Pumpkins, Pirates & Poppins-A Magical Halloween Cruise W/PICS-COMPLETE!!!!!

[jns]

I look tiny in front of her....

Love this Picture

 

[Disneygrl36]

OMG Melanie... sounds like you had a wonderful time. I am a WDW pro but have not been on the DCL. I was looking for info (oddly enough we want to cruise next Halloween, we go to MNSSHP EVERY year and celebrate our Nov. 1st Anniversary, 2008 will be 5 years so we want to take a Dis cruise too!!) I couldn't have found a more enticing TR! I read it all in one sitting and can't wait to get to Halloween night.
Being new to the DCL forums I have SOOO many question from your TR...Like the fish extenders, is that a common practice and do most cruises have a Dis. member meet up..I just LOVE meeting fellow dis'ers- they've becom some of my BEST friends. Oh, there are so many more ???'s
I totally hope that there is a dis'er as wonderful as you on MY cruise.

I am so happy that you had such a wonderful 40th birthday, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I can't wait to start planning!!!

...t.

tberi. I am glad you have enjoyed so far. We MNSSHP & it was great to be able to combine that with our cruise this year. The Halloween cruise for 2008 is a double dip so you would get 2 stops in Castaway Cay. We have it booked but plan to probably move it forward. I am not sure about the fish extenders....how popular they are, but it sure was fun having one & if you have a good Dis group then I am sure they will have them. It is pretty easy to find other diser's cruising with you..once you decide on a cruise just go to the meet section & find your cruise...if you don't see it then start a new thread. I will be happy to answer any questions you have.

You pictures are just wonderful! You both looked so great in your pirate costumes! That's such a fun night!

I love the Witches Brew! What an appropriate drink for your Halloween cruise!
And...the cheese plate looks so yumm!

We had the same heat experience in Nassau. We walked off and were back on the ship within 15 minutes! It just wasn't worth it! We barely made it past the ship before we were sweating to death.

I'm so glad you got to see Ratatouille! That must have been fun! We got to enjoy Meet the Robinsons and it is so fun watching the Disney movies on the ship!

We had a great time on pirate night I am so glad we dressed up this time. I would soooooooo love to have that cheese plate for lunch today. Next time, I am ordering room service more. Oh & we got cheese plates brought to us in Sessions when we ordered a drink 2 night...that was really nice too. We love us some cheese.

The pics are awesome... TFS

Thanks.......I love trip reports with lots of pictures myself.

Love this Picture

Thanks Jackie. I really like it too. It's nice to feel tiny once in your life.

 

[Disneygrl36]

Soon it was time to get ready for Halloween. We knew we would have to go to dinner dressed in our costumes as the Halloween costume contest would be starting at 10:15 & we had later dinner. So we headed back to the room & got into our costumes. I was so excited about this as we had been planning these costumes for months. I have always loved Mary Poppins & thought it would be a great costume & DH could be Bert. Finally it was time to become Mary. I put my hair up & pinned my hat to my head & we got dressed & headed out for our night of fun. Phillip was in the hall& he gave us 2 thumbs up.
I wanted to make sure we got down early enough to have some pictures taken. We had our portrait done on the white background which I thought would show off the costumes best.

We also did the ocean background & had our photo taken with Witchie Minnie. We started to get attention as soon as we walked off the elevators. We had people stopping us to take our picture which was really cool. It was fun to walk around & have people saying “Oh look it’s Mary Poppins.” At one point, we were in the lobby for pictures & the piano player was playing a whole medley of Mary Poppins songs which was too cool. I was singing & dancing along with my umbrella. We saw Ducky Williams & his group & we got a thumbs up from him on our costumes from across the room which made me feel great since he said he did a lot of character authenticity work in his job.

We made our way to dinner in Animator’s Palate.

Great pumpkins........

Our only dinner companions for this evening were Brian & Robin who were dressed as a Haunted Mansion ghost couple. They looked awesome!!!!!

Mary & Ellis were dining at Palo & the other couple still hadn’t shown up yet & they were now “The Mystery Couple” to all of us. We had debated whether they were honeymooners or if they even existed. I did miss getting to see the show in AP-as we missed it for our Palo dinner, but it was cool even to just see all the drawing in black & white. We had fun chatting & watching Brian & Robin try to eat without messing up their make-up. Dinner was the master chef menu tonight & it was good.
Tropical fruit cup

Leaves of boston bibb & radicchio

Oven baked orange roughy...yummo

I got a birthday cake tonight too along with a serenade from the servers lead by our head server Marco from Italy who said he was going to sing Pavarotti’s part.

