Way Early I know but anyone going on Eastern May 1-8 2004?

[ThreeCircles]

All I can say is *UGH*!

I went to update the site this morning and discovered that the file was, gulp, g...o...n...e! I couldn't believe it!

So, you can guess what I spent my entire day doing. Yup, building the site from almost scratch. I think I'm going bonkers from staring at the screen for so long today!

At any rate, I think it's up and running again. You all may want to check out all of your info and such because I’m sure I made mistakes throughout the re-building process. Please e-mail me if you find dead links, incorrect links, missing or inaccurate info, etc.

As for the Dis Meet, I have only been on the boards a couple of times today but I did put up some of the suggestions on the site. Once we have all of the options, I'll set up a poll so we can determine where and when we want to meet. That is, if everyone wants to do it that way.

I love Saturday for a meet simply because it's the first day and you start putting names with faces around the ship. We've always had ours right after the drill and, as many have said, time is limited. However, you do have a good 30 minutes and it also allows for an easy way "out" for those individuals who may be a bit more shy. Generally, from past experiences, the group breaks up into smaller groups and heads up to the Sail-Away Celebration on Decks 9 and 10. We've had very large meets, say 80+, and it's just too difficult to stay in such a large group in a busy area.

Talk to you all soon!

 

[hydster]

Well my vote is also for Saturday at 3 near one of the pools so that my kids can meet kids, swim and I can get "lit" at one of the pool bars! LOLOLOL JUST KIDDING Since there are some kids that will be in groups together I think it would be nice (especially for my Tanner who at 5 is already telling me what he will and will NOT be doing) but I think he hated the kids club because he didnt know anyone and since we had grandparents they kept the kids with them while we were doing something. It would be good for him to have someone he knew to go to the clubs with!!!

Alice---I feel your pain about the weather...it has been absolutely GORGEOUS here the whole week. 60 + today and supposed to be that warm tomorrow BUT tomorrow night we are supposed to get snow and rain...and back to cool temps again!!! How'd the dentist go??? I sent subliminal messages to Alice's dentist to do something good and not charge a fortune to do it..hopefully it worked!

What did you want to know about attire?? Sea days mostly people are in bathing suits and shorts with sandals. At night they usually wear nice slacks, skirts or capris with a nice shirt unless it is formal night. I have a really plain black long backless dress I wear for formal night and then I Have another sundress to wear the less formal night. Mostly you need shorts and t-shirts or tank tops and sandals along with a few things to mix and match for dinner. I wouldnt take too much stuff.

Well I'm off to Parent Teacher Conference for McKaylee and Miles....only 47 days and 22 hours til we leave! I cant believe it's already that low..seems like it was just at 150 days!

Heidi

 

[dthogue]

Heidi- thanks for the children chart - it looks like the 5 yo set will be all set - they will be so cute together. My older girls were hoping to meet someone before we board, but as of now, no luck.

We plan on arriving at the port around 10:30 or so. The meet by the pool sounds like a good plan. I'm sure my girls will want to hit the pool first thing and it would be great for the kids to meet.

I can't believe how exciting this is. I keep telling myself - seven weeks, we leave in only seven weeks.

My 5yo DD brought a beautiful dress yesterday for tropical night. It is a sleeveless dress in blue with tropical flowers. She looks so cute (she wore it all night last night). I told her the only thing she needs now is a white flower for her hair. Don't you know she had me in Wal Mart toady looking at the artifical flowers

Our weather here has been up and down. Today we had highs in the mid 50's, but tonight they are calling for snow showers. Yuck!

I hope everyone has a good weekend - we're off to Richmond VA for a soccer tournament in the morning.

Tammy

 

[ScrapHappyMama]

Heidi, thanks for putting that list together, it is very helpful!

Jason, sorry you had such a bummer of a day!! You really go above and beyond the call for this group, that is for sure. What a guy!!!

Tammy, my dd3 has a very similar dress for tropical night, only hers is pink. I had a hard time getting her to take it off the first night!

my mom and I are going shopping this weekend (sans kiddos) so hopefully we will get the last of the cruise clothes taken care of.

One more thought on a Meet.... I was reading some of the other cruise meet threads to get an idea of what some others do (yes, I was bored!!) and one that stuck out to me was meeting in one of the sitdown dining rooms for lunch on Sunday. (my opinion, if we did this, it should be IN ADDITION TO the poolside 3 pm meet that has been suggested, which is my first choice!) Just throwing another thought out there for consideration.

Have a great night everyone.
Linda

 

[conny264]

Hi there!

Actually i am not Conny, but her sister Silke!

I think it is high time to put my head in the door and say hi to all of you!!

So: Hi!

 

[ScrapHappyMama]

Hi Silke, and welcome!!!!!!

