PiratePug and Grumpy’s Double Dip Trip: Wonder 5/25 – 5/29 (Navigators added)

[PiratePug]

The short of it:
Had a fantabulous time!!! This was the best vacation I’ve ever had. It was our second Disney cruise (the first was in 2005). The service was excellent, the food was great, Palo was absolutely exquisite, the weather was beautiful, I loved going to Castaway Cay twice – couldn’t have asked for a better cruise. My favorite things about this trip: our table mates (loved, loved, loved them!!!), spending time at Castaway Cay, dining at Palo, and all the character interactions.

Here is a brief description of the “schedule” during the cruise:
Saturday: Flew into Orlando, stayed at the Hyatt (MCO)
Sunday: Embarkation; Show - The Golden Mickeys; Dinner – Parrot Cay
Monday: Castaway Cay (We booked the Extreme Getaway Package, which included Castaway Ray’s Stingray Adventure, bike rental, float/snorkel rental); Show – Toy Story the Musical; Dinner – Triton’s
Tuesday: Nassau (We booked the Atlantis Aquaventure excursion through Disney); Show – Lynn Trefzger (she’s a comedienne/ventriloquist), Dinner – Palo; Pirates in the Caribbean party
Wednesday: Back to Castaway Cay; Show – Disney Dreams; Dinner – Animator’s Palate
Thursday: Debarkation

I’m working on a detailed trip report with pics and will post each day of our cruise as I finish it – stay tuned!!

 

[wilma-bride]

Great start - loking forward to reading more detail and seeing some pictures

 

[PiratePug]

The details:
I’m PiratePug, a 32-year old lover of all things Disney and my husband of 11 years is Grumpy, a 42-year old that is slowly getting sucked in to Disney freakdom. We have a nine year old pug named Daisy, but I call her Princess Pugette.

The DIS was instrumental in planning this trip; it was most helpful reading the trip reports and the questions asked on the main forum. So thanks, y’all!! The most helpful packing tips I learned on the DIS were: using an over-the-door shoe holder for toiletries and other stuff, using a pop-up hamper for dirty clothes (fit perfectly in the closet next to the safe), using suction hooks for wet bathing suits (and some of my shower stuff), bringing Shout wipes (apparently I’m quite messy – used nearly a whole package of wipes!), and bringing address labels for the color-coded luggage tags. Reading about and seeing pics of the different excursions helped me plan our activities – especially nenner1’s fantabulous report on Atlantis (http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1614137&page=4).

OK, now for the trip details! This trip, for me anyway, was all about sticking with what I know but being adventurous about trying new things – yes, I’m quite the conundrum.

Day 1: Saturday 5/24
We flew in the day before our cruise and stayed at the airport Hyatt. We stayed here before our last cruise and enjoyed it, so decided to do it again (sticking with what we know). The rooms are nice and quiet, despite being in an airport.

View from our balcony:

Here’s a pic of the pool:

There are several restaurants in the Hyatt you can eat at and of course you have all the restaurants in the airport to choose from, too. I mention this because for some reason the only thing I remember about our stay here was eating dinner at Macaroni Grill…. The last time we stayed here we went to Downtown Disney, which was fun, but we had a horrendous time getting back to the Hyatt and decided to just relax and lay low this time.

Day 2: Sunday 5/25 Part 1
Sunday morning we took a town car to the port (trying something new). We were picked up promptly at 11:00 a.m. in the valet area of the Hyatt (getting picked up here saved us the $10 airport fee and provided us a comfy spot to sit down and wait). It took about 45 minutes to arrive at the DCL terminal. This was all very nice and our driver was so friendly – I have no complaints about the town car service or the hotel at all. It’s just that I felt like I was missing out on part of the Disney experience by not staying at a Disney resort and taking the DCL buses to the terminal. So next time we will definitely stay at a Disney resort the night before the cruise.

Once we arrived at the DCL terminal, a porter immediately took our luggage and directed us to a gate where our passports were checked.

We then walked into the terminal building and my giddiness overwhelmed me as I scanned the area for lime green Mickey heads…didn’t see any at that point. By this time it was noon; someone handed us a boarding card with the number 12. We checked in without having to wait (used the Castaway Club check-in line), received our lanyards and KTTW cards. I completed the online check-in prior to leaving for our vacation, so I just handed in the paperwork and showed our passports. The terminal wasn’t that crowded; DH and I looked at the model ship in the lobby then sat down on one of the sofas. It wasn’t long before Minnie arrived, so of course I jumped up and had a picture taken with her.