I had already ordered the peach flambe’ so we didn’t touch the birthday cake. We ended up never eating a bite of it even though Eric took it back to the room.

After dinner, we headed to the atrium so we could enjoy the costume contest.

We were noticed by the cruise staff right away & they kept pointing at us & smiling. I was hoping that we would be picked to compete, but I wasn’t sure. There were some really great costumes.
Spooky Mickey

Mr & Mrs Potato Head

The Flintstones

After hanging out in the lobby for awhile, Oscar from the cruise staff came up & gave us a card & told us they wanted us to be in the contest for Most Disney. We were asked to wait over to the side & they got our names etc. We had fun getting photographed & chatting with a few of the crew members-most memorably was the piano player who had been playing the Mary Poppins songs earlier who sought us out to tell us how great we looked & how much he loved the movie.
The categories were Most Disney, Scariest, Funniest, Most Original & Best Group. There were 3 judges & they would decide the winners.
Most Disney was first & we went up to the stage with the other 2 contestants who were Tinker Bell & Jack Skellington. They were both awesome. They introduced us. We got a big yell from the crowd & I am sure some of that came from our DIS buddies that were there. Brent the cruise director asked for our card & Eric had put it in his pocket so I said “It’s in his pocket.” Brent started laughing & said this is a family ship ma’am. Too funny!!!!

The judges made their decision &…………….
WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here we are when they announced the winner....I was looking up at the judges.

These great pictures are courtesy of twicks aka Tara who took them from the crowd. I am so glad she did because obviously we wouldn’t have had any pictures of us up on stage.
We were thrilled to have won & we got 2 cute trophies & a big box of Hershey’s Kissables.
We watched the rest of the contest & cheered on our favorites.
Scariest was won by a couple that were dressed very similar to our tablemates Robin & Brian as a Haunted Mansion couple.
Funniest was won by a confused grandmother (who had on all kinds of different sports team stuff like she couldn’t decide who to cheer for)
Most original was won by a guy who had an amp on his feet & a guitar…you would have had to see it. It sounds silly but was pretty cute.
Best group went to the Adams family.
It was great fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How cool to win on my birthday. I knew our costumes were good & that we were unique & classic Disney, but I really didn’t think we would win. It was the cherry on top of my birthday sundae.

We stayed in our costumes & headed on over to Rockin’ Bar D. When we walked in we heard people yelling at us & saw waving arms. There was a table of our special DIS friends that wanted us to join them. We went on over & sat down with Paula, Kim, Chris & his wife Hazel & we had a blast hanging out with them that night. We drank a few more witches brews & watched the juggler/comedian-who balanced a bowling ball on his face & used a paddle ball in some VERY INTERSTING ways placed in a VERY INTERESTING place. Our little group was saying funnier things than he was & we all kept laughing. We were having our own little party & I am sooooo surprised he didn’t pick on us.

After the comedian, the dancers came in & did their Michael Jackson thing…..the did a few songs & did Thriller which seemed appropriate on Halloween.

After that our DIS friends left us to go collect their kids & we stayed & danced on to 80’s music until after 1am. We must have been some sight out there shaking it dressed like Mary Poppins & Bert. I wish I had a picture of that.
Alone in the lobby again, we tried to get a picture of me with my umbrella opened. DH took like 4 or 5 & they all turned out blurry. Not sure if it was the motion of the ocean or the Witches Brews.

We were greeted by this cute monkey wearing my sunglasses & Eric's boxers when returned to our room.

Here are the trophies we won.

IT WAS AN AWESOME NIGHT & one I will never forget. A GREAT 40TH birthday.

Up next...Exotic Rasul & tea for two.

 

[retiredkid]

oooooooooooo Rasul.........DO tell!

 

[TotallyAngelic]

WOW - your costumes are amazing! Well done on winning the contest! The couple dressed as the haunted mansion ghosts look brilliant too!

 

[tksbaskets]

You deserved to win! Your costumes were AWSOME! I love the trophies. Thanks for sharing

 

[Fairy_Tale_Bride]

I can't believe you won!!!!
How amazing! What a cruise to remember!

Oh, I must go on a Halloween cruise now!
The pumpkins and everyone's costumes were amazing!
You two looked the best!

I am so glad to see Brent too! DH & I just love him!

That is so neat that they did the dance to Thriller! How fun!

What a fantastic birthday for you!
I love the trophies too! So cute!

 

[taramarie]

What an awesome night! I am happy you guys won those great tropheys...you look so cute!

