Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy baby
Ooooooh
Aaaaaah
I wanna know-oooooooh
If youll be my girl.
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy baby
Ooooooh
Aaaaaah
I wanna know-oooooooh
If youll be my girl.
Ive been off the Magic now for 4 days and Ive been singing, humming, and dreaming of this tune around the clock. When I returned home Saturday night, the first thing I did was find the song on the Internet (DJ Otzi for those interested), and ordered an import single copy of the song off of Amazon for $7.58 with shipping.
Shhh, dont tell my wife that it wasnt a 99¢ iTunes purchase. Wait a minute, she has no right to complain about a seven dollar song purchase when, back in the day before iTunes, she would routinely shell out $15 for a CD to get such classic singles as MC Hammers Cant Touch This and Deep Blue Somethings Breakfast at Tiffanys. Steve Jobs youre my hero, but I digress.
As this was my first cruise, this is my first cruise trip report. As you can see from the links in my signature to my WDW trip reports, it is my custom and habit to include a Jersey reference in my trip titles. What Exit Are Your From? is the first question a Jersey person asks another Jersey person when they first meet. Any other first question is socially unacceptable in the Garden State.
For those not in the know and for those who cruised the 11/4/06 Magic and didnt leave your stateroom for a week, this was the Jersey Week sailing. 100% of the passengers and crewmembers were either from New Jersey or secretly wished they were from New Jersey. Really. Rachel Quinn, our Cruise Director a/k/a Julie from the Love Boat, included this fact among her other fascinating facts just prior to Disney Dreams, including the staggering amount of chicken and ice cream consumed on board. The one fact that she didnt disclose, but I know for sure must be true, is that the amount of money spent by the passengers on this cruise easily exceeded the Gross National Product of most of the worlds developed nations. The amount my family alone spent must have exceeded the GNP of our ports of call.
We booked the trip 16 months prior to our sailing. At that time, we had made two visits to WDW in consecutive years (weve since made two more visits) and my wife was ready for something different. DCL was a no brainer. I dont really recall how the next part happened, but we extended invitations to my mother-in-law, and my mom and step-dad to join us on the cruise. They all said yes and before we knew it we had 3 cabins booked. Our cruising group included:
Me (Jason): Disney planner extraordinaire. Still trying to work out my OCDisney tendencies.
DW (Karen): In one breath says cant we do something other than a Disney vacation, and in the next breath says lets stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge on our next trip. A Disney-aholic in denial.
DS 8 (Alex), DS 6 (Noah), DD 4 (Eva): WDW veterans and pin trading enthusiasts.
DMIL (Bobbie): Traveled with us to WDW four years ago and swore off ever doing it again.
DM (Cheryl my Mom): Also traveled with us to WDW four years ago and also swore off ever doing it again.
DStepdad (Spanky Cheryls husband). The antithesis of all things Disney. Greatest interests in life (aside from his grandchildren) is watching sporting events and betting on sporting events. Biggest concern was how was he going to survive the week without an on-board casino and no cell service to reach his bookie on our sea days. Also handicapped with limited mobility.
As this was a seven day cruise with much to retell, I dont want to prolong the introduction. Leading up to the cruise, we were fairly certain that Spanky would change his mind and that we would be a group of 6 instead of 8. My Mom was convinced that the cruise would be too physically demanding on Spanky with his disability and from what Im told nagged him pretty regularly that the cruise was not a good idea. As we approached our deadline to obtain a full refund, I gently reminded Spanky that the time to change his mind was upon us. To his credit, Spanky said he would be on the cruise no matter what and, true to his word, he was.
I should also mention that I will try to get as much content into this report and passed the censors as I can. The censors I refer to are not the DIS moderators, but are Karen and my Mom who know this report is coming, will be secretly reading the report without telling me, and have already warned me as to certain things they want me to leave out of the report. If the "censors" try to edit too much of this report, keep a look out for the "Director's Cut" under a pseudonym that will have some type of Jersey twist to it, like Mickey Ears Soprano or Fuggedaboutit Mouse.
Ooooooh
Aaaaaah
I wanna know-oooooooh
If youll be my girl.
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy baby
Ooooooh
Aaaaaah
I wanna know-oooooooh
If youll be my girl.
