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Windy day! When I sailed on the Wonder and the Magic I was amazed at how many things there were to do on sea days, and on the Dream there are even more! I may need to do a double cruise or stay on board all of the port days!
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The fireworks during pirate night are one of my favorite parts of the cruise, that and the showing of POTC on the big movie screen. Wow...that wind is CRAZY! Good thing you were holding onto Josie or she may have flown overboard.
BTW, it's funny you say that everyone you meet is Josie's "friend" becuase everyone time Hope meets someone and they go to say good-bye, she wants to give them a hug and a kiss. I can't tell you how embarrassing it is when this happens with a stranger, and I have to tell her that you don't always give hugs and kisses when people say good-bye.
Let me catch my breath a minute - I did just come back after fainting.
Pirate night looks so fun and fireworks at sea! How cool! (Some day I'll get on one of those ships.)
It sure was windy - good thing it was warm though.
Great updates! Love the picture of Andre sleeping with the smile on his face, and the family pirate pic with his tongue out! And Josie looks like one tough, mean pirate!
Okay, okay...you've officially shamed me into getting back on these boards! (I might even do an update tonight )
Love the pics with Tink, both she and Josie are adorable!
Can't believe you were followed all over by the mean family, but that just figures.
Lots of pics of Josie on Arnaud's shoulders...
Love, love, love the picture of Andre sleep/smiling at Castaway Cay. Just priceless. I'm gonna need to squeeze those cheeks soon!
What great lookin' pirate you all are! Love Andre's little tongue stickin' out and I want an arm full of beads like Miss Josie! Cute!!
Going to totally go look up the champagne prices at Pink . But I know how few and far between those quite moments can be and they are totally worth it!!
Up next the Aquaduck, huh? Hmmmm...
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So as I mentioned earlier in a brief post about the day we went back and forth as to who should ride the Aquaduck, and in the end Arnaud sent me up alone, now with 2 hours to roam about the ship that was our first order of business. Arnaud was soooo excited, and I was too to ride it again but with him this time. Well that all hit the fan when we got there and noticed it was shut down due to the high winds and the rocking boat. NO!!!!! I would never live this one down. It looked really unlikely that it would be up and running again on the remainder of this cruise because around this time is when the Capt. came on to tell us all that he was doing his best to go around a storm. Well, kind of figured that. But he was slowing the boat down to make things a bit more comfortable for everyone, but at around 10pm he would be picking up the pace to get us back to port on time………so basically. BRACE YOURSELFS!!!
So feeling super bad now that the hubs would never ride this thing, well at least on this cruise, we went off to the “adult pool area” for a drink and a dip in the hot tub. As nice as it was there, I couldn’t relax. The ship rocking was starting to get to me, I was thinking about the kids and also thinking about the getting the bags packed. So Arnaud and I decided to be crazy with our “alone time” and head back to the room………………to pack, that is. I figured we could bang it all out without the kids being there, so we headed out with our drinks and went back to do just that.
Quick and painless that was, I even took a shower to start getting ready for our last night too. We went and grabbed the kids and started to get them ready for the evening as well.
At one point I was in need of a Red Bull and realized we were out of our stash, so I headed down to the Atrium bar to see what I could find and while I was down there I realized we were missing the See Ya Real Soon party. SNAP!!! Ugh.
So back up to the room we got everyone all dolled up for a nice family pic and off we went.
We got some nice family photos and some with Capt. Mickey too.
Then off to drop Andre for the last time and also to hand in Josie’s ID bracelet too. Then back to dinner in the Royal Palace.
Again, I am new to the TR thing and one thing I need to start doing is taking notes on what we ate at dinner. Everything again was great, but I just can never remember what we had. We had our last sighting of the mean unhappy couple………….thank god!!
After dinner we had a special treat planned for Josie before we picked up Andre. Going to get her first Duffy Bear!! This was actually the first time we even went into a gift shop, can you imagine??? She picked one out and of course an outfit too. The CM Oksana was a true gem and I even noted her on our comment card. She told Josie how special Duffy was to her, and not just a toy, but her real and true friend. She dressed him in his new sailor outfit and handed him over to Josie and she was in pure heaven!!!
Arnaud's look when she told him we couldn't use our Disney Rewards Dollars here
From there, we grabbed my slipping baby and set him and Daddy back to the room while me and my gal went off to see the last show on the ship… BELIEVE!
Thanks!
We all made the best of a very windy day that's for sure
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Great updates! Love the picture of Andre sleeping with the smile on his face, and the family pirate pic with his tongue out! And Josie looks like one tough, mean pirate!
Thank you!!
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Originally Posted by lauriep
Windy day! When I sailed on the Wonder and the Magic I was amazed at how many things there were to do on sea days, and on the Dream there are even more! I may need to do a double cruise or stay on board all of the port days!
It's amazing at what they offer, I'll get to that in my final thoughts though
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Originally Posted by honeybee723
The fireworks during pirate night are one of my favorite parts of the cruise, that and the showing of POTC on the big movie screen. Wow...that wind is CRAZY! Good thing you were holding onto Josie or she may have flown overboard.
BTW, it's funny you say that everyone you meet is Josie's "friend" becuase everyone time Hope meets someone and they go to say good-bye, she wants to give them a hug and a kiss. I can't tell you how embarrassing it is when this happens with a stranger, and I have to tell her that you don't always give hugs and kisses when people say good-bye.
I didn't think it was that bad with the wind at first, but then I just pictured one of us getting knocked out.........so we left the pool quickly
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Let me catch my breath a minute - I did just come back after fainting.
Pirate night looks so fun and fireworks at sea! How cool! (Some day I'll get on one of those ships.)
It sure was windy - good thing it was warm though.
HAHA, I did give you warning though
I think you guys would just love the cruise. Soooo much to do, overwhelming!
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Okay, okay...you've officially shamed me into getting back on these boards! (I might even do an update tonight )
Love the pics with Tink, both she and Josie are adorable!
Can't believe you were followed all over by the mean family, but that just figures.
Lots of pics of Josie on Arnaud's shoulders...
Love, love, love the picture of Andre sleep/smiling at Castaway Cay. Just priceless. I'm gonna need to squeeze those cheeks soon!
What great lookin' pirate you all are! Love Andre's little tongue stickin' out and I want an arm full of beads like Miss Josie! Cute!!
Going to totally go look up the champagne prices at Pink . But I know how few and far between those quite moments can be and they are totally worth it!!
Up next the Aquaduck, huh? Hmmmm...
Had sooo much fun yesterday! *hugs*
I know, poor Arnaud and his shoulders!!
Please come squeeze him anytime, he loves it.....I think
I'll save you the trip on the prices......$50!!! But yes, still worth every penny
Can't wait to see you again!!!
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Glad you had fun at the Pirate Party! And also glad you weren't hit by a flying chair! You weren't kidding about it being windy!
I really just hope no one got hit with a flying anything that day, it was kinda bad.
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I can't tell you how embarrassing it is when this happens with a stranger, and I have to tell her that you don't always give hugs and kisses when people say good-bye. 
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. But I know how few and far between those quite moments can be and they are totally worth it!!
Despite that rocking, you all seem to coping fine.
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