Because I'm the Boss Of You That's Why! Last day, HOP ONBOARD!!! Updated 12/11

[SwansLoveDisney]

GORGEOUS photos, Leyla!

Bella is so brave, going parasailing! It sounds like they had such a fun time!

That water looks so nice on the beach.

Maybe if I had a gorgeous view of the open sea at the gym, I'd go there more! Instead, I just see the big ol booty of the person on the elliptical in front of me!

It's awesome that Cooper loved the Kids Club so much. Isn't this the same kid who wouldn't go on the pirate cruise last year?

 

[hlrababy]

I love going into NYC for just that reason! All the bags are out on full display in Nassau though, in NC all the good ones are in huge plastic bags under the tables

Oooh, I need to go to NYC bad then!!! I would go nuts!!!

Awesome update BTW. I can not wait until I can go to CC and see the Flying Dutchman!! Awesome!!!!!

 

[postalcop]

hey Leyla,
nope, i didn't see peeps at CC. lol, you didn't get a pic. OMG i would live to see how rediculous he looked that day!!! i was to busy feeling bad for the poor middle eastern woman who must have been sweating her booty off, wearing her jeans, and long sleave shirt! while her hubby & little girls looked very comfy in there bathing suites!!! i know this is what they do, but i did feel bad for her,(in the ocean w/jeans) oh well!!
Pierre didn't like the cruise or England? not sure which one you were talking about?? i think we will be on the cruise the stops at Key West!! never been there so i thought this would be a perfect stop!
i got a quote from a travel agent that was about $700 less than Disneycruise.com also it included the trip insurance... PM if you want the website or phone #. we have used them in the past, and so has a co-worker. the only reason why i say to PM me is because i'm not sure if i can type it in or if it will be blocked????
i'm glad Pierre and Bella enjoyed parasailing- not so sure that i could do it??? i will just stay with the beach!!!
~Sue

 

[DisneyJo]

The Pirate party looks so much fun and CC looks gorgeous. Bella is so brave going parasailing how great she loved it.

BTW I don't like scones so cream teas are out for me

 

[pierresgirl]

I've been a cleaning machine the last few days which has been tough since I work Fri, Sat, Sun but..... my cousin is coming from England today with her 2 kids and they are staying with me. I miss them all badly and it stinks that I have no fam here except for my sisters hippie: girlfriends) meaning, aunts, uncles, grandparents cousins, etc. They are all in England or Iran. I have SO much planned for the next 2 weeks but am going to work on my next installment in a minute, the pics are loading as I write and it's all about Castaway Cay. Have I mentioned how heavenly it is there only once or a thoughsand times!

Oh, I cannot figure out why my printer won't scan the parasailing pictures, I'm really upset about that! It's saying it's not hooked up to the pc but I printed stuff out from online so....When I do figure it out I WILL post them becuase theya re fantastic!

Did I mention that I lost my cell phone 3 weeks ago and only JUST got around to ordering a new one last night. That's how much I use a phone! I lost my credit card 2 days before that but Pierre found it last week, thankfully

Okay folks, off to write!!!!

 

[pierresgirl]

GORGEOUS photos, Leyla!

Bella is so brave, going parasailing! It sounds like they had such a fun time!

That water looks so nice on the beach.

Maybe if I had a gorgeous view of the open sea at the gym, I'd go there more! Instead, I just see the big ol booty of the person on the elliptical in front of me!

It's awesome that Cooper loved the Kids Club so much. Isn't this the same kid who wouldn't go on the pirate cruise last year?

Thanks Julie! I know, can you believe it's the same kid? Once he gets a bug up his butt about something he's as stubborn as his mom H blew off the whole paddleboat thing because of a crab he saw in the water. Pierre just moved my elliptical into the garage so now I look at the garage door instead of the famous Kramer portrait

Oooh, I need to go to NYC bad then!!! I would go nuts!!!

Awesome update BTW. I can not wait until I can go to CC and see the Flying Dutchman!! Awesome!!!!!

