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CrystalS

09-25-2009, 07:31 PM

UPDATE: The photos no longer show up in my trip report, but you can still read along. I have uploaded a video (http://youtu.be/Zkzr3rT4zyIPART ONE) with photos/video/music from our trip if you'd like a visual :) Part two will be up tonight :)

Hello everyone, its time to get my trip report up. I've been waiting for the photos off my brothers camera before I could get this going.

Here is a link to my Pre Trip Report:
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2262615

You won't see TOO many photos of my mom and brother in this TR since I'm not sure how much of themselves they want on the internet, but rest assured that they were in many photos and had a blast too!

So just to recap before we get started....
Who's going?
Me(24), my DH(27), our 2.5yr old son, my mom and my 20yr old brother.
When?
Cruise from Sept 10th-13th, then off to WDW from the 13th-17th.

Ok Lets get started!

CrystalS

09-25-2009, 07:47 PM

We left our home in BC, Canada on the morning of Sept 9th. We wanted to leave nice and early since we were driving about 5 hours to Seattle, WA where we were catching our flight to Orlando.
I had been up late the night before making sure I had everything we'd need.

So we left to pick up my mom and brother and then once all the bags were arranged in the back of the car, all 5 of us squeezed into our Malibu Maxx and we were off!

We had allowed extra time incase it took awhile to get across the border, and for bathroom breaks and what not. Well I guess we gave ourselves too much time, lol. We only made one bathroom break, and breezed through the border without any problems or line ups. So by the time we got to Seattle we had about 3hrs or so before we even needed to BE at the airport, lol. :confused3

Good thing there is a large mall near the airport, we wasted some time around there for awhile and then headed over to the airport after having a milkshake and some fries.

Here we are unloading the car at the airport:
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Between the 5 of us we had 3 checked bags and a bunch of carry-ons.

After checking in and getting through security we still had a few hours before our flight. There was a nice childrens play area at the airport which Jacob LOVED and ran around for at least an hour I'd guess!
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/P9090006.jpg

Here is a little video of my brother running around the play area with Jacob:
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/th_DSCF1030.jpg (http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/?action=view&current=DSCF1030.flv)

There was a really nice girl waiting for the same flight and she noticed the DS was getting restless. I think she was going to Peru or the Dominican or something like that to help out with kids down there. Anyways, she pulled out some bubbles and stuck on her clown nose and played with Jacob for a few minutes.
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/DSCF1031.jpg

Our flight stopped in Charlotte, NC. Jacob had a bit of a meltdown here :(
He had slept the 5hrs on the first flight and just wanted to run around and after being told a few times that he couldn't run wild, and to stay close, he brokedown. Poor boy.
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Here we are on the NC to FL flight, just over an hour I think?
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Once we got to Orlando, things went really smoothly. Jacob was thrilled to ride the little tram from the US Airways section to the main terminal, and asked to go again, lol. "Um, no honey, we're going to go to Mickey's Boat instead, okay?"

We got our luggage and went down to the DCL transfers (magical express) area and were pointed towards a bus waiting for us. We hopped on and soon left for Cape Canaveral to board Mickey's Boat!

Up next: "I see it!"

CrystalS

09-26-2009, 04:56 PM

**Warning: In the photos you are about to see, there may be tired/rough looking people. This is due to 12+ hours of travelling, please understand, lol.
:rotfl2:

So, we are now sitting on the DCL bus. Extremely tired from our red eye flights, but so anxious to get to the ship!

Driving along, I think I see something....
Is it? :confused3
Could it be?? :yay:
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/DSCF1045.jpg

YES IT IS!! Its the Disney Cruise Ship, look everyone! :woohoo:

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As we got closer, we all got more and more excited. Then we pulled up to the terminal :) It was probably around 11:30ish when we got there.

Here are some photos while we waited in the terminal:
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I think we had boarding pass 7, don't ask my why I didn't take a photo or at least remember for sure, lol.

Boarding went fairly fast, thankfully! Jacob was tired and restless! If you were there, you may have seen him having a melt down....

For some reason I didn't take any photos of us boarding the ship or of lunch that day. Usually when I'm busy taking photos I only see things through the view screen of the camera and miss out on actually SEEING everything firsthand. So I just took it all in instead of snapping away.

We boarded and were directed to Parrot's Cay where a CM told us they were full and to head up to BB on deck 9. I knew better than that though after reading up on the Dis here. So I told him that we'd like to wait for a table instead. And he brought us in and in less than a minute someone was seating us and it was NOT full inside, lol. I'm glad I had known to do that because it was nice and relaxing in Parrot's Cay.
The buffet was lovely, I wish I had tried some soup, but after having everything else, I was pretty full and didn't have room :( Had some nice cheese cake though! I'm a sucker for cheese cake!

