Turkey Day Gang 2009 Live Thread

[LAMPSKIES]

It has been brought to my attention (as you know I have an "in" at DCL) that the necessary repairs may be done at sea and at CC. DCL will have the engine diagnosed and torn down, parts that aren't already onboard will be delivered to CC before the ship arrives and will most likely be fixed before she sails for PC. Keep and eye out you may see some different things.....boats our even that runway may get a little use!

 

[ICEMANPAD]

OK, was not able to finish this at sea, but it was a great trip overall...it did take 3 attempts to land at CC due to a strong front coming though, but we did get on the island about 1pm....the Disboards group was very active and a great time was had by all....more later as we have just gotten home...ok we stopped at the outlet mall at Vero on the way...

Chuck

 

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

Hi all,

Made it to Chattanooga tonight...will head the rest of the way in to St. Louis tomorrow. All in all, this was a terrific cruise! The "official" count of t-shirts (yes, I'm the t-shirt lady and Andrew, we are STILL using your design shoulda copyrighted that thing a few years back ) was 78 t-shirts!

The FE group was very inventive, thorough and fun! We had so much stuff that we stuffed a suitcase full!

The "event" out of St. Thomas was handled very, very, very well by DCL staff. We were down, dead in the water, for about 90 minutes from the start of thick black smoke coming from the smoke stack to getting under way again. Our poor Captain really got a work out this cruise....poor man likely needs his own vacation!

Friday's trip into Castaway Cay was....interesting. Captain tried to get us in...no luck. Tried again...no luck. Came on the loud speaker and said he would try again in 45 minutes....NO LUCK! So, the DCL staff started passing out "updated" activities guides and got things well underway. We got a "bonus" of pulling up beside the Wonder and having a horn war...that was a ton of fun. Can't wait to see/hear the video my DS took.

Finally, a bit after Noon the very determined Captain made another attempt and....SUCCESS!!!! We were at Castaway Cay! Activities at CC were very limited that day, but we were all glad to be on the magical private island...even if our trip there was short. Our kind Captain extended our time on the island a bit and it made sailaway really pretty with the sun setting and all. I felt bad for the staff who set up to go to CC...then had to set up for us to stay on the ship...then had to reset again for us to go to CC. They all worked really hard that day and I know my family appreciated their efforts tremendously!

The only "bad" part of the cruise was how rough and rocky the boat was. My DH (Steve) had trouble on Saturday night...and most other nights too. But he finally learned that keeping something in your tummy and getting air helped a lot. I had problems on Thursday evening. This was my 4th cruise...1st Eastern and I don't know that I'll go East again from Port Canaveral. I'm honestly not sure that the stabilizers were ever used on this trip! I'm confident they weren't on the 1st, 6th and 7th nights. Let's just say that walking down the halls was....interesting! And, now that I am on land I'm still rocking!

[So now, my DH (hmmm...maybe DSH is more descriptive....) is looking over my shoulder asking what DH means....oh no....maybe now he'll get hooked on the Disboards too ! ]

But, even with the bad there was the truly terrific! Steve, Andrew and I are making plans to go see Captain/Uncle Chun and his family, we've booked on the 8.16.2011 cruise and are thinking about a cruise in July with Mickeyhugger and Tinkerbell99Mom and families. Thanks to all our Turkey Day Friends for making this cruise so incredibly special.

Hope to see you all again real soon!

Karen

 

[LAMPSKIES]

Hi all,

Made it to Chattanooga tonight...will head the rest of the way in to St. Louis tomorrow. All in all, this was a terrific cruise! The "official" count of t-shirts (yes, I'm the t-shirt lady and Andrew, we are STILL using your design shoulda copyrighted that thing a few years back ) was 78 t-shirts!

The FE group was very inventive, thorough and fun! We had so much stuff that we stuffed a suitcase full!

The "event" out of St. Thomas was handled very, very, very well by DCL staff. We were down, dead in the water, for about 90 minutes from the start of thick black smoke coming from the smoke stack to getting under way again. Our poor Captain really got a work out this cruise....poor man likely needs his own vacation!

Friday's trip into Castaway Cay was....interesting. Captain tried to get us in...no luck. Tried again...no luck. Came on the loud speaker and said he would try again in 45 minutes....NO LUCK! So, the DCL staff started passing out "updated" activities guides and got things well underway. We got a "bonus" of pulling up beside the Wonder and having a horn war...that was a ton of fun. Can't wait to see/hear the video my DS took.

Finally, a bit after Noon the very determined Captain made another attempt and....SUCCESS!!!! We were at Castaway Cay! Activities at CC were very limited that day, but we were all glad to be on the magical private island...even if our trip there was short. Our kind Captain extended our time on the island a bit and it made sailaway really pretty with the sun setting and all. I felt bad for the staff who set up to go to CC...then had to set up for us to stay on the ship...then had to reset again for us to go to CC. They all worked really hard that day and I know my family appreciated their efforts tremendously!

The only "bad" part of the cruise was how rough and rocky the boat was. My DH (Steve) had trouble on Saturday night...and most other nights too. But he finally learned that keeping something in your tummy and getting air helped a lot. I had problems on Thursday evening. This was my 4th cruise...1st Eastern and I don't know that I'll go East again from Port Canaveral. I'm honestly not sure that the stabilizers were ever used on this trip! I'm confident they weren't on the 1st, 6th and 7th nights. Let's just say that walking down the halls was....interesting! And, now that I am on land I'm still rocking!

[So now, my DH (hmmm...maybe DSH is more descriptive....) is looking over my shoulder asking what DH means....oh no....maybe now he'll get hooked on the Disboards too ! ]

But, even with the bad there was the truly terrific! Steve, Andrew and I are making plans to go see Captain/Uncle Chun and his family, we've booked on the 8.16.2011 cruise and are thinking about a cruise in July with Mickeyhugger and Tinkerbell99Mom and families. Thanks to all our Turkey Day Friends for making this cruise so incredibly special.

Hope to see you all again real soon!

Karen

Chatting with my "friend" at DCL who happened to be on the ship the stabalizers weren't out on the 6th and 7th night due to the fact that they had to make up time from the "fire" and the delayed stay at CC. The stabalizers keep the ship from rocking but also slow it down....The Eastern is DEFINATELY our favorite, but the Turkeyday Western had 2 stops @ CC.....COME ON CHUCK!!!!! Where is that trip report? Jess and Alli have told me they want to do the Turkeyday sailing next year....might book next week

 

[alwayslisad]

Hiya all - great report -