A Not Live Trip Report- It’s a February of Fantasy

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So you know those bags people would hand from the fish next to their door?

That mostly looked like this?

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You can sign up on your sailing’s Facebook page to participate in an organized gift exchange to give the other people in your gift like a secret Santa but not secret gift exchange.

It started off being something fun, less formal & mostly a homemade small something that you would pass around to whatever groups of families signed up for it.

Now though it’s gotten bigger and they break it into groups or have tons of different categories (like a family/whole cabin group, adult only, kid only, magnet exchange, ornament exchange, recipe exchange, etc. etc etc.) And some people go WAY WAY WAY overboard and gift very extravagantly. And some set very specific parameters. And you usually get a list of the names, ages, and favorite characters, and any other info you may want to share of the other people in your group to personalize it a little bit.

If there is a kid only group AND the vibe of the group admin/and person organizing the exchange isn’t overbearing AND DH & I feel like we have it in us to put together gifts, we’ll sign up for the exchange.

And when we do it, it means that my first night of the cruise I’m taking the time to bag & tag the gifts in the clear cellophane bags I bring to make it all look nice & cohesive (because I don’t want to put that together just to be shoved in a suitcase so I pack the bags flat and fit all the contents for the bag in a plastic small Rubbermaid tote.

ETA: The reason it’s called Fish Extenders is because people started hanging a little pocket from the fish doorhanger next to the door for gifts to be delivered.

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These were meant for the first cruise with the cousins but DSIL was not able to get them in time for that cruise, but my kids have loved and worn them every cruise since (and they are the very lovely breathable, stretchy material so even though these were purchased 2 years ago, they still all fit).
And I left it as optional for the older kids and they were happy to still wear them.

The only drama was DD11 couldn’t find her matching shorts anywhere even after we turned her room upside down, searched every laundry basket and the laundry room, and my entire closet (she changes a lot in my walk-in closet and will throw her stuff around willy nilly in all my piles of clothes in there that need to be sorted that are mostly not my clothes at all but clothes the kids have grown out of). But she had some pink shorts that worked so it all worked out.

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You had me at C3PO!

Carly loves crab too. I do not like it at all. I was not happy the day she was cracking crab legs in my kitchen! I had to leave, it was stressing me out so much. I just imagine crab juice on everything! :joy: Seafood is not for me! But we only had the Cabanas lunch once on our little San Diego cruise and she wished we’d done it more because of the crab legs!

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:laughing: The crab juice DOES get everywhere, you’re not imagining it! So I get why not a lot of people want to crack all their own crab. DH puts up with it because he love love loves the taste of crab and I do pack wet ones to help him get his hands at least one wipe until he can make it over a sink to really wash his hands. And mostly we try to grab only bigger legs (the ones with claws especially because the claw meat is especially soft & tasty), because a lot of times the super small ones he will not even bother with because it is so much work to get tiny slivers.

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Also, you and the Fab crew should get on the Dream one of the trips you gals do! In the Stars room of their kids club they have a Millenium Falcon control console (like an earlier prototype of the ride). The Fantasy has these missions that aren’t quite the same. I don’t remember though if you get to pull the lever to hyperspace… so maybe it might be a letdown if it doesn’t have that. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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