Wild Turkeys and Dancing Banana Heads Cruise 11/25/06

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Shelley,
Glad to have you back.
Fourfoxesinpa has a list started for all of us. Just send her all your information and she will add it to the list.
We have really been growing the past month. It is a little soon to set a meet on the ship, I think. Because people would forget by cruise time. Other Dis meets i have gone to have always been in the Promenade lounge at 3 p.m. on the first day. I do not know what people on this thread will want to do, but I know we will meet sometime on board.
Have fun catching up on your reading.
mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Sorry Shellie,
I spelled your name wrong!!!!!

Sorry,
kathy

 

[fourfoxesinpa]

Hi Everyone! Wow has this thread grown! It will take me an hour to read all this!

I've been very busy and haven't spent much time on the pc. (we just finished a water percussion concerto, very, very cool!)

Anyway, what have I missed that I need to do right a way? Is someone taking names, ect and has a meet already been arranged? bTW, does anyone have a count until our sail date?

I am looking for a good diet. I would say that I am 25 pounds overweight. Anyone have any success stories to share?

Well, I'll catch up on my reading!
shellie

Hi Shellie,

After searching around the DIS, I started "THE LIST" and was able to find your room category, your names and girls' ages, dining selection, home state and description of what your girls like to do. It sounds like your little Joy would get along just fine with my Meredith who will be 8 at the time we sail, but, unfortunately, they'll be in different clubs.

I wish I could give you a great success story but I'm in the same boat you are. Back in my size 14 "fat pants," as I call them. I can say, however, that when I have tried and STUCK to the South Beach Diet, results were quick and I didn't find it too hard to stick to. I just need to get motivated again! Too many Christmas cookies and candy!

As for a countdown, I need to find a new ticker...All I know is that it's TOO FAR AWAY!!!

 

[fourfoxesinpa]

Hi Shelley,
Glad to have you back.
Fourfoxesinpa has a list started for all of us. Just send her all your information and she will add it to the list.
We have really been growing the past month. It is a little soon to set a meet on the ship, I think. Because people would forget by cruise time. Other Dis meets i have gone to have always been in the Promenade lounge at 3 p.m. on the first day. I do not know what people on this thread will want to do, but I know we will meet sometime on board.
Have fun catching up on your reading.
mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

We had two DIS meets on our last trip. The first was in Parrot Cay at lunch time and if you missed that one, we gathered on Deck 10 for the Deck Party and were easy to find because of special TShirts. But, all the kids wanted to be on Deck 9 and it was loud so I didn't think that was the best place to meet up.

 

[fourfoxesinpa]

There we go, 10 months, 1 week and 1 day. See...WAY too far away!!!!

Have a good week everyone.

 

[feenie]

We have gone to a Dis-meet during sail away and one at 3 in the promenade lounge. I didn't care for meeting during the sail away party. There is too much going on and it's hard to really get to chat with everything going on!
the promenade lounge is NOT busy at 3 on the first day, and it was a great place to meet up!

 

[JanDave]

I agree with Kathy for meeting at the Promenade Lounge at 3pm. We had DIS meets there on our last two Magic cruises. Hard to believe that 10 months from now, we'll have received our cruise docs, made online ressies, and have suitcases opened in our spare bedroom.

Jan

 

[fam4jc]

I can't really comment on a meet since I've never been on the Magic before. I haven't cruised since, well many years ago. I am so very excited! We'll be wherever it is you set it up! I really want my girls to make some friends and I want to meet you!

Well, I am sorry for your hard winters so far. Here is SC we have had one terrible ice storm and now it has been pretty much about 60 to 70 for a couple of weeks. Kinda freeky!

The SouthBeach diet, I haven't looked into that one. I did Atkins a couple of years ago with great sucess for about 11 weeks (lost 27 pounds). I just can't maintain the atkins and my doc says I need to watch the fat intake. I too had too many cookies and great yummie things during the holidays. It's like I can't stop eating once I start the bad habbits again.

