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

[conny264]

Oh my god,jason-you messed up my make-up.I had to laugh so hard that tears were running down.That can happen to me ocassionaly,so beware.Don´t make me laugh to much,specially during dancing in the evenings.

Hello CM_Mom,a very welcome from Germany.

Heidi- are you staying at the Port Orleans Riverside before the cruise?Silke and I had to switch from CBR to POR for the 5 nights before the cruise(82,-$ instead of 144,-$).If so,we might have a chance for a quick Gin tonic at the River Roost Bar on Friday to start the cruise in a happy way?What do you think?

OK,5 weeks is a little bit early to start packing,but at least I will get my suitcase out of the cellar and put it in my bedroom to look at it each morning.Well,maybe I put the snorkel stuff and a towel in it!

Have a nice weekend everybody.It´s raining here and really stormy,so it´s the couch and a book for me.

Lots of greetings from germany
Conny

 

[Boatingman]

Finally some sun here- in the 40's. Thought I'd catch up. Forgive me if I forget anybody but I have a hard time with names.

First of all Welcome to THE THREAD CM mom! Hope you'll be able to join us

Tracey- Thanks for the 80's night info. Sounds like a blast. I can relive my wasted youth!

Alice- I went shopping again. Brought home 5 pairs of shorts on Thurs. returned 5 pairs of shorts on Friday. I think I'm in trouble

Heidi-
Thanks to the link for 80's night. Since I was in my prime in the 80's (compared to now) it should be fun.

Jason-
Thank you for the 80's night info and the snake/mushroom thing I the article all very interesting & the gofer thing was Hysterical. My kids are now singing or should I say chanting it in the car as I drive. Funny.

Conny-
It's about time you have some bad weather!!!! Only kidding, but remember you'll be vacationing sooner than us all so you dont have that long to go

Linda-
My daughter also screams Its the Disney Cruise when she sees a ship on TV. I dont have the heart to tell her its actually a comercial for Celebrity Cruises.

I think my first drink will be either a Rum Runner or a Margarita. Anybody else dreaming out there?

-Kathy

 

[conny264]

Jason-just found the laughing cat-Hilarious!!!!
Conny

 

[goofyguy1958]

Jason, WHY, WHY, WHY? My DD and DS will not leave me alone now. MUSHROOM, MUSHROOM -- ARG, SNAKE, SNAKE..... DO IT AGAIN, DO IT AGIAN.... I guess I will never learn.

 

[hydster]

HELLO EVeryone!!!!

Reine----great that you found our novel thread!! Hope you can join us...I'm sure we're going to be great fun!! Some of us * * may get kicked off before it's over but it will be fun!!! When we started this thread we had over 210 days til we left and now we are down to 39 for our family as of today! I cant wait!!!! It does get pretty long though!!! That's too bad your DD wont be in the camp but I'm sure others will be there that will be ALMOST as fun as your DD! LOL

Tracey--The 80's night sounds like a lot of fun doesnt it??? Great time to get a little "loaded" and maybe even some liquid courage as me and Ryan like to call Gin! LOL

Conny-Yep staying from April 28 to May 1 at the Port Orleans! It's a great place for our family since we dont have to pay the Deluxe Resort Price for Polynesian but we can all still fit in 1 room with the trundle! I love it there!!!! Boatrights and the food counter are really good!!! It would be great to meet up on Friday night for a little "liquid refreshment" and we should definitely plan on it. I think Friday we are going to go MGM all day long or for as long as we can stand it. We aren't going to buy hopper passes as it is a waste of money for us for only 2 days use so we are going to do MK on Thursday and MGM on Friday. When we were there last time it POURED rain the day we went to MGM and it was miserable and cold. Tanner and I came back to the Poly before everyone else and I sat with the blow dryers on trying to get all of our pants dry while the rest of them stayed to see the Indiana Jones adventure! We plan on going back to the hotel every night and just chilling by the pool or something. MK is open til I think 9:30 on Thrusday night and MGM is open until 8:30 on Friday night so we will probably do that! We should get together though!

Kathy--Glad you saw the link! It was a lot of fun while we were there but we only saw maybe 10 min of it but what we saw was hilarious!!!