Can you guys believe..... 7 weeks from today (or tomorrow or yesterday, depending on your travel plans, lol)?????

Whoooo hoooooo!!!!!!!!!
Happy Friday everyone,
Linda

 

[conny264]

And i made a mistake

Stupid me!!

I also wanted to say that my sister is keeping me informed of what is beeing planned and i am really looking forward of meeting you all!

We will have such a great time!

Ho, ho to the bottel we go....

Bye for now

 

[LogansMommy_MD]

Thanks for the cold weather Alice!! lol.. Actually its not too bad, but it is windy!!! Supposed to be in the high 50's this weekend which I can't really complain about.
I'm with Alice - I'm excited about meeting everyone too.. I know if I hadn't found this board and the people on it, I seriously doubt I'd be as enthused and excited as I am.. Sure, DS is excited, but not 1/2 as excited as me...!!!

Sorry about the site Jason - but it looks fine now!! Thanks for all your work into it!!

Heidi - yeah, list is cool!! Wow, I didn't realize there were soo many kids! Thanks for putting that together!!

Linda - I think that sounds like a good idea! I'm all for the 3:00 Sat. meeting too, but then I also think a more relaxed sit-down setting would be great as well!!!!

Silke - Hi back at ya!!

The tropical dresses sound ADORABLE... that is ONE thing I miss about having a DS; dresses + hairstyles!!!!

Have a great day everyone!!!!! 7 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[abjennings]

After months of reading the Dis board, anticipating our cruise, I can stand it no longer. I must let you all know how very excited I am about our upcoming cruise on the Magic. I will be traveling with DH and DS (who will be turning 6 two weeks before we leave). I have no questions to post because this board does an AWESOME job of covering everything. We booked a GTY CAT 11. I will let you know if we get an upgrade. But it will be just fine if not.

 

[ScrapHappyMama]

Welcome aboard abjennings!!!! There are several 5 and 6 year olds in this group already. I have a ds 6 and a dd 3. See you in seven weeks!

Linda

 

[ThreeCircles]

Hello Silke!

I was wondering if you were going to pop up on here before we depart for our cruise! Glad to see that Conny is keeping you informed on all of the crazy characters you'll be sailing with in May. So, are you as excited as everyone else around here?


Welcome to the thread Abjennings!

We were booked as Category 11 GTY as well but have since been assigned our stateroom. It's on Deck 6, Midship. Someplace we've never stayed before so we're looking forward to a whole new experience!

If you would like, you can send in your family's info to our Disney Magic May 1st Cruise Site at <a href="http://www.threecircles.net">ThreeCircles.net</a>. We're in the early stages of planning a Dis Meet on the cruise so if you have any suggestions or ideas, please don't hesitate to share them. Looking forward to meeting you!


Everyone--

Can you even believe we're UNDER the 50 day mark!!!

 

[hydster]

HAPPY FRIDAY TO EVERYONE!!!

47 days for us..and counting!!! Holy cow..I really really really need to get working on clothing issues!

Tammy-I was glad to put the chart together just to see who had kids where. The 5-6 group is going to be darling together!!! I wish there were more kids for the other ages but I dont see many together. I guess fortunately for Miles my 9 yr old ds he can go in with McKaylee my 10 year old dd and they can be together if nothing else. We promised our kids this time they could swim after we ate lunch on embarkation day so we have to keep our word! I think a meet by the pool would be a lot of fun just to keep it light and friendly. At least then if you wanted to show up you could and if you wanted to leave that is fine as well since we would only have maybe 30-45 min before the lifeboat drill. How cute about your 5 yr old and her dress! My 10 yr old was that way once! I have to go shopping for her I think more than my boys. I plan on getting her a really pretty dress for formal night. My boys however are going to fight me tooth and nail about anything more than khaki's and a shirt. I guess that will just have to do. Hope you had a great time at the soccer tournament.

Jason--so sorry about the list going wacko! That is one reason I absolutely HATE computers! WHenever I have something very important to do it freaks out on me. Now I just make Ryan do it all! LOL

Linda - It was my pleasure to do the list. It helps me figure out my "method of attack" with my kids getting them into the clubs. The older ones will be ok I think (though they will probably only use them at night since they LOVE to swim) but Tanner is going to be harder. I think if I can get him involved with some kids his age BEFORE the club he'll do better. I wish I could go shopping this weekend sans kids but Ryan has to work all weekend and my mom is out of town Hopefully next weekend!!! I think your lunch idea sounds great!!!

HI SILKE Nice to hear from you!!! Glad Conny is keeping you up to date!!! It will be fun to hear from you as well!! This is getting so exciting now! We are down to 47 days and you guys are down even lower than that!!!

