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Such a cute pirate family! The photo of Josie looking fierce had me She's just so adorable! I've heard about the prices at Pink. It's a good thing it was a surprise or you'd never have gone for it and it sounds like you both had a nice time.
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You all look so adorable in your pirate gear, and speaking of adorable, yes, that bathing suit looked great on you! Nuff said! Sounds like you had some nice alone time with your hubs and your reaction to the check was exactly the same reaction I had to mine at 1900 PF. I think I must have misread the prices on allearsnet.com, so when it came I almost fell over. But you're right, you're on vacation and sometimes you just need to let it go. Even though it's easier said than done.
Sounds like a fun night! I love your pirate gear! This picture is my favorite
It's because of little Andre. Those chubby cheeks and that little tongue! I find myself wanting to take a little bite out of him! Keep him away from me.
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What a great day at CC - love the shots from the beach of the kids, the one of Andre sleeping is adorable, and Andre and Josie both looked like they were having a great time in the water.
Love the shots from pirate night, your family picture is great. Glad that you and Arnuad could enjoy some one on one time...
Sounds like you had a wonderful day on CC and a nice relaxing Pirate party night (even if the champagne was ridiculously expensive).
It really was stupid expensive. We went to a swanky club/lounge in Paris before and the champagne wasn't even as pricy as that was.
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Cutest pirate family! Those eye patches were awesome!
Glad you enjoyed some time with your hubby - even if it came at a price.
And 2 updates - back to back?! I think I just fainted.
Oufits tahnks you to Target ( including eye patches)
Alone time with the hubs these days I guess comes at a price
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Such a cute pirate family! The photo of Josie looking fierce had me She's just so adorable! I've heard about the prices at Pink. It's a good thing it was a surprise or you'd never have gone for it and it sounds like you both had a nice time.
You are soo right.
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You all look so adorable in your pirate gear, and speaking of adorable, yes, that bathing suit looked great on you! Nuff said! Sounds like you had some nice alone time with your hubs and your reaction to the check was exactly the same reaction I had to mine at 1900 PF. I think I must have misread the prices on allearsnet.com, so when it came I almost fell over. But you're right, you're on vacation and sometimes you just need to let it go. Even though it's easier said than done.
Now that Josie is old enough that we have to pay for her, we walked out of CMC from dinner paying over $100. Dining plan it is for us from now on
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Sounds like a fun night! I love your pirate gear! This picture is my favorite
It's because of little Andre. Those chubby cheeks and that little tongue! I find myself wanting to take a little bite out of him! Keep him away from me.
Yeah, his poor cheeks take quite a beating from me everyday.
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What a great day at CC - love the shots from the beach of the kids, the one of Andre sleeping is adorable, and Andre and Josie both looked like they were having a great time in the water.
Love the shots from pirate night, your family picture is great. Glad that you and Arnuad could enjoy some one on one time...
Thank you.
Our time was sweet.........expensive, but sweet
We got Josie from the club and then headed up to the upper deck for a spot to watch the fireworks. We settled in to a cozy little nook and bot was it getting windy. Before the explosions they had some dancers out on the stage and some music going off and before you knew it, there came the fireworks……and we were directly underneath of them!
I think back now about it and wonder if it would have been better to be on the other side of the deck, I had no clue which side they would be on, but if I had to do it again, I would choose the other side. They were loud and really cool. Not like being at the MK but come on …………we were at sea and these puppies were being shot of the side of a ship! Pretty cool I must say. The show was short and right after they went into the dance party. It was late at this point and I wanted to get out of there to grab my boy and get all settled in for bed. We had a long day, but tomorrow would be a full day at sea with no real plans other than to ride the Aquaduck again but this time with my man.
Wednesday Oct 19th Today was a sea day and we had no real plans. We got up and had room service again and just strolled around the ship for a bit before heading down to the pool. This day was odd….it was warm, but really cloudy and crazy windy. We set up by the Mickey pool and headed back and forth between there and Nemo’s Reef. Andre wasn’t allowed in the pool because he is still in a diaper, but I was sitting at the edge of the pool holding him and just about got hit in the head with a flying lounge chair that then landed in the pool! I told you it was windy. CM’s came running over to start moving chairs around and taking care of the problem. Really all they needed to do was lay the chairs flat. It was when they were upright and no one was in them that is would make them fly around so much. However after that little episode, I thought maybe we should just vacate the scene and go off to do some other things……………Goofy Golf!!
Now this wasn’t really the best idea either. Golf, in the wind, with a 4yrold…………………..HILARIOUS!!! Just take a look.
So after that round of golf we set off to so the Mid Ship Detective agency. Apparently the rest of the ship had the same idea. This was really cool and I am looking forward to doing the new Sorcerer one in the MK. You have to go and check in and get your card and map, from there you are set free to go about your mission.
We never did finish it, after a while Josie was losing interest because you really have to run all over the ship from one place to another. The cool thing is that you can finish it at your own pace. Maybe we should have started this on the first day of the cruise.
From there we went off to grab lunch at Cabana’s followed by driping BOTH kids off in their appropriate clubs. Andre would be napping while Miss Josie pants went to play with “her friends”. Anyone she meets, she calls them her friend. I may have to worry about her in the future.
Next order of business………riding the Aquaduck with Arnaud and spending some time in the “adult” pool.
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She's just so adorable! I've heard about the prices at Pink. It's a good thing it was a surprise or you'd never have gone for it and it sounds like you both had a nice time.
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Sounds like you had some nice alone time with your hubs and your reaction to the check was exactly the same reaction I had to mine at 1900 PF. 
I think I must have misread the prices on allearsnet.com, so when it came I almost fell over. But you're right, you're on vacation and sometimes you just need to let it go. Even though it's easier said than done. 
I find myself wanting to take a little bite out of him! 
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