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[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

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

We're not 100% sure on our room number and I could do this at a later date, but I've read that a lot of people prefer to PM a list like this as it gets closer to the date involved. Some people have privacy issues with what they post on the net. I've posted my e-mail address before and have my kids pics, but others have boundries they don't cross so maybe I'll wait and see first.

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

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

I see by your countdown ticker you're going on the first sailing of the Dream. That ship looks so cool.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

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?

I had to get my youngest a passport and a few people going with us had to get them recently and they're coming in 2-3 weeks. The only issue is my cousin just got flagged for some reason and now has to submit 5 more forms of ID. They're looking for things like a copy of his HS yearbook photo and his baptism cert. This is pretty time consuming to track down some of the stuff.

 

[Paragd911]

Count us in for the Fish Extenders its, Me (Mark turning 41 on the cruise) DW Joy & Shadow Ddog. We will be #6154. or up grade to Cat 3. I will put our FE photo. !

i found it

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

We're not 100% sure on our room number and I could do this at a later date, but I've read that a lot of people prefer to PM a list like this as it gets closer to the date involved. Some people have privacy issues with what they post on the net. I've posted my e-mail address before and have my kids pics, but others have boundries they don't cross so maybe I'll wait and see first.




Duckfan-in-Chicago,

The PM will be fine also. Soon we will all meet and that will mean we are cruising!

 

[Michellepooh]

I see by your countdown ticker you're going on the first sailing of the Dream. That ship looks so cool.

I am so excited to be on the maiden voyage!! Before they even announced the new ship, I told DH I was going to be the first one on it!!! Well worth the points/cash to me!!!

Can't wait to meet all of you on the Magic! DS5 is really getting excited, too. When asked, he says his favorite part of a Disney Cruise is the "couch bed"!!

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

Paragd911,

Love your FE. Ours is very similar, but we have the 4 pocket one w/out our names only because its just me(37), DH(37) and DD(4 1/2) and we are trying for more, so once that happens we will then have the names placed on it. Love yours! Oh and what can we bring special for your pup. Just let us all know so he can get his FE gift too! My daughter is a huge animal lover is there anything I need to have a talk to her about before. If so, please let me know and I can talk to her now about it. Only because I have seen/head some people say that you are not supposed to pet or play w/them, that they are only "working" dogs, my daughter goes up to every animal and just wants to pet and love(gently) on them and tell them how "CUTE" or "BEAUTIFUL" they are. Just let us know. Thank You. Looking forward to meeting you and everyone else that is on the cruise!!!!

Ronda

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

I was just noticing that some cruises, fellow cruisers have picked a name for their CRUISE/GROUP. Is this something we would/might want to do?
Please give feedback and if you do, pick a "NAME" and then we all can decide what we want to call us/our cruise group.

Our friends are on the Magic over Valentines day in 2010, and their group is calling themselves "The Love Boat Cruise". Just an example..

8 weeks left to go
Ronda

 

[acourtwdw2]

We sail in 8 Weeks!!!

 

[jfahome]

Hello, we booked this cruise about 2 weeks ago. We are so excited about going on our second Disney cruise. We went on our first in May09. This time we aren't telling our daughter about it ahead of time. Oh DH (Jeff) DW (April) and DD Elizabeth (age5). We would like to participate in the FE, but actually just for Elizabeth. Can you add her/us to the list as well please? We didn't do it last time, but I think she'd enjoy finding something special when going back to the room. We are in 5622. Our first cruise was so "magical" that we are just so thrilled to be going again! I see the Meet time so we'll be there! Only 56 days (I think). See you all soon!

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

WELCOME JFAHOME! 8 weeks to go! woohooo! This is our 2nd cruise also. The first was a 'Wonder"ful cruise in september 2009. We wanted a little taste before we went out on a 7nighter. Can not wait to meet you all. See you Saturday.

 

[acourtwdw2]

WELCOME JFAHOME! 8 weeks to go! woohooo! This is our 2nd cruise also. The first was a 'Wonder"ful cruise in september 2009. We wanted a little taste before we went out on a 7nighter. Can not wait to meet you all. See you Saturday.

Were you on the Sept 10th wonder? Annette and I were on that cruise and Annette started the thread for that one. We just never got to meet the people on the thread we never had time. We brought our Mom and Dad and they hadn't been on the wonder before so we were tour guide barbies.

