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

[hydster]

Happy Sunday one and All!! It's another COLD one here! 40 degrees and raining AGAIN! Oh well..at least it will help our nasty drought situation right?? I'm nursing a hell of hangover today so my post will be shorter than usual (I'm sure you are all disappointed with that!) Geez it took me 10 min to read the thread this morning (some of that due to a nasty headache)so I'm just going to do the rest of this post fast and then off for more Ibuprofen!

Jen(aka hannahandkate) I've had long hair, short hair, long hair, short hair and now long hair again! I got tired of always having to style my short hair..now I just chuck it into a ponytail and off I go! Homemade Margaritas sound good (though not right now nursing a hangover)! Glad hubby played such a great bartender! We're taking a limo to the port as well and I say if your dd wants to wear snow white..let her! There were lots of little girls in minnie dresses and princess dresses on embarkation day!

Tammy--I agree about the weather! Sounds like you had a productive soccer day! Ouch about the ice cream! I can't wait for that either! I want ice cream..ok go get one! LOL I need to get the suitcases and at least start throwing stuff in them respectively for the trip...but I have too bad of a hangover today to think about it! I can pack the shorts since the whole week is supposed to be cold and crappy!!

Reine--Too funny about quickest way to go horizontal...I feel that way after I travel too! We don't get in until 11 something on Wed night and I dread the drive to POR but oh well...it will technically only be 9 something in our brain and I am NOT going to go commando in the park the next day. We did that last time had PS at Cindy's castle for breakfast the morning after we got in at midnight and it was tough to get the kids going! We plan on doing it more leisurely this time! Can't wait to get there!

Conny--I'm so jealous that you only have 3 more days! I can't wait until I can say that! As of tomorrow we will be in single digits! Can't wait for our meet at the POR pool on Friday!

Tracey--LOL about the pirates counting...I think it should I mean anything that has Johnny Depp in it counts for just about anything..yuummmy!~ Crappy weather forcasted here all week so I think I may start the short's packing early!

Jason--Glad to see you made it through the relay and that amount of cash is GREAT! I thought you'd like the new Avatar! I decided if Joe was going to put up a bow tie I'd put up a drink! LOL I too was laughing my butt off at the thought of you in hat and gloves! 53 here is a heatwave lately! But I understand...when you are accustomed to heat...cool is hard to deal with! I want some heat here...oh well only 10 more days!

Well off to deal with the hangover. Think I may have another drink to take the edge off!

Less than 2 weeks now...only 13 days until we board the ship! Can't wait!

Heidi

 

[monkeyboysmith]

Good Morning Pirates!!!!
The anticipation is killing me!!!!! I need warmer weather and my own bartender!

Good job Jason, your dedication to your fellow man is commendable, a froo froo drink for you! But, you make me laugh withthe 50 degree glove weather!! In Utah we get 2 different reactions to 50 degree weather. In the fall we wear gloves and jackets and in the spring we wear shorts, skirts and t-shirts (No, Joe, I don't wear a skirt, I don't have the legs for it)

Jennifer-- ah, the Margarita... Second on the list of classic boat drinks and the source of general mayhem. The smooth burn of the mexican whiskey with the sharp tartness of lime brings the rolling waves of the ocean. I'm for anything with tequila, with the exception of the hangover

I couldn't get the pirate monkey picture small enough for the avatar so I had to add it to the signature. The tiny pic just didn't do justice to my monkey!!!

Drink on pirates!!

 

[ThreeCircles]

I like the picture!

The single fang protruding slightly over the lower lip and the standard eye patch are definitely reminiscent of pirate folk. The bananas of course add the needed tropical touch.

I'm wondering if this is an original piece of artwork completed after the Monkey Boy sampled a little of that Mexican whiskey?

 

[monkeyboysmith]

A pirate monkey boy never reveals the source of his treasure, because as Mark Twain said, "two people can keep a secret only if one of them is dead."

But I think he needs a good "Happy Shirt" to get him in the tropical spirit.

 

[JenLynn]

Hi all!

And another beautiful day here in central MD .... and now i am so ready for the cruise .... it just seems like "vacation" weather!

Ah Tammy ... I know and love Hershey, PA! In fact, each August i go scrapbooking for 4 days to Camp Hill and many of us make a side-trip to a scrapbooking store in Hershey.

