SPOOKtacular Magical Cruise(now w/ pictures)

[MrsJobba1]

Thankyou, I am really enjoying your trip report. I wish I was back on the magic.

 

[Mickey'sfriend]

Thanks so much for your awesome trip report!! Can't wait to hear more!

 

[sejejoemmiev]

ok, to back up & give a very important detail, Friday night after MNSSHP

What is MNSSHP ? TIA!

 

[kritter]

ok, to back up & give a very important detail, Friday night after MNSSHP

What is MNSSHP ? TIA!

Mickeys NOt so Scarey Halloween party it takes place at Magic Kingdom!!!!!!!

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

just have time for a quick post,I'm leaving for Ohio in the morning, but I didn't want to leave monday unfinished.

Dinner was for 6:00 pm so we got the kids some grub, and took them to,...(do I even need to say the word?) CLUB!


We arrived got our hand treatment, and were taken to the private dinning room. Now I should add, that anyone can reserve this room, you just need to have a party of 8 to 12, so we qualified.

Our server was Gemma, she was from England, delightful young lady. She shared alot with us about life on board as a crew member, and took my Dh's humor VERY WELL!
You see earlier that day if you'll remember we had our DIS tot, DD Holly came back from tot with a very nice ROACH! FAKE of course.

As I mentioned before DH is a so as soon as he saw this, you know what he HAD to do don't you? ......... YES HE DID!

DH was giving her his order, and had put the ROACH under his menu so when he handed it to her, she saw it.

BUT, being the clever young women that she is, she quickly replied, "oh, not another one!" Took the wind right out of his sails! it was histerical. Of course, neither one of our moms were laughing... after that she was one of the gang. She told us that her boyfriend was a joker as well, and this was not the first time she had seem one of these lovely bugs. We were very fortunate to have her again later in the week for brunch.

OK, the food. Well I believe that I eat more in Palo than I do in any other dinning room on the ship. I love it all. I will admitt that I am not one for super fancy food, I like to know what I am eating, and I do not stray to far from what I know; However, I will try more in Palo than any where else...don't ask me why,... maybe b/c I haven't had anything there that I didn't like yet.

Again I have to say that I do not remember too much of what we all ate, but I do remember that we LOVE the dips that come with the bread. ( I did try the olives, they are good but strong) .

I love the white one!

- PIZZA, out of this world!
WE had several different kinds, blue cheese and Tomato I think?...BBQ Chicken w/ spinich??? and something with Olives I think...? sorry bad memory, and no picture to remind me,...I think we gobbled them down before anyone of us got a shap shot.
I had some form of steak, w/ some form of spinich on the side it was delicious.

DH had the Lamb and it was VERY YUMMY. 1st time I had ever tried lamb, and I am glad I did, prob wont like it anywhere else, but I sure do like Palos

And then for the BEST part of it all
The Chocolate Souffle

this picture was taken before the sauce was added.
I know you think that once you've had a Choc. souffle, you had them all, but NOT SO! In my experience, THis one... takes the cake it is so good.

well were all stuffed and on with the routine, see a SUPER show, stroll deck 10, stop of @ deck 9, grab the kids from club, and night night

The show was Twice Charmed, it was very nice. We truely enjoyed it.
SUPER DAY! It can't get much better than this. Family, Friends, sunshine, Food, and the mouse

Next post I'll share our day in St. Martin, Shopping, the ocean, and a nice warm hug from a shop owner.

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

I just spent an hour posting on St. Martin, and I Lost it!!!!

I have no more time right now, sorry I'll try to post something later. augh!

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

here, let me help.....

look forward to it later!!!!

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

Ok, we'll try this again. I have tried for the last 2 days to figure out how to post my pictures, ....augh, anyone know where I can get "Posting Pictures for Dummies"?

I'll keep trying but I am about to lose it Thanks "PANS" for your assistance w/ my frustration.


St. Martin

We all slept in a little later on this day, except for my In laws, they were out by 8:00 I think to catch one of the tours for St. M.

I called everyone else and we all had breakfast and meet about 10:00 am to go & explore. It was a lovely day, beautiful sunshine, warm, but beautiful.