Jason--That website was SO annoying! LOL All I can think now is badger, badger...ugh!!!! Must go do something to get that thought out of the brain..maybe something like slaughtering a pig?? LOL JUST KIDDING!

Goofy---I know..I refused to let my kids see it otherwise they would be driving me insane!!

Well you'll all be happy to know we are all cruise-wear set! I got it ALL done today!! We all have some new duds to wear along with the old duds! I have all the sunblock and aloe vera gel and I'm now starting on airplane toys for the kids!!

Well off to enjoy the 75 degree day!! It was 80 yesterday and 75 today..perfect day to wash and wax the ol' suv!

Laters!
Heidi

 

[dthogue]

Happy First Day of Spring -

Since we had 5 inches of snow yesterday so Kaitlyn's soccer training was cancelled, so we spent the day at a cheerleading competition instead.

We CM-Mom to our thread. Hopefully you will be able to join us. How wonderfult to have a DD that is a CM.

Conny - Have you ever stayed at PO before? My favorite resort is CBR (love the beach). I tried to talk my family into PO for Friday night, but got voted down, they want to stay at HIFS. Our flight doesn't arrive til 10am Friday morning, so we decided not to do a Disney park. My girls love the pool and children activities at HIFS. Not to mention the free breakfast and the kids have their own bedroom. We plan on spending the evening at Downtown Disney.

Did a little shopping today - got a scarf for semi-formal night, pair of shorts and DH got his tropical shirt.

I can't wait to start packing - I was thinking of getting the suitcases out tomorrow, but DH was too early. Guess I'll wait another week or so.

Anxiously counting down the days


Tammy

 

[Alice Sr.]

Hi Reine - glad you found us, sounds like you are going to have a great time. Must be nice to have your own personal cruise director I was really surprised by their application requirements. How long does a contract last? Did your DD rotate to WDW also or was she hired just for the cruise line? I'm bummed to hear your DD's favorite is St. Thomas because I booked a day sail that lasts from 9:00 to 4:00 so we won't get to see much of it sounds like a reason to rebook to me
BTW I wanted to let you know that you broke the 1st commandment of this thread. Thou shall not taunt heat deprived posters on thou's 1st post

Just back from the lovely city of Peoria, IL for the Boys Class AA State Championship (basketball that is) (the original March Madness) We came up short wah, wah, wah - I hate losing. Maybe I need to do some shopping tomorrow to get my spirits back up, since I can't count on the weather like some fortunate people on the thread.

Kathy did buying the shorts make you feel better? I'm leaning toward Pina Colada of Miami Vice (reminds me of when I lived in Miami) and life was warm.

Well, you all I hope your weekend is going well.

Talk to you soon.

Alice

 

[CM_Mom]

Hi Alice, DD is doing her first contract for 14 weeks, then probably 5-7 off before going back for another 14-18 weeks. She was hired specifically for the cruise ship Youth Counselor position. After passing all the background and medical checks (everywhere she ever lived and a full physical with x-rays and drug tests) she was given her choice of ships and age groups. She usually works with 3-4s but worked with 5-7s the last two weeks to help balance the staffing.

Last time she was in St. Thomas she got to do the St. John Barefoot Catamaran Sail and Snorkel on her time off. She loved it except she got a sunburn on the Catamaran. Forgot the sunscreen.

Sorry about the taunting. But this is the first really springlike weather we've had. So I pulled weeds in the yard all day. Hmmm, maybe I lke it better cold when I sit in the den with a fire.

Talked to DD today and she seems pretty confident that we'll get to cruise, just not sure if it will be the Magic or the Wonder. But I'll take the uncertainty for the discount. I'm really cheap. We're also planning to go to WDW for a couple of days after the cruise.

Seeing all the messages about shopping reminds me that I haven't even STARTED planning what to bring. All my summer stuff is still in the out of season closet. Guess it's time to get it out and make plans. Seems like I feel a shopping trip coming. What fun is a cruise without something new. (Husbands are not required to understand...just accept)

Alice, sorry about the tournament results. Someone always has to lose but we never want it to be our kids. However they're really a bunch of winners if they made it to the State Championships.

