Spring starts 1/30/2010. Punxsutawney Phil can kiss my...

[acourtwdw]

I'm from Lansing, too (live in Williamston and work in East Lansing)! I know I met you two on a previous cruise. Was it in 2006 - right after Thanksgiving?

Jan

It was the 07 DVC Member Cruise! I thought that was you when I saw your location and name

 

[JanDave]

It was the 07 DVC Member Cruise! I thought that was you when I saw your location and name

You're right. It's a small world! Looking forward to cruising with you again. This cruise, I'll be with my DD's m-i-l, Carla - our 2nd annual girls' cruise.


Jan

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

Getting closer and closer to our cruise! less than 10 weeks to go!
Just go our fish extender to put out on the fish. Now time to look at gifts to be placed in it. We can not wait to meet everyone.
Hope everyone has a safe Thanksgiving Holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

The Schwartz Family

 

[IrishCowboy]

Subscribing

 

[Sandy At Sea]

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

Airline tickets have just been purchased, rental car reserved, shuttle back to airport reserved, BD sign for the door has been finalized - almost ready to go!

 

[Lucille1963]

I can't believe it is Thanksgiving already!

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!

 

[JanDave]

Hello Everyone --

We just found out today that Carla and I had to cancel our cruise due to health issues. We called DCL this afternoon and moved our cruise to October 2009. So sorry that we will not meet you on January 30. Enjoy the cruise and I can't wait to read your trip reports and comments.

Jan

 

[acourtwdw2]

Hello Everyone --

We just found out today that Carla and I had to cancel our cruise due to health issues. We called DCL this afternoon and moved our cruise to October 2009. So sorry that we will not meet you on January 30. Enjoy the cruise and I can't wait to read your trip reports and comments.

Jan

Sorry to hear you wont be joining us. Hope everyone will be well soon.


HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE

 

[Lucille1963]

Jan and Carla- Sorry you won't be on this cruise. I am happy that you were able to reschedule.

Health issues haven't been strangers to our house lately. Thankfully, we have been given the green light from DS's Dr., but I really thought that we would be canceling too.

I hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving!!

 

[rhinosbiggestfan]

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!!

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

We just made our ressies tonight about 1/2 hour ago for this cruise!!! We are Annette (40 bday on cruise) and Amanda(Dsis) (41) from Lansing, MI. This will be our 8th DCL vacation. Can't wait to cruise again Is there a F/E going on and can we join? Any other activities that we need to be aware of? I promise to read the entire thread but right now, just excited!!!

Welcome aboard. I added you to the OP.

I also started a new section on the OP. Anyone from here on out who for sure 100% who wants to take part in the FE deal can just post it in some way on this thread and I'll add them to the OP for right now. My wife is in the process of gathering materials to make ours now.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

Hello Everyone --

We just found out today that Carla and I had to cancel our cruise due to health issues. We called DCL this afternoon and moved our cruise to October 2009. So sorry that we will not meet you on January 30. Enjoy the cruise and I can't wait to read your trip reports and comments.

Jan

That's too bad, but hopefully you'll be cruising again soon enough. You meant Oct 2010, right? (If not, hopefully they gave you a great rate) By that time Castaway Cay will be finished with their redo so you'll have that to look forward to.

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

Hope everyone had a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

FE is a lot of fun and doesn't have to be expensive or time consuming. First you need some sort of "Holder" to hang from the metal fish that is outside each stateroom (hence "fish extender"). Most people use a 3 or 4 pocket holder, but you can use a small tote bag or anything else you want to use. It cannot be more than about 8 1/2 inches wide to fit in the space under the fish, though. There are several threads on the main board about making/buying fish extenders, some with photos.

Once you have your container to receive the gifts the fun begins. People who have joined will then secretly put surprises in your fish extender, so when you come back to the cabin there is a surprise waiting for you. The items have to be small enough to fit in the holders and people can be so creative! Some groups assign each participant a certain day, others just let people deliver when they want to. Popular gifts seem to be Disney items, cruise/beach , pirate night things, hand sanitizer, door magnets, special things from your hometown, etc. You get the idea. Some people give a per- cabin gift, others go with per-person . Some have a standard gift for everyone, others personalize their gift based on the age and sex of the recipient. It's all up to the giver to decide how to do it.

The participation list is generally closed about 2 weeks before sailing to allow the coordinator to finalize the list and get it to everyone, and also so participants can buy/package their FE items for travel, especially those who may be doing WDW first, but again, this is something that the group decides. Also on the list is your room #'s so we know where to go to put our FE gift.

So... who's in for a Week FE Fun ?

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

Welcome aboard. I added you to the OP.

I also started a new section on the OP. Anyone from here on out who for sure 100% who wants to take part in the FE deal can just post it in some way on this thread and I'll add them to the OP for right now. My wife is in the process of gathering materials to make ours now.

I think what you are doing will be perfect for our List! (Great Job!)

Just got our FE, I looked at making one, it was a little more what I thought I would have spent, so I decided to get one off of e-bay and not only that it is embroidered. Love it. Cant wait less than 10 weeks! WOO HOO!!!!!

Also, not sure if we want to do a per cabin, per person, or per child FE. We are up to whatever anyone would like to do...

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

You can also put us down as a committed FE family. DW 37(ME), DH 37 and DD 4yrs.
Also, our room is #7112

 

[acourtwdw2]

Please add Annette (acourtwdw) and myself to the fish extender list

Amanda

 

[Michellepooh]

Hi Everyone!! Only 2 months to go!!!

We are definitely in for the FE exchange. DS5 loves to get fish mail!

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

Duck fan in Chicago,

You are doing a great job and thank you for taking on who will be on the FE. I have 1 request of you, can you add the peoples room#'s for us also on the 1st post just so we can plan on where the rooms are and when we will give them out(personally). I do know that it will be easier for people to know where the rooms are located ahead of time. We plan on doing our FE gifts through out the cruise so, its not just 1 day then no more FE fun. Thank You once agian for taking this on. Our room # is 7112.

Ronda

 

[acourtwdw]

Duck fan in Chicago,

You are doing a great job and thank you for taking on who will be on the FE. I have 1 request of you, can you add the peoples room#'s for us also on the 1st post just so we can plan on where the rooms are and when we will give them out(personally). I do know that it will be easier for people to know where the rooms are located ahead of time. We plan on doing our FE gifts through out the cruise so, its not just 1 day then no more FE fun. Thank You once agian for taking this on. Our room # is 7112.

Ronda

Great idea but we have a GTY and don't know where we will be yet. We will post it as soon as we know.

 

[Lucille1963]

Count us in for the FE!

I can't believe the cruise is less than 2 months away! We have so much to do to get ready!!

Passports were on our list for November, but due to circumstances it didn't happen. We MUST get that done asap. Has anyone else put it off?