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

[Alice Sr.]

I'm getting very anxious about the flight..I HATE TO FLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know - I hate it, we actually drive every other trip because the anxiety over flying about ruins the trip. It's a 20 hour drive and I'm the only one doing the driving. I think we are going to fly from now on though because Linds has her DL and will probably want to help me drive I would rather take my chances flying (you know I'm kidding Linds, really )

POR
POR
POR

I think DD's favorite hangout is Cove Cafe. She's a Starbucks addict and the Cove Cafe is the closest thing on board.

Reine do you know if they use Nescafe at the Cove? Do they make fresh (not instant) espresso?

I'm hoping I have enough nerve to attend the DIS meet as well, my DH and I are the quiet ones, will more than likely sit back and take in all the excitement.

Tammy that's the beauty of this group, different personalities and characters and the chance to participate at whatever level you're comfortable. Trust me at 46 I'm not going to be losing my bra or doing back flips down the deck (no objection to those that feel the need however ) So I hope to see you guys, I look forward to meeting you and all the other families that have checked in on this thread even if you haven't posted.

Well, I'm sure I'll have 90,000 posts to read after work, but I look forward to it

TTYL,
Alice

 

[bobbidiboo]

Hi All
Just checking in, haven't been online too much. Busy Busy Busy!
Wanted to welcome all the new people and just say Hi.
All packed and ready to leave Friday, We are just as excited as you all and can't wait to meet & greet, see you soon.

 

[LogansMommy_MD]

Hello all!! Thought I'd check in and say hi and thanks Heidi for your concern on my whereabouts! lol.. I've been sick - you name it, I have it...

So needless to say, I'm just praying that I feel 100% in the next day or so, so I can start to get EXCITED again.. DS has a little cold which I HOPE is gone by Friday..

Anyway, see ya'll Sat. afternoon.. Hope everyone has a uneventful trip! Can't wait to meet everyone!!!

-Tracey

 

[hydster]

WOW I go to bed and wake up to 2 pages of stuff to read! I LOVE IT!!! I should be starting my last minute preparation like house cleaning, last minute laundry, cleaning out my fridge, all that kind of stuff but no here I sit hour after hour hoping for someone else to be on here giving me something else to read! I LOVE to procrastinate when it comes to cleaning my house or doing laundry or cleaning my fridge!

Reine--how great that DD got to call you last night! I'm sure that is such a treat!! Only a few more days and you will get to see her in person again! I bet you can't wait!!! I guess I"ll have to bribe the kids to go to the Pajama Party so they can get a new pillowcase. They are all 3 bummed at me because Ryan and I are taking our *old person* pillows but they can't take theirs. I told them they should just be happy we included them on a cruise and shut their traps Well since we leave tomorrow my butterflies have started kiciking into high gear so last night and tonight will be Ambien nights for me!! I take one of those puppies and in 20 min I am out with no memory of ever falling asleep! I love it for times like this!!!

Julie B--Good job on the R words...usually our house the R words are never used so it will be nice to use them for a few days! We usually only use the bad initials at our house (*kind of like Tom and Julie's Daughters newest language*) so we have some letters that are widely used. I'm so excited to meet up with everyone and Miles was thrilled to get Jonathons PM!

Tammy--30 hours from now we will be boarding our plane heading to WDW!!! I can't wait to get the plane trip down overwith! I hate dealing with Tanner for more than an hour at a time in a confined spot so this should be hard!!! You guys better NOT chicken out of this meet! McKaylee will be heartbroken to not meet Kaitlin on Saturday. You and hubby can sit back and be "demure" we won't care...heck even I will be demure the first day...but after that watch out! One thing I think everyone needs to know is that if you show up and you aren't comfortable for whatever reason or it isn't your cup of tea...don't feel bad about going to get ready for the lifeboat drill early..no one will chastise you for it (at least to your face!) I'm kidding! Really it would be fun to meet even for 20 seconds!! After all this time together it would be a shame not to at least say HI...but I understand because I get a little nervous as well. ANd I'm sure you all will not believe me but I am actually very shy! Honest to God I am! I am just feeling much more confident after 215 days with you all than I would if I just met you. That's one of the reasons I requested a table just for our family because I hate meeting new people and making small talk! I don't know how I'm going to make it through today and 1/2 of tomorrow although Tomorrow Ryan is home all day so that should help. Just need to get through til 5:30 tonight basically..then the gin can flow a little bit and then it will be the day we leave!

