8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #11

[GeneralMax]

We are actually doing a Dolphin Encounter on our own at Sea Life Park in Puerto Vallarta. Their prices seemed to be a bit better than Disney's (although you do need to pay cabfare there and back) and they have a water park that you can enjoy as well. Someone had posted about this place on the Trip Reports board a while back... http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1864191.

Kim

Thanks I will take a look at this. It looks fun.

Ruth

 

[mjy]

I am so glad that you are going to be covered. I would hate to see a naked Priest.

All would not be a loss, though.

After all, I understand that Naked Rugby may still be on?

 

[poohmomof5]

Hello! Sorry it has been awhile! Things are so crazy!

Anyway, a few things...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CHERYL AND JOHN!!!!







And, PIRATE PRINTER...I sent you 2 pms a week or so ago and haven't heard where I am supposed to send my page. Can anyone help? I love my page and I am really excited about it! Please PM me if you have any info as I haven't been able to keep up for about 10 days now!

Thanks everyone, hope you all had a great weekend. I am about to have 9 teens over, so I have to get DD3 out of the bath!

MISS YOU ALL!

Nicole

 

[micmse2003]

OMG YES!!! It was like going from the dark ages to the 25th century (yes I know that hasn't gotten here yet but that is the extreme). It is a shame that there is such a vast difference between two schools in the same district. The principal there was extremelly supportive of the teachers and got to know all of the students. Each 9 weeks she personally signed and commented on all 425+ student report cards. The teachers were all happy and that reflected on their students and therefore in the test results. The final end of grade test results for the school were INCREDIBLE!!! The average for the 3rd grade was 97.8%, 4th was 96.4, and 5th was 96.7. The writing test scores for the 4th grade were around 86%. Meanwhile the old school fell from a 30% passing writing test score to a 22.3% rate.

DS has academic peers at this school and though he got the top overall score on the first run of the EOGs in September, there were 4 of them in his class that rotated the top 4 scores all year. It is great that he has kids who he can relate to now. They are all at a 7th grade or higher reading level so they can talk about books that they are reading for example. He no longer gets teased for being "the smart kid".

DD did very well too. To give a specific example of the difference in the curiculum between the two schools, DS's 2nd grade introduced double digit addition and subtraction in May. DD's 2nd grade class learned this in October.

Needless to say we are very happy with our decision to buy a house so the kids could attend a better school. We haven't regretted it for one second. We actually signed a contract a couple days ago for the old house and if things go the way they look so far we will be closing the end of this month.

That was are only reason never moving down to Florida when we first got married......the school system was years behind ours.

Glad things are going better for DS!!! My DS was one that was teased for being the "smart kid." But he has the last laugh buying a beautiful house, and getting to travel around the world because he continued to use his intelligence.

Sorry I have been missing for so long, but so much has been going on, just trying to keep up with the 10/24/09 thread is about all I can handle most days.

I can't even remember what pics I posted last, but here are pics from Angelina's graduation night 6-17 and at her grad party on 6-28.

We will be arriving at WDW on 8-31 and will be staying at OKW (first trip back HOME) until 9-5. Angelina starts her massage therapy school on her 18th birthday 9-15.

We are all doing well, in fact, I have even started working out each morning for about 45 minutes before going to work, then on the weekends I spend about 90 minutes working out. Angelina joins me during the weekday workouts, but she refuses to go with me on the weekends.....

It's so hard to believe that you guys only have a month before your PC cruise. I know y'all are going to have a MAGICal time and I can't wait to hear all about it!!!

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Agelina is just beautiful. Congrats to her!!!

Thanks Esteri.. they look great..


we had a great time at the Midwest Meeting.. thanks Pam and Dan for everything and sharing your lovely house with us.. great to meet everyone.. Sorry that we had to leave so early but we had to get Eric..

I am so sorry Susan but I did miss the part that you were not goiong to fireworks with us!! Maybe I was talking!!! It was fun to see both of you and Scott is becoming quite a talker now.

Stop yelling at me...I have a hangover (again )

Sorry for yelling!!! Serves you right for not sharing!!​

Okay - here is the FE I made. Hope you all like it!!

Wow ...that is beautiful June!!! Wants me to make mine all over but alas.....no time!! ​

 

[micmse2003]

Hello! Sorry it has been awhile! Things are so crazy!