Reine

 

[conny264]

Ok you gyus,all this talking about shopping made me finally decide to byu my first digital cameras.Also I´m working with photographers every day,,,up till now I´d refused to touch one.
But a little surfing at Ebay did it.Just in case I totally mess up,I will bring my old normal cameras as well.

Tammy-Silke and I stayed at the Port Orleans French Quater in November 2000 for our one and only trip to WDW.That´s why I wanted to try the CBR this time.We allready had a reservation for it but Nanci came up with a very good deal for the Riverside,so we decided to switch.We love this boatrides to DD,specially in the evening.

Heide-we definitly should meet on Friday.We were planning on goint to Epcot,but I´m not sure if we are going to watch Illumin ations a second time.We will be at the Riverside from the 26,so I could leave a message for you at the guest service with our room number and we´ll try to work something out over the phone.How does this sound?

BYE for now

Conny

 

[Alice Sr.]

Conny what kind of camara did you get? Did you know what price you could buy it at a store before you bid? I have never gone on E-Bay. I am trying to decide between a digital camara or a digital video camara, I should probably go out and buy Camaras For Dummies before I decide.

I so want to book a couple of nights in WDW. I try to justify it but keep coming up short. Linds will be missing 2 basketball tournaments and a week of school. You all will have to do a trip report on the land portion of your trip and of course someone will have to eat at Teppanyaki's for us and someone will have to have a kiwi/original margarita in Mexico for me and a nice glass of wine in Germany and some Yaki Gori in Japan and definitely Rice Pudding in Norway and if you don't mind a Kir Royal in France

It's going to be a whopping 34F today but with 25 MPH winds that should give us a wind chill effect of the low teens

Well good shopping or whatever to you all,

Alice

 

[dthogue]

Good Morning Everyone - can you believe we are at the 39 day mark. The time is flying by.

Conny - great job with the digital camera. We have one as well, but I can;t bring myself to use all the time. I guess I'm a die hard 35mm gal. The photos from my digital don't seem to be as good as the ones from our 35mm. I know its just me, I really don't understand all the mege pixels and such, and then what do I do with the pictures once I take them. I'm so technology challenged However, I do love the fact that you can delete the bad pcitures and see the outcome of the picture right away. Ohh - I love that boatride to DTD. Last time we stayed there we rented a pontoon boat and drove over to DTD - so much fun!!

Reine - sounds like your DD has a wonderful job. We'll keep our fingers crossed that you are able to sail on our cruise.

Alice - sorry about the basketball results - what an accomplishment to make it that far. We had one local team who was supposed to play in the beginning round of states - they decided to have a party to celebrate their success - someone brought alcohol, they party got out of hand, neighbors called the police and 3/4 of the team was suspended for underage drinking. They had to forfeit their game. Such a shame that these kids think they need alcohol to have fun.

Hope you are having a good weekend - still cold hear, but hope is on the horizon with warmer temps on the way.

Tammy

 

[LogansMommy_MD]

Hope everyone had a nice shopping-filled weekend! lol... I haven't done a lick of shopping this weekend, but did do tons of cleaning...yuck!

Conny - very cool about your cam! I got one for Xmas and I LOVE it... it can actually take dig movies too, but I think I'm also going to bring along my video recorder... Enjoy it!

Kathy - I actually had a few Bahama Mamas last night and I must say that got me dreaming about the cruise.. What a tasty drink! That may be a fav of mine for the cruise too, but I imagine I'll want to try some new ones!!

Heidi - YEAH for getting ALL your shopping done - good feeling, eh?? And your weather, well, sounds HEAVENLY!!
I also have to pick up a few airplane toys for Logan although, he's got his Gameboy and I imagine that might just keep him occupied for our 2 hour flight...at least, thats what I'm hoping!!

Tammy - Yuck about the snow!! especially on the first day of spring!! We had nice weather yesterday - mid 60's and sunny!!
I too am anxious to start packing.. I've got my suitcases all lined up along my basement wall to look at every time I go down there!!

Alice - Hope you are able to get some shopping done today! I know that always helps to lift MY spirits!!!

Reine - I agree, I think shopping/new clothes is definetly synonymous (?sp) with VACATION!! Not that I need an excuse to shop, just a rationalization for it!!!lol.


