Spring Break 2008 On The Wonder (pick Up The Phone Sharrronnn)

[KalieElizabeth]

okay.
im a teen.
and i know the adults out there are going DONT LET HER POST A TR!!!!
LETS GET OUR PITCHFORKS AND GET HERRRRRRR!!
true...
pitchforks are awesome
so bring it on
so lets get to the point of this TR
its my first one.
but deffinetly not my first cruise on disney
so yeah the cast:
MY DAD: yeah hes a disney dork. and an IT manager for scintific atlanta.(now cisco) he needs these cruises like a crazy person needs therapy.
MY DADS FIANCE(april) : she is amazing. works for SA too. she needs these breaks too. (even if she is very prone to motion sickness.)
MEEE: i love the magic from disney. period.
So i didnt know about this cruise.
not at all.
so i thought we were going to Daytona.
I flew from dallas texas to orlando at about oh 6 oclock in the morning that sunday. Dad and April had driven from atlanta. and so my dad picked me up from the airport and we headed. except when i saw the signs for CAPE CANAVERAL i knew something was up.
we pulled into mc donalds for breakfast. April and dad got something. i just got a coffee. My dad looked over at me and goes i lied
me: about what?
dad: we really arnt going to daytona
me(in my mind YES YES YES WOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT) :hmmm..
dad: we are going on a 4 night cruise to the bahamas and then to disney afterwards.
me : -smiles- yay.
dad: you really didnt know?
Me: no.
so thats the so amazing way i found out.
april and i went back to the car while dad got his food and watched a bird risk his life for a packet of ketchup. hahahah that was funny.
so we drove to the ship.
THE MOST AMAZING FEELING EVER IS SEEING THE WONDER (or the magic) FOR THE FIRST TIME OVER THE BRIDGE
oh.. random moment..
so we park the car and head on in
TO BE CONTINUED DUHN DUHN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNN

 

[KalieElizabeth]

we get into the terminal
after getting all our paperwork done we sit down.
i ask april if i can see the camera.
me- miss.april can i see your camera?
april-sure let me just find it (digs through bag)
dad- (looks up from playing mariocart) what you looking for?
april-the camera do you have it?
dad- noo..
april- we must have left it in the car..
dad- ill go look.
so my dad leaves and searches the car in the parking lot.
meanwhile me and april look in dads backpack.
sure enough its in the bottom pouch.
i call dad.
and since he got the iphone he can NEVER hear it ring.
and i call.
and i call.
he doesnt pick up.
now they are getting dangerously close to calling our number to get onboard.
i call again.
he finally picks up exasperated!
i cant find the camera
me-dad-
dad- did you find it?
me-yes. we did. and they are calling our number.
dad. oh well im behind you.
i reach into my pocket where i thought i had put my card.
nope not there...
er.. i think i left the card at the chairs
i tell april and run to where we were sitting. nope not there.
i start digging frantically in my bag.
WHERE COULD IT HAVE GONE?
i get to the last pouch and THANK GOD.
its there.
i run back to where april and dad are in line and we go to board the ship!
WOOOOOOOTTTTT
PLEASE WELCOME THE ELLISON DYAR FAMILYY!
home sweeet home

 

[Our2Girls&Disney]

Ok, I have to admit I was rather excited for you when they told you where you were going. We have a similar situation for our kids. We plan to tell them we are going to the beach for the day and then decide to take cruise instead. I am not sure what type of reaction we will get, but I hope it is a positive one. Now, stop losing things.

 

[KalieElizabeth]

