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I hope your DH gets things figured out soon! That's pretty scary.
Our two week land and sea adventure! W/ LOTS OF PICS!!!(UPDATED 6/17 pg.16 post 227)
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Girldreamer02
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I hope your DH gets things figured out soon! That's pretty scary.
thank you! thats so sweet of you! In the meantime I'm going to get my butt in gear and finish this report...look for an update within the next few days!
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Okay everyone, sorry that I've been gone for so long, but I am here and I am going to finish this trippie and I am hoping and praying that we are going to plan another one VERY soon! Also I still have a surprise up my sleeve for this trippie that I have yet to reveal so lets get on with it shall we?! When we last left off we were heading to the show!
The show was called, All Aboard, let the magic begin. They had a stand up guy named Rob Pearson as well as a musical comedy guy named John charles. Both were hilarious! The shows are in the Walt Disney Theater each night of the cruise and they run at 6:15, which you go to if you have the later dinner seating like we did or the 8:15 show if you have the early dinner seating, which unfortunately we didnt. Boo! Seriously, do you eat dinner at 8:15 because I know matt and I dont when we are at our apartment. It ended up working out in the end as youll see because we had excellent dinning companions!
After the show we walked back to the room to get our dinning tickets, took our photo mats to guest services (if you drop them off at the beginning of the cruise theyll have the characters sign them for you and return them to you on the last night of your cruise.) We also got a extension cord for dhs c pap machine while we were at guest services. They charge you a 50 dollar deposit (I suppose to make sure they get it back.) and then you get the money refunded when you bring it back of course. Sorry, but we wouldnt steal a extension cord that we could get for under ten bucks lol. Rest assured we gave it back at the end of the trip! We walked that back to the room and then walked around outside for a bit until dinner.
We sat with a very nice couple named Garth and Kimberly and they were from Callergery Alberta Canada (I have no idea if I spelled that right lol) They were very nice, which is good since wed be eating with them the next seven nights. (there is rotational dinning on the ship. Which means the servers you have and also the people at your table follow you each night so by the end of the trip everybody knows each other very well!)
At dinner the boat was hitting some waves and it was making me feel pretty sick during the first course. I asked dh if after the first course could we step outside for some fresh air, but as it turns out I was okay once we started chatting and eating. I had soup (I dont remember what kind) salmon with mashed potatoes and chocolate cake for dessert. Dh had scallop/avacado wrap, the filet and scallops and peanut butter pie for dessert. I also forgot to mention we dined at Animators Palet tonight and it was awesome! We love animators palet. The room starts out black and white and by the end its all lit up in color. So cool! (sadly we have no pictures of this...not sure why since we are picture fanatics?!)
After dinner we decided to go back to the room and our stateroom hostess had been there and did turn down service and left those AWESOME pillow mints! She had sat Colin (my bear) and mickey up against the pillows, made us a seal towel animal and put my sunglasses on him and sat rext next to him as well. She also made my green blanket look pretty.
Thats one thing that we LOVE about being on the cruise they do towel animals every night! Its so awesome! As opposed to Disney where you have to hope youll get one. No guess work on the cruise! We decided to watch tv and hang out since we were both so tired. We had both fallen asleep on the bus a little on the ride to port canveral. I had to wake dh up because he was starting to snore! Lol. We got to bed pretty early...I know we should partake in the evening activities, but we had just spent a week in the parks and were so tired! Not to mention I was feeling sick from the waves(silly me didn't think about getting any kind of patches or anything because we were both fine on the four day cruise...well this is a seven day cruise...hello...of course I'm bound to get sick we are further out at sea and it was a bit rougher. Really I'm pretty sensitive so don't let me scare you.
) I'm going to include a picture of the personal navigator it tells you the drink of the day, when all aboard is (if you dock for the day), departure and that type of thing. It also tells about all the activities and hours for everything going on all day. Your stateroom host or hostess leaves it in your room each night when they do turndown service. Its very handy! Sorry if its kind of blurry dh scanned them in for me.
Here is the front cover:
inside first page
inside second page
and the back cover just have information about the photo service on board (shutters) and their packages and stuff similar to that. And the operating hours of everything for that day so dh didn't scan that since its pretty much the same every day. and I only scanned the whole navigator for the first day so everyone could have an idea of what they looked like in case they hadn't cruised. The rest will just be the first page. Hope you enjoyed the first update although its a little lacking in pictures!
