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

Happy Hump Day to you all!!! Only 21 days until we will be on an airplane heading toward Sunny Florida!!! I cannot wait to leave home for awhile. Today is Tanner's 5th birthday and boy do I feel OLD now! My baby is 5. So we have a really big weekend ahead of us with his real birthday today and then a little birthday party on Friday, Ryan has to work all day Saturday and then Easter on Sunday. The kids are off from 2:00 pm today until 9:00 am on Wed the 14th. EEGADS what am I going to do with them home and much more limited internet time???:rolleyes:

Alice--Thanks for the offer! Today is another day and I feel much more calm and at peace about it all. I can get back to my cruise giddiness and feel ok about it again!

Jason- Congrats on being finished with your cruise supply list! I just need to get some last minute stuff like film and I'm going to put disposable cameras in the Easter Baskets along with some airplane toys and some sunglasses so I still need to get that stuff and some travel size stuff but other than that we are DONE! I have printed out all the confirmation numbers from Emails, phone numbers and even the dining rotation matrix (thank you SO much by the way).

Amber--I think going WILL be the best thing for us! We aren't telling the kids anything about the job problems so just watching them enjoy it will be great! I am feeling more confident today after his late interview appointment last night and the talking to his boss and other higher up's yesterday afternoon that they assured him he would be gainfully employed for sure until October and if the S&P upgrades them the prospect for longer is great!
AAHH the 6th deck...what a rowdy place that is going to be! Especially it seems a lot of us are at the front part of the 6th deck...we can all puke together going over the gulf stream! LOL Too funny about notifiying son that you spent money NOT on Madonna but on "ron jon" LOL. I went and got Easter stuff too yesterday...bought them each a bucket because everytime we tried to get one last time we went they were out so we bought buckets and I think by the time I got done buying some sand toy for each kid I'd spent about 60 bucks so this time we are bringing our own! I'm going to fill it with mostly stuff for the cruise since my kids don't need extra candy to make them sick and if they each get one more stuffed animal they won't have room in their beds for themselves! Hope you can find some stuff for Easter for your ds!

Lisa--Glad to hear that the riddle explanation wasn't confusing! Thanks for the job support! And another 6th decker..how funny! You aren't too far from us then because we have 6024 and 6026! I haven't gotten anything from Disney about my excursions either! I guess I should get on the phone and call and make sure and ask them to email it to me. Hope you get your docs today!

Reine--The IT job market here is SO SLOW for what Ryan does and the amount of money he is making now it's limited to only about 15 jobs posted right now! I think things will pick up! His current job got a 40 million dollar lawsuit against it, investigated by the FTC for charging fines that they now say they can't charge and their ratings by Moody and S&P dropped. The ratings are coming up, the lawsuit is paid up and I think they have stopped the "bleeding" and are now trying to heal up. They are getting rid of a LOT of the out of state entities (which means less travel for Ryan :teeth: ) but I think they just are cutting costs so much it may be hard for them to keep the company above water! Cool that your son got contacted by a head hunter! We will keep him in our prayers as well!!!
Cool thread about Robin! I read that and thought "Yep and she's going to be on OUR ship!" LOL
Hope you hear from DD soon about availability! I need to call the excursion desk to find out if they do in fact have me down for my excursions since I have received NOTHING in the mail! Better to let the kids down gently at home and have them melt down than at sea in the company of others!
I'm hooked to this board as well (if you can't tell) I need to go to several self help meetings such as AA, Packing list makers are us, Dis board addicts who can't get anything else done during the day, obssessive planner...and the list goes on and on!

Conny--Unless something HUGE happens in the next 21 days we will still be there for the meet at the POR pool!!! Ryan said we were going because the whole thing is paid for except the POR stay, tickets to WDW and the limo so I guess we are going! I'm getting excited again:hyper: and I was just kidding around with you about being quiet! As long as you aren't doing aerobics up there or anything *wild* it is great!pirate: I will so keep hoping that today you get your docs! I get my kids home now with me for 7 days...oh yippeeee! Mom I'm bored! It's overcast, cool and rainy here and that's the rest of the week's outlook..can't wait!

