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

[2kidsmom]

I have been hesitant to post to this board because you guys seem like such a close group, BUT I am so excited about cruisin'! We will be leaving on Friday morning (5:00 AM). There are 12 of us going, so we will be caravanning in 2 cars. At least I have a van for my six! The other is a car...YUCK. Three in the front and three in the back, and only one of them is a child. We are bringing a boatload (pardon the pun) of Disney movies to watch in the car. Not that we need to get any more excited!!! I am a cheapie and bought a hookup to convert our 13 inch home TV to the cigarette lighter.

We are staying in Jacksonville Friday night and will drive on to the Port on Saturday morning. Six of us are Castaway Cay Club members and the other six are not. Are we going to need to stand in 2 different lines? What time should we be there? I don't want to be the last people on!!

I am so excited about meeting all of you! My children are anxious to meet some new friends so if you have any children around the ages of mine, let me know and maybe they can email or set up a time to meet. My son Jonathon is 9, but will be 10 in about 3 weeks. My daughter Leslye is 6, but will be 7 in about 2 weeks. I happen to thing they are pretty good kids. They are usually polite with the yes maam's and stuff. We get complimented on them often about how well-behaved they are. Although, I have yet to see it at home!! I guess out in public is more important than at home! I am telling you this so you won't be worried about your kiddos talking to them.

Anyway, see all of you on Saturday!!!

Watch out Caribbean, here we come!!!

Julie B from Texas

 

[ThreeCircles]

Great job on the scrap book Jen. Very creative!

 

[ThreeCircles]

Originally posted by 2kidsmom
I have been hesitant to post to this board because you guys seem like such a close group, BUT I am so excited about cruisin'!

Hi Julie!

Glad to see you post on the thread! Don't worry about our group. You'll fit right in as you're a Disney Magic May 1st Cruiser too!!!

BTW,
I updated the site with the new info you sent.

Talk to you soon!
Jason

 

[DisneyJam]

Welcome Julie B...

No worries on this thread. Just watch out ofr pirates as our resident MonkeyBoy usually says.

Jason's right all May first cruisers are welcome!!! Come step to the dark side ummm.. I mean join us for some fun as everyone starts gearing up and getting all the last minute packing done.

Love the pics BTW Jason! And that is hilarious that our thread won't come up on a disney terminal.

Heidi... Heeeiiiiiidiiii, I didn't know you were planning to bring booze on board.

Great weekend... while the scraphappy wife was off winning prizes I was home playing mister mom. Took the kids to the YMCA to get them into swimming shape. Then out to dinner, since I had eaten everything left in the house. Oh and lazy me decided to give them a bath in our master bath tub. It has whirlpool jets, so I figured it would act as a sort or washing machine and I wouldn't have to scrub them down as hard. And wouldn't you know it worked. Course now I don't think they will ever use the regular tub again.

Well only a few more days of this @&%!* I call work . And what a busy few days it's going to be. So i better have at it.



--Bow Tie Joe

 

[Belle&RellasMom]

Whew...what a weekend! One Brownie/Daisy swimming party, one birthday sleepover party, one Daisy field trip to Ronald McDonald house, one soccer game, three tanning appointments, one First Communion party and a partridge in a peartree!!! I'm glad the weekend is OVER...this week will fly by and pretty soon I'll have my butt glued to the front seat of a Chrysler Town & Country for 18 hours!!!

I have not packed one damn thing yet...I just keep making little piles of clothes and other cruise stuff so now I can hardly walk through the whole upstairs level of my house! I know that I am going to have to put it all in suitcases sooner or later (the sooner the better), but I just can't keep from procrastinating! I am a total last minute packer and it drives Tom (the bra-finder) crazy!!! But I always manage to get it done!

Looking forward to having drinks, ooops I mean meeting, by the pool on Saturday afternoon!!! Yippie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jrydberg]

Why put it off til tomorrow when you can put it off til the day after tomorrow?

 

[Belle&RellasMom]

Now that is a philosophy that I can live by!!! Actually I think I already do!!!