The show was called, All Aboard, let the magic begin. They had a stand up guy named Rob Pearson as well as a musical comedy guy named John charles. Both were hilarious! The shows are in the Walt Disney Theater each night of the cruise and they run at 6:15, which you go to if you have the later dinner seating like we did or the 8:15 show if you have the early dinner seating, which unfortunately we didnt. Boo! Seriously, do you eat dinner at 8:15 because I know matt and I dont when we are at our apartment. It ended up working out in the end as youll see because we had excellent dinning companions!
After the show we walked back to the room to get our dinning tickets, took our photo mats to guest services (if you drop them off at the beginning of the cruise theyll have the characters sign them for you and return them to you on the last night of your cruise.) We also got a extension cord for dhs c pap machine while we were at guest services. They charge you a 50 dollar deposit (I suppose to make sure they get it back.) and then you get the money refunded when you bring it back of course. Sorry, but we wouldnt steal a extension cord that we could get for under ten bucks lol. Rest assured we gave it back at the end of the trip! We walked that back to the room and then walked around outside for a bit until dinner.
We sat with a very nice couple named Garth and Kimberly and they were from Callergery Alberta Canada (I have no idea if I spelled that right lol) They were very nice, which is good since wed be eating with them the next seven nights.
(there is rotational dinning on the ship. Which means the servers you have and also the people at your table follow you each night so by the end of the trip everybody knows each other very well!)At dinner the boat was hitting some waves and it was making me feel pretty sick during the first course. I asked dh if after the first course could we step outside for some fresh air, but as it turns out I was okay once we started chatting and eating. I had soup (I dont remember what kind) salmon with mashed potatoes and chocolate cake for dessert. Dh had scallop/avacado wrap, the filet and scallops and peanut butter pie for dessert. I also forgot to mention we dined at Animators Palet tonight and it was awesome! We love animators palet. The room starts out black and white and by the end its all lit up in color. So cool! (sadly we have no pictures of this...not sure why since we are picture fanatics?!)
After dinner we decided to go back to the room and our stateroom hostess had been there and did turn down service and left those AWESOME pillow mints! She had sat Colin (my bear) and mickey up against the pillows, made us a seal towel animal and put my sunglasses on him and sat rext next to him as well. She also made my green blanket look pretty.
Thats one thing that we LOVE about being on the cruise they do towel animals every night! Its so awesome! As opposed to Disney where you have to hope youll get one. No guess work on the cruise! We decided to watch tv and hang out since we were both so tired. We had both fallen asleep on the bus a little on the ride to port canveral. I had to wake dh up because he was starting to snore! Lol. We got to bed pretty early...I know we should partake in the evening activities, but we had just spent a week in the parks and were so tired! Not to mention I was feeling sick from the waves(silly me didn't think about getting any kind of patches or anything because we were both fine on the four day cruise...well this is a seven day cruise...hello...of course I'm bound to get sick we are further out at sea and it was a bit rougher. Really I'm pretty sensitive so don't let me scare you.
) I'm going to include a picture of the personal navigator it tells you the drink of the day, when all aboard is (if you dock for the day), departure and that type of thing. It also tells about all the activities and hours for everything going on all day. Your stateroom host or hostess leaves it in your room each night when they do turndown service. Its very handy! Sorry if its kind of blurry dh scanned them in for me. Here is the front cover:
inside first page
inside second page
and the back cover just have information about the photo service on board (shutters) and their packages and stuff similar to that. And the operating hours of everything for that day so dh didn't scan that since its pretty much the same every day. and I only scanned the whole navigator for the first day so everyone could have an idea of what they looked like in case they hadn't cruised. The rest will just be the first page. Hope you enjoyed the first update although its a little lacking in pictures!
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Feburary 1st Day at Sea (superbowl Sunday)
Drink of the day: High Tide (alcoholic)
Mint tea (non alcoholic)
Evening attire (cruise casual)
I woke up before dh this morning around 8:30ish. I knew the night before that I was getting sick because my throat was super scratchy and I ended up having some tea so see if that would help, but of course it didnt and I was thinking to myself well maybe I wont get sick maybe I just have a scratchy throat. Nope! Boy was I wrong and couldnt have been further from the truth! I woke up with horrible sinus pressure and the worst upset stomach from the gosh darn ship rocking back and fourth. I wanted to pretty much die at this point. No lie! I fell back asleep for about half a hour and matt went to get breakfast for us. I ate oatmeal and a banana and prayed that it all stayed down.
