Live from Disney! (with pics)

[Apothecary]

Hope Rob is feeling better!!



OOooops...this isn't Apothecary - it's his DW, mbb!!
Love you honey

 

[Muffy]

Please let us know how Rob is...

 

[lucky978]

Hope Rob is feeling better soon. Be safe on your excursion if you decide to go! Hope to hear from you soon.

 

[Darkrobe]

Hi everyone!
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their well wishes and pixie dust; I am feeling a lot better today and got lots of rest yesterday thanks to Cass.
We had a BLAST at the Pirate show and Cass will be posting more stuff later tonight probably. All I can say guys when you see the pics, is "Hands off! That's MY WENCH!". She looked awesome in her costume and you'll see that when she posts later

Cass is just getting ready now as we were up at 5:30am thanks to the ship docking and all the cavitations the props were making parallel parking to the dock. We had a quick bite to eat and then tried to rest again.

I also wanted to thank Ms. Thornhill of the Homeland Security Department for making our customs experience so pleasant this morning. Not only did she have a genuine smile on her face, but she was laughing and great with the kids as well. Best experience with US Customs I've ever had!

The Magic had a safety drill this morning between 9:30am and 11am, with an emergency "Abandon Ship" drill with them offloading a boat on the port side.
They did a great job and I'm glad to see them practicising, I'm at the porthole lookout on deck 5 next to the theatre and I tell ya, the guy was using all his body weight to get the cable ties off the boat so that they could winch it; so I'd rather have him practicing that now and not in an emergency!

I grabbed today's navigator which my wonderful wife has marked up, looks like we are doing this today:
12:40pm Meet at Sessions for Screamin' Eagle Jet Boat
6:30pm Taylor Mason in the WD Theatre for Ventriloquism/comedy show
7:45pm Who Wants to be a Mouseketeer (Cass does!)
10:45pm is Time Warp: 80's show in Rockin' Bar D (Going to see if Cass wants to go to this or not after supper)
Tonight's meal is in Animator's Palate, no show though tonight as that was earlier this week.

Other than that, here is some interesting stats for my wife:
- Average daily picture taking: 200+
- Pictures to date: 3700+
- Total disk size of pictures to date: 9.91GB
- Total# of times we've killed both batteries for the cam corder: 4
- Total# of times we've killed both batteries for the Canon SD550: 1 (our MGM night last week on Friday, she used the camera to also take video and filled all the SD flash cards).

I think I'll be having some more ice cream again sometime today, so for those of you wanting some ice cream; a picture for you later today

TTFN and you'll see Cass' post later today!
Robert

PS: G'Day to our Entertainment Cruise Director Brent, who seems to be lurking on the boards! I'll get a picture with ya later & you're doing a great job!

 

[jjbescher]

Rob, Glad to see you are feeling much better. Have a fun rest of the day.

jon

 

[Danadisney]

Cass and Rob,

Rob- I am glad you are feeling better!
Cass- I can't wait to see pictures from last night!!
I hope you both have a great day!!

Dana

 

[Horizons16]

well seems like you really took a turn and feel much better today... glad to hear it!

 

[*love*2*shop]

I have heard( on these Boards) that there is some damage to CASTAWAY CAY ( ie family beach is closed and NO stingrays) Can you guys Give us the LATEST on that? We arrive THIS SATURDAy and HIT CC next FRIDAY and hoping all is good when we go?

THANKS

 

[Timon]

Morning everyone! Sorry I didn’t get to post last night but we ran into some DISers (dyerneeds) at the Pirate Buffet and we ended up visiting with them till almost midnight. They are so nice and we had a great time. Then we had to get up this morning at 6 am for immigration, which as Rob mentioned, was a breeze and no line ups this time!

Okay…yesterday…

Docked in St. Maarten…let Rob sleep in until 10:30 am.

We had to go to Parrot Cay for breakfast since Topsiders was closed at 10 am. (crap! No chocolate croissants today!)

It was kind of yucky..not as good as topsiders buffet, so I tried drowning it in pepper…yeah that didn’t help at all…this is what happens when I put too much pepper on my food!

We went back to the room and by the time I had washed my hands, Rob was passed out on the bed.

I let him sleep the afternoon away while I took a water taxi over to Philipsburgh. I walked around for about 1.5 hours, took some photos and video and then blew $10 at the Casino.

On the way back I got a virgin strawberry daiquiri and sat in the breezeway trying to cool down since it was so HOT!

Back on board, I stopped at Goofy’s Galley to grab some fruit for Rob. Rob had just woke up so I ordered room service. The chicken tenders were delicious but my hot dog was as hard as a rock.

We enjoyed some cuddle time together and just relaxed for a bit before we got ready in our pirate gear to take some photos.