Jason, great job on the Relay for life! It sounds like you had a very successful event. And i totally understand about the need for hat and gloves. I would have needed gloves too!

Short hair, long hair .... yep, i've done both... in fact, my hair was down the middle of my back for my wedding and then two days later i went and had it all cut off. I am now letting it grow long again ... and Heidi I am with you with the ponytail thing.

Hey Ryan, maybe your monkey needs a bowtie too!

Goodness Conny, you have got to be so happy to be so close! I hope your travel goes smoothly!

And i am not a "soccermom" but Teddy did have his first lacrosse game yesterday and scored a goal!! Yipppppeeeeee!

And Heidi ... i love the avatar!


Jen

 

[hannahandkatesmommy]

Yay for me!!! My girls are 100% packed with the exception of their formal dresses and those will just be put in the suitcase the night before. I actually had to spend this 84 degree day at the Mall bc mommy has no clothes. I have been about 4 different sizes in the last 6 years so nothing fits quite right. Of course, Hannah got a capri outfit and a dress , Dad got a new tie for formal night.....mom-zilch! Not for lack of trying though. My friend, Patty, who is traveling with us and I had the clothing discussion today. I know I am completely overpacking and over planning my wardrobe. Even though I like to believe it is "all about me", no one really cares what I wear. Every cruise we have been on has been bathingsuits all day and an outfit for night. Please someone talk me off the ledge-I don't need 7+ daytime outfits, right?

My husband made delicious crab cakes for dinner tonight. Again, 85 degrees and no grill. We threw ours out last weekend with the intention of buying a new one but the $$ ran out! Better than a restaurant. He's quite a catch, bartender, chef and all around funny guy!

Ryan, my husband is in IT as well. What do you do? I ask the question not knowing what I will do with the answer as I really have no grasp of the technical world..... Anyway, my husband, Pat, calls himself an applications "architect". I don't know whether that is like "sanitation engineer" or head bottle washer but he has been known to put computers thru the wall as well. He is like Tim the Tool Man Taylor with ours. I finally told him to keep his hands off, get his own machine to play with.

Alright, I was up at 3 in the morning checking these boards bc I am too excited to sleep. Oh yeah and the fact that Kate got up in the middle of the night screaming because she needed help putting on her Dora "flippers"(slippers). Then my husband set off the security system at 6am about 15 minutes after I had finally fallen asleep. Needless to say, early to be for me. Busy 2 weeks ahead.

 

[CM_Mom]

Hey Jennifer, I understand about the too excited to sleep. I've been known to check out the boards in the wee hours myself.

In fact, it looks like I've been feeding my board addiction and now it 's getting to be the wee hours and I haven't even BEEN to sleep.

Reine

 

[travelin' mouse]

Well we finally got some good weather here in Michigan, sunny and in the high 70's all weekend, it was so nice. The winters are long here. So many people around here going crusing in the dead of winter and come back to the the dead of winter. We like going the first of May, we don't have to worry about snow storms and we come back to good weather here and can keep up our tans. My neighbor went in Feb. her tan lasted about a week. I can't believe the cruise is almost here, we have been waiting a long time. Got all the suitcases out this weekend just know were going to overpack, but who cares I just want to go! Traveling with 11 people should be real fun. Can you belive that I only received documents for one of our rooms? Called my TA on Sat and she said the other two packets were fed-exed on Friday so we should get them today. No upgrades for us.Hope you all have a great day!
Cathy ( travelin' mouse)

 

[GOVAC24]

WOW not checking the board for 2 days is a bad thing! SO much to catch up on.

CM - CONGRATULATIONS ON THE RESERVATIONS!!!!
We'll keep our fingers crossed for you to get deck 6!

Jason - Great Job on the Relay! Too bad more people don't get involved.

The weather's been so nice here this past weekend. That made it easier to work on the kitchen drain when it dumped water in my cabinet. We fixed that & when we were checking for water damage we noticed a cracked pipe in the basement & had to fix that too! Never a dull moment.
DH got the yard cleaned up & mowed. We're all done shopping for the trip so we're just waiting for this weekend to start packing!We have been trying to get the house in order before we leave since DS is staying home this trip. He's 18 & wants to stay home alone... OH BOY! We're alittle nervous about that.