I tried to take a shower, but I felt to sick so I laid down instead. I went out on the verandah to get some fresh air and we saw another ship so that was pretty cool. I believe it was the same ship that set sail the same day as us! We also saw what matt told me was a container/cargo ship. I have no idea if thats what it was, but far be it for me to call my loving husband a liar.
Speaking of loving husbands! Matt went down to the gift shop to get me dramamine and I was going to try and shower again, but once again felt to sick so I took the dramamine, laid down and slept all afternoon. Matt woke me up to ask if it was okay if he went to take pictures, walk around the ship and play bingo. Yes, of course! I didnt want his day ruined because his lovely wife was laying in bed sleeping. Its not like I was awake and miserable. I was passed out without a care in the world thanks to the dramamine.
the other ship:
look at that pretty blue water!
from our verandah:
the cargo ship thingy ( i think?) lol
we were kind of close to the other ship:
I'll post the rest of dh's pictures from him walking around the ship and the rest of this day tomorrow. I don't want to overwhelm my readers the first day back. Lol. If I don't get to it tomorrow then weds for sure. I have scrapbooking plans for tomorrow!
Drink of the day: High Tide (alcoholic)
Mint tea (non alcoholic)
Evening attire (cruise casual)
I woke up before dh this morning around 8:30ish. I knew the night before that I was getting sick because my throat was super scratchy and I ended up having some tea so see if that would help, but of course it didnt and I was thinking to myself well maybe I wont get sick maybe I just have a scratchy throat. Nope! Boy was I wrong and couldnt have been further from the truth! I woke up with horrible sinus pressure and the worst upset stomach from the gosh darn ship rocking back and fourth. I wanted to pretty much die at this point. No lie! I fell back asleep for about half a hour and matt went to get breakfast for us. I ate oatmeal and a banana and prayed that it all stayed down.
I tried to take a shower, but I felt to sick so I laid down instead. I went out on the verandah to get some fresh air and we saw another ship so that was pretty cool. I believe it was the same ship that set sail the same day as us! We also saw what matt told me was a container/cargo ship. I have no idea if thats what it was, but far be it for me to call my loving husband a liar.
Speaking of loving husbands! Matt went down to the gift shop to get me dramamine and I was going to try and shower again, but once again felt to sick so I took the dramamine, laid down and slept all afternoon. Matt woke me up to ask if it was okay if he went to take pictures, walk around the ship and play bingo. Yes, of course! I didnt want his day ruined because his lovely wife was laying in bed sleeping. Its not like I was awake and miserable. I was passed out without a care in the world thanks to the dramamine.
the other ship:
look at that pretty blue water!
from our verandah:
the cargo ship thingy ( i think?) lol
we were kind of close to the other ship:
I'll post the rest of dh's pictures from him walking around the ship and the rest of this day tomorrow. I don't want to overwhelm my readers the first day back. Lol. If I don't get to it tomorrow then weds for sure. I have scrapbooking plans for tomorrow!
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Oooh scrapbooking plans! That sounds like fun!!!
Great update! I'm SORRY you were so sick!!!!!! I hate that! I hope you don't stay sick for long!
Yes, I love scrapbooking! I'm trying to finish our disney 07' trip by the end of june...it'll be a task there were something like over 1600 pics its hard to weed them out! Of course dh had to go and print all of them too.
I am super behind I haven't even done our 06' trip when he proposed, but I think after I finish the 07' trip I'm going to do this trip since its fresh in my mind for journaling purposes. Then I can back track to 06' b/c the engagment is still very fresh in my head...like it was yesterday. Do you scrapbook at all? Yea, it seems to be a theme with me...go on vacation and get sick. My immune system just starts to break down b/c I get so darn tired. I see you live in lousiana...where exactly do you live if you don't mind my asking. You can even pm me and tell me. I'm just asking b/c there is a small possibility of us moving down there for work if our company dosen't get the rest of this work there is here. We are waiting to hear from the gas company. Are you going on a trip soon? Thanks for commenting! 
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Yet another great update!
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Man! That's a bummer to be sick on the 2nd day!! I hope that got sorted out quickly! I hear you about being behind on scrapbooking. I am still working on finishing my 2007 honeymoon too! Nevermind our trip to Disney last year! Thankfully, the end of the school year is rapidly approaching, so there will be time to be had!