Within a short time, they announced that those with numbers 1 – 11 could now board the ship – we would be next!! About 10-15 minutes later: “Those with numbers 1 – 25 may now board!” What?! Oh well, we took the obligatory embarkation photo and skipped aboard, where a lovely woman obliterated our names, but hey, we’re HERE!!

We headed up to Beach Blanket Buffet (our last cruise we went to Parrot Cay, so, you guessed it – trying something new!), where I helped pile my husband’s plate high with those fabulous shrimp I read about on the DIS. I don’t care for cold shrimp (sticking with what I know) but I wanted him to indulge. This is where I had my first Bahama Mama of the day…yummmm!

While waiting for our rooms to be ready, we walked around the ship and I took a bunch of pics of the pools, then stopped at Quiet Cove. The lounge chairs here are covered with a beige fabric pad, which was new for us (last time the loungers were the same plastic ones as they are at the Goofy and Mickey pools). So I picked out a spot and lounged for awhile.

This area was quite deserted, but there was a lot of action at the Goofy and Mickey pools. I love that they put a splash area in the Mickey pool area for little ones that aren’t potty trained – this gives the kiddos still in (swim) diapers a fun area to cool off and play in the water.

Next we went up to the Wide World of Sports Deck to see what was going on there.

After that, we checked to see if our room was ready, and it was! Our stateroom was 6076 (category 6 with a verandah).

We had a few goodies waiting for us! One was our Castaway Club gift,

one was a gift I ordered for Grumpy from The Perfect Gift,

and one was a surprise from my parents!

Their gift turned out to be the most used. It was a plastic backpack with 2 zippered compartments holding 2 pairs of goggles and a beach mat. I wear contacts, so the goggles were great for swimming laps in the pool. The bag was the best part, though because we ended up taking it on all our excursions. It’s compact, but held all our (OK mostly my) stuff, plus it wasn’t affected by the water and sand.

Time to decorate! I spent a lot of time lurking on the door magnet threads before our cruise and made a few magnets for the outside of our door (trying something new).

I saw several other doors on our deck with their doors decorated, so as I pointed out to Grumpy, I wasn’t the only one! This was a lot of fun and I’m really glad I did it. I changed out some of the magnets based on the “theme” of the day and after the second night of the cruise, Grumpy actually reminded me to put more of the pirate magnets out!

Up next: Sunday Part 2 - lifeboat drill, Adventures Away, dancing with Goofy, and dinner at Parrot Cay.

 

[wilma-bride]

Grat 'arrival day'. I love your door, it looks so colourful. We didn't do this last time but it was just DH and I. We're taking the kids with us next time and I know they will get a kick out of decorating our stateroom doors. Love your embarkation picture - you certainly make a cute cuple

 

[vatchr]

Can't wait to read more - we are double dipping in July with our 2 dd's and four other extended family. The pictures are great!

 

[PiratePug]

Day 2: Sunday 5/25 Part 2
After decorating our door, I took a tour of the fitness center – I actually intended to get up at 6:00 every day and work out…yeah, that happened. But I really intended to! I brought my work out clothes and everything…next time I’ll just save room in my suitcase for other things. The fitness center is really nice; I wish I would have at least taken a shower there. The use of the fitness center and showers are included in the cost of the cruise and they give you a locker when you check in. They have really big showers with plenty of bath products, so you don’t need to bring anything but a comb for your hair.

It was about this time that I ordered a water bottle package. I only mention this because I’ve seen questions about this posted on the main forum, so hopefully this info will be helpful to some. We were offered a half-case of Evian water, which was 12 bottles, for $20, plus tax and gratuity (total was $22.13). The water was delivered to our room when we weren’t there, so I didn’t pay any additional gratuity, although I intended to. Had I been thinking clearly, I would have added it to the bottom of the receipt.

We heard the announcement for the lifeboat drill, so we donned our life vests and headed to our muster station. We were outdoors this time (last cruise our muster station was in Animator’s Palate), but we were in the shade and the whole thing was over very quickly…of course by this time I had downed three of those sugary-sweet Bahama Mamas so I may have had more fun than I should have! We were told to “holler” when we heard our stateroom number called, but apparently our stateroom numbers were checked off as we were lined up by the crew, so ultimately only three stateroom numbers were actually called. I was so disappointed!! I told Grumpy I wanted to yell “Holla” when they called our room number!
Can you believe 150 people can fit in these lifeboats???

