Spring Break 2011 on the DREAM

[JackNMel]

Hello everyone!! Just read through all the posts for the cruise. I am the other friend of Mean Queen (the G part of GBF!). I am Melody, cruising with Hubby Jack, 3 DD (13, 11, and 8 by cruise time). Boy, this sounds like a fun bunch!! So looking forward to March on the Dream on a B2B with the Peeps!!

Our family is cruising on the Wonder in November with my Parents, my brother and his family, and my sister and her family. The parents are very generously paying for everyone, it is their 50th anniversary !! Hoping for a drama free cruise but not getting my hopes up where that is concerned, lol!

I am so in for the FE. Don't have our cabin # handy at the moment, but I will try to post tomorrow with it.

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone before the cruise. Would love to have a fun friend for my 13 yr old DD. She has a unique view of the world and would have a great time with a cruise buddy. She loves all things Japanese ( just throwing that out there ). Have a great weekend everyone!! Esp. you Mean queen!!

 

[JackNMel]

My tickers are a little cockeyed, and why is the sentence floating above the Dream ticker so high? Oh well, a problem for another day... goodnight all

 

[dthogue]

Hello everyone!! Just read through all the posts for the cruise. I am the other friend of Mean Queen (the G part of GBF!). I am Melody, cruising with Hubby Jack, 3 DD (13, 11, and 8 by cruise time). Boy, this sounds like a fun bunch!! So looking forward to March on the Dream on a B2B with the Peeps!!

Our family is cruising on the Wonder in November with my Parents, my brother and his family, and my sister and her family. The parents are very generously paying for everyone, it is their 50th anniversary !! Hoping for a drama free cruise but not getting my hopes up where that is concerned, lol!

I am so in for the FE. Don't have our cabin # handy at the moment, but I will try to post tomorrow with it.

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone before the cruise. Would love to have a fun friend for my 13 yr old DD. She has a unique view of the world and would have a great time with a cruise buddy. She loves all things Japanese ( just throwing that out there ). Have a great weekend everyone!! Esp. you Mean queen!!

Welcome aboard Melody - my DD is 12 and would love a cruise buddy if your DD is interested - does your DD do facebook??? My DD will be going into 7th grade, loves swimming, runs cross country and does dance.

Tammy

 

[rachelsmom97]

Hi Everyone,

I am brand new to this board. I found it a few weeks ago while we were looking into a cruise on the Dream for our spring break. We are now booked and excited to go. We have not been on DL cruise since Feb. 2004 and did not know about door decorations or FE. My DD who will be 13 thinks it is a fun idea and would love to participate in the FE. It will be myself, DH and DD13.

My DD will be in 7th grade and does irish dance. She would love to meet other girls her age so they can all hang out in the tween lounge.

I will send a Pm to esbrick so we can get on the FE list. We can hardly wait to cruise in March 2011!

 

[esbrick]

esbrick thanks for coordinating the FE exchange. I coordinated it on our last cruise. I know it's fun but also hard work.

I'm resisting the urge to join the FE list this time. Maybe I'll change my mind in the next 7 months. If you decide to try to have "meet" I'd be interested in that.

We went to WDW last week (7/25-7/31) and won't be back before this cruise. 7 months and 19 days sounds so far away!

Whamma ~ I figured it would be great to be able to meet people at some point. I organized a meet the last time we cruised so I figured I'd try my hand at organizing the FEs this go! Let me know if you change your mind and I'll add you to the list!
Cheers,
Eilis

 

[esbrick]

Hello everyone!! Just read through all the posts for the cruise. I am the other friend of Mean Queen (the G part of GBF!). I am Melody, cruising with Hubby Jack, 3 DD (13, 11, and 8 by cruise time). Boy, this sounds like a fun bunch!! So looking forward to March on the Dream on a B2B with the Peeps!!

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone before the cruise. Would love to have a fun friend for my 13 yr old DD. She has a unique view of the world and would have a great time with a cruise buddy. She loves all things Japanese ( just throwing that out there ). Have a great weekend everyone!! Esp. you Mean queen!!