I was leading the pack & we agreed to walk and not take the water taxi,....BAD IDEA!!! (ok, here is the deal, it is fine to walk,...GOING!..., after a long day of shopping, and beach, maybe one should RE-THINK walking.)(pay the $5 and ride) We really did not know exactly how far it would be, and the books I read seemed to lead me to believe that it was just off the ship,...there is SOME shopping just off the ship but we wanted to go into town, so the watertaxi would be my suggestion, unless you are an experienced walker. enough of that.

A lovely islander lady offered for us to follow her, she was not talkitive, just going the same direction, and kept the first few aggressive islanders away from us. My mom thought that she was just doing it for the tip, but she didn't even stop when we arrived to the shopping area, she just pointed and said,..."you want to go that way,...NOT this way!" and kept walking. ( her tone came w/ the knowledge that we did not want to go that way for our own safety...?) We hollered thankyou's and she waved. This made a great first impression.

Shopping
We walked a good ways into town, it is easy to find your way around. Some of the shops on the alleyways, or backstreets, were MUCH more aggressive. While we were about to go into the store DEL SOLE a lady stepped infront of us and said "same things in my store 1/2 the price,..come w/ me." We told her we would be there in a min. after we looked here, and that is what we did.
On our way back to her store there were a total of 3 store in this alleyway. All of us split up and went into the first 2. (hers was one of these 2) BUT, it did not sit well w/ the 3rd shop owner, she wanted us to come to here store NOW!!! She was so aggressive that we did not want to go, and we didn't, although we did have to listen to her yell at us. Really, we all found things in the other 2 stores and we didn't even need to shop anymore.

While we were finishing up in one of the stores my sisters friend, Ashley became very ill. my mom saw her, as she was paying for something she just collapsed. Mom & dad ran to her, and so did the store owner to catch her. Dad( a Pastor) immediately prayed for her and the owner grabbed a stool for her to sit on, and ran out side to hale a taxi. Ashely was back w/ us in just seconds, but she couldn't see, or hear very well. We prayed again, and she drank some water, in about 3-4 mins she was weak , & had nausea but could see and hear again. SO, we all (including the store owner) walked Ashley & dad to the taxi and they went back to the ship. The store owner stopped my mom and me and gave us BIG HUGS, told us to take care and come see her if we needed anything. This was very sweet, she was a lovely lady. (2nd nice islander )

( I will add here, that the same thing has happened to my sister,...Dr's say TOO MUCH CAFFINNE and not enough healthy food and rest ) Ashely went back, rested & ate, cut out the caffine, and was fine the rest of the trip.

BEACH TIME

We had done some homework on the beaches here and made the choice to try Little Bay. I will say it was convenient to the ship,..ie our littel walk, but it was not the prettiest beach. Chris said the sand reminded him of oatmeal....ditto. it was thick w/ crushed seashells, and brownish gray. oh well at least it was sunny right!
We paid $18 for 6 chairs and 3 umbrellas. NO idea if we got ripped off or not, but that is what we paid.
( my ds 5 just came in and asked me what I was doing, I told him writing about our disney trip and as I am typing he pointed to this smile and asked me..."mommy is he mad b/c he wants to go to club?) I have to tell you that on more than one occasion Joe (ds) pitched a fit b/c it was time to leave club, or he wanted to go to club. ok back to the topic.
We sat down, some went into the water, a couple of us lounged on the chairs and enjoyed the sun& shade. We meet a nice couple who were sitting beside us. They both worked on RCL. They saw our Castaway Club bags and started asking us questions about DCL. We talked alot about the differences, and they both said that they thought it would be really great to work on the DCL. ( OF COURSE I thought to myself, it's the BEST) IMHO

BACK TO SHIP
after a few hours we began to get hungry ( Since Lacey is expecting a baby we wanted to eat and eat on ship, so off we went on our LONG walk back.
We got to Topsiders just as they had closed... so we ended up eating by the pool. that's ok,..all of the food is great. and dinner is not that far away.

Later, I'll share our Pirates in the Carribbean Party.

A sample of Tabbahs skills!

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

I figured it out!!! It's only taken me a couple of weeks but hey,..I did it! TR now comes complete with pictures.

 

[curlybop]

I'm hungry now, after looking at those Palo photos! Great report, keep on going!

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

love seeing pics from our cruise!!!!

my DH is in one - so funny! We had the same dining rotation and we must have been sittting near each other!