After lunch we went up to see if the rooms were open yet, but they wern't. So up to deck 9 we went. We sat for a bit and Jacob played in the splash zone with another kid for awhile.
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Jacob found that if he put his foot over the sprayers, he could direct the water and spray out on the deck....towards me, lol!
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/th_DSCF1059.jpg (http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/?action=view&current=DSCF1059.flv)

After a bit of splash time we headed back down to deck 6 to see if the rooms had been opened yet... Not yet, but would be soon, so we decided to wait 5 minutes.
Rope dropped and we went in search of our room.
If you haven't read my pre trip report, we booked 2 cat 12 gty rooms and ended up with a little pixie dust, putting us in 2 cat 11 rooms up on deck 6. We had rooms 6633 and 6635. They were nice quiet rooms, close to the aft elevators.

We didn't hesitate to put up our FE and door decorations. Nothing too fancy, but made it a little more comfy and also made it easy to spot our doors!
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We waited a bit and got ready for the muster drill. Our station was in the Animators Palate dining room. It was nice to be inside the cool air conditioned room for the drill. We even got to take the crew stairwell down there :)
Near the end of the drill our family got to leave a bit earlier since we had a young child with us, I thought that was nice, to give us a head start :)
Jacob had his life vest on for a moment... but it didn't last long....oh and my brother always takes photos when I'm not ready, so just call me "the blur" lol.
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/P9100026.jpg

After the drill, it was up to deck 10 to watch the Sail Away Party!!
It would have been fun to be on deck 9 in the middle of it all, but it was crowded by the time we got there. But deck 10 was nice, we had a good view of it all, plus it was easy to get to the rails to watch as we sailed away.
I got a video of the countdown and the horn, but all the cheering is loud, and you can barely hear the horn.
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Here we are, leaving the last bit of land behind! Woo Hoo!
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Ok, now lets go get ready for dinner!
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Up next: Dinner at Parrot's Cay! (food pics included!)

CrystalS

09-28-2009, 11:58 AM

After the sailaway party we headed down to our room to get ready for dinner. We had a rotation of PC, T, AP.....
I didn't realize that in order to get the "show" dinners we needed to be in certain dining rooms :( So we never got the spacial Golden mickey's menu.
Ah well, I know better for next time.

On our way down to PC:
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Family dinner photo:
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/DSCF1097.jpg

I know THIS is what your all waiting for, FOOD photos! I know I didn't take photos of everything, but you'll get a sampling:

Crab Martinique, it was good, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
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Jacob started with a bowl of fruit, but we all ate from it, lol
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Then Jacob had the macaroni with fries, he did a good job at eating some of each, but I think his appetite was thrown off a bit because of our trip. He turned into a snacker for our cruise and didn't eat much at mealtimes.
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l24/stellercrys/Disney%202009/DSCF1102.jpg

Oh and our server, Kelly Sean, made him a cute ketchup footprint which jacob thought was soooo cool! This is just after he ran a fry through it:
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Don't ask me what anyone else had, I didn't get photos of those. But I did get photos of my meal and dessert, just don't ask me the proper names for the dishes, lol.
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After dinner we returned to our room to find this little towel puppy on our bed :lovestruc
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Our stateroom host had put a pack and play in the room for Jacob, but he hasn't been in one (or a crib even) for quite some time now. So we asked to have the couch made into a bed for him instead, which they had no problem with doing for us. (thanks!):hug:

After our stop at the room we headed to the Golden Mickeys (we had early dinner seating so the show was after dinner for us). It was a great show! I was really impressed. Even Jacob sat up with his eyes glued to the stage for the whole show, he was enthrawlled with it!
He hasn't seen all of the Disney shows yet, but even with not knowing all the chartacters, he still enjoyed it.popcorn::

After the show we headed back to our rooms. I'm not totally sure, but we may have gotten pizza this night from up on deck 9 at a late night snack.:confused3

We tried to get to bed at a decent time since we were all still tired from our long travels the night before and that morning. And we wanted to be well rested for Nassau day, we had plans!:woohoo:
I made sure to set up a wake up call since there are no alarm clocks in the rooms (Disney, please think about getting some, its nicer to wake up to a radio/clock than the phone ringing, lol).:headache:
Good thing I did too, it was hard to get out of bed the next morning.

Oh and those pillows and beds on the ship, they are AWESOME! We all were so comfortable!:cloud9:

Up Next: Nassau day, "safe" taxi, and the Atlantis Aquaventure!

tow-mater-1

10-03-2009, 09:16 AM

Great start to your trip report :thumbsup2 Love the pics! So did your your trip have the desired effect on your husband?? So is he now a convert?:rotfl2:

DMMarla07860

10-03-2009, 10:44 AM

CrystalS

10-03-2009, 09:56 PM

Great start to your trip report :thumbsup2 Love the pics! So did your your trip have the desired effect on your husband?? So is he now a convert?:rotfl2:

Thanks, I've been a little slow getting the rest of the report up, lol.
DH LOVED the cruise, we all did. He talks about doing another cruise, though I think the Disney prices might scare him away from a 2nd one on Disney.
We would have loved to try for the PC cruise in 2011, but there is no way we can pay THAT much.... Maybe we'll come into some money one day and be able to do a special cruise like that.
I was looking into a Mexican Riviera one though, but we could do the same thing on another cruise line for cheaper, lol. And getting a cheaper cruise means we could afford to do extras on our trip (excursions/visit DL before the cruise).
But so far no plans of another cruise yet.

