Ashley's Amazing MAW Cruise on the Wonder TR May 9-13th, 2010

[Mtopher4]

In Progress :-)

[cydswipe]

can't wait to read all about it!!
Monica

[dato63]

I'm subscribing now! :cool1: Can not wait!

[Mtopher4]

Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, :lmao: We heard that a lot on the cruise. I am so sad.. I want to go back so bad. I can't even describe how magical our whole cruise was. If I could afford it I'd be going every month :-)
DH the Disney hater needs to be convinced that we must do it again at some point... Ugh..

Packing the night before:
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Day 1:

The alarm went off at 4am. I was exhausted having just fallen asleep about 2am:headache: I then realize I have a UTI :mad: So I take meds.. I get them often and have meds on hand THANK GOODNESS.

I ran to look out the window and our driver was already here, we had a 4:30am pick up time. So I got dressed and got the kids and DH up and dressed inbetween running back and forth to the bathroom in pain and off we went. We didn't get a limo but a black suburban... No one cared ..we were so sleepy lol

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Falling asleep in the car lol
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We get to the airport early and get breakfast taco's and Oj. And me running back and forth to the bathroom a lot :( GRRRR

waiting at the airport
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Doesn't Jess look tired? LOL this is WAY too early for her...he, he
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Then we board the plane for our one hour and fifty minute flight to Orlando. By now the pain meds have kicked in and I'm not suffering much.. phew.
On the plane
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About an hour in to the flight Ashley loses her patience and starts whining and growling about how it's takng too long and she is tired of her seat and wants to get of the plane. NOW Somehow I ge my sanity and start distracting her with my DCL book. Showing her pictures of what we will see on the ship. It works.. finally we are landing.

We get off the plane .... take a potty break and start heading down to the Cruise Line Buses. We check in, get our room keys/charging cards and loa onto the bus. The bus is really cool. It ... looks like a small ship with porthole windows. Once on the toll road.. they start a movie about our upcoming adventure. Really nice.. Different from the DCL DVD's they send out.
On the bus:
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We then see the Ship... Everyone is ooohhhhhing and awwwing.. WOW It is really larger than life.

We get off the bus... get screened etc....(It's about 12:30pm) Then a lady comes up to us and asks if we are with MAW. We say yes and she says well follow me :-) We follow her and we cut through all the lines (sorry if you were in them ) ... She gets us checked right in to the kids clubs.. we get our pager and the kids get their bands and she walks us straight through the lines again to board the ship.

[Mtopher4]

can't wait to read all about it!!
Monica

I'm subscribing now! :cool1: Can not wait!

Thank you Monica and Deb for following along :-)

[ellenbenny]

I'm subscribed. Great start! Can't wait to read more.

[Mtopher4]

I'm subscribed. Great start! Can't wait to read more.

Thank you and Welcome Ellen. Pics are 88% loaded :-)

[Mtopher4]

We are boarding the ship CM's are everywhere waving at us with Mickey hands. We stop to take a Welcome Aboard photo.
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Then they annouce "The Bock Family" and everyone starts clapping.. I wish I would have had a picture of the kids faces.. They were like "WOW". The ship is Amazing... HUGE... Spotless, everyone is so friendly. We walk around and find and elevator to take to the 9th floor for the lunch buffet. Ton's of food.. all delicious. DH takes the girls to find a table and Topher and I get in the buffet line. We just filled up our plates and shared with the others back at the table. We are sitting by the Mickey pool. We eat.. get drinks and ice cream and it's time to head back to level 2 to find our rooms.
Our staterooms:
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see the adjoining room door behind Ashley
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Finally our staterooms are ready. :goodvibes Topher chose the top bunk, Ashley the bottom bunk and Jessica got the queen bed to herself in one room and DH and I get the other room. Mickey is all over the TV LOL
Jay our MAW host .. has goodies in the room waiting for us. Ash get a large sailor Mickey Mouse. Tons of bottled water, a lovely note from him, and a plate of chocolate chip cookies. The kids are in Heaven.

