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Disneypoor Family Finds "Magic" on 3/17/07 Eastern
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Wednesday, March 21st--St. Thomas/St. John
We had to be in the Walt Disney Theater at 6:15 this morning.
It wasn't actually as bad as I had thought it would be. We had an excursion scheduled anyway, so we needed to be up. Immigration went quickly, and we headed up to Topsiders for breakfast.
After we finished breakfast, we had to be at Animator's Palate by 7:15 for our St. John Trunk Bay Beach and Snorkel Tour. We had to be tendered in to St. Thomas, but since we had an excursion planned, a ferry picked us up right from the ship.
The ferry ride over to St. John was fabulous.
The guy who was doing the narrating did a super job, and I personally loved getting to see some of the houses of famous people. I don't know why, but I just love that kind of thing. My son got to see one of Michael Jordan's homes, and that was one of the highlights of his trip! Forget Disney, just show him anything that has to do with Michael Jordan, and he's happy.
We also saw Madonna's house, David Letterman's, and the guy who owns White Castle. The ocean was very, very rough for the ride over though. I actually did very well with it. I was nervous when we first left because just looking at the movement of the ocean was sortof giving me the heebie jeebies.
We sat on the top deck of the ferry, and I was glad we did. I think the people on the bottom deck were getting wet.
On the way over we saw a ferry or something like that that had hit the reef and was sortof sitting there lopsided with big waves crashing up against it. That scared me a little. What if that ended up being us? Our ferry driver did a great job, and he got us there all safe and sound.
Once we arrived at St. John, we boarded an open air bus that took us to Trunk Bay. The drive to Trunk Bay was very interesting. You could definitely tell you weren't in Kansas anymore.
It was very tropical, and we saw banana trees, termite nests, more wild goats, etc. I did really feel like I was in the middle of the rain forest. We stopped a few times for pictures, and they are almost postcard perfect.
We crested a hill, and I think my jaw hit the floor of the bus! Was this heaven? No, but it had to be something like it. It was Trunk Bay. The driver proceeded down to the parking lot and let us off the bus. We were given a quick rundown of where things were and were told where to get our snorkeling gear, and off we went.
Everyone should experience the beauty of St. John at some point in their lives. The water was beautiful, the sand was pure white, and Kenny Chesney has been there.
My kids had a blast! There were some rather large waves, and I think the kids had more fun in those waves than they did anywhere else on the trip. DS dove into a wave and came up with a face full of sand. Oops! DD sat close to the beach and let the waves throw her around a little. I think she probably still has sand stuck in places you just don't want sand to be stuck.
We snorkeled a little bit, but to be honest, we really didn't see much. We didn't care though. This place was beautiful, and we were experiencing it together as a family.
There must be something about us and nudity though. You see, we are all sitting there on the beach having a wonderful time watching DD roll around in the sandy water and watching DS build a sandcastle, when what is this? This nice group of people comes over by us and asks us if it's okay if they put their stuff in the area by ours. Sure! Well, what happened next almost brought me back to the beach at Orient Bay yesterday. First, the kids strip down butt naked and get their suits on. Okay, I can handle that just fine. But THEN, a woman decides to do the same. She was trying to be somewhat discreet about it, but we couldn't help but notice. The important thing was that DD and DS were oblivious this time. Thank goodness! I mean, afterall, I want my kids to have something to go back and tell their teachers and classmates about that doesn't have to do with breasts, butts, and other wrinkly things.
Our time at St. John soon came to an end, and we headed back to try to get the sand off of us and load back onto the bus. Our bus driver was a little late because there were so many tourists there on that day, but we still made it back in plenty of time. The ferry ride back to St. Thomas was fine, but the sun was beating down on us people on the top deck. You do remember that I put in a laughing icon for the people who were sitting on the bottom deck getting wet on the way over, right? Well, who's laughing now? The sun was intense, and I sortof wished I was getting wet!