CrystalS

10-03-2009, 09:58 PM

Were you on the Wonder? because you mentioned you didn't get the special Golden Mickey's menu. That menu is not on the Wonder only on the Magic. 3 night cruises don't have the special menu's and 4 nights I'm pretty sure only have the pirate night special menu.

Great report so far:thumbsup2

Oh really? That sucks, I just assumed that both ships did the special menus. Well looks like I need to go on a 7night or longer cruise, lol.

CrystalS

10-03-2009, 10:27 PM

So here we are the first morning of our cruise and we here the announcement that we are in Nassau and can start disembarking soon.
So we all get dressed and head up to BB Buffet for some breakfast.

It was nice up there, not too crowded either. And the food was good, nice selection. I enjoyed the corn beef hash, I haven't had that since I was little.
Jacob ate a few bites of various things, but didn't eat all that much.... had some chocolate milk though, lol.

Once we were finished breakfast we headed down to get off the ship since we brought everything we needed with us up to BB buffet.

Here is the beautiful Wonder
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Oh, and look who was beside us... I think they left just ahead of us in Cape Canaveral too, lol.
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Walking toward the market building
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Some "thing" inside the market building
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When we stepped outside there were a lot of taxi drivers out there trying to get you to go for tours and stuff. We had one guy say he could take us to Comfort Suites, and then another man came up and started telling us to come with him and he could take us on a tour, blah blah blah. I told him, we already had plans and that "we were already going with this gentleman over here", refering to the first man. He seemed quite pleased that we stayed with him, lol. He asked us to wait just a few moments to try to get a few more people to fill his van/bus. We only waited maybe 1-2 minutes and the driver came back with another couple and off we went. Now these taxi's aren't like we know as taxis from home, it was a large van with a couple rows of seats in it. We climbed in and while attempting to put on a seatbelt I noticed that our bench seat didn't seem to be fastened down very well.... oh well. "when in nassau" right?

Next thing you know we are at comfort suites where we checked in and found out that when we booked through priceline.com it was only for 2 people and not all 4 of us, so in order to get passes to the Atlantis Waterpark for everyone, we needed to pay the difference for the other two adults. This worked out to another 160ish including the housekeeping fee (for the room we wern't even going to go into) and some other fee. I knew about the fees, but not that priceline only reserved the room for 2 people. So that was a bummer.

Time to walk across the street to Atlantis
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Once we were in the Altlantis hotel, we had to ask a couple of times which way to go since there wern't any signs. We say some neat shops and glass sculptures while we walked about inside.
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Once we made it outside, we then had to make our way to a towel hut for our bracelets and then try to find the right area that had the slides, lol. That was a bit of a walk....
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Saw some stingrays
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Went over a bridge
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Then we found the slide area. My mom, brother and Aaron grabbed a tube and headed up to the tube slide where you go through the shark tunnel. While they were doing this Jacob and I decided to explore the small slides by the pool that were just his size, although the pools they went into were too deep for him, so I had to carry him through them and go down with him. But he liked that anyways. Later on we found him a life jacket, so he was able to follow me down the slide on his own

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Aaron and I
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Then we found the tube river. This was the one that has the 4-5ft high ways that push you down the river! But, sadly, they weren't working that day. So it was just a lazy river, and so Jacob could join us

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Where the waves are SUPPOSED to come out, I think
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We even tried our hands at the water coasters (the conveyors up to the coasters wern't on though sadly
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View from the Power Tower.
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Continued in next post...

CrystalS

10-03-2009, 11:42 PM

We went around and around on the tube river quite a few times, Jacob really enjoyed it and kept asking to go again!
We did swim in other areas too though.
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As the day got later, it was time to head back to the ship. We got changed, and got all of our stuff together and started the walk back to the hotel entrance where we grabbed a taxi and drove back to the ship.
We climbed back aboard the Wonder and headed to our rooms for a quick shower and a change for dinner.

Tonight was dinner at Tritons. Aaron got a drink with his dinner and it came with a cute Pirates in the Carribean light up glass. I can't remember what we all had for dinner, but it was good. I do remember that my mom had a bowl of tomato parmasean soup though, and after Jacob wouldn't eat any of his food, she gave him a bite of the soup and he wanted more. So we asked our servers if he could have a bowl of his own, which they quickly brought out for him, and he ate the whole bowl of soup!

We saw the Toy Story show that night, it was really well done! Jacob didn't know who Buzz and Woody were before that night, but he recognizes them everytime he sees them now, lol.