We got photos with Pirate Stitch, Pirate Mickey, white background and with Captain Hook and Shmee…smee…schmeee….oh crap, you know who I mean!

We went to learn the pirate dances for tonight’s party…boy that was a workout! Especially in full pirate gear! We danced for about 25 minutes! Too bad we never got to use them as by the time we got out of supper, those dances were all done!

We went to dinner at Lumieres and had some fun! Okay, finally I LOVED my dinner! It was the best meal I’ve had on the ship!!! The Beef Tenderloin was so GOOD! And the potatoes that came with it were sooooo yummy! First time I finished my plate this cruise!

I also LOVED the cheesecake too! Yum yum yum!! Yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me!

We were done by 10:15pm and ran up to deck 10 Portside. We got to see a little of the show and then they set off the fireworks. The giant screen was so cool! It had a pirate ship slowly crossing the screen with periodical lightning and cannons going off. I didn’t get great photos but got some good video!
By the way, I plan on making several 5 or 6 minute videos when I get back home so you will be able to see some of our adventure on video too when I finally get around to it!

The fireworks were awesome! Longer than I expected! We walked by the buffet on deck 9 and we spotted some DISers so we went and joined them for a bit. They were also all dressed up as pirates which was very cool! They looked great! We said our goodnights just before midnight and then back to the room to download photos and charge batteries.

Despite Rob feeling like crap this morning, the day turned out great! We had a lot of fun and we are glad we dressed up even though we got some very UN-Disneylike looks from people. One lady gave Rob a horribly rude evil look as I was taking some photos on deck 4 so as we were leaving I shouted out to her “You’re on vacation, SMILE!!!!!!!!!!!” Then she gave ME the evil look HAHAHAHAHA. A lot of grumps on this cruise…need to tie them down and feed them some Mickey Ice Cream bars or something!

As promised I got a couple of photos of the new workout room. There were a few people working out so I didn’t want to be rude and take too many photos.

Oh, while Rob ran up to the room to get the camcorder during our dinner, he ran into Brent, the cruise director and he looks at Rob and says something like “Are you the guy with his photo on the DISboards??” LOL So, I guess he might have spotted my live report HAHAH Hi Brent! Great job and g’day mate!

Also, we are at the Crown Bay pier for some reason. Which is sad since I had wanted to go up to Paradise Point and take another lovely digital photo of the Magic in that beautiful bay! Oh well.
We are off soon for the Screamin’ Eagle Jet Boat Tour so I gotta get ready. Bye guys!

Haven't heard anything about damage to CC. We booked the Rays and no one said there was any problems so I guess I will let you know Friday!

 

[mtdevine615]

Glad you're feeling better Rob, probably just need some good sleep. My DW said that you reminded her of me. I love my fruit with a little cream on it. Keep the reports coming there fantastic!!!! Maine

 

[Danadisney]

Love, love, LOVE the pictures!!!!!!!!! You two looked awesome....as for the grumpy people-who cares about them!! Enjoy the day!

 

[noodles]

Cass & Rob,

Ok pirate night pulled me out of lurkdom...I just have to say how much fun Im having watching you guys have fun! The pirate night looks like so much fun and I love your costumes!

Noodles

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

Thanks so much, Cass, for the AWESOME report today. I have my treadmill at the fitness center picked out already and I CANNOT WAIT!!!!

 

[Joan S.]

Cass and Rob, I LOVE your costumes!! We have done the 7 nite Eastern and I have so wanted to do the Western,but you guys have me wanting to do another EASTERN cruise!! Have a GREAT DAY - your reports are the HIGHLIGHT of MINE!!! Joan

 

[Stacy's a freak]

Just another note to say that I LOVE the costumes! You two are definitely a handsome, swashbuckling couple Thanks again for the great reports!!

 

[Verandah Man]

Rob, glad to hear that you are feeling better!!!

and one more thing-----------

G'day Brent!!!

 

[Muffy]

LOVE the pictures! LOVE the costumes! I'm glad Rob is feeling better! Thanks for posting!

Muffy

 

[DutchsMommy]

Thank you so much for the great posts. Big shout out to fellow Canadians! I'm just sad that I have caught up to today so I'll have to really wait for the live reports like everyone else LOL. Hope ou guys have a great time and can't wait to hear about the 'Scream Eagle'!!

 

[mbb]

Matey's!!

Too cute in your costumes!...and glad Rob is feeling better

Gotta say G'Day to Brent, too!! (Having no idea who he is, but if he's a CM on the Dis, we like him!: )

 

[wandap1016]

I'm so glad you're feeling better Rob....gotta love that pixie dust! It looks like you guys had a blast during pirate night and you both looked AWESOME!