Anyway, a few things...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CHERYL AND JOHN!!!!

Thank you!!


And, PIRATE PRINTER...I sent you 2 pms a week or so ago and haven't heard where I am supposed to send my page. Can anyone help? I love my page and I am really excited about it! Please PM me if you have any info as I haven't been able to keep up for about 10 days now!

Thanks everyone, hope you all had a great weekend. I am about to have 9 teens over, so I have to get DD3 out of the bath!

MISS YOU ALL!

How is your back doing???

Nicole

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[jship210]

Hey Jack,
I don't know what you've heard about it being "bad" - but I've been flying between San Francisco (SFO) and Los Angeles (LAX) about once a month for the past 4 years and I have encountered very FEW problems. Holidays are bad - as can be expected.
We are flying from SFO to LAX for this cruise - don't anticipate any problems. Actually - I'm more concerned about MCO (Orlando) than LAX!!

Chris, Thank you soooo much for posting.
this seems to be much ado 'bout nuttin'. This eased my DW's mind
( Happy wife=happy life eh!)
Be well, see you in Aug.

Jack

 

[RRBB]

LOL
Anyway, I'd love for my entire house to be all disney

Just about every room in our house does have Disney artwork - or at least influence - in it. The only rooms without Disney anything are the laundry room and the new addition we had built last year. Even the bathrooms have something Disney - Mickey Mouse, Belle, Jessica Rabbit...

I imagine the picture pouches are expensive also. I want LEAST expensive way to do it.... but also for the door magnet challenge -as I apparently am.

I just purchased a few Magnetic Photo Pockets at Walgreens the other day. $1.69 for 3.5"x5" and $1.99 for 5"x7".

 

[SDHoneymooner]

Airlines have limits on what you can bring, but does the ship? If we have our 2 pieces each of checked luggage and our carry-ons that the airlines allow, can we also have an extra bag that's just "cruise" supplies (i.e., water, FE gifts, alcohol, etc.)? Or does it all need to fit in our "airline allowed" luggage? Just trying to plan ahead!

 

[lbgraves]

Okay about these door magnets things....

Is there a thread somewhere around here with INSTRUCTIONS on how to do them?
the magnet stuff I bought didn't work and had to be returned (it was magnet paper with backing you take off that was supposed to be sticky underneath the backing but it wasn't sticky! Probably old since I bought it at the dollar store. LOL) -so I'm not sure ...... what is the LEAST expensive way to make door magnets? I've heard of some elaborate stuff like laminating stuff then using magnets/etc. I just want to know the cheapest way.

And I've heard of magnet paper- that you can print on? If I'm remembering that right- does it work with any printer or only certain ones/types?

I think we're gonna end up with a bare door (again) if I don't figure out how to do these! too expensive to order- it's only inexpensive if you're ordering tons of the SAME design magnet- not if the magnets are all different.

And another question- I found the free disney font online and downloaded it- but can't figure out how to USE it. What image program are people using to use this font and other designs/etc. to make the cool designs for the magnets? I need help LOL

You can print the designs on regular paper and then get the 8 1/2 x 11 magnetic clear frames at places like WM or Walgreens to put them in. That lets you change them during the cruise too.

You need to unzip the file that the disney font is in, then go to your control panel, fonts, install font and select the file that the disney font is in and click on install. That should make it available in all of your word processing and email programs. HTH!

 

[Stepht5]

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you making John's and my special day more perfect!!!

DD took us to Zoo with DGD and DGS. My DSIL then drove past where we first met.....went to high school together...house where I grew up......house where John grew up.....and then to the church where we got married!!! : The end to a special day.

That sounds like a great day, Cheryl!!

All would not be a loss, though.

After all, I understand that Naked Rugby may still be on?

Just about every room in our house does have Disney artwork - or at least influence - in it. The only rooms without Disney anything are the laundry room and the new addition we had built last year. Even the bathrooms have something Disney - Mickey Mouse, Belle, Jessica Rabbit...

Speaking about Disney Artwork..... Does anyone know the size of the special ediition print we are going to get???
Or the size of the print they are now giving to the suites??

I bought a bunch of frames this week to FINALLY frame our prints from the last coupld of years (and 3 cruises!)... Well, Michael's has the frames this week 50% off..... I would like to get the matching frames while they are on sale!

 

[lbgraves]

Question for the DCL experts.....

