I'm late to the party, but here's my intro:
I'm Ginamarie- I've been going to WDW since I was a kid (first trip in 1980), but really embraced it after my fiancé (now husband) started to work for the Disney company. We took a trip to WDW and an Eastern Caribbean
DCL cruise for our honeymoon in 2002 and were totally in love with cruising. We have been cruising and visiting WDW about once a year since. For awhile, I was practicing admiralty law because I was so fascinated with ships. Now I run my own general law practice. We have taken over 10 cruises now, but only 5 with DCL: eastern caribbean, western caribbean, westbound PC 2008, eastbound TA 2010, and Alaska 2011. We really wanted to do a WBTA in 2013, but when it wasn't offered, we wound up booking a WDW vacation and Freedom of the Seas for August instead. So e were very happy to see WBTA on the 2014 itineraries and jumped right at it!
Josh- my husband, former cast member, now working for HBO. We are in our 30s and enjoy all of the cruise food and activities.
Olivia- my oldest child, is almost 7. She loves all the characters and WDW. She is a huge fan of stitch.
Salvatore- my middle child- is very sweet and inquisitive. He will be trying the kids club for the first time in 2014. He is 4 now.
Owen- my baby! He is two right now and gets excited any time he sees something "dis-knee"
Rosemarie- my mom- is a pharmacist who loves DCL. W are leaving dad at home for this trip, since he is not as good a traveller as the rest of us.
Gillian- my 22 year old sister. She just finished the Disney college program and is looking for an engineering job now.
Giuliette- my almost 15 year old sister. She is a little nervous about being one of the only teens on the ship.
Grant- my youngest brother, who is 9 now. He is at that awkward pre-teen stage, where he's not sure which things are too "babyish" for him.
George- my slightly younger brother. He has been on the most DCL cruises, because he is doing back to back cruises on the fantasy this year.
Dawn-Marie- my sister in law. She is a pharmacist and works with my mom.
Salvatore- my nephew- is three weeks younger than my youngest son. This cruise will make him a gold castaway member!
Marie- my grandmother. She has never been to Europe before, so we are looking forward to taking her. My grandfather passed away at the beginning of the year, and we are making sure to keep her busy, since they spent the last 70 years together every single day. Grandpa loved to cruise, and so this is a good memory for her too. The 2008 PC was his last cruise before he became too ill to join us, but we had such a great time in that trip together.
I know, we're a big group!
It was in Lumiere's. Chocolate as far as the eye could see. I've never seen anything like it. White chocolate, dark chocolate, Mickey Mouse chocolate statues, mousse, cakes, tarts, etc. A whole separate table of delicious-looking sugar-free (is there such a thing???
) chocolate desserts.If I can remember tonight, I'll get some of my pictures and post them. Ga-yaya......can you remember which one it was?
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Sadly Bill died 3 years ago, I felt my world had ended and certainly couldn't contemplate ever travelling again. I mean apart from the huge hole he had left in my life how could I travel solo after always having him there? Well I was wrong (as I often am) as I did the 2010 and 2011 WBTA as a solo traveller and am doing the same in 2014 
I travel solo but the fantastic thing about the Disney cruises are the great friends you find both online and onboard 