O.M.G. NYC is SO much fun! I go crazazy every time, love it! I HAVE to get a bag on each trip! I should send you the link to the NYC trip I took with my sister, Wendy, last summer, it was freaking nuts! Cooper won't go there again, he just informed me yesterday. More CC coming up!

hey Leyla,

Pierre didn't like the cruise or England? not sure which one you were talking about?? i think we will be on the cruise the stops at Key West!! never been there so i thought this would be a perfect stop!
i got a quote from a travel agent that was about $700 less than Disneycruise.com also it included the trip insurance... PM if you want the website or phone #. we have used them in the past, and so has a co-worker. the only reason why i say to PM me is because i'm not sure if i can type it in or if it will be blocked????
i'm glad Pierre and Bella enjoyed parasailing- not so sure that i could do it??? i will just stay with the beach!!!
~Sue

Hi Sue! I'll keep that in mind about the TA, I still haven't decided what to do about next year and I really want my sister and her family to go. She's been reading my report and may insist on a DCL trip! Can you pm me the info? Pierre loved the cruise and liked England. For me, England is home and family and while he had a blast and LOVED London, he'd rather go somewhere else. bum.

The Pirate party looks so much fun and CC looks gorgeous. Bella is so brave going parasailing how great she loved it.

BTW I don't like scones so cream teas are out for me

T minus 6 hours and counting till Milky Bar time She was so chuffed at the parasailing and I know she'll insist on it every trip from now on! I certainly don't have the cohonees....

 

[hlrababy]

O.M.G. NYC is SO much fun! I go crazazy every time, love it! I HAVE to get a bag on each trip! I should send you the link to the NYC trip I took with my sister, Wendy, last summer, it was freaking nuts! Cooper won't go there again, he just informed me yesterday. More CC coming up!

Ooooh, yes!! Please send it to me! I would love to see it!

 

[pierresgirl]

We got to the rental area and Mr. Chipper De Dipper himself was working there. Except he wasn’t so chipper today. He was busy blowing into a snot-rag and didn’t even look at us while he took out card for charging purposes. I guess that his fiercely “on” attitude was saved for the stage! I gave our ticket to the girl and they pushed a paddleboat out for us. Bella and Pierre worked away while I basked in the sunshine. Hey, they wanted to! We went by the Flying Dutchman and got some really good shots of both boats, how cool! It’s roped off so you can’t go all the way up to them. Kind of a bummer but I can totally see why. I couldn’t get over how clear the water was, it was just so amazing. Bella wanted to jump in the water so we told her to go ahead and she swam about for a bit. Until she saw what she thought was a starfish. Did you know there are killer starfish in the sea. According to Bella. We LOST it laughing at her trying to get back on the paddle boat, you woulda thought it was Jaws they way she was acting!!!!! OMG, SO funny Starfish move about an inch an hour or something like that, ahhhhhhh, ya had to be there but it really was a trip! I felt bad for her though because she scraped her hip trying to get on. After that we paddled back, they made me work this time.

LUNCHTIME!!!! We ate at Cookie’s BBQ and while I wasn’t very hungry it was still quite good. We had the usual stuff like chicken, corn, mahi-mahi sandwich. I used to have mahi-mahi all the time when I lived in Hawaii so it brought back memories! LOTS of fresh fruit, I swear DCL has the best! We also ran into our tablemates on a bathroom trip, they had only JUST gotten off the boat, what a waste I tell ya! I wanted to thoroughly enjoy a full day AT Castaway Cay, not in my room!

Pierre and I wanted to go to the adults only beach so Bella agreed to go to the club. Good girl! Her age group was over in the game room so we walked, what a hike! We signed her in a told her we’d only be an hour or so so she was good with it. The counselor told us what direction to go for Serenity Bay and we were off. Um, that’s a bit of a hike. Luckily we thought to hitch and someone riding a golf cart stopped for us. Woohoo! She worked on the island and took us over.

Here I am with some Island debris behind me. Drink in hand, of course.

We found the bar and saw Rose, who had made us a couple of drinks before. Menu time…. I ended up getting a Lemon Drop martini and I did NOT like it, ughhh, gross. I put some of Pierre’s drink in so I could choke it down. He had a Planter’s Punch which was drink of the day. After a few giggles with Rose we walked down to the beach and pulled some chairs into the water. It was really a pretty light crowd, everyone must have been on the family beach. Fine with me! I looked out over the water and saw this rain cloud, how cool is this pic?!

I used to see them in Hawaii a lot but I had never taken a pic. Pierre didn’t believe me that it was an actual rain cloud until he overheard other people talking about it. Doesn’t he know yet that *I* know EVERYTHING. And I’m The Boss ….. Ahhh, look at the sky

We never had a honeymoon and the next day was our 9 year anniversary so I was just soaking up everything about this vacation and really enjoying it!