Tara

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Your costumes were excellent and so were those of your tablemates in the Haunted Mansion costumes.

How exciting to win the contest and on your birthday to boot. What a special memory and those trophies are adorable.

 

[qanita92]

You said that you watched Harry Potter and the OotP, but where? Was it in your room?I thought they would only show Disney movies. I had no idea that guests can watch movies that are not out on DVD yet. Cool!

 

[DreamCruiser100]

Just popping back in, I have been busy with family and the holidays and I couldn't wait to catch up on your trippie!! (even before I checked and updated my own LOL)

Hope your holiday was wonderful!! I am enjoying your report SOO very much and guess what..........I am eating a MOON PIE right now, and thinking of my wonderful Dis friends

 

[jns]

sorry photos didn't come out to good

 

[jns]

Balloons in the way here

 

[jns]

Here's the judges

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Hi Melanie! Your costumes were great, and you really deserved to win! Congrats - loved the trophies!

 

[Jennifer48]

Yey!! I'm so glad you won! You guys looked awesome! Congratulations!

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

How nice, i come back from thanksgiving and find 3 updates...loved the first two, and thanks for the food pictures.

congrats on winning the contest. You guys looked great in your costumes. The massage sounded great.



I layed the ground work for the cruise this weekend, her parents said they watched a special on the Disney cruise, and her dad said he would love to do a cruise, just not sure if he wants to do a disney one, said he wonders if there would be to many kids. I ensured him that all cruises have kids, and all the areas that kids can go to, and about the adults only pool, and other areas, and i think i might be winning that battle.

Her brother wants to do the 7 day one, i am potitioning them for a 4 nighter, and a few days in the world.

Babies first words to them will be "cruise grandpa cruise"

 

[Disneygrl36]

oooooooooooo Rasul.........DO tell!

What happens in the exotic rasul room stays in the exotic rasul room.

WOW - your costumes are amazing! Well done on winning the contest! The couple dressed as the haunted mansion ghosts look brilliant too!

Thanks my best friend did such a great job on my costume. We had such fun.

You deserved to win! Your costumes were AWSOME! I love the trophies. Thanks for sharing

Awww thanks. The trophies are pretty cute. I got myself a new Halloween Disney charm for my Disney italian charm bracelet that is a Mickey ghost that looks very similiar because I thought it looked like our trophies & would be a perfect memento of us winning the contest.

I can't believe you won!!!!
How amazing! What a cruise to remember!

Oh, I must go on a Halloween cruise now!
The pumpkins and everyone's costumes were amazing!
You two looked the best!

I am so glad to see Brent too! DH & I just love him!

That is so neat that they did the dance to Thriller! How fun!

What a fantastic birthday for you!
I love the trophies too! So cute!

I couldn't believe it either Lindsey. We were thrilled. Brent was so funny!!!!! It was the best birthday ever....who cares about being 40 when you get to have such a great bday?

What an awesome night! I am happy you guys won those great tropheys...you look so cute!
Tara

Thanks Tara.....those smiles are genuine..we had so much fun.

Your costumes were excellent and so were those of your tablemates in the Haunted Mansion costumes.

How exciting to win the contest and on your birthday to boot. What a special memory and those trophies are adorable.

It was a great night Leesa. Our tablemates were bummed when they saw there were 2 or 3 other couples dressed like they were, but they looked really good.

You said that you watched Harry Potter and the OotP, but where? Was it in your room?I thought they would only show Disney movies. I had no idea that guests can watch movies that are not out on DVD yet. Cool!

Yes, they have movies on the ship that haven't been released on DVD yet. HP was on as was Shrek 3 & some other films. We didn't watch alot of tv but we did while waiting for room service that day.

Just popping back in, I have been busy with family and the holidays and I couldn't wait to catch up on your trippie!! (even before I checked and updated my own LOL)

Hope your holiday was wonderful!! I am enjoying your report SOO very much and guess what..........I am eating a MOON PIE right now, and thinking of my wonderful Dis friends

Hey ya Pam Glad you are enjoying a Tennessee Moon Pie. I miss all you guys......

Balloons in the way here

Thanks for posting those Jackie....it was such a fun night. Interesting to see it from above.

Hi Melanie! Your costumes were great, and you really deserved to win! Congrats - loved the trophies!

Awwwwwwwwwww......thanks.

Yey!! I'm so glad you won! You guys looked awesome! Congratulations!

Thanks Jennifer from one MP lover to another...it was a great night for Mary.

