LIVE FROM THE 11/19 Turkeyday Magic....

[CRSNDSNY]

What an awesome photo!!!

 

[LAMPSKIES]

We have a bunch more....probably post em next week........

 

[Verandah Man]

We have a bunch more....probably post em next week........

Looking forward to seeing them Tink!!!

 

[Disneyfan37]

o.k. HERE THEY ARE..........

Great photo of you and Kim!Glad to see you all made it home safely!Charlie and I look forward to seeing the photos.We also have some of you that will email to you as we don't know if you would want us to post them .

Maria

 

[Verandah Man]

o.k. HERE THEY ARE..........

Cool Tink, I didn't go back far enough in this thread to see this photo until just now. Must have been neat to see the Magic and the Wonder at the same time while on CC.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Here are a couple of action shots from our cruise.

This is a photo of Doogie, Lampy, and a couple of non-Dis'ers watching TCD bust his moves in the Disney Legs contest:

This is a photo of TCD cracking up the professional pirate during the dance competition on pirate night. Lampy is in the center of the photo in the Captain Crunch hat. I still can't believe he beat me! This is a photo of the jumbo tron, so the quality is not so good. Did I mention that I introduced myself as Captain Tri-circle-d from the disboards?

Will post more photos over the next few days.

TCD

P.S. Maria and Charlie How 'bout them Gators?

 

[Disneyfan37]

Great Photos Andrew!I can't wait to see more!The week went by too fast!

Yes,those awesome gators beat them noles .One of my dcparents made us dinner the one who is a nole(dad is a gator),and her kids left the house with us as they wanted to spend some time with us.We brought them back,and we were like do we say something or not as the game was over when we dropped them off!We had to bite our tonuge.It was so tempting!That was surely a great game!

Maria

 

[ohMom]

ohhh....not to repeat or one-up Lampy's pic b/c i had my photo loaded in photobucket and ready to post long before i made it to his so i'm going anyways and here is Bev (alreadyexcitedGrammy) and myself at CC with the Magic and Wonder in the background

what a week! my head is spinning, no wait my head is swaying

home late this evening after a long day of travel, i was thinking as i was changing into my flannel jammies 'these jeans i put on in my stateroom this morning, these jeans fit me sooo much better 10 days ago, these jeans have a mud spot from horseback riding in Costa Maya'

this was our 2nd DCL and we were very happy with our service. my only complaint would be CC food -- much to be improved on there IMO

so much more outweighed in the postive direction.......

cruise staff was Pike, a dark skinned fellow with a name sounding like "Leon" who was very very helpful and friendly when i needed help, two gals -- one from Australia (Amy?), oh man i can't remember but they were GREAT in pub night!

 

[Disneyfan37]

It was so great seeing the Disney Magic and Wonder together at CC yesterday.Please keep the photos coming!It was great meeting you and family.I agree Leon was a sweetheart.I wish I had my camera last night,but I didn't.Pub night was great.

Maria

 

[momsgoofy]

Tink, Andrew, Mollie, and all...your photos are fantastic!!! I'm glad to hear that ya'll are making it home safe and sound. I look forward to more photos from everyone!!!

Hey, if you start a new thread with the trip reports, please post a link here so we can find it easily...thanks!

 

[Mickeyhugger]

Hi all you Disboard Turkey Day cruisers!

We arrived home just a short while ago. (The day room at the Hyatt was a great idea! We'll do it again if we're unable to book an earlier flight. )

Molly, Bev, Lampy..I'm wanting to cry looking at all of these WONDERful and MAGICal photos because I can't believe our unforgettable week is already over. This was, without a doubt, the best Disney cruise the Anderson family has ever sailed. What a difference it makes meeting on the boards mos. in advance!

I look so forward to read other DISers posts and photos. Also, it felt so weird tonight DRIVING our car out of the airport, stopping for fast-food on the way home and PAYING for it. (They won't accept our KTTW card. ) It'll take a couple of days to adjust to 'normal' life again. I don't know if we'll sleep as well tonight, since we're not being gently rocked to sleep.

 

[pppiglet]

Ohmom...great picture. Thanks for posting!

 

[zeke11]

Spent a long day traveling. Got home at about midnight. I don't know why I'm still up, but there is no doubt that tomorrow will be spent recovering.

We had a great cruise. Once the green shirts were gone, though, I had a hard time identifying people. There were a few that I went up to and introduced myself to and Molli & Bev came over and said hi to myself and dh, but otherwise -- ???? Met Doogie and Kenny and his wife, and TCD. I know I talked to Goofyhouk because I asked him about his Goofy pal in the high chair at dinner! That would have to be Goofyhouk, right?? And I stopped by the Lampy/Willie dinner table and said hi. Then on the last night, I recognized the Icemanpad couple from photos and so I tapped Lisa and introduced myself and dh to them.

But all in all, I think I spent a lot of time looking around for people and not sure if who was who I thought they were!

