Traveling the WB Repo 2008 with an ex - FINISHED with PICS
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Thanks so much for sharing it with us.
littleaussie
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Sorry guys, I could not update yesterday, had issues all around the ship. Going through the canal at the moment!
This morning we woke up at 7 a.m., mostly because of the time change. We had to turn our clocks back 1 hour when we retired for the night. I headed up to the fitness center to walk on the treadmill and X took the girls up to breakfast. At this time in the morning, the fitness center was busy. I had to wait about 15 minutes to get a treadmill. It was an interesting experience with trying to walk a straight line while the ship is rolling slightly side to side. It wasn’t a big roll, but just enough to throw you off balance sometimes.
Had a quick meal at Topsiders and then went back to the stateroom. Eventually the girls turned up again and DD 3 went up to the pool area with me for a swim. I had to come back down to our stateroom to chase out DD 6 and X as it was almost lunchtime and I knew the host wanted to clean our room.
The afternoon was pretty quiet. I hung around the mickey pool a lot but I think they closed it at some point due to a “floatie”. It didn’t get very crowded during the day.
I did make it to the 3:00 p.m. panama canal lecture with Ken Puckett again. He basically covered most of the same information from the other day. So I left at 3:45 p.m. to go play some bingo.
I don’t know about that game. There was a $10,000 cash chance on the last game so Rockin’ Bar D was packed. The way it works is you can buy a set of 3 cards for each game, 6 cards for each game or buy the machines with 24 or 48 chances on each game. The machines require you do to nothing at all, just watch the screen. So I really wondered what is the point? But my dad bought a 48 card machine and we sat down to play. Some people really get into the game and they gave away raffles throughout the session. We didn’t win any of the games, didn’t even come close. I did notice that every person who won had a machine so I guess your odds are much better to go that way. No one was even close in the last game with 46 (?) balls to get all 25 squares covered. They just continued to pull balls until someone filled their card and the prize for that game was just over $1,000.
We received 2 more halograms, this one is of the Disney ship and Arial is swimming under it. We got these when we came back to the room tonight.
Tonight was Animator’s Palate and it was show night.
X FINALLY got into the Mickey spirit with a little help from Pieter:
I had a salad, butternut squash soup and the fillet mignon. Dessert was chocolate/peanut butter pie. Pretty good all around. The show was ok, Sorcerer Mickey came around and the waiters had black and white vests but changed them to colorful vests.
Scott Record was our impressionist show tonight. My dad, X and DD 6 and I went to it. DD 6 fell asleep and wasn’t impressed at all. He was pretty good, did a lot of singing and some tap dancing and whatnot. He did Richard Simmons, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and sang a few numbers from the musical Chicago. I have to say I liked the other guys (ventriloquist and hypnotist) better but still, he was fun to listen to. Didn’t catch his adult show last night, I was pretty tired.
Tonight I am going to head over to the Ventriloquist late show and then maybe see Step Up 2 at the movie theater.
Here is tomorrow’s schedule which is subject to change at any time. All times are CST (Minnesota time!!!!)
5:00 a.m. – Entering Breakwater
6:00 a.m. – Approaching Gatun Locks
7:30-8:30 a.m. – Departing locks
1:00 p.m. – Approaching Pedro Miguel Locks
2:30 p.m. – Approaching Miraflores Locks
4:00 p.m. – Depart Miraflores Locks
4:30 p.m. – Passing under bridge of the Americas
5:00 p.m. – Disney Magic departing for Acapulco
Brent said tonight at our 8:30 show that the pilot was scheduled to come aboard around 6:30 so I am not sure how that will affect the times posted. We are anchoring outside in the bay tonight at 11:00 p.m. to refuel.
Tomorrow night our dinner is set to 6:00 instead of 5:30 p.m. Tomorrow’s show is the premiere of Narnia: Prince Caspian at 8:15 p.m. Tomorrow is also an all day deck party and of course, the BBQ.
Random Thoughts: My parents had some nails in the carpeting come up and stick up so they called maintenance to fix it. When they arrived at their stateroom tonight, a poofy Minnie pillow was on their bed with an apology note. We have appropriated that to our stateroom. The maintenance guy came and cut away the carpet and glued a new piece into the spot. It matched the design perfectly but looked new, while the other carpet is looking older.
Catch ya tomorrow after we are through the canal!!!
