I think we were posting at the same time last night.
And REALLY thank you for even trying to read through the whole thing at this point. 
Was so excited to see another post about the Fantasy!!! By the way, we will be cruising late May or early June 2015. Y'all are probably still in school then, huh??? Too bad our dates won't be the same. Ya know how I love that stuff! Love the fact that the product packaging is much bigger on the cruise You might have already said this...sorry if I missed it...but what deck/room were you in? And, the seas look super calm! Wow! How nice!!!
Love the picture of the empty chair!I sort of envisioned it spinning around and a cloud of dust following her out the door!
That's exactly what it felt like! She had been dreaming for months about this exciting new development - getting to leave the dining room with the club counselors. 
All the art on the Fantasy is so fun - I could spent a whole day just exploring and looking at all of it. And enjoying the disney music playing everywhere too.
I don't even know if that stuff existed when I was a kid!
I know for sure I had never seen it until I went to college. I think I've eaten it maybe once or twice in my whole life. I'm guessing Willow must have had it (or something similar) at daycare or something??? They do a nice job with the food, especially considering how many people they are feeding at each seating!
Me too!
It was a great start to our cruise dining!Great photos of what sounds like a great meal! Loving the empty chair photo.
Oh, thanks. Willow really wanted to get one of those pics, and I was never happy with any of them.
Coming up soon!!!I think that most people do purchase just one or two pics. The CDs are incredibly costly. I am glad I decided to do it though - I knew I wanted to get family portraits done onboard, so I figured by pre-ordering at that steep price, I would make sure it happened.
I think she was just super-excited about this option that wasn't available at the early dining seating we had on the Wonder. It felt very independent, I think.
She was very eager to hit that Club! No kidding, right???? I am so looking forward to boarding the Fantasy again in 2015 if things go according to plan.
I was able to pre-order it. This had not been the case in the past, and I am not sure whether it is possible now. I just happened upon it one night - there is no cost savings at all though by pre-ordering, which was weird.
Character meets on the ship!!
Love those character meets!Oh, me too! Mmmmmm
Oh, thanks! I never can deal with the lighting situation very well (and am totally incapable of operating my camera even though it's not complicated). That said, the porthole pics on this cruise definitely came out better than on our previous cruise.
DCL really knows how to make the whole cruise feel like a special occasion.
I couldn't resist taking that pic - it was just so funny when I was left there all by myself!
It's so hard to keep up with the DIS when those pesky trips keep interrupting.
Poor Minnie.
You never know what she (I had no idea she was a SHE!) will be getting up to on any given AK morning!Leave it to Yeti to be a troublemaker.
People are just flat-out out of their minds much of the time!
I sometimes wish Disney would buckle down a little more ..
It really was funny. She was the least in character face character I have ever encountered.
It was at that point that I knew I was on my own at 1900!
I wish I was at a crappy character meal right now!
Lucky little Miss Willow!
Awesome! I wil try to just tack it on here.I'm interested in hearing about Disneyland.
You need to do it!!!
Hi Heather!Happy Saturday Morning!
It was snow-snow-snowy here all weekend, so I got a lot of sewing done. Totally ready for SPRING!!!Rainy and nasty here in south Georgia, so I'm getting lots of DisTime
Oh, we were on Deck 8. I can't remember the room number right now. My memory is pathetic these days ...Kind of chuckled when I saw the H2O products
We had a great weekend together. I hope y'all had a great one too!
So I decided to have a seat at La Piazza. This seat to be exact:
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Willow claimed that no one would play with her; however, she also said she loved it and wanted to go back, so I have no idea what kind of time she really had. It must have been pretty good, or I certainly would have heard from her long before I finally picked her up. I noticed that I could really feel the rumbling of the ship (engines, thrusters, something? ) - it felt like the whole room was vibrating. Just like last time we cruised, I worried that it would make it hard to sleep. It didnt. As on the Wonder, I slept better on the cruise than I probably do at home. The beds are incredibly comfortable, and after the first night, the rocking of the ship becomes incredibly soothing and tranquil.
Also, Puffball Yeti rules. Such a cutie.
I'm so happy for you!
It doesn't feel quite real yet.
There were two or three other parties, but it was very quiet. It was perfect for reading and hanging out peacefully.Looks like you had your little lounge all to yourself!!
