Mother Daughter WONDERful Cruise Report - August 5 - 10th.

[RoyalVizier]

Great photos! Looks like your little princess couldn't be happier.

 

[PrettyInTink]

Ok, I've been tearing up through this whole trip report, but I'm not finished yet. You posted your precious pirate pics on a thread I started so I knew I would love you TR. Stop making me cry! My dh even teared up a few times! We are such softies!

 

[MickeyBeast]

Awesome pictures. We have been cruisin' 4 times, twice with our girls. Brings back many memories

 

[Ker-Bear]

looking forward to the rest and hearing about how you handled the "mean" table companions

 

[teach22180]

Nope, I don't recognize you guys! Hard to believe we were on the same ship and the SAME SMALL BOAT to the dolphins, and I didn't notice a mother and little girl since that's who I was looking for!

Thanks for posting the pics, anyway. Happy memories are a good thing!

 

[WldWcnWmn]

Can't wait to read about the rotten table mates

 

[MB MinnieGirl]

DAY THREE - August 8th
CASTAWAY CAY

School starts here in two weeks and I seriously wish they would allow Mickey Mouse to phone morning wake up calls to us at home! As hard as Maddie went all day long, I could not pry her from the bed with a monkey wrench!

I woke up about 7:30 and went out onto the Verandah. The weather was beautiful and we had already docked at CC. I got dressed then went back out to watch them unload all the goodies for Cookies BBQ all the while making a ton of noise HOPING to stir the sleeping princess from her snooze. FINALLY at 8am when the phone rang her eyes blinked. I finally screamed, "MICKEY IS CALLING I'M GOING TO ANSWER IT!" Poof! She's up! Works like a charm - I highly recommend the wake up calls for the kids.

Once up and dressed with beach bad packed in hand we headed to our favorite spot, Beach Blanket. At home we always have something really simple as neither of us are big b'fast eaters...but here...get back and watch out! We were loaded down with everything on the buffet I think. And if they ran out of Mickey waffles and strawberries - that would be 100% Maddie's fault.

I said it before, but BB is my favorite spot on the ship. I can sit on the top of the ship with food in front of me while feeling the breeze in my face and watching CC down below. All while being waited on and knowing I have to clean NONE of it up! Yep - this is perfect. We saw the Flying Dutchman for the first time and even though neither of us have seen the movies (oh the HORROR!) it was still pretty cool. Maddie thinks it's a real Pirate ship so she was completely impressed. If you have never been to CC, be sure to go up to BB or at least deck 9 or 10 to take a look at the island before people start getting off the ship....it is so beautiful and pristine early in the morning. Almost like something out of a story book.

Maddie doesn't remember a lot about our first cruise two years ago, but Castaway Cay she remembers. She is beaming from ear to ear and jumping up and down. While at BB she was holding onto the rail on the deck while jumping like crazy repeating over and over, "Mommy we're here, we're here!!! Can you believe it we're at CC! Can we GO NOW?!" Yep - you got it more tears. But I also heard the word NOW so in my mind I also knew that if we didn't get our booties off that ship then SOMEBODY was going to turn into impatient grumpy tail again so off we went.

I cannot say enough how much I LOVE the people on this ship (ok - except for a certain few at dinner and one TOTAL WITCH from Graduation which I'll tell you about on day 4). Maddie did get the grumpy bone back when I informed her we were NOT waiting for an elevator crammed with 50 oiled up people who had to stop at every floor to tell people it was full and that we would take the stairs to the bottom. Well, on the stairs there was a mother with her DD who was 8 years old (we've seen them several times over the past few days), who just stopped right in front of Maddie to tell her, "You better be nice to your mommy and give her a break. She brought you on this cruise and she can make you leave." WHERE is Shutters when you need them? I would have paid money to capture the look on Maddie's face. A few steps later and we were on the 1st deck to get off on CC!