Went to the ventriloquist last night and caught the movie Step Up 2. Both were good!
This morning we woke up at 7 a.m., mostly because of the time change. We had to turn our clocks back 1 hour when we retired for the night. I headed up to the fitness center to walk on the treadmill and X took the girls up to breakfast. At this time in the morning, the fitness center was busy. I had to wait about 15 minutes to get a treadmill. It was an interesting experience with trying to walk a straight line while the ship is rolling slightly side to side. It wasn’t a big roll, but just enough to throw you off balance sometimes.
Had a quick meal at Topsiders and then went back to the stateroom. Eventually the girls turned up again and DD 3 went up to the pool area with me for a swim. I had to come back down to our stateroom to chase out DD 6 and X as it was almost lunchtime and I knew the host wanted to clean our room.
The afternoon was pretty quiet. I hung around the mickey pool a lot but I think they closed it at some point due to a “floatie”. It didn’t get very crowded during the day.
I did make it to the 3:00 p.m. panama canal lecture with Ken Puckett again. He basically covered most of the same information from the other day. So I left at 3:45 p.m. to go play some bingo.
I don’t know about that game. There was a $10,000 cash chance on the last game so Rockin’ Bar D was packed. The way it works is you can buy a set of 3 cards for each game, 6 cards for each game or buy the machines with 24 or 48 chances on each game. The machines require you do to nothing at all, just watch the screen. So I really wondered what is the point? But my dad bought a 48 card machine and we sat down to play. Some people really get into the game and they gave away raffles throughout the session. We didn’t win any of the games, didn’t even come close. I did notice that every person who won had a machine so I guess your odds are much better to go that way. No one was even close in the last game with 46 (?) balls to get all 25 squares covered. They just continued to pull balls until someone filled their card and the prize for that game was just over $1,000.
We received 2 more halograms, this one is of the Disney ship and Arial is swimming under it. We got these when we came back to the room tonight.
Tonight was Animator’s Palate and it was show night.
X FINALLY got into the Mickey spirit with a little help from Pieter:
I had a salad, butternut squash soup and the fillet mignon. Dessert was chocolate/peanut butter pie. Pretty good all around. The show was ok, Sorcerer Mickey came around and the waiters had black and white vests but changed them to colorful vests.
Scott Record was our impressionist show tonight. My dad, X and DD 6 and I went to it. DD 6 fell asleep and wasn’t impressed at all. He was pretty good, did a lot of singing and some tap dancing and whatnot. He did Richard Simmons, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and sang a few numbers from the musical Chicago. I have to say I liked the other guys (ventriloquist and hypnotist) better but still, he was fun to listen to. Didn’t catch his adult show last night, I was pretty tired.
Tonight I am going to head over to the Ventriloquist late show and then maybe see Step Up 2 at the movie theater.
Here is tomorrow’s schedule which is subject to change at any time. All times are CST (Minnesota time!!!!)
5:00 a.m. – Entering Breakwater
6:00 a.m. – Approaching Gatun Locks
7:30-8:30 a.m. – Departing locks
1:00 p.m. – Approaching Pedro Miguel Locks
2:30 p.m. – Approaching Miraflores Locks
4:00 p.m. – Depart Miraflores Locks
4:30 p.m. – Passing under bridge of the Americas
5:00 p.m. – Disney Magic departing for Acapulco
Brent said tonight at our 8:30 show that the pilot was scheduled to come aboard around 6:30 so I am not sure how that will affect the times posted. We are anchoring outside in the bay tonight at 11:00 p.m. to refuel.
Tomorrow night our dinner is set to 6:00 instead of 5:30 p.m. Tomorrow’s show is the premiere of Narnia: Prince Caspian at 8:15 p.m. Tomorrow is also an all day deck party and of course, the BBQ.
Random Thoughts: My parents had some nails in the carpeting come up and stick up so they called maintenance to fix it. When they arrived at their stateroom tonight, a poofy Minnie pillow was on their bed with an apology note. We have appropriated that to our stateroom. The maintenance guy came and cut away the carpet and glued a new piece into the spot. It matched the design perfectly but looked new, while the other carpet is looking older.
Catch ya tomorrow after we are through the canal!!!
Went to the ventriloquist last night and caught the movie Step Up 2. Both were good!
littleaussie
I tell people my daughters are 75% American and 25
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OK guys I will try to update this with your questions.
