Taking on the Wonder June 14th 2007 Trip Report w/ Pictures! (Completed 8/3 pg. 9)

[tokyodisneydad]

I can see them. Thay are really nice and make me want my cruise to hurry up and get here.

 

[manntra]

Yup pictures are great....especially the food!! Can't wait till our cruise....actually tokoyodisneydad we are on the same cruise---I saw your post at our Disney meet thread. Just around the corner! Love the TR...Is your underwater case for your digital camera? Thanks!

 

[manntra]

Yup pictures are great....especially the food!! Can't wait till our cruise....actually tokoyodisneydad we are on the same cruise---I saw your post at our Disney meet thread. Just around the corner! Love the TR...Is your underwater case for your digital camera? Thanks!

 

[2angelsinheaven]

All the pics are showing up for me... hopefully you get to see them - they're awesome pictures -- and a LOT of them, which we all love.

Thank you, John always teases that I take way too many pictures but I was telling him "honey they are for the DIS"...

I can see them. Thay are really nice and make me want my cruise to hurry up and get here.

Thank you again, I hoped they would come out nice.

Yup pictures are great....especially the food!! Can't wait till our cruise....actually tokoyodisneydad we are on the same cruise---I saw your post at our Disney meet thread. Just around the corner! Love the TR...Is your underwater case for your digital camera? Thanks!

How cool that you guys are on the same cruise. We met a bunch of people from a message board before one of our cruises before and it was really nice to meet everyone onboard and we actually even booked an entire excursion together, lots of fun. We still talk three years later.

The case is for my digital camera and it's by DryPak, I was able to find one for $10 and it works wonderfully, even was able to get some awesome video of the reef at Castaway Cay which I'll be sharing soon. If anyone wants the info on where to buy these PM me.

 

[mruhaak]

Enjoying your report. Looks like you had a great time!

 

[Tink rules]

enjoying the report, but none of the pics are showing up, unless they are all of a small red X

Just for the future... if you get red x's... just right click your mouse and then click on Show Picture. It may bring up the picture if it is available, but if the picture is too old, it may not change over.

Good luck!

 

[MB MinnieGirl]

Hey Darlene!!

We just returned from DC and Baltimore and I can't wait to catch up on your report. I breezed through some photos and read a bit but have got to get busy around here and we literally just returned about an hour ago. Your pics are great!! PM me where I can get the underwater camera! We will certainly need one for our cruise when we see you IN LESS THAN ONE MONTH NOW!!!

Cannot wait to hear all about your cruise and catch up...I've got something to look forward to reading after the unpacking today.

Kelly

 

[2angelsinheaven]

Enjoying your report. Looks like you had a great time!

Thanks hopefully I'll have more up soon. Thanks for sticking with me...

Hey Darlene!!

We just returned from DC and Baltimore and I can't wait to catch up on your report. I breezed through some photos and read a bit but have got to get busy around here and we literally just returned about an hour ago. Your pics are great!! PM me where I can get the underwater camera! We will certainly need one for our cruise when we see you IN LESS THAN ONE MONTH NOW!!!

Cannot wait to hear all about your cruise and catch up...I've got something to look forward to reading after the unpacking today.

Kelly

Welcome home guys! Hope you have a great trip, can't wait to hear all about it as well. Less than a month?!?! Wow, time has flown by. Can't wait to meet you guys!

 

[2angelsinheaven]

After our windy adventure on the deck we headed back to the room to get ready for the evening show. Tonight was Pirate Night so we all dressed up in our Jack Sparrow Tiki shirts and headed down to the Walt Disney Theatre.

I love all of the main shows but the Golden Mickey's is just such a fun show I couldn't wait to see it again. It never gets old. We again grabbed four seats right in the back of the theatre near the sound booth and sat back and waited for the show to begin.

We were entertained by Rona Rivers on the big screens while waiting for the main show, she was really good and the kids they selected were pretty funny. We all got a kick out of it.

The show began and John and I loved every minute of it, John's favorite part is when Elvis Stitch shows up and I really like the Princess section. Very nice.

The ending song is something like "who knows what a dream may come"...and they show loads of pictures of Walt growing up and working on his dreams and once again I was in tears. Needless to say Walt is one of my heros and the video is really touching. He's made many dreams come true for both of us and his creations continue to.

Enough sap... Here are some photos of the Golden Mickey's...

Sue really enjoyed this one and she said it was her favorite thing so far on the cruise and totaly made up for her disinterest in Hercules.