Well I guess I will go hurry and clean my house up again so I can sit here all day and referee fights from the computer room!

3 weeks...3 weeks...3 weeks!
Heidi
 
Heidi - so glad to hear things are looking up for Ryan. I'll keep my fingers crossed for him that things will work out - and also for the others on this thread who are having bad luck with work!
And Happy Birthday to Tanner!!!! I had to register Logan for Kindergarten yesterday and that made me realize how much he's growing up!!!!!! My baby isn't a baby anymore!!!!!!! :( :(


Tammy - Yippee! Deck 2 neighbors - its funny, I was starting to think DS and I were the only ones on Deck 2 too! I think you guys are about 1/2 dozen rooms down from us on the right side! :Pinkbounc

Alice - Congrats on the tax outcome!! Good feeling, huh?? Now, here's hoping you get your docs!!

Reine - very nice post about DD - you must be soooo proud!!!


Another list maker here - I'm onto 3 pages and its just me and DS!!

And, I am also a LOTR fan too, but only for to see Orlando Bloom!!!! :lovestruc lol.. I guess I'm also a 007 fan (for Pierce, of course!!)... lol...

I'm also finished with my shopping (at least I think so). Went and got my final few things this past weekend, so i think I'm all set!! Woohoo!!! Now, just can't wait to start packing it all up!!


Well, fingers crossed for those still in need of cruise docs - here's hoping they come today!!

L8r!
-Tracey


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Tracey--I know the feeling about your baby going to school. I registered Tanner for Kindergarten about 6 weeks ago and then had to get his Kindergarten shots and I about threw up realizing #1 he was going to get 4 shots in one fell swoop and
#2 he was going to be leaving me for 1/2 days for a year and then full days from then on.
It is kind of a kick in the pants to realize that! Then to top it off that day I registered him for Kindergarten I found 3 gray hairs so I had to go get my hair colored to hide them!LOL
LOL about being on page 3 of your list...I'm on page 6 for my family so I can totally relate!! As for 007 that is the ONLY reason I have EVER watched them is because the Bond character is always some really suave good looking man! LOL :o
Pierce Brosnan is mm mm good! I can't wait to start packing since I can no longer walk in my walk in closet due to all the crap I've just thrown in there on the floor waiting to be washed, ironed or put into our suitcases! I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about leaving!!!

Well off to watch Cheaper by the Dozen with Tanner and then finish cleaning my house for his family party! It's going to be a movie weekend for us! We got that plus Second Hand Lions which we LOVED and then Intolerable Cruelty and Something's gotta give! I have to do SOMETHING while Ryan works and the weekends on here are so slow!!! :teeth:

Heidi
 
LOL about the gray hairs Heidi!! I've been dyeing my hair since I can remember, that I probably wouldn't even KNOW if I had any or not!! Of course, my hair will probably be falling out in a few years after all this dyeing!!!!!!

Unfortunately, with being a single mom, Logan has been in daycare since he was little, so we are both used to the fact that he's in a classroom/group setting already for most of his day. That part was hard for me about 4 years ago, so that will be the easy part... and I know he will enjoy it; he just loves preschool now and being with his friends so I'm sure he'll do fine.. Its the bus ride thats got me concerned, but again, thats one of the things he's looking forward to too!!!

Anyway, sounds like you guys are gonna have a nice weekend.. that actually sounds like a good idea - grab a couple movies and have a movie weekend!!

-Tracey
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Originally posted by Alice Sr.
Hey Travis I like 007 so does Linds. Sorry to hear you are in the same position as Ryan.
Alice

Yes! Finally a James Bond fan! I'm a 007 nut really....

Yeah work.... From a meeting today it looks like maybe six months or so...maybe...
 
Hi Everyone,

An evening with nothing to do. I could do the wash, clean some, cut coupons or give Brenna a bath, no way - I'd rather be here:sunny:

Reine - way cool post about your DD. What age group does she usually work with? Or do they rotate? Hopefully my DD's will have the opportunity to interact with her.

Heidi - glad to hear that things are looking a little brighter for your DH. I was hoping that you wouldn't have to cancel your cruise. Happy Birthday to Tanner - have a great time with the party.