This was waiting for us when we got back to our room that night
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The Pirates IN the Caribbean Party was tonight, so we went up to watch Mickey fly across the boat, and then we watched the Fireworks, which were neat. We then got a few goodies from the dessert buffet and went back to our rooms to eat them. It was quite crowded up on deck for the party, so it was nice to get down to our rooms where it was quiet. After our desserts we got ready for bed since it was getting late. We wanted to get plenty of sleep since it would be Castaway Cay day tomorrow!

Out went the lights and we were asleep like babies in no time :cloud9:

Next: Castaway Cay!!! Can't wait!:woohoo:

DMMarla07860

10-04-2009, 02:30 AM

Oh really? That sucks, I just assumed that both ships did the special menus. Well looks like I need to go on a 7night or longer cruise, lol.

yeah really, got to have the regular menu's soo I can see why they don't have special menu's on the Wonder on 3 night's and only special pirate on 4 night

CrystalS

10-13-2009, 01:20 PM

Hey, I just realized that I haven't finished my trip report! Why didn't someone tell me? lol.

Anyways, where were we?
Oh right!

CASTAWAY CAY DAY!

I just want to start off by saying that this will be one of my favorite places from now on! It's just so peaceful here!

So its the morning of Castaway Cay day and we are laying in bed still.
Did you know that if you get an inside room, you CANNOT tell what time it is, and therefore have NO IDEA of when to get out of bed? lol.
We relied solely on wake up calls and hearing the captains announcements each morning. The announcements were in the hall and not in our room most of the time, so Aaron never heard them, he's a good sleeper, lol. But I always heard them if I wasn't already up from the wake up call.

Once we were dressed and ready, I knocked on my mom and brothers door beside ours to signal that we were ready. Then we all went up to Beach Blanket Buffet for some breakfast.
I really love that corned beef hash!

Then we worked our way down to disembark at Castaway Cay!
We were ahead of my mom and brother at this point because my brother had slept in. So my mom had to go back to the room to get him while we went ahead.
Since we were trying to be slow so they could catch up, we skipped the tram and just walked, which was fine because I wanted to try to catch Capt Jack Sparrow in front of the Flying Dutchman for a quick photo.

Even Aaron got in the photo with Capt Jack, lol.

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That guy sure is funny, lol.

Then we made our way towards the family beach and stumbled upon Mickey Mouse! And the line wasn't long even!
Jacob wanted to go see Mickey, but got a little shy when we got up close.
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After some photos we saw a shop and we each found a shirt we liked and bought them so we could have some Bahamas souveniers.

We made it to the start of the family beach.
View of the Wonder from the beach.
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Um.....now that is a LOT of tubes!
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We stood at the start of the family beach for a few minutes to see if my mom and brother had beat us there (since we made so many stops, they were likely to have passed us). Then we spotted them, coming down the family beach towards us. So we met up and decided to go to the end of the family beach where they had spied some empty chairs and it was a bit quieter over there.

So we found a spot and plunked down to call it home for the day.
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Building sand castles.
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The obligitory sandy feet shot by Aaron.
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Oh and we also saw this tiny, cute little sand crab!
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Then we all did some swimming.
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Soon lunch time rolled around and we went over to cookies Bar-B-Que and had a super yummy lunch! The ribs were great! Jacob enjoyed some fresh fruit too.
Sorry, no photos of Cookies, we were too busy eating, lol.

We worked our way back to "our spot" and some more swimming ensued.
I had wanted to get my hair braided, so I checked out the prices on the island. The ladies told me a price, and then kept adding a dollar here and there per braid for various reasons..... I felt like I was getting scammed because there wern't many people getting their hair done so maybe they were trying to make up for it by charging me more?
Needless to say, I said no thanks and then I thought I'd see if there was any braiding going on aboard the ship at that time. So I told everyone what I was doing and headed back to the ship to have a look. I called guest services once I got to our room and found out there would be braiding, but not until that evening.
Since I was already on the ship, I decided that I'd to some laundry while Iw as there. We were starting to build up a couple loads, lol. So I threw in two loads of laundry and then went up to deck 9 to get some icecream. Then I just lazed around in the room until the wash cycle was done. I threw them into the dryer, and then figured I'd have an hour or more before they were done, so I went back to find the family at the beach.

When I got there Jacob was floating in his lifejacket with out any support! Even in a life jacket, he's always wanted to be holding on to someone and not let go of, but they had coaxed him into floating by himself while I was gone, it was so fun to watch him learning some independence in the water!!

Then we got some more photos and tried out the hammocks.
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Eventually it was time to head back to the ship... but wait! I hadn't gotten my Konk Cooler that I had wanted so badly to try!
As we walked back towards the ship I sadly noticed that I was too late and all the drink servers had gone and the bars were closed up. I guess I'll just have to come again some day so I can try one!

Heading back to the ship now.
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And that was our day at Castaway Cay!