All this talk lately about WDW has me thinking about going there next year... I haven't been in a good 15 years or more and DS hasn't been, so I think you all have helped to make up my mind about next years vacation! Thanks!!

Have a nice day everyone!



Tracey

 

[ThreeCircles]

Wow! Looks like almost everyone will be sporting a digital camera on the cruise! Should make for lots of great photos to post on the net when we return from our sailing.

I too just purchased my first digital camera over the holiday season. I love photography and have a trusty 35mm Minolta Maxium SLR that I wouldn't leave home on a cruise without but I wanted to experience the "new wave" in picture taking.

I bought an entry-level 2.1 megapixel Nikon Coolpix. It's pretty easy to operate and takes pretty good pics for a $200 camera. I still think traditional film is going to be my medium of choice but the digital stuff is fun too!

On Saturday we were pleasantly surprised to find a confirmation letter for our shore excursions in the mail. Looks like we should be receiving our cruise docs soon. Perhaps this week!!!


Conny and Heidi--

You guys are really lucky to be staying at Port Orleans before the cruise! It's actually one of my favorite resorts at Disney. I haven't stayed there since they "merged" Port Orleans with Dixie Landings. I wanted the two resorts to stay as separate entities but, as usual, Disney did not consult with me prior to making that decision! What are they thinking about making such a move without talking to me first!?!?! LOL

Anyway, maybe Travis and I will meet you guys up there on Friday. Oh wait, I shouldn't say that as we'll probably be running around the Tampa Bay area taking care of all the cruise details that we neglected up to that point.

 

[hydster]

Happy Sunday to everyone!!! I hope you all had a nice weekend!

Tammy--so sorry to hear about your snow! The cheerleading competition sounds like it was pretty fun though!!! I brought the suitcases out of retirement and started "freshening" them up..used a little febreeze on the inside to get it smelling nice! LOL That was all Ryan allowed me to do for at least another week!
Good job on getting the scarf and the shirt! I said I was all done but I KNOW me and I will go buy more more more!

Alice-Sorry to hear about the boys losing their tournament! I hate that when it happens! Maybe you need to back out here to get some nice weather again...we're kicking butt and taking names in the weather department right now. Of course I brought Tanner home from the hospital on the April 9th we had 12 inches of snow to wade through. When I was in labor my water broke playing golf...go figure! And hey if you came out here we could drink those froo froo drinks together AND enjoy the warmth! We have a digital still camera I think it's a Canon elph something (dont use it much...I suck at picture taking just ask my hubby) and we just bought a Digital Video Camera that actually can take digital still photos as well and uses a seperate Memory card for it! It's also very tiny!! Here's a link to what it looks like

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000899VM/102-1375429-0789744?v=glance
and Amazon is offering it for 279.00 right now with the rebate.
When are you flying into Orlando?? Friday night?? Our kids are missing 8 days of school...but I dont care!

***I say that we do a little mini-meet on Friday night if anyone is interested...for those of us who will be there...then of course we will do the meet on Sat at 3 at the pool...and then lunch on Sunday or something but if anyone is interested in meeting Conny and us at POR let me know!***

Conny---Leaving a message for me would be great! I dont know what time Illuminations get's done but I'm sure we could meet somewhere after it gets over with...maybe someone else will know about what time it's over and we could plan to meet an hour or so later then you could do that and we could get in a swim with the kids...but whatever is easiest for you..it would be great fun to meet up and we should try to figure it out!

We leave in 5 weeks and 3 days..HOLY CRAP! It's getting so exciting!

Tracey- It is a really nice feeling to get it all done and finished but I know I will still do more! Tanner has a gameboy too but we screwed up big time and bought them an X-Box for Christmas and so now the gameboy's are obsolete I think I will just get lots of crayons and some other things to keep him busy! I think we will also bring Ryan's laptop and bring Cat in the Hat and a few other movies he can watch. At least each way since it's far enough we will get dinner so that will help break up some of the time I guess. I dread flying with my kids though because they suffer so bad with ear pain and pressure when they start the descent down. We usually have all 3 kids bawling and wigging out! I've tried a zillion different things to help but so far nothing has. I'm going to try starburst and those ear numbing drops this time and pray it helps! I guess the one good thing is that it's only one descent instead of a few if we werent going non-stop. Congrats on the cleaning! I should have been cleaning but instead I went and had a massage and hung out outside trying to start getting a tan! LOL I'm starting the tanning booth this week! One more exciting thing to think about!