Jason - great job with the shopping - it is such a great feeling to have that all finished.

Tracey - We'll have to start our own party on Deck 2. Maybe we can rotate days and party on both decks.:cool:

Tammy
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Originally posted by dthogue
An evening with nothing to do. I could do the wash, clean some, cut coupons or give Brenna a bath, no way - I'd rather be here:sunny:

Sounds like most of us on here Tammy! We're all Disney and Dis Board fanatics! ::yes::

The Disney Magic May 1st Cruise Daily Countdown Riddle:


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Tammy and all, thanks for the comments about Robyn. I really am very proud. Her assigned age is 3-4s but she is really flexible so they've asked her to work the 5-7s three different weeks. For you guys, unless we get to go on the cruise, you'll miss her since her contract ends on May 1.

Robyn called from St. Thomas at lunchtime today. So far no postings about availability. I can understand that DCL would rather sell the cabins to full fare passengers rather than discounted crew. When I checked DCL just now, they still show availability for Cats 5,7,8,9,11 for the Magic so the doors not shut.

I SAID God has a sense of humor.

Just heard DS come in the front door for one of his infrequent visits so check you guys later.

Reine
 
Hi everyone!
I used to post to the boards all the time, but lost my log-in name and have been reading instead of posting for the past few months. But now that the time is growing so close, i just had to re-register and say hello!

We are sailing with you on the 5/1 Magic cruise and i am so excited i can hardly contain myself!

My group is: Jen/me; Joe/DH; Teddy/DS (6); Madalyn/DD (4)
We are also travelling with 2 other families ...
Kristi/DW; Eric/DH; Bradley/DS (4); Adam/DS (2) and
Terri/DW; Chris/DH; Jordan/DD (8)

A portion of our group is hoping to SCUBA dive sometime on the cruise. Not sure where right now. Playing with the idea of Coki Beach simply because that will be much easier for the rest of the group since we will all be able to go to the beach and relax while the rest are diving. :)

One of the families had wanted to do the Anguilla Dolphin Encounter on St. Maarten but it was booked by the time they called. :( We tried the web address listed in the Passporter for "On your own" but it didn't work, so if you have any information on that, we'd greatly appreciate it!

DH and I are playing with the idea of doing either the Golden Eagle Catamaran or the Lotterie Farm Hidden Forest Tour on St. Maarten. DH wants to do the Catamaran, but i am not a big snorkeler and am worried i'll be bored. I'd like to do the Lotterie Farm tour but DH doesn't like the idea of hiking. So, not too sure what we'll do.

And a few other pieces of info: we have first seating and are on deck 6 mid-ship.

Have a wonderful day!
Jen
 
Welcome Jen! Glad you popped in to say hi !!!!:wave2:

Tammy - Hey, sounds like a great idea to me!!! We can call it "deck-hoppin"!!

Reine - still keeping fingers crossed for ya! Hopefully you'll hear something soon!

Have a great day all! Its Friday for me (i'm off tomorrow!) Wooohooo!!!:yo-yo:


:wave:
-Tracey
 
Hi guys!

Silke here:D

@Jason: Mae Govannen!

Do you know this: www.thehobbitfilm.com ?

@Everybody else: I promise to be a good girl during our cruise::yes:: I am a big Disney-Fan aswell!!!

Greetings
 
Hello Jen!

I'm very glad that you decided to re-register and post on our thread! The more the merrier! :)

We have a great group sailing on the Disney Magic May 1st Cruise and are in the process of deciding when and where we want to hold our Dis Meet. You can vote at <a href="http://www.threecircles.net">ThreeCircles.net</a>. Also, if you would like, be sure to send in your family's info for the site. We set it up so that everyone can kinda get to know one-another even before we officially meet on the Magic.

I know what you mean about the excitement building! Less than a month from now we'll be sailing on the beautiful Disney Magic!
 
HELLO everyone! 1 more day closer until we leave! It's getting beyond hysteria here...It's pandamonium!:crazy: The kids are out of school until next Wednesday now and of course the weather turned to crap with rain and a high of 45 today and the rest of the weekend. I shouldn't complain about the rain but can't it just rain when the kids are ALL in school???