We all get dressed into our bathing suits and head back to deck 9 to swim. Since Ash isn't potty trained she says with DH in the toddler Splash pad and I take Topher and Jess to the pool in the middle of the deck by the huge screen. The goofy pool :-) We swim for about 30 mins and then it's time to head to our staterooms and change for the safety drill.

We all get our life vests on and go aft and up some stairs to Animator's palate (Our location to go in an emergency) The talk doesn't take long and then we head back to our staterooms. Ditch the life jackets and head back to deck 9 for the sail away party :-)
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[Mtopher4]

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more later..Then you will find out why Ashley is missing from the picture :-)

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and poor Ashley who didn't make it, we did wake up at 4am
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Our waiter covered her up with a table cloth :-)
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We met our awesome wait staff at our first dinner. We had Nikola from Serbia and Francisco from India...
The food was really good and service was excellent.
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Francisco doing one of his many magic tricks.
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Topher eating one of the famous Mickey Ice cream bars with sprinkles and marshmellows
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Jess eating hers :-) Poor Ashley missed out on dinner and dessert but later had ice cream for dinner on Deck 9 LOL

[dato63]

Hey - Mike looks less grumpy in that pic! It is a shame Ashley isn't in it - it's a very nice shot of ya'll.

[Mtopher4]

I know :( You will see why when I get to do the next installment LOL

The ship rocked DH to sleep a lot :(

[billwendy]

Woo Hoo - Im lovin it!!!!

[cantwaittoseemickey]

I'm here!! Great TR so far! This looks really neat. I love your pictures!!

[xanphylus]

Hurray! You've started! Looks great so far. I think your DH's face looks a lot like my DH's face would look if he were taken on a Disney cruise... :lmao:

I love how you didn't have to wait in line to get on the cruise! That rocks! :goodvibes Can't wait to read more!

[Mtopher4]

Woo Hoo - Im lovin it!!!!

I'm here!! Great TR so far! This looks really neat. I love your pictures!!

Hurray! You've started! Looks great so far. I think your DH's face looks a lot like my DH's face would look if he were taken on a Disney cruise... :lmao:

I love how you didn't have to wait in line to get on the cruise! That rocks! :goodvibes Can't wait to read more!


Thanks I hope to do more soon. :goodvibes My MIL is coming over tomorrow and I have to finish unpacking and washing. I washed Wendy's Awesome towel shorts she sent us with the towels and socks and underwear on hot and turned everything pink.. Opps...I was tired... should have known better. I tried RIT, Carbona and bleach? Any ideas? They are holding up the washer LOL DH doesn't want to wear pink socks and underwear...:lmao:

I added to the Triton's detail above

[Mtopher4]

After dinner we decided to walk around and explore the ship.. here are some pics
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next the little kids play room.. these rooms were Amazing. About age 5 your child could choose if they wanted to go in the play room for smaller kids or bigger kids. Ours LOVED both.
The CM's were fantastic about having everyone scanned in. They were given soap and sent to wash hands in the adorable kids bathrooms. The CM's were also very good about getting the kids to all join in. The smaller kids club had a TV area with what on TV but Disney shows.. a stage and a dance floor, a cool climbing and sliding area and a computer and book area. They had scheduled activities going on all day and night. They are open from about 9am until 1am. They are also very good at check out time.. they scan your card and the kids wrist bands to make sure they match and you must know the password. Also, your kids can have a CM page you whenever they want to be picked up.. Ash paged me several times LOL
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Jess
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We then checked out and went to the bigger kids club.. The oceaneer lab. They had computers EVERYWHERE. Ashley was in heaven. at least 30 computers, a huge craft table, game tables, and a lab/cooking area.
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Topher and Ash on the computers
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DH joining in LOL
Believe it or not.. the girls wanted us to let them stay and play for awhile :yay:
Not Topher :( GRRRR
So we walked around with him for awhile
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We are exhausted so we go pick the girls up from the kids clubs and look what we find in our rooms
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kids room
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Jess took the big queen bed
and then
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Showers and bedtime.. night:love:

[wishin' on a star]

Hi Lisa! I'm here! YOu are off to a great start...I will have to catch up when I come back next Sunday!! Can't wait to read more. Sounds and LOOKS like loads of fun!!

