A DREAM is a wish your heart makes...Halloween on the High Seas edition - updated 09/14/2014 - Page 18 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Sounds like the boys managed to stay out of trouble while you enjoyed brunch with Melissa. Love the costumes. And I love all the pictures of the decorations!
another wonderful update. the party looks fun - that is a lot of candy, and the expensive kind too.
Their bags were about half full and yes they got the good stuff!
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Great day!!! And like I said in Melissa's TR - how fantastic that you girls were able to get some girl time for brunch!!!
Those portholes look so cute!!!
It was so great and the time just went by way too fast!
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Love the Halloween decor, even if the party wasn't up to expectations!
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I loved the Halloween decorations!
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What a gorgeous day to wake up to! Aside from Lukas' brief meltdown it sounds like everyone enjoyed the day. They certainly got a LOT of candy! It's really odd that they didn't do more with the party, after all the hype in the promotional material. Not like Disney at all. I do love the jack-o'lantern portholes!
The portholes were too cute! I loved them!
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I love all the Halloween touches around the ship - very neat!
Me too! And I love Halloween so I loved it even more.
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Nice update. My favorites are the pumpkin photos - those are intricate carvings. The kids look cute dancing.
They really were good and pretty much everywhere - all the restaurants had them in the front too.
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You all look great in your costumes! It looks like the kids got a lot of candy!
Thank you!
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Sounds like the boys managed to stay out of trouble while you enjoyed brunch with Melissa. Love the costumes. And I love all the pictures of the decorations!
Mostly out of trouble. If not for the ice cream all would have been fine.
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Okay, I'll let you piggy back off of my TR for this one, since you did forget your camera and all. I completely forgot about all of the candy they got! Thanks for remembering. That's what happens when you write these things from memory instead of taking notes. I think I'm going to use the journal you gave me for taking notes when we go in May. The older I get the worse my memory becomes.
And I love how Mike's favorite thing was our sailaway party. That makes me smile.
Okay, I'll let you piggy back off of my TR for this one, since you did forget your camera and all. I completely forgot about all of the candy they got! Thanks for remembering. That's what happens when you write these things from memory instead of taking notes. I think I'm going to use the journal you gave me for taking notes when we go in May. The older I get the worse my memory becomes.
And I love how Mike's favorite thing was our sailaway party. That makes me smile.
I didn't forget it - I just sent it with Mike. And you had already described everything so well I didn't need to re-do it! Although I am going to need to get copies of some of those pictures.
I don't take notes either. I did take a few. But that's the main reason I take pictures of everything - so I know what happened when. And then I have Mike who remembers almost everything.
I didn't forget it - I just sent it with Mike. And you had already described everything so well I didn't need to re-do it! Although I am going to need to get copies of some of those pictures.
I don't take notes either. I did take a few. But that's the main reason I take pictures of everything - so I know what happened when. And then I have Mike who remembers almost everything.
I planned on giving you all of the pictures so you could do what you wanted with them, but you know, I'm editing as I go along.
Great update! Y'all look so great in your costumes. Love seeing all the Halloween decorations around the ship. And what a candy haul! Your boys must've been eating candy for months!
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Great update! Y'all look so great in your costumes. Love seeing all the Halloween decorations around the ship. And what a candy haul! Your boys must've been eating candy for months!
Not to mention we went to MNSSHP after the cruise and then a few weeks later it was Halloween and trick or treating at home where they get a really good haul too. I think I took a picture of everything they got that month. Your Mom would've been in candy heaven!
After the Halloween party we headed back to the room and just relaxed for a while. Mike & I sat on the balcony with some margaritas I’d brought and the boys sat on the couch playing on their kindles and watching cartoons. We all got cleaned up at some point and headed out to meet some characters before dinner.
First up was Minnie as the line was very short. She was so cute in her Witch costume and Lukas ended up just loving Minnie. (He became a character seeking fool this trip! And that’s all he wants to do on our upcoming June trip too.) Next we had time to see Super Donald before heading to the show. I know I said we saw Golden Mickey’s the night before but I’m thinking tonight was actually that show and last night was Believe. Anyway, we made it to the show and as you’ll see with today’s highlights Dylan very much enjoyed it.
After the show Mike took Dylan back to the room to rest but Lukas wanted to see more characters so we got in line for Cinderella. I think I’ve got a future Prince Charming here as he was very adamant about seeing her and now that’s the main princess he talks about seeing again in June. Next we headed to get in line for Mickey and Mike & Dylan caught up to us before we got to the front. The line here was always a bit long and slow moving but passing the DVC desk every time turned out to be good. We could always pick up our gift and they had coloring books for the kids too. Plus some light up bracelets. I saw Melissa walk by with Hope & Chad so I invited them to wait with us. I mean the family in front of me went from 2 to 10 people so what’s one little girl with us. Finally we made it to Mickey and Hope got to see him too.
We saw the Captain while waiting for Mickey.
I forgot about this until I came across it in my pictures. It's hard to make out but the woman in the white shirt was pregnant and had two bloody baby arms coming out holding that little pumpkin pail. It was very odd! Funny for an adult party maybe, but not so family friendly I was thinking.
After characters we had some professional photos done and the lady kept us for quite a while that we were a little late getting to dinner! I ended up picking 2 of the pictures and could have easily gotten a few others.
And at some point Mike & Dylan had this taken:
We finally made it to Royal Palace for dinner. It’s so pretty in here! I loved the restaurant. And like Melissa mentioned we were off to the side, but it didn’t feel as if we were put in the corner either. We were seated next to a porthole where if you looked out you’d see the ocean, but seeing as it was dark both nights we were here it was hard to tell.
Dinner was delicious. I started with a cocktail, the Imperial Illusion. I’m thinking Mike skipped a beverage tonight as I don’t have a picture of one. Mike had the escargot (he wishes he would’ve ordered another helping), French onion soup, lobster macaroni & crème brule. I was proud of Dylan for ordering soup, but he ended up not liking it. He had the mac & cheese for his entrée while Lukas had a salad again and the spaghetti & meatballs. They both had a Mickey bar for dessert. I had the brie, salad, filet and the Grand Marnier soufflé (OMG – AMAZEBALLS!). The boys decided earlier that they didn’t want to go to the kid’s club so they stayed with us the whole dinner and really it was fine. They were good.
Dylan's soup
making the ketchup Mickey a face
I loved the details on the dessert menu
special Halloween spider dessert
After dinner we headed back to the rooms for some much needed sleep. It had been a wonderful at sea day.
Up next…exploring Nassau!
Favorites from today:
Day 6 – 10/14
Mike – escargot at dinner
Kelly – Palo Brunch
Dylan – seeing Golden Mickey’s
Lukas – meeting Cinderella
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Great family photos before dinner! All the food looks so tasty but I find it a little odd that they serve french fries with spaghetti and meatballs Love your Halloween lights in the stateroom!
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I completely forgot about all of the candy they got! Thanks for remembering. That's what happens when you write these things from memory instead of taking notes. I think I'm going to use the journal you gave me for taking notes when we go in May. The older I get the worse my memory becomes. 
And you had already described everything so well I didn't need to re-do it! 
Love your Halloween lights in the stateroom!
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