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

[LAMPSKIES]

On our first cruise in 2004, I am walking down the hallway and hear someone behind us yell "Bob!". Now, DW already accuses me of know someone everywhere we go, so she is thinking "Who now?". Well, I turn around and it is another DISer who knew my cabin number, saw it on my life vest, and called out my name. We all started laughing!

I don't know if anyone looked at the posts about the NASA launch schedule, but as of right now, there is an unmanned rocket launch and a shuttle launch both scheduled for our CC day. If they go off as scheduled, we should be able to see them while we are on the island. If the shuttle takes a delay, as it typically does, and delays until Saturday, we will be at the port for the launch. That would be totally awesome to cap the cruise off with a shuttle launch!

On our 2000 sailing there was a NASA launch....and we were at CC and were able to see it.......

 

[favoriteslave]

Lampy:

I would adopt you, but I couldn't afford your bar bill.

hugs & Kisses

 

[LAMPSKIES]

Lampy:

I would adopt you, but I couldn't afford your bar bill.

hugs & Kisses

@ Tonya.....That Eastern sailing has 1 more day at sea also ....hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Melanie,
Loved the pictures. thanks for posting them.

Glad to hear everyone has survived the snow storm ok.

Of course we didnt get snow here in Florida, but we did get down to freezing and below the past 2 nights and suppose to be the same tonight. Then around 80 by the weekend.


After all the cold weather I'm ready to cruise!! Wish it was closer!

Have a great week everyone,
mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[disneediva]

Just wanted to tell everyone good morning. Off to another day at work but at least its one day closer to our cruise.

We booked a week in Disney today the first week of June as soon as the kids get out of school, we will try Discovery Cove for the first time. DS is quite excited(a little nervous too I believe)

Tiggerking how is your DW feeling?

Have A great day
Wendy

 

[snoopy_mom]

Wendy, we did Discovery Cove in August and LOVED it. If it is an option, I would recommend the Trainer For a Day program. We were treated like VIPs, never foungt any crowds or waited in any lines (although I think that is true even if you are a 'regular' guest), and we got an extra dolphin swim att he end of the day. We also did alt of 'behnd the scenes' things. My kids were 8 and 10 when we went. The only thing they would not do was the salt water pool, which had a million tropical fish in it. I was really surprised my daughter would not go in....
We were also surprised at how much we liked the aviary. I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did, since I was really there for the dolphins and fish.

 

[DutchsMommy]

Hello everyone - we are back from Mickey Mouse's House

We had a great time - although as Kathy has mentioned, it was COLD. I am glad we kept our jackets with us. It was quite quiet in the parks as a result of the weather and we were able to see everything we wanted to. We even went to the EMH night at MK on Saturday (I think it was Saturday) and rode Splash Mountain about 6 times (in the rain and about 40 degree temps!) but DS was loving it so - what the heck! We did Gatorland which was OK - would do it once but wouldn't go back. The taxi out there was quite expensive, but it was my fault as I had gotten a quote from Celebration cabs but needed to call the day before to arrange and didn't (due to the EMH mentioned above LOL) so we paid a fairly hefty taxi bill - oh well, it was still fun. We had a great time at Fantasmic (first time we have seen it as it just hasn't worked out for us before), Le Cellier was great as usual and DS fell asleep on the bench seat so DH and I had a very nice quiet dinner. DS also went to the Cub's Den for a few hours on Valentine's night which we all enjoyed We ate at the Rainforest Cafe outside AK which was also great. DS loved Rafiki's Planet Watch at AK - which we had never bothered with before, so that was a nice experience. The only bummer of the trip was they had Exped. Everest open at AK and we got FPs but by the time we returned for our FP window the ride was closed - I thought they should have kept it open at least until the FP window was over - oh well, next time. Oh and one last GREAT thing - I FINALLY BEAT DH AT BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes folks, you are talking to a Space Ace

Anyway, we're back now and it's freezing rain out but I can now put my full attention on our upcoming Cruise!!!

Hope all is well with everyone.

 

[DutchsMommy]

My 1000th post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!My 1000th Post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOHOOOOO

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Dutchsmommy,
I'm happy to hear you guys had a great time.
I was thinking about you when we got so COLD at night.
It's great you got to see Fantasmic, it is an awesome show!!!!

