Dec 5, 2009 -- now traveling to Tortola

[Hanover]

Originally Posted by Tower

Hi John,
Welcome back to the thread!

If you managed to get your name in on time, and if you are getting a lanyard, Amy/Fluvanna are asking for voluntary donations in order to cover the costs when you pick them up. I mailed my cheque in October, but I know many are going to do so on the ship.

These gals are working hard on these so any help you can help with contributions is greatly appreciated

Also, for those that have a Paypal account or want to open one, Amy can take a Papal payment that's really easy to use. She just sends her personal email and you log on to paypal, put in your donation amount and send it.

[NHdisneylover]

They compile school stats and send them out to the doctors here. Marika and Rio's school had almost 150 kids out yesterday (about 15%) and almost 20% of the teachers
Sometimes I really miss homeschooling!

Oh, and I have heard of green apples (Rio is always eating those so I tend not to think of them as extra!) and also ginger ale and peppermint gum.

[Hanover]

Originally Posted by NHdisneylover

They compile school stats and send them out to the doctors here. Marika and Rio's school had almost 150 kids out yesterday (about 15%) and almost 20% of the teachers
Sometimes I really miss homeschooling!

Oh, and I have heard of green apples (Rio is always eating those so I tend not to think of them as extra!) and also ginger ale and peppermint gum.

Sounds like our school's absentee rate. Brennan plays football in Gettysburg and they had 360 kids out 2 weeks ago. My son's classess have had about 6 kids out in their classes per day. Knock on wood my boys have only missed 1 day of school so far this year and that was last week when we were at Disney. They'll miss 6 days in December though. Luckily their teachers are encouraging of vacations and will give them their make up work that they can work on here and there on the cruise.

[mrstbalt]

Originally Posted by NHdisneylover

We were able to get Marika into the doctor this morning. She does have flu (they think H1N1 but are not testing) and also a secondary sinus infection. Sigh--good to get it over with now, but it adds up to a lot of missed school with vacation in their so soon.

Hope she gets well soon before the holidays and the vacation. Better now then closer to sailing. I would rather get sick now then on the cruise.

[NHdisneylover]

Originally Posted by mrstbalt

Hope she gets well soon before the holidays and the vacation. Better now then closer to sailing. I would rather get sick now then on the cruise.

Our thoughts exactly!

Danielle--I hope your boys can stay healthy

[Tower]

Originally Posted by NHdisneylover

Since everyone has been talking about how many posts we have gotten up to, I went and checked to see who the top posters are just for kicks and giggles:

#5--mommyoftwinfants...................67 posts
#4--Inkmahm................................100posts
#3--Carmie...................................149posts
#2--NHDisneylover (hey that's ME)...178posts
#1--(no surprise here!)Tower...........282posts

I demand a recount!

[wuv tigger]

Originally Posted by Tower

Anybody notice that we're now at 100 pages of this thread?

Mainly due to all those contributions by Scothen and brennan1231

Likely won't make it to 200 with 3.5 weeks to go and less than that before many people head on out.

Just the same, Happy Century Thread!

Hey

We got 2 more pages this am only 98 more to go

[Tower]

Originally Posted by NHdisneylover

We were able to get Marika into the doctor this morning. She does have flu (they think H1N1 but are not testing) and also a secondary sinus infection. Sigh--good to get it over with now, but it adds up to a lot of missed school with vacation in their so soon.

Wow! Well, by the sounds of things, Marika will be able to keep up afterwards, but yes, quite a challenge. She'll be fine by December though

[carmie3377]

Boy have I missed a lot. I'll try to catch up as soon I get DD started on school!

[NHdisneylover]

Originally Posted by Tower

Wow! Well, by the sounds of things, Marika will be able to keep up afterwards, but yes, quite a challenge. She'll be fine by December though

Well is she is out all week she will have 2 weeks 2 catch up before she is out another 2 weeks for vacation poor kid! But then they only have 7 days after the vaaction before a 3 week break--plenty of time to get ALL caught up then Actually, if she can figure out teh German (chemistry, physics and math in German are . . .interesting--Tetrahedron is not one of the words you basic German course covers) she has not actually covered anything yet that isn't review of something she had before. This will be her saving grace.

