chunkymonkey
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 27, 2009
Hi Everyone!!
Welcome to my TR for our very first Disney Cruise on the Disney Magic!
I'm Su-Lynn (on the right in the pic above), aka Chunkymonkey. I am a somewhat veteran of the Disboards, having a few TRs and PTRs under my belt for WDW vacations over the past 6 years. I haven't done a TR in a while because life kinda took over and I also have a travel blog which I have been posting our vacation trip reports on over the past few years. My blog is really an outlet for me to document our travels, mainly to Hawaii, but also WDW, and more exotic trips like Singapore and Bali. I'm 39 years old and work in IT. I love to travel and eat, especially when it involves Disney and Hawaii!
My DH, Chubbyhubby, aka Steve, is the love of my life. We've been married for 6 years and have had the opportunity to celebrate 3 anniversaries at WDW. He's also 39 and works in financial services. He loves to travel too and although he says the Disney trips are primarily MY idea, I think he secretly loves them, especially the thrill rides like Expedition Everest and Space Mountain.
We live in New Jersey, although we used to live in New York City for many years. I still tell people I am from New York because that's where I grew up and really where my heart is.
Here's us on the very non-thrilling but totally fun Peoplemover at MK:
Our most recent Disney vacation in May included a 5-night Bahamian Cruise on the Disney Magic from May 10-15th and it was amazing. I loved every minute of it and thought it would be best to preserve the memories by writing a new TR on the Disney Cruise Line Forum!! This was followed by a wonderful week at WDW where we experienced Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival and Star Wars Weekends for the first time. I will post the WDW leg of the trip on the regular WDW trip report forum.
I have a little trip PTR here but it was posted on the WDW pre-trip reports. Here's a summary of how this trip came about:
Steve and I booked a week-long WDW trip in May mainly because of Star Wars weekends. Obviously, we are fans of Star Wars so we were excited to experience this event first-hand. Then, Steve's brother said he wanted to take a family trip and a Disney Cruise was one of the options. Steve's family lives in California, and though we get to see them once or twice a year, I know it's definitely not enough. This was a great way to experience our first Disney Cruise and spend some quality family time together. Since we would be in Florida anyways, we decided to add on a Disney Cruise from Cape Canaveral to our trip and shift our dates at WDW a bit. The 5-night Bahamian cruise on the Magic worked with everyone's dates the best, and before we knew it, we were all booked on the cruise!
There were 8 of us in total on the cruise: Steve and I, Steve's brother, Mike, Mike's wife Sandy, their daughter Maddie (4), Steve's other brother Jimmy, and their parents. We were all booked in verandah staterooms on deck 6. Let the party begin!!
Here's all of us from a recent trip to Taiwan:
Since this was everyone's first Disney Cruise experience, we didn't know what to expect! I tried to do my research before the trip - but even I was surprised at how much fun I had. To tell you the truth, I wasn't a fan of boats before. I get seasick and thought being stuck on a boat sick would not be a good start to our vacay, but the magic of Disney made our experience AMAZING and I would not hesitate to go on a Disney Cruise again! I loved the MAGIC and can't wait to experience the other ships as well!
Here was the itinerary for our cruise:
Hope you are all onboard!
(BTW, I will be posting a version of this TR on my blog as well, but with much less Disney detail...my blog readers are not necessarily Disney fanatics like I am so I try to appeal to a more general audience. I also miss the camaraderie of the Disboards therefore decided to do my TR here as well.)
Welcome to my TR for our very first Disney Cruise on the Disney Magic!
I'm Su-Lynn (on the right in the pic above), aka Chunkymonkey. I am a somewhat veteran of the Disboards, having a few TRs and PTRs under my belt for WDW vacations over the past 6 years. I haven't done a TR in a while because life kinda took over and I also have a travel blog which I have been posting our vacation trip reports on over the past few years. My blog is really an outlet for me to document our travels, mainly to Hawaii, but also WDW, and more exotic trips like Singapore and Bali. I'm 39 years old and work in IT. I love to travel and eat, especially when it involves Disney and Hawaii!
My DH, Chubbyhubby, aka Steve, is the love of my life. We've been married for 6 years and have had the opportunity to celebrate 3 anniversaries at WDW. He's also 39 and works in financial services. He loves to travel too and although he says the Disney trips are primarily MY idea, I think he secretly loves them, especially the thrill rides like Expedition Everest and Space Mountain.
We live in New Jersey, although we used to live in New York City for many years. I still tell people I am from New York because that's where I grew up and really where my heart is.
Here's us on the very non-thrilling but totally fun Peoplemover at MK:
Our most recent Disney vacation in May included a 5-night Bahamian Cruise on the Disney Magic from May 10-15th and it was amazing. I loved every minute of it and thought it would be best to preserve the memories by writing a new TR on the Disney Cruise Line Forum!! This was followed by a wonderful week at WDW where we experienced Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival and Star Wars Weekends for the first time. I will post the WDW leg of the trip on the regular WDW trip report forum.
I have a little trip PTR here but it was posted on the WDW pre-trip reports. Here's a summary of how this trip came about:
Steve and I booked a week-long WDW trip in May mainly because of Star Wars weekends. Obviously, we are fans of Star Wars so we were excited to experience this event first-hand. Then, Steve's brother said he wanted to take a family trip and a Disney Cruise was one of the options. Steve's family lives in California, and though we get to see them once or twice a year, I know it's definitely not enough. This was a great way to experience our first Disney Cruise and spend some quality family time together. Since we would be in Florida anyways, we decided to add on a Disney Cruise from Cape Canaveral to our trip and shift our dates at WDW a bit. The 5-night Bahamian cruise on the Magic worked with everyone's dates the best, and before we knew it, we were all booked on the cruise!
There were 8 of us in total on the cruise: Steve and I, Steve's brother, Mike, Mike's wife Sandy, their daughter Maddie (4), Steve's other brother Jimmy, and their parents. We were all booked in verandah staterooms on deck 6. Let the party begin!!
Here's all of us from a recent trip to Taiwan:
Since this was everyone's first Disney Cruise experience, we didn't know what to expect! I tried to do my research before the trip - but even I was surprised at how much fun I had. To tell you the truth, I wasn't a fan of boats before. I get seasick and thought being stuck on a boat sick would not be a good start to our vacay, but the magic of Disney made our experience AMAZING and I would not hesitate to go on a Disney Cruise again! I loved the MAGIC and can't wait to experience the other ships as well!
Here was the itinerary for our cruise:
Hope you are all onboard!
(BTW, I will be posting a version of this TR on my blog as well, but with much less Disney detail...my blog readers are not necessarily Disney fanatics like I am so I try to appeal to a more general audience. I also miss the camaraderie of the Disboards therefore decided to do my TR here as well.)
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