Stay tuned for the next installment: Our last dinner on board :(

tow-mater-1

10-13-2009, 10:01 PM

Hey, I just realized that I haven't finished my trip report! Why didn't someone tell me? lol.

Anyways, where were we?
Oh right!

CASTAWAY CAY DAY!

That OK, us Canadians have been busy this weekend stuffing our faces with turkey! Completely understandable.:rotfl2: Again, great pics. I am soo excited for Castaway Cay!

CrystalS

11-01-2009, 01:48 AM

Tonight we ate at Animator's Palate, I had been waiting for this dining experiance :)

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Alex was kind enough to cut Jacobs chicken for him.
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Kerry Sean and Alex, our Server and Assistant Server, great guys!
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MMmmm, desserts! (no they are NOT all mine, lol, I just got the fruit plate)
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Jacob came back from castaway cay with a weird sting/bite
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On the way out after dinner. Jacob had fallen asleep at the table.
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Then we went to the show, this is the only photo I got because of the no flash photography rule, lol.
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After the show Jacob was a little cranky so we went out on a deck and he got to calm down and enjoy the open air and the nice night sky.
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Back at the room that night we had this little guy waiting for us
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And I'm afraid that is the end of my cruise photos :(

But don't worry! I have Disney World photos coming up!
(And you'll also get to find out the meaning of the title of this trip report, lol)

mommyofthreeboys

11-01-2009, 08:15 PM

Loved reading your TR!!! Thanks for sharing!

CrystalS

11-02-2009, 01:56 PM

Ok, so now that we've finished our cruise, time to go to Disney World!
We had heard that you should do DW first and the cruise 2nd so you can relax, but I also read about how sad everyone was to leave the ship and go home. So we thought we'd do the cruise first so that we woul dhave DW to look forward to when we got off the boat. That and with our schedule, it worked out that we would have more time in the parks this way since we could go to a park on our disembarkment day.
If I ever did a cruise and DW again, I'd stick with everyones recommendations to do the cruise last. We definately needed another vacation after Disney World, lol! Thats A LOT of walking, and for us, we packed in the 4 parks in 4 days!

So, after getting of the boat and breezing through customs we went to catch the shuttle to the Budget Car Rental place. The shuttle was just pulling up as we were walking out of the terminal, so it we just hopped on and went.

I am a Whyndham Rewards member and I had enough points for a free car rental, so we used that and we were entitled to a "large car".
The gave us a lovely Caddilac! It was quite nice, with GPS Navigation and everything. Although, when I looked at our Credit Card statement after the trip, I think they charged us $12+ for the GPS, even though we didn't ask for it, and it was built in..... but oh well, it was nice to have even though we didn't need it. (I'm a planner and had maps and directions galore, lol).

Here is our car!
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This is what we paid $12+ for....
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First thing we did was high tail it over to Walmart so we could pick up a few things. Hubby got a Coaco Beach shirt, and we got a few snack items for our room at DisneyWorld.

Then we were off on our drive to DW!

"Hi, I hope your just getting a few things from your trunk and not broken down.... cuz we're too excited about Disney World to stop!!"
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Getting closer!
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We are in DISNEY WORLD!!
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Off to Pop Century to pick up a Stroller (we were in a Stroller Swap).
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They didn't have the stroller but gave me some other one that was left un claimed.... it was pretty "used" looking....

Then we zipped over to our resort, All Stars Movies!
(me, the navigator)
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(tried to piece these photos together)
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Here is one of our rooms that were ready that morning. This room was for my mom and brother, our room next door with a king bed would be ready later.
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Time to take the Cadillac to the DoubleTree drop off location (near downtown disney).
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There were shuttles going from the Doubletree to the parks, but one had just left and we assumed it would be quite awhile for the next, so we decided to walk a few blocks to Downtown Disney and catch one from there....

****The was a mistake! As we walked to downtown disney another shuttle passed us....so it would have been faster to just wait at the doubletree....

****Oh and did you know that the buses at Downtown Disney do NOT go straight to the parks?!? I didn't know that! We had to catch a bus to a resort first, get off and then wait for the bus to take us to the park. I bet we wasted an hour or so doing this. Sorry family, my bad!

Here we are on our walk to Downtown Disney, oh and it had started pouring too, so we busted out the ponchos! (but not the men, cuz, well, they are men, lol)
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Here we are in Downtown Disney:
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~Next up, we have arrived! The Magic Kingdom!~

CrystalS

11-08-2009, 12:02 AM

First thing you have to do when you go to a Disney park?
RIDE THE TRAIN!
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View from the train
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We took the train half way around the park and stopped off by Toon Town
(is that what they call it at DW? I'm used to DL wording...)

Usually when we've gone to Disneyland we take the train around to town town and then the first thing we do is go on Its a Small World.... well DisneyWORLD is laid out a bit differently as we soon found out and so we changed things up a bit.
We were going to go on the barnstormer rollercoaster with Jacob, but the wait was way too long already, so we heading into fantasyland and rode on PeterPan, SnowWhite, Whinnie the Pooh, IASM, the Carrosel and maybe something else?