 

[hydster]

Let's give JULIE and her BUNCH A TEXAS SIZE WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO glad you decided to post Julie! We are only a "tight"group because some of us have no other life so we've been on here obsessing for 250+ days! LOL You and your group are SO welcome on here! WE LOVE new members!! We've had several join in just the last few weeks so it's always great to get more people!!! The drive sounds miserable to me however but I AM a self-described pansie while driving with children and the thought of driving with 5 adults in 1 car makes me shudder!! We at one time did the tv/vcr thing from home but bought a converter to use it in the car because we lost the regular cord! LOL Then on the way home from a camping trip last Memorial Day weekend going through a windy canyon (I was driving as Ryan aka monkeyboy tends to fall asleep at the wheel) and I came around a bend in the road. Thankfully I was NOT speeding but we came around the corner and lo and behold a GIANT MOOSE was standing there in the road. I swerved to miss it and thankfully I did cause if I would have wrecked my brand new Tahoe I would have been furious but the tv/vcr slid around and ended up never working again! LOL So beware of the moose! As for standing in 2 different lines you don't HAVE to go the CC line you can go to the regular line all together but I don't know if they can go in the CC line with you but what do I know...this is only my 2nd time! LOL

I have a son who is 9 who would LOVE to meet up with someone before going into the club. His name is Miles and he turned 9 in January. I also have a 10 year old girl named McKaylee. We are having a disboard meet at 3:30 at the goofy pool on deck 9 if you are interested in bringing the kids to meet some of our kids. I know there are a couple of other 7 year olds and quite a few 6's and some 8's so I'm sure that both of your kids will be able to find someone from the group to hang with!!! Your son can pm my Miles anytime between now and Wed. afternoon as that is when we leave but please try to plan on at least meeting us at the Goofy pool at 3:30..it would be fun to get more kids involved!!

Bow Tie Joe--You got it right about watching for those pirates....I watch for them a lot as they like to be sneaky!! We only have about 30 more things to pack so neener neener neener!! LOL Only 50 more hours for us!!!

I'm just going to be following you with the amount of booze we are bringing on board...then we can all get ripped together!!

ROFLMAO at you putting the kids in the jetted tub...we do that with our hot tub A LOT but we had to drain it since the water was nasty and I kept getting Hot Tub Folliculitis which sucked so we bagged it for awhile and drained it!!! Only a few more days til we will all be on board that ship....the poor people who DON'T know us are in for a real rowdy treat! LOL

Ok..off to load dishwasher and take a nap!
Heidi

 

[hydster]

Hey Julie...Ok you win the award for the busiest crappiest weekend while Tammy wins it for standing outside in the elements freezing her hiney off for the weekend! I kept putting off the packing too but Ryan finally made me do it and it took 2 weekend days to get it all done! Man it is HARD to pack up 5 people for 10 days!! EEGADS what was I thinking...Ryan and I should have just left the kids home! LOL Ok gluing your butt to the car just doesnt sound like a really good idea..I'm sure you could smuggle quite a bit of stuff on the ship but I don't know if they'd take you with a Town & Country seat glued to your butt as extra baggage very well! Oh yeah and 18 hours EWWW...I just have to read about all of you driving and then the thought of 4 hours on an airplane with Tanner just doesn't seem like such a big deal!

We are looking forward to plastering our butts in the deck chairs and sipping drinks as well....maybe we'll luck out and get a bunch of chairs together for all us rowdies!!!

Ok NOW I'm off to unload my dishwasher and take a nap!
Heidi

 

[Belle and Rella's Dad]

Mission Accomplished

Tom

 

[hydster]

Originally posted by Belle and Rella's Dad
Mission Accomplished

Tom

And what would that mission be....X marks the spot?? ROFLMAO! I only see a small box with a red x in it!

Thanks for finding the massive bra....I will buy you a cold one on board and a beer for the queen er...wife!

Heidi

 

[jrydberg]

Actually, Heidi, I think my bank account wins the award for crappiest weekend! Though I suppose you'll disqualify my bank account on some obscure technicality in the by-laws...

JulieB, welcome I have a daughter (Alyssa) who is almost 6. She's a bit on the shy side, but looking forward to meeting new kids (it's the adults that make her shy).

Jeff

 

[hydster]

Jeff- Nope your checkbook dipping down down down will also qualify you for a crappy weekend award Anytime money is going out and it isnt for booze around here it qualifies for a crappy weekend so we now have multiple crappy weekend winners!