The ferry didn't drop us back off at the ship like I was hoping it would. It dropped us off close to the tender, and it had just started raining a little bit. DH decided that we just had to go do Paradise Point. We had booked it through DCL but cancelled when DCL left a message on our stateroom voicemail that due to the tendering, we'd have to pay a taxi to get us to and from Paradise Point. I decided I didn't want to mess with it nor pay a taxi, but DH wanted to do it anyway.
As it turned out, we were glad we did it. The cost wasn't any different than DCL's, and the taxi was $4 per person each way. The view from the cable cars and once you get to the top is amazing! The kids watched a bird show that was pretty cute, and we decided we'd better head back to the ship.
We caught a taxi, and we headed back for the Magic. It was raining hard now. The taxi driver stopped and picked up another man and then headed for our ship. However, he thought he was going to drop us off about a block away from our tender. Remember, it was a downpour now! I decided that if he wanted his money, he'd take us right to where we needed to be. He did so without too much hesitation, and we ran straight for cover under DCL's tent. The rain just kept coming and coming and coming! People were filling into the tent quickly, and we soon loaded the tender and headed to the most beautiful ship in port that day
(and there were six of them).
Once we got back on the ship, we ordered room service and showered. DH and the kids rested a little bit while I went to deck 4 to walk. I got to see an airplane taking off out of the water, and since I've led a sheltered life , I thought this was pretty amazing. It was still raining a little outside, but it had let up from earlier.
After going to upgrade my Shutter's package again
, I went back to the room to find the rest of my family. I told DH that I had just upgraded our picture package to the 8 8X10's with 5 6X8's for $169.95. I won't tell you what he said.
We headed off to watch Gary Delena, a rock and roll comedian that had flown into St. Thomas to be on the Disney ship. He had a lot of energy and did a great job. We then went to the atrium to trade pins with the officers. My kids got into pin trading a couple of years ago, and I really like to look at all of the pins they've collected. They make great keepsakes, and they aren't really that expensive. I'll take anything over ANOTHER stuffed animal!
Dinner tonight was at Lumiere's. We let the kids talk us into letting them skip dinner tonight and do their own thing. As it turned out, all of the other families at our table must have had the same idea. One of the family's didn't come to dinner at all, and the other family came with just their baby. DH and I had a very nice, relaxing dinner with Stacie and Kevin and baby Andy. It was so peaceful, and we were really enjoying getting to know them.
After dinner, we rounded up the kids AGAIN and headed back to our stateroom to call it a day. We found what I thought was a dog towel animal with sunglasses on our bed. The rest of the family swears it was a bunny with sunglasses. We also had an invite to a DVC meeting the next day. Hmmm! That sounds good. DH gave me "a look", but I was determined to go with or without him. Maybe if he sleeps on it, he will have adjusted his attitude by tomorrow.
Next up: I'm so sick
! I think I'll go shopping!
We had to be in the Walt Disney Theater at 6:15 this morning.
It wasn't actually as bad as I had thought it would be. We had an excursion scheduled anyway, so we needed to be up. Immigration went quickly, and we headed up to Topsiders for breakfast.After we finished breakfast, we had to be at Animator's Palate by 7:15 for our St. John Trunk Bay Beach and Snorkel Tour. We had to be tendered in to St. Thomas, but since we had an excursion planned, a ferry picked us up right from the ship.
The ferry ride over to St. John was fabulous.
The guy who was doing the narrating did a super job, and I personally loved getting to see some of the houses of famous people. I don't know why, but I just love that kind of thing. My son got to see one of Michael Jordan's homes, and that was one of the highlights of his trip! Forget Disney, just show him anything that has to do with Michael Jordan, and he's happy. We also saw Madonna's house, David Letterman's, and the guy who owns White Castle. The ocean was very, very rough for the ride over though. I actually did very well with it. I was nervous when we first left because just looking at the movement of the ocean was sortof giving me the heebie jeebies. We sat on the top deck of the ferry, and I was glad we did. I think the people on the bottom deck were getting wet. On the way over we saw a ferry or something like that that had hit the reef and was sortof sitting there lopsided with big waves crashing up against it. That scared me a little. What if that ended up being us? Our ferry driver did a great job, and he got us there all safe and sound.
