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Sounds like you've planned a great trip. When we were on the Fantasy last year they were not doing day passes to the Rainforest, it was cruiselength passes only. Just a heads up. I don't know if that applies on the Dream as well.
I can't remember where I saw them, but I did see that you could purchase one-day passes for the Rainforest Room for I think $16 each... I don't know if we'll have time to really use them, but I do hope to, since there won't be any spa treatments for me on this cruise.
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the birthday cake sounds like a great idea!!! Can't wait to see the pics!!!
and I don't think the tattoos are cheesy - my daughter loved the temp tattoos!!! Still does
I can't wait to see it!! Oh good, Meri loves those tattoos... of course I hate them, lol, but... it's vacation after all...
Ok so I just looked at Kelly's boarding picture from her trip on the Dream in October, and the background for the boarding photo is a purple... do you think that's pretty standard, or do they regularly change the background color? I'm trying to do the whole "matchy matchy" thing for our boarding photo, and I'd like to try to coordinate, since for the last cruise, we had these awesome red shirts, and then the background was red with an almost similar shade pattern, lol... which was a little weird because we really do blend into the background on that one...
Thoughts here? Don't worry, I won't hold it against anyone if they make an educated guess and it's wrong! This is just me being OCD here.
I got Meri's suitcase mostly packed while she was upstairs zoning out to Minecraft videos. I have three princess dresses (Merida, Ariel, Aurora), a pirate outfit, two t-shirt / pants outfits, a t-shirt / skirt outfit, her bathing suit, pj's, plus all of her socks / undies for the trip. Her second bathing suit will go in my carry-on. I also threw her pin lanyard in there. I need to pack her Minnie Mouse dress (the one from last year's boarding photo) and probably one or two shorts-sets for when she wants to run around on deck.
For me... shoot, it's gonna be jeans, capris and tshirts, with nice pants and shirts for dinner. I'm mostly planning on being on deck in my cover-up and bathing suit to get some sun, but I know I'll need some "wandering around" clothes, too!
Mom and I agree we are not anticipating getting a TON of rest / down time in, simply because we really want to enjoy the amenities on the boat. But I assure you, a snooze will be taken on Castaway Cay in a hammock again.
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You are so lucky Meri cans till fit into last years dress, on a good year I get about 6 months in either of my boys clothes. I can't wait to see he pictures of her wearing it again she was so cute in it.
You really have me thinking as we are going to be in Orlando in 2015 maybe a 3 night cruise might work for us. See what you are doing?.
You're really doing well with the prep! I haven't even thought about packing and I leave 5 days before you! I'm going to guess (based on nothing, so this is really useful information!) that they don't change the background color all that often for the boarding photo. Maybe I'll browse a couple of old TRs and see what I can find!
Sheesh, I really am obsessive! I just checked a few TRs and the only one other than from Kelly and Melissa's cruise is Jenns, from a couple of months before-- same purple background. It could be, of course, that they change it every year..... See, all that research and I came up with nada.
I'd say, try to coordinate with neutral colors. That way it won't matter what color the background is.
Congrats on having all your packing done!
That's exactly what we did!
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Good idea about the neutral colours - that sounds like a plan. Any news on that camera?
No camera... it's SO bizarre!
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You are so lucky Meri cans till fit into last years dress, on a good year I get about 6 months in either of my boys clothes. I can't wait to see he pictures of her wearing it again she was so cute in it.
You really have me thinking as we are going to be in Orlando in 2015 maybe a 3 night cruise might work for us. See what you are doing?.
Not long now. Just under 3 weeks right?
A 3 night cruise would totally work!! Let me know when you do it, ya know, just in case it works for us, too!
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The cake sounds delicious! Can't wait to see how it comes out. Congrats on getting your packing done. Have you found your camera yet??
Can you believe it's nowhere to be found? I found the case, though! So we're getting there... it's so odd...
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You're really doing well with the prep! I haven't even thought about packing and I leave 5 days before you! I'm going to guess (based on nothing, so this is really useful information!) that they don't change the background color all that often for the boarding photo. Maybe I'll browse a couple of old TRs and see what I can find!
Sheesh, I really am obsessive! I just checked a few TRs and the only one other than from Kelly and Melissa's cruise is Jenns, from a couple of months before-- same purple background. It could be, of course, that they change it every year..... See, all that research and I came up with nada.
So funny - I did the same thing and had the same issue. I even went on the DIS Boards to read some TR's to find out... and none of the TR's from this year (because I had the same thought about the yearly change of color) have any information about that!
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Sounds like you are making some great progress with the packing!!
I did, but it's about to come to a screeching halt, I think, lol! Life is just too busy these days. Ugh!
MATCHY-MATCHY!!!!!!! I have created monsters with this!!!!!
Here's my take on "Boarding day matchy matchy" Anything nautical or in that color scheme can do NO WRONG!!! Whatever the background is..........plus you are all too cute it really doesn't matter
Ok so after 30 minutes spent staring at t-shirts at the Disney Store this evening, I FINALLY decided to go with the gray Daisy tshirt (with purple design) for myself and mom, and then I got Meri a purple tshirt with Merida on it. Since she'll be standing in front of us again, I figure if the background is purple, she won't blend in, and if it's not purple, she won't clash. Ha!
Here's the tshirts - now I admit the coloring isn't the best in the picture - they look better in person, I think.
I almost went with this awesome bright magenta tshirt with Minnie on it... I was close... but then I had this momentary panic that the background would be a red or something that it clashed with, so I said forget it, go neutral-ish.
I realized I never posted our boarding photo from the last cruise (heck I never even finished the TR for the Globetrotting portion, since I realize I didn't post about the last travel day - whoops!), but in this photo we had no idea about boarding photo backgrounds... and I just picked these nautical-themed tshirts out for myself and mom... and we just happened to blend perfectly in with the background... it's crazy, isn't it? Even the patterns are similar, ha! I know the photo is awful, but you get the idea...
Last but not least... I got Disney mail today! WOO HOO! We got our luggage tags and boarding paperwork! So exciting! Still no cabin assignment (I'm so impatiently waiting, and I check the Disney website daily to see if my cabin number has been added) but it made it so exciting!
Oh, and I also picked up another autograph book at the Disney Store for Meri. She chose the princess themed one. So, on board, I'm sure we'll be doing plenty of character-hunting!
Two weeks and three days until we're on the road!!! That sounds so close!!!
MATCHY-MATCHY!!!!!!! I have created monsters with this!!!!!
Here's my take on "Boarding day matchy matchy" Anything nautical or in that color scheme can do NO WRONG!!! Whatever the background is..........plus you are all too cute it really doesn't matter
I agree, I looked for nautical themed shirts, and no dice. We debated wearing last year's ones but then I balked at that because I'd like to have NEW matchy shirts, lol! So... I went with just "boring" old Daisy ones. But by heavens we will match!!!
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Those shirts should work with pretty much any background. That red boarding photo is so funny! If you look at it squinty it looks like you're all standing behind one of those boards with circles cut out to show your heads! Not only red shirts, but the exact same shade of red!
Those shirts should work with pretty much any background. That red boarding photo is so funny! If you look at it squinty it looks like you're all standing behind one of those boards with circles cut out to show your heads! Not only red shirts, but the exact same shade of red!
It was quite uncanny, lol! We got a good laugh, though! When people see the photo in our living room they assume I planned it deliberately, but alas, it was just crazy luck, because I wouldn't have planned to match to THAT degree! If we'd all been sunburned, you might not even be able to see us in the photo!!!
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