Turkey Day Gang 2009

[sherreis]

Thanks everyone for your help! We just booked our FIRST cruise for Thanksgiving 2009. My boys who will be 9 and 14 at cruise time are super excited as am I. Looks like I have a long time to become addicted to Disboards again. DH is already teasing me.

 

[alwayslisad]

Hello all Fellow Dis Cruisers!
It is freeezing here in NH and we are currently smack dab in the middle of a blizzard- gotta love New England...
we are currently 705 days out....ehehe
after we tell the teens I can prepare the birth certificate trip and go from there.!!

 

[pillow]

Hello all Fellow Dis Cruisers!
It is freeezing here in NH and we are currently smack dab in the middle of a blizzard- gotta love New England...
we are currently 705 days out....ehehe
after we tell the teens I can prepare the birth certificate trip and go from there.!!

Should I ask what a birth certificate trip is???

Jodie

 

[alwayslisad]

dang it - should have read my post CLOSER! I meant to say get the birth certificates ready for the TRIP! LOL and then get the passports ready too

 

[pillow]

dang it - should have read my post CLOSER! I meant to say get the birth certificates ready for the TRIP! LOL and then get the passports ready too

Am laughing - thought I was missing out on some cool new trip or something - he he!!

J

 

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

Hi Lynn (and everyone),


Lynn, I'm glad you're home now and I hope you are feeling better. I sure do hope that you all can join us for '09.

Sherrie, glad to hear that you've booked it! Now, raise your right hand and repeat these words..."Being hooked on the Disboards is not an illness! Although my husband will laugh at me (often) it's good to be hooked on the Disboards...I'll meet some wonderful people and they will help my cruise experience be so much better for my family." There, now you're officially one of us "nuts" and that's a good thing!

By the way (everyone) I'm guessing we're gonna do the t-shirt thing again? If so, any ideas for design? Wendy -- (aka Ms. Creative) and our resident door magnet lady -- do you have any great design ideas?

Miss you all,

Karen

 

[alwayslisad]

Hello since this is our third cruise but our first Tday one - what do you mean by Tshirts?

 

[ICEMANPAD]

Well I have not checked to see if the 2007 Turkey Day Gang thread is still up, but if it is, you will find a wealth of info about Tshirts, fish extenders, door art (courtesy of Wendy), and many other activities the group enjoyed.

Basically, in short, we did all of the above and then some, which is one of the reasons so many have rebooked for 2009.

Chuck

 

[sherreis]

Hi Lynn (and everyone),



Sherrie, glad to hear that you've booked it! Now, raise your right hand and repeat these words..."Being hooked on the Disboards is not an illness!

Karen

Thanks Karen. I promise I'll post a sign on the computer....

Being hooked on the Disboards is not an illness!
Being hooked on the Disboards is not an illness!

DH will get used to it just like he did when I was planning our WDW trip last Thanksgiving. I kept reminding him that if I hadn't done all that Disboard reading - we would have spent the week waiting in lines eating at bad restaurants.

Looking forward to getting to know all of you....


I checked for other trip reports from this year and couldn't find much. So, can you please explain Tshirts, fish extenders, door art to those of us who are new. TIA. Just wanna understand.

 

[The LK 4]

Sherri,

Many of us wore matching t-shirts the first day as an easy way to spot each other. Karen coordinated ordering the shirts (and did a great job!).

Fish Extenders are the newest fun thing that DISers have been doing onboard. They are any type of hanging "basket" or fabric with pockets that you hang outside of your stateroom door. All during the week, we would return to our room to find little goodies from fellow Turkey Day folks from the DIS. It didn't have to be anything elaborate. We received tons of cute gifts like pencils, notebooks, stickers, pirate items, Thanksgiving items, candy, etc. I think there is an ongoing Fish Extenders thread on the main cruise board where you can check out the various designs.

I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of our Fish Extender and door magnets! Another fun thing to do is to design door magnets to help decorate your door. Wendy did a fantastic job at designing many signs for anyone who wanted one!

You can print off designs yourself on magnetic paper, or laminate them and put magnets on the back. My doors had designs for the DIS group, my family group, our names, and Mickey heads that we changed for each port or day at sea.

It was fun to walk around the floors and check out all of the door designs. It also is a huge help when you need to find your room!

 

[ICEMANPAD]

Oriental Trading Company is the place to find stuff for fish extenders...we had a large box full of stuff, even accounting for about 35-40 kids on the delivery route, which cost less than $100 even after shipping.