We followed the crowds back to our room to replace our life vests and quickly ran up to Deck 10 for the “Adventures Away” celebration. This was the “Sail Away Party” during our last cruise and it’s taken me until now to be able to call it Adventures Away. I missed this on our last cruise, so I wanted to be sure and participate this time. The crew handed out streamers and the dancing commenced. I can’t remember all of the songs, but they were what I call classic dance party songs, like something you’d hear on a CD compilation advertised on late night TV…yeah, so there may be a few of those CDs in my house. The crew’s energy amazed me throughout this cruise!

They started playing Backstreet Boys songs and the guy in the orange shirt was pulled up on stage to be the “missing” Backstreet Boy – he was HILLARIOUS!!!! He kept right up with the crew, performing all the moves and everything.

The show-stealer, though, was Clayton, our cruise director. He’s the guy holding the microphone.

Clayton does this funny little dance, swinging his arms and such, and he said he came up with a “theme song” on our cruise: Tom Jones’ It’s Not Unusual. So later in the cruise, this song would play and he would dance to it (he did this in the Walt Disney Theater before the Toy Story show). He was very visible throughout the cruise; I must have seen him a dozen times after the first day. He was such a good sport about the dancing thing – kids would scream “Do the dance, do the dance!” and he would do it right there, no matter where we were. He has a very interesting story; he started out 10 years ago as a DJ in Wavebands and now he’s a cruise director!

After the Sail Away…I mean Adventures Away celebration, we explored the ship some more then went back to our room to get ready for dinner. We had second seating, which was at 8:15. We chose the late seating because it just works better for us (sticking with what we know), gives us more time to play during the day and such. Our dining rotation was PTTA (same rotation as our last cruise). The show tonight was The Golden Mickey’s, which we skipped. I wanted to go SHOPPING!! I am absolutely a shopaholic. Anyway, I have to say that now I wish we would have gone to see The Golden Mickey’s (I’m sure Grumpy does too, after paying $50 at the airport for having overweight luggage due to all the stuff I bought!). This is such a fun show (we saw it during our last cruise) and I missed seeing all the characters.

I did have some fun with one of my favorite characters, though:

Yes, even after all those Bahama Mamas I was still able to twirl perfectly! This was one of my “try something new” things – last cruise I regretted not getting more character pics, so I more than made up for that this time!

I also bought some pins in the lobby; I was looking for that special “Twice the Wonder” pin – looked for it all during the cruise, but I never found it.

After shopping and dancing with Goofy we had dinner at Parrot Cay. This is of course when we met our table mates for the week – OMG!! These people were fabulous fun!!! Not sure if it’s cool to say their “real” names, so I’ll just call them Colorado and Chicago. Colorado was a family of three (mom, dad, teenage son) and Chicago was a young couple. All these folks added so much fun to our cruise. I really looked forward to dinner every night and we even saw Colorado a few times during the day, which was nice.

This is what we ate for dinner that first night:
PiratePug: Smokey chicken, vegetables, and cheddar cheese fritters with smoked salt and pomegranate barbecue sauce; Pan-seared grouper with baby shrimp in lemon butter on olive oil potato and cauliflower puree with grilled zucchini; Crème brulee cheesecake
Grumpy: Baked crab Martinique; Island roasted rib-eye of beef served with double baked potato and green beans; Lemon meringue pie with kumquat sauce

Here’s some pics of our food (I forgot to take pics of everything)
Grouper

Rib-eye

Crème brulee cheesecake

Lemon meringue pie

I thought all my food was great; Grumpy said his was “just okay.”

After dinner we planned to see Lynn Trefzger’s adult show, but we were tired!! Plus the ship was rocking back and forth wildly…OK it wasn’t that bad, but Grumpy and I both felt like turning in for the night.

Today couldn’t have been better – that’s pretty much how I felt each day of our cruise. Our first “cruise day” was jam-packed with fun.

Up Next: Our first day at Castaway Cay – stingrays, biking, and Serenity Bay, Grumpy discovers Diversions, the new Toy Story show, and dinner at Triton’s.