Welcome aboard Melody - my DD is 12 and would love a cruise buddy if your DD is interested - does your DD do facebook??? My DD will be going into 7th grade, loves swimming, runs cross country and does dance.

Tammy

Hi Everyone,

I am brand new to this board. I found it a few weeks ago while we were looking into a cruise on the Dream for our spring break. We are now booked and excited to go. We have not been on DL cruise since Feb. 2004 and did not know about door decorations or FE. My DD who will be 13 thinks it is a fun idea and would love to participate in the FE. It will be myself, DH and DD13.

My DD will be in 7th grade and does irish dance. She would love to meet other girls her age so they can all hang out in the tween lounge.

I will send a Pm to esbrick so we can get on the FE list. We can hardly wait to cruise in March 2011!

Hey there ladies my DD is 13, and going into 7th grade. She loves those little japanese figurene things; loves plaing in the pool & plays basketball on a team at school and although she does not take Irish dancing she is very familiar with it since we go to local Irish Fests and went to Ireland to visit my family last Christmas. Maybe we can set it up so the girls can all meet up somewhere before hand? Last year we cruised with another family and I'm not sure if they will be joining us again this year. DD showed the other DD the ropes last year and earned the responsibility of signing herself in and out of the kids/tween clubs this year. We do have a few "cautions/rules" but they are more common sence then "You can't do this or that" things.

Looking foward to seeing everyone soon!

Eilis

 

[rachelsmom97]

Well, it sounds like there will be a few girls my DD's age on the cruise so she will be happy to hear it. We are arriving in Orlando the night before (from Seattle) and staying by the airport. We will be renting a car to drive to PC. Maybe we can do a meet up before the welcome party. I can't pm until I hit 10 posts so I will try and get my posts over the next couple days.

 

[JackNMel]

Wow, sounds like lots of girls of the teenage persuasion will be on board. My daughter doesn't do facebook yet (still 12), although she really wants to be. Probably will be when she turns 13 in October, so that would be a great way to let them chat and get to know each other. How many girls going on the cruise do facebook? Lets take a survey!!!

 

[ppiew]

My DGD has been banned from doing facebook! Too many 'not so good' situations have been publicized on facebook lately so her parents have banned her from participating. She does have an email address though so if that would be appropriate i am sure she would love it! She is 13 and will be 14 in December. (Name is Sophia)

 

[Mean Queen]

Just got back from the Wonder! It was so much fun. We heard lots of talk of the Dream. Many crew members are moving to the new ship.

 

[esbrick]

Wow, sounds like lots of girls of the teenage persuasion will be on board. My daughter doesn't do facebook yet (still 12), although she really wants to be. Probably will be when she turns 13 in October, so that would be a great way to let them chat and get to know each other. How many girls going on the cruise do facebook? Lets take a survey!!!

My DD does not have a FB account yet. More a protection on my part. Right now it is just not necessary. She has a cell phone and an email address but after she left camp she did ask if she could set up a page. I told her that we would wait until after 1st semester and see how she was doing at school. She and I changed my FB page last night and she picked my profile pic because of course she is in it.

TGIF!

 

[dthogue]

My DD does have a facebook - as well as email. For those with DD's in the 12-14 age group would like to email me, I can get everyone's email addresses to all the girls, so they can get to know each other.

dthogue5@verizon.net

In your email include your daughter's name, where you are from, grade in the fall, age and her likes/interests. This should help the girl's get to know each other. If you she has a cell phone number and texts and would like to include that as well, that would be great!

DD is very excited to get to know others her age!

Tammy

 

[SweetDolly]

We'll be joining ya'll for Spring Break! Can't wait to sail the Dream; it will be our family's 4th Disney cruise.

Please count us in for FE, if anyone has begun to organize it:

Kevin & Angela
Jackson (6)
Charley (1)

I look forward to getting to know everyone, and cruising with you in March!