Tracey---I've been highlighting my hair every 6 weeks since I was a SR. in High School and just in the last year or so I've been coloring it all and doing highlights. The gray hair depressed me so now I budget in hair coloring every month! LOL Tanner goes to preschool twice a week for 3 hours a day and I LOVE my alone time. I don't know how I'll feel about being home everyday alone but I'm sure I'll manage!:rolleyes: Happy Weekend to you and that's great you don't have to work tomorrow!

Tammy--I know how you feel...I have so many things I SHOULD be doing but I sit here day in and day out! I just want to PACK and it's still to early so I don't want to do anything else. Did you read my tag?? LOL I'm glad we won't have to cancel as well since I've been planning this for 200 + Days!!! It will be fun and we feel much better and more financially ok so that's good! I think deck hopping would be A LOT of fun!!!

Jen-WELCOME To the board and to our crazy bunch of people! It's awesome someone else is going to be joining us..the more the merrier!!! We wanted to scuba dive as well but that would mean bringing one set of grandparents and NO WAY was that going to happen again so we are just going with the flow! I love to dive and would do it everytime if I could. DId you try the dolphin fantaseas website?? They are in Anguilla and here is their website addy (and I know it works) http://www.dolphinfantaseas.com/
They may still be able to help you out! I agree that the snorkel trip might get a bit boring for you if you aren't big into it! We are spoiled with diving now and snorkeling is just something we "do" when the kids are with us! I can't wait until they get old enough to certify as well...then we may sell everything and move to the Caribbean for good! LOL WOOOHOOO another 6th decker! That is awesome!!!

Reine-Glad DS came home for a visit! I hope you hear something from DD about going soon! I can't believe they haven't released any rooms yet! I can't believe anyone would want to book now the prices are SO high for most of us. Will keep fingers crossed again!!!

Silke--LOL at you promising to be good! I DON'T promise to be good!!!:teeth: But I think we are talking about 2 different things! :tongue:

WE LEAVE IN 20 DAYS!! WE LEAVE IN 20 DAYS!! LOL....It's taking all kinds of self restraint to NOT go start packing!

Well off to Walmart to get the Ziploc bags (only place around here that carries the big ones) and then to the tanning salon for 20 min. Tanner is going to preschool..YEEHAW and the other kids are going to my brothers house for about an hour!!

Take care and someone write in something so I have some reading material again when I log in later this afternoon!

Heidi
 
Hello everybody.

I had the most horrible work day today,a musicvideoshoot for a girl with an impossible manager.It lastet for 13 hours + 4 hours driving in the rain.

BUT-I´m home save and sound and in 2 weeks and 1 hour we will be landing in Orlando in the warm sun!!!!!:sunny: :sunny:

PLUS: they are finally HERE,I´m doing the docs dance,docs dance,docs dance:Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc
When I walked into the door and saw them laying on my table,Make-up cases,suitcase,jacket,shoes,purse,went flying through the air and had to sit down and admire them.
I´m off work tomorrow,so I will star reading them carefully and start asking you guys questions ,how to fil them out correctly.
Lokoking around my apartment,I better go now and pick everything up ,Total chaos at the moment.
Talk to you soon
Conny
Ps.Happy belated birthday to Tanner!
PS:Welcome Jen to a very nice and crazy group,you have no idea,what you´ve got yourself into!!

:Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :wave:
 
CONNY WOOOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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That is awesome! Nothing better than a crappy day and coming home to CRUISE DOCUMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so glad you got them and you are done working! So sorry about the impossible shoot! The hours certainly sound awful!!!

It's worth having to pick stuff up if it means you get documents! I did the same thing...I threw a bag of groceries on the floor and jumped around! Thankfully it wasnt the bag with eggs! LOL

Heidi
 
WOW! Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! And i can't tell you how happy i am to have found people who are just as excited as i am and who do as much research as i do!!! (the rest of my group has been mocking me for a full year now!)

Jason, I e-mailed you my family's info for the threecircles website. What a terrific idea! Your matrices are terrific and the links look like they will come in handy!

