You will be so busy trying to see and do everything... not wanting to miss anything and take in every hidden mickey and wonder of The Wonder. IF AT ALL POSSIBLE..... force yourself to stop and just watch the world float by. It's a truly magnificent thing the realize how "small a thing" we really are when you look out into all that SPACE. My only regret was that we didn't just RELAX more. It was WAY TOO MUCH FUN!!!!
If Palo had a dress DOWN day - we'd pay every night we could book a table. But I refuse to dress "fancy schmancy" while on vacation. Nope - I must dress everyday for work/clients. V IMHO - vacation means relax.
I have a cruise confession. I am a pirate (seriously!)
It wasn't on a Disney cruise, but it was on Royal Caribbean. In the 90's I was fascinated with pirates and wanted to become one. I looked up the technical/legal elements that constituted an act of piracy under maritime law.
"Piracy consists of any of the following acts:
- "Any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft (or) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any state;
- "Any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
- "Any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described (above)"
I selected robbery as my act of depredation. I robed a fellow cruiser of one of his shirt buttons using the seem-ripper from my travel-size mending kit. I didn't want my "threat of force" to be actually terrifying and I didn't want to rob anything of actual value; but I couldn't just sneak and steal something. To qualify as an "act of depredation" I had to take the item directly from someone using "force or threat of force." I selected my victim carefully and it paid off. After I informed him I was stealing his button to become a pirate, he got flirty and asked if I'd rape and pillage him too. (I was still young and cute then.)
I don't think I'd try committing an act of piracy in a post 9/11 world, but at the time, I got away with it. I put that button on my charm bracelet. It's my "booty" and proof of my piratical nerve.
I was pretty drunk... went back to our room and went to sleep. The next day I had a long Spa appointment booked with the veranda. I had finished my facial and massage and I was on the Veranda eating fresh fruit and tea. I was overlooking CC and all of a sudden I couldn't contain it... I projectile puked EVERYWHERE. It took me by such surprise... I would have tried to get to the side of the veranda and let it go overboard... but I couldn't make it. The spacemen came out. My therapist tried to reassure me that it happens all of the time. I was too embarrassed to tell her that I was horribly hungover. So then they assumed I was sick and wanted to quarantine me to my room, so I had to admit I was hungover. I was SO embarrassed and was convinced that our servers and every CM knew I was the girl that puked in the Spa. I was just paranoid and embarrassed. 
In between cruises, I use all of the H20 products I take home, but I save the bottles. Then I take the empties with me, and put them out in place of the full ones each day, putting those in my luggage to take home.
...not that it would apply to me... DENIAL.
It's entirely possible that your parents were grateful you were busy that day, too.