thanks
i lose things quite easily...although i think thats the only 2 times we almost lost something on this cruise.
(on other cruises BOY i have lost a bunch of things XD)
so where was i.. OH we had just boarded. so we went to go get some lunch up at parrot cay.
after that we headed down to our room.
let me tell you from previous experiences. the rooms with the balconies are AMAZING. i know thats where dad and april spent most of their time.
so they wanted to hang in the room (nap time anyone?)
i on the other hand want to go take pictures. and explore.
i lOVE photography. so there would be more pictures except that its on miss aprils camera. and im still patiently waiting for those pictures to be in my possession.
(long story short why i didnt have my camera cause i usually glued to that thing. i couldnt find the charger before the trip. and turns out aprils charger is the same one as mine..so w/e. )
you know im on of the weird photographer girls whose always like crouching to get the PERFECT picture.
i got tired of the weird looks i was getting in the lobby of trying to get a good picture of the glass chandelier in the atrium.
so i went and got settled in one of those portholes near route 66.
and since it was the weekend and i had free minutes i called up my friend chris love. haha hes so much fun to talk to when your bored. i talked to him for awhile and lost him in the elevator back down to our room. i called him and told him id call him when i got home.i went to get in the elevator
i got on with a family with a son about my age. so i asked him if he was going up to aloft. and he goes yeah i am. so this turns out to be fredrick and we end up being good friends.
so we go hang out in aloft for about an hour.
i have to go back to the room for the safety drill and to check in.
so this is about 3 oclock and my dad declares i need a hair cut.
well acording to my parents divorce he cant get my hair cut with out asking my mom. so i call my mom and she says if i do anything drastic im dead meat. wooahh.. okay so my idea for a hair cut was out of mind.
my dad gets us an appointment for 7 that night.
we go to the drill thingy..and for some reason we are never outside.
we are always in animators palet. always in the air conditioning

we go drop off the life vest things and head up to the deck party.

 

[Gonecruisin]

Patiently waiting for next installment of your TR.

So far, so good.

I am cruising for first time on DCL 8/21 w/ my DD 20 and DS 16 so I am very interested to hear what a teen really thinks of the cruise.

 

[KalieElizabeth]

YAYAY there is more people reading so i thought i might treat you. with pictures from a past cruise when miss. april and dad went. (im sorry i still havent gotten the ones from this cruise. i have a few.)

Miss.April

a carnival cruise ship.

Mi padre

Dad and april

miss april in front of the magic.

she doesnt look very happy..

im SO sorry these are sideways. but its really hard to edit pictures from your phone.

 

[KalieElizabeth]

the deck party ahah ITS ALWAYS FUN!!
we stand up on the second floor and watch from there.!
make sure you get streamers.
they are always fun
i LOVE hearing the countdown and and 'when you wish upon a star' whistle
they started playing 'what time is it' and of course being the huge dork on that deck i started doing the dance.. people stared. oh well.
so i have totally blanked on what we did next...
err.. me and miss april went to the shopping thingy
(we had 8:30 seating)
we hung out in aloft.
played video games for awile.
i went back to the room and we headed up to vista spa.
the woman behind the counter gave us a tour while the hairstylist finished up with the appointment before us.
the gym is pretty nice.. to bad im too young to use it.
MORE TO COME IN ABOUT 10 MIN

 

[JDBlair]

Cute TR. I really like it. I busted out laughing about the hair cut and needing your moms permission per the divorce. That was funny!!

 

[lookingforward]

Lookingforward to reading more! I am booking a three night with my 9 year old and my 15 year old, so I am anxious to read about your teenage perspective!

 

[KalieElizabeth]

yay! more readers
we show up at dinner about 15 min late.
oh well.
loved the people we sat at the table with. canadians.
gotta love em.
the server was REALLY nice.
british guy.
cant remember his name.
im not that good with names..
anywho! i went with the 13 year old from the other family to go get ice cream from the machine on the top deck (its my traditon)
we went back to dinner and i asked dad if i could go up to aloft.
i did.
we watched the counselers put on the house rules sketch
and the NO BUYING DRUGS lecture.
and gotcha rules ( i recomend playing this game..its really fun.)
we got all set up for gotcha and took our pictures..
i was ROONIL WAZLIB.
(get the harrypotter joke? no one else did..)
it was getting late.
about 1:30?
and we started playing this game where we had to right down two things that are true about you and one false.
mine were
1. i have had plastic surgery.
2. i am terribly afriad of hights.
3. i like scremo music.
(which one is a lie??)
i had my written down and turned in.
there was like 5 people there.
one of them wyche.
one person i really enjoyed meeting XD
when the phone rang.
melissa answered it.
and goes is kalie up here?
i raised my hand.
and she handed me the phone.
i go hello?
dad: where are you?
me: aloft.
dad: you didnt call to check in.
me: oh.. i forgot.
dad: you need to call and check in.
me. okay.sorry.
dad. when are you coming back?
me: um well when this game is finsihed. we are almost done.
dad:...(silence)
me: uh....now im coming now.
i hang up the phone and grab my jacket
Me: got to go to bed.
err..be back tommrow.
i go to hit the elevator button on the aloft elevator.
(btw these take FOREVER to get up there. i recomend going down a floor and trying to catch it there. or better yet. walk.)
i relize its not coming and dash down those stairs.
(i got some pretty weird looks trying to run down)
i ran down to deck 6
thats 5 flights of stairs...
i start running down a random hallway.
wrong side of the ship. running the wrong way
i turn around and head back the other way.
i get to the room and open it silently as possible.
my dad is sitting reading and april is asleep.
my dad has this errrie calm voice.
he said he was disapointed in me. so i told him i would call to check.
so i went to go get all cleaned up for bed.
i went to sleep.