I still havnt beat anyone at Buzz lightyear ,
guess you will have to give me some tips when we meet


mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[LAMPSKIES]

My 1000th post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!My 1000th Post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOHOOOOO

2191 more and you can be an "addict" like me!!!

 

[DutchsMommy]

Hey Lampy - I'm still waitin' for the TF anyway, maybe after 1000 more??

And - btw I think you should cancel your Dec 10 day and come with us - Thanksgiving is a tradition for gosh sakes!!!!!

 

[Michelle2]

Hey everyone!
Just wanted to say goodbye before heading off to Japan and China tomorrow. The one thing I am looking forward to the most is going to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea...if anyone is interested I can post pics. It will be pretty cold, but probably no worse than here. The only difference is that here I am indoors most the day instead of being outside touring around....

I just barely reached my 1000 post the other day too, Dutchsmommy. I was pretty excited and proud of myself! I loved reading about your WDW trip, sounds like you guys had a great time!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Michelle2,
Have a fantstic trip!!!!
Please DO post some pictures when you get back as well as a trip report for all of us to read. I am looking forward to it.

mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi everyone,
well we are another week closer to our cruise.

We spent today at Epcot. It was very busy due to the holiday weekend, but we still had a great time. Usually we see some cruise line buses while we are there, but not today. Sometimes I will count 8 or 10 on a weekend. i always want to jump aboard, but it never seems to work that way.

I hope all of you had a great weekend!!!

mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[TiggerKing]

Happy Monday!

I hope that everyone had a great weekend. DW and I were actually able to relax a little bit now that the puppies are gone (last one given away on Friday evening). The neighbor's DD5 though wasn't so happy. They told us on church Sunday that she went in and cried because all of the puppies were gone! However, our other femal is pregnant and appears to be going into labor today. DW stayed at home with her, so I will probably be getting a call in the near future about number 1. Then the process starts all over again!

As for DW, she is doing great. It appears as if the medication is working, and there really have been no additional flare ups!

Have a great week everyone! Another day closer to a wonderful cruise!

 

[MamaKate]

Hey everyone!
Just wanted to say goodbye before heading off to Japan and China tomorrow. The one thing I am looking forward to the most is going to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea...if anyone is interested I can post pics. It will be pretty cold, but probably no worse than here. The only difference is that here I am indoors most the day instead of being outside touring around....

I just barely reached my 1000 post the other day too, Dutchsmommy. I was pretty excited and proud of myself! I loved reading about your WDW trip, sounds like you guys had a great time!

Hope you are having a great trip!! I'd love to see photos and a trip report. We are planning on going to Tokyo Disneyland in 2008 and it's hard to find planning information. Did you go through a Travel Agent??

Have a great time!
,
Katie

 

[DenverVal]

Hi there! We are also booked on this cruise. We booked back in September, on the repo cruise, hoping to switch to the rumored new itineraries for the summer of '07. Our choice would be the return repositioning across the Atlantic. Judging from the prices for the early part of that year, we don't know if that will be in our price range. The booking agent onboard wanted us to book the last cruise of '06, but that was a western, and I really wanted to do an eastern. So I booked the week we love to go to WDW, which is this cruise! Either way the kids will miss a week of school.

We are a family of four, me, DH, DD14 and DD11 at the time of sailing. We are late dining, cabin 6568.

Michelle2, I am a third generation Boisean . We acquired Boise's football coach here recently and I got a little cranky when all the news folks talked about "Boyzie". Grr. They need to learn how to say it right.

I also would love to see pics of Disneyland Tokyo.

 

[TiggerKing]

Hey Val! Welcome aboard!

DW and I have talked about doing one of the repositioning cruises in 2007, probably the return trip. It will depend on cost, most definitely, and the total amount of vacation I will need to take off. I am also weighing it against the fact that I want to take a two week vacation to Europe. I spent 6 weeks in 4 countries last year for work, and I would love to take DW back and show her some of the areas that I was able to visit. So, I am really torn about what to do!

I hope everyone is having a great week.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi DenverVal,
happy to have you with us. we have got quite a few families now, that's so nice to have so many.
No kids with us this time, just two middle aged grandparents going out for a good time.
looking forward to getting aquainted with you over the next few months.
mom x4,grandma x4
Kathy

 

[TiggerKing]

I just HATE us being on page 2!