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

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Mutt I found this for you:

 

[TiggerKing]

We chose the AM as well so that we can go over the French side of the island for shopping and looking around as well. I wonder how many other from this group chose the AM booking. Can you imagine a catamaran full of Nana Heads? Oh man, that is scary!

 

[woogal]

Tonya: THAT IS HYSTERICAL!! I am sitting here at my desk laughing like crazy! Bill has a huge project at work today, so he probably won't see it until tonight. BTW, we're on the AM Golden Eagle as well.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Steve,
I didnt know about the drive in, THANKS!!!
We only moved here a few months ago and I havnt got a chance to check out the outer areas.
Kathy

 

[TIGGER41681]

Good Evening All you heads,
Today was soooooooo rainy and we are suppose to get more tomorrow !!! last night Ds decided not to sleep again !! It is really taking a toll on my and DH. We think we are going to start it on cereal this weekend and everybody told me that may help with the sleeping. I hope so !!1

Denise: Get Well Soon!! I hope your toe feels better .

Jeff: Aboard!! You asked about decorations for the holidays. The boat has a huge Christmas tree in the lobby to take holiday pictures. I am going to do that with my DS!! They also make the Christmas cards on the ship and have them printed up by time our cruise is our. I looked on the boards and it's seems pirce is $30.00 to $40.00. I hope this was a help to you!!

Kathy: How is the Weather by you?? I hope everything is okay!!

 

[dkmjgal]

Jeff and Family I'm pretty new to this thread and I have to say so far things seem pretty normal
But seriously...everyone has been great!
I loved reading your cruise report and I'm so glad that things turned around for you. Your tips were great also.

Tonya - OMG- that banana is hysterical

OK, as a newcomer I have to ask...I totally get the Wild Turkey thing...but what's with the banana. I tried going back and reading a lot of the thread but I don't think I can get thru all of the pages!!!

Lynn - hang in there! DD-our first-was not a great sleeper either. She seemed to have this every other night pattern for waking up. Me and DH took turns - him one night me the next. Actually on a few occasions DD fell asleep on top of DH's belly - hey, whatever works! I was NOT a pleasant person during that time - I'll admit it. I think it was teething - both of our kids got their first tooth at 5 mos. and had ALL of their teeth before they were 2 years old. Have you tried whisky? Not for DS - for you and DH!!!!!!

Now I'm really excited about the cruise. Booking all the ressies has made me catch cruise fever I think - we can't wait!!!

Have a great night everyone!

Kelly

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Lynn,
our weather was beautiful today but by tomarow night that will change. We just dont know if it will just be lots of rain and wind gusts or worse!! Steve and his mom Pat live near me so whatever we get they will get too. If you dont hear from me on Wednesday morning it will be due to the storm. we often loose electricity even without hurricane strength winds, just tropical will make us loose it, so we will see what happens. I am well prepared either way.

Dh just finished pulling weeds in the yard. when he got by the center of the back fence Minnie went running up to him and was very upset. soon he uncovered 2 moldy chew sticks and 3 dead baby snakes she had killed and burried!!! She was very upset he found her stash of burried treasure!!!

kathy

 

[jd99]

Greetings to all. You have all been so welcoming, we couldn't help but book this cruise! Now all we have to do is get over the guilt of taking DD7 out of school for 4 days. She's always been fine with it but this year is second grade and they have already ramped up the homework.

So I guess I'm officially a wild turkey or a dancing banana. How will i know?

We did the booking but not without the usual drama that surrounds anything we do. Usually in November we have a short school break around Veterans Day when they have inservice days and we usually use our DVC points to go to the Beach Club. With our other cruise, we forgot to even try to get the booking. So today as we were saying "BCV or Cruise..." and leaning heavily toward cruise, I said, let me call just to check on availability as I'm sure they are sold out by now. Of course they were for both the early and late November dates. So I asked about banking my points.

I've never done this before and as a relatively new member of DVC I had NO idea of all the rules Shame on me for not paying attention, but the nice lady at DVC told me that I basically would lose 1/2 of my points since I missed our banking deadline. Huh, there's a banking deadline? Yes, I didn't have a clue.

So DW called back to see about using our points for the cruise (we don't have many but figured we could pay for a part of it). It worked out great that we were able to use points for the two DDs and pay cash for DW and I. "PHEW" didn't lose those points, thank goodness and got a nice break on cash outlay. Even kept our onboard credit and at least part of the 10 percent discount we got from booking on board, even though we had booked a 4-day and had to change it to 7.

Trying this one without a verandah (per my trip report that I thought it was unnececessary) but now that push has come to shove, I'm questioning myself. We're on Deck 2 in a Cat 9. Maybe Santa will send an early present and we'll get upgraded.

Now I have to go back and read 136 pages of posts (yikes you people have been busy). And I'll be getting our info to Shell as well.

I really can't believe we're doing this again so soon. But WOW it's fun to plan it this fast. Now I have to hope we can get some things reserved when the never-cruisers have their chance. We were lucky on this last cruise to get Palo (twice) just by booking on board and I got 2 massages the same way.

Woo hoo and I guess we are now:

 

[Dixielady908]

Good evening fellow turkeys and nana heads.....boy have you guys been busy today.

