Walt Disney World: It's Not Just for Kids

So, guess who will be in the Magic Kingdom three weeks from right now?  w00t w00t w00t.  I stole the Twitter Countdown idea from Amanda and Steph, and have been doing it all week.  Here wrre this week’s things I’m looking forward to doing: 30.  Hearing the monorail spiel. 29.  Hearing my name being called [...]

[Read more →]

So, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to keep in touch with land when I am on my cruise that is in less than one month.  As ship to shore calls are nearly $7 a minute, I decided to call Verizon to see about the costs to use the Cellular at Sea [...]

[Read more →]

My documents came yesterday!  Is there a nice view than seeing an envelope from DCL or WDW in your mailbox?  I don’t think so.  I have to say, I really like the way Disney Cruiseline does their documents.  Rather than the mass of paper WDW sends you, DCL’s documents are in a pretty spiral bound [...]

[Read more →]

[Read more →]

In my list of ways to pass the time until my cruise (OMG-one week from today I will be one month out!), I decided to try Disney Cruiseline’s online check-in.  I tried online check in for my Disney resort stay last year, and found it to be pretty useful (Amanda has a much better description [...]

[Read more →]

See all wordless wednesday posts here.

[Read more →]

One more “unique” part of the Disney fan community subculture is the phenomena of decorating your stateroom door.  I knew I wanted to get in on the action, but I’m not terribly artistic.  Here’s how I made mine, your mileage may vary. Step 1:  Get Designs.  Both the Creative DISigns and Disney Cruise section of [...]

[Read more →]

So said Dr. Seuss. I have less than 45 days until my cruise.  Yay!  But-it’s close enough that I paid it off.  Yet, it is far enough away that it is too soon to get MVMCP schedules or the like.  I’m currently trying to survive  (I use that term loosely) the hump until 1 month [...]

[Read more →]

w00t!  The plans for Podcast Cruise 2.0′s official DIS events are now up!  (Two months from today I’ll be in WDW!  woohoo!)  I do have to admit that this kind of adds a new level to the to travel agent or not to travel agent discussion-I had to book my cruise through Dreams Unlimited (and [...]

[Read more →]

Tuesday was the first day I could make my reservations at Palo for my cruise in December. For those of you unfamiliar with the Disney Cruise Line (DCL), Palo is the restaurant on board for guests age 18 and up.  Hearing about Palo (and the model of a DCL ship in Port Orleans Riverside’s lobby [...]

[Read more →]