Then we worked our way around to Adventureland and realized that it was time for lunch, so we turned and went over to the Crystal Palace for our reservation, which we learned was not when we'd actually get in... we showed up early and still didn't get in until about 20-30 mins after our reserved time.
But we got some castle shots:
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And then on to a great lunch! And Pooh and friends!
(Jacob did NOT want anything to do with the characters :( )
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Since DH and I were using this trip as an early Anniversary gift to each other we got pretty confetti on the table as well as a signed certificate and a cute little cupcake :)

Then we went back to adventureland and went on the Haunted Mansion, which Jacob thought was scary and kept hiding his head in my arm.
Then we went on the pirates of the Carribean, that was fun as always.
Then Jake got to pick a ride, the Alladin and the magic carpet ride :)
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I was hoping we could get him onto the Splash mountain, but he wasn't quite tall enough, which was a downer because I KNOW he would have loved it!
But there was a cute little play area near the exit for him, so my mom took him there while me, dh and my brother went on, then we switched off and they went on while I stayed with Jacob.

Then we went on Big Thunder Mountain, mom sat out with Jake since she didn't want to go on. It was dark by this point.
Oh and at some point before it got dark, I think before lunch, lol, we watched the Country Bear Jamboree :) (I had seen it once at Disneyland before they got rid of it there when I was a little girl).

After this point we went over to Tomorrow land and rode the people movers which Jacob enjoyed quite a bit!
So much so that my mom took him around on it again while the 3 of us "kids" went on the Stitch ride.
I must say I had no idea what this ride was or what to expect! But after experiencing it, I must say it was one of the funnest things all day! We all came out laughing!

Then we went to the Tomorrowland speedway so Jake could have some more fun :)

Sorry I don't have many photos of this day, I completely forgot to bring my camera this day and so I only have what my brother took this day :(

On the way out:
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I grabbed a Candy Apple on the way out with my snack credit and my mom bought a really cute cup with lid/straw for Jacob.

We rode the Disney bus "home" to AllStar Music and picked up dinner in the food court. Then it was bed time, we were all tuckered out.

*Up Next: Hollywood Studios!

CrystalS

11-12-2009, 02:57 PM

Whoo, that first day at WDW was a long one, we were all quite tired, so after a decent nights sleep (not nearly as nice as on the boat :( ) we got up and ready to go to Hollywood studios, oh, and I remembered my camera this time, lol!

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A few foot/hand prints
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A pretty flower while waiting for the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular
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Jacob REALLY liked the Bugs Life play area, we actually had to carry him out crying at the end of play time :(
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We had counter service lunches in the food court area in front of the Tower of Terror. I think we all got pizza, I know I had salad and a carrot cake with mine :)
Then we got a couple of photos and went on Rockin RollerCoaster and The Tower of Terror (multiple times, it was a BLAST)
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Apparently I was having so much fun I didn't take many photos.....

Up Next: Epcot!

CrystalS

11-24-2009, 03:01 PM

Our 3rd day at Disneyworld and let me just say we are starting to get a little tired, lol. Thats a lot of walking, and a lot of things to fit into one day for each park. Oh and I forgot to mention that when we were in Hollywood Studios, we were supposed to go to the Whispering Canyon for lunch.... well we didn't go, we decided that it would take too much time to leave the park get the WC and then get back to the park again, as it was we were already rushing around to see everything. So we missed WC :( I was soooo wanting to get that skillet. Next time I guess!

So here we are at the park!

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Something happening at the fountain? Walls are up around it.
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I think these look so neat!
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Jacob loved the Nemo ride and Spaceship earth, anything that moves around like a little train is good in his books.

Here he is with Daddy in the sharks mouth, he did NOT like being in there!
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We all enjoyed the Test Track, though I thought it should have been longer! We used fastpasses and riderswap to get on a few times each
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Oh, and I don't have any photos, but I really liked Mission Space! My brother, me and DH went on it with the "Orange" level, but it left DH a little pale after. But I got my brother to go on again with me since it was so fun!

For dinner we had reservations at Le Cellier! Even though we are from Canada, we had to go here, I've heard such good things about it, and let me just say, we were not disapointed. Our server was actually from Canada too, and lived only about 2 hrs from us, it was such a neat coincidence, she even called over a couple of other Canadians to come meet us, it was so nice to feel "at home".
I had the chedder Cheese soup with my meal and it was SOOOOO good, does anyone know if I can order some and have them deliver it to BC canada ? lol

Here is my moms Chocolate Mouse dessert:
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Near the end of the day and getting quite tired. Here we are in line for Soarin:
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On our way out we had to get a family pic :)
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Up next: Animal Kingdom (oh and were getting close to revealing what the title means!)

CrystalS

11-29-2009, 07:30 PM

Last park day, the Animal Kingdom!
I've been looking forward to this one, I was excited to do the Safari!