[xanphylus]

The oceaneers lab looks pretty sweet! :goodvibes I can't believe that have all that cool stuff on board! I think even I would like to play in there!

[TwingleMum]

I'm in...Great report so far

[Mtopher4]

Thanks :-) The play rooms were Amazing.. you saw DH playing in there LOL

Welcome :-)



Day 2 Nassau, Bahamas

We were awake early as we could hear and feel the thrusters starting to dock. LOL I have heard about it here on the boards but wow..we decided to sleep in and order room service for breakfast because we didn't have any real plans until 12:30pm.

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DH sleeping again.. UGH
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Hanging out in Wave Bands ready to go to Blue Lagoon to the Dolphin Encounter :-)
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Ashley and some other kids dancing on the stage LOL
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I got my new computer and doing this is much faster.. YEAH
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The WONDER at Dock in Nassau.. as we are walking to the boat
Guess what they had right off the Dock??? A STARBUCKS!!!!! I was in Heaven.. I LOVE Startbucks Black Iced tea :-)
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On the boat
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See ya later Disney WOnder
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Our Dolphin Goombay :-) After a short walk and some stairs we did a short and very informative instrction on Dolphins. And off to play with them.
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[Mtopher4]

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Ashley just loved the dophin :-) We kissed him, petted him, danced with him, hugged him, touched his teeth.. It was Awesome. Jess did about half of that.
Topher didn't want to do it before we left for the cruise but once there he was so happy he did :-)

After we played with the dolphins we went to the beach on the Blue lagoon island and played in the water for about an hour until the boat returned to take us back to ship. I have pics of the beach too but they were on the waterproof camera and are not loaded yet.
Once back to nassau across the street we stopped and bought some rum cake and a bottle of rum for DH. Yes, you can bring alcohol on Disney ships
:-)
Oh and a stop for more Iced tea at Starbucks :-)
Getting back on the ship was a breeze.. then off to shower and change for dinner.
this night we ate at Animator's Palate.
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Oh and guess who fell asleep again LOL
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But she woke up again :-)
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Francisco cutting up her food
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Mickey Ketchup
More later.. gotta put the kids to bed

[DMMarla07860]

great trip report:goodvibes

[dato63]

Gotta love those smiles!

Looks like nice servers - helping to cut the food. :)

Did the kids like Animator's Palate? The pictures of that place look pretty cool.

[cantwaittoseemickey]

The Dolphin encounter looks so cool. What a friendly dolphin:) I love the family pic with the Dolphin that is such a cute picture! Looks like everyone is having a great time so far. With a few naps here and there of course:)

[rcq925]

I am subbing now!!

Wow that ship looks magnificent! Can't wait to hear and see more!!!

[CSwan1]

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Our Dolphin Goombay

We had Goombay on our last cruise in May 2006! He has great! Great trip report so far!

[cajunfan]

I am so enjoying the trip report! Poor Ashley...falling asleep at every meal. I LOVE the picture of the dolphin kissin Ashley (and it is a good pic of the rest of the family too;))

Lynn

[Kay1]

I just love the photo of y'all with the dolphin. That would make a fantastic Christmas card.

[CrazyBoutDisney]

WOW!! You're already doing your TR and posting pictures--I'm only just now getting back on the computer after that WONDERful cruise! So nice to get to meet you and your family, Lisa! Thanks for the neat stuff in the FE exchange, too! Wasn't it all a blast?! I love the FE!!!