1) I will bring back all the navigators to be scanned. Some of you may know that the nagivators have changed and all the kids programs are included on the main navigator like a tv guide.
2) I am wearing a prescribed sea sickness patch and it seems to really help on those rough days, you wear it 3 days.
3) At this moment (1:49 p.m. CST) we are at the continental divide.
4) Brent (AUS) is the cruise director, Darrin (?) is the assistant cruise director. Anyone else in particular you are looking for? Captain Thord is piloting the boat.
It was a zoo this morning. We got our pilot at 6:30 this morning so our schedule is about 1 1/2 hours later than what was planned.
See ya later! I'll wave at the cam!
1) I will bring back all the navigators to be scanned. Some of you may know that the nagivators have changed and all the kids programs are included on the main navigator like a tv guide.
2) I am wearing a prescribed sea sickness patch and it seems to really help on those rough days, you wear it 3 days.
3) At this moment (1:49 p.m. CST) we are at the continental divide.
4) Brent (AUS) is the cruise director, Darrin (?) is the assistant cruise director. Anyone else in particular you are looking for? Captain Thord is piloting the boat.
It was a zoo this morning. We got our pilot at 6:30 this morning so our schedule is about 1 1/2 hours later than what was planned.
See ya later! I'll wave at the cam!
I can see the Magic!!!!
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html?cam=Gatun
under the Miraflores tab...
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html?cam=Gatun
under the Miraflores tab...
DMMarla07860
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Can you try to find out who will be the cruise director in July, just want to find that out
TiggerzFan
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LOVE this TR!
We'll be on The Wonder on Thursday, but SO wishing we were on one of the Repo cruises. ENJOY!
We'll be on The Wonder on Thursday, but SO wishing we were on one of the Repo cruises. ENJOY!
Mozart
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This has been posted on some of the other boards, but I'll mention it here just in case.
The webcam didn't actually crash today. Directly in front of the Magic was a US Navy submarine that showed up unexpectedly at the Canal this morning. For security reasons, whenever a military vessel approaches one of the webcams, they shut the webcam down. The Miraflores webcam actually stayed up a bit longer than the others because you could see the submarine on that cam for awhile. As soon as the sub had passed, they would turn the webcams back on.
On another thread they mentioned that there was supposed to be a helicopter taking pictures of the Magic as it made its transit today, but the helicopter was grounded because of the sub also.
The webcam didn't actually crash today. Directly in front of the Magic was a US Navy submarine that showed up unexpectedly at the Canal this morning. For security reasons, whenever a military vessel approaches one of the webcams, they shut the webcam down. The Miraflores webcam actually stayed up a bit longer than the others because you could see the submarine on that cam for awhile. As soon as the sub had passed, they would turn the webcams back on.
On another thread they mentioned that there was supposed to be a helicopter taking pictures of the Magic as it made its transit today, but the helicopter was grounded because of the sub also.
rkandmjsmommy
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Great report, I got to see the Magic on the webcam yesterday, I thin it was near the Centennial Bridge????
LOVE This Trip Report!
Hope you having a GREAT time in Acapolco(sp)?
LOVE This Trip Report!
Hope you having a GREAT time in Acapolco(sp)?
cruisin'Mike
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I'm really enjoying your TR. It sounds like you're having a blast. Thanks for sharing the details with us!
littleaussie
I tell people my daughters are 75% American and 25
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Well, it’s here! The day we all waited for. This morning, I received a wake-up call from Mickey at 5:15. Originally, they had planned on picking up the pilot around 5:30-6. I asked X if he wanted to get up and go on top and he just rolled over. So I went up myself. There were some people but not many up on top. I had breakfast buffet at Topsiders and it was pretty quiet.
We were anchored inside the harbor, Limon Bay.
Around 6:45 a.m., we got our pilot. It took about an hour to reach the first set of locks. At this time, I made my way forward on deck 10 and it was a madhouse. Later I was told that some people had even slept up there last night. There were tons of white coats wandering around. People would not budge from their spots up front for anything, not even for others to get pictures. That’s ok though, if you sleep up on deck, you should get some kind of bragging rights!
We were the second to go through the locks and traveled through the Left side after the Naval sub. Top security with this sub, the cameras were down and no aerial photos of the ship due to the sub.