We started the day off with Donalds Safari Breakfast at the TuskerHouse!
It was really good!

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Mickey was the only character that Jacob was happy to see.
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Safari Time!
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Then we headed over to the petting zoo area.
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And some more animals.
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I had to try on a hat!
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This thing was heavy!
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Everest!
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Then we headed over to the Dino area. Jacob loved the flying triceretops!
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We had lunch at a counter service place near the dino dig site. But I can't remember the name of it.

Off to ride Dinosaur
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I was actually surprised at how loud it was, I didn't realize how "big" of a ride it was until we rode it, no wonder Jacob wasn't big enough to ride, lol.
It reminded me of the Indianna Jones ride at Disneyland (because of the trucks you ride in).

Thats it for my AK park photos.

Tomorrow we were going to get up early to check out Downtown Disney (had a voucher for a free gift from Planet Hollywood).

And then we'd head to the airport and catch our flight home......or so we thought......

kidcoos3

11-29-2009, 09:15 PM

How about the cheese soup recipe? Then you can make it yourself:
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=20709552&postcount=6

I haven't tried it yet - but it's on my list . . .

CrystalS

11-30-2009, 01:56 PM

How about the cheese soup recipe? Then you can make it yourself:
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=20709552&postcount=6

I haven't tried it yet - but it's on my list . . .

OH MY! Thank you SOOOO much for that, I will definately be trying it!

CrystalS

01-06-2010, 02:58 PM

I know, I know! I haven't completed this trip report, and its 2010 now!
I'm here now though, lol.

I'm sorry to say that I don't have any photos of this part of the trip, and when you start to read about what happened, you'll probably understand why we weren't in the mood to be taking photos, lol.

So we woke up the next morning (heading home day) and high tailed it over to Downtown Disney so that we could get our Free Gift from Planet Hollywood! (we got a voucher for it in our WDW reservation package).
We walked around for a bit and went into World of Disney and did some shopping for a few things to bring home for ourselves and family back home.

Then we walked over to Planet Hollywood and discovered that our voucher got us this tiny little Planet Hollywood keychain..... it was nice, and free of course, but probably not worth the long walk in the burning heat of the sun that we did, lol.

After that we had to head back to the All Star Movies Resort because we'd be needing to catch our bus to the airport soon.

Everything was pretty uneventful, we got on the bus (loving the air conditioned buses, lol) and waited for a few others to board and then headed off to the airport.

Now, this is where it gets interesting....

When we were about 15 or so minutes from the airport my mom got a look of panic on her face.

SHE HAD FORGOTTEN TO CHECK THE SAFE IN THE ROOM BEFORE LEAVING AND BOTH HER AND MY BROTHERS PASSPORTS WERE STILL IN THERE BACK AT THE HOTEL IN WDW!!!

Just a little reminder, we are all from Canada, and so we really NEED those passports in order to get home, so we have to have them.

She was really upset and almost crying, but for some reason I wasn't too worried. We still had a few hours before we needed to be on our plane, and I figured we would have enough time to either take the bus or a taxi back and grab the passports and then be back in time.

So we get to the airport and head straight to the Disney Desk to let them know what happened, and to see if we should go get it or if it was possible for the hotel to send the passports with the driver of the next bus.

They told us not to worry and that they'd get the passports from the safe and have them brought over in time for our flight.

Ok, so disaster averted..... right?......no?....uhoh!

So we sat and waited and waited for someone to come with our passports, and the time got closer and closer to our departure time, still no passports...

I asked again at the desk for an update, did they even have the passports yet, were they on their way?
The man told me they were on their way but they didn't no exactly how far away they were still.

Lets just say we missed our flight...
The man up at US Airways was super nice and told us, they coudl get us on the next flight and that it wouldn't be a problem. (No extra charge thank goodness). He said to just worry about getting the passports first, and then come talk to him and he'd get us set up for the next flight.

So we go back down to the Disney Desk, and still no one can tell us anything about where our passports are, which is freaking out my mom even more, because we have no idea who has them or where they are.
I was getting upset at this point because we had already missed one flight, and I knew that we could have taken a taxi back, grabbed the passports and been back in time for our first flight, but the Disney Reps told us not to, that they would get them for us....

So we're waiting still and the clock rolls past the next flight time, and still no passports.
I went to the desk again and talked to a different Disney Rep, a lady, who seemed to be in a management position, she was super nice in trying to calm us and figure out what was going on. I broke down and cried to her that we'd missed two flights, and now there were no more flights going out that day, we had no idea where our passports were, and that if they had just let us go ourselves we'd have been back with them by now!

Thats when she let us in on a little detail:
There was a security issue happening at WDW and no one was being let in or out of the property, including the person who had our passports.

So this is why they we're here yet, and no one would tell us this until now.
She never went into details about what the security issue was of course, but at least now we were getting a truthful answer.