* behind the scenes story from apirl that i got*
evidentally he woke up and was really mad.
he was going to walk up to aloft in his boxers.
miss. april was laughing like mad and told him to just call up there.
he is scary when he has that calm voice...
oh well DAY TWO TO COME

 

[JDBlair]

You're hilarious!!! It's really cool to read a TR from a teen because my teen still will not tell me what they did up there in the Stack all the time. And now it's good to know I can call up there! I didn't know that before! Ha!

 

[Our2Girls&Disney]

Sounds like a blast! Where are the pics of you? Miss April sounds like a nice lady. You would have been mortified if Dad walked up in his boxers.

 

[Brena]

Great TR!!! It's so nice to hear about the cruise from another perspective.

 

[KalieElizabeth]

yall want pictures of me... hm.. let me see if i can find some.im pretty sure i dont have any from this cruise part yet..

theres one of me and my half brother.
he is the cutest thing!!
where was i.. oh yeah next day!
we get up and head down to breakfast in parrot cay.
i finished early and wanted to head up to aloft to get my gotcha vitcim
got on the elevator( and the irony is that fredrick and his family were on that elevator too..) so me and fredrick walked on the deck over to aloft from palo.
TIP: your not supossed to go get your gotcha victim before twelve..evidentally there are youngsters in there.. fred went to meet his family and i headed back to breakfast.
my dad is obsessed with jewlery shopping.
so one day of every cruise is dedicated to jewlery shopping.
(even though this year we just looked)
since there is no jewlery shopping in castaway cay BING bahama day it is.
we get off the boat and the first thing dad sees is a starbucks.
and off we go to jewlery shop.
after awile my feet start to hurt.
owww...(we went in my stores sparatically like coach del sol and someother stores that i got gifts for my loved ones back home.)
i remember going into the coach store and seeing this amazing purse/ wallet thing. the one i wanted was 78 dollars.. woahhh to much.
i saw another one that was 48.. more in my range.
on ward to shop some more! one of the last stores we went to was little switzerland and my dad got me this really nice swartizkie( haha sp) crystal pink necklace with a leather chain. so we went in another store and dad looked at these hearts on fire diamonds.
when we came out i said something about my feet. and miss.april said since i had couperated so much that she was going to pay for half that coach bag i wanted yay..
we went back to the coach store and BAMM NEW BAG

back to the ship!(im finding more pictures funn.. but my dad still has all the good ones)

welcome back banner

this has nothing to do with the cruise. but this is me and my best friend chris love.

veiw of the ship from our car when we got to the terminal.

 

[KalieElizabeth]

