txSherry

Oh yay oh yay!!! If anyone remembers me, we took our very first (and only so far) cruise Aug 07 on the Fantasy from New Orleans. Well, we were hooked. We loved it. But we wanted a longer cruise. If they left Fantasy but moved to a 7 day we'd still do her again. But yes, I'll keep my eyes out. our next cruise is this coming Dec. We'll be on the Conquest over NYE. Not taking our rug rat on this one :-) Thanks for the news Joey! and I love your new 'avatar' picture!

heheheheh. Thanks, Jennifer :-) I'll chill on Saturday once we hit the road. That's when JEFF starts worrying (Did we unplug this and that?) and I relax (because I did all my worrying up front).

We'll be on the Fantasy, and our DD will be in the club a lot. We are bringing chess & chess variants along and would like a neat place to kick back, have our game in a table between us (us sitting 'natch), enjoy a drink and a game. Where on ship would you suggest? Indoors or outdoors (shade a must!). thanks!

Bon voyage!! Have a great trip!

Bon voyage!! Have a great trip!

Bon voyage!! Have a great trip!

Bon Voyage!

Thanks again, all. And Rose, I know it was a typo but it was sweet seeing "our Sherry" :-) Jeff just got home and tried it on and likes it! He didn't talk about the tie yet, oh well. He's off to shop for dress socks -- I left *something* for him to do. And khaki pants. I told him no jeans in the dining room. :P He's mad at me right now. One of his co-workers told him "There is free laundry on board and no room in your cabin for luggage." I told him "The laundry is not free, I'm not doing laundry, there IS room in our cabin for our luggage under the bed, and NICK is NOT planning our trip -- I AM!" lol. I told him that his co-worker probably was on a different cruise line. What have I been reading and reading for all these months? And 2 days before we leave he comes home with a butt-load of knowledge (yea right). He's just going to have to stick it right back in his butt! mhaahaahaa. :-) --Sherry

Thank you everyone! I bought a classic black (ok, it's off-black, and I'm remembering 'Father of the Bride' and Steve Martin, but oh well!) suit at Wal-Mart shortly ago. I hope it fits. Altogther with the tie and shirt, it was $98. And now he'll have a suit in his closet. Thanks for enduring my 'emergency' :-)

Here's the deal... for all the planning I did I was poor in thinking about my husbands dress clothes. He owns no suit. In all honesty there is a light gray suit in the closet he fit into about 8 years ago, but he doesn't think it will fit. He also owns a 'cowboy' dress jacket. You know, tweed, leather elbow pads -- i'm describing it badly. He hasn't worn it in a while too, but it looks (looked) good on him. I didn't know we needed to reserve the ship's tux ahead of time. I went online last night to buy myself some goodies ahead of time. I'd tried a couple of weeks ago but thought I didn't have a cabin #. I read another recent thread where one of you suggested to someone else to look online that the TBA would actually show a cabin number. I did that and "shore 'nuff" there was our cabin number. So, I ordered a couple of picture coupons and 4 drink coupons and went to order DH's tux and NO!! it said it was too late. So I went to bed (hadn't slept in a long time) and left it up on my screen (i know I'm rambling. I'm panicked!) told DH to read it and he agreed it said he needed to be professionally measured (?!?!?) and that it was too late to order it. DAMN! So ... no tux. I have a huge workload the next couple of days, too. :( :( So, what to do?? I know there's a Men's warehouse in Austin. I live in the area (Pflugerville). Anyone great at web searches? we don't have a lot to spend really. Although my port of calls may just get cancelled thanks to 'Dean' :( but then again at least the trip is paid for! So, help?? Please! I need your wisdom, ideas, brainstorming, anything! DH said he'd give me his "dimensions" when he wakes up. Not professionally measured but you know, his shirt size, pants size, neck size etc. If only I'd bought a discount tux ahead of time off the internet. :( But here I am, thinking I"ll end up going to Formal night alone. :( Ok, I'm off to google. I found men's warehouse website. Seems everything is too expensive. $85 to rent the tux was a lot but doable. I would go for maybe (MAYBE) $100. I just spent an unexpected $110 at the Vets yesterday. That hit my budget. ok, enough rambling... signing off now, the frantic, Sherry