 

[Belle&RellasMom]

The Visa bill came Saturday...that beats out all other crappy stuff!!! Tom actually had to send the girls outside to play so that they wouldn't hear us "discussing" it!!!

 

[2kidsmom]

My kids are also getting very excited about meeting new friends. I told Jonathon about Miles and McKaylee and Leslye about Alyssa. They can't wait to meet at Goofy's pool. What is the weather supposed to be like? I keep seeing rain, rain, rain. I don't mind a little bit, but will the trip be ruined if it rains all the time? Or does it rain a little each day? I don't mean to sound whiney, but I want SUNSHINE dang it!!!

 

[hydster]

ROFLMAO...damn those Visa bills!! Ok so now you and Jeff both win with the money bills and checking account drain for crappy weekend on that front!!!!


I can see it at the Tom and Julie house...

Girls see all these pennies daddy has in his hand...there are 300000000000 of them. I'm going to take you girls outside and throw them into the grass and you cant come in until you find them all...whatever you find you can keep and help mommy pay the Visa bill with later on this month!

Goes inside...and the sh** hits the fan where Julie's name now turns into Dammit Julie! ROFLMAO

Julie replies...Yeah but look how cute YOUR girls will look in these $2000 dollar sandals and matching dresses

Where Tom instantly melts and agrees that it was worth the $$$ !!!!

Sheesh between clothes, bills, scrapbooking, home remodel and booze along with every other expense we've all incurred we could almost cure the national debt between all of us

Heidi

 

[Belle and Rella's Dad]

It shows up on my computer, but not the queens or it looks like anyone elses. Allright I need the technical team, Monkeyboy, Bow Tie Joe, and Daddy Warbucks Jeff, I am in sales, can talk to anyone at anytime about anything, but put a computer in front of me and I sound like the guy in SlingBlade. Help my fellow Pirates or at least "GET ME A DRINK DAMNIT"

 

[hydster]

Julie aka 2kids--My kids aren't home from school yet but I'm sure they will be excited to meet more kids as well!!! Miles will be SO happy to see another boy even remotely close to his age!!! As for the weather I feel like you do..I mean I go on vacation for SUN AND WARM!!

Doing a weather search

Orlando for us on Thur is Partly Cloudy with 82 degrees
Friday is Isolated T-Storms (hope they are really isolated as we got into torrential rains in Orlando last time and they sucked) and a high of 85 degrees and only a 30 percent chance of rain.

Saturday at Port Canaveral it shows Isolated t-storms as well with high at 84 and 30 percent chance of storms

St. Marten it's hard to say since they only go 5 days out but I would plan on off again on again rain just because in the Caribbean that is SO typical

St. Thomas on Wed shows Partly Cloudy and 86 degrees with a 30 percent chance of a storm

Fri for CC it doesnt show yet but on Wed it says Partly Cloudy and 82

It better be mostly sunny or I'm going to freak out since our last cruise was cool to cold and rained on CC day. I hope it stays sunny and doesnt make it so we can't dock at CC!!!

Heidi

 

[monkeyboysmith]

I have so much %$#&*ing work to do in day and a half and you people keep sucking me back in. I feel like Al Pacino in Scarface... Just when I thought I was out , they sucked me back in.

I am in sales

We g33ks generally make fun of the sales guys, or throw pickles at them.. Not sure why ti doesn't show up but we'll gor for the link.
http://images.ofoto.com/photos643/1/42/23/60/12/0/12602342106_0_ALB.jpg

and hope the image works:

You got it right about watching for those pirates

Wassup, baby. You aren't into my swashbuckling seductions, maybe I should have worn just the pirate boots you know you dig the boots baby.

As for procrastination: Hardwork often pays off after time, but procrastination always pays off now.

Pirate Monkey out for now

 

[Belle and Rella's Dad]

My Wife is right about the Visa bill, I was just surprised that she went out and booked a category 1 for our cruise (at least that is what the amount of the bill came to). I have to go sell something, actually a bunch of somethings to make up for the Visa bill. I guess I could look at it this way, at least we will have a bunch of Disney reward dollars to redeem.

Monkey Boy, I need a drink (and keep them coming) DAMNIT

Tom