Jason---I LOVE POR as well! We stayed at the Poly last time before the cruise and then POR afterwards and I actually liked POR better than the poly. I love the themes in the rooms and the kids LOVED the swimming pool. I also loved the food court area..it seemed to have a lot more to choose from! I definitely think you should come down and meet with us on Friday night! I bet we wont meet til 9 or so...you should be able to get it done by then shouldnt you?? LOL I love our digital camera! The pictures are nice and all the pictures Ryan takes of me I can delete before they get printed But I do like our Nikon 35mm as well. I'm psyched about our video recorder though!!!

Well it's time for me to go make dinner! Hope everyone is doing well. So sorry for the long posts..but I cant seem to make them short no matter how hard I try!!

Heidi

 

[ThreeCircles]

Evening all--

I just found this posted on another thread and thought I would share it with everyone.

Originally posted by Dannyb
In St. Thomas, we spent much of the day at Megan's Bay and then did some shopping. Cab rates to Megan's Bay were fixed at $6/pp plus an entry fee of $3 to go to the beach. You can go there on a ship's excursion, but it is much, much cheaper to do it on your own. Beach chair rentals were available for $6 plus a refundable deposit. You need to move the chairs yourself. There is a decent (although kind of slow) beachfront restaurant w/ decent burgers and pizza. On the pricey side. They also have a great bar that makes what I decided is the best tasting frozen drink on the planet - a Bushwhacker, which I understand is a famous St. Thomas drink. Mostly Bailey's Irish Cream w/ vodka or rum (they used vodka at this bar, but apparently use rum elsewhere), Khaluha, amaretto, brandy, pineapple juice, coconut milk, blended w/ ice. Ground nutmeg on top. Consistency of a milkshake, but no where near as sweet as a pina colada. Phenomenal!

After reading Dannyb's description, I'm definitely not going to miss a Bushwhacker now!!!

 

[Alice Sr.]

Jason - LOL


Thanks everyone for the condolences. It's so disappointing because they were ranked 1st in the state and 6th in the nation by U S A Today for the 2nd year in a row (we did come in 1st in 2000) but there's always next year.

Thanks Heidi for the link that is exactly what I'm looking for, a video that can take stills. I thought it was going to cost and arm and a leg but that's a great price.

I think we are flying in Friday night, I screwed up and waited too long to book the airfare so I'll probably wait to see if I can get a last minute deal. We will most likely stay off site as it costs too many points for Friday and Saturday at BWV or BCV. Although I have wanted to stay at GF for a while, maybe I'll check rates and availability tomorrow. It's driving both of us nuts not going to WDW this year

Later,
Alice

 

[Alice Sr.]

Hey 39 days for us

 

[CM_Mom]

Woo Hooooooo. Under 40 days!!!

 

[conny264]

Hi everybody,just a short post today,went to the dentist and now it HURTS!!!!
I want lauging gas and drugs!!!!
Alice-its a canon Ixus 430 with 4 megapix and stuff,no idea.A photographer recommended it it comes to 377,-€ and I didn´t auction for it,bought it directly from a dealer,but it was cheaper than in all the shops in town.I´m not sure I can handle it so I will take my trusted Pentax and normmanl APS Ixus with me.3 cameras,I´m nuts,but who cares.
Heide-if we stay for Illuminations,we would not be back to POR till 9.45.If thats to late we probably skip it,because we watch it on Tuesday anyway.
God,my teeth hurt so bad,I think I´ll go back and get me some drugs.
Bye conny

 

[ThreeCircles]

All this talk of dentist visits makes me nervous. If there is one thing that I am deathly afraid of in this world, it would have to be the dentist. It’s a phobia, I think!

Now I’m going to have to go listen to the Badgers song so that I can get this imagery of the dentist out of my head.

Only 39 days to go!