How nice, i come back from thanksgiving and find 3 updates...loved the first two, and thanks for the food pictures.

congrats on winning the contest. You guys looked great in your costumes. The massage sounded great.



I layed the ground work for the cruise this weekend, her parents said they watched a special on the Disney cruise, and her dad said he would love to do a cruise, just not sure if he wants to do a disney one, said he wonders if there would be to many kids. I ensured him that all cruises have kids, and all the areas that kids can go to, and about the adults only pool, and other areas, and i think i might be winning that battle.

Her brother wants to do the 7 day one, i am potitioning them for a 4 nighter, and a few days in the world.

Babies first words to them will be "cruise grandpa cruise"

Hey Dan.........good job on getting the inlaws on board with the cruise. Start out with a 4 night & then work your way up. You will be cruising before you know it!!!!

 

[Disneygrl36]

After all our Halloween excitement, we slept in a bit on Thursday. We went up to Topsiders & had breakfast. I know I had another Krispy Kreme jelly doughnut. Yummo!!!!
We spent some time hanging out on verandah after breakfast just watching the ocean & relaxing.

We had the exotic rasul treatment booked in the spa for 11am. We headed up to the spa & Eric had to fill out the form but I didn't since I had done one earlier in the week. They took us to the changing rooms & then our therapist took us to our treatment room & told us about all the products & then left us alone for our 50 minutes. For those that don't know..this is a do it yourself treatment. The room has a main room with a small shower & then a steam room that is as hot as h-e double hockey sticks....no really, it is that hot. So the purpose is to slather yourself/each other with all these concoctions & then sit in the steam room to rid your body of toxins & then rinse them all off & feel refreshed & revived. You get a big bowl of exfoliant & a big bowl of mud & then there is a basket of other products to use on your face. It is just a lot of fun experimenting with all the lotions & potions & my skin has never felt so soft. It is hard to sit in the steam room long though because it is so hot.........intense. Thank goodness for the buttons on the side that will spray you with hot water. Our 50min was up way too fast & we giggled when we got the 10 minute warning knock. Refreshed & baby soft, we hung out in the Rainforest Room for a short time..but unlike yesterday when it had been so nice & uncrowded, there we lots of people today, so we didn't stay too long. I am sure we would have had to wait forever for the warm loungers…we sat on the warmed bench today whereas before we could have sat in the loungers forever. Word to the wise…….go to the SPA ON PORT DAY.

We headed to lunch because after all that sweating in the steam room we were famished. I had more pizza & Eric had a hot dog. We didn’t want to eat a lot because we had afternoon tea in Palo at 3pm…so it was just a quick snack.
We headed up to deck 10 to walk around & feel the breeze & quickly ran into our DIS buddies-Kim, Paula & Chris again. We sat around & chatted & had a great time. It was so great all week long going around the ship & running into friends that you could stop & chat with. We hung out there for awhile & watched the kids & one of our fellow DISer’s exercise with Goofy. We also watched the Ice Carving demonstration & that was really interesting. I couldn’t believe how fast he was able to make a beautiful, gleaming eagle. I had left the camera in the room while we went to the spa, so I don’t have any pictures of any of this. We had a lot of fun & I couldn’t believe how quickly the time passed & we had to say good bye to our friends so we could go get ready for tea.

We love having afternoon tea. It is a real treat for us & we seek out team rooms when we travel, so we were excited to have tea in Palo. It was a nice & relaxing time.
Palo is just so beautiful..

We had a lovely window table.

We were served lovely sandwiches with our tea….I had the Masella black tea & Eric had the cassis tea. The sandwiches were cream cheese & cucumber, chicken curry & Norwegian prawn sandwiches…we got an extra prawn sandwich in place of the salmon which we don’t like.

Scones…..with Devonshire cream & jam

Tray of sweets

The finale was a cherry triffle-the big chocolate curl on top was too die for.

It was a lovely afternoon tea service & one that we really enjoyed.
The other coolest bathroom on the Magic is at Palo.

After tea we went to the shops & did a bit of browsing….we purchased the Magic Christmas ornament & a few things for people at home & we also made a special purchase of some artwork…….I show it to you guys at the end of the report.
We went & changed into comfy clothes & went to the Quiet Cove pool & enjoyed a drink of the day…..a Panama Hat today. It was nice to sit out & enjoy the day. We went back & relaxed on the verandah until time to get ready for the show.

Next up……Disney Dreams & who finally showed up?????

 

[t-beri]

OOH OOH, PICK ME!!! It must be the mystery couple!

I am so hooked on your TR!!
...t.