next to some other great DIS folks - "Lets' GO Steelers" so we are looking forward to bangin' on the walls and raisin' a ruckus all through the nite! LOL! OK... maybe NOT. But it is nice to have DIS neighbors who happen to hail from Southern Califonria. In fact, before we knew they were neighbors we had offerred them spare concert tickets we had for Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl - but they could not make use of them. It was for Al Jarreau and George Benson... I ended up taking my parents with some of the spare tix and I sold the rest on Ebay. So after they declined the tix offer from us we later found we were assigned a cabin adjacent to them. What a coincidence. Or... maybe I'm mixedup and I offerred my spare tix to Kpros who is closer to us in Ventura ~ right? I vaguely recall I offerred our spare tix to the few on the DIS who were from our region.

And yes... I am aware I have A-Rententive tendencies in my writing.... I am what I am...

Anyways.... that's it!.....

TTFN