The Gatun Locks were the most popular with the cruisers. I was able to sweet talk a cast member standing up high to take some pictures for me, as there was no way I would be able to get up front.
Then I left and headed down to deck 4. I liked that deck, it wasn’t as crowded and the people were friendly.
It took a little over an hour to get through all 3 locks. I went to the secret deck 7 to see them close behind us and that was just as fun as being up front in my opinion. The people were taking turns on the railing and letting everyone get a chance up front. Magical!
My dd 3 and I wandered down to deck 4 again (left side???). We were on the left side of the locks and on the right side behind us was a huge container ship. Being aft, I was able to get some great shots of it. Anyway, they had let the photographers off to walk the locks and dd 3 and I got a picture taken from the railing. I was told this time the photographers are being boated across, not by helicopter so they won’t be taking any pictures from the air like last time.
After we made it through the Gatun locks, almost everyone went inside for a brief time, as it was hot and humid. Traveling through Gatun Lake was pretty, very heavily forested.
A native person was onboard and gave commentary the whole time we were passing through. On deck 4, I met one of the pilots. He was 1 of 3 who was helping with the passage and he was looking over the edge and making comments through a radio.
Around 11:30, they had the deck BBQ. It was very very good with salads, roast chicken, steak, shrimp kabobs and breads. The BBQ was very very hot under those tents, I don’t know how the guys flipping the steaks could stand it.
After lunch dd 3 and I went for a swim, it was so hot! We then went back to my parents’ verandah to see the Pedro Miguel locks in the afternoon. Our final locks, the Miraflores locks, I went back to deck 4 and finally to deck 10 again. At the Miraflores locks, there was a tourist center and a bunch of people were there waving at us. It was ironic that we were taking pictures of them taking pictures of us! Mickey came out and waved and the captain sounded the horn several times. Everyone cheered.
Up on Deck 10 I was able to get to the front just in time for going under the bridge.
I also got some good shots of Panama City.
By the time we went under the bridge, it was 4:45 p.m. I left then to pick up the kids and get ready for dinner. Our dinner was set for 6 p.m. instead of 5:30 so everyone could see the whole thing before we ate.
Dinner tonight was in Parrott Cay and the menu was Panama or East to West or something like that. There were several missing tables, everyone must have been tired. My dad left early, he was a little sunsick. The menu was very good. I had the crab legs, crab soup and rib-eye for supper. We brought a bottle of wine to the table to drink. Our assistant server must be very good at what he does because it was an outrageous corkage fee!!! Just kidding, I knew about the fee before I brought it to the table.
Supper ran a little late and I had laundry in. I left before dessert and went to the laundry room. That room was a mess! People were going crazy there too. Moving clothes around and stuff. My dad even had his bag of clothes thrown in the garbage. Luckily he found them but he thought someone had stolen his clothes at one point. I made it a point to sit with my clothes while they were drying so no one would throw them on the ground. One lady took up 4 washers and 2 dryers at the same time!!!! I don’t think I am going to do laundry again this trip, we’ll just wear dirty clothes.
Tonight was the premiere of Narnia: Prince Caspian. All of us went and it was pretty good. The girls both fell asleep and I almost did too because I was tired. I did have the DOD, it was Panama Hat and was tasted like a tropical punch, nice!
Oh yeah! We got a lithograph from Ducky Williams tonight too! It had king Triton on it and the ship going through the locks. Very very nice. We also took one of our dinner menus and had our server, assistant server, head guy and the dining room manager sign it. It will be a wonderful souvenir. Did I tell you what their names were? Server: Adrian – Philippines, assistant server: Pieter – South Africa, Head guy: Allassendro – Italy, Dining room manager: Alan – Croatia.
Up next: Day at sea, Twice Charmed, Prince and Princess menu, Ducky Williams presentation
We were anchored inside the harbor, Limon Bay.
Around 6:45 a.m., we got our pilot. It took about an hour to reach the first set of locks. At this time, I made my way forward on deck 10 and it was a madhouse. Later I was told that some people had even slept up there last night. There were tons of white coats wandering around. People would not budge from their spots up front for anything, not even for others to get pictures. That’s ok though, if you sleep up on deck, you should get some kind of bragging rights!
We were the second to go through the locks and traveled through the Left side after the Naval sub. Top security with this sub, the cameras were down and no aerial photos of the ship due to the sub.