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

love seeing pics from our cruise!!!!

my DH is in one - so funny! We had the same dining rotation and we must have been sittting near each other!

That is too funny,...which one is he in? We sat at table # 59

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

the character breakfast with Pluto - he is silhouetted in front of the porthole window.

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

the character breakfast with Pluto - he is silhouetted in front of the porthole window.

cool. I have always wanted a window table...did you enjoy it? And did you have table mates?
I guess b/c we always have our extened families w/ us we never get those tables. Once we were in the corner in every D. Rm. yuck

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

it was nice - we missed it at AP. There was just the three of us!

 

[nluvwithmickey]

Can I say what a terrific job you are doing on your Trip report? Absolutely wonderful.

TABAH....isn't he the greatest? We had him as our stateroom host and we just wanted to bring him back home with us. So sweet and attentive. I'm glad I,m not the only one who enjoyed his great work.

Keep up the good work, I love reading all about your cruise.

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

Can I say what a terrific job you are doing on your Trip report? Absolutely wonderful.

TABAH....isn't he the greatest? We had him as our stateroom host and we just wanted to bring him back home with us. So sweet and attentive. I'm glad I,m not the only one who enjoyed his great work.

Keep up the good work, I love reading all about your cruise.

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. I am having a blast doing this TR. It's just SO time consumming. It's taking me forever to get it done but at least were to the middle of the week.

Tabah is SUPER SWEET, and always has a giggle/laugh. No other cabin host has made such the impression on me.

"PANS" how wonderful that you had your own table! I know that it is nice to meet others, but it is also nice to just spend the time w/ you own family. I know you enjoyed the time w/ your daughter.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

we did - but we were also looking forward to the possibility of sitting with others - had a good experience once on another cruise. We don't usually take the initiative to meet others - but it is nice when the situation gives us a little "push"!!!

We did meet a family next to us at dinner - they sat at a table with us at Topsiders after embarkation...we got talking - and then that night found they were at the table next to us - so that was nice!!!!

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

Well as you saw in the last post, Tabbah was already in the Pirate mood!
We got back from our day at St. Martin and in my in-laws room there sat this pirate. Now,... my dad(inlaw) thought that there was a man sitting on his sofa This was a TOWEL ANIMAL to Rival ALL OTHER towel animals!
If you look closely you can see the remote control in his hand
Tabbah had put my sons costume on this towel man, and dads parrot & remote on the mans arms...it was GREAT I told you in the first post that Tabbah is Faba!

Now it was time for dinner at AP, we all arrived out of costume, and my father inlaw was ready to make us "WALK the PLANK" He was in FULL Pirate costume, and looked great I might add. My son & daughter and mother inlaw wore their costumes but the rest of us were a bunch of party poopers

Dinner was alot of fun, and the girls, (sister & Friend) tried the escargot (sp?)

good thing they don't read the dis boards! They wouldn't care for this pic
After dinner we took both of the kids to club,...and fooled around on decks 9& 10 for what seemed like hours....BUT, we had GOOD seats for the party!

We were on deck 10 by the railing (still cant tell you if we were port or starboard... ) we were on the side w/the fireworks any way great view. DH went down to see if the kids wanted to come up for the party, ...but NO neither one wanted to leave. I was kinda sad, b/c I know they would have enjoyed it, but they were enjoying the club.

After watching the dancing and the fireworks, we went to check out the buffet (like we needed another bite) and there it all was looking so pretty as if to say " Please take me and eat me I'm looking for a nice tummy to rest in".
so...whacha gonna do??? Yep, your gonna get in line, and eat it.
We found us a nice place, on the back of the ship (on the topsiders deck) to sit,...don't think we were supposed to be back there though,..it had been blocked off during the show due to the fireworks display, but not now,workers were putting the chairs back..so we made our way in and had a nice quiet snack.

Off to bed for all the good pirates. We picked up the kids, and yes, again they needed a snack, so we orderd them room service, and off to la la land we went. Early morning on Wed....CUSTOMS! YUCK!
DON'T YOU MISS THAT ROCKING MOTION! I want to go back NOW!

NEXT: St. Thomas, a Frangipani, and ANOTHER MAGICAL MOMENT!

 

[discruiselovers97]

This is a FABULOUS trip report! I am really enjoying it! Keep the report(and the pictures) coming!