BEAUTY & THE BEAST ( & Lindy Loo!) Wonder 15th -19th Oct 06

[Lindy Loo]

Castaway Cay day!!!


At last, everything Ive been waiting for. We love this island, its so pretty.

Tip, check your navigator for times the characters are out. We managed to get all the main ones, on the way to the toilet! by sheer fluke.

I did queue for Jack Sparrow though, while Elouise and Wayne chilled in the hammock. (This was so funny, watching people trying to get in to and out of them !.................. sorry to be mean, but it was really really funny seeing people tip out of the other side

Heres the Wonder, docked.

 

[Lindy Loo]

Tropical Mickey was great fun, and with The Wonder in the background, it makes a fab picture.

Jack Sparrow was really good, even sounding like him.

 

[Lindy Loo]

The BBQ was very good at the family beach. there were bugers, ribs, salad, crisps, ice cream, fruit and lots of drinks. lWe met up with Mike Jennifer and Kylie and Nicole

Elouise kept running off to play with the hula hoops!

We enjoyed talking to Mike and Jennifer and were very jelous to learn they have a swimming pool at home and a beach not too far away from their home too !

The girls wanted to go back to the beach, so we were up for that. We spent a hour or so sitting in the chairs, letting the waves go over our feet. Wayne and Mike took the girls out to the play area in the sea. They loved jumping off the building into the sea.

The sea was warm and it was a wonderful way to spend some time.. Sadly we didnt ever use the kids club on the island, though we walked past and it looked fun. TIP they wont put sun screen on your child, so if you do put your child in there, make sure they have plenty of sunscreen already on.

The beach is quite a novelty for our family.
TIP buy your own sandtoys, before you cruise, they are soooo expensive on the boat or in the shop at Castaway cay.

Heres Nicole and Elouise enjoying the sea.

 

[Lindy Loo]

To me today was very hectic. Our dream day of Castaway Cay, from 9am till about 3pm. We then tried to get Elouise to sleep, this only worked when Wayne pretended to go to sleep with her. Emmmm think when I went up to Deck 9 to get some drinks he did a pretty good job of "pretending!

Anyway we got a quick nap in, and then it was dress up time, for Pirates night, off to Golden Mickeys, Pirate meal and then pirate show (phew, even now im exhausted!) We brought from the UK, some chocolate coins and glow sticks for Elouise to give out to other children. We didnt realise that in USA your gold coins are generally plastic ones, we have chocolate in ours. So if she gave a choc coin to an American Child, of course she had to open another one and eat it, to demonstrate!

Heres a group picture of us

 

[oybolshoi]

Linda, love the pirate pictures but why do you and Elouise have moustaches and Wayne doesn't?

Glad you had such a great time!

 

[grlzmom]

What a wonderful trip report. I love reading.

 

[thmar]

Great picture of you and Jack!! I also thought the picture of your family in the pirate garb was cute. You've done an awesome job! Thanks!

 

[LITTLEKID58]

You did a great job enjoyed reading your report

Liz

 

[iwannabeminnie]

I loved reading your report. It makes me sad I wasn't on the boat with you!

 

[Lindy Loo]

Thank you so much for all the kind comments, it does make it so worth doing a trip report, I was worried people wouldnt read it, or if they did they would laugh!

Now Pirate night was great fun. It was particually good cos of our fab table mates. They spoilt Elouise with pirate treats, and we all dressed up and entered into the fun of things. FYI I estimate about 10% of the boat dressed up, and about another 60% who wore the pirate bandana ( given to them free at dinner) many ladies tucked them into their trousers at the hip. There is pirate stuff to buy on the boat, but I would suggest to save a few $s to bring it with you. Elouise has just reminded me to thank Allie and Janet who kindly gave her their gun ( after the pictures with Pirate Mickey and Minnie) She is still "shooting" everything!

TIP again, get there EARLY if you want a picture with the characters, they were all in the attrium.

Heres nearly all our tables mates ( sadly we missed Jules and Ian, who might have been in the bar??? and Wayne who took the picture!)

We had such fun getting this picture, as I dashed over to Kelly and Jake,w ho were in the queue for the lifestyle pictures, and got them to come in with all of us. There were lots of "arghs!!!" and pretend swigging of booze! ( Allie )

 

[Lindy Loo]

As we were dinner at 8pm, we asked them to speed up the service a bit, as no one wanted to miss the party! In the end we skipped desert, which wasnt a problem, as there was plenty to eat at the buffet ( for some reason I forgot to take photos of that ?)

