By the way, forgot to address one of your comments - yes, I heard about that boy and the waterslide (well, I'm assuming you're talking about that awful thing).These slides on the Dream (and Aulani) are NOTHING compared to something like that. Sad story.
And then apparently went back to the room to eat my dessert in peace.Mine was the Sweet Temptations (A trio of Peanut Butter Mousse, Mango Cheesecake, and Tahitian Vanilla Crème Brulee):
I want to say maybe the Crème Brulee Martini, but that raspberry is throwing me off and making me think maybe the Latitude 46.5? Beats me.We both enjoyed our drinks, though. It was about 10pm and the outdoor deck was very pleasant and quiet, but it was too dark to really see much (if you leaned over the deck, you could see water, but not from the table):
Our spontaneous moment came when we realized we could get free pizza to eat while we wandered:
Yes, her sleep schedule was really messed up on this trip!
^that is PERFECT!!!
If anyone knows, feel free to enlighten me.
Our spontaneous moment came when we realized we could get free pizza to eat while we wandered
I still have absolutely zero idea what this could mean?!I guess we should all run towards the people trapped in the upside-down vehicle?? If anyone knows, feel free to enlighten me.
And then apparently went back to the room to eat my dessert in peace.
we had a mini date night.Walking along deck is so nice:
Dessert reviews seem like reason enough to me.
I've always thought this sounded like a fun show.
And at least it isn't curved like the one in Soarin'Ooooh, I see the Eiffel Tower!
It really looks like a very nice evening for you and Dug to get some time to check out the ship and enjoy some adult time.Something about late night free (and tasty) pizza while riding a cruise ship elevator struck us as particularly fun (maybe it was the drinks?)
Oh wow.
Izzy enjoyed the view from the balcony:
Can’t get enough of these views:
I think I enjoyed it, though I can’t say I really remember after all this time. Guess I need to take another cruise.
I still have absolutely zero idea what this could mean?!
)Since we had a long block of nursery time reserved (hoping Izzy might go to sleep there), we had a mini date night.
Looks pretty nice:
Our spontaneous moment came when we realized we could get free pizza to eat while we wandered
Something about late night free (and tasty) pizza while riding a cruise ship elevator struck us as particularly fun (maybe it was the drinks?
After that, we picked up Izzy at the nursery. She did not sleep. I think they tried, but she wasn’t cooperative. Spoiler alert: she never slept in the nursery, despite the cribs and prime sleeping times. Guess that was a theme for this trip – overtired kiddo!She was in good spirits, though:
I’m going to say someone in our group was from Maine (people often bring things unique to their area):
(piled high in the high chair - notice Bailey's cameo):
I worked and worked and bagged and labeled and eventually ended up with this:
All these years of slide addiction ahead of her.
Love the adult clubs, especially Skyline. They have a cool passport book that you can buy. For the cost, you get a drink for each city, and the book has the drink and recipe. It was a lot of fun to try a new drink every night. We also liked Meridian. However, we went before eating at Remy, which was the same day we did our Mixology class. We also got the wine pairing at Remy. I am a little surprised that I made it back to the room without falling overboard
Luckily, I have time to figure it out and determine what we will pass out, which is another nightmare
It was super quiet while we were in there to get our drinks. More people were out on the deck like we were, though. But still fairly quiet.
We were ridiculously excited to get pizza!
I'm sure it helped!
She did - any room full of toys she's allowed to play with is a win with her.
I was so impressed with those cookies! Wondered if the person made them on their own? Impressive!
It was good - I am a weirdo that doesn't even really like syrup, but I had to try this on some pancakes at home and it was quite good!
Makes sense, I guess, but I still don't understand all the elements of the diagram.
Well, keep in mind that the tragedy was on a 60mph "waterslide" that was more of a roller coaster without rails, from my understanding. Your average waterslide is nothing like that and much more tame. Definitely don't worry about the Aulani ones on your upcoming trip - they are family friendly (the lifeguard thought I should send Izzy down the dark slide that she wanted to try, but I wasn't comfortable with that, though she probably would have been fine - we did the double tube slide TONS of times without incident, though).I've always been anxious about water slides, but then hearing this story and what happened, just makes me even more anxious.
Strangely, the solitude can make almost anything taste even better.
And you don't have to share. (Side note: we went out for ice cream today. Izzy was adamant that she "wasn't in the mood for ice cream" and didn't even want to share some with us. The second we sat down, she was like, "I guess I do want ice cream!" and proceeded to devour at least 1/3 of it! 
)Yep, this didn't strike me as much of a young kid friendly show when I read the description and I still felt that way watching it - glad she was doing something more fun for her!
Can't go wrong with drinks on a cruise ship deck!
I didn't realize yours didn't have mini golf!
I guess I've only been on pretty large ships (3 cruises on different lines), so I'm not sure what I'd think of the smaller ships - might have to try one someday! It is, but so much fun!
