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You started!!! I think you will have a Dreamy Time!!!
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I'm sure we will!
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Originally Posted by MayraLR
How exciting! I've never been on a Disney cruise (although I have cruised before). I'm hoping sometime in my future I'm able to cruise Disney style.
None of us (my family) have ever been on a cruise - Disney or not, so this is all new to us.
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Originally Posted by cubfancolleen
Signing on now! Can't wait to hear all about it - especially now that it's 2 of you (you and Melissa)! You will LOVE cruising with Disney, and wonder why it took you so long!
I'm so excited Melissa booked the same cruise as us! She's the veteran amongst us so I'll be looking to her for help on the ship.
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I'm so excited for you all! It's fantastic that you'll be sailing with Melissa and her family and meeting up with Cam and Luke before the cruise. My first cruise I did a before and after stay at WDW and loved doing it that way. Good luck with the potty training!
We couldn't go and not see a little bit of WDW.
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Can't Wait to Read More! We have never cruised so can't wait to hear all about the planning!
Thanks! Weird thing is I'm not planning for this nearly as much as I do for a WDW vacation.
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Great start!
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great start Kelly.
Thank you!
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Yay! I love to read PTRs and TRs to get ideas. I've never cruised before and would love to convince DH to go! Can't wait to hear about this!
I hope I help in some form and that you convince DH to cruise.
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Originally Posted by honeybee723
Hooray!!! You've started this already! I think if I'm going to do a PTR/TR, I'll probably get started about a month before we leave, so right now I'm just going to study along with you. It's so funny about the kid's ages because Hope will be smack in the middle of the boys. For some reason I thought Dylan was still going to be 5, but I was off by a week. They can all watch out for each other in the clubs.
I figure since I already ahve a countdown going I can at least update once a week on that even if I have nothing else to contribute.
Their birthdays are exactly 2 weeks apart. Originally we were sailing the day after his 6th birthday. I'm sure they'll all get along great. I just hope Lukas can go to the clubs.
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Originally Posted by kingfamily1129
what a great start!! a double dose of AKL can never be a bad thing, and being with PP'ers make it that much more fun!
Not too shabby is it?!
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Originally Posted by jackid2
YAY!! You started your new PTR!! I can't wait to read all about your plans. DH and I did a Disney Cruise for our honeymoon in 2007 and loved it. Now if I could just get him agree to do another one when the boys are older.
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If you have read my PTRs in the past you know how I love to come up with fun ideas for a countdown to our trip. This year I’ll actually have 2, but I haven’t started the other one yet. I was reading another PTR (KHarrod’s) and she was doing a weekly dinner & a movie countdown to their trip. I thought it was a great idea and ‘borrowed’ it for our cruise. We have SO many Disney movies I had to narrow the list down. I decided to put more ‘water’ themed movies (Finding Nemo, Pirates, Little Mermaid) towards the end and then back fill with what may be relative and what the boys like. I started on May 18 which was about 21 weeks until the cruise. We do these mainly on Friday nights since we let the boys stay up later on the weekend. I put toether a ‘poster’ showing a picture of the movie and then have a dinner themed around that movie. The boys sit at their Cars table in the living room, Mike & I on the couch, and eat our themed dinner while watching the movie. They’re really getting into it, especially Dylan. I started telling them what we were having when I place their plate in front of them and if I forget, Dylan reminds me. So I know he’s paying attention.
Enough rambling, on to catch up on the last few weeks!