We love crusing this will be our 8th and we have 2 more booked(WB transalantic and Alaska Aug 2011

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

Were you on the Sept 10th wonder? Annette and I were on that cruise and Annette started the thread for that one. We just never got to meet the people on the thread we never had time. We brought our Mom and Dad and they hadn't been on the wonder before so we were tour guide barbies.

We love crusing this will be our 8th and we have 2 more booked(WB transalantic and Alaska Aug 2011

No we were on the Sept 6th 4night cruise. On that cruise we did not do FE, or do the meet. We did not because we wanted to see the cruise through our eyes. Ad now we our hooked! Cant wait to meet ya.

 

[Chris_Ronda_Evelyn]

Started to make the FE gifts! Can not wait to give them out.... So far, 8 FE gifts are 1/2 way done..


Ronda

 

[Michellepooh]

Getting more excited each day! Is it a bad thing that I can't wait for Christmas to be over so that I can start packing? Is anyone else spending time at WDW before the cruise? We are doing a week at our timeshare pre-cruise.

Welcome aboard JFAHOME! Our older son is 5, so I'm sure he'll be seeing your DD in the kids club.

 

[acourtwdw2]

Anyone else having a hard time finding airfare. Since we booked the cruise last month we thought airfare would be easy to find but we cant find anything from detroit for less tha 350. Since we usually pay less than 100 pp this is hard to grasp.

 

[Lucille1963]

Getting more excited each day! Is it a bad thing that I can't wait for Christmas to be over so that I can start packing? Is anyone else spending time at WDW before the cruise? We are doing a week at our timeshare pre-cruise.

We're just coming in the day before. We'll be staying the night at BLT. We won't be going to the parks, we figure we can amuse the 2yo with the pool, monorail and boat rides. We have dinner booked at Kona Cafe (so I can get a Lapu Lapu!) and I just made a adr for Chef Mickey's breakfast for the morning of the 30th, but I'm not 100% we'll do that.

Anyone else having a hard time finding airfare. Since we booked the cruise last month we thought airfare would be easy to find but we cant find anything from detroit for less tha 350. Since we usually pay less than 100 pp this is hard to grasp.

Oh No! We actually booked airfare before the cruise because we were afraid of something like this happening. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

I've barely started to think about FE gifts. I'm hoping that working on them will make January fly by!

 

[Lucille1963]

I had an odd dream regarding the cruise last night. Things kept going terribly wrong, but I was just so happy that I didn't seem to care so much.

At one point we were excited because we were "upgraded" to a higher deck. Upon getting to our room we discovered that it wasn't a regular room, but more like a bunk house with bunk beds and regular beds crammed into every possible space. There were lots of Australians there.

At another point DH and I showed up for our rasul spa appointment. We were only in the room a moment when other people started to come in. It was some type of family gathering and there was a buffet set up. When I complained to the girl at the desk, she seemed surprised that we minded, but she rescheduled for another time.

I also remember trying to find the right deck for our meet. We kept getting in the wrong elevator, one of which took us off the boat.

All of this was happening before the ship even sailed.

Despite all of these terrible things happening, it didn't seem like a nightmare. We were just so happy to be on the ship!!

 

[Michellepooh]

Lucille1963 - We are having breakfast at Chef Mickey's on the 30th before heading to the port! Our ADR is for 8:30.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

We're just coming in the day before. We'll be staying the night at BLT. We won't be going to the parks, we figure we can amuse the 2yo with the pool, monorail and boat rides. We have dinner booked at Kona Cafe (so I can get a Lapu Lapu!) and I just made a adr for Chef Mickey's breakfast for the morning of the 30th, but I'm not 100% we'll do that.

My parents, brother and his family and my cousin and his GF will all be at BLT that night. We'll be at the BCV. And at 9:30 we've rented two vans to take us all to the pier. It's half the price of Disney's transfers and it leaves when we want instead of closer to 11-12.

Lucille1963 - We are having breakfast at Chef Mickey's on the 30th before heading to the port! Our ADR is for 8:30.

This is kinda funny because we also have an ADR at Chef Mickey's-for 8:25. We're not 100% sure we're going though because it will be a busy morning.

 

[Michellepooh]

That is a funny coincidence, DuckFan!! I have a feeling our boys will be seeing a lot of each other in the clubs, etc. since they are the same ages.