There were several older women on the beach chatting away to each other and they offered to take out picture, so sweet of them!

We stayed in the water for a while, just bs’ing with each other, I love him! He’s my best friend as well as my husband and I love how we can sit and talk like a couple of girlfriends gossiping Everyone who knows him IRL gets that sense from him! Anyways, when we were in the water I overheard some people talking and 1 guy mentioned the Dis! HELLO- my ears perked up on end and I told Pierre to shut up. Nicely though. Maybe. When the guy got out of the water I told him I was a Diser and that my screen name is Pierresgirl. I think he said he was Goofydude or something along those lines- of you are reading HI! But I don’t think he is….. I may post my report in the cruise section.

We decided to head back over and get the kids because the kids clubs closed around 2:30 and we had our spa treatment coming up, YAY!!!!!! We jumped on the trolley to the kids beach and went to get Cooper first. Okay, do NOT tell me this kid didn’t have fun. COVERED head to toe in sand

He had such a blast digging and of course made some friends so I was glad we dropped him off when we did. We got Bella during her whale dig

Doesn’t that look neat?! She had fun too but is a little more reserved than my Coops. Back to the boat , I had me a spa treatment coming up and I wasn’t about to be late!!!!!!!

We stopped at the post office on the way to mail a post card to Lauryn and Dominic as well as Memere and Pepere so they could have the Castaway Cay stamp on it. What a poser

We stopped for a quickie dip in the pool

then off to the room for a rinse off in the shower before returning the kids to the clubs. I’m gonna get you!

Freshened up and ready to go!

Pierre checked them in at the clubs while I went down to the spa to let them know we were there. I took this pic of the fitness area while I waited.

I noticed a sign up on the front desk advertising a special for a mini facial-mini massage-mini foot and hand treatment for only $125. Um, okay, they totally snapped my arm off trying to get me to do that one! I added it to my Exotic Rasul and got Pierre a 50 minute massage. I thought it would be a good anniversary pressie for us! I felt like I waited FOREVER for him to show up but I was able to change into my robe and get cozy before the treatment. I told the girl on the front desk it was our anniversary and she got us complimentary glasses of champers! Yeah baby!

Well, friends that’s it for now! Stay tuned for the Exotic Rasul details (well, not all….) and our last night on The Wonder!

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

Those pics of Cooper are Adorable with a capital A!!!

It's awesome that the adults only beach was so empty. Sounds so relaxing!

I can't wait to hear about the spa treatments. Sounds SOOOOOOOOOOO nice!

 

[DisneyJo]

Killer starfish???? Bless her that's so sweet

CC sounds and looks idylic, how great you got to spend some time at the adults beach

 

[pierresgirl]

Sorry I've been away from the pc, my cuz is here with her 2 kids so it's been a busy housefull. We went to Boston on Monday and had SUCH a good time. I love Beantown! We did Quinzy Market, Fanueil Hall, Science Museum, and ate appy's in Cheers (where everyone knows your name)

Those pics of Cooper are Adorable with a capital A!!!

It's awesome that the adults only beach was so empty. Sounds so relaxing!

I can't wait to hear about the spa treatments. Sounds SOOOOOOOOOOO nice!

Aww, thanks! The adult beach was fantastic, I LOVED it! I'm going to try and work on a spa episode today but we are going to see HSM3 and going out for dinner.

Killer starfish???? Bless her that's so sweet

CC sounds and looks idylic, how great you got to spend some time at the adults beach

It was so funny and we felt bad for laughing, A little Adult Beach

 

[pierresgirl]

All I can do right now is post a teaser picture and give you the heads up tht the EXOTIC RASUL is the wayheyhey to go

I'm not too into the products pushing but I worked in a Red Door Spa for 4 years so I know the whole shpeil and flat out said no nonono no no!

I'm drinking a totally FABU pumpkin martini right now, I made it up myself and totoally recommened it.

3 oz. vanilla soymilk
1 cap vanilla extract
3 oz. vodka (vanilla flav if ya got it)
1/4 cup canned pumpkin (I use organic)
1 tsp. organic sugar
1/8 tsp. cinnamon and dash of nutmeg

blend and enjoy- fabulosity!!!!!!

I really love my husband, I'm so lucky!

Since my cousin left yesterday I will finally have time to start writing and reading again, hopefully you will all stick around and more will read!!!!! I only have a few days left so.....