Once we arrived at St. John, we boarded an open air bus that took us to Trunk Bay. The drive to Trunk Bay was very interesting. You could definitely tell you weren't in Kansas anymore.
It was very tropical, and we saw banana trees, termite nests, more wild goats, etc. I did really feel like I was in the middle of the rain forest. We stopped a few times for pictures, and they are almost postcard perfect. We crested a hill, and I think my jaw hit the floor of the bus! Was this heaven? No, but it had to be something like it. It was Trunk Bay.
The driver proceeded down to the parking lot and let us off the bus. We were given a quick rundown of where things were and were told where to get our snorkeling gear, and off we went.Everyone should experience the beauty of St. John at some point in their lives. The water was beautiful, the sand was pure white, and Kenny Chesney has been there.
My kids had a blast! There were some rather large waves, and I think the kids had more fun in those waves than they did anywhere else on the trip. DS dove into a wave and came up with a face full of sand. Oops! DD sat close to the beach and let the waves throw her around a little. I think she probably still has sand stuck in places you just don't want sand to be stuck. We snorkeled a little bit, but to be honest, we really didn't see much. We didn't care though. This place was beautiful, and we were experiencing it together as a family. There must be something about us and nudity though. You see, we are all sitting there on the beach having a wonderful time watching DD roll around in the sandy water and watching DS build a sandcastle, when what is this?
This nice group of people comes over by us and asks us if it's okay if they put their stuff in the area by ours. Sure! Well, what happened next almost brought me back to the beach at Orient Bay yesterday. First, the kids strip down butt naked and get their suits on. Okay, I can handle that just fine. But THEN, a woman decides to do the same. She was trying to be somewhat discreet about it, but we couldn't help but notice. The important thing was that DD and DS were oblivious this time. Thank goodness! I mean, afterall, I want my kids to have something to go back and tell their teachers and classmates about that doesn't have to do with breasts, butts, and other wrinkly things. Our time at St. John soon came to an end, and we headed back to try to get the sand off of us and load back onto the bus. Our bus driver was a little late because there were so many tourists there on that day, but we still made it back in plenty of time. The ferry ride back to St. Thomas was fine, but the sun was beating down on us people on the top deck. You do remember that I put in a laughing icon for the people who were sitting on the bottom deck getting wet on the way over, right? Well, who's laughing now? The sun was intense, and I sortof wished I was getting wet!
The ferry didn't drop us back off at the ship like I was hoping it would. It dropped us off close to the tender, and it had just started raining a little bit. DH decided that we just had to go do Paradise Point. We had booked it through DCL but cancelled when DCL left a message on our stateroom voicemail that due to the tendering, we'd have to pay a taxi to get us to and from Paradise Point. I decided I didn't want to mess with it nor pay a taxi, but DH wanted to do it anyway.
As it turned out, we were glad we did it. The cost wasn't any different than DCL's, and the taxi was $4 per person each way. The view from the cable cars and once you get to the top is amazing! The kids watched a bird show that was pretty cute, and we decided we'd better head back to the ship. We caught a taxi, and we headed back for the Magic. It was raining hard now. The taxi driver stopped and picked up another man and then headed for our ship. However, he thought he was going to drop us off about a block away from our tender. Remember, it was a downpour now! I decided that if he wanted his money, he'd take us right to where we needed to be.