I will be making an inspection of the Magic the end of March. Does anyone need me to take a pic of a particular area of the ship? I think I will be able to take pics. I don't know since this is my first inspection. I want lots of pics for my scrapbook for Disney guests.

How fun is this?

Shellie

Oh one more thing - I am still at a guaranteed catagory 5. Should I select a stateroom? Funny that I'm a Disney TA and I don't know what to do!

 

[TiggerKing]

Hey folks, I just wanted to drop in and say hello. It was pouring down rain here in GA yesterday and the temps dropped to the low 30s overnight. I know that for your northerners that isn't cold, and I really don't consider it that cold either. But, all these fronts moving through are killing DW and mine's sinuses!

I was dreaming this morning of sitting on our verandah in the early morning on a day at sea while DW was still asleep and just listening to the waves and the wake of the ship. I could really use some beach time right now!

 

[MelanieC]

Boy, our thread has really taken off. It wasn't that many days ago that I posted yet I had over 3 pages to read!

Welcome to everyone who is now sailing on 11/25/06! It seems we should have quite the group!

Shellie- Here on the DIS, there is a board called WISH. It stands for We're Inspired to Stay Healthy. Take a look over there for ideas about a healthy eating plan. I'm on WW's and I love it.

To all the Pa gal's - King of Prussia Mall would work for me. Its only 45 minutes via the turnpike. That is usually where I shop as it take 30-45 minutes to get to a mall around here with traffic on the weekends. My daughter and I love the Cheesecake Factory there!! Count me in!

Sure wish the cruise was this weekend. I'd be in Florida now getting ready to have dinner at Boma's and ready to hit the MK tomorrow. AHHH!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Howdy,
Well normally I would brag about our great sunny florida weather when I read your posts about bad weather, however we are suppose to be down to freezing tonight!!! For central Florida that is COLD!!!!!
We do have lots of sunshine, it's just not as warm as it should be.

We are off this weekend to spend the weekend at The Wilderness Lodge at WDW for a late anniversary weekend, so it better warm up, because I want to be out late to watch the fireworks. That will get me to thinking about the fireworks they have on the ship after the Pirate Party.
How are all of you doing for your pirate outfits??? I hope I'm not the only one who will be dressing up that night. I'd love to hear about your costumes.
Anyone else doing door signs??? I will probably have 3 again. Just too many great ideas out there to settle for one sign.

Hope everyone has a great weekend,
mom x4,grandma x4

 

[MelanieC]

Hi Kathy,
We will definately be wearing Pirates costumes. I hope there are plenty who will be so DH doesn't feel funny, lol! I think he'd be PO'd at me if there were only a couple of people dressed. He may rent a costume from this local shop here. He had a guy who one first place at a Halloween costume with a Jack Sparrow costume. We'll have to go take a look. I am DEFINATELY dressing up, but I haven't started yet. I'm thinking about a skirt with a white top, lots of fun jewelry, a colorful scarf belt and maybe a matching one for around my head. Not 100% sure yet. I do need to start working on that. By the time we go on our cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 will be out. I bet that will be one of the movies playing on the ship. Of course I'm sure our family will have watched it at least twice in the movies like we did the first one!

I plan on doing door signs once I find enough time to figure out how to make them. I'm sure it's easy once I take the time to see how other's did them.

The weather here is not too bad today. It goes from being in the 60's to freezing this past weekend. It rained all night Tuesday into yesterday early afternoon. I'm glad the sun is shining today.

 

[feenie]

DH will definitly be dressing up! One of my friends who can sew made him a great pirate outfit before out last cruise and she is going to make him the jacket from the pattern to add to it for this one!! I am considering dressing up this time, but it will be much more low-key than his!

 

[cody'smom]

Pirate Night -we are dressing up this time. DH and DS wore P.O.C shirts last time- Ds also had hat, bandanna, etc. DD wore a black skirt with a white off the shoulder blouse and lots of jewelry, I wore a red and white striped shirt with black pants. BUT we are going to be more adventurous this time. I gave DH choice of capt hook or jack sparrow, ds wants to be jack sparrow , too. My tip for everyone who doesn't have their stuff yet- if you are thinking aobut waiting till after halloween, it's hard to find pirate stuff in stores, even at full price. I started looking the second week in Nov and the party stores near my house had already put that stuff away.