We also had time to do our volunteer ambulance duty (we're both vol. EMT's with our local ambulance.Our son is a first aider there too. Both DH & DS are vol fireman also) by going to a county sponsored family safety day & answer calls.
We had to treat our son there. They have a building that they can start fires in for training. They were doing a demo for the people by starting a very large fire inside.Well DS got to go in & put the fire out. He comes out & shows us a large red burn area on his leg. Nothing too bad. When we pick him up later the other leg has a 5" area of burn on it with blisters. He's got a 2nd degree burn! That part I hate about EMS having to treat your family. Since we had the cream he needed at home we took him home & treated it there. I understand it's part of the job but I'm still mom. Today it looks much better. But now it's got me thinking about what if?? I know he's a big boy now & nana's only down the street & his dad's close by but mom & Bill aren't going to be there.
Today seems like a good day for a sick day! Everyone needs a mental health day!

Nine more days & we're in sunny FLA!

Have a good day all!

Lisa

Sorry about the long post , venting I guess.

 

[jrydberg]

Just found this forum. My 5 year old daughter and I will be on the May 1st - May 8th cruise abord the Magic. Neither of us has been on a cruise before. We're both REALLY looking forward to it, though I think it'd be hard to top my daughter's enthusiasm! See ya on board!

Jeff

 

[ThreeCircles]

Hello and welcome Jeff!

Glad to see that you found the Dis Boards and thread before our cruise. We've spent the past 200 days getting to know one another and we're always happy to see another Disney Magic May 1st Cruiser come aboard!

We also have a Disney Magic May 1st Cruise List site at <a href="http://www.threecircles.net">ThreeCircles.net</a>. Please feel free to send in your groups information if you would like it posted.

 

[JenLynn]

Glad you posted to the thread, Jeff! I have a daughter who is almost 5 and a son who is 6 ... they are looking forward to meeting all the other children!

Jen

 

[ThreeCircles]

We've added new cruisers to the Disney Magic May 1st Cruise List!

The complete poll results are also up on the site.

 

[CM_Mom]

Good evening everyone. Welcome Jeff and Alyssa.

Not a lot going on here. We get Heidi's weather a couple of days later and it's now cloudy and occassionally scattered showers. Typical April.

Sorry Guys but we're not getting to do the Doc Dance since we'll be picking them up at the port. But I may be wiggling and jumping with so much excitement that everyone will think I'm dancing. GO CLOCK GO...GO CLOCK GO I did check with DCL today cause I wondered what to do about the transfers. They said that our names would be on the manifest and we could pick up luggage tags at the hotel on Saturday AM. For someone who usually plans everything meticulously, this trip will be an experience.

Lisa, thanks for the wishes. Sorry your DS got burned. It's SOOOO hard to let go but they get really aggravated if we don't. I've let go pretty much but have both my DS and DD convinced that it's a crime to come to my house and leave without giving me a hug. Embarassed the fool out of them when they were in high school with my "have you hugged your mother today?" line but I think they secretly enjoyed it.

We're beginning to get stuff sorted out and organized. I copied the "tips" from the list on the board into Word and I'm going through and deleting the duplicates and the ones that don't make sense for us....like suggestions for small kids. It will be interesting to see how much I can shrink 13 pages to.

Brenda, haven't heard from you lately. Are you hiding or just quiet. I measured at Curves today and haven't lost as much as I hoped. But the original measurements were taken at lunch time and I weighed and measured after work today. We do normally gain weight during the day don't we Anyway, some shrinkage but not enough. The true test is going to come when I weigh NEXT month AFTER the cruise. My goal is to not be any bigger. To accomplish that I've GOT to get smaller between now and April 30.

Going to play with my lists. This is beginning to REALLY get exciting.

Conny and Silke, you lucky women, you're almost ready to LEAVE.

Check everyone later.

 

[Boatingman]

Welcome Jeff. Glad you found us all before the cruse. I have a 6 yo DS and a 4 yo DD. Your daughter will fit right in!

To all you others... The excitement builds.....

I read what you all wrote this weekend. I think I'll go with a Rum Runner with a 151 floater for my first drink

Working on the tan-Tired of shopping and have not yet started to pack. Scheduled Hair cuts for the DS & DD this weekend and my roots. See all the important rituals.

My tan has not been happening as fast as I like.

Finally got DH to read Page 57 of the thread. He had some concerns regarding Monkey boy & Hydster but now he knows what I've been busy with all along.