I was a lot confused. I didn't really fit into the group thing well enough, I guess -- told ya'll I wasn't all that outgoing! I wish I could have met more of you and been around to enjoy the group camaraderie. What's up with this: we brought 12 Corona's onboard and ended up leaving four of them in the stateroom when we left. Didn't get to drink them all.

DS was great friends with Hunter and I didn't realize that he was part of our dis group until later - even after talking with Hunter's mom. Man, I am so slow.

DD Lauren spent some time with the 5J's. I helped scream for the Bon Jovi's, but I just learned that the 5J dad was one of the group. I'll have to see some photos of this. I think my eldest DD was hanging out with the 5J son, but she didn't do an all-nighter so that is a relief.

Costa Maya wasn't impressive, although we did the Chacchoben ruins and loved it. The town of Mahahual was really unimpressive as was the restaurant we ate at there. The restaurant was outside the village a bit and we were seated (all 6 of us) at a square folding card table right next to a massage table...with the beach behind it. So for a nice view of the beach, you had to look past the thumping and mushing of the body under the masseuse's paws...ok, yecch. We were, literally, about 2 feet from the massage table.

And there were bees all over the food and the drinks, really awful. Anyway, we walked through the town, quickly. Kids took a dip in the ocean and then we went back through the port town for a short time and back to the ship.

Having also missed Grand Cayman, I'd say we really came up short on the sightseeing portion of our cruise, but really these things couldn't be helped.

Castaway Cay was great. I was taking videos of the Wonder when the horn blowing duel began so I have a long video of that -- it was very cool.

The water was cold - but on Monday it was a bit warmer out, I think. On Friday, I didn't go in much. But man, got eaten alive by sand fleas. I am still itching. We did the stingray excursion at CC, because of missing it on GC, but I was not impressed by it much.

OK, I haven't said the GOOD things and there were many.

Seven days was the perfect length to cruise. The 3-night just leaves you wanting more. Seven was the best. Our servers were Pairoj and Jonathan and they were great!

The food was really good and the dessert buffet was so impressive even though I didn't eat anything because I was still so full from dinner. The Pirate party was so fun and the sailaway was great, too!

My 2 youngest were begging all day to do it again, but I think this will be our last with Disney. We've cruised with both the Wonder and the Magic now and will probably try a different line just for the "newness" of a different ship.

I thought it was so funny that the first people we met on the ship were Mickeyhugger and family -- in the buffet line. And then when we were done cruising and at the Hyatt while waiting for our flight, we walked out of the elevator and at the same exact moment out of a different elevator -- there is Mickeyhugger!

Tomorrow I'll probably spend uploading my hundreds of photos so maybe I'll get to post a few here.

Wish I could have met more of you and socialized a bit with those that I did meet, but I wasn't sure of what/where/when most of the time and spent a good deal of the cruise wandering the ship and not sure if there was something going on or what! Just a bit dazed and confused, that's me.

Talk soon,
Kris

 

[Dreamer04]

It sounds like a you all had such a great time! And I can't wait for more pics!

 

[Disneyfan37]

We had a great cruise. Once the green shirts were gone, though, I had a hard time identifying people. There were a few that I went up to and introduced myself to and Molli & Bev came over and said hi to myself and dh, but otherwise -- ???? Met Doogie and Kenny and his wife, and TCD. I know I talked to Goofyhouk because I asked him about his Goofy pal in the high chair at dinner! That would have to be Goofyhouk, right?? And I stopped by the Lampy/Willie dinner table and said hi. Then on the last night, I recognized the Icemanpad couple from photos and so I tapped Lisa and introduced myself and dh to them.

Yes,that was Goofyhouk.We were also at the table along with Tri-Circle-D and family.We had a different goofy at our table every night.It was great.We enjoyed the week so much,but it just went by too fast.I look forward to seeing your photos.We will be posting some too.Reality is sinking in unfortunately!

Maria

 

[CRSNDSNY]

I love the photos that were posted! Awesome! I cannot wait to see more.

Thanks for the mini report, Kris! It was great to hear your thoughts and it sounds like you had a really nice time with your family. Hope you're able to post your photos (and hopefully some video?).

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Cool Tink, I didn't go back far enough in this thread to see this photo until just now. Must have been neat to see the Magic and the Wonder at the same time while on CC.

YES! I hope someone is able to put a video together of it. Must have been a 'blast'!!!

 

[LAMPSKIES]

Great photo of you and Kim!Glad to see you all made it home safely!Charlie and I look forward to seeing the photos.We also have some of you that will email to you as we don't know if you would want us to post them .

Maria

Thanks VM.....last night my youngest DD Alli was playing with the pics and we actually recoreded in move format the two ship having there "sound off" now I have to figure out how to upload the kink.....

 

[LAMPSKIES]

I believe O'clock somewheres "hubby" is here also.... 70's night...

 

[ohMom]

ron -- who's who there?? we didn't make it to any of the decade parties -- next time!