 

[Kate716]

I would like to join this wonderful group if I may......
This is our first Disney Cruise. We go to the parks every year and are ready to try something new. There's myself, DH, DS (10 time of cruise), DS (8 time of cruise), and DD (5 time of cruise). I love planning our family trips to Disney but I feel totally out of my element planning this cruise! I am sure with lots of reading I can figure out most of what I need to know but if I may ask one quick question what are FE's? I don't want to miss out on anything fun! I look forward to getting to know you all.
Tammy

Wow Tammy, your story sounds just like ours! My family also goes to the Disney parks every year and this year we were also looking to try something new.... so we booked this cruise (and it's our first cruise ever!!!). I also feel totally out of my element planning a cruise, but hope all the Disney cruise veterans here can help out with all my questions that I know I'll have!

Looking forward to meeting everyone!

-Kate

P.S.- My family is Me (Kate), DH, DD11, and DS7 (and I'm certain my DD11 would LOVE to meet some new friends to buddy with)

 

[Mean Queen]

Wow Tammy, your story sounds just like ours! My family also goes to the Disney parks every year and this year we were also looking to try something new.... so we booked this cruise (and it's our first cruise ever!!!). I also feel totally out of my element planning a cruise, but hope all the Disney cruise veterans here can help out with all my questions that I know I'll have!

Looking forward to meeting everyone!

-Kate

P.S.- My family is Me (Kate), DH, DD11, and DS7 (and I'm certain my DD11 would LOVE to meet some new friends to buddy with)

We have 3 - 11 year old girls in our group who'd probably love to have another partner in crime. I'm really hoping someone has a 5-6 year old girl for my little one. On our last cruise, she made a friend and constantly wanted to be in the club to see her friend. That meant lots of alone time for DH and me. I can't believe we're just over 6 months away.

 

[esbrick]

So excited to see everyone posting on here! Mike and I are trying to plan a quickie trip in the beginning of November! Fingers crossed it will work out I also just changed all the ressies for the second part of our trip so that we are staying at the Beach Club! So excited! We have never stayed before so we are definately pumped up for the experience!

Hope you are all doing well!

E

 

[Mean Queen]

So excited to see everyone posting on here! Mike and I are trying to plan a quickie trip in the beginning of November! Fingers crossed it will work out I also just changed all the ressies for the second part of our trip so that we are staying at the Beach Club! So excited! We have never stayed before so we are definately pumped up for the experience!

Hope you are all doing well!

E

Great on both counts. Early November you can still catch the Food and Wine Fest (my favorite Disney event) and the pool at the Beach Club is so much fun.

 

[DisneyMom2B1G]

We have 3 - 11 year old girls in our group who'd probably love to have another partner in crime. I'm really hoping someone has a 5-6 year old girl for my little one. On our last cruise, she made a friend and constantly wanted to be in the club to see her friend. That meant lots of alone time for DH and me. I can't believe we're just over 6 months away.

Just thought I would throw out there that my daughter just turned 5 last week and loves playing with other little girls! I am hoping that she will find some great friends on board


Well, I am just sticking my head in again to see what everyone has been up to lately to "pass the time". We are looking forward to our Disney Trip the first of Oct.. Then our "silent" countdown for the cruise can begin

 

[Mean Queen]

Just thought I would throw out there that my daughter just turned 5 last week and loves playing with other little girls! I am hoping that she will find some great friends on board


Well, I am just sticking my head in again to see what everyone has been up to lately to "pass the time". We are looking forward to our Disney Trip the first of Oct.. Then our "silent" countdown for the cruise can begin

Yeah! I'm sure she will love to have a friend her age in the club. I thought there was someone but we are doing a back to back and I'm getting confused as to who is in which group.

 

[SweetDolly]

So excited to see everyone posting on here! Mike and I are trying to plan a quickie trip in the beginning of November! Fingers crossed it will work out I also just changed all the ressies for the second part of our trip so that we are staying at the Beach Club! So excited! We have never stayed before so we are definately pumped up for the experience!

Hope you are all doing well!

E

I am excited for you - Beach Club is one of our favorites! Great atmosphere, pool, restaurant (Beaches 'N Cream - yum!). And the ability to walk to Epcot is an added bonus.