Ive been off the Magic now for 4 days and Ive been singing, humming, and dreaming of this tune around the clock. When I returned home Saturday night, the first thing I did was find the song on the Internet (DJ Otzi for those interested), and ordered an import single copy of the song off of Amazon for $7.58 with shipping.
Shhh, dont tell my wife that it wasnt a 99¢ iTunes purchase. Wait a minute, she has no right to complain about a seven dollar song purchase when, back in the day before iTunes, she would routinely shell out $15 for a CD to get such classic singles as MC Hammers Cant Touch This and Deep Blue Somethings Breakfast at Tiffanys. Steve Jobs youre my hero, but I digress.
As this was my first cruise, this is my first cruise trip report. As you can see from the links in my signature to my WDW trip reports, it is my custom and habit to include a Jersey reference in my trip titles. What Exit Are Your From? is the first question a Jersey person asks another Jersey person when they first meet. Any other first question is socially unacceptable in the Garden State.
For those not in the know and for those who cruised the 11/4/06 Magic and didnt leave your stateroom for a week, this was the Jersey Week sailing. 100% of the passengers and crewmembers were either from New Jersey or secretly wished they were from New Jersey. Really. Rachel Quinn, our Cruise Director a/k/a Julie from the Love Boat, included this fact among her other fascinating facts just prior to Disney Dreams, including the staggering amount of chicken and ice cream consumed on board. The one fact that she didnt disclose, but I know for sure must be true, is that the amount of money spent by the passengers on this cruise easily exceeded the Gross National Product of most of the worlds developed nations. The amount my family alone spent must have exceeded the GNP of our ports of call.
We booked the trip 16 months prior to our sailing. At that time, we had made two visits to WDW in consecutive years (weve since made two more visits) and my wife was ready for something different. DCL was a no brainer. I dont really recall how the next part happened, but we extended invitations to my mother-in-law, and my mom and step-dad to join us on the cruise. They all said yes and before we knew it we had 3 cabins booked. Our cruising group included:
Me (Jason): Disney planner extraordinaire. Still trying to work out my OCDisney tendencies.
DW (Karen): In one breath says cant we do something other than a Disney vacation, and in the next breath says lets stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge on our next trip. A Disney-aholic in denial.
DS 8 (Alex), DS 6 (Noah), DD 4 (Eva): WDW veterans and pin trading enthusiasts.
DMIL (Bobbie): Traveled with us to WDW four years ago and swore off ever doing it again.
DM (Cheryl my Mom): Also traveled with us to WDW four years ago and also swore off ever doing it again.
DStepdad (Spanky Cheryls husband). The antithesis of all things Disney. Greatest interests in life (aside from his grandchildren) is watching sporting events and betting on sporting events. Biggest concern was how was he going to survive the week without an on-board casino and no cell service to reach his bookie on our sea days. Also handicapped with limited mobility.
As this was a seven day cruise with much to retell, I dont want to prolong the introduction. Leading up to the cruise, we were fairly certain that Spanky would change his mind and that we would be a group of 6 instead of 8. My Mom was convinced that the cruise would be too physically demanding on Spanky with his disability and from what Im told nagged him pretty regularly that the cruise was not a good idea. As we approached our deadline to obtain a full refund, I gently reminded Spanky that the time to change his mind was upon us. To his credit, Spanky said he would be on the cruise no matter what and, true to his word, he was.
I should also mention that I will try to get as much content into this report and passed the censors as I can. The censors I refer to are not the DIS moderators, but are Karen and my Mom who know this report is coming, will be secretly reading the report without telling me, and have already warned me as to certain things they want me to leave out of the report. If the "censors" try to edit too much of this report, keep a look out for the "Director's Cut" under a pseudonym that will have some type of Jersey twist to it, like Mickey Ears Soprano or Fuggedaboutit Mouse.
dont you just love being back 
Jersey City, IMHO the best city in the world! I am in NY now...not by choice...it's where we have to live for compliance with my husbands career. Staten Island is no Jersey, but it works! Awesome start, with so much potential for anything to jump off! Can't wait! 
Sorry- I saw the title and HAD to chip in. 