It's funny - I'm pretty sure our cruise was sold out (I was horrified and scared about that before getting onboard), but really, if you do it right, you do NOT feel over-crowded, and just walking the pool deck at night - blissful.
I have to be honest -with all the autograph book work that I did before this trip, I ended up recycling the door decorations that I had made for our first cruise.
(BTW, prepare yourself to see them again in any possible upcoming cruise TR. ) I did not participate in a FE - I just could not fathom how I would get all those gifts prepared and then transported to Florida with our already overweight luggage. I may shoot for it next time though, because KARIN always makes it sound so fun! I think she definitely had fun. I think she probably didn't make the connections with another kid or two as quickly as she had on the Wonder (and as she is used to doing), so maybe that affected her attitude a little? I can never understand how quickly she makes friends as it is, so I can see that it may have felt less successful to her if she didn't make those fast connections. Not sure though!
She and all her stuffies were definitely very comfortable!
Isn't it??? Totally makes me realize that there would be a lot of fun to be had on DCL even with the toddler age.
I think they should offer Club Cool flavored sodas at their machines.
We don't drink soda at all, so that side of the drink station was totally wasted on us (except of the cold water and the lemonade), but if they had offered something that unique, even we would have had to give it a try!Exactly! It's just a Disney thing, right????
if there's someone on the cruise who gets your room ready at night for you, maybe we shouldn't go. I mean, a girl could get used to that and who will turn our beds down for the night when we get home?.....oh yeah, that'd be me....
You nearly made me choke to death there! You are so right! I could seriously spend an entire day just exploring a DCL ship and taking pictures and marveling at how gorgeous it all is.
I did, but I'm not going to lie - I reused the ones I made for our Wonder cruise. I just didn't have time to make any new ones after all the autograph page work.
You are amazing for reading through all that!I did catch up over the weekend! Wayyyy too many things to comment on, so I'll just say that you and Willow are adorable, and her buying you a pillow pet made me melt into a puddle. We always go to Disney in the summer so I understand firsthand the moodiness that can come from the heat and humidity, but moments like that make it all worth it
Puffball Yeti does rule!!! Our house is teeming with stuffies. Those pillow pets are really nice though and useful! You should get the Duffy one.
There are so many beautiful spots on the Fantasy!
I felt the same way about doing the cruise. So we ended up doing our first DCL cruise on the Wonder to Alaska during our stay-on-the-West-Coast year (we alternate each year). Of course, now we are hooked, so we have to do both parks and DCL!
It was pretty sweet!Yay! Adult beverage and book time!!!
I guess I know better than to let Willow watch that one!!!! I can't have another movie around here that I have to see that many times! Lots of pool info coming up pretty soon. But, yes, they are very small. Because we didn't do any ports, we were able to take advantage of the less-crowded times - worked out well for us.
Cute cute magnets! Good job Crafty Roni!
Thank you! As you well know, I made them two years prior when we did the Alaska cruise!
Are you kidding me??????? How in the WORLD did we never run into each other. Our door decorations even had our names on them!O M G!!!!!!!
You were just around the corner from us!! We were in 8626!! With a FULLY decorated door.
Well, I hope there is a next time and that we do a lot better. Yes, WILLOW would love some European chocolate.
: Of course you knew who was bar tending - you know every CM on the ship!
And I continue to do the same with your pics!Thanks for sharing - still watching for us in your photos - so far NO luck!
It was a lovely way to spend a little time for sure!
It was so quiet and beautiful up there on the pool deck at that time of night.
I probably would too. If Willow had been driving the actual Fantasy, we would still be beached on Castaway Cay
.It definitely was!Looks like a peaceful night on the ship!!
It sure did feel good after all the go-go-go at WDW!
I think that's a very good sign indeed!It sounds like Willow was having a wonderful time at the kids club. If you have to go get them to leave, that's usually a good sign!
Thanks! More coming up right away!
Hey there!!! You know we had to see our character friends even before eating!
I did find it but didn't get there for a drink either. Maybe we'll have one there together next year!I have to know - did you ever find Ooh La La? We checked it out but never had a drink in there. May have to have a drink next time. Hard to believe I'll be on that ship in 15 days!!
She was ready!