Coolness! Jeff, my husband, doesn't own a suit either. I offered to buy a tux (found a few not too expensive ones -- just double what renting would be) but he didn't like that idea. However, he said a quick SURE! to renting one. My jaw dropped down :P lol. He likes the idea of not schlepping it on board or worrying about taking care of it. He doesn't know yet that I plan on us taking a LOT more cruises ;-) But I'm really happy to hear someone else renting them. I was hoping I wasn't steering him wrong there offering that as a choice. I saw it on the carnival site when I was looking for the drink coupons.

Thanks for the info Cheryl. Do you know if there is any other way to get her something to be able to play the video games with, then? Do they have children's gift cards or something? At 7 she's too young to have free reign with our trip's petty cash. But I'd also like her to be able to have fun in the kid's club. Any ideas?

Anybody?

Let's see.. .I'm leaving in NINE days! Yes yes I'm here!

Oh Oh, so I have a follow-up question. (THanks for the thumbs-up on the Fantasy! ) Does HER sail & sign pool in with the same monies on our sail & signs? Or, can we limit the money she has access to? Inquiring mind wants to know! Thanks :-) Sherry berry

Thanks, Stephanie! She loves loves soft-serve. I will take her this afternoon to pick out a couple of special bottles (and also buy a couple of others). Something that is great about my daughter is her "addiction" to water. A few years ago, when I was trying to quit smoking (pre-pregnancy) and I could NOT, I quit Dr. Peppers instead. In order to replace my 12-36 Dr Pepper a-Day addiction I tried all sorts of drinks, and nothing satisfied. Meanwhile I drank water as I tried to find something else. Eventually it was just --- WATER. :-) Fast forward (and yes, I eventually quit smoking, 4 years ago this July)... now Natalie takes after me and loves water :-) Sure saves money at restaurants! She does want to order soft-drinks though occasionally because she sees other folks ordering them. Hmm... methinks I'm waxing elephants too much. My cruise docs came in yesterday AND I just got an e-mail that my passport is on its way and so my cruise-addrenalin (sp) level is WAY high! Anywhichahoo... THANKS for the info! Sherry (high on excitement)

Are there fountains to fill up water-bottles with? If so i'll only plan on bringing a few sports bottle type water bottles (a few so it won't be a prob. WHEN dd loses one. probably daily.) If not fountains, how then? Bathroom sink ones?

Conga-Rats!! I'm green with envy! ) Sherry

Anyone know where i can buy one? J/K! What I'd like to know is incidental costs involved in taking my daughter. For instance there is: The soda card. Video Games. Other. The ship is the Carnival Fantasy, and the trip is almost too soon! tia, Sherry

Here's a link to someone else's photobucket of a Fantasy Capers. It says "Sat. Day 1 *** parent must be present until 10pm" EEK! Who's used Carnival Kids club before that can help me understand!? It sounds like we have to be there from 4pm to 10pm that first day? I really was going to try to sleep before that too. 10pm? for real?

Coolness!! Packed yet? :)

Bon Voyage!! Have a marvelous time!

Mercedes (I had a Tia Mercedes!) , Jason, Gymbrat & The Skipper -- Thank you all! Skipper would it be weird to say that I am already addicted? ::lol:: I actually hope I'm NOT, in a weird way because I'm already addicted to WDW and we are NOT wealthy by a long shot. I can just see me trying to plan 2 expensive vacations a year :-) (No no, DCL isn't a sub for the parks!)... but I have a good idea that is just where I'm going to be! Plus DH recently found his own joy in Vegas so that will be three :P Although Vegas is a weekend kind of trip for us. Better get back to work so I can afford (and enjoy) this vacation thing! I'm so happy I have you all to be happy with!! My husband is NOT big into pre-vacation talking. He wants me to keep it to myself :P --Sherry

Thanks for sharing the pics! I had a great time watching the slideshow.

Bye! Have a marvelous trip!