If I needed to have something delivered to the ship during the cruise, is this possible? Can DCL have it shipped to a port and then brought to me? How?

I do not know logistically how it was done but someone on the first WB PC repo ordered T-****s and got them delivered to him somehow during the cruise. The shirts referred to the fact that DCL ran out of PC repo shirts & other items in the shops but he was able to order the T-****s

 

[DisneyVegas1]

Arrr......Disney may have only one official 'Prirate Night', but me tinks the Captain and the crew be up for a fair bit 'o piratin' every night.


Take What You Can....

GIVE NOTHING BACK !!!

 

[DisneyVegas1]

Airlines have limits on what you can bring, but does the ship? If we have our 2 pieces each of checked luggage and our carry-ons that the airlines allow, can we also have an extra bag that's just "cruise" supplies (i.e., water, FE gifts, alcohol, etc.)? Or does it all need to fit in our "airline allowed" luggage? Just trying to plan ahead!

As far as I know you can bring as much as you want on the ship

 

[lbgraves]

The excursion my kids want to go on was booked before we even got to the reservation site. That's what happens when you book at the last minute.

I tried to call the excursion location - dolphins in Puerto Vallarta - and they told me Disney has ALL the spots reserved for that day. Does Disney pre-booked all spots or do they hold some for the ship. If they hold some do you knows how many. My kids are already disappointed that we are not doing the zip line [Long story -Don't ask] and I don't want them to be disappointed twice.

DCL has never held excursion spots back for after you board. This was done the same way before everyone could prebook Palo and spa online so unfortunantly that won't happen. However, people do cancel. The dolphin excursions historically have always booked very quickly so I would not count on it. Sorry to only have bad news about this. I hope that you will find something else that your kids will enjoy. If it helps you feel any better, those of us who booked on opening day and were logged into DCL at midnight eastern time didn't get everything that we wanted either.

 

[micmse2003]

That sounds like a great day, Cheryl!!







Speaking about Disney Artwork..... Does anyone know the size of the special ediition print we are going to get???
Or the size of the print they are now giving to the suites??

I bought a bunch of frames this week to FINALLY frame our prints from the last coupld of years (and 3 cruises!)... Well, Michael's has the frames this week 50% off..... I would like to get the matching frames while they are on sale!

Howmany for scrapbooking???? I have not opened up all the e-mails from last week. I am trying to work on the princess night but can't find enough yet!!

 

[lbgraves]

As far as I know you can bring as much as you want on the ship

That's right...as much as you want to store in your room.

 

[lbgraves]

Howmany for scrapbooking???? I have not opened up all the e-mails from last week. I am trying to work on the princess night but can't find enough yet!!

What are you looking for? Images online?

 

[SDHoneymooner]

As far as I know you can bring as much as you want on the ship

That's right...as much as you want to store in your room.

Thank you...that's what I wanted to know!

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

Hi everyone!

We are back from the weekend at the park/hotel...had a great time..I will get pictures up as soon as DH uploads them for me.

We had friends over last night..food and fun. We played poker with Mickey pretzels as "chips" and watched the fireworks from the room.

Spent the day today shopping. Our SM gifts are all done! Tonight DSis and DD are playing Wii and then have plans to watch a movie before getting some rest. Long drive home tomorrow for her.

To tired to even try and ketchup - will skim what I can...hopefully didn't miss anything important.

 

[Michelle2]

Firstly, I haven't been on all day today, and I know I am a little late, but

Happy Anniversary Cheryl and John!
I am glad to hear that your day was such a special one! 40 years is such an accomplishment, not many people are married 40 years anymore! Sometimes I wonder if I will make 20.... just kidding!

Hi everyone!

We are back from the weekend at the park/hotel...had a great time..I will get pictures up as soon as DH uploads them for me.

We had friends over last night..food and fun. We played poker with Mickey pretzels as "chips" and watched the fireworks from the room.

Spent the day today shopping. Our SM gifts are all done! Tonight DSis and DD are playing Wii and then have plans to watch a movie before getting some rest. Long drive home tomorrow for her.

To tired to even try and ketchup - will skim what I can...hopefully didn't miss anything important.

I cannot wait to see the pictures. So glad you had a good time, that sounded so fun!
We are still working on our SM gifts....and FE gifts.....and door magnets....and shopping. You are reminding me that I better get busy. I promised DH that I would not save everything for the last minute.