Escape From Home Life to 4th of July on the High Seas - A July 2019 Cruise Trip Report (Completed 6/21)

[Lesley Wake]

This park reminds me a lot of Knott's Berry Farm! If you make it out to Disneyland, you should add a day there!

The boys loved doing this and we loved watching them sit together!

So cute!

 

[cstorm65]

This park reminds me a lot of Knott's Berry Farm! If you make it out to Disneyland, you should add a day there!

So cute!

Yes!! I actually went to Knott's Berry Farm when I was like 17 and in high school when I was in California with my family. I'm sure a lot has changed since then and to be honest I don't remember much anyway! We will be doing Southern California at some point in the near future and I would definitely have that on the list of things to do!

 

[cstorm65]

Day 10 - Part 3 - The Wettest Ride in the Wilderness

We headed back to the hotel at about 1:15 for a little afternoon break and drove past “Jerry World” on the way or at least that’s what it’s called in this part of the country!

DS3 and DW took a nap as per the usual routine, while DS7 and I went for an afternoon swim. We rested and relaxed until about 5:00 until we headed over for dinner at Dickey’s BBQ, which is a chain of BBQ restaurants in Texas. It’s not the most authentic BBQ restaurant around for sure, but it is always solid food and enjoyable and it was right between our hotel and Six Flags, where we were headed back to. Now, my trip reporting skills are not great to begin with and I actually flipped the switch off during the afternoon break today...I guess I had enough vacationing by this point! I did get a shot of DS3 with his mac and cheese at dinner, but that’s it. I know...big surprise that is what he ordered!

I did get a few pictures of our evening, but not a whole lot. We were back in the park at about 6:00.

And...we saw some fish on the way to do some rides!

We headed over to do the log ride and this always makes me think it is closed.

If you’ve been here though you know they have two tracks and I don’t think I’ve ever seen this one running. I don’t know if they shut it down permanently or just use it when it’s super crowded, but anyway DS3 loves himself a good log ride! Reminder though...I turned off the trip reporting button in my brain so no pictures of it!

After the log ride we took a spin on the teacups...the boys just had to do this to me one more time!

I guess it’s better than Disney when we do it on every trip to the Magic Kingdom. After the teacups we headed over for DW and DS3 to take a spin on the Batwing, which for you Disney fans is basically Astroorbiter on the ground and themed like batman! They had fun though!

While they did that DS7 and myself went for the old faithful Judge Roy Scream...I mean who doesn’t love a good wooden roller coaster. Well, I guess people with bad backs don’t like them, but other than that they it is a fun coaster!

We headed back over to meet up with DW and DS3 around here:

Nope, not doing either of those. I actually like the Batman coaster, but DS7 isn’t tall enough yet. He instead wanted another spin on the Batwing!

After this we finally were able to head in for a ride on the Justice League Dark Ride which is really similar to the Spiderman ride at Universal Islands of Adventure. Not quite as well done and smooth in the transitions between the “real sets” and the “3D screens”, but a good ride for sure! It is actually a much needed ride at Six Flags because it’s different from coasters.

The only major problem with this ride is the height requirement is around 42”, which seems really high. I mean I don’t really know why as the vehicle doesn’t do much at all and I’m not even sure I remember it having seatbelts, but I may be wrong about that. So, DS3 was disappointed he couldn’t do it. While DS7 and I were reding DW and DS3 found a new little area of the park that had a new ride:

The boys wanted to ride, but it looked like everyone on it was coming off completely soaked, so DW and I didn’t go. Let’s just say they should have the tagline, “The Wettest Ride in the Wilderness” for this one. It is constant water from all directions. Now, the park wasn’t very crowded tonight so the boys had the entire ride to themselves, but they still got soaking wet!

After this the boys were about ready for bed as it was 8:15 or so, but they wanted candy first! So, we stopped and made that happen before heading home in the morning.

We headed back to the hotel and the boys were asleep in record time.

Again, I had turned off the trip reporting button by this point, so I didn’t take one picture on the way home the next day, but we left out at about 10:15 and made one final stop at Buc-ee's on the drive back to Oklahoma. We made it home all in one piece and that’s a wrap on what was another great vacation and our first with Royal Caribbean. Overall it was a fantastic trip that we will definitely be doing again! I’ll leave you with our family picture we purchased from the ship, which turned out great! I’ll also remind you of our PTR which is going on at the link below:

A NEW TRIP FULL OF NEW MEMORIES...HOPEFULLY IT HAPPENS!

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[NancyLuvsMickey]

What a great trip!!! Thanks for sharing it with us!! You have a beautiful family and I love the sass in the boys eyes!!! Boy are you going to be in trouble when they're older!!!!

Happy Late Father's Day too!!!

 

[Lesley Wake]

You guys are just such a cute family! I hope you have a great trip to Orlando!

 

[cstorm65]

What a great trip!!! Thanks for sharing it with us!! You have a beautiful family and I love the sass in the boys eyes!!! Boy are you going to be in trouble when they're older!!!!

Happy Late Father's Day too!!!

Thanks for reading along and I agree on our boys! haha

You guys are just such a cute family! I hope you have a great trip to Orlando!

Thanks! We are determined to have a great trip no matter what happens!

 

[Tinkershelly]

Thank you for this thread! I found it in February right before I left for my very first cruise (March 1-8) and I was desperate for pictures onboard the RC ships. Well you had me hooked to check for updates, I became less interested in the ship and more interested in your family trip. Bravo in making so much quality time to be a family together. Here's hoping that everyone can travel again soon.

 

[Jules123]

Loved your trip report! You have a beautiful family!

 

[disneyAndi14]

Enjoyed reading about the cruise, what a fun family vacation for you all!

 

[cstorm65]

Thank you for this thread! I found it in February right before I left for my very first cruise (March 1-8) and I was desperate for pictures onboard the RC ships. Well you had me hooked to check for updates, I became less interested in the ship and more interested in your family trip. Bravo in making so much quality time to be a family together. Here's hoping that everyone can travel again soon.

Loved your trip report! You have a beautiful family! ❤

Enjoyed reading about the cruise, what a fun family vacation for you all!

Thanks to everyone for reading along and commenting! It has been great to re-live the adventure. Sorry I've been gone a couple of weeks as we were on vacation. It's been an adventure for sure just getting a vacation of some type in over the summer. I just wrote an update on the PTR for what was supposed to be a Universal vacation and it has a link to a video of our vacation we just got back off of which was our 3rd try for this summer. But...we will be back traveling in the future! Here is our PTR: https://www.disboards.com/threads/a...ptr-updated-7-19.3801287/page-4#post-62152257