ohhhhhh okay. i guess ill just keep postin
so we boarded back and i went up to aloft while dad and april went to hang byt he pool. there was only a few people who had gotten back so we did a scavenger hunt.
i dont remember who was on the other teamm but i do remember that the people who were on my team were fred wyche and me. it was hold the phone i think?
where we ran around the ship and having to find the answers to questions.
using the phones to call back up to aloft.
fun game.
until we realized that there was no way we were gonna win. we were SUPER behind. oh well.
still fun. the running track was hilarous. we were sent to find out how many lifeboats were on board. so we were walking around the deck 4 and we were about to where the running track goes in the bow. (we still dont know if we were supposed to be in there.)
so i go..i dunno if were supposed to be here man.. i turn around and take off running. i guess fred got my hint and ran after me.
wyche..not so much.. you could hear him yelling after us. i rounded the corner and hid in the stairway. fred saw me and hid in the same place.
we were both fighting back giggles.
we waited to see if he was going to find us.
but he never came. clueless.. we wondered around then got ice cream.
got the hint that we might want to call up to aloft to see if they had seen him.
i told fred to go find him. i would figure out the next clue.
tip-dont ever leave your group in a scavanger hunt. igot lost. and i have been on these cruises TONS of times. i was wondering around near the disney vacation club desk when i caught a glimpse of something black.. it was wychee..trying to scare me. sigh. i let out an ear peircing scream. he had scared me..even though i had seen him.
so we were both stunned it was that loud.
he got over it and shook my shoulder come on! they havent won yet!
the havent won...wow...
we were WAY behind.
oh well we started running again..
as i was running i was counting the lifeboats
wyche: why are you doing that?
me: well we still dont know the answer
wyche: here -asks a guy in a white uniform who obviously works onboard-how many lifeboats are onboard
(i cant remember how many...oh well)
lady in yellow shirt goes right after he answers: HEY YOU CANT DO THAT THATS CHEATING! i laughed and we ran to the nearest phone.

im so tired.. ill write the rest lata kay?

 

[Gonecruisin]

Love the bag! Was it a bargain? How much do they go for in Nassau? I am looking to do some shopping while I am there, too.

 

[JDBlair]

I love Coach! Is that a swingback you bought??

 

[MandyMommytoReaghan]

I am really enjoying reading your TR. Can't wait to read more. Take Care!

 

[KalieElizabeth]

Love the bag! Was it a bargain? How much do they go for in Nassau? I am looking to do some shopping while I am there, too.

so my computer is making me want to haul it and throw it off a cliff. i had the whole next entry typed. and safari FROZE. and so i lost it all. ALL OF IT.
alfkleruwrfeklwjklffffffffffff

hhaha sorry.
okay they are the exact same price in the us as they are in bahamas. i was on coaches website. and that thing is so small all it held was my room key ipod (origional white nano) and my cell. i was just looking at those for awhile and decided to get it. its just that the sales tax in dallas is super high. so i didnt want to pay the (8.25) more on the origional 48 dollars.
on with my story.
it was formal night.
so my mom had 'slipped' in a dress from my cousins wedding.
(oh side note. i figured out why my feet hurt so much from the walking in Nassau i wore vans..which reminds me of a game we played on the first night. my shoes won most interesting. i dont know why but the winner's shoes were thrown up over the rafters. and i dont know if you know about vans. they are BOARDING shoes so they are on the heavy side. so when scott threw mine up it landed perfectly on the rafter. and i had JUST gotten those vans. they are super cool

( cept mine are black around the edge cause i put black electircal tape on them) so he had to go get a stick and stand on the couch and hit it until it came down. im a slight control freak so when things get slightly out of control (like my new shoes stuck in a rafter) i was like OHHHHHHH JEEEZ MY MOMM IS GONNA KILL MEOH JEEZE. he got them down and i was okay..okay on sorry for my rant)
its formal night so time for pictures
and my dad had his own mini melt down
evidentaly he wanted to be in the line for goofy.
and we switched lines and he was like WHAT.
so we got formal pictures and then one with goofy.
(love disney cant stand the people who dress up in the coustumes =shudders= scary.)
oh before we wanted a picture with the backdrop up stairs. so when we were coming down i was standing next to the elevator and talking to dad. and just guess who steps out of the elevator wyche. (im sorry if he seems to come up alot..i was developing a slight crush on this dude. he he..
so haha i turned bright red and said hi and he goes hi.and smiles then walks off. we actually were 'together' for about 3 months then we had a huge fight..stoped talking to each other for awhile. then started talking again.. then had another fight.and now we arent speaking again. )
sorry if it gets annoying.. we got in the elevator and my dad goes under his breath.. the way guys are looking at you these days im gonna have to be punching sombody out. and miss april starts laughing hysterically...and goes you punching somebody out..hahahahha
me i was all emberressed about the whole thing. so
we eat dinner..which was VERY good. in tritions. and i head out early and go get changed back in the room.
to head up to karaoke
ahaAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
a guy singing toxic by britany spears?
you dont want to miss it

 

[JDBlair]

My DS also enjoyed Karoke in the Stack on the Magic. It's about the one activity he has told us about. Must be some funny stuff going on up there with this karoke!