September 22, 2007 -- WESTERN

[realfam]

Yippee its friday!

Just checking the posting before we head off to the cottage. Our DD has been in camp in northern ontario and comes home Sunday. This is a big landmark date for her, because now she will officially start her count down to the cruise.
Were all getting excited and looking forward to receiving our documents in the mail.
I (Alex) did the quiz and I ended up being Areil, don't tell anyone.
Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend

 

[papa]

Marsha if you need anything you have our number. Have to run, the grand daughters are fighting over a toy car. The littlest one is starting to crawl and use a walker. She is hell on wheels. Mike

 

[Bareacuda]

I hope this pops up.

 

[Bareacuda]

Marsha... so glad to see you home.
Post when you can.... we cant wait to meet you.
Ann

 

[scrapperjill]

Marsha....

 

[scrapperjill]

Okay...here's how I turned out.

Bambi

There were a couple questions I could have gone a couple diffrent ways on. I wonder how much those one or two questions would have changed my out come. Maybe I'll have to retake it and see.

 

[scrapperjill]

Okay..so here it is.

Donald Duck

Now how silly is that...Bambi AND Donald what a combo.

 

[CustardTart]

I can't really believe it but in a mere 5 weeks time, Richard and I will most likely be drinking coffee in the Hyatt MCO, before loading the hire car and heading for the DCL terminal!!! Now all those months have turned into weeks and the remaining time seems to be s-p-e-e-d-i-n-g by!!!

This morning I have been designing a couple of door magnets as my magnetic paper arrived. My Photoshop skills are a little rusty so it's taking some time...

Have a fabulous weekend, my cruising friends...

 

[eva]

Marsha, Glad you're back home. Our thoughts are with you.

Hmmm, I don't know about that test. I took it three times and kept coming up with this!

Maleficent

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Kind of funny because "Sleeping Beauty" is my favorite classic. And Maleficent has been my favorite character for years! I have a coffee cup with her on it that says "My Clothes Suit My Mood, BLACK!" But my favorite coffee cup is one with the Queen of Hearts on it that says, "I'm the Queen and You're Not!" Steve totally agrees with that cup. He says I am THE QUEEN! I just bought a new mug that has the Wicked Queen from Snow White on it, no writing. So each morning that I drink my coffee out of it I say, "I must have my evil potion this morning before tackling the dreary lives of mere mortals." Hmmm, maybe the quiz is more right on than I thought!

 

[CustardTart]

Maleficent, eh?!!!

Am I the only one who's more than a little scared of meeting Eva now?!! She's gonna make mincemeat of this poor Bambi...

 

[eva]

Hmmm, I do enjoy a good piece of venison.

 

[papa]

Never fear Karen, The spandex virgin drink bar protectors will waddle to your rescue.

Hard to believe that in 5 weeks time we will be doing the happy feet dance on the decks of the Magic. Mike

 

[FatCat]

Happy Feet Dance?

Is this similiar to the High School Musical "We're all in this together" dance???

 

[CustardTart]

Spent the afternoon designing a variety of door magnets. My absolute fave is this one for our vow renewal - I confess I shed a little tear once it was finished...

 

[scottrob]

Very nice Karen. You two are a good looking couple...

 

[#1 Minnie Lover]

It's beautiful Karen!

 

[Bareacuda]

After today's paddle... Im sooooo ready for vacation! 5 1/2 hours of hut-hoes. Ok no giggles over the hoes.
We launched the 2 new canoes.We have now 3 racing canoes, and 2 Maleas. The orginal women's open racing team took out the first boat. We were all smiles! I'll figure out how to post the pic of the team, and possible of the club that attended today. What a great day for ohana.