Tracey, my son Teddy is excited at the prospect of meeting Logan on the cruise. We are also in Maryland. Teddy is finishing up kindergarten this year and is excited about moving on to first grade next year (not sure if i am ready for that or not)! But i just registered my daughter Madalyn for kindergarten, too. Where does the time go?

Heidi, how are you able to keep this a secret from your kids??? LOL My children and I are talking about little else. And my kids are in heaven after seeing all of the other children in their age range! Thanks for the link. I had tried it for most of the afternoon yesterday and couldn't get it to work. Thankfully it is working today. I sent it to my friend who is hoping to find a way to do it.

:hyper: Jen
 
Jen--Yep we are a really fun over planned group! LOL I think I posted the first post at 219 days until we leave...200 have gone by and yippeeeeeee...only 20 more til we leave! I can't wait to get to the warmth of Florida!!!
As for keeping the secret..we..uh...blew it! LOL We told them at Christmas because they hardly got any presents as most of the $$$ for presents went to the savings account so they could buy stuff on the trip. When they opened their presents they were looking at us with the "what that's it you cheapskates?" so we did a treasure hunt and they found out Christmas night. Of course the original response from them isn't quite what we expected! LOL

Yeah there are a lot of kids of all different ages going which will be really fun! Your Madalyn must be close to Tanner then! He just turned 5 yesterday. I am SO ready for the Kindergarten break. My oldest are only 16 months apart, then we waited until they got pretty self sufficient, potty traines all that jazz and had Tanner when Miles was 4. I feel like I've had kids hanging on me for so long that I am looking forward to being able to go to the grocery store without a child hanging on me begging to buy just one more package of M&M Mini's! LOL

Well I'm off..gotta finish scrapbooking the LAST Disney cruise from 2 years ago! Only 55 pictures left to do! ROFLMAO!

Heidi
 
LOL Heidi ... you sound like me!! Teddy and Madalyn are 17 months apart and I am still working on my scrapbook for each Disney trip listed in my signature!!!! I actually spent several hours last night trying to clean up my scrapbooking area so that i could get back to work on some of those pages! Madalyn will be turning 5 at the end of August but often acts older than Teddy who turned 6 at the beginning of March.

And LOL ... i don't know if i could keep the cruise from the children for as long as you were able to! After our last cruise every time a DCL commercial would come on the tv, my children would whisper to each other "One day, we're goin' back there!" Once we booked this cruise i couldn't wait to point out the commercials ... "Look guys, that'll be us in a year!" LOL

Jen
 
You guys are NEVER EVER EVER going to believe what just happened!!!:tongue: :tongue: :teeth: :teeth: :teeth: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :bounce: :Pinkbounc

I just got on my email (cause my life is so addicted to these boards) and I got an email from Cathy at Dreams....WE GOT UPGRADED (which means Reine..you might get our old cabins) to 2 adjoining family suites with verandahs! HOLY CRAP!!! I am dying!! We are now in 8504 and 8506 (WAAY at the front but I don't care).

I am SO wigging out right now!!! Jen I will have to post to your post when I get a little calmer cause I can't type worth a darn!

Heidi
 
Ok now that I've come back down to earth after a really stiff Gin and Tonic.....

Jen--LOL that you did the 17 month apart thing! I hated the thought of it at first but it was really nice that they always had a playmate. I scrapped for 8 weeks straight every day last September to get all caught up until our cruise in 2002 and so I have the boys done I just need to do McKaylee's (and she had the most since she had her pic taken with every freaking character and princess possible) and then I will be done! I hope just in time to come back and start again! LOL

Keeping the secret wasn't that hard at first because we were so far away from going. Listening to Tanner ask every day..do we go tomorrow? made the process easier to hold back. Now it's constant how many more days? How much longer? So I'm glad we waited for at least as long as we did although keeping it until maybe Easter would have been even better for the kids. It's good for them to get excited about it early though I guess. Now I'm constantly OH LOOK there's the commercial, oh look here is the DVD we ordered, Oh look here's the cruise book..and on and on and on! LOL

Well off to have yet another stiff drink to keep the emotions in check! LOL

Heidi
 

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