The Gatun Locks were the most popular with the cruisers. I was able to sweet talk a cast member standing up high to take some pictures for me, as there was no way I would be able to get up front.
Then I left and headed down to deck 4. I liked that deck, it wasn’t as crowded and the people were friendly.
It took a little over an hour to get through all 3 locks. I went to the secret deck 7 to see them close behind us and that was just as fun as being up front in my opinion. The people were taking turns on the railing and letting everyone get a chance up front. Magical!
My dd 3 and I wandered down to deck 4 again (left side???). We were on the left side of the locks and on the right side behind us was a huge container ship. Being aft, I was able to get some great shots of it. Anyway, they had let the photographers off to walk the locks and dd 3 and I got a picture taken from the railing. I was told this time the photographers are being boated across, not by helicopter so they won’t be taking any pictures from the air like last time.
After we made it through the Gatun locks, almost everyone went inside for a brief time, as it was hot and humid. Traveling through Gatun Lake was pretty, very heavily forested.
A native person was onboard and gave commentary the whole time we were passing through. On deck 4, I met one of the pilots. He was 1 of 3 who was helping with the passage and he was looking over the edge and making comments through a radio.
Around 11:30, they had the deck BBQ. It was very very good with salads, roast chicken, steak, shrimp kabobs and breads. The BBQ was very very hot under those tents, I don’t know how the guys flipping the steaks could stand it.
After lunch dd 3 and I went for a swim, it was so hot! We then went back to my parents’ verandah to see the Pedro Miguel locks in the afternoon. Our final locks, the Miraflores locks, I went back to deck 4 and finally to deck 10 again. At the Miraflores locks, there was a tourist center and a bunch of people were there waving at us. It was ironic that we were taking pictures of them taking pictures of us! Mickey came out and waved and the captain sounded the horn several times. Everyone cheered.
Up on Deck 10 I was able to get to the front just in time for going under the bridge.
I also got some good shots of Panama City.
By the time we went under the bridge, it was 4:45 p.m. I left then to pick up the kids and get ready for dinner. Our dinner was set for 6 p.m. instead of 5:30 so everyone could see the whole thing before we ate.
Dinner tonight was in Parrott Cay and the menu was Panama or East to West or something like that. There were several missing tables, everyone must have been tired. My dad left early, he was a little sunsick. The menu was very good. I had the crab legs, crab soup and rib-eye for supper. We brought a bottle of wine to the table to drink. Our assistant server must be very good at what he does because it was an outrageous corkage fee!!! Just kidding, I knew about the fee before I brought it to the table.
Supper ran a little late and I had laundry in. I left before dessert and went to the laundry room. That room was a mess! People were going crazy there too. Moving clothes around and stuff. My dad even had his bag of clothes thrown in the garbage. Luckily he found them but he thought someone had stolen his clothes at one point. I made it a point to sit with my clothes while they were drying so no one would throw them on the ground. One lady took up 4 washers and 2 dryers at the same time!!!! I don’t think I am going to do laundry again this trip, we’ll just wear dirty clothes.
Tonight was the premiere of Narnia: Prince Caspian. All of us went and it was pretty good. The girls both fell asleep and I almost did too because I was tired. I did have the DOD, it was Panama Hat and was tasted like a tropical punch, nice!
Oh yeah! We got a lithograph from Ducky Williams tonight too! It had king Triton on it and the ship going through the locks. Very very nice. We also took one of our dinner menus and had our server, assistant server, head guy and the dining room manager sign it. It will be a wonderful souvenir. Did I tell you what their names were? Server: Adrian – Philippines, assistant server: Pieter – South Africa, Head guy: Allassendro – Italy, Dining room manager: Alan – Croatia.
Up next: Day at sea, Twice Charmed, Prince and Princess menu, Ducky Williams presentation
lbgraves
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Thank you so much for keeping up with your report. I don't know where you find the time. 
My family is reading it and talking about how we will be on the ship the next time it goes through the canal. Enjoy the second half of your cruise!
PS...if you happen to know any of the DIS geeks on board...Vanessa (lillygator), John & Amy (Jhalkias), Kim & Savanna (kimerinc), PJ (pjpoohbear) or Angie and Dennis (MrsMork) please tell them Lisa & company sends their love. TIA!