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Yes, being sick is never fun! I'm so sad...I didn't get to scrapbook today I ended up having a horrible migraine and wanted the right side of my head to fall off it hurt so bad!
I told dh well one of these days I'll scrapbook again...its only been a week since I worked on it so I guess that isn't to bad. Hopefully you'll get lots done once school is over! 
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thank you!
He actually went to the infectious disease doc today (for the second time) I guess her and his gi got a chance to talk and they are thinking that he might be possibly getting fevers from one of the medications he takes to control his crohns disease so we're going to chat with the gi and see if he wants dh to go off that for a few weeks to see if we get a change in symptoms. If not then we are thinking of maybe heading to the mayo clinic or cleveland clinic...some place like that so they can get to the bottom of what I call the "mystery illness." Thanks for following along! I'm about to head over to your report!
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this is where we get the internet signal from I think dh told me
cast member pool
to the right of this picture is the basketball court (had i taken the pic I would of actually taken a pic of the court for ya'll, but since I was sick you get what dh took.
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not sure if I took this or if dh did, but I love that the water is such a dark blue and the sky is light...love the contrast!
Around five I woke up, feeling some what better and took a shower and got ready. We walked around a little bit and then went to a restaurant called top siders, but it wasnt a buffet, which we thought it was(only for breakfast and lunch) so we decided to leave and get room service instead. Because I didnt feel good and wanted to be able to pick from a buffet instead of a menu and nothing looked good on the menu anyways.(i think i got chicken noodle soup...i don't remember though.)
So we ordered some room service, rested for about twenty minutes and then went to see Bolt 3-d. Now I have to say I really was against going to this. Not because I didnt feel good b/c at this point I felt decent, but I thought it was going to suck. It was actually really cute! We were thinking about going to see a comedy act at ten thirty, but it was only ten and I was already beat from the short time we had spent outside the cabin. So we decided to walk around the ship a bit then went back to the room and caught the very end of the super bowl.
When we got back to the room this little guy was waiting for us:
(The paper laying in front of him is just inviting us to discover disneys best kept secret the next day at the dvc presentation.)
I fell asleep for a little while on the couch and then got ready for bed, and took more medicine. Our stateroom hostest saw us in the hall and asked if I was okay (how incredibly sweet was that?!) She said I thought you got sea sick today (because we had the privacy please sign on the door the whole day) We told her that I just didnt like the waves, which was the truth because I never actually got sick. Thank goodness! On the tv there is a station that will give you the report from the bridge all day so on this night I started writing it down to share with everyone on my trip report. It just tells the conditions and that type of thing.
Report from the Bridge: (11:08 pm)
Speed: 16.7 knots (and I felt sick from this? Sheesh!)
Distance from Port Canaveral: 595 nautical miles
Distance to St Croix: 503 nautical miles
Cloudy, 56% humidity, 70 degrees
All pools were in the upper 80s and the wind direction was out of the east and it was a fresh breeze (this confuses me b/c what else could there be besides a fresh breeze? Lol)
Rough seas 8-13 feet (yea I kind of figured they were rough since I felt so sick all day thanks for the memo though!)
Coming up next: Our second full day at sea (will it be spent in bed again?) and formal night complete with pics!
cast member pool
to the right of this picture is the basketball court (had i taken the pic I would of actually taken a pic of the court for ya'll, but since I was sick you get what dh took.
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not sure if I took this or if dh did, but I love that the water is such a dark blue and the sky is light...love the contrast!
Around five I woke up, feeling some what better and took a shower and got ready. We walked around a little bit and then went to a restaurant called top siders, but it wasnt a buffet, which we thought it was(only for breakfast and lunch) so we decided to leave and get room service instead. Because I didnt feel good and wanted to be able to pick from a buffet instead of a menu and nothing looked good on the menu anyways.(i think i got chicken noodle soup...i don't remember though.)
So we ordered some room service, rested for about twenty minutes and then went to see Bolt 3-d. Now I have to say I really was against going to this. Not because I didnt feel good b/c at this point I felt decent, but I thought it was going to suck. It was actually really cute! We were thinking about going to see a comedy act at ten thirty, but it was only ten and I was already beat from the short time we had spent outside the cabin. So we decided to walk around the ship a bit then went back to the room and caught the very end of the super bowl.