We had no mare than gotten off the ship before we saw Capt. Hook and Mr. Smeely. They were at the post office. Maddie had brought her Princess Frisbee that Tink had left for her the night before and Capt Hook immediately took it from her and he and Mr. Smeely started playing frisbee with it and keep away from Maddie. Yep - I got pictures, and yes, I started to tear up. It just seems like everywhere, and I mean everywhere we went Maddie was made to feel so special by others on the ship. When we arrived our Dis friends had brought her special pins for her lanyard (how sweet!), Kirk was kind enough to help with the gifts each night but then even went one step more and made her towel animals every morning as well. We ran into characters when nobody else was around so she had lots of 1 on 1 with them, the lady at Shutters, the cutie pie dancers at the sail away party and later at the Pirate Party - it was just amazing! It was as if everything on the ship was for us (ok - except the table mates). You would think at some point I would just stop blubbering. Poor Maddie, she just rolls her eyes and says, "would ya just stop and be happy." Ha ha!!

We made our way over to the tram stop after taking the photo ops with the big fish, flying Dutchman and all the other spots along the way. We got out at the family beach and went straight to pick up our float and tube. Note to self....do NOT get tube next time. It sat rotting under the tree along with the money I paid for it. Then we walked a bit further and found a spot....no hammock. Oh well, if she wouldn't sit still for a tube I doubt there would be much hammock napping going on either. We hadn't been there 5 minutes when we met up with friends we had made on the ship who happened to be sitting near us. Maddie and Katie, and her mother and I went straight into the water to play around a bit. Maddie brought her snorkel down (from Tink also)and began to play around looking at the fish when we were yelled at because she didn't have on the "real snorkel mask and yellow jacket." Now wouldn't you have thought that Tink would have known the rules at CC? Oh yea, I had to do some quick thinking with that one....ummmm....."I'll bet they gave it to you to TAKE HOME and use in OUR OCEAN there. Ya know - to remember them by - what do ya think?" Thank God that worked! Up went the snorkel and off we all went to the kids play area in the water...or the rope of torture which I now call it.

There must have been 10 kids up there between 6 - 12 all trying so hard to get across that rope and every single one looked to be in pain and fell within the first 3 feet. Maddie swears she's going to make it. Across she goes....I see the pain....PLOP! Down she falls. I go to get her...which if you don't know - do NOT touch the rope in the water. TOTALLY gross and nasty slimy stuff on there that I was unaware of until I had a fist full of it. BLACH! She immediately tells me that she's going again. Up she goes....she's on the rope...and STILL ON IT! Here I start to cry because there are all of these other parents cheering her on - she was half way across. She made it to just about the end minus a foot and fell. It was farther than anyone else had made it. She swam over to me and instead of being excited she was almost in tears saying that she just wanted to make it that far but wouldn't do it again....why - blisters. Her palms were actually bleeding. Poor doodlebug!

After that Katie and Maddie decided it was time to go to the kids club. They both wanted to do the treasure hunt. So off we went to check them in. I had never been to the adult beach on CC so I thought....hummm, sounds great! I didn't want her in the club past lunch because I wanted us to spend the day together at CC, so that meant I would have about an hour at Serenity Bay.

I walk over to the tram stop and I'm the only person there. After all the activity at the family beach it was kind of creepy quiet. When I got there all I kept picturing were all the shots on the DI with people in hammocks...so certainly there would be hammocks right? This place would be crawling with them. There would also be people serving drinks by the dozen. Ummm.....NOPE! Here is where the flames may come. Don't kill me. I promise not to go back so you can have it all to yourself, but I hated that beach. I should say that for some reason on the way over I started getting a sore throat and a headache which combined with heat feels like death. But when I saw that there were 3 hammocks - that's it THREE and all of them served the same purpose as the one's at the family beach - TO HOLD TOWELS AND BAGS! I was floored. I took my things and went down to a chair to sit in the surf and read. I was there about 10 minutes before I was completely miserable with a sore throat and headache so I just said ...well a few words in my head and packed up. I saw a path up from the beach which CERTAINLY would take me back to the main road to get the tram so I headed up to it and started walking. And walking. AND WALKING INTO A ROPED OFF NOTHING AREA. Ahhhhh!!! I saw an umbrella under a tree with a drink server sitting under it! Ah ha! THIS is where they are were - on strike obviously. I ask him if I could get to the tram this way and he very nicely without moving said yes I could. So I turned back around and just tried again. Maybe the rope was in my imagination. NOPE - ROPE STILL THERE! I passed Mr. Relaxing Drink Man again and told him about the (*@^#@ rope when he responded, "Oh, they must have closed it." So I walk back to the beach and start my trek again. I got there as the tram was pulling in THANK GOD and made my way back to civilization. Serenity my fanny - this was hell for me.

