My mini review:
The ship was great. Well we were on it with 11 other people.
When we first got on the waiter in Parrot Cay said you're a pretty big group, how many are there of you? 15? Oh, you might be at table 23. We were.
It's the center table in every dining room-I figure it's so they can keep a close eye on you. There's only one in each room. Since there were three dining rooms, I spent the cruise trying to figure out where the other two groups of freaks were.
Joey loved the kids area. Danny loved it too(Not the nursery). But he's too young to leave there so when he was there we had to be there. He especially enjoyed laying across any television that any other kid was trying to watch. So we had to get him out of there after short trips. He wasn't a happy camper.
We didn't get off in St. Maarten, we went to Megan's bay and had a great time in St. Thomas.
Palo's brunch was great. My wife and mother enjoyed their tea there. My parents and my cousin and GF all raved about their dinner there. They brought me a chocolate souffle back to the room. It's kinda toll for me to give them any more info on the rest of their time at WDW. They'll call me with questions at the resort like "Does China serve lunch?""What time is the MK open till today?"
We had a bunch of things planned at Castaway but it was too cold to go in the water. It was still a good time. I think with that weather and if Danny was 3 where he could have been checked into the kids area instead of continuing to try to storm the beach where he was zigging and zagging between people's chairs, we could have just hung out for hours but we had to head back to the ship shortly after 12.
I think the food was better than my last
DCL experience. The the marinated Chicken tenderloins in Parrot Cay were awesome.
I still hate the elevators on these ships. I hope with the Dream they've made improvements in that area. With so many kids on board, there are strollers everywhere. These are the smallest I've experienced on any ship I can remember.
My oldest LOVED the FE. I knew he would. I had no idea what it would be like for us. We tried to divide the kids into three age groups because a 3 yo sometimes has different interests than a 15 yo...although at Christmas sometimes the 15yos end up playing with my 1 yo's toys. We calculated everything out at home and put them into packages and put the packages into bags and then I walked around the ship and when I'd get back to the cabin I'd have an extra or I'd have a boy teen instead of a girl preteen when I got to the last cabin. I hope that there wasn't any major problems with any of this kinda stuff from us, but if I do it again, we'll have to come up with a better delivery system.
We stayed in a one bedroom at Kidani when we got off the ship. That might be my new favorite. The one bedroom is the biggest one bedroom we've been in. The kids had fun standing in the shower. Yeah, I know they're weird. They were pretending they were lions. At least that's what Joey said. Danny I think just mostly goes along with the program and climbs as high as he can whenever he can.
