love2travel
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2005
- Messages
- 1,210
Ok the cast of characters for this trip is myself (Teresa), DH (Ken) and DD (Rebecca). This trip was much needed by all of us. 7 weeks before the cruise DH had shoulder surgery to repair major damage to his rotator cuff and bicep area. Ok, seriously I need the vacation the most, because he has been home (out of work) since July, you get the picture. 
Honestly, I do 
him dearly. He came thru the surgery with flying colors and is going thru physical therapy. Ok, ok, enough background information.
Friday - 11/2
Flew from Philly on Southwest. They have great flight attendants, on this flight we played games, they told jokes and we even played a game with a roll of toilet paper. Don't ask. We arrived a few minutes early in Orlando and headed to baggage claim. Our car service (Quiksilver) was waiting in the baggage claim area for us. When I first saw the lady holding the sign with our name on it, my first thought was she looked a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunters wife. Upon meeting her, she was very nice and extremely friendly and very helpful with all our luggage. She went outside to get the car and informed us that we would be riding in a Cadillac Escalade. We had booked a Lincoln Towncar, so it was a nice little upgrade.
She took us to our hotel the County Inn & Suites in Cape Canaveral, very nice hotel and very nice accomodations. We would definately stay there again. Got settled into our room and decided on where to go for dinner. We took a cab to Fishlips, we had eaten there last year and really liked it. We sat outside on the deck, boy was it windy. The remnants of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Noel. The Floridians were complaining that it was cold, but us New Jerseyans thought it was nice since when we left Philly is was 39 degrees. Dinner was good and so were the cocktails. I had a Hawaiian Martini, yummy and DH had a Pina Colada, yummy. DD had a jumbo Shirley Temple. What a way to start vacation! Got back to the hotel and just relaxed and got ready for our big day to board the MAGIC!! So far, so good. Believe me, it doesn't stay that way for the whole week.
Honestly, I do him dearly. He came thru the surgery with flying colors and is going thru physical therapy. Ok, ok, enough background information.Friday - 11/2
Flew from Philly on Southwest. They have great flight attendants, on this flight we played games, they told jokes and we even played a game with a roll of toilet paper. Don't ask. We arrived a few minutes early in Orlando and headed to baggage claim. Our car service (Quiksilver) was waiting in the baggage claim area for us. When I first saw the lady holding the sign with our name on it, my first thought was she looked a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunters wife. Upon meeting her, she was very nice and extremely friendly and very helpful with all our luggage. She went outside to get the car and informed us that we would be riding in a Cadillac Escalade. We had booked a Lincoln Towncar, so it was a nice little upgrade.
She took us to our hotel the County Inn & Suites in Cape Canaveral, very nice hotel and very nice accomodations. We would definately stay there again. Got settled into our room and decided on where to go for dinner. We took a cab to Fishlips, we had eaten there last year and really liked it. We sat outside on the deck, boy was it windy. The remnants of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Noel. The Floridians were complaining that it was cold, but us New Jerseyans thought it was nice since when we left Philly is was 39 degrees. Dinner was good and so were the cocktails. I had a Hawaiian Martini, yummy and DH had a Pina Colada, yummy. DD had a jumbo Shirley Temple. What a way to start vacation! Got back to the hotel and just relaxed and got ready for our big day to board the MAGIC!! So far, so good. Believe me, it doesn't stay that way for the whole week.
We were in the terminal at just about 10am, only about 5 other people in the terminal. Within 5-10 minutes were checked in. They do have a new policy, they give you your boarding card when you check in, instead of when you enter the terminal building. We got boarding card #2. Got our KTTW cards and yes we confirmed our upgrade. Yes upgrade, we got a call from our 
Just kidding SweetSpot! Around 11:45ish we started boarding. Stopped and took our first of many pictures and I do mean many! and then over the ramp onto the ship for the famous announcement of your family name.