I went to pick up Maddie and met up with Katie's mother there too. We both decided that they might like to dance with Mickey before lunch. We had heard he would be at the DJ cabana so we got the girls and off we went. We were the only one's there so Maddie (who is a dancer at home) immediately gets on the little stage area with the DJ and begins to dance. He ask her what songs she wanted to dance to with Minnie and Mickey and Maddie starts naming, The Twist, Mickey Mamba, YMCA....and he starts stacking them up for her. GET OUT! Yup - more tears - Maddie is feeling so special. Ten minutes later there weren't but about maybe 8 other kids there when MINNIE appeared! Now the rule was Minnie stayed on stage and the kids stayed below and danced "with her." On her way up Minnie bends down, takes Maddie's chin in her hand and then pats her on the head. (do I really have to tell you there were tears) Then Maddie stands there - front and center were she had planted herself, right in front of Minnie and dances her fanny off through 5 songs. They then announce that Minnie will do a Conga line around Cookies with the kids. Who's hand does she take when getting off the stage - MADDIE'S!!! Now I'm not only in tears, but you would think I was 5 because I almost wet my pants. Minnie with Maddie right behind and holding on tight and then Katie....all following by at this point 15 other kids do the Conga around Cookies area about 3 times. TOO STINKING CUTE!!


Minnie waves goodbye. Maddie is still in her spot front and center. I'm hungry so I think we should be off to Cookies - NOPE! Here comes Mickey. Oh no. I know Maddie will be disappointed because she won't get to interact with him as she did Minnie. Well, he comes up on stage and Maddie is still planted. Mickey looks down straight at Maddie who is dancing like a mad woman and waves in her little face. I love this mouse! They dance to a few songs then announce - CONGA LINE WITH MICKEY. I almost died. Mickey gets off the stage and who's hand did he take - MADDIE! HELLO????? I was in awe. Maddie was with Mickey through the Conga line the same way as with Minnie. If I had run out of batteries in the camera people would have heard me screaming back in SC! She will never forget this.

As a matter of fact, she is at dance team practice right now and could NOT WAIT to tell her teacher all about it. I promise to finish the 3rd day later this evening but right now I have to go pick up my dancing queen from dance practice.

Thank you SO very much for all the kind words about my report....you made me cry again!! I love writing this - it let's me relive the cruise all over again.

YES WE DID go back to dinner with Stuffy Stick on the 3rd night...I'll get to it this evening I promise. They live in MICHIGAN (from this you know they CAN actaully speak) so anyone there reading this watch out - they could be your neighbors


Kelly

 

[jrose529]

I'm really enjoying your trip report. Maddie is adorable!

I have to agree with you about Serenity Bay. DH and I were there 2 years ago and we were dissapointed. I had been so excited after reading all the glowing reports about it, that I expected more. The water was so shallow we had to go waaaaaay out for the water to be up to our waists. I'm only 5' 3" so I expected it to be deeper much sooner. DH is 6' 1" and I don't think he ever found a good depth. We ended up back at the family beach which we found to be much nicer, although it was crowded. I do have to say my beach massage at SB made up for my dissapointment though!!! DD who was 16 at the time didn't enjoy the teen beach either.

It's a pretty island, but it wasn't the highlight of our Magical trip at all. We loved everything else about our 7 day Eastern cruise on the Magic. Your trip report is making me so excited about our April 2007 cruise on the Wonder.

 

[TiaMaria]

OK Kelly,

I hope you are happy now - I am now on my 3rd box of Kleenex reading your report! You are a great writer! And a great picture taker. I have to tell you, I spent my very enjoyable lunch hour at work today looking at each one of your pictures. I am taking my 9 year old nephew and (will be) 8 year old niece on the 7 day Magic Eastern on Spring Break. We have devoured all the websites and trip planners out there - but I have to say - I am going to read your report and show them your pictures, because they capture so much of what the experience really is. Thank you.

You know I also am laughing because in your regular signature picture of Maddie she looks younger, darker-haired and looks like her eyes are brown. Then in your pictures, here is this blond, blue-eyed, freckle-face young girl. She looks so MUCH like my niece, Katie that it is amazing. Such a cutie! My niece is also a dancer, and will be very impressed with Maddie's dance contest victory!