Tracy--We're supposed to get snow tonight..right now it is 55 degrees at 10:20 am so I know it will get warm and then BAM back into the 30's and 40's for the weekend. OH well now for us less than 7 weeks til the warmth of the Caribbean!!! I'm so glad everyone liked the list! I was bored yesterday (and I am sure I will be today as well) so I just decided to do it. I know what you mean about having a boy...they are just so "average" (no offense to you men out there) but they just get dressed and that's it. Of course my dd is giving me a run for my money right now (the tween years where she isnt a kid and isnt a teen) and ooohh baby...my boys are MUCH easier!! LOL

Abjennings...WOOHOO another addition to our group! I am SO glad you came in to join us!!! ANd another 5-6 year old group child to boot!!! Hopefully this board will just get more and more active the closer to sailing we get. If you find out your room number let us know! We have 2 connecting cabins at 6024/6026.



And as far as the countdown pic goes Jason my one and ONLY GUESS-------


The train station is in Fairbanks Alaska and Alaska was the 49th State????

If that's not right then I give up!! LOL Had to make sure you saw my answer this time! JUST KIDDING!!!!

Well off to Costco...the kids have today off of school so I gotta get some food in bulk today! LOL

I will check in later!
Heidi

 

[ScrapHappyMama]

Wow Heidi, I am impressed with your guess!!! (even if it isn't right by chance, I am still impressed with it, lol)

I know we are at 49 days, but I couldn't figure out the picture. (which doesn't suprise me, because I think the last one that I figured out was the highway sign, lol)

Linda

 

[hydster]

LOL Linda!

I'm just glad Google was invented....I had to recheck my history but who knows..I'm probably wrong! LOL

I only knew the Hemmingway one because my next door neighbor was just talking about it as she had to do a report on it and she borrowed Ryan's copy of the book and then made an off hand comment about it being written so long ago and for some reason it just stayed..you know part of the "useless knowledge" part of the brain? LOL

Heidi

 

[ThreeCircles]

Heidi was right, again!

I thought for sure that that pic was going to stump everyone for a little longer than that. I guess not!

Everyone should join in! Post your "riddle" and see if we can solve it. If you can stump Heidi, she'll buy you a fu-fu drink onboard! (Just kidding! LOL )

 

[LogansMommy_MD]

I must admit Jason, I was reading the thread this a.m. and didn't even NOTICE your riddle picture.. Call me blonde....
DUHHHHHHHHHHHH.....................

Welcome abjennings! I've got a DS5!! These 5/6 year olds are taking over!!! lol...

Cy'all in 7 weeks + 1 day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hydster]

Jason---LOL..sorry to solve it..I should have waited I guess! I really love your riddles though because it makes the ol' brain work harder.

I cant come up with anything....I am terrible at coming up with something like that! I'll keep thinking though!

Tracy--LOL about not noticing....I almost didnt notice it either then just as I clicked the X I saw it and so I had to go back and look at it.

We just got our Digital Video Camera today..I'm so excited! When we went before in 2002 we had a video camera as well. Recorded our whole trip on it including time with the dolphins, the ship, the kids, WDW all of it. We came home and about 2 weeks later our house got robbed and they stole the camera and it still had the tape in it. I could have cared less about the camera but I was so mad about losing the memories. That's one of the reasons we are going again...just to get some of them back on tape!! They must have been kids that broke in though looking for a gun because they left all of my jewelry (diamond rings and earrings) and also left my visa/debit card behind. They looked in my closet, saw the video camera case and took it, they looked in Ryan's closet and saw an old tool box. I'm sure they thought it would be a gun they could steal..I'm sure they were pretty angry when they found a box of half empty tools that were pretty much useless. (Dont ask me why they were in there and not the shed or garage) but then they stole my leather jacket and my brand new chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, 2 spoons and a 6 pack of orange juice! Oh yeah and they stole a drill I had bought for my dad for Christmas!

Anyway that's my new reading material for all of you! LOL
So I did at least get 1 thing for the cruise today!!!

Off to clean and figure out some kind of riddle!
Heidi

 

[Alice Sr.]

Wow Heidi you are really good at the riddles and Jason you are really good at thinking of them.

Hi Silke glad you checked in, you must me getting really excited, a nice long trip to the World and a cruise.

Welcome abjennings! Another little boy for the 5/6 catagory. I think the kids are going to have a great time, I can just see them all running with each other now. .

Isn't it amazing how fickle time is, when you want it to go fast it crawls and when you want it to stop it flies by.

I don't think I'll go shopping tonight, maybe tomorrow but if you find any good stuff let me know.

Alice

 

[Boatingman]

Saw all your threads. Been counting down for almost a year. Just found this site. We'll be there with bells on!

 

[ThreeCircles]

Hello and welcome Boatingman!

Glad to see that you've found our little corner of the Dis Boards.