My family is reading it and talking about how we will be on the ship the next time it goes through the canal. Enjoy the second half of your cruise! PS...if you happen to know any of the DIS geeks on board...Vanessa (lillygator), John & Amy (Jhalkias), Kim & Savanna (kimerinc), PJ (pjpoohbear) or Angie and Dennis (MrsMork) please tell them Lisa & company sends their love.
TIA!mickeyteachers
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Thanks for the wonderful report. I love reading everything you are doing. I feel like I am on the Magic. Have a great time.
littleaussie
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This morning we woke up at 8:30 again. I was not feeling well so X took the kids up for breakfast and I slept in. After they came back, I realized we had missed our Character Breakfast! That was pretty disappointing to say the least.
One of the dis members had an extra spot at brunch today so I was booked to go at 10:30 a.m. to Palos. It was excellent! We had booked the private room and there were 10 of us. The food there was so creatively displayed and it was very good. I enjoyed meeting the other disers, whom I haven’t met before. The pizza was my favorite. By the way, I still haven’t heard from Palos about my wait-list for brunch someday. So even if they don’t call me back, at least I have gotten to experience brunch.
After brunch, I wandered around and looked for people but I didn’t find anyone I knew. I ended up in my parents’ stateroom with the girls for a while. Then the men came back and took the kids swimming, my mom went out to tan and I had a nap. I was going to sleep all afternoon but Darrin reminded me about the Ducky Williams show at 3 p.m.
So I hustled down to the Walt Disney Theater and got a ticket to win a sketch. He was very interesting to listen to at this adult’s only show. He talked about what he does and how he got started. I really did enjoy it but I didn’t win a sketch, darn it! There is another family presentation on Tuesday I hope to go to again. He is also doing a signing session so I am going to take our lithograph down to get autographed.
When I returned to the stateroom, X had the girls there and cleaned up for dinner. The pool had been closed for another “floaty” so it was good they were done! We got dressed for dinner at semi-formal night and took some pictures with Sorcerer Mickey
Cinderella
and the railing picture
*****All the photographers look at us weird when we stand in line and ask for 2 separate pictures with the girls, one with me and girls and one with X. Oh well, it's how we want it****
Tonight was prince and princess night. There were a ton of kids dressed up in those clothes. I felt sort of guilty because my kids don’t have princess costumes. The menu was of course, prince and princess.
Dinner consisted of ravioli, sausage and potato soup and for the main course, I had roast lamb. Again, it was pretty good. I didn’t feel well enough for dessert but my order of the chocolate slipper was eaten by the adults. DD 6 is getting a kick out of ordering “nothing” with sprinkles and ice cream. The other night she wanted nothing and was given “nothing” so now she likes to order it every night with ice cream.
We have an ongoing war with our assistant server with hiding the salt shakers after we are done. The first time it was funny watching him search for it but now he expects it so it’s all good. Last night it was hidden in the bread bowl. He found it right away.
Tonight’s entertainment was Twice Charmed. The girls stayed awake and watched the whole thing. I think they liked it. I still think When Mickey Dreams was the best one. I don’t remember what the drink of the day was but I had it and it was ok.
After the show, DD 6 was determined to go to the sleepover at the club. X dropped her off and disappeared. I got a page about 10:30 that she wanted to be picked up so I headed up behind Topsiders to get her. There were about 30 kids in her age group (5-7) and I would bet about 100 in the 8-12 group. Stitch was there and she was a little upset by how naughty he was being. So she didn’t sleep over after all. I had suspected that would happen.
I didn’t do anything after our show, just went to bed.
Next up: Another Sea Day, Master Chef menu, The Art of the Story
Random thought: I haven’t met too many dismembers at this time. I meet people but they don’t seem to remember me! LOL. . . But seriously, it is hard I suppose to remember everyone with so many people from the disboard on here. Someone asked if I have meet taysmom, but I haven’t. I can’t seem to remember all the activities that are going on with the dis people either. So mostly I have been doing things with my family or striking out on my own. I’ve gone to a lot of activities by myself and I don’t feel weird for doing it. There are lots of people who attend things without their partners or families so I fit right in.
One of the dis members had an extra spot at brunch today so I was booked to go at 10:30 a.m. to Palos. It was excellent! We had booked the private room and there were 10 of us. The food there was so creatively displayed and it was very good. I enjoyed meeting the other disers, whom I haven’t met before. The pizza was my favorite. By the way, I still haven’t heard from Palos about my wait-list for brunch someday. So even if they don’t call me back, at least I have gotten to experience brunch.