You two had so much fun, that it is my inspiration. I want you to change to the March 17 Eastern next year so we can hang with you. I promise - we WILL talk at dinner! LOL!

Keep the reports coming. As long as I am stocked up on tissues, we have no problem.

 

[teach22180]

I was going to say what jrose said, the adult beach was a disappointment to us also because it was only about 18 inches deep! We had fun in the morning at Castaway Ray's, and the lunch was yummy (especially the cookie dough ice cream, and I don't even LIKE ice cream!), but that beach was not worth all the effort to get there.

Well, I'm sure the rain didn't help, as I'm sure Kelly is going to tell you about. We did go in the family beach after the rain and all the people had gone back on the ship, and that was the best hour of the day! I learned what to do on CC, and I'll know better next time!

 

[SpideyHulk24]

I have been waiting all day to ready day 2. Your reports are awesome!

 

[SpideyHulk24]

Okay, just read day three. Unbelievable. I am chomping at the bit for our cruise to get here. YOu have created unbelievable memories that Maddie will cherish long after she gets married and has children of her own. Thank you for allowing us to share in your thoughts.

 

[discruiselovers97]

waiting...paitently...AHH OK I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER!!! WHERE IS THE REST OF YOUR REPORT???

 

[MB MinnieGirl]

Day Three - August 8th
Continued.............


After dancing toes Maddie had twirled around with Mickey and Minnie though every song known to the little mice off we finally went to Cookies. Thank goodness because I was STARVING! Did I mention my throat and head were killing me?

I started at the fruit line and didn't stop until I had enough ribs on my pate to horrify a vegetarian! Maddie on the other hand...started complaining about all food, not some ALL. No to hamburgers (only 6 year old that will not eat them ever), nope, don't want hotdogs, nope, don't want fruit, nope nope nope. Did I mention my throat and head hurt? EAT CHILD OR GO HOME! Guess what? That actually worked. How she thought she would go home is beyond me but the mere mention of it sent her appetite up very nicely. I'll have to remember that next time as well.

We ate lunch, then ice cream, then cookies and more fruit. I think aside from breakfast this is one of my favorite meals. We talked about Serenity Bay. I am very fortunate that I have a very caring little girl who is always overly concerned that I am well occupied when she is off elsewhere. She was very excited for me about the "grown up beach." So when I was laughing and telling her how much I hated it she got very upset that I didn't get to do "my thing" and have fun like she did. Hummmmm idea!!!

"I would LOVE to simply go back to the family beach get on the raft with you and relax in the water. No ropes, no other kids, not swimming, just hanging out with you in the water on the raft floating. What do ya think?"

"I think that sounds good Mommy. We can do that. Let's go."

It was then that I think I heard angels singing.

Off to the family beach we went to grab the raft before anyone changed their minds. THIS - not a deserted pond with missing cabana boys and hammocks used for holding devices is MY idea of HEAVEN!!! I laid down on the raft on my back and Maddie got down at the bottom of it facing me. We just let the tide take us wherever it would and we stayed on it for likely an hour. It was so beautiful. I remembered doing this while she was napping on our last cruise but with her being older and us just being out there talking and laughing together without one single care in the world was one of the best parts of the day for me. I could have stayed there all day long had they let us. We watching fish swim around us. We watched other kids play and then the water took us to the very edge of the swimming point and I swear to you it was silent - you heard nothing and it seemed as though you were there completely alone instead of with 2,000 people. She never once complained or ask to do anything else. If I had not remembered that she wanted her hair braided we may very well still be there now.

She had been begging to have her hair braided. I had warned her it would probably hurt some and that it wouldn't last forever either. All it took really was seeing that her friend Katie had hers done and the deal was sealed - we were going to do it. So off we went.

Thankfully there was no wait we just walked right up she choose the style and beads...which thank God the lady was able to change her mind because originally Maddie chose 13 colors for the beads - 13!. The woman was able to narrow her down to only two.

It was only a few minutes under the umbrella in the nice shade where I was totally relaxed when we saw it. A huge nasty black cloud. Maddie just kept saying over and over, "It's gonna rain. It's gonna rain." Ok - so she was right. The clouds opened, the rain came down and I did a mad sprint back to the family beach to grab our things. HELLO KELLY!!! You would think living at the beach I would recognize a SHOWER when I see one. I was running as if a monsoon was coming and when I got to our things it was totally dry again. Oh well. Nice exercise right.