After the show we headed down to the lobby to take our photos with the characters in their pirate garb. Sadly we missed Pirate Stitch one of our favorites, he'd been out in the morning which is a change from when he appears on the four night cruise. Oh well, next time.

We did however find Minnie and Mickey!

The character interaction onboard is great, we've never felt silly for taking our pictures or acting goofy with the character and they are always out and about and the lines aren't nearly as long as they seem to be on land at the parks. A++++

We checked out some more pins and scored four more pins we'd been looking for from the trading book, yahoo, before heading off to our dinner in Triton's. This being our first three nighter we would be having the normal Triton's menu instead of the pirate menu this time like we were use to. We tried to get John and Sue to try the escargot but no go, I told them it was just like little buttered mushrooms but they weren't buying it.

Sadly I didn't take any photos of dinner tonight but it was really yummy as always. I had the escargot and mixed greens salad and for my entree Beef Tenderloin, we skipped desert so that we would have some room for the Pirate buffet after tonight's party. We would have skipped dinner altogether but since this was John Sr. and Sue's first cruise we wanted them to try all the rotational restaurants so we ate lightly instead.

While we finished up our drinks John got up and ran ahead of us to search for some tables for the Pirate Party, this is the only real downfall to the really late seating is that it's tough to find a good spot for the party if you stay for your entire meal. So John being my hero ran ahead to try.

John Sr and Sue wanted to go to the room for a bit before the party so I bid them farewell and headed up to find John. I was happy to see he had found a table and three chairs next to where we had been seated for the Sailway Party, this was going to be great, at least that's what I thought. The table happened to be right in front of the light guy so we had to move, bummer. I grabbed another chair from the back of the deck and we pulled them up to the railing near the aft funnel. John Sr and Sue joined us a few minutes later. We were all decked out in our shirts and pirate bandanas from dinner and I had my light up Tinkerbelle from lunch the week before clipped in my hair which got lots of compliments. I was ready to rock!

This would be our first Pirate's party since the Ariel View screen had been installed and I was really excited to see how it would add to the party. It really helped for those of us up on deck 10 as we got a big screen view of the action below on deck 9 without being in the middle of it.

To be continued...

 

[timandlesley]

I am just LOVING this Darlene! I love all the pics of the ship, how cool, the theming is out of this world, of course I would expect it to be, but unreal! I sure hope we can afford to go on one someday!!!!
Love the underwater photo's, the Tarzan and Jane game seems halarious. So the characters are always out roaming around? How cool! What kind of variety in characters do they have?
Thanks for a great installment!
Lesley

 

[Sooze]

You are getting me SOOO excited for our first cruise! Thanks so much for all of the info and pictures and VIDEOS!

 

[tokyodisneydad]

Of all the shows I'm looking forward to seein the Golden Mickeys the most. I don't know why--Just a feeling.

Manntra--Hope to see you on board. Who are you coming with? Have you made door signs? I'm obsessed with door signs recently

 

[DaGrumpy]

All the Disney princesses are alway onboard, the fab five, lilo & stitch, Captain Hook, Mister Smee, Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, Max Goofy, Captain Jack Sparrow, and a few from the stage shows.

 

[Mimmy Mouse]

What kind of camera are you using? Your pictures are great!

 

[2angelsinheaven]

You are getting me SOOO excited for our first cruise! Thanks so much for all of the info and pictures and VIDEOS!

Your welcome, I'm having fun writting it and sharing all our videos and photos.

Of all the shows I'm looking forward to seein the Golden Mickeys the most. I don't know why--Just a feeling.

The Golden Mickey's is great, if you love Disney music then you'll love GM. It's very very cool!

All the Disney princesses are alway onboard, the fab five, lilo & stitch, Captain Hook, Mister Smee, Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, Max Goofy, Captain Jack Sparrow, and a few from the stage shows.

Don't forget Daisy...

What kind of camera are you using? Your pictures are great!

Thank you, It's a Kodak Z760 Point and Shoot, it does take wonderful photos we got really lucky with it.

 

[disneypoor]

What kind of camera did you use for your underwater pictures?

 

[2angelsinheaven]

Same camera just in the dry pak I mentioned before.

 

[Mousermom]

How lucky are you to live that close to DCl and WDW!!!!!!!

I am a first time poster to your TR and I am enjoying every minute of it!!!

I am going on my first cruise on the Wonder in May, 2008.

Reading this is making me even more excited to go!!!

Looking forward to your next installment!!!!!

Mary Beth

 

[PLANNER88]

Have really enjoyed reading your TR. Sounds like you had great trip. Can't wait for more!

 

[2angelsinheaven]

Hi guys I promise to try to post more tonight, till then....=o)