After brunch, I wandered around and looked for people but I didn’t find anyone I knew. I ended up in my parents’ stateroom with the girls for a while. Then the men came back and took the kids swimming, my mom went out to tan and I had a nap. I was going to sleep all afternoon but Darrin reminded me about the Ducky Williams show at 3 p.m.
So I hustled down to the Walt Disney Theater and got a ticket to win a sketch. He was very interesting to listen to at this adult’s only show. He talked about what he does and how he got started. I really did enjoy it but I didn’t win a sketch, darn it! There is another family presentation on Tuesday I hope to go to again. He is also doing a signing session so I am going to take our lithograph down to get autographed.
When I returned to the stateroom, X had the girls there and cleaned up for dinner. The pool had been closed for another “floaty” so it was good they were done! We got dressed for dinner at semi-formal night and took some pictures with Sorcerer Mickey
Cinderella
and the railing picture
*****All the photographers look at us weird when we stand in line and ask for 2 separate pictures with the girls, one with me and girls and one with X. Oh well, it's how we want it****
Tonight was prince and princess night. There were a ton of kids dressed up in those clothes. I felt sort of guilty because my kids don’t have princess costumes. The menu was of course, prince and princess.
Dinner consisted of ravioli, sausage and potato soup and for the main course, I had roast lamb. Again, it was pretty good. I didn’t feel well enough for dessert but my order of the chocolate slipper was eaten by the adults. DD 6 is getting a kick out of ordering “nothing” with sprinkles and ice cream. The other night she wanted nothing and was given “nothing” so now she likes to order it every night with ice cream.
We have an ongoing war with our assistant server with hiding the salt shakers after we are done. The first time it was funny watching him search for it but now he expects it so it’s all good. Last night it was hidden in the bread bowl. He found it right away.
Tonight’s entertainment was Twice Charmed. The girls stayed awake and watched the whole thing. I think they liked it. I still think When Mickey Dreams was the best one. I don’t remember what the drink of the day was but I had it and it was ok.
After the show, DD 6 was determined to go to the sleepover at the club. X dropped her off and disappeared. I got a page about 10:30 that she wanted to be picked up so I headed up behind Topsiders to get her. There were about 30 kids in her age group (5-7) and I would bet about 100 in the 8-12 group. Stitch was there and she was a little upset by how naughty he was being. So she didn’t sleep over after all. I had suspected that would happen.
I didn’t do anything after our show, just went to bed.
Next up: Another Sea Day, Master Chef menu, The Art of the Story
Random thought: I haven’t met too many dismembers at this time. I meet people but they don’t seem to remember me! LOL. . . But seriously, it is hard I suppose to remember everyone with so many people from the disboard on here. Someone asked if I have meet taysmom, but I haven’t. I can’t seem to remember all the activities that are going on with the dis people either. So mostly I have been doing things with my family or striking out on my own. I’ve gone to a lot of activities by myself and I don’t feel weird for doing it. There are lots of people who attend things without their partners or families so I fit right in.
JoiseyMom
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I am loving your trip report!! Questions, was the sleepover to be an all night sleep over, or just till 12 type thing. Was the chocolate slipper like the ones from WDW?? What did the boys where on Princess and Prince night??
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks for posting this. I love how you are updating everyday. We were supposed to be on this cruise, but my husband's work only allows so many people to be let off at a certain time. Wouldn't you know that someone else with more seniority than him booked this exact same cruise and got the dates. Hope they are having fun, because we sure would have!
Anyway, loving your report!! Have fun!
Anyway, loving your report!!
Have fun!always on vacation
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Great, thank you!
I'm really getting excited reading this...especially since we will be boarding the Magic in LA 5/25...as you will be disembarking.
I'm really getting excited reading this...especially since we will be boarding the Magic in LA 5/25...as you will be disembarking.
Hayloburger
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THANK YOU so much for writing this! We are all enjoying reading about your trip. Everyday I tell DH, "the Magic is here..the Magic is there.....Donny Osmond was suppose to be onboard, there's sub going thru the locks too"..... I am driving my family crazy with a play by play of the Disney Magic!
You have many fans...please keep us posted on your trip!! We LUV it.
You have many fans...please keep us posted on your trip!! We LUV it.
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This is such a great trip report!! I am really enjoying it!
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