Back to Maddie I went. When I got there the woman had about two braids in (told ya - I RAN!). Maddie stuck her arm out and began to squeeze the blood out of my hand. Hummmm.....I think it hurts. I tried so hard not to laugh. It was then that I reminded her how funny she thinks it is when I tweeze my eyebrows and cry. NOT too funny now being beautiful is it Princess of Pain! Poor thing. I really did feel sorry for her and told her over and over we could just stop - no big deal. Nope - she was in for the long haul. A quitter she is not. When she was finished she looked so pretty and grown up with her hair pulled back. Yup - cried again. Here is when I really cried. I had told her I may not be able to get her hair done depending on how much $$ it was. Well, it ended up being $40 and she - my 6 year old daughter insisted on paying for it, "because you did a lot too mommy." (Insert fainting and crying smilie here) Don't tell her - but I only let her pay for half of it.

After the braids were complete she was walking so high she was actually strutting. If you looked at the pictures, THAT would be when she began posing under the palm tree at CC. Oh yea - she's so shy! In the middle of snapping away a woman near by I guess had been watching us and came up to tell us we looked like we were having so much fun and wanted to know if I would like her to take our picture together under the tree, which she did. Then, I cried. I am just not used to people being so friendly kind and going out of their way so much I suppose. That doesn't really speak too highly of Myrtle Beach now does it?

After the picture taking session we were going to swim a bit more but......that cloud came back and brought friends with it! You know, before we left we were worried about TS Chris and the weather, but once we were there, even on CC, we couldn't have cared less how much it rained or when. We just packed up and got excited about going back to the ship and doing whatever we wanted. Which is exactly what we did. We even had a ball standing in line in the rain with another family who was so pissed off because people on the previous tram wouldn't put their kids on their laps so they could sit down. We had so much fun talking to them and laughing - we were already wet - who cares?

Back at the ship the line was HUGE! Picture the entire boat trying to embark at ONCE. They opened the other entrance at the back of the ship and Maddie and I hauled it up there. It seems she wanted to be FIRST NOW so when people started passing us running and got there first she screams, "RUDE RUDE RUDE." Are you kidding me?? NOW the mood comes back??!! She was still ticked off when we were being scanned back on board. So much so that one of the officers noticed and ask her to step aside with him. Oh boy! This is gonna be good. He pulls her though the medal detector and makes it beep then says, "Yes, exactly what I thought. I need you to come with me." He then pulls her to the side with him takes out the wand detector and beings to scan her body with it. When it gets to her head he made that thing beep as though she were smuggling a VW Bug under her braids! I was about to wet myself laughing. He then says, "Young lady (Maddie looking terrified), you know what that means, (Maddie shaking her head no) that means that you have medal in your head - that is why it's hard!" It beeps again. Maddie is FROZEN in place. "The only way to decrease the size of it is to listen to your mother. Now are you going to listen?" Maddie begins to nod like a bobble head poodle. "Yes sir." Those were her ONLY words.



After the medal head incident she was golden! We (ok - I) decided that I needed a BBC (remember - sore throat - headache) so we went by the bar on deck 4 whatever that was and then walked around the deck. We walked the jogging trail, we looked around at the lifeboats (hence the weird photo of them) sat in the comfy chairs you name it. Then we went up to deck 9 and did a little rain swimming (like I said, we were already wet!) and then headed back to our room.

Tonight was our second dining at Parrot Cay and we didn't want to miss it since we skipped it the night before for the Captain's Reception. After relaxing on the verandah for a bit (I LOVE that thing) we hit the shower and got ready for dinner. This was also Pirate Night so Maddie was more than ready to put on her costume especially now that she had "great hair."

After much 6 year old primping we were ready for dinner. We tried to get in line for Capt Jack, but THANK GOD she doesn't care about him so we were able to skip the hall winding line. Instead we went down for Mickey in his costume. We made Mickey and then went straight to Parrot Cay - I wanted to arrive first to have a little talk with our server John (who by the way had the personality of toast) about our table mates.