Thank goodness.
Only you guys would think to go out to the aquaduck at 11pm!! hahahaha. We would be loooooooong asleep by then
Might as well get it in without a long line, right? But, you know, we're not likely to be the ones waiting around for it to open. (now rope drop at WDW is a different story, of course).
You would probably love that the Roz animatronic talked to me at the end of the Monsters Inc. ride at Disneyland then! I videotaped her and she hammed it up.
(Someday I will get to doing that TR...)Makes it so much sweeter!
Huh, I guess I can see that. But not easily. I guess this is why I don't "get" a lot of art either.
I know, such a fun perk!
I was definitely intimidated before we did it, as I'd seen a couple TRs that did them and they were very involved. And I am not a crafty person. And also didn't have much of a budget. But I read some threads on fish extenders (like one where people listed some favorite things they got) and felt reasonably okay, as there is no expectation other than fun and participation and people can get just as into it as they please. Seeing Izzy's face light up each time we got something made it worthwhile and it was fun to know that hopefully our gifts were lighting up someone else's face, at least a bit.
Both excellent things!
I don't think I got a pic (but you can see briefly in the Minnie meet video) - they gave us like big room service platters and lids to bring our desserts out. It was much more than I was expecting, since I wasn't even sure they'd let us take something with us. Great that they offered that.It was nice. I do wish we'd had more time/additional nights to enjoy these areas, but we had a good time. Darn "short" cruise.
My mind is boggled by the giant FE groups!
Heck, sometimes we received things and I started wondering how they fit it all in their luggage if they got the same for everyone! I am glad our group chose to break into two rather than just keep adding more cabins on! Though, I would venture to guess that really large groups probably pass out much smaller things to compensate. So, small FE group for the win! I think we did okay on sleep that night (at least in relation to the whole of this trip). But Izzy's sleep schedule was nuts for sure. She's proven on past trips that she can hang with us pretty well when we change up the routine, but I think this was just too long of a period of non-routine.
I just asked him and he said he liked it, but all the stairs were exhausting when he was already tired. He was the ONLY person there, though, so no line!
Apparently you are correct, as other posters are confirming it is a muster station sign. I think I need something less open to interpretation - like a bunch of stick figures next to a lifeboat.
I just asked Dug and he can't remember a thing.
But I can tell you that I remember enjoying the one at Palo! No idea. But looks pretty nice!
Absolutely! Gotta enjoy some mommy+sweets time!
We live an exciting life, right?
So nice to just enjoy the ship and not worry about supervising anyone.She sure was. Really caught us off guard, as she'd been a good stroller napper previously.
I did find it a bit overwhelming to organize and plan - I suppose it didn't have to be, but we had a variety of different types of families/couples in our group and I ended up breaking it down into toddler gifts, kid/tween/teen gifts, and adult gifts. I'm glad I bagged them by cabin, since it would have been a pain to show up at each door, cross reference my list of participants, dig through the bag for the right combination of gifts, etc. More work beforehand, but made the actual delivery quick and easy.
Glad to have your blessings on this one!
It was pretty fun - more than I expected.
Hey, no spoilers!
It was great and I'm glad we did it, even if it meant Izzy staying up late (though we were HOPING she'd be sleeping).
Yeah.Oh wow.
Guess the nursery just didn't tire her out enough. 
Haha, she did an excellent job of driving that night.That's cool you got some adult time and got to explore the adults-only areas of the ship! Although Captain Izzy looked tired she looked like she commandeered the boat really well
Oooh, good idea on doing FE on a cruise where you don't have to fly! And I'm sure you COULD come up with small things, but I couldn't resist all those water tumblers for $1/each (clearance) and they definitely added to the bulkiness. Plus, we knew we'd have enough room in our luggage to bring back whatever we ended up receiving.
Can't go wrong with chocolate!
You can't really tell in the picture, but the whole thing was plexiglass or whatever, so it would have been really hard to climb unless she got on a table or chair - and I made sure to supervise so that she didn't try! (I also think it helped that she was finally old enough to understand that falling off a cruise ship was a BAD idea and should be avoided).
Could look at those views anytime.
Haha, it did feel a little like, "Are we supposed to be here?" And I also kept thinking of the guys in Muppetvision.
Best kind of snack!
More cruises!
It was a good show!
Could be that. But mine is more plausible.
(And yes, I saw what @TinkLoverSam wrote... I really think it's for blob rescue.
I think I can see your interpretation in it more than the actual one.Indeed!
I love most Disney things at night - they do a good job of pretty-ing the place up.
Seemed like a peaceful place! If it was a longer cruise, I'd have loved to put Izzy in the nursery to spend a bit of time there.
We were so giddy to be eating pizza in the elevator...I think the other people thought we were a little odd.
Lucky she was happy. But...
Haha, that was a pretty good one!
That was a nice one. I sure wondered how they transported all those, though.