When we got back to the room this little guy was waiting for us:
(The paper laying in front of him is just inviting us to discover disneys best kept secret the next day at the dvc presentation.)
I fell asleep for a little while on the couch and then got ready for bed, and took more medicine. Our stateroom hostest saw us in the hall and asked if I was okay (how incredibly sweet was that?!) She said I thought you got sea sick today (because we had the privacy please sign on the door the whole day) We told her that I just didnt like the waves, which was the truth because I never actually got sick. Thank goodness! On the tv there is a station that will give you the report from the bridge all day so on this night I started writing it down to share with everyone on my trip report. It just tells the conditions and that type of thing.
Report from the Bridge: (11:08 pm)
Speed: 16.7 knots (and I felt sick from this? Sheesh!)
Distance from Port Canaveral: 595 nautical miles
Distance to St Croix: 503 nautical miles
Cloudy, 56% humidity, 70 degrees
All pools were in the upper 80s and the wind direction was out of the east and it was a fresh breeze (this confuses me b/c what else could there be besides a fresh breeze? Lol)
Rough seas 8-13 feet (yea I kind of figured they were rough since I felt so sick all day thanks for the memo though!)
Coming up next: Our second full day at sea (will it be spent in bed again?) and formal night complete with pics!
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I feel so bad for you that you felt sick on your 2nd day! What a way to start the trip I hope you start feeling better and that the seas won't be as rough! (I thought for sure I would get seasick when I went on my only cruise in 2001 aboard the Grand Princess cruiseship. I get sick just going on ferryboat rides 
I had an inside cabin and I think it helped with it being so dark. If I had a window and could see the waves when my stomach started feeling icky, I'm sure I would have gotten more sick!)
I hope you start feeling better and that the seas won't be as rough! (I thought for sure I would get seasick when I went on my only cruise in 2001 aboard the Grand Princess cruiseship. I get sick just going on ferryboat rides I had an inside cabin and I think it helped with it being so dark. If I had a window and could see the waves when my stomach started feeling icky, I'm sure I would have gotten more sick!)
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I feel so bad for you that you felt sick on your 2nd day! What a way to start the trip
Yea, it was def no fun...guess its a good excuse to sleep though. Lol. I don't think it would of mattered no matter if we had a inside cabin with no windows or not b/c the curtains we're closed most of the day and I could still feel those waves and they were killing me. Thanks for following along!
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Ok so I have to admit...I got sick on our cruise, too. Not throwing up sick, but sick enough that I had to stay in bed all of our last at-sea day. I totally feel your pain. Sorry you were sick. Ugh. Yuck.
Great pictures, though! I love the ones of the water! It was SO blue!!!
Great pictures, though! I love the ones of the water! It was SO blue!!!
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Aww when did you go on a cruise? I'm sorry...its awful so I can totally sympathize with you! Thank you...the water is amazing I think thats one of my fave things about the cruise!
do you have a trip coming up?
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I'll have another update tomorrow everyone...spent some time with dh today and yesterday. 
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Aww when did you go on a cruise? I'm sorry...its awful so I can totally sympathize with you! Thank you...the water is amazing I think thats one of my fave things about the cruise!
We did a 7 day Western on the Disney Magic at the end of April for our 2nd Anniversary. It was amazing and I loved it but I hate that I got sick! The ONLY thing that made me feel better were those nausea bands that you wear around your wrists...other than that, no medication or anything helped me at all!
Yeah we have another trip with my parents coming up in September!!!!
We're going to do MNSSHP and I'm so excited!What about you guys? Any plans for a future trip soon?
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We did a 7 day Western on the Disney Magic at the end of April for our 2nd Anniversary. It was amazing and I loved it but I hate that I got sick! The ONLY thing that made me feel better were those nausea bands that you wear around your wrists...other than that, no medication or anything helped me at all!
Yeah we have another trip with my parents coming up in September!!!!
What about you guys? Any plans for a future trip soon?
awww and no trippie for the cruise? What were your ports of call? You going to do a report for the sept trip? No trips planned, but I do have a special announcement which which should be coming up here pretty soon! I'm going to try those bands next time we cruise b/c the medicine makes me to gosh darn sleepy. What about the patch you put like behind your ear? I saw a lot of people with those. I didn't know you went on a cruise...thats awesome!
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