 

[wilma-bride]

Great update - it hardly seems like it's still the first day. Looking forward to reading more - love the pics of you and Goofy, by the way

 

[PiratePug]

Looking forward to reading more - love the pics of you and Goofy, by the way

Thanks – I was by myself in the lobby and that was my first character experience onboard, so I felt a little funny saying “It’s just me” to the CM at the front of the line. I didn’t expect a lot of interaction, so it was a fun surprise! I actually got 6 different pictures out of it!

 

[princessdaisy]

Great trip report! can't wait to read more

 

[vatchr]

I love it! Your pictures are getting me so excited for our double dip in July!

 

[PiratePug]

Day 3: Monday 3/26 Part 1 - Castaway Cay

Our first glorious day at Castaway Cay! Grumpy and I were scheduled for the 9:00 stingray excursion, so we were anxious to get off the ship and head down to Castaway Ray’s. Guest Services left us a message the night before, saying that we would meet at the stingray hut. We were probably among the first 20 guests to walk off the ship that morning. I’m a pretty fast walker and didn’t want to wait for a tram, so we hightailed it to Castaway Ray’s, which is just past Heads Up Bar. We found the stingray hut easily (thanks to the signs) and checked in. Because we had reserved the Extreme Getaway Package, the CM’s at the stingray hut didn’t take our tickets, but just checked our names off of a list (this is how all our rentals went that day – we didn’t even have to show our tickets at the bike and float rental huts). They handed us snorkels, masks, and swimming vests, then told us to have a seat. Here’s a pic of the stingray hut:

We walked around the beach waiting for everyone else to arrive and saw the stingrays in the most shallow part of the water, like they were waiting for us (they were!). After everyone else arrived, a trainer came out and talked to us for about 15 minutes. She explained that all of the rays we would encounter during this excursion are Southern Rays, but that we may see another kind of ray in the “wild” waters at Castaway Cay…I think she said maybe a Yellow Ray. On our last cruise, we arrived at Castaway Cay just after Hurricane Wilma left and all the stingrays had “escaped.” Fortunately most of them came back and there are now 51 stingrays that officially live at Castaway Cay. The trainer said that these rays are very spoiled, as they are used to eating the same grade of seafood that we’re fed onboard! Their diet consists mostly of shrimp, pieces of squid, and these spongy vegetable sticks that are made just for the stingrays. They are hand fed everyday except Thursdays, when they fast.

After the lesson is over, you are split into smaller groups and head out to a feeding station in the water. (There are crates for you to store your personal belongings in.) There are several stations; they all looked like this:

The stingrays swim up the platform as soon as people surround it – sometimes they get a little aggressive with each other, but it’s not anything scary. They are trained to recognize the Mickey head. You hold a piece of food between your fingers and use your palm to press the Mickey head down to the surface of the feeding station. A stingray will stop over your hand and suck the food up like a little vacuum! It feels really cool. We got to do this as often as we wanted.

After we finished feeding the rays, we snorkeled with them for about 30 minutes. The water was a little cold, but once you were submerged it felt fine (but it was freezing getting OUT of the water!). The stingrays seemed very tame and didn’t shy away from us. A note about the barbs…I didn’t know this, but a stingray’s barb is located at the base of its tail, not the tip. These rays' barbs are trimmed, but not removed. The trainer said that they keep a close eye on the barbs and that they trim them periodically. I didn’t see any of the rays’ barbs while we were snorkeling.

You’ll also learn how to do the “stingray shuffle” so I highly recommend wearing some kind of water shoes (I didn’t have any).

After our stingray adventure, we rented some bikes and explored the island. They have TONS of bikes to rent: men’s, women’s, and children’s. There is a bike path off of the landing strip, with an observation tower you can climb.

You can see how far away we were from the Wonder in this pic:

There are a lot of humorous things to be seen from the observation tower (as well as others along the bike path itself):

The bike ride was a lot of fun, we probably could have spent another hour riding around, but we wanted to get to the beach and chill out. On our last cruise, Serenity Bay was opened to families due to the damage from Hurricane Wilma at the family beach. So this was our first experience at Serenity Bay as an adult-only beach. We had this brilliant idea to ride our bikes to Serenity Bay, then ride them back to the rental hut at the end of the day. About an hour after relaxing with my iPod, I was struck by the realization that our brilliant idea wasn’t so brilliant because we only had an hour’s use of the bikes! So Grumpy diligently rode one bike back to the rental hut, took the tram back to Serenity Bay, rode the second bike back, then took the tram back to Serenity Bay again. He was very sweet to do this. When he got back, he said he told the CM at the rental hut he was returning our bikes, but the CM just said “Okay, just leave them in the racks,” and didn’t check off our names or anything. So theoretically we could have stuck with our “brilliant” idea…