He did so without too much hesitation, and we ran straight for cover under DCL's tent. The rain just kept coming and coming and coming! People were filling into the tent quickly, and we soon loaded the tender and headed to the most beautiful ship in port that day (and there were six of them).Once we got back on the ship, we ordered room service and showered. DH and the kids rested a little bit while I went to deck 4 to walk. I got to see an airplane taking off out of the water, and since I've led a sheltered life
, I thought this was pretty amazing. It was still raining a little outside, but it had let up from earlier.After going to upgrade my Shutter's package again
, I went back to the room to find the rest of my family. I told DH that I had just upgraded our picture package to the 8 8X10's with 5 6X8's for $169.95. I won't tell you what he said. We headed off to watch Gary Delena, a rock and roll comedian that had flown into St. Thomas to be on the Disney ship. He had a lot of energy and did a great job. We then went to the atrium to trade pins with the officers. My kids got into pin trading a couple of years ago, and I really like to look at all of the pins they've collected. They make great keepsakes, and they aren't really that expensive. I'll take anything over ANOTHER stuffed animal!Dinner tonight was at Lumiere's. We let the kids talk us into letting them skip dinner tonight and do their own thing. As it turned out, all of the other families at our table must have had the same idea. One of the family's didn't come to dinner at all, and the other family came with just their baby. DH and I had a very nice, relaxing dinner with Stacie and Kevin and baby Andy. It was so peaceful, and we were really enjoying getting to know them.
After dinner, we rounded up the kids AGAIN and headed back to our stateroom to call it a day. We found what I thought was a dog towel animal with sunglasses on our bed. The rest of the family swears it was a bunny with sunglasses.
We also had an invite to a DVC meeting the next day. Hmmm! That sounds good. DH gave me "a look", but I was determined to go with or without him. Maybe if he sleeps on it, he will have adjusted his attitude by tomorrow. Next up: I'm so sick
! I think I'll go shopping!
RoyalVizier
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We sat on the top deck of the ferry, and I was glad we did. I think the people on the bottom deck were getting wet.
We were on the top deck too...
That was freaky!
Thanks for doing such a great job on this day! I was really excited to hear your take on everything!
Susan. . .we received the notes from the boys. . .thanks for caring enough to have them write. . .I know they are wonderful boys because of their wonderful/caring parents. . .it was a great cruise and you are doing a great job recapping it!
Charlene
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Thanks for all of the nice compliments about my TR everyone.
RV-I have to figure out how to post pictures because we absolutely must have seen one another. Where were you sitting on the top deck on the way back? I'm now sitting here wondering if we visited a little. You weren't by chance in the front row with DW, were you?
Charlene--thanks for letting me know you got Brandon's note. He is a good boy, he just gets off track sometimes. I think he gets that from his father. Since DH never reads these boards, I can say whatever I want and he'll never know.
RV-I have to figure out how to post pictures because we absolutely must have seen one another. Where were you sitting on the top deck on the way back? I'm now sitting here wondering if we visited a little. You weren't by chance in the front row with DW, were you?
Charlene--thanks for letting me know you got Brandon's note. He is a good boy, he just gets off track sometimes.
I think he gets that from his father. Since DH never reads these boards, I can say whatever I want and he'll never know.dutch_girl_scout
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Hey Suan--I didn't know you were writing a trip report!! I don't make it over to this side as much as I should. It's great to relive, you must have taken really good notes. I didn't write anything down but the one lesson I learned was to sunscreen the tops of your feet when jet skiing!!
I don't know why your pics aren't working, have you tried saving the ones you want to post on your computer and then uploading them to Photobucket?
I don't know why your pics aren't working, have you tried saving the ones you want to post on your computer and then uploading them to Photobucket?
RoyalVizier
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No, we were a couple rows back on the right hand side I think. The only thing I can think of is... there was a really sunburnt little girl sitting behind us. Someone from the front row kept coming back to check on her and tried to help make her more comfortable. That ring a bell at all?
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I was in the row between the mother and the little girl! I was also on the right side of the ferry. Small world!
Stacie--I'm trying to do a good job on the TR. It's been kindof fun because I feel like I'm back on the Magic! I did take notes this time so I could write my TR. The last time we went, I just wrote my TR off of memory, so I decided to try to do a better job this time. We sure miss having dinner with you and your family.
Stacie--I'm trying to do a good job on the TR.
It's been kindof fun because I feel like I'm back on the Magic! I did take notes this time so I could write my TR. The last time we went, I just wrote my TR off of memory, so I decided to try to do a better job this time. We sure miss having dinner with you and your family.