Now.. go to bed Izzy...
He enjoyed it. He was the only one there, but walking up all those stairs when he was already tired wiped him out.
She's always gotta be in on the action (sitting next to me on the couch right now, in fact).
Gotta work for those cookies!
I really enjoyed seeing what others had!
Haha, if they were night owls, maybe.
I hope you get to!
I know, every time I post an update here, I desperately want to take another cruise! I hope we can make that happen sometime. And, yes, Izzy loves her dairy products!
Thanks! Seems like something that important could be more clear.
Well, at least you've got that cruise to look forward to - I know what that longing is like, though! That passport sounds really neat, I didn't know about that! Wow, I don't know how you survived that day - our Mixology class alone had us all tipping over.Your TR is making long for our cruise, which isn't until next summer
I know the feeling!This will be our second DCL cruise, but the first time to do Fish Extenders. I started looking at some on Etsy. It's really overwhelming. There are so many, and I really have no idea what I want. I kind of wish there were less choices
I found it intimidating that so many people made their own FE (I considered it to avoid the high cost, but I'm just not crafty enough or motivated enough). But Etsy has so many options. My strategy was to find a low-priced one with good reviews (2 pockets instead of 3 kept the cost down) and then have it customized in a not-overly-specific way so that we could hopefully use it again someday! The things we gave came together over time between visits to the Target dollar section, Party City, and company store (oh, and the Mickey straws from Disney and the rubber duckies from Amazon). Good luck!No worries, this report will be around for a LONG time yet.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I still really can't see it, at least not very clearly.
She might have woken up, but we figured she'd be far enough into her night's sleep that she'd go back down quickly. I mean, by the time we picked her up, it was a few hours after her normal bedtime. Oh, well.
No dollar amount and you can do whatever you feel comfortable with. (Granted, all groups are probably different, but I think this is pretty standard...ours was mostly newbies and we were pretty relaxed). Thanks! I just couldn't believe all the things that showed up in our FE!
That sounds wonderful!
Can't go wrong with chocolate!
A photogs dream.We were so giddy to be eating pizza in the elevator...I think the other people thought we were a little odd.
Yep, we'd already had a climbing on a table incident on the Boardwalk balcony this trip (she was fine, thankfully), so I was on top of this. Mostly kept the tables and chairs further back unless we were out there using them. I also think the other incident scared her enough to not want to risk it.Just the thought... sacrilege!
I could see the plexi, but I was thinking of climbing on a chair or something.
Yeah, that'd help.
But of course.
Yes!
Huh. Hadn't thought of that, but you're right.
Gotcha.
Izzy was even agreeable to wearing the “swimming kitty” shirt that I’d selected for her. Off to a great start! 
(Seriously, she LOVES to build things and will find a way with nearly anything).
She was not at all happy about taking her arms out of her shirt to get the swimsuit off. And, of course, she didn’t actually go after all this. I ended up taking her back to the bathroom once more a bit later and this time she just completely lost her mind at the prospect of getting things off, refusing to go entirely. And, in fact, she never actually did go potty that entire morning. (And, yes, the most recent swimsuit I bought her is two pieces, so we don't have to deal with something like that again). So, I had to trek all the way back to the room and search for it. After trashing our room looking for it, I finally gave up and headed to Guest Services where they had to print a new one. In case you are wondering, at some later point in our cruise I discovered that it was in the little slot by the door that keeps the lights on. Oops. 
I explained to him that we didn’t get off the ship yesterday, so this was all new to us. His attitude quickly improved and he explained that we would have to do the same thing to get back onboard as well. We finally made it onto Castaway Cay at 10:07am:
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) We found a chair towards the back of the beach at the end of a row and Dug sat there with our stuff while Izzy and I headed over to the nearby splash pad. Sorry that I have no pictures of any of this, as we only had our phones, no waterproof camera. 
I mean, we’d really only had about an hour to enjoy the beach and splash pad. And Izzy was due in the nursery on the ship from 1-5pm. We had set that up in advance with the plan of dropping her off there to nap while we got back off and went to Serenity Bay, the adult only part of Castaway Cay. Dug and I debated our next move after dropping her off. Neither of us was really inclined to get back off the ship, as it was still raining. So, we decided to cut our losses on Castaway and just stay onboard to enjoy the Dream and do some laundry. Exciting, I know. Ironically, the afternoon did clear up and was fairly nice once it did. Oh, well, can’t win ‘em all. So, yeah, we didn’t have a lot of non-rain time on Castaway Cay and this is something I’d like to rectify if we take another Disney cruise sometime. On the bright side, neither of us are big lounging-on-the-beach people, so we weren’t TOO heartbroken vs. those DIS-ers who take the cruise only as a means of visiting Castaway Cay. I mean, I did have to give up my daydream of sitting on a chair in the shallow water of the adult beach with an adult beverage in my hand , but we had a pleasant enough afternoon on the Dream.
