Mike & Missy Plus Six-A 9/11/11 Dream Trip Report! Update-12/08-COMPLETE!!

[mousetravel]

Great TR! I agree about the "See Ya Real Soon" banner. The "TV screen" just wasn't the same, although just a little less depressing!

I hope you'll do a PTR, or TR for your upcoming trip. Since it will be a while until you go on another DCL, hope you'll keep us posted on your WDW plans.

 

[Timon]

It's always so darn hard to get off the ship!

Glad you got to experience the Dream and thanks for sharing your adventures with us

 

[disneyrookie84]

Great pictures!! We were on the same cruise..

 

[Patrickprincess]

The alarm clock went off fairly early on this morning, followed soon after by a wake up call. Though I was wide awake and had gotten a good night's sleep, I didn't want to have to get up!!

The first thing I did was pull back the curtain to see what the view looked like, and I was sad to see that we were already back in PC:

Before long, we were up and about and had gotten our showers and were ready for the task ahead. We let Dustin sleep until the very last minute before waking him since this was extremely early for him.

We slowly gathered all our belongings and made our last exit from the room. We made our way around to Gayle and Allen's room where we had agreed to meet before heading to breakfast. After Gayle asked me to take a picture of their gang with their stateroom host, I realized that I never got a picture of ours. So, I sent Mike around the corner, and he came back with this shot of Gerald who had been a wonderful host:

He had been very quiet and didn't talk very much througout the cruise, but he always took very good care of our room.

Once our stateroom host's face was documented on film, we were off to the Royal Palace for our very early breakfast. I *think* our scheduled time was 6:45, but I'm not 100% certain on that. Either way, I know it was a lot earlier than I wanted it to be!

As we were seated the first rude awakening that we'd soon be leaving the ship hit me right in the face, in the form of this:

Mike and I both had a yummy doughnut while we waited for our orders to arrive:

And all to soon, our last meal was being delivered:

As we were eating, I noticed that I had a good view of the sunrise if I pulled the curtains back a little:

And just like that we had said our final goodbyes and were in the atrium with our luggage. I miss the old Mickey banner that use to hang from above, as they've now replaced it with this:

Somehow this one wasn't nearly as sad as seeing Mickey wave goodbye from above.

Before we stared our walk off, Mike noticed Captain Henry was standing nearby, so he decided to go over and tell him thanks for a wonderful voyage.

He was super friendly and easy to talk to. This was the first time that we'd ever encountered one of the Captains, so we thought it was pretty cool!

And then, the walk of doom began:

We breezed right through customs and decided to let a porter help us out with our bags this time which isn't something we normally do. He was a big help, and when I found out that he was from Florida, but wasn't a Florida Gators fan I tipped him big!!

With all our luggage neatly stacked in the trunk, we piled inside and made our way out of the port, while waving goodbye to the Dream:

At breakfast we all decided that we wanted to make one last stop before heading home...so we made our way here:

Where we spent close to an hour looking around. I ended up picking up a shirt for my Dad since they had one with a pocket on the front and a Tervis tumbler for my Mom.

We headed out of Ron Jon's and made a stop at the first gas station to fuel up before our long ride home...

And just like that...the trip had come to an end.

Next up: Final thoughts and future plans!

great job and don't feel too bad about the sad child because my ex brother in law did the same thing when i went on cruise with him and my ex sister. However this time i'm going alone. I'm going on the fantasy in september for my birthday. Did you save your daily newspaper from the dream? My exsister and husband took my and didn't let me have one. oh well i'll have palenty this time around

 

[PRINCESS VIJA]

great trip report! Looking forward to our Fantasy cruise, and I am enjoying reading the Dream reports!