I signed up through a Facebook Group for my Disney Cruise to be part of a Fish Extender Gift Exchange. I'm pretty dern excited about it, but at the same time really nervous. We have 21 rooms in our group, so we made gift bags for 20 that we will deliver to the other rooms in our group while onboard.
I finished my gifts last night!! We decided to just go for a single cabin gift, and we had to change what we were doing along the way because one of my crafts just did not work out. Our final theme is sort of a home town gift. It wasn't super expensive, and it's not extravagant, but I hope that people can tell I put some thought and heart into the thing. Here's what we ended up with!
What's inside the bags ?
- Pocket Sock Monkey
- Mini Sewing Kit decorated with Mickey
- A Bag of My Favorite Tea
- A Pack of Trident
- A Pressed Penny from Rockford
- The glittery bags are "pirate treasure" to hand out as pixie dust on pirate night.
I also wrote a cute poem to slip into the bags so that I could explain what the gifts were, here that is.
Hello new friends out while we roam, From Illinois, our prairie home As we sail the ocean blue, We'd love to share some gifts with you.
While away from home, things are missed,
Where we're from, here's the gist:
We start off with a mending kit,
To keep your clothes neat and fit.
Gum is hard to find at sea,
But down our road? A Trident fact'ry.
A cup of comfort " Kristen's favorite tea;
From Tori's museum, a pressed penny.
Sock Monkeys started in our town,
And this little guy wants to hang around
With you, our friends on the Disney Cruise,
With all the fun and Caribbean views.
Have you done and FE exchange?
If you have a Disney Cruise coming up and want to join a Fish Extender Gift Exchange:
- For general information about Fish Extender Exchanges check out the article in Family Travel Magazine.
- There's also a great group on Facebook called FISH EXTENDER DISNEY CRUISE LINE about everything Fish Extender. You can also search Facebook for a group for your specific cruise by using a search similar to this "Disney Dream February 23, 2015"
- The third option is to go to that "other" forum where Fish Extender Exchanges started. However they have levied some fairly strict rules about what you can and can't post on their boards and get cranky if you decided you want to organize or talk to people about it anywhere else. I highly suggest using facebook over them, so much so I'm not even going to name them. I'll be honest, I found my Facebook group through that "other" message board and haven't really been back because I don't enjoy the environment there.
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Luckily my son was able to teach me how to properly use out luggage scale and it weighs 8 pounds. I'm starting to be at the age where my kids have to explain how the new-fangled technologies work and it's crazy embarrassing. 