Hope you are feeling better and the UTI has been banished. What a way to start a vaca :sad2:

Love seeing your pix and your take on the cruise! Poor Ashley, just too tuckered out come dinner time, huh? I couldn't believe it when I looked up from the menu at dinner the first night to see the same server we had on our first cruise 2 1/2 years ago!! We absolutely loved him and he even remembered us!! We shared hugs all around and once again, he took super good care of us each and every night. Gotta love the Mickey ketchup! Did anyone in your family ask for nothing for dessert any night? If not, you should see what they do for that!!!

Looking forward to reading your next TR installments!

[Mtopher4]

great trip report:goodvibes
Thank you

Gotta love those smiles!

Looks like nice servers - helping to cut the food. :)

Did the kids like Animator's Palate? The pictures of that place look pretty cool. Yes all the restaurants were great... but that one was the most entertaining :-):thumbsup2

The Dolphin encounter looks so cool. What a friendly dolphin:) I love the family pic with the Dolphin that is such a cute picture! Looks like everyone is having a great time so far. With a few naps here and there of course:) It was Awesome.. I was so sad to be leaving :( Ash keeps asking DH everyday about going back LOL

I am subbing now!!

Wow that ship looks magnificent! Can't wait to hear and see more!!!
Welcome.... it was beautiful.. Looked brand new and shiny to me

We had Goombay on our last cruise in May 2006! He has great! Great trip report so far!
Thanks.. he was an awesome Dolphin.. very friendly

I am so enjoying the trip report! Poor Ashley...falling asleep at every meal. I LOVE the picture of the dolphin kissin Ashley (and it is a good pic of the rest of the family too;))

Lynn Thank you

I just love the photo of y'all with the dolphin. That would make a fantastic Christmas card.
if DH allows it.. he thinks he is too pale LOL
WOW!! You're already doing your TR and posting pictures--I'm only just now getting back on the computer after that WONDERful cruise! So nice to get to meet you and your family, Lisa! Thanks for the neat stuff in the FE exchange, too! Wasn't it all a blast?! I love the FE!!!

Hope you are feeling better and the UTI has been banished. What a way to start a vaca :sad2:

Love seeing your pix and your take on the cruise! Poor Ashley, just too tuckered out come dinner time, huh? I couldn't believe it when I looked up from the menu at dinner the first night to see the same server we had on our first cruise 2 1/2 years ago!! We absolutely loved him and he even remembered us!! We shared hugs all around and once again, he took super good care of us each and every night. Gotta love the Mickey ketchup! Did anyone in your family ask for nothing for dessert any night? If not, you should see what they do for that!!!

Looking forward to reading your next TR installments!

Thanks you.. it was great to meet you too...");)

[Redeemed&Loved]

These are great photos! Thanks for sharing!

[stitchy626]

Great report so far. Can't wait for the rest. I'm so happy to hear about the Starbucks. All I get there is the black iced tea so that made me :yay:

Did you make some of the girls clothes? They are adorable.

[mgmsmommy]

Love your trip report so far. The cruise looks like it was lots of fun. Love all the pics of you family too. Thanks for sharing them

[dato63]

More please popcorn::

[mindy327]

Great TR! How did you make those amazing dresses!!?? Can I take your idea? DD is 8 and would love to have a dress like those. :)

[hoosierdaddy10]

Great Report. Thanks for taking the time. I love TR with pictures.

My son had a Mickey Nothing for dessert once.

I had to laugh when I saw the server cutting Ashley's food because my 19 year old said he was going to have the server cut his meat when we cruise in June.

[cajunfan]

I hope everything is going well at your house! can't wait to hear and see more!