We went straight to Parrot Cay for lunch, too windy to do outside at Topsider's. After lunch, we went up to Deck 9 the Goofy Pool and met up with another DISer DVCfromNJ and family and instantly her DD and our DD hit if off. Around 1:30, we decided to check out our new room #8598. We had never had a verendah before, so we were very excited to check it out. Upon arrival in our room, we found our 
We also met our stateroom host, Onin from the Phillipines. Loved our room and loved the verendah, had a great view of the terminal. Around 3:00 went back up to the Goofy Pool for our DIS Meet. Met lots of nice DISER's, thisisthelife, needacruise, 3Cheers4DIS, SillySully, DVCfromNJ, Wishkidmom, DuncanLL, graygables, mommnt, michboro and whoever else I forgot, sorry I can't remember everybody's name. Too many drinks!
After dinner we went to Mickey's Mates to check out the Disney Pins. DD is hooked on Pin Trading, what an expensive hobby, but I guess it could be worse, she could idolize Brittany Spears 
LOL. We met MaryJo a Castmember from Canada and her and DD started chatting about pins. More to come about MaryJo later on in the cruise. Nice, nice lady. We were all tired from the busy day so we decided to call it a night and went back to the room. DD called roomservice for her 
They served you 3 different shots of tequila and 2 different kinds of margaritas, 1800 Margarita and Strawberry Margarita. Guess what, I drank all 3 shots of tequila and both margaritas. Yes, the first tequila was Jose Cuervo Reposado, I really didn't like and it burned going down. The second one was Patron Silver, that was better and I really liked the 3rd one it was Patron XO Cafe, it reminded me of a Kahlua flavor. By the time that was over, I needed some food, so we headed up to deck 9 for some snacks. Dinner tonight was in Parrot Cay for the Island Dinner. While we were getting ready for dinner and tonight was formal night. DH who had packed 1 1/2 weeks before the cruise advised me that he forgot his ties at home. So guess what we had to do, go shopping. We went down to Treasure Ketch and we found a really nice tie for $10, yes $10. Off to dinner we go. When dinner started, our server Daniel came over and told us that we were going to have a new assistant server named Selma from Brazil. Our old assistant server Giovanni was requested by a family who he had served on the Med. cruise. Selma was quite shy and a little disorganized at the beginning. DD had the ribs, she loves the ribs at Parrot Cay. After dinner, we went back to change into our Steelers Garb. Tonight was Monday Night Football, Steelers vs. Ravens. Here we go Steelers, Here we go!!!! DD went to see the Golden Mickeys with our new friends DVCfrom NJ and her family, while we watched the game. THANK YOU!!!!! After the Golden Mickeys, DD wanted to go into the kids club, so she could go make pizzas. We watched the game in Diversions, lots of Steelers Fans. I think there was one lone Ravens fan and he didn't stay very long.
We enjoyed sharing our table with 3Cheers4Dis (Iain) from England. Hi Iain! I hung out until about 11ish and decided to call it night-night time. I came to the conclusion that we are not as young as we used to be. Picked up DD from the club and she went back to the room and made her nightly call to room service. DH stayed in Diversions to finish watching the game but then came back to the room with about 10 minutes left in the game. By this time we knew that the ratbirds, oh sorry did I say that! had no chance of catching up. The Steelers won 38-7 YEAH!!!!
DD enjoyed the waterslide and met up with SillySullys family. Hello Everybody! After we left Margaritaville, we headed to Grand Caymen Harley Davidson. Yes, every Harley owner (DH) must have a t-shirt from every Harley dealerships in the world. I lost count at how many DH has, too many. Did I say that!
Headed back to the ship for an afternoon swim and enjoyed it very much. Dinner tonight was in Lumiere's, during dinner our new assistant server spilled a coke on me. I was not happy. She was very sorry and kept asking me if I was ok. It really wasn't a big deal, I was just kind of surprised by it. After dinner it was time for Officer Pin Trading and DD was ready to go. At 8:30 we headed to the theatre to watch Twice Charmed. DH came to the show but right before it started he decided to head back to the room to rest, I think this was the start of him not feeling well. More to come on that later on.