The countdown continues

Enjoy the rest of your week and get ready for the Goofy Pool @ 3:30

-Kathy

 

[hydster]

Good evening one and all! Only 12 more days til we sail! Almost 11 now! That is amazing! I'm so glad it's almost here....I think I may explode with excitement!!

I'm done with the hangover thankfully and am now dealing with yet another little "burn" experience at the tanning salon..which is why you should never change salons mid tan!

Jason--You were right I think monkey sampled a little extra whiskey yesterday morning!

JenL--lucky you had a nice day..yet another "****ty"day in paradise here! (as jimmy buffet would sing) but oh well in about 8 days I'll be warm!!! Thanks about the avatar...I thought it was cool as well..it is my new motto..dream big and drink bigger!
It was a stellar 50 degree with rain day here and yet another 7 days of nothing but rain forcasted! Oh well it will just make me happy to get out of here (as if I'm not!) Please don't suggest Ryan wear a bowtie as well...I can't handle more embarrasment than I've already had in my marriage

Jen--ok now you are way more obsessed than me if your girls are packed! OH well good for you! You are many more steps ahead of me!! On Sunday I plan to start the packing brigade! I hate seafood so forgive me if I don't clap for the crab cakes but I will clap that hubby did them!

Cathy(travelin mouse) Hope you all got your docs today! I hate waiting for stuff like that when I can't control it *yep I have control issues so all ya all bite me* LOL Hope they came! Only 1 1/2 weeks til we sail!

Lisa--Reading your thread made me exhausted and need a drink (so thanks for giving me more drinking motivation! ) and I can't wait to get on vacation. I think it's great you are leaving your son home! My parents left me home when I was 18 for 2 weeks while they went to Brazil..no wonder I turned out a lush *JUST KIDDING JUST KIDDING!** Ouch on the burn thing though! I imagine that when my kids are 50 and I'm almost dead I'll still feel badly when they get hurt! Hope the burn is doing better today!

Jeff--Welcome aboard!! We have a 5 yr old ds Tanner so the 5 year old set is covered! I hope you will join us at 3:30 at the goofy pool to get the kids together before they head to the club..they will have fun getting to know each other beforehand! It's awesome you found us..only 1 1/2 weeks!

Jason--you needed to add we've spent over 200 days getting to know the REAL us! LOLOLOLOLOL We now know WHO likes to drink and WHAT and also who is going to meet me and monkey at the Bill W. meeting! LOL

Reine--I know what you mean about the control thing! I"m sure things will be just fine! I can't wait to get out of here. Sorry you are getting some of our weather but we still have it too! Our mountains on Sat/Sun got 2 feet of SNOW! YEP SNOW! We had almost an inch of rain which is unreal for us lately!! Cant wait to see you on board!

Kathy--You are dead on that the excitement builds! I am so darn excited I almost go insane thinking about it!! Got the last of the cruise "sundries" today like pepto tablets and bandaids..NOW we are ready to go! Got the pinkish sunburn as well..once again!!! I think our boys are getting haircuts this weekend (buzz cuts I should say) and then we will be set!
Congrats on MR. BOATINGMAN reading page 57! SEE we aren't THAT scary! I think you'll be glad you met us...we can all get "liquid courage" together..maybe you should at least register and say HI under your own name..if not I may give you sh** about it on the ship!! I am hoping that the "concerns" were just that we might be fun and nothing more than that otherwise I may just have to feel bad *until the next round that HE buys*!


ALICE WHERE ARE YOU?????? TRACEY???? TAMMY???????? AMBER??????BRENDA???????LINDA???????TERI??????ALLISON?????TOM OR JULIE?????? COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OLLIE OLLIE OXEN FREE!!!! Haven't heard from Alice, Brenda, Teri, Allison or Amber forever!!! Come on...let's see your excitement..give us a cheer!!!

Later all..off to watch the swan, drink some more and then check 1 more day off the calendar in my quest to get drunk on a Disney ship!!

Laters!
Heidi

 

[monkeyboysmith]

Kathy- You're husband should never have concerns about Monkeyboy and Hydster, we always bring the party with us wherever we go. Just try to keep up and you will have the best time!!!!