Here’s a pic of Serenity Bay:

We rented some floats and played around in the water for a bit. The current seemed a bit stronger than at the other beaches and much of the floor was covered with seaweed, so I felt uncomfortable walking around in the shallow part of the water. We didn’t do any snorkeling here, however I have heard that there are some interesting things to see further out from the shore. We ate lunch here, and from what others have said it was the same lunch offered at Cookie’s near the family beach. After lunch, we decided to check out the family beach, so we turned in our tubes and headed down that way.
As you can see, there was a lot more action here!

My thoughts on Serenity Bay: Grumpy and I don’t have any children, so it may seem like this would be the perfect place for us. It was absolutely beautiful; very peaceful and quiet. It’s hard to tell from my picture, but there is only one row of lounges/umbrellas at Serenity Bay, so it felt more private to me than the other beaches. There are also no lifeguards here. I think Serenity Bay is the perfect name for this beach and it was everything I imagined it would be. BUT – I personally enjoyed the family beach much better. I loved the "beach sounds" here: kids playing in the sand and water, calypso music in the background, families laughing and talking, all that stuff. Grumpy and I relaxed here for a few hours, planning to snorkel more during our second “dip” here on Wednesday. It was pure bliss….

I’ll finish this day in Part 2: Grumpy discovers Diversions, the new Toy Story show, and dinner at Triton’s.

 

[wilma-bride]

Wow, Castaway Cay - heaven on Earth

 

[TotallyAngelic]

WOW ! Thanks for sharing - this is an amazing trip report and the photographs are stunning - you have really captured the essence of Castaway Cay and I so can't wait to go see it for myself in October!

 

[vatchr]

We're doing the stingray adventure in July, thanks for the pics and the info. Did you see any interesting "nature" (plants or animals) on the bike ride? My DH is into nature photography.

 

[CapnJackGroupie]

loving your tr!!!

 

[PiratePug]

Wow, Castaway Cay - heaven on Earth

That’s what I call it too!!

WOW ! Thanks for sharing - this is an amazing trip report and the photographs are stunning - you have really captured the essence of Castaway Cay and I so can't wait to go see it for myself in October!

Thanks – I have a lot more pics to share from our second day at CC!

We're doing the stingray adventure in July, thanks for the pics and the info. Did you see any interesting "nature" (plants or animals) on the bike ride? My DH is into nature photography.

There were a couple times along the bike path that I almost stopped and took pictures of (what I thought were) interesting plants/flowers. I don’t remember enough to give you details, but they were things I hadn’t seen before. I didn’t see any animals, but there was definitely SOMETHING rustling around in the foliage at one point – that made us both stop! I definitely want to spend more time on the bike trail next time because I feel like there was still so much I didn’t get to see.

Great trip report! can't wait to read more

loving your tr!!!

Thanks – I hope to have the whole thing finished and posted by the end of this week…

 

[PiratePug]

Day 3: Monday 3/26 Part 2
I took this pic as we were walking back to the ship – sorry it’s a little crooked! These folks were about to go for a banana boat ride. I saw lots of banana-boaters during our time at Castaway Cay and thought it looked like a lot of fun, something we could do on our next cruise. However, when we got home, I read on the DIS that the banana boat rides have been cancelled…?? These seemed very popular, so hopefully they will eventually start back up again.

Here’s a pic of CC from the ship – so beautiful!

We were probably back on the ship by about 3:00, and the fun was already back in full force!

One of the things I enjoyed on this cruise was swimming in the Quiet Cove pool after spending all day in the sun and salt water. The pool was never crowded and one day I actually got to swim laps for awhile.

