Ugggg, I just typed a ton of info and it logged me off and I lost it all. I'll have to start over. This happened to me on my last trip report.
Ok, here goes again
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Tuesday I arrived home around 4:30pm. We had McDonalds for dinner. I started packing around 6:00pm. I packed, packed and packed some more. We had last minute laundry, a
Walmart run and finally in bed around 1:30am.
Wednesday DH took me to work so I wouldnt have to come home before leaving. My office is right by the interstate. Gma and DH packed the car and took the girls swimming to wear them out for the long car ride, etc. Worked out perfectly! They picked me up and we were off. We were on the road for about 10 minutes when DH got pulled over for speeding. Ok, a speeding ticket and now were on our way
driving much slower now.
Thursday we arrived in Titusville, FL. My brother and his family live there. His son (my DN) went with us on the cruise. We stayed at the Holiday Inn in Titusville. My brother took us to the port and we left our car with him for the cruise. Yea! No parking fees at the port!! We went to Dixie Crossroads for dinner. Its soooo good!! Its in Titusville. After dinner the rest of the family went to the hotel. I went back to my brothers house to help pack my nephews things. He then took me to the hotel around midnight.
Friday I could not sleep in to save my life. I was sooooo excited about the cruise. I woke up at 5:30am. After tossing and turning forever I finally got up at 8:00am. Showered, got the girls ready and we left at 9:30am. We stopped at McDonalds for breakfast. It was a loooong stop. After McDs, picking up my nephew, loading his stuff, we finally made it to the port around 11:00am. Thru security, checked in and onboard around 12:15pm. I had done all the online check-in. All we had to fill out at the part was the health form saying no one had been sick, etc. I had registered for the childrens club, as well. However, we waited until onboard to get our id bracelets for the girls (thanks to DIS suggestions).
Once on board we went to Cabbanas for lunch. Here is my first lunch onboard the Dream
The peel and eat shrimp were yummy. They were on the buffet everyday and we had them everyday!
They also offered hand dipped ice cream everyday at Cabanas. My favorite ice-creams were the mint choc chip and the strawberry cheesecake ice cream. Here is a pic of the mint choc chip with white choc shavings and a yummy choc chip cookie
Here is a picture of DD and DN outside of Cabanas in Port Canaveral
After lunch we decided to check out the Oceaneers Club and get id bracelets. Here are the girls checking out the club.
The next photo is of DD playing with Mr. Potato Head. Huge pieces. Too cute!!
DD (age 2 1/2) was allowed to register for the club. She is fully potty trained. However, once we registered for the club she was unable to use the nursery. We had to pick nursery or club for the week. We went with the club. Good choice. However, we would have liked to use both. Oh well, no biggie.
After the club we went to the room to drop off carry on stuff. We were in room 2515 & 2511. The virtual porthole was a nice touch. Very cool! We also loved having the wave phones.
Our room host Bart was great!!! He brought my DD lots of chocolate!
After we dropped off our carry on items we headed to Vibe to check out the teen club.
This next photo is an are in Vibe where kids can lounge and put in their IPods/Phones and listen to music thru the huge speaker. I think it had a video screen, as well. DH and DN thought this was pretty cool.
By now Gma and the DD's are getting sleepy. They went to the room for a nap while DH, DN and myself went to the lifeboat drill. They scan your card at the drill...so as long as one person from the stateroom is there...no need for us to wake up sleeping children and Gma to go.
After the drill our suitcases had arrived. I unpacked and woke everyone up in time for Golden Mickey's. We've seen it before, but it's a very cute show. Love the new Tangled part they added. DD's loved Rapunzel!!
We then went back to the room to change for dinner. Snapped a few pics and were in Royal Palace by 8;15pm. Our rotation was RAEE. Our servers were fantastic. More on them later. The food was great! I will post a few food pics throughout the review.
The girls did the Dine and Play. For those unaware of what this is....It is for late dining. They take the children's order first and bring it out right away. At 9;15pm the Club/Lab counselors come to the restaurants and checkin children wanting to go to the club/lab. We finish the rest of our dinner after they are gone. It's nice. You get an hour with the children at dinner and an hour without. The kids love it!
We tried to go to Match Your Mate in Evolution (18 and older club) but we got paged our DD wanted picked up. So, back to the room for PJ's and Chocoloates.
We had very noisy neighbors. They left their TV on all night and it was VERY loud. Finally at 2:00am we called guest services to see if they'd ask them to turn it down a little. They tried calling them and knocking...no answer. Guest Services apologized and said they'd call them the next day. We also heard several of their conversations throughout the cruise. Not muffled noise but the entire conversation. Not a big deal. I'm sure they didn't realize the walls were so thin. Plus, I'm sure we were noisey at times, as well.
An observation about the Oceaneers club....It is very nice and DD's loved it. However, it was so big that it was a little overwhelming at times. Also, comparing it to the Magic....On the Magic when a group activity was going on all the kids in the club participated in it. On the Dream there were so many other things going on during the group activity it became very easy for them to get distracted. However, the group acitivies were very fun. More on those later. DD LOVED Toy Story Boot Camp. It was really cute. There were lots of planned activities. I will go into them later. Here is a pic of the handwashing in the club. This was our DD's favorite part of coming/going to the club.
Ok, that's it for day 1. I will post day 2 asap. Thanks for reading along....
Great report! Subing in!!!!