[carmie3377]

Originally Posted by Hanover

I get very motion sick. Even swings make me feel ill. I've only been seasick on 2 of the 9 DCL cruises we've been on. For me, it seemed to be room location. One we were very far forward and our bed faced the opposite direction of the way we were moving. For some reason I was sitting on our stateroom sofa (also backwards of the direction we were going) looking outside at the waves breaking and that got me sick. We were moving at a good speed too and it was probably the highest waves of any of our cruises. The other time we had the very last room on deck 7 and there was just too much movement for me. Fresh air and looking at the horizon helps me personally. I've also taken bonine which helps and doesn't make me sleepy. I tried the scopamine (sp) patch and that didn't work for me. I got a very dry mouth and blurry eyes (my dh put it on me so it wasn't like I did it and rubbed my eyes) I also tried a herbal behind the ear medicine and the smell of it alone made me feel even queasier and didn't work. The other DCL cruises we've been midship and I've been totally fine. The boys and Derek have never gotten seasick on the Magic or Wonder. Brennan does get seasick on smaller excursion boats but Bonine has helped him with it.

Originally Posted by NHdisneylover

David gets sea sick on rocking chairs, porch swings you name it! He tried bonine patch, etc. on the first couple of cruises and it worked "okay" meaning he was not throwing up, but he did not feel good either. Then someone told him to try ginger tablets. He says it is like night and day The first couple of cruises after that he would still be a bit queasy the first night of two but then he was fine. Eventually our doctor in New Hampshire said he should start taking the tablets a couple of days before the cruise so that the ginger builds up in his system. Since then he has not felt seasick at all--not even with the very rocky seas we had on the Transatlantic!
Sadly, I have just come from the "reformhaus" (natural foods/homeopathic remedies store in Germany) and learned they do not sell ginger tablets here--only the little candies. I am emailing our friends we are seeing at WDW tonight to see if they can bring a bottle for David

Thanks. None of us are prone to motion sickness as we don't get sick in the car, on rides, swings, ect. I would just hate to not be prepared in the event it did happen to us on the cruise. I know that different things work for different people but it's nice to hear of some things that do work.

Originally Posted by NHdisneylover

Marika is home sick today. The doctor cannot see her until tomorrow. Based on the phone description both the doctor (and pharmicist here) think it is eitehr Swine Flu with no fever (guess it happens) or sinus infection (what many DISser ont the CB think as well--go CB) or some combination of both. We are deciding the good news is IF it is swine we will be over it before the trip. Everyone has had their regular flu shots by now and we were supposed to get swine flu shots next week

Sorry to hear that Marika is sick. But you're right, if it is the swine flu, at least she'll be better before the trip. I'm still waiting on the swine flu shot for myself. Everyone else has had theirs. I got the regular flu at WDW 3 years ago this Dec and I was miserable. Don't want that to happen this year.

[carmie3377]

Originally Posted by texdisneygal

For any of you DVC members who just HAVE to shop before the cruise!

From DVCNews.com:

Disney Vacation Club members are invited to take part in a wave of holiday shopping promotions in early-December 2009. On the morning of December 5th the World of Disney locations at Disneyland and Walt Disney World will feature special "doorbuster" sales from 6:30am to 9:30am with items discounted up to 50%. Additional retail locations are holding 20% off sales which run from December 5-12 at both resorts.

http://dvcnews.com/index.php/news-pr...ation-165/1101

THANKS!!! We're heading to DTD for breakfast before going to the port. May have to do a bit a shopping before hand

[NHdisneylover]

I just finished all of our online check in paperwork I had to input the new passport numbers for the kids (niether kid had a passport expiring until next year, but we renewed early this past fall so we would not have to figure out renewals from afar so quickly). Anyway, I thought it was funny that the kids have sequential passport numbers This may be totally normal--Marika already had her first passport when Rio was born so they have always been "off" from one another and never applied together before--but it jumped out at me

I also (while I am home with a sick kiddo and avoiding housework) finally booked our last piece of transportation (rental car from port last day--at Budget which does not open until 8:00--so you guys were correct earlier about not everyone opening early enough for getting to your D23 event!). It feels so good to have everything taken care of.

[carmie3377]

Originally Posted by Hanover

Thanks for the info on the DTD DVC sale Texdisneygal!

Our FE was delivered this afternoon and I wanted to share a picture. We have another FE done by the same person (grady's mom on ebay) but I really wanted one with Christmas colors since we've beens sailing 4 Decembers in a row and will also sail next December:

LOVE IT!!!!

Kinda on the same topic, how many people plan on decorating their door with magnets and such? I had planned on making some magnets and signs but I think I'm running out of time. I'll have to try to make time to get to it.

[NHdisneylover]

Originally Posted by carmie3377

LOVE IT!!!!

Kinda on the same topic, how many people plan on decorating their door with magnets and such? I had planned on making some magnets and signs but I think I'm running out of time. I'll have to try to make time to get to it.

I haven't found magnetic paper over here--I am sure it does exist but I don't know where. So--barring a great discovery I will jsut have one magnet we packed (along with our FE) among the things which came to Germany. We did have awesome personalized magnetst for each of us that our friend made--but they were in my "cruise purse" with my "cruise jewelry" which was stolen from the hotel room we stayed in the first week here