FINALLY, after waiting for at least 6 hours at the airport, heck maybe even 7hrs I can't remember now, the woman who was working with us came up to us with the missing passports and we had a bit of relief.

Then she told us that they wanted to make things right for us, especially since we had been under so much stress all day.
Disney was going to set us up in a room back at the Movies resort for the night (since we had to wait until morning for the next flight), and there would be no charge.

We were so relieved, and the airline didn't even charge us to change flights!
So after such a stressful, scary day, things were having a happy ending!

So back to the hotel we went where we all just wanted to relax and get to sleep after a long day.
Oh and did I mention that I had a 2.5 yr old with us at the airport, waiting around in one spot for the whole 6-7 hours? Whew, I have to give him credit, he was getting cranky, but for the amount of time it was, he did REALLY good and only had 1 or 2 little meltdowns. But I can't blame him, he had no idea why we had to sit around for so long and why we couldn't just get on the plane.

The next morning we made SURE we had the passports (they did NOT get put in the safe again!) and headed back to the airport for another shot at going home.

And guess what!?
We made it to the flight in time, nothing left behind, and made our long journey back home to BC, Canada.

So all in all, we had a good time, and it all turned out in the end.

Thanks for reading my trip report.

THE END

branv

01-07-2010, 11:28 AM

jenseib

01-08-2010, 09:07 PM

It sounds like a fun trip. But honestly, I would've loved to stay that extra night. LOL! DD and I cried last year when it was time to come home.
I hope to do a cruise with DCL in the future!

Zookeeperof4

01-09-2010, 10:06 AM

Lucille1963

01-09-2010, 11:43 AM

Great trip report!

CrystalS

01-12-2010, 01:30 AM

So I have a question for you...
Did you feel that 3 days wasn't long enough? And do you have any regrets doing both WDW and DCL at once?
I am planning a secret vacation for 2011 for the hubbys 40th birthday and I want to do the cruise. He said we can come back to WDW as long as we do Universal....so the WDW and universal trip will be what he thinks we are doing. I know no matter what we will do the cruise and Uni. Just dont know how long of a cruise it will be (3 or 4 night) and if if we are adding in WDW....which I say and feel is a must do....how can we be that close to the mouse and not go see him???

I'd DEFINATELY say that 3 days was not enough.
With the 3 day, you are at a port each day, and we spent each day at port of the boat, so we didn't get to do any of the activities on the ship at those times. Also when we got back on the ship each day we had enough time to get cleaned up and then had to go to dinner and then the shows were right after. We did wander the top deck a little and checked out the night club briefly, but we just felt like we never had time to do everything.

We never stayed up past midnight, because we knew we had a port to visit the next day, or on our last night, we were going to the Magic Kingdom.

I desperately want to go on another cruise, but I'm not looking at anything shorter than 5 days. By our 3rd day we were just finally getting settled in, lol.

We didn't mind doing WDW right after, but we were exhausted at the end of it. I think if I could redo it, I'd add a rest day in between the cruise and WDW, and then do two days of parks, a rest day, and then 2 more days of parks.

Our schedule was like it was because we were on a limited budget and 3 of the 5 of us had taken time off work, so we had to fit it into a weeks timeframe.

Oh and be prepared for "sea legs" once you get off the ship. I felt slightly tipsy for a few days after, lol.

Hope that helps :)

CrystalS

01-12-2010, 01:34 AM

Yay! I was just coming back here to post a message begging for an update...really wanted to hear that "extra night" story ;)

Wow, I can only imagine how stressful that was. I would have been in tears too. Though at first when I read that about the security issue, I was like, "Oh whatever, that manager is such a liar. If there had been that big of a security issue, we would have heard about it on the Dis!"

Oh...ummmm...

Oh yeah, we kind of did. :rotfl: That whole suspicious thing on the bus thing. I totally forgot about that.

It was like murphy's law for your family that day. Glad they tried to make it a little easier for you in the end :thumbsup2

Thanks for the great trip report!

Yup, it was that darn bus scare!
We didn't find out what it was until we got taken back to the hotel and saw it on the news that night.
I was quite impressed with the way the manager at the Disney Desk (at the airport) stepped in and handled things, she was a lot nicer than the previous CM, and she did what she could to ease our minds and assure us that we'd be taken care of. She even led us to the front of the Magical Express line and waited for the bus with us and escorted us on first to be sure we were taken care of.

(Oh and while we were on the bus waiting to leave for the resort, we saw security officers with dogs sniffing around and checking out the bus before we left the airport.)

Cheryl726

01-12-2010, 09:53 AM

Just read your TR, great pics of Atlantis! It seemed like you accomplished a lot with a 2-1/2 yr old, you're brave!

That's a bummer what happened with the passports, but the Disney magic definitely worked for you.

proud_canadian

08-05-2010, 10:27 AM

Thanks for posting your trip report. I really enjoyed it. How was Atlantis?? And was it expensive? I'm dying to go there one day!