At Dinner Elouise had been giving out chocolate coins and glow sticks to two boys who sat on the table next to us. They had great fun, and there was a lot of hugging and dancing with each other. It was very sweet. Laughlin was about 5 and his brother Jonathan was about 7. They draw pictures for Elouise, and Elouise drew pictures for them, she even wrote her name on it, and about 8 kisses!! ( Emm Daddy's told you "no boys till you are at least 30 ! )

Here they are with our team of servers

 

[Lindy Loo]

As I already said, our table mates were amazing. We were so lucky. They all took it in turn to "entertain" Elouise. (no, im not a bad Mum, they did offer..... honest!) Elouise loved to play with Janet and Allie and heres a great picture of Janet with Elouise.

We were allowed to keep the pirate menu, and bandana's, which make nice keepsakes. Thanks Jane for the lovely jug of Sangria, which you kindly paid for, for the table

We wish we could have had a bigger table, especially on pirate night, so Belinda and family and Mike and family could have joined us. It was great that we still saw them though ( thanks for popping over to say "Hi"!)
Elousie and Kylie and Nicole became firm friends and it was the saddest part of the cruise for me, to see them say goodbye. ( Thats later on, when I will admit to being in tears)
Back to the fun stuff.!

 

[Lindy Loo]

Here is Elouise with Pirate Minnie. It was fun to get pictures of Minnie and Mickey "dressed up " !

 

[Lindy Loo]

Heres Ian and Wayne................ getting into the spirit of the night

I think I've said this before, but one of my regrets is that I didnt take enough pictures of our fab friends. Sadly I cant even find a picture of Jules. Yet, I sat opposite or next to her at dinner, at least a couple of times. This is another reason why, Jules, you and Ian NEED to come and cruise with us on the 20th Oct 07

 

[Lindy Loo]

OK, ive got in a muddle again !!!!

I should have put in we went to the Golden Mickeys, before dinner. For those of you who read these trip reports to get plans/timescales this is how it was. We saw Minnie and Micket first, then we went to the Golden Mickeys, we then went to dinner and then to the party !!!! phew, and they say a cruise is restful !

Now I should have remembered the Golden Mickeys as Elouise we one of the children picked to be interviewed on the big screen ! We got there early and got seats. Then like most kids, she needs to toilet! so off we go. Wayne staying in his seat.
As we go towards the toilets, she gets asked if she would like to do an interview. Im sorry I wasnt sure who the lady in the yellow dress was .... read 4 women 4 nights of Wonder, MJ will know for sure anyway a lady keeps an eye on her, while I dash back to Wayne yelling " quick video the screen Ellies on it !" ( proud Mum moment
She gets asked her name and where she is from, which she answers OK. Then shes asked her favourtite character, and she says " Sleeping Beauty" not too sure why ?????? but it does change daily ! She then had to do an "argh" which she did very loud and it was so funny! We rushed back to Dad to see if he videod it ................. what about the toilet I ask, ???? "oh yer, I forgot was the reply !

 

[thmar]

Oh how exciting!!! I hope the video turned out...what a memorable moment!
Where did you find her pirate outfit...it is fantastic...and she is quite the model!! I love her poses!

Oh by the way...did you feel sea sick at all? I want to go on a Disney cruise but have been hesitant about being sick the whole time!

 

[Lindy Loo]

Hi Thmar! Thanks for the lovely comments, I got Elouises outift from the Disney shop in the UK. strange thing to note but I think the dressing up outfits in the UK Disney shop are cheaper than in USA?

No one in our family were sea sick, though in our "extended family" ie our DIS table mates, poor Sue felt poorly on the first night, and Allie didnt feel too well on the last night. Now Ive heard that going out of the port and coming back in may get a bit rough. I could feel the movement, but fortunately I felt fine with it. Hope this helps, but I guess each person is different!

Will try and post some more tomorrow, its 11.30pm here in the UK, so off to bed. Good night all xxx

 

[TinkNanny]

You are doing great so far!! I love all of the pictures!
Wasn't it so cool seeing Ellie on screen at the Golden Mickeys? We also saw her on the Jumbo-tron at the pirates party.
I loved your outfits!!

Keep up the good work on your report.

P.S. Where was the buffet at the pirate party? I never saw it!

 

[cntkg1]

Great job Lindy!! I'm enjoying every word of your TR!!! Don't forget about us on the "Konked Kruisers" thread. We're missing you over there.

 

[thmar]

Thanks for getting back to me LindyLoo...guess I'll just have to stock up on motion sickness pills and hope for the best!