Love to all! Your Disfriend Leyla

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

Yum! That drink sounds awesome.

I hope you visit with your cousin was wonderful!

 

[pierresgirl]

Report starting again. S’bout time you say? Me too! The front desk girl said I could leave the kid pager with her for safekeeping so I did. BUT I better not be interrupted!

Pierre finally came in from dumping, I mean dropping off, our chilin’s and since I was all cozy, toasty and warm in my nice Vista Spa robe he needed to get changed up as well. Our lovely British attendant, I believe her name was Julie, led him off to the men’s locker room so he could do so and I met him outside our Rasul Room. She took us in there and showed us the scrubs, muds, masks, etc. and how to use them. Uh, okay….

The room was VERY cool looking, although smaller than I thought it would be, so Turkish bathy and quite steamy. There was a center pillar with washing up stations, a tiled bench, a shower with several shower heads from the ceiling as well as the walls.

Awww, how lovey

She took a shot of us before leaving

Now, in case you don’t know this is a couples treatment lasting 50 mins and YES, you do get the courtesy knock. Which is needed ….. For obvious reasons this is the only shot I can show but needless to say it’s well worth the $80

As I mentioned before we never took a honeymoon in our 9 years of marriage OR done anything without our kids (I cherish my little loves and would miss them too much) so this time with just Pierre was very precious to us both! We used up every ounce of products left for us and had a blast. If you are considering this treatment I insist that you DO IT!!!!!!!

After Julie knocked on the door we rinsed off and rerobed. We took a seat outside the door and she brought us some water to rehydrate and recoupe

One of our massage therapists offered to take our pic and told us to let him know when we were ready for our massage treatments. Did I mention that we would be in the same room at the same time for those? So cool!

He then let us know we had a bit of time and let us go into the Rainforest Room for a little relax before getting’ the ole rubdown. Plus they wanted to give us some champers. K by moi!!!! The Rainforest Room was quite pretty, I loved the tiled chaise lounges, the details on the walls, just everything!

There were only about 4 other people in there enjoying the atmosphere, if I remember right there was a lovely eucalyptus smell in the air. Julie brought us our drinks and congratulated us on our anniversary. Cheers!

The other people in there left so I made my move to the chaise lounger.

Pierre’s massage therapist, who was quite handsome BTW, came to see if we were ready so we downed our drinks and followed him to our treatment room. I cannot recall either therapists names but again they were wonderful and took a picture of us before starting out

The woman who did my treatment was a young Asian woman who did a FABU job. She hit all the right spots for my massage and did a lovely mini facial. Geez I wish I was there now…… I don’t get spoiled much but felt like I was right in the lap of luxury. I also got my foot rub (good thing I got a proper pedi the day before we went away!) and hand massage. Pierre had a super massage too and went for the sports rubdown. Ughhhh, I CANNOT handle anything like that, I’m way too jumpy and would NOT enjoy it! Afterwards we got the major sales pitch. Talk about ruining the moment Seriously!!!!! The is one of the reasons I left working at a spa, although I loved what I was doing I hated to push retail. I am NOT in sales, I am there to make my client happy! Thankfully my boss now doesn’t give too much of a hoot.

Here’s a very happy Peeps after his massage

I need to mention here that I failed terribly taking notes after this point. Very terribly. As in none. Bummer. So bear with me as I'll just have to go off of pictures.

We reluctantly left and headed back to the room to get tidied up for dinner, of which we missed half of. Me was hungry, big time! We left the kiddos in the kid clubs and headed down to Parrot Cay. Dinner was nearly over but our table mates welcomed us and our server got us the food he could. Of course my big mouth hubby had to brag about the Rasul (but not in too too much detail thankfully!) so I turned 50 shades of red but was all giggly from the champagne so we had a good laugh with them that night. Okay, I really don’t know what the heck kinda face P-dog is making here but I’m posting it anyways

Our meal here was very rushed but like I said I had fun with our tablemates. When it was time to leave we went to grab the kiddos and Cooper was in the middle of the Crazy Scientist demo

Doesn’t he look sweet with his little white coat lab coat on? Then he informed me that he missed me and was crying earlier. Whoops. He showed me the Flubber they made, very cool! Then he showed me the cap and shirt he got from the Disney Sea University graduation. How freaking cute is this kid??!!!