 

[Tinkerbell 99 Mom]

Hello All:

Lynn: Glad you are better and hope that you are 100 by Christmas !!

Karen: I am thinking of a couple of ideas for the Shirts... I am glad that I have a couple of YEARS to work on it. PS: I know you talked about Disney for Thanksgiving of 2008... We are going to be in St. Louis... We are stopping there for a couple of days on our way to Tanterra.

Laura: We did not take a photo of our door either... I must have had
10 magnets on the door... It was really fun, many folks asked us about it.

The fish extenders were great and everyone was so generous... MY DD was so excited everytime we came back to the room and she had some goodies.

We will be in Disney for Spring Break.... Any takers....????

 

[the5J's]

Hi Turkeys!

Well it snowed a few times already, wind is blowing and i see everone is talking about fantastic times on my BOAT! Well i can make a wish can't I?

We are on the fence, Kids will be at the tough ages. Jessica will be 18, Jenna, as you know, is a TURKEY BABY, will turn 17 that week! SIGH!

It is our goal to travel when the kids are older/gone, but looking at them today, i just can't seem to realize they may not want to go on vacations with us anymore. We will be making a decision next month, I HOPE!

Hey Chuck, we are coming down to Miami the 27th - 29th then up to WDW 29th through the 5th. If you and Lisa have time for lunch or dinner, let me know.

John

 

[Mickeyhugger]

We are on the fence, Kids will be at the tough ages. Jessica will be 18, Jenna, as you know, is a TURKEY BABY, will turn 17 that week! SIGH!

It is our goal to travel when the kids are older/gone, but looking at them today, i just can't seem to realize they may not want to go on vacations with us anymore. We will be making a decision next month, I HOPE!


John

John, for our own selfish reasons, we certainly hope you book! As for Jenna's birthday being that week, what better reason then, to sail on the Magic! Jessica will be 18, and able to dine at Palo! (Not that we're trying to get you to book or anything. )

Priscilla

 

[ICEMANPAD]

John: We can certainly work something out...email me your number at icelaw21@aol.com or call me at 954-812-9513.

Chuck

 

[the5J's]

Jenna has had two Birthdays on the MAGIC, she expects more!
We will be back, it's just a commitment thing.
As i am commited to the MOUSE, i will drag the family along
They know i am SERIOUS when i say "i am going, who's coming!
We live just north of Cincinnati, right off the hwy, I-75. It is a recurring conversation when the DD's and i say "are we there yet!"
It is only 900 miles away!

It's just starting up the business has taken a lot of discretionary funds, and then some. Pay day will be a few years away. Since we are going to WDW next week, i am going to Miami to do some research for business

www.urbanedesignforexistence.com
John

 

[pillow]

Jenna has had two Birthdays on the MAGIC, she expects more!
We will be back, it's just a commitment thing.
As i am commited to the MOUSE, i will drag the family along
They know i am SERIOUS when i say "i am going, who's coming!
We live just north of Cincinnati, right off the hwy, I-75. It is a recurring conversation when the DD's and i say "are we there yet!"
It is only 900 miles away!

It's just starting up the business has taken a lot of discretionary funds, and then some. Pay day will be a few years away. Since we are going to WDW next week, i am going to Miami to do some research for business

www.urbanedesignforexistence.com
John

Very nice website! Good luck with you business.

Jodie

 

[ICEMANPAD]

And having spoken to John, we will be seeing the the 5J's, or at least 4 of them anyway, when they come to South Florida next week.

Chuck

 

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

Hi Wendy,

Let us know when you are coming to St. Louis -- Andrew would love to see Lindsey. We would love to take you all out for dinner -- maybe one of our favorite Italian places on the Hill?

Chuck, thanks for the compliment on coordinating t-shirts. I can put together anything and get it done...but I'm no design whiz...that's Wendy! I was just lucky that someone else had a design I could borrow (hmmmm...I think Andrew said something about copyright infringement) and modify slightly!

Sherrie, the tshirts helped us to identify the folks we have been chatting with on the Disboards. It was so much fun to see all the green shirts and put faces to names. Our kids (big and small) really enjoyed the fish extender thing too....Laura, Andrew still talks about the "Pirate" stuff he got and my nephew Ian (the baseball freak) loves the Pirates pins! [Ian's career plans include playing 3rd base in the majors one day...or maybe catching...so he loves anything baseball!]

More later,

Karen

 

[ICEMANPAD]

Wendy-

We will be spending Mason's spring break on the Magic!! When is Lindsey's spring break? We will be at WDW President's Day Weekend...in case anyone else is planning a visit then!!

Lisa