Will Do:
-Bring my Metrokane Champagne Cork again. I'm a champagne drinker, and the Pink Tattinger is delicious but $18 a glass at Pink! It's $90 in Duty Free for a bottle, and there's an empty fridge in your room. I brought it and my husband bought me a bottle of Asti (yuck - too sweet, but I'll drink it) as part of the wine package he got, and it allowed me to have my one glass each night on the verandah. I'm nursing, so I couldn't kill the bottle in one sitting.
-Order warm chocolate chip cookies and milk before bed. We did this each night on the cruise, as well as order a cake of the day (it was ok. I might skip that, but i'm a sucker for cake) and watch a new-to-my-son Disney movie. I found movies on the On Demand Disney Library that he hadn't seen yet, and it made the cruise more enjoyable, since he discovered new characters to love. The first night, we watched Lilo & Stitch, which worked out well because we met Stitch at
Castaway Cay and he was all excited. Little Mermaid was the second night, and Aladdin the third. The last two helped at WDW. He also thought it was funny that Mommy knew all of the songs.
-Allow DS to go to the kids club for a portion of the trip. I had a breastfed infant with us too, so I couldn't take her to the nursery (because she won't take a bottle, either), so we kept him with us. He met some kids on the deck on pirate night, and they wanted him to go. I probably should have let him, but I didn't. I wanted him with me.
-Go to the movies. Hopefully, DD will be old enough for a movie on the next cruise.
-Ditto with the shows. Go see a show.
-Take more pictures with Shutters.
-Read the Navigator more closely so I'd know when to meet the characters. I didn't figure that out until the 3rd day.
-Pick up some food to take with us to Castaway Cay. We woke up late and ran off the ship to meet Smee (my son's fav) and Hook, and didn't eat breakfast. There wasn't anything to eat on the island until 11:15.
-Get up earlier to get a chair in the sun. We could get a chair under the cover of the upper deck pretty much anytime, and some along the windows of the pool deck, but I couldn't ever get a lounger in the sun. I never went in the adults only area, though. Just the family area.
-Consider dropping both kids so we can go to one meal or bar. I felt like I couldn't do half of the stuff because I had a baby attached to me. DH went to Pink to bring me my glass of champagne to my room.
-Getting pirate stuff at Target. In the party supply aisle, they have 4 packs of patches and single hats for like $3.
What I Won't Do:
-Order a bottle of Asti Spumonte. Gross.
-Fly in the night before. Pick up drinks to bring on board.
-Do the Junkaroo tour at Nassau. We did PI, and it kind of sucked. Maybe when the kids are older and can do the waterpark, we might go back, but I'd like to do the Junkaroo tour, or just stay on the boat.
-Start buying gift cards at Target now, like $50 or $100 each time I go, so we can pay for the whole cruise with gift cards. Bring about $300 per day in additional gift cards.
-Bring more disney stuff for my kids to wear. I got a few t-shirts at Old Navy, but we didn't have much. I would consider bringing a few more.
-Bring 3 water bottles. We had one for our WDW trip, but we like to drink lots of water at night, and we never had enough. It was a pain to go up to the fountain on Deck 11. We should bring 3 and fill them up before bed each night.