Jennifer48
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We had to be in Rockin Bar D at 8:45 in the morning for our Under 2 Flags Island Tour. I had read some mixed reviews about this tour, but DH wanted to learn something while we were on this trip. Come on! Who wants to be educated while on vacation anyway?
Just have a few things to say about this paragraph. First, I'm so glad you enjoyed the Under 2 Flags tour!
We are doing that in September and I hadn't read many reviews for it so I'm very glad that you did! Second, I think its
that you say you don't see animals running around in Kansas but call me ignorant, thats what I pictured Kansas to be like! I know better now, I'm a city girl 
Ok back to reading your fab report! 
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Disneypoor,
As far as the pics go, have you uploaded them to photobucket? (that's the easiest way to do it) Once you sign up (quick, painless, free but don't give them your real cell #, they text you) there will be a browse button for you to select your pics on your computer you want to upload, once you have selected your pictures, click upload. After they are done uploading, click on my album (upper rh corner)...in "my album" you will see thumbnails of each pic you uploaded. Underneath the thumbnail it will say URL link, HTML tag, and IMG code followed by a line of code in a box. All you have to do to post a pic is right click on the box next to "IMG Code" and COPY the line of code text. Next just paste this line of text directly into your TR where you want the photo to appear- do not click on the "Add image" button or paste the code into the enter http box, just paste it directly into the text of your trip report. That should work, it did for me and I am brand new to BB pics. Let me know if you have anymore Q's..I look forward to seeing your pics, I am really digging your TR!!!
Jen
As far as the pics go, have you uploaded them to photobucket? (that's the easiest way to do it) Once you sign up (quick, painless, free but don't give them your real cell #, they text you) there will be a browse button for you to select your pics on your computer you want to upload, once you have selected your pictures, click upload. After they are done uploading, click on my album (upper rh corner)...in "my album" you will see thumbnails of each pic you uploaded. Underneath the thumbnail it will say URL link, HTML tag, and IMG code followed by a line of code in a box. All you have to do to post a pic is right click on the box next to "IMG Code" and COPY the line of code text. Next just paste this line of text directly into your TR where you want the photo to appear- do not click on the "Add image" button or paste the code into the enter http box, just paste it directly into the text of your trip report. That should work, it did for me and I am brand new to BB pics. Let me know if you have anymore Q's..I look forward to seeing your pics, I am really digging your TR!!!
Jen
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We did enjoy the island tour, and I have to admit that it was fun to learn about both sides of the island. I think it's hilarious that you think Kansas has a bunch of wild animals running around it. One time I told a "city friend" that my DH was in the field, and she wanted to know what time his game started. I meant he was in the field planting soybeans. When you've grown up around farm life, you just take some things for granted I guess.
Jen--I have tried to upload pictures just like you explained it to me, but I just can't get it to work. Where are you from? Could you come over to my house and help me?
One time I told a "city friend" that my DH was in the field, and she wanted to know what time his game started. I meant he was in the field planting soybeans. When you've grown up around farm life, you just take some things for granted I guess. Jen--I have tried to upload pictures just like you explained it to me, but I just can't get it to work. Where are you from? Could you come over to my house and help me?
Jennifer48
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We did enjoy the island tour, and I have to admit that it was fun to learn about both sides of the island. I think it's hilarious that you think Kansas has a bunch of wild animals running around it.
I blame The Wizard of Oz for that! When I think of Kansas, I think of Auntie Em and Uncle Henry's farm! Thanks for not thinking I'm a complete fool. I just need to travel more thats all!
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Do you by chance know how to post pictures in trip reports? If so, maybe you could travel to Ottawa, Kansas and help me figure it out.
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I'm really enjoying your report
I'm pretty sure I'm scarred for life.
I'm positively sure my children are!
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Paige--it was so nice to meet you on the ship! Did you rebook? What about the Thanksgiving Double Dip for 08?
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