Philly Jen--The package of Turtles I ate last night helped me gain a few extra pounds today too! Oh well it's all of YOU who have to look at me! LOL Your "snack" sure did sound good last night though!!! WHen Ryan went to Philly for work he would always bring home some Cannoli and mmmmmmmm it's a good thing we can't get that here! The chocolate Cannoli he got was so damn good!! I could eat a ton of them!!!!!! Wish I was playing golf today! I suck at it but I love it anyway!!!! Maybe next spring I will be able to get out and play with Tanner in Kindergarten every day! Your job sounds so "hard" that I think you may need an extra drink while on board to make up for all that laborious work! I filled the kids out just like they would have and had the older kids sign them and then just signed Tanner's. I figure I can't be the only stupid one trying to fill these things out before we leave right??? Good job on the tanning! I am finished with the booth since my next 2 days will be filled with trying to get my "mansion" cleaned and sitting here waiting for the next post! You better not chicken out of the meet! Now we get closer and everyone starts getting cold feet...OH NO YOU DONT! I will find you.. I will scream out PHILLY JEN, PHILLY JEN or TAMMY Or whomever else is missing!!!!! Of course if you do wear those martini pants I'm sure Alice and Monkeyboy will seek you out!! LOL Only 4 more days til we meet!!! We will be at the port at about 11:15 or so. Our limo is picking us up at POR at 10 and then we have the comp stop at the liquor store to STOCK Up and then we will be there..hopefully no later than 11:15! We will go on board, right to the "free" lunch and then to the pool until it's time to go back for lifejackets! I'll be the one yelling TANNER KNOCK IT OFF and CABANA BOY BRING ME ANOTHER DRINK DAMMIT! You'll find us!

Alice--I use to love to fly until just before 9-11 when we flew to Miami for a carnival cruise and it was such a miserable flight for some reason. Then of course we were in DL on 9-11 so that always goes in my mind and now with flying and Tanner and the kids ear problems...lets just say I'll be glad to get on land both times!!! Can't wait til Friday! Can't wait til Friday!! Can't WAIT til Friday!!!! I promise not to sling my bra or do back flips on the first day...now subsequent days I cannot control but the first I will be totally in control!!

POR HERE WE COME
POR HERE WE COME
POR HERE WE COME

ANd Conny and SIlke better be darn prepared!!! LOL
I'll try to help with the 9000 post count for you for later ok????

Brenda--Glad to see all is well and that you are packed and ready to leave!!! Can't wait to meet up with all of you guys!!!

I'm so excited I can't even function anymore!!!
Until later (like 30min later is all i can stand)

HEidi

 

[Belle and Rella's Dad]

SNOW, SNOW, AND MORE SNOW



I woke up today and it is S***ing, all I can think about is at this time next week we will be in St. Marten enjoying ourselves on a beach. I have to take Linds to Softball practice at 5:30 followed by soccer practice at 6:30, and I am going to freeze my A** off (too bad we didn't freeze our beer guts off).

I would also like to welcome the newbies (PANGO you stud, Julie B), and Tracey and Brenda good to read you again (Tracey hope you are feeling better, being sick on the cruise will not be tolerated). If anyone chickens out for the meet at the Goofy pool, the PIRATES will hunt you down and the consequences will not be good.

Queen, you had better be packin, and cancel the cleaning lady no need to clean an empty house (we pretty much always take everything we own), therefore we will have more money for other things.

I think we need a roll call for everyone, time to check in to the thread before we start losing more people to the countdown clocks.

 

[hydster]

Thank GOD more posts to read instead of doing what I should be doing and that is CLEANING MY HOUSE and getting the Monkey's laundry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tracey--I am SO sorry to hear you've been sick! I'm still sick with my cold as well and can't seem to shake it. It's almost as if I have a touch of the flu that makes you ache all over and just kind of weak!! I hope we all get feeling better...I find that nothing can help cure you feeling under the weather like a good stiff one! *DRINK....geez*

Tom--It's a balmy 70 degrees here today, got the windows open, Tom Jones blaring on the Stereo and am counting down the minutes til Ryan gets home from the hellhole known as work! LOL I agree about sending the Pirates hunting down all you people who don't show up! They may make you walk the plank you know!!

Monkeyboy...the QUEEN gets a cleaning lady..I want one too! She has 3 kids just like me but she doesn't have to clean her house...and QUEEN tell me how you got that deal going so I can do the same!!!!!!!!