YEA!!!!!!! WE ARE FIRST WE ARE FIRST!!!! Damn! It's a round table! John came over and I ask him if the table in Triton's tomorrow night would be a 6 top or round. He said it would indeed be a 6 top as it was the previous night. Well, earn you tip John Boy - here it comes. I informed him that I WOULD NOT be placed across a table again from my daughter and that if we arrived and the seating was such I would be moved to a table for two. He assured me that he would direct the other family to specific seats the remainder of the cruise and that Maddie and I would be seated together.
(Insert kiss my tail smilie here!)

We were sitting down, Maddie perfectly looking like a Pirate and me now with the bandana and in they walk - the Stuffy Sticks. They walk over sit down and guess what - they looked SO out of place. They were all dressed up - no in costumes but dressy dressy. HUH??? That was LAST NIGHT! Not even an eye patch on the little boy. You would have to know Maddie to understand her facial expressions. She looked at me like, "What the hell were they thinking anyway."

Now, if you remember Miss Stuffy Stick didn't speak - AT ALL! NOT ONE WORD OR GLANCE the first night. Well, all of the sudden her mouth opens she looks at us and says (quite snotty), so how was dinner last night, WE dined at Palo's? Well TOUCH YOU with a firggin' glove lady! You're kidding me right? So now, I'm just over it. I think I'll just have fun with it. I responded, "Well, it was absolutely wonderful but I'm afraid we didn't dine in Parrot Cay either. When we arrived back from Nassau we had an invitation in our cabin to dine with Captain John in a private party." SO SHOVE THAT stick woman!



Yea, it was evil but so was she the first night and when she said PALO...she said it as though she had dined at the White House and left us with scraps at McDonald's. She quickly shut up again - for awhile. Apparently a "private dinner with the Captain" impressed her for some pathetic reason. She began asking questions left and right when she found out we had cruised before (which Maddie was the one to point out) and I had a ball acting as though we were on the ship weekly. Evil yes, but I was just way over it all at this point.

I kept thinking at some point they would loosen up but never really. I did try to be nice asking them if they had seen the shows. Show - what show? Are you kidding me?? Oh well. Let's tried the kids. I started asking her son (who is Maddie's age - this should be a good thing!) if he was having fun and if he was going to go to graduation tomorrow night. Another stunned look of HUH? I gave up. At this point the photographer came over and ask if we wanted our picture. I immediately stood up and walked away with Maddie asking if they could take ours over there for the scenery - ya know - I bought that picture! After that it was time for the Pirate parade in the restaurant which not even the son participated in. I guess we are total rednecks because off Maddie went and I stood straight up to take pictures. After that we ordered dessert and bolted up to see the Golden Mickey's - which I was nice enough to tell them I thought they would really enjoy especially the kids.

We LOVED LOVED the Golden Mickey's. Maddie was in complete awe. She remembered nothing about it so it was like the first time for her and I was able to just watch her expressions, her face light up and the excitement and wonder in her eyes....yup sat there and cried in the dark like a baby. The theater was some of my favorite times with her because we were able to just sit and be quiet and I was able to watch her excitement so closely I could see her jump! I was in Heaven again.

After the show we headed up to deck 9 for the Pirate Show. Maddie was exhausted but I knew there was no missing this at all - for either of us. Camera in hand we made it and guess where we were. Yep - front and center stage baby!!! YEA!!! Maddie won't miss one thing!

The show started and up behind her was Katie and her mother Anna. So now Maddie also had her friend to enjoy it with. Even better! A few minutes into the show the worst happened to me. MY CAMERA DIED!!! NOOOOOO!!!!! Oh well, can't fix that now we would loose front and center position. (I ask some friends from the Dis to send me some photos and Anna's mother said she would too so I'm find now.) Maddie is so tired there is no dancing to be done by her right now. The girls on stage are dancing away and one actually becomes ticked because Maddie is just standing there. This is the only time I almost socked a cast member. She actually bent down to Maddie and told her she HAD to getup and dance - she did not have a happy face either. Ummmm, NO. YOU HAVE to dance. She can sing Christmas Carols and go to sleep on the deck if she wants. Two minutes later it was all good because Maddie's boyfriend appeared on stage. There is one performer who had played with her all week. He is the one at the Sail Away Party who called her Dales Sister and teased her about her 4 missing teeth. Maddie was in love! He played with her again - now she was up and dancing! See lady - it's the RIGHT motivation that works. Anyway then her night was made even better because she was wearing a load of bracelets (from Tink of course) that glow in the dark (thank you Dis). He stops dancing, bobs over to her and takes one off her arm and puts it on his. Then goes back to dancing and blows her a kiss. Oh my God the waterworks....I was stupid crying!! And did I mention MY CAMERA WAS DEAD!!!!!!