Movies on ship- we are wondering if they will show the Santa Clause 3 (due out 11/3). It would be kind of neat to see a Christmas themed movie at CHristmas!!! (it is a disney production)

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi everyone,
I agree, dont expect to find stuff after halloween. I thought i would do that last October and there was nothing to be found accept eye patches.
Sometimes if you dont mind used items a person can go to a thrift store and get cheap halloween stuff around the end of august through halloween.

I kept watching for the close out racks at all the clothing stores. i found a long sleeve off white blouse with a round neckline. Then frayed the ends of the sleeves and a brown long vest that has uneven hem too. I bought a light beige skirt for $5 at kmart that has many layers of sheer fabric and it was uneven edges and hems too. I had to make it smaller because they only had it in a very large size, but it worked really good. Then I had a piece of dark brown material to tie around my waist with a plastic skull and crossbones on the front. I had a black bandana too. Then I found a $40 pair of brown suede boots that were $17 on closeout. They come to the middle of the calf with leather straps around them with metal buckles. To Top it off I bought a necklace at WDW that is the medallion from Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
I got the idea for this from looking at costumes on line. It took about 6 months to find everything, but when all was said and done I only spent around $45. Not too bad considering the necklace was $10 and the boots $17. This time DH says he will dress up too if I get him something to wear. He saw so many people, including grown men dressed that he decided it was ok to do it now. So this year i will watch for sales for him.
I'm happy to hear all of you are thinking about dressing up too! It is so much more fun when lots of people do this. On the Magic w ehad lots of people dressingup, but for some reason on the Wonder they didnt seem to do much accept for the kids.
I'm glad we are going on the magic.
Everyone have a great weekend!! I know we will because we are headed for WDW.
Kathy

 

[TiggerKing]

I am going to try and talk DW into dressing up for Pirate Night. I think she will go for it as she always dresses up for Halloween at work. Now, to find the right costume for the both of us. DW is a sewing whiz, so she will probably want to make our costumes (no arguments from me).

I hope everyone has a great weekend. It is going to be rainy here in Georgia this weekend, so I won't be able to get in any of the motorcycle time I so desired, but oh well.

 

[Michelle2]

We didn't wear costumes for pirate night, but we did wear matching pirate themed t-shirts...kind of like a Pirates of the Caribbean movie shirt. That is about as much as I can probably get my family to dress up. I had some eyepatches, some pirate hats and a pirate sword too. Our DS3 really liked it!

We had door signs on the last 11/26 cruise, and it really helped us (especially the kids) find our stateroom much easier, so we will definitely do them again. My problem was that I waited too last minute to do them, and didn't get to customize them as much as I wanted.

Have a great time at WDW Kathy!

 

[LAMPSKIES]

Pirate Night -we are dressing up this time. DH and DS wore P.O.C shirts last time- Ds also had hat, bandanna, etc. DD wore a black skirt with a white off the shoulder blouse and lots of jewelry, I wore a red and white striped shirt with black pants. BUT we are going to be more adventurous this time. I gave DH choice of capt hook or jack sparrow, ds wants to be jack sparrow , too. My tip for everyone who doesn't have their stuff yet- if you are thinking aobut waiting till after halloween, it's hard to find pirate stuff in stores, even at full price. I started looking the second week in Nov and the party stores near my house had already put that stuff away.


Movies on ship- we are wondering if they will show the Santa Clause 3 (due out 11/3). It would be kind of neat to see a Christmas themed movie at CHristmas!!! (it is a disney production)

Hey all!! Don't spend too much just yet on those outfits.....rumor mill has it that this IS year 3 for pirate night and there may be something else by the years end......FYI

 

[cody'smom]

That's true, but I'm thinking (hoping !) with the POC movie coming out this summer, they may keep it around a little longer.......

 

[TiggerKing]

Don't really have anything to say, I just don't like us being on page 2!

I hope that everyone had a great weekend!