ROFL that you take your house with you....see that's when you should FLY so that you would have to pack light or face the $5000.00 fine for overloaded luggage! LOL

You KNOW I'll be here until the bitter end (or 3pm Utah time whichever comes first tomorrow) so no need to look for me to check in!!!!

Ok..off to preschool, laundry and then to clean! PLEASE SOMEONE for the love of god write in again so I can sit down and read more!

Heidi

 

[JenLynn]

OMG Heidi .. I just realized that your countdown is 0 days!!! YIPPEEEE!!!!! Are you packed and ready to go? I am sure the kids are as excited as can be. Every day Teddy tells me how many days are left til we go to the airport and how many days til we go to the cruise (i think he finds it funny that it isn't the same number of days).

I am wavering between panic and excitement ..... am i really going to have everything ready in time?

And i just thought it only fair to share a picture of Bow-Tie Joe enjoying himself in Jamaica ... it can join the pics of Heidi and Ryan and Julie and Tom in the 5/1 partying Hall of Fame (or is that Hall of Shame?)

See everyone in just 96.5 hours at the Goofy pool!
JenL

 

[2kidsmom]

I seem to recall having read this somewhere, but I can't find it. I am trying to make a "cruisin" CD to get me more excited (as if that is possible). Actually it is for travelling. What are some good songs that you would put on it if it were yours?

The clock is ticking... 4 days, 2 hours, fifty-nine minutes and 16, 15, 14,... seconds

Julie B

 

[abjennings]

Hello All,
I am finally posting so I won't have to do a walk-of-shame around the Goofy pool. I haven't started packing but I do great under pressure. Heidi, do I really have to clean the refrigerator too before I leave??
We are really excited around the Jennings house. We're leaving Thurs AM around 9:00 and driving about 9 hours to Cocoa Beach. We have some very good friends who live there. The cruise nightmares have begun and I was wondering if Heidi could email me some Ambien.?? LOL
I am so excited to meet everyone,..we will be there!!!!,,..me, my son Noah, and my wonderful husband who had to give up his life at sea as a pirate years ago. But he can still drink rum!!
Can't wait!!
Allison

 

[abjennings]

Oh I am having such a dilemma!! Should I drink wine, party and read the disboards tonight or should I clean my house, refrigerator (thanks Heidi), and start packing???? Oh what to do what to do?? Let's see,...i think I will have one little glass of wine( you know that is homework since I'm studying to be a sommelier?) and then decide. This is sort of an informal poll, but any advice would be appreciated. I guess I'll start my "homework" and check back with you all later.
See ya,...Allison

 

[JenLynn]

How about a combination of the two, Allison? Drink some wine, read the boards and pack! Don't worry about the house and the refrigerator! That is exactly what i plan on doing!! (though i may exchange the wine for a white russian). Joe is out playing softball this evening and i am putting the children to bed early and going to pop in the cruise video and pack. Of course i'll be checking in and out from the boards too ... not much time left with Heidi around here!

And Allison, Joe and i were talking about this the other night .. how does one learn to be a sommelier?

Happy packing everyone!
JenL

 

[ThreeCircles]

Hello to all from Tampa Bay!

I'm so glad to see that many of you won't be leaving until Friday afternoon or evening. Alice and I thought we were going to be the only ones left on the boards!

Tracey--

Sorry to hear that you and Logan aren't feeling that well. Make sure you give yourselves plenty of rest so that you'll be 100% by the time the cruise comes around. Drink plenty of orange juice!


Julie (B.) --

We always make a cruise CD before leaving too! Here are some songs we tend to use...

Kokomo, Beach Boys
Giligan's Island theme song
Stir It Up, Sweat, No Woman No Cry, One Love, Don't Worry Be Happy, all by Bob Marley (and anything else by him too!)
Island In the Sun, Weezer
Red, Red Wine, UB40
Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo, Tracy Byrd
YMCA, Village People (Sailaway Celebration song)
Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffet (Again, anything else by him too.)
Hey Baby, D.J. Otzi (Sailaway Celebration song)


Allison--

You need to study, girl! Go with the wine!


Brenda--

All packed?!?!?! I knew I was going to be the last one. I knew it!

 

[abjennings]

Thanks for all you support in making my decision. I am having a chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc as we speak (my instructor would be so proud) I can't pack, I can't clean, I am just too excited to do anything responsible, (except "homework", of course).

