Florida April 22, 2005 and first day of cruise April 23, 2005

DMMarla07860

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April 22, 2005
So I went to school till like 10:00am, my dad picked me up, went home got all out stuff, then hit the road. We were flying out of philly airport, so we got then around 12:30, checked our bags in and went to get lunch. I got a philly cheese steak and a coke. After lunch we went to our gate to wait for the plane. Our flight was for 2:30, but we ended up leaving at like 4:00 or so, don't remember, we land in orlando around 7:30, got our luggage, then got a ticket for a shuttle to the swan hotel, by this time it was 8:00pm, called my mom to tell her we got there, she didn't come with us because she doesn't like vacations. Well we go to the hotel around 9:00, checked in dropped our bags off in the room, then headed to boardwalk by the hotel for dinner. I don't remember where we ate, but I know I had chicken fettucine. After dinner, we walked back to the hotel. I watched some tv and called my mom again to tell her how the hotel was, while my dad went to look around and find out about details the next morning. I fell asleep around 11:30 before the dad came back.

April 23, 2005
I woke up around 6:00 or so, took a shower and got ready for the day because I was to excited to sleep anymore. After my dad and I were ready wen went to get breakfast at Gulliver's. I had the best breakfast ever I think, I had hash browns with corned beef hash over them and cheese on top of all it, so good, but so much fat food but come on it's vacation. After breakfast went back up to the room to brush our teeth, after we did that we got our bags and brought them down to the lobby to give them to the disney cruise rep outside the hotel, there were other people doing it at that time to. After that we waited for a bus to take to Magic Kingdom, took the bus, then from Magic Kingdom walked over to the Contemporary hotel(the hotel we stayed at the first time in Disney in 2000) because I wanted to see it agian, took a water taxi over to the Wildernes Lodge hotel(hotel we stayed in when we went on land and sea vacation in 2002) because I wanted to see that agian. From there we took a bus to MGM, then walked from there on a path back tothe hotel, got back to the hotel at around 10:30am, went a checked out the dolphin part of the hotel, then went back to the swan hotel and chilled till around 11:30 when we left. The bus ride to the port was about a hour and a half long, half the way the the terminal there was a cartoon playing, then the secong half of the way a video about the disney cruise played. got to Port Canaveral at about 1:00. dropped the luggage off outside were they have everyone drop off the luggage. went to get in line to get into the terminal, didn't take very long only about like 5 mins. Went up stairs to check in, got in line to check in, long line but it only took like 15 mins, pretty fast. got our KTTW cards and headed to get in line to get on the boat, since they started letting people in before we got there it only took like 5 mins to get on, when we got on bored they say the name of your party pretty sweet, I wasn't suprised at this because I went on a cruise in like 2002 so I knew that would happen.

It was passed 1:30 when we got on bored so we headed to check out our cabin, it was on deck 6 foward with a window, it was 6506. Dropped off our carry on bags and headed up to deck 9 to Topsider Buffet for lunch, the buffet was the regular american buffet. I had some mac n cheese, beard with butter, some ham and then for dessert at lunch chocolate pudding, and a piece of cake. After Lunch I went to look around the ship since I hadn't been on the Disney Magic and only the Disney Wonder. The ships are pretty much the same except for some things on the Disney Magic the three rotation places to eat dinner for family's are Lumiere's, Parrot Cay, and Animator's Palate. On the Disney Wonder the three rotation places for family's to eat are Triton's, Parrot Cay, and Animator's Palate. If you want fast food you could get dinner at Pluto's Dog House which closes pretty early or Pinocchio's Pizzeria which is open till 12:00am. Another difference is that on Dinsey Magic they have Beat Street which has the adult night clubs from 9:00pm for guest 18 and older and on the Disney Wonder Route 66 has the night clubs for adults from 9:00pm, before 9:00pm Beat Street or Route 66 is open to family's. Well I explored the ship then went back to the cabin around 3:30.

At 4:00 we went to the Mandatory lifeboat drill, that was from 4:00-4:30. After the drill went back to the cabin to put back the life vest and get my camra, then headed up to the Sail-Away Celebration. I watched the Sail-Away party from deck 10 from 4:30-5:00 and at 5:00 I watched us sail out of Port Canaveral and waved to the people waving at us. After we had sailed and were on our way, I headed to the cabin got ready for dinner and then explored the ship some more. At about 7:45 I went to the promenade lounge and sat down there and just chilled. At 8:30 went to dinner, they had two dinner seating early at 6:00 and late at 8:30, we had late. sat with some pretty nice people, one of the people we sat with name was marla which is my nickname my friend from home gave me. We ate at Lumiere's that night and I had chicken fettucine and then for dessert I got some type of cake. After dinner, I went back to the room, watched tv, then walked back down to the promenade lounge at like 10:30, nothing good was happening that night so I went back to the room watched a movie then went to bed around 11:30 or so.

please post and tell me what ya think if you were on this cruise snf if you weren't no this cruise just post and ask questions or something
 


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