Jen (hnkMom) Unofficially, my title is "Eeevil lord of the network monkeys" ( we have a mascot hanging from the Network Department sign) officially I am a Network Administrator / Director of Networking.. which basically means I make the little bits go back and forth so people can do stuff. This is turning into a g333k cruise!!! Joe in programming, you hubby an application architect, Reine does IT that sounds similar to me... Oh no, too many h4x0rs in one spot with alcohol.

Welcome Jeff, beware of the Pirates!!!

I have taken some suggestions with my pirate monkey and formed a new mascot (using photoshop with gin is a bad idea) here is the result.

We need a name for this Mephisto creation ( I think he may be a mutaion of the 12 A**ed monkey on South Park) Suggestions???

Winning entry to recieve....???? Its a secret.

11 days (today doesn't count) until we board!!!!

Sail on Pirates!!!!

 

[CM_Mom]

I'm with Heidi.

We need all of you who have checked in before to at least say hi. As wild as this group is, we could use some calming influences.

Monkeyboy, the picture's cute. I work with IT during the week but don't need to talk abou IT on the cruise. Well unless someone comes up with a good topic. In case you can't already tell, I'm the shy and retiring type that you can't get to say a word. And if anyone believes that, I need to talk to you about some swampland real estate I can get you for a great price.

Just saw a show on the Travel Channel about the most expensive RV parks. Can you imagine I think they said $1100 a week(maybe night) for an exclusive place to PARK the RV you spent multimillions on. Course the amentities are great but just think how many Disney cruises we could all do with that kind of money. WAY too rich for my blood. But it was interesting.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week whatever the weather. 11 days from now we'll be Outa here. 12 days from

By the time most of you read this on Tueday it will be
11 DAYS to the MAGIC

WooHoo
Reine

 

[hannahandkatesmommy]

Good Morning All!

I guess I should have been checking these boards from day 1 bc now I am addicted. I even checked at work the other day while I was sitting in front of a customer. He was sitting on the other side of the desk, and he thought I was checking something for him on the internet.

The reason I at least have the girls packed is for three reasons. I have a busy 2 weeks at work trying to get everythig ready to be out for a week and a half. Katie's third birthday party is next Saturday and we are walking in the March of Dimes walk-a-thon on Sunday(Katie was 2 months premature so we have done it every year on her birthday weekend). Then.....leaving thursday night.

I am also a giant procrastinator when it comes to packing. We will "think" we have everything ready and put the details off until the last night and realize that we have much more to pack than we had originally thought. This time around we are going to try to leave at 9pm from Philadelphia and drive all night. We'll see how that works out. The main goals here are to try to avoid DC rush hour(all day long) and to have the kids sleep **most** of the way. That timing would put us in Cocoa at around 2pm on Friday afternoon. That's plenty of time to get all our details taken care of.

Ryan, Thanks for the Network description. I actually took what I thought was a basic networking class as part of my MBA program, but my daughter was born right in the middle of the class so my husband did all my papers. The final paper was to design a network beginning to end, including hardware specs etc....NOT what I would call basic. He loved it and dashed off 10 pages in no time complete with computer geek flowcharts. Turns out my professor died before he had time to grade Pat's masterpiece. On one hand I feel badly that he died, I also feel for Pat but he had fun doing it.

Anyway, the tooth fairy came for Hannah last night so of course she is up and about already. Better go assume my duties as domestic goddess this morning...

 

[JenLynn]

GOOD MORNING CRUISERS!!!!

Another bee-yooo-tiful day in Maryland. High temp yesterday in the low 90's. Not supposed to be that hot today (i think they are calling for a high of 75) ... but i'll take it!!

Teddy is heading off to school with his clothes on inside-out because it is 'wacky week' at his school and today is "inside-out" day. He spent half the morning trying to figure out if there is some way to turn his tennis-shoes inside out.

Tanning .... hmmmm.... going pretty well if i could just find the time! Hoping to go today (they were closed yesterday because they couldn't get the air conditioning to work).

Ryan .... I love the improvements you've made to your 'monkey' ... i just love a monkey in formal wear!

And goofball Joe is now hobbling around here after somehow injuring his ankle (ooh sorry, it is his foot, not his ankle). We are hitting single digits and he is now limping around!? And will that stop him from playing softball tonight? NEVER!! (hey, ace bandages fix anything, right? ~sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm~)

Now I *really* think i am done shopping and can focus more on the 'packing' (uggg .. and laundry to prepare for packing!)

Have a MAGICal Day!
Jen