He asked why I didn’t go to it. Um, bad Mom moment but I totally lied and said I did. Don’t hate!!!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!! He wanted to see the pictures but I said the camera batteries died. Geez, I’m terrible but don’t judge. We went to get Bella and they were on the upper deck playing some b-ball

Cooper shot

Here she is

Alrighty folks, I’m going to try and upload some more pics and see if I can get another installment going for ya!

 

[DisneyJo]

We did a similar rasul thing but mud was involved, it was very errrr romantic

Sounds like a lovely break from the kids and looks like they had fun too

 

[EcoGirl]

Then he showed me the cap and shirt he got from the Disney Sea University graduation. How freaking cute is this kid??!!!

We went to get Bella and they were on the upper deck playing some b-ball

Here she is

Well, I’d have to say they’re both freaking cute as heck, but don’t tell Bella I said that! At least she’s always got the pink thing going ... just like her mom

He asked why I didn’t go to it. Um, bad Mom moment but I totally lied and said I did. Don’t hate!!!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!! He wanted to see the pictures but I said the camera batteries died. Geez, I’m terrible but don’t judge.

Hey, every once in a while you have to come up with something on the fly and just go with it. Just be ready when he asks you three months from now, “So, Mom, what did you think about (insert something very specific here) at Sea University Graduation?” Your kids are great for coming up with questions that make you think, 'uh-oh-I-thought-you-forgot-but-obviously-not-because-now-you’re-asking-me' - I’ve seen it Just kidding (well, kind of – they’re both smart as heck and they do remember everything). In all seriousness, though, don’t worry about it. Your good Mom moments WAY make up for this

Exotic Rasul sounds completely FAB - I’m a little jealioso! I’m glad you & P had some time to yourselves, and I’m sure you made good use of the privacy Nice job describing the treatments and giving hints ... if I were planning a trip and on the fence about Rasul or any of the services, I would know just what to plan (and what to look out for – retail schmetail ). Double score on the champagne while you waited - yum!

Can’t wait to read the rest of the report. I have some photos and thoughts I’ll add in the next day or two – I’m out of steam tonight ........ (I know, I know - hard to believe )

Love you and miss you – I’m SOOOOOOOOOO glad we were able to have a nice, long talk today Did you take any pictures of the finished pedicures???

 

[pierresgirl]

We did a similar rasul thing but mud was involved, it was very errrr romantic

Sounds like a lovely break from the kids and looks like they had fun too

Oh, yeah we used LOTS of mud! It was just SO nice to get a break and really enjoy ourselves

Well, I’d have to say they’re both freaking cute as heck, but don’t tell Bella I said that! At least she’s always got the pink thing going ... just like her mom


Exotic Rasul sounds completely FAB - I’m a little jealioso! I’m glad you & P had some time to yourselves, and I’m sure you made good use of the privacy Nice job describing the treatments and giving hints ... if I were planning a trip and on the fence about Rasul or any of the services, I would know just what to plan (and what to look out for – retail schmetail ). Double score on the champagne while you waited - yum!

Can’t wait to read the rest of the report. I have some photos and thoughts I’ll add in the next day or two – I’m out of steam tonight ........ (I know, I know - hard to believe )

Love you and miss you – I’m SOOOOOOOOOO glad we were able to have a nice, long talk today Did you take any pictures of the finished pedicures???

I loved yapping away last night as well and can't wait for your visit. Exotic Rasul rocks and I'm so bummed they don't offer it at Mohegan Sun (same spa company) There's not too much more of the report left but decided to post my experience on the cruise trip report forum to drag it out Now I just need to decide on what to do next year 1) trip to England and Paris with us and the kids 2) trip on DCL with us and Wendy and her fam OR 3) all inclusive in the carib with Sam and her fam. Decisions, decisions.......


BTW - Don't you know by now that Bella is COOL, not cute! Cheeky minks!

 

[scottny]

Hi,
Sorry been MIA for a while, been moving the board to a new board. Great updates and pics. Also went to Disney for 4 days.

The cruise looks fantastic.

I will try to keep up. If you have time click the cloud and come by and check it out.

 

[Blueyed Girl]

OMG, the Rasul looks fab!! Except for the whole sales pitch thing. That would really bug the heck outta me too.

 

[postalcop]

Leyla,
you have me sold on the exotic rasul! the kids will be older & i wont have to worry if they will like the clubs! hey i have some pics. of the graduation if you want me to post them, you can't see the kids, just minnie and mickey. let me know??
~Sue