luvndizny
Mouseketeer
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- Dec 5, 2009
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Well, let me introduce you to the cast of characters!
Hubby- laid back kinda guy that goes along with most all of my travel whims; active duty Air Force so we get in our travel when we can; dances like every other white guy on the face of the Earth, knows it and will whip out his famous moves whenever I need a good laugh...love him even more for it
Son- 10 going on 30...Smart, funny, best big brother anyone could ask for, likes to wear ties and khaki pants whenever he gets the chance. You probably will see him wearing the same shirt (different color maybe) in each pic. When shopping I asked him to try on shirts. He found one he liked and then proceeded to pick out the red, the blue, the green of the same shirt. Looks at me and says "What? I like stripes!"
Daughter- 9 Sweet, hilarious, artistic, sometimes moody. (I have no idea where she gets that from.
) Thinks my whole goal in life is to humiliate her as much as possible. (Well it is but don't tell her that!)
Me- Got the travel bug when hubby and I were stationed in Germany and love it! I make all the travel plans, but like to also wing it when I get the chance. Loves chocolate...work as a veterinary technician. Can occasionally be heard at work saying "I don't see any parasites in this sample, but I did find a hidden mickey!!"
So on to our story!!!
Around some time last summer, I started entertaining the idea of us going on a cruise. Didn't really even consider other cruise lines because we know Disney's history of wonderful service and knew we couldn't go wrong with them. I ran the numbers by my hubby, got a
and it was all systems go! We'd never been cruising before so had a hard time deciding if we should try a shorter cruise first or just go for a 7-nighter. With both kids in school, we were limited to the usual breaks- Spring, Summer, or holiday. Decided to do the longer 7 nighter vs. the shorter 5 nighters offered for the summer that we were looking at. Super worried about getting sea sick...Did we or didn't we? Ye shall find out!
So in December last year, we decided to book, paid the deposit and I began furiously finding everything I could possibly about cruising with the Mouse! Up way past my bed-time on the DISboards learning all kinds of things like...What is an FE? How can I get some OBC? and people keep saying you should talk to your TA, I did and found out the hard way that the "T and A" high-school version was WAY different than the DISboards version. (People at the gym kept overhearing me ask my T- "Why do you get smaller when I hit the gym and my A still remains the same size???!!"
...then I found that TA meant 'travel agent'....Oh, NOW you tell me.
Fast forward a couple of months later. We were trying to decide on how to get from here (North Carolina) to Orlando. We've driven it several times, thought about flying, but I'm not the biggest fan of it. I found out one of the doctors I work for took the train. Sooooo...I look up the prices and YES, it is much cheaper than flying, so we decide to go ahead and we bought our tickets.
Tick, tock, tick, tock...FINALLY, it's time to go!!! I went to work on Thursday, left a little early, finished up cleaning the car out, packing, etc....so excited!! This is my life-saver for the trip:
Coming up...On a midnight train to Florida!! (Woohoo!) (and seriously hoping that song is in your head now....bwahahaha!!--)
Hubby- laid back kinda guy that goes along with most all of my travel whims; active duty Air Force so we get in our travel when we can; dances like every other white guy on the face of the Earth, knows it and will whip out his famous moves whenever I need a good laugh...love him even more for it
Son- 10 going on 30...Smart, funny, best big brother anyone could ask for, likes to wear ties and khaki pants whenever he gets the chance. You probably will see him wearing the same shirt (different color maybe) in each pic. When shopping I asked him to try on shirts. He found one he liked and then proceeded to pick out the red, the blue, the green of the same shirt. Looks at me and says "What? I like stripes!"
Daughter- 9 Sweet, hilarious, artistic, sometimes moody. (I have no idea where she gets that from.
) Thinks my whole goal in life is to humiliate her as much as possible. (Well it is but don't tell her that!)Me- Got the travel bug when hubby and I were stationed in Germany and love it! I make all the travel plans, but like to also wing it when I get the chance. Loves chocolate...work as a veterinary technician. Can occasionally be heard at work saying "I don't see any parasites in this sample, but I did find a hidden mickey!!"
So on to our story!!!
Around some time last summer, I started entertaining the idea of us going on a cruise. Didn't really even consider other cruise lines because we know Disney's history of wonderful service and knew we couldn't go wrong with them. I ran the numbers by my hubby, got a
and it was all systems go! We'd never been cruising before so had a hard time deciding if we should try a shorter cruise first or just go for a 7-nighter. With both kids in school, we were limited to the usual breaks- Spring, Summer, or holiday. Decided to do the longer 7 nighter vs. the shorter 5 nighters offered for the summer that we were looking at. Super worried about getting sea sick...Did we or didn't we? Ye shall find out!So in December last year, we decided to book, paid the deposit and I began furiously finding everything I could possibly about cruising with the Mouse!
Up way past my bed-time on the DISboards learning all kinds of things like...What is an FE? How can I get some OBC? and people keep saying you should talk to your TA, I did and found out the hard way that the "T and A" high-school version was WAY different than the DISboards version. (People at the gym kept overhearing me ask my T- "Why do you get smaller when I hit the gym and my A still remains the same size???!!" ...then I found that TA meant 'travel agent'....Oh, NOW you tell me.
Fast forward a couple of months later. We were trying to decide on how to get from here (North Carolina) to Orlando. We've driven it several times, thought about flying, but I'm not the biggest fan of it. I found out one of the doctors I work for took the train. Sooooo...I look up the prices and YES, it is much cheaper than flying, so we decide to go ahead and we bought our tickets.
Tick, tock, tick, tock...FINALLY, it's time to go!!! I went to work on Thursday, left a little early, finished up cleaning the car out, packing, etc....so excited!! This is my life-saver for the trip:
Coming up...On a midnight train to Florida!! (Woohoo!) (and seriously hoping that song is in your head now....bwahahaha!!--)
Who wants to actually do work anyway.
the smell was so bad. (In case you don't remember- we work at a veterinary hospital...) We deal with the blue-ribbon winners of smell daily. So I was SKEERED of the bathroom! I thought maybe I'd just hold it until we got to Orlando. However, I drank so much water (train air gets you dehydrated as fast as plane air does) that I'm pretty sure people around me could hear sloshing sounds coming from my bladder. 
Overall, it was decent. Headed to port terminal at close to 10. Hubby dropped us off. Let me tell ya- I can't say this enough- Disney has it down. They know there are first-time cruisers and they know their jobs. We always catch ourselves saying that they must swallow happy pills every morning because everyone is always so pleasant. When the guy in the brim hat under the umbrella showed hubby where to drop us off, I felt that old familiar feeling coming back....Disney customer service rocks! And it was all smooth sailing from then on....