21 weeks to go – Muppet Treasure Island; Menu = Kermit’s Green Pond Punch (lemonade with green food coloring), The Swedish Chef’s Meatballs, Pigs in a Blanket, Rainbow Connection Fruit Skewer Swords, Gonzo’s Gargonzo Beans (Baked Beans) & Fozzie’s Banana Cream Pie with Buried Treasure (I think I just sliced real bananas for the buried treasure)
20 weeks to go – Alice in Wonderland (we watched both the classic animated & the Tim Burton versions); Menu = “Eat Me” - Tea sandwiches (boys had PB&J, Mike & I had tuna salad), White Rabbit’s Favorite Snack (carrots), Cheshire Cat Smiles (sliced apples with peanut butter & marshmallows), Gelatin Flowers (which did not turn out so we had “Painting the Roses Red” jello instead), “Drink Me” - Tea & Juice, & Very Merry Unbirthday Cupcakes
19 weeks to go – The Avengers; menu = Hero Sub Sandwiches, Thor’s Hammers (pretzel sticks in cheese cubes), Iron Man Computer Chips (potato chips), Hulk Transforming Drink (lemonade with green food coloring again, but this time I showed the boys how it changed), & Captain America’s Red, White & Blue Dessert (white cake with cool whip, strawberries & blueberries)
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18 weeks to go – Brave; menu = A Scottish Breakfast – eggs, sausage, ‘Aberdeen Rowies’ (biscuits) with ‘Dundee Marmalade’ (in our case it was homemade (bought) blueberry jam), & Shortbread Cookies (with chocolate & peanut butter chips)
17 weeks to go – Cars 2; menu = A World Tour: England – Fish & Chips (fries); Japan – Fruit Sushi (another failed attempt, so it was placed in a bowl); Italy – Italian Soda; France – Eclairs
And now you’re caught up as tomorrow will be the 16 weeks to go themed dinner & a movie night. So stay tuned for the movie & menu!
I loved the idea when I saw KHarrod do it for her countdown and I still love it now that you are doing it I may have the "borrow" this idea for our next Disney vacation too! It's awesome that the boys are getting into it. It's fun when kids get involved and you get to see their excitement. Can't wait to see what tomorrows menu is
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Wonderful idea and great dinner choices for food and movies. I'm sure the boys love it (I know I would!) and the excitement will just build as you get closer and start watching the "water" movies.
I love it and you're getting really creative with the menu! I'm going to "borrow" your transforming punch if you don't mind. I think Sean would get a kick out of watching the lemonade turn green.
You know I love the dinner and a movie theme night.
I've also probably told you how much Brenda and I loved our Disney Cruise. We still rave about it. I'm glad you chose the 4 night cruise because you won't want it to end ... and, of course, AKL before and after ... just a Dream coming true!
Sometimes it's just the thought that counts with the "didn't turn out as planned" food items
I say at least I tried and spin it in to something new. It all ends up in the same place anyway.
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I loved the idea when I saw KHarrod do it for her countdown and I still love it now that you are doing it I may have the "borrow" this idea for our next Disney vacation too! It's awesome that the boys are getting into it. It's fun when kids get involved and you get to see their excitement. Can't wait to see what tomorrows menu is
Borrow away!
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Originally Posted by chezp
Oh my goodness, I absolutely love your idea for your countdowns to this trip!
Thanks so much Cheryl!
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Originally Posted by jackid2
What a cute idea. I will have to remember that and "borrow" the idea.
That's what I love about PP- so many ideas and we all share.
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Originally Posted by lauriep
Wonderful idea and great dinner choices for food and movies. I'm sure the boys love it (I know I would!) and the excitement will just build as you get closer and start watching the "water" movies.
So true Laurie!
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Very cute idea for a countdown!!
Thank you!
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I love it and you're getting really creative with the menu! I'm going to "borrow" your transforming punch if you don't mind. I think Sean would get a kick out of watching the lemonade turn green.
They also enjoy stirring - and helping.
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You know I love the dinner and a movie theme night.
I've also probably told you how much Brenda and I loved our Disney Cruise. We still rave about it. I'm glad you chose the 4 night cruise because you won't want it to end ... and, of course, AKL before and after ... just a Dream coming true!
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I can't believe it's all happening! I know we'll love it. The bad part will come when we have to wait for the next one.
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All the dinner themes have been so cute!! That is a fun way of counting down!
Like I told you when you were posting all of these on FB, you're an awesome mom. I'd steal this idea if we were actually telling Hope about our upcoming Disney cruise because I think this is a fabulous countdown idea. Maybe I use it for our May trip next year since she already knows that's coming. I may need your help with the ideas though.
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You've started this already! I think if I'm going to do a PTR/TR, I'll probably get started about a month before we leave, so right now I'm just going to study along with you. 
It's so funny about the kid's ages because Hope will be smack in the middle of the boys. For some reason I thought Dylan was still going to be 5, but I was off by a week. 
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