Lynn

[rcq925]

Hope you are just busy doing fun stuff! Can't wait for the next installment!popcorn::

[xanphylus]

Just swinging by to say hi! Haven't been on in a while and wanted to check in with your TR! Hope you're off running around and doing fun summer type stuff like we are!!! :goodvibes Hope to read more next time!! :hug:

[scottishwee35]

I would like to saying thank for showing beautiful photos and love your two dd clothes..:thumbsup2 and love photo of you with dolphin:thumbsup2

Scottishwee35

[cantwaittoseemickey]

Hi! Just checking in to say hi:hug:

[Mtopher4]

Great report so far. Can't wait for the rest. I'm so happy to hear about the Starbucks. All I get there is the black iced tea so that made me :yay:

Did you make some of the girls clothes? They are adorable.

[/I]I Live for Starbucks Venti Black Iced tea with 7 pumps of Classic :-) I did not make any of the clothes. They were given to us from the AMAZING ladies that particpate in the BIG GIVE :love::love:

Love your trip report so far. The cruise looks like it was lots of fun. Love all the pics of you family too. Thanks for sharing them Thank you :-)

More please popcorn:: I haven'5t forgotten you :-)

Great TR! How did you make those amazing dresses!!?? Can I take your idea? DD is 8 and would love to have a dress like those. :) The Big Give gave us all that Amazing stuff :-) The girls got a million compliments :-)

Great Report. Thanks for taking the time. I love TR with pictures.

My son had a Mickey Nothing for dessert once.

I had to laugh when I saw the server cutting Ashley's food because my 19 year old said he was going to have the server cut his meat when we cruise in June.
Thank you.. LOL Too funny
I hope everything is going well at your house! can't wait to hear and see more!

Lynn See below for the reasons I haven't been back,

Hope you are just busy doing fun stuff! Can't wait for the next installment!popcorn:: See below

Just swinging by to say hi! Haven't been on in a while and wanted to check in with your TR! Hope you're off running around and doing fun summer type stuff like we are!!! :goodvibes Hope to read more next time!! :hug: (((HUgs))))

I would like to saying thank for showing beautiful photos and love your two dd clothes..:thumbsup2 and love photo of you with dolphin:thumbsup2

Scottishwee35 Thank you

Hi! Just checking in to say hi:hug:
Hi.... ((((Hugs))))

Ok.. I am so sorry I kinda stopped my TR mid trip. It was the end of year stuff for the kids, parties, etc. I started making a photobook on Picaboo (Very time consuming and I 'm not finished with that either) I tried to finish with a coupon but missed the date.. Poo

Then I had my 40th b-day :-)

Then my Mom has been in the hospital :( She is 64 with Alzheimer's end stage. She got an infection and it wasn't looking good. She is still there and continuing to improve.
Kids are out of school and fighting.. ugh,, need I say more? LOL Also, having 3 home..the house is messier and more to clean up.

And I have to pack and leave for Dallas on Monday. Ash is having surgery Thursday, we will be there through Sunday.
I miss all of you, I hope to be back soon

So I promise I will finish my TR someday :-) Hopefully soon.

[cajunfan]

We will keep your family in our prayers!

[cantwaittoseemickey]

My family is praying for you all during this time. Sending lots of :hug:

[rcq925]

Totally understand, finish when you can!! Your family will be in my thoughts and prayers!

[cajunfan]

Just wanted to check in and see how you folks are doing!

Lynn

[pamcarey]

Just getting on board... great report so far!!

[Curtis McCrea]

I've subbed, looking forward to more of the report.

Curtis :cool1:

[doombuqqy]

Hope all is going well with the family, Great report looking forword to more.

[trekkie518]

Great trip report. Your kids look so happy on the ship :)

[bopper]

Hope everything is going okay and hope to hear more!

[blessedmom4]

I just found your TR today...I know it has been awhile; however, I hope you will come back and finish...just for your own memories if for no other reason! I LOVE what you have shared so far! :flower3:

[vegaangel82]

SO great reading your trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!

[kaileighbug]

Just found your trip report. Hope all is going well and Ashley's surgery went well.

[Joanna71985]

Just found the TR, and following along. How is Ashley doing?