My DREAM experience
My family and I spend 5 days on the Dream this past week and 3 days in the parks We got home last night after a 10 hour drive in bumper to bumper traffic. We are exhausted!
We had a great time. The DREAM is a very nice ship. It sailed at full capicity but the only time we really knew that was on sea day. The ship at a PTN on our 2nd night. So, not really knowing what to expect, I arrive early with my "safe on wheels" which hold a few pin trading binders and two smaller trading books. They had a board set up where you could trade 2 for 2. I ended up with 2 AP pins, my husband ended up with 2 AP pins, also. My kids ended up with some cast exclusives and were very happy. After my turn at the board, I sat down and opened my books. I was immediately SWARMED by people wanting to look and trade. The CM at the board said I took all of her customers!:lol: I traded with about 20 people and I think I may have gotten ONE scrapper from a child - but I will check it out later after I am rested. When PTN was over, I stayed for a while and talked to a lot of adults who just wanted to chat about some of the pins I have because some of them are old (my keepers) and some people were just curious about what I had. It was pleasant. The CMs all came over and talked to me. They asked about my collection and my traders. They told me that several of them collected pins too. I managed to find pins in my collections for each of them to keep. They seemed genuinely surprised that I would "give" them something because they weren't giving me anything in return. I was touched by many of their stories. Some of them won't see their families for 7 months while they work! I can't imagine!
The last night of our cruise, I was walking thru the gift shop area, and one of the CMs called me over. She said, stay right here until I get back. I did. She and a manager and a few other CMs came back. I thought maybe they were going to ask me about some pins (I always wear my cross body pin bag). But, they came over with a board of about 10 pins and said that because I had made PTN so special for everyone, they wanted to do something special for me. The let me choose a pin off the board. It was the PP pin #76971. I thought that was very nice of them to do something special for me.
Also, while on the ship, I was able to get all of the Orange Bird HM set, and the DeeBee HM set. I started the "D" HM set but did not complete it.
I went to PTN at the Contemporary on 3-18 and it was okay. My kids had a blast trading vinyls and that was worth it all to me!
Well, thanks for letting me ramble!
Have a great day!
We had a great time. The DREAM is a very nice ship. It sailed at full capicity but the only time we really knew that was on sea day. The ship at a PTN on our 2nd night. So, not really knowing what to expect, I arrive early with my "safe on wheels" which hold a few pin trading binders and two smaller trading books. They had a board set up where you could trade 2 for 2. I ended up with 2 AP pins, my husband ended up with 2 AP pins, also. My kids ended up with some cast exclusives and were very happy. After my turn at the board, I sat down and opened my books. I was immediately SWARMED by people wanting to look and trade. The CM at the board said I took all of her customers!:lol: I traded with about 20 people and I think I may have gotten ONE scrapper from a child - but I will check it out later after I am rested. When PTN was over, I stayed for a while and talked to a lot of adults who just wanted to chat about some of the pins I have because some of them are old (my keepers) and some people were just curious about what I had. It was pleasant. The CMs all came over and talked to me. They asked about my collection and my traders. They told me that several of them collected pins too. I managed to find pins in my collections for each of them to keep. They seemed genuinely surprised that I would "give" them something because they weren't giving me anything in return. I was touched by many of their stories. Some of them won't see their families for 7 months while they work! I can't imagine!
The last night of our cruise, I was walking thru the gift shop area, and one of the CMs called me over. She said, stay right here until I get back. I did. She and a manager and a few other CMs came back. I thought maybe they were going to ask me about some pins (I always wear my cross body pin bag). But, they came over with a board of about 10 pins and said that because I had made PTN so special for everyone, they wanted to do something special for me. The let me choose a pin off the board. It was the PP pin #76971. I thought that was very nice of them to do something special for me.
Also, while on the ship, I was able to get all of the Orange Bird HM set, and the DeeBee HM set. I started the "D" HM set but did not complete it.
I went to PTN at the Contemporary on 3-18 and it was okay. My kids had a blast trading vinyls and that was worth it all to me!
Well, thanks for letting me ramble!
Have a great day!