JenL-
The technical college in my area offered this program through the International Sommelier Guild. They have a web site. I really enjoy it but it is a lot more difficult than I ever thought. We did a blind tasting on our first final exam and had to name the grape variety, country and region the wine was from. Heh!!! I got the grape variety right. So needless to say, I need to do A LOT of "tasting" while I'm on vacation.

I am putting off all my responsibilities until tomorrow. With my luck, everyone will be busy packing, cleaning, and organizing to chat with me. Why, I'll bet that Heidi is cleaning her D#@% refrigerator as we speak.

Oh well!! Talk to y'all soon!! Allison

 

[ThreeCircles]

Allison--

I can't imagin how hard it must be to name the region that a wine grape comes from just by tasting the wine!

Here's a little-known wine fact: Did you know that Walt Disney World Resort has more certified sommeliers than any other company? (Keep in mind that Disney Cruise Line is actually folded into the Walt Disney World branch of the Walt Disney Company. Hey, that's another little-known fact! )

<a href="http://www.wineskinny.com/past_issues/sommeliers/sommelier030203.htm">Here's a great article on the Disney Sommeliers... </a>

 

[Pango]

Tom, don't you just LOVE the White Fluffy Stuff Outside.
Let's go have soccer practice.

Sorry for the hang-up this morning... You know when the Client
calls you Jump. Being in SALES and everything.

QUOTE FROM TOM "I MAKE MY MONEY TALKING".

You need to get out of your office more!!!!! Play some Golf or something!!!

I am setting here looking at all the piles of clothes. I wonder sometimes "Do I Need To Take All These?"

I WILL!!! be packed on Thursday!!! That's when my lovely wife gets home.

Look forward to the Strings tonight.

 

[hannahandkatesmommy]

Don't forget my favorite song...."It's 5 o clock somewhere". But somehow, I don't think this group needs to go through that rationalization to process before having a drink at 8 in the morning.

One very bad thing happened to me today.......it is election day and damnit I need a drink Monkeyboy! The liquer store is closed. PA is such a puritan like state.... I was so hoping to come home from my very difficult day at the golf course to have a nice chilled glass of Chardonnay but NOOOO the door was locked at the wine store. Anwyay, enjoying a nice Belgian Beer instead.

Off to do the last minute grocery shopping and Heidi-I had a cleaning lady for as long as I remember. She was more trouble than she was worth. I have been through 5 in the last 5 years. FInally I just said, this should be a pleasant experience, not a witch hunt when I get home to find the same dog hair ball under the dining room table that was there when I left. Thankfully, since I don't clean, my husband does the dirty work(bathrooms, kitchen floors etc...) I just dance around the house with my feather duster....

My refridgerator???? I guess that means I have to throw away the ham from Easter finally? Ha Ha Ha....

I will check back later and I am in the same boat as Heidi....need stuff to read.

Philly Jen

 

[ThreeCircles]

Originally posted by hannahandkatesmommy
Don't forget my favorite song...."It's 5 o clock somewhere". But somehow, I don't think this group needs to go through that rationalization to process before having a drink at 8 in the morning.

Philly Jen--

Hmmm... I think that's a very safe assumption Jen!

 

[abjennings]

Yeah Jason,
And can you believe the guy beside me got the whole question right?? He's a wine salesman and says he drinks that wine all the time. (it was a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc from the Marlborough region). Well let me tell you, I have been drinking the h#$* out of that wine ever since. It was good!! It was really, really good!!! Thanks for the article. I wish I had read it before my last class. My instructor is a little concerned about me missing 3 classes while I'm cruising. I told her I would drink a lot of wine. DUH!!

I think I have posted more today than ever in my history of online boards. I KNOW I don't type as fast as my mind works,..maybe that has something to do with it. But you guys will just be praying for me to shut-up on the cruise.

Hubby's coming home and Noah is outside in the mud with his new shoes on!!

Be back soon. Remember,..my job tonight is to do "homework" and read the disboard.

See y'all,....Allison

 

[2kidsmom]

Well maybe I do belong on this post afterall. So far the CD has
5 o'clock somewhere Alan Jackson
When the Sun Goes down Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker
Kokomo Beach Boys
Dont Worry Be Happy
2 Pina Coladas Garth Brooks

AND I don't drink!!! How crazy is that??

Julie B.

 

[abjennings]

And now Philly Jen has reminded me of the Easter ham in the back refrigerator I need to dispose of!!!! LOL
Allison