Ann

 

[knotyscot]

I can answer some of your questions.
Dining...
Yes there are 3 dining rooms, Lumire's Animator's and Parrot Cay.
Every night you will be in one of the rooms. Let's start with Lumire's, next night Animators the next Parrot Cay the 4th night you will start all over again with Lumer's. Then there is Palo's. It's for adults only and it's a specialty dining... you need reservations. Yes, you would miss out on one of the assigned dinings. And again... yes, you will just catch up with your regular dining assignment when you go to Palo's.
I can answer the drink question... we don't drink. We hit the drink station hard with our personal mugs we bring.

Ann

Ann

Thanks for clearing things up for me. I WAS and now I am working on the task of trying to find the perfect dress for the semi/formal and formal nights; with all of the dresses out there you'd think there would be atleast one that would fit. Perhaps there is a potoato sack with my name on it out there. Thanks again

Wendy

 

[knotyscot]

I'll also add my two cents about a few things...

First off sending your clothes out to be pressed by DCL is a WONDERFUL idea...and IMO the way to go. When we did it...we were charged 1/2 of what the dry cleaning prices were....Which if you do much dry cleaning you'll have an idea of what those will run. I was very suprised and thought the prices were the norm for the service. I did make the mistake though the first time we sent out thing out by NOT stuffing everything in the drycleaning bag. I had my formal dress...that wasn't that wrinked...but wanted to go ahead and have it done...but I didn't want to stuff it in the bag and make it worse...so I filled the paper out and put my dress, the form and the bag on the bed. When we got back from dinner it was ALL hanging up on the hook on the wall. Anyways...our room steward didn't realize that's what I wanted...long story short I almost ended up wearing my wrinkled dress to dinner on formal night. I think they also say to give them at least a day to get it back to you....so If you do plan on sending things out to be pressed I'd do it that first night.

Dinner wear....What you listed for your hubby sound great. My DH will most likely wear docker like slacks along with a camp shirt....and of course socks and shoes. No tie or jacket...except for formal/semi formal. On those nights (and Palo) he'll wear a button up shirt and tie along with slacks. I still think he's bypassing the jacket all together this year.

Now...for dinner it self. There are three dinning rooms and each stateroom is assigned a dinning time early (main) or late....You should know if your early or late already. BUT you won't know your exact dinning time until check in. After you get your official dinning time and rotation...It'll be the same all cruise long. For example if your given PLA early @ 6:15...you'll go to Parrot Cay the first night at 6:15, to Luminers at 6:15 the next night, Animators at 6:15 the next night...then you'll start the rotation over...by going to Parrot Cay at 6:15...and so on. You'll actually end up going to the first dinning room THREE times where as the others you'll only go to two time each (that is for dinner.)....

To add to the confussion...the first three nights on the cruise each dinning room service it's own menu....but by the fourth night EACH dinning room serves the same menu...ie Pirate Night= Pirate menu in ALL dinning rooms. So on the 4,5,6,7 nights on the ship each dinning room is serving the exact same menu.

With you having Palo on the first night you'll only miss the menu selection that's in that particular dinning room that night. Again...for example if your dinning rotation said your scheduled for Parrot cay first...you'll just miss the PC menu.

Oh...and for formal and semi formal...you'll just go to the dinning room that's next on your rotation. Again..if you had PLA you'd be scheduled for Animators on the third night...which I believe is Formal night...so you'd just follow your regular rotation. For Semi formal...you'd do the same thing...just go to the next dinning room on your rotation....which if I'm thinking of it correctly should be the same one you have for Formal night.

Anyways...I'm not sure if that helps any more or just made it worse

Thanks Scrapperjill! Lots of good info for especially for a first time Disney Cruiser. I have learned so much from all of you on this thread. I appreciate all of your advice and your prior Disney Cruise experience. DH and I will have more fun on this upcoming cruise because of all of you. Thanks.

 

[CustardTart]

Morning everyone!

Grim weather here in London - it's more like November than August so I'm hoping the sun will be shining when we get to Orlando in less than 5 weeks!!!

I've now created a myriad of door magnets for the trip - more than I could possibly use - but TBH I had sooo much fun footling around on Photoshop it was worth it...

Have a good Sunday...