We went back to our stateroom and got ready for the evening’s activities. Tonight was dress-up night, so I was taking a little longer to get ready than Grumpy and he decided to venture out on his own. He was gone for a long time, so I eventually left and went shopping, of course! I met someone along the way…

Grumpy found me in Mickey’s Mates with an armful of scrapbooking stuff – I LOVE to scrapbook. I bought the 2008 album and three different sets of scrapbooking paper/stickers/frames. He told me he found a cool place to hang out, Diversions, and he wanted me to come back with him. I was skeptical because I’d heard this was like a sports bar or something…and I’m soooo not into sports. But hey, I’m all about trying new things on this cruise, so off we went. The Route 66 nightclubs on the Wonder are all located on Deck 3, Forward:

At some point each evening, these clubs are just for those 18 & up (maybe at 9:00 p.m.?).
Route 66 Walkway:

This is Wavebands, where a lot of fun things happen!!! We spent a lot of time here on our last cruise. This is where Match Your Mate and all the music/dance parties take place. There is a red stage in the middle of the room and two levels of seating (with tables). There are family activities here in the afternoons; we also met here early in the morning for our Atlantis excursion.

Here’s a pic of Diversions:

I actually loved this place! It’s a low-key place to hang out. They offered snacks each time we were there (hot dogs, fried cheese sticks, vegetables with Ranch dressing, nachos); they were set up like a small buffet just as you entered. They also have a pretty good drink menu and a full bar. There are flat-screen TVs all over, displaying every different sporting event going on in the world, and they also have games – lots of games! In the pic below you can see a dartboard and a “Ring the Bull” thing – if you make it three times in a row, you get a free beer! Grumpy got it about five or six times, but never three in a row. They also have a Nintendo Wii (far right) which was very popular.

It’s hard to see in this picture, but they have all sorts of boxed games, too. You can pick one of these up and take it to your table. They also have large game tables for backgammon and chess.

It was almost time for Toy Story the Musical to start, so we headed to the Walt Disney Theater and grabbed some seats. I was really excited about seeing this show and I wanted to sit really close to the stage, but Grumpy insisted we sit in the middle. If you’ve ever been inside this theater, you’ll know what I’m talking about here; we sat in the first row of the second “level” so we had a huge walkway area in front of us. I had to give Grumpy a two-minute rundown of the Toy Story movies because (gasp!) he’s never seen them in their entirety. Clayton (our dancing cruise director) made a few announcements and the show started. I thought Toy Story the Musical was okay, but not fantabulous. The Golden Mickeys and Disney Dreams brought a tear to my eyes on our last cruise, but no tears here. From the sound of the applause, though, I was in the minority. What impressed me the most were the sets and the costumes. I thought these were amazing – Bo Peep really looked like a plastic doll (I mean that in a good way!). Unfortunately I don’t have any pics of my own to share, but 2angelsinheaven has some great pics from this show on another thread (there are more of her pics on subsequent pages): http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1709938&page=28.

Dinner was at Triton’s:

What we ate (I forgot to take pictures tonight – sorry!!):
PiratePug: Ratatouille with Piperade Vinaigrette (This was a “cold version of this famed dish” and it was good, but I’ve never had ratatouille before, so I don’t how this compares with the “hot version.”), Bouillabaisse Soup, Halibut Pariseinne (very yummy!), and Crepes Suzette (There were three of these and I could only eat two bites! They were delicious, but I was just too full from dinner).
Grumpy: Shrimp Medley, Tomato and Basil Soup, Roasted Beef Tenderloin, Crème Brulee.

This is our server, Edwin:

He was a goofball!!! Some nights he would tell each of us what we were going to eat and he would (jokingly) say NO if we ordered something else!

Once again, we had so much fun with our table mates that we didn’t finish dinner until after 10:30. Colorado’s triple dessert order may have had something to do with that, though! We planned to go to Wavebands for some after-dinner fun, but once again, we were too tired!

Tuesday’s report will have a lot of pictures – we spent the day at Atlantis (Aquaventure excursion ), had dinner at Palo (with the beautiful Dalibor ), and actually stayed up for the Pirates in the Caribbean Party!

 

[wilma-bride]

Woohoo, another update Love seeing all your pictures of the ship - it's bringing back some happy memories. We did the banana boat ride on our cruise last August and it was a lot of fun. I fell off at least twice (although I have since read that they sometimes purposely try to tip you off so I don't necessarily think I wasn't holding on tight enough )

Yet again, great pics with the main mouse - I love that you were getting right in to the character meet and greets.

I am quite sad that Toy Story has replaced Hercules the Museical - we loved that show so much, it was hilarious.

 

[joeymac]

Loving your trip report...and pictures. Keep it coming!

How long was the bike ride on CastAway Cay?

 

[Mozart]

No more food porn?