Hi everyone!
Well, we are at MCO waiting for our flight home. We got a day room at the Hyatt, so we are just hanging out in the room before our 6 hour flight.
It was SO great to meet everyone, but I feel bad that there were some of you I never did get to meet!! But, I think I met a good share of you, though!
Thanks to ALL of you for the awesome FE gifts.... we had so much fun every day looking in our FE for gifts. It was just a lot of fun, and you all just put so many great gifts in our FE. So, thank you very very much. I have a big box of stuff I'm bringing home... all of our FE gifts we got (that either haven't been eaten yet, or other fun non-edible gifts).
With the exception of St. Thomas and some rocky seas the first 24 hours of our cruise, I have to say we lucked out on the weather.
Castaway Cay could not have been more perfect, too (the water was a bit cold, but the air temperature was so perfect!!)
In St. Maaten, we went to Maho Beach (aiport beach) for the day. Wow, what a thrill!! It was amazing... a 747 landed right over our heads.... crazy. We got an awesome video of it, and then lots of smaller planes, some 767's, and 737's, too. Great great experience!
St. Thomas, we had the option to get a refund for our beach excursion, so we did. Instead, we went out and just walked around and chose to get drenched from the rain!! That was fun, actually. We were completely drenched all the way through our clothes...
Then, Castaway Cay, Eric and I ran the 5K... super fun!!! Had a great time..... then we rented bikes and biked all over all the trails. Then, just played in the water and the beach the rest of the time.
Oh, how I already miss the ship! I hope everyone had a great time. would love to read reports and all the things you guys did, and post pictures if you have them!
Oh,
Tim (switzert).... I never had a chance to meet you or your family (amongst other people). I wanted to tell you a funny story... so I'll just tell it here. On our way to the ship, we were on the Disney Bus, and this huge U-Haul passed us in the other lane.... I just started to laugh out loud, and my DH asked what was funny. I told him that U-Haul was "switzert's" SUV with all the luggage he was hauling. haha. (then I told DH how we were all joking around with all the luggage you brought). Anyway, that UHaul made me think of you. haha.
But, I do have a question for you, Tim.... I found out you are a big guy... did you by chance play the 3-on-3 basketball on one of the sea days up in the basketball course, and if so, do you by chance go by "Tiny Tim"? If so, then you played 3-on-3 with my husband Eric, and I have pictures of you guys playing. If that wasn't you, then never mind. But, this guy "Tiny Tim" my husband played with and met was a big tall guy!
Would be so ironic if that were you... I watched most of the 3-on-3 game.
Take care everyone... would love to keep in touch with those who are interested.
Oh, and did anyone book a future cruise?? If so, which one? We booked two.... Mexican Riviera Dec 16-23, 2012 on the wonder (we might move this one once the Magic 2013 dates come out... so this mexico cruise was sort of a "dummy date"), and then we booked the April 6-13, 2013 Fantasy Eastern Caribbean (but it goes to St. Thomas and Peurto Rico). The price for this was too good to be true, and this is our kid's spring break for that year, so they won't miss any school. So, we'll be keeping that date for sure, unless something unexpected comes up.
Bye for now!!!
Kathy
But, we made it home late last night... LOOONG flight. There were really bad head winds the entire trip and it was really turbulent most of the flight. So it was about a 6 hour and 20 minute flight. We finally got home to our house about 11 PM Seattle time, which was 2 AM our body time... boy, were we tired!! 
But it was fun to try??
) but being my first cruise experience with 4 kids, we were pulled in so many different directions from 6:30am when the younger 2 woke up to 10pm when the older 2 were ready to go play basketball or hit up the theater for a movie, that we were wiped out. Our stop at Sea World after the cruise was good but we were all so tired that we ended up going to the airport early and sitting at the gate. I'm still in a daze this morning! I'll try and get some of my pics up on photobucket tonight and link them up here. I took almost 600 pictures so I'll need to pick a few of my favorites.
But, I went against my instincts and just stayed in one spot, and boy, did my heart race like crazy. I ended up falling to my knees just about when the plane was going over head because my natural instints just made me do that... I almost couldn't help but fall to my knees! But, Eric is much more of a risk taker than I am, so he stood up the entire time it went over his head... that is why his video turned out so well!