The characters came out, Mickey flew, there were fireworks, you know the drill...but none of that was as much fun to Maddie and I as the boy on stage dancing with HER then taking her bracelet to wear and blowing her a kiss from stage. Ok - gonna cry again - I gotta stop.

After the show was over, cutie pie boy came down from the stage and over to Maddie (I'm NOT going to cry I'm NOT!). He bent down and just talked to her a bit...she was glowing and grinning from ear to ear....I loved it!!! DAMN YOU CAMERA!!! I then told him my camera had died but that I would like to try and get one picture with them together if he would just cross his fingers for me. He did. He held Maddie bedside of him and I said a little prayer - guess what - IT TOOK! It died again immediately - but THAT picture took!!!
Yep - cried. That was it. Maddie was done. He told her to promise to find him tomorrow night on the ship before leaving on Thursday and we walked off to the buffet. All the while my cake of the day kid screaming....I DO NOT WANT ANY FOOD I WANT TO GO TO BED NOW! Ummmm well guess what priss pot MOMMY WANTS CHOCOLATE and I'm getting it!!! We walked VERY quickly through the line and I took the plate back to my room to much out knowing she would want some as well. NOPE. WRONG! We got there she saw her Tink gifts, another towel animal smiled twice and literally passed out on top of the bed.

A GREAT DAY!!!! Rain, headaches, broken cameras....who cares!!!!! It was WONDERful!

~~~Kelly (I'll do the 4th day tomorrow evening)

You have NO idea how much your kind words about my reports have meant. The reports were SO helpful to me when I was planned so I had promised to write them when I returned. So many of the comments have brought tears to my eyes. I hope EVERYONE has just as much of a MAGICAL ADVENTURE as we did on our trip!!!!

 

[michellej2000]

OMG !!!! awesome trip reports... you sound like a wonderful mom !!! too bad your table mates coudn't enjoy their cruise !!!! glad to hear all was wonderful for you and your dd6...

 

[discruiselovers97]

Loving The Trip Report!!!

 

[Vanvmom]

I told DH about the metal detector incident with your daughter, and he's hoping the same officer is working when our six year old son has his daily mood swing

 

[jrose529]

Kelly,

You have such a positive outlook on life, no wonder Maddie seems like such a terrific kid! Many people would be so miserable about their tablemates that it would ruin their cruise. It's great that you had fun with it.

I look forward to your next installment.

 

[MB MinnieGirl]

THIS IS A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL TRIP REPORT!

I READ THIS TO MY 4 YR OLD DAUGHTER, WHO IS NOW FIT TO BURST WITH EXCITEMENT!

SHE SAID OF THE RUDE TABLE MATES, WHY DONT THEY SIT WITH US MUMMY? (CUTE) i SAID THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN ON THE CRUISE THIS IS THEIR STORY ABOUT WHAT THEY DID.

GUESS WHAT SHE REPLIED............... " I THOUGHT THAT WAS A MAGICAL STORY BOOK YOU WERE READING".....

PERHAPS YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT WRITING A BOOK???!

THANKS FOR SPENDING THE TIME TO SHARE, HOPE WE CAN SEE SOME PHOTOS TOO.


(IM NOT BEING RUDE TYPING IN CAPITALS, MY KEYBOARD HAS GONE WEIRD!!)

YOU just made me tear up. Your DD sounds PRECIOUS! Please tell her that we would LOVE to dine with you....we wish we were going then as well. Please tell her thank you so very much for inviting us.


Kelly

 

[HollyTyler]

Your daily reports bring back memories of my cruise with my son (3 1/2 then) last September. Fortunately, I rebooked a couple weeks after we got home because he talks about that cruise at least twice a week and has done so ALL YEAR! So I know when we go again this September, he'll be even more excited because he remembers all his favorite parts. And reading your reports is REALLY building my excitement too! Thanks for taking the time to share with all of us!