Got home late from work, then with dinner and that clean up. I cant belive its almots 8pm already. Well we were brave today and let both dogs out together all day. We have been locking my DD dog in his cage when we leave for work. She always had him locked up while she was out and no problems. Well we would come home, he had chewed up everything in there and had this mess we had to clean up. So since they seem to be getting along OK we figured we can trust them. Well thankfully DH got home first...one of the dogs had diarrhea on my kitchen rug. And either the same or other dog vomitted on my carpeting in my hallway. So we had thoes messes to clean up... crazy dogs....

My toe is ok today. It looks worse...three toes are black and blue but it dosnt hurt that much.

Well you guys have a good evening....

Later
Denise

 

[woogal]

Good evening Banana Heads

Well, tonight was finals night for Bill and I in our cake decorating class! For my "Graduation Cake", I dedicated it to all of you banana heads. Hope you like it:

(In case you're wondering ... yeah, it's banana flavored cake, too!!)

 

[cruisemutt]

Tonya....thanks for that...I love it (any insanity is so welcome---I love to have company).

Kelly....who knows how these things start. Dancing bananas??? Whoever brought that lunacy to these nice people--well, they better not let me catch them!!! Grrrrrrr (official mutt growl).

Denise...please be careful...geez, ...how can we be dancing bananas with broken toes?

Have a good evening, kids....

 

[disneediva]

Shell, GREAT cake I swear I snorted coke out of my nose when I saw it, but where is Mutt's cake ?

Denise, glad the toe is better, in my medical opinion it would be helpful to walk around Target more as exercise is good for the injured toe

JD welcome to our family and heres a few nanas to get you started

Lynn, my DS had some issues with sleeping to, it got so bad my dad came over and took him outside and told him this is the moon this is when you sleep. he didn't listen then and he has trouble listening now

Wendy

 

[fourfoxesinpa]

LOVE the cake!

Shell - I totally understand the Johnny/Capt. Jack thing. I do not care for Viggo Mortensen but, oh, that Aragorn!

 

[cruisemutt]

Jamie...I think Arwen may have something to say about that....

Ok, Wendy...I was embarrassed to post my cake... but for you, I'll show it.
I'm taking it in to work tommorow to give to everyone. I drew directions on the cake so they'd understand what to do with it.
Be merciful, its my first attempt.

 

[Dixielady908]

Shell: I love the cake....great job. Looks yummy to.


My neighbor owns his own cake shop. He makes the best cakes I have ever had..and he is sooo talented when it comes to decorating. There are times I even hate to cut them. So I figure, hey why do all the work. I just call his shop and he delivers to my door.

I have no artistic talent so I leave this kind of stuff to people who do!!

Talk with you all tomorrow.

Denise

 

[Dixielady908]

ummm Bill....great job on your cake: Actually it looks yummy too.

I'm posting pictures of "the dogs" Jack the doberman is mine and Louie the pit bull is my daughters...I took these tonight. We just got a matching bed for Louie...are they cute or what???

Denise

 

[disneediva]

Bill, I love the cake , but what kind of co-workers do you have that need THOSE directions hmmmmm and great roses by the way as a martha stewart wanna be I give props to anyone with artistic talent since all mine sucks

Denise that is a great pic they look like two harmless little angels

Kathy stay safe and good luck with Ernesto

Shell, for me its Brad Pitt in Interview with a Vampire ummm ummm good something about the long hair and bad boy style. You know what I mean right ladies

Off to work
Wendy

 

[LindaBabe]

Welcome, Jd99! I enjoyed your trip report and will be thrilled to meet you and your family in person.

Those cakes are FAB, Shell & Mutt! The roses are awfully good for a beginner - but around here, you sure wouldn't need instructions. Researchers go through cake like locusts in a wheat field.

Raining again today, but that's ok - it's supposed to be nice for our trip later this week.

Happy Day, Ya'll!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi everyone,

Bill and Shell,
both cakes were great!!! With 2 cakes and two of you that is one each, RIGHT?? Sounds like a good deal to me!!!

Wendy,
It looks like we will just have a gusty rainly day here now, so that is good. We really need the rain and 40 to 50 MPH gusts are no sweat to me. Been through that lots of times.

Shell,
you can take Kycha off the cruise list. She just posted on our next years November cruise and said they had to cancel this one and rebook on that one. so they arent coming this time.

jd99, so glad you made it official!!!


well I am off to the Vet for Minnies check up,
I will check back later to see what is happening around here. If I miss a day it take 3 days to catch up. We are a very talkative group here!!!


Kathy

 

[TiggerKing]

Good morning everyone! It has started off as a bad day. I had the pleasure of meeting one of the small town police officers on the drive in to work this morning. Apparently, my interpretation of one law about passing another car, and his interpretation were quite different. Then, he added insult to injury by saying that he would normally give a warning for this infraction, but they were being required to hand out tickets today! I was not a happy camper!

Jeff: Glad that you and your family are officially joining us on this cruise! I can't promise that you won't be sorry, but I can promise that you will have a good time!

Mutt & Shell: My birthday is 11/3, I will be expecting a cake delivered to my door. Great work!

Kathy & Steve: Stay safe down there. Hopefully this thing will peter out and just be a good rain for you guys!

Have a great Tuesday all! Mine can't do anything but get better!