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We are starting to see some of the "Disney Magic" we missed at the parks. It was if we were isolated with our veranda like that. It was so special. That first day goes by SO fast,it was exhausting for me.
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The food looks wonderful! A cruise is on my to do list...so I am looking forward to yours!
Thanks! It was our first cruise and it was fabulous!
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Great start! Food looks yummy so far!
And Albert sounds like he will be taking good care of you!
Thanks! Albert was wonderful!
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I always find it a bit rocky on the first night. I hope you get acclimated quickly. I see nothing wrong with spending the whole cruise on your balcony! The sea and sky is different every minute, although I do admit you might not have as much to say in a TR.
Thanks - wasn't sure how I'd fare on a cruise. But it was all good!
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Sorry it was a bit of a rocky start to the cruise - hopefully that will be the last of that for this cruise.
Thanks! I got it under control.
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What a great start! Love the treats you had waiting in your room
Thanks. I did do a little surprise from the gifts and floral. It was yummy!
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OH Man!!! Your room verandah!!! I could live out there!!! I think I may have opted to sleep out there a night or two :roll eyes: And your dinner looked amazing as well!! Sorry you weren't feeling well
It was awesome!
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Great start to your cruise portion! Reading your update reminded me of that weird feeling I had that first night aboard, not exactly sick, but not exactly right either. Love the view from your verandah.
Thanks Cam! It was strange. But I got it under control.
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Great start to the cruise, except the rocking and queasy feeling. I sure hope I don't encounter that on our Anniversary Cruise in 2016. I love your/our room pictures (we will be in the same cabin ). I am so excited to hear about the rest of the cruise!
Thanks!
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You're on the Dream!!! I vent that way our first night too. Hope I don't have a repeat this year. You're verandah is amazing!
Yay! Thanks!
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Great start! Your verandah looks awesome!
Thanks!
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Great pictures of the ship! Your dinner looks delicious
It was very good! Thanks!
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Great start! Everything looks amazing! Your room, the food, the ship, all of it! Sorry you were feeling a little off, hope you were better the next day.
Thanks! It was wonderful!
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Glad to see you made it to the ship and had such a great first day. Hint 2 Bonnine the night before you get aboard, 2 more on the way to the ship and should be okay for the day If things still rocky cut back to 1 every 10 hours or so
We had Bonine and ginger pills and sea bands - had it covered.
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Checking in with this end of the trip!
Thanks! This is the fun part!
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Great start for the cruise, except for the queasiness. I hope it cleared up quickly. Dinner looked very nice. Lovin' that verandah.
Thanks!
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It sounds like a very relaxing start to your cruise but I hope the queasiness gets better after the first night!
Thanks! Spoiler - it does.
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Great start!
THanks!
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Loved your room and verandah. Can't wait for more.
Thanks!
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Love the view!! Sorry you got queasy.
That view was wonderful! Thanks!
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Wow, nice view from the verandah! I'd be tempted to sleep out there as well! Hope the first night queasys ease up!!
It was very relaxing there. Thanks!
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Verandah views can create a whole new kind of magic! I agree that the first day can be exhausting.
I think we just finally got to really relax and didn't realize how exhausted we actually were.
I was up early (around 7:30) without an alarm. It was a difficult night because of the motion and you could hear the motors as we came into port at Nasseau. I took a Zofran and put on Seabands (accupressure bands for motion sickness) around 5 am and then laid in bed dozing until 7:30. With just that bit of intervention, I felt much better. I gave Chuck the Bonine and we were both taking Ginger pills. Chuck got up around 8:30 am. We got ready and headed up to Cabanas for breakfast. I had a bit of eggs benedict, 1/2 bagel and Mickey waffles and fruit.
Then we headed off back to our room to get ready for our excursion. We chose to do the Chocolate Factory Tour at Graycliff. We had to meet at the District Lounge. There were 7 people in our group. Once we got off the ship, we met our guide CeCe and took a short walk to get into a taxi van to go up to Graycliff. It's very pretty up there but we had to go through some "suspect" areas to get there. Once at Graycliff, we took a tour and got a bit of history on making chocolate. This is set up in a house! We saw the equipment - roaster, grinder, temperer. Then we went into a big room and got to make our own chocolate! Bars with nuts, chocolate covered berries, marshmallows, with chocolate to dip in and stuff to sprinkle on like coconut, nuts and chocolate chips. CeCe was hilarious! She and Chuck "bonded". She called Chuck "her nemesis" because he was mimicking her. It was all in good fun. Chuck said that if he was single and 30 years younger he would've jumped ship and had his mother send all his belongings. She was cute and I almost lost my man in the Bahamas! After everything was done and we had tipped CeCe, we went to the "store" part of Graycliff. We got some "professional" chocolates, a bottle of good rum, a shirt for Chuck and a couple of waters. When we got on the taxi back to the ship, the driver kind of got into it with some local pedestrians. He then dropped us off outside of where we needed to be and Chuck grabbed my hand and said "don't look up and don't say a word". We made our way to the port and showed our ID's to get back on the boat. We headed back to our room. We were glad we had went because we had actually thought about scrubbing it since Chuck wasn't feeling too well either this am.
To the right of the flag is our verandah!
Once back, we had a room service lunch and then Chuck took a little nap.
After that we hit the (adult) pool and hot tub - and noticed a whole bunch of kids around this area. Mostly because of it's location. It's between the forward cabins and the buffet. We looked around the ship a little but ended up back in our cabin. We spent more time on the verandah watching them unhook us and we were underway again. We got some good pictures of other ships lit up in the port as we were heading out.
Also - full moon over Nassau
Atlantis all lit up
Full Moon
We watched "Treasure Island" in the room while "waiting" for dinnertime. Dinner tonight was at Royal Palace. Double Crowned drink, Baked brie, Farmhouse salad and Chateaubriand and Grand Marnier soufflé for dessert. Our dinner mates that were missing from last night's dinner showed up tonight. I forget their names - I know one was named Billie. But we heard about every ailment they had Apparently they had seasickness on Monday night. They asked for A-1 to put on their Chateaubriand - ewwww! We ate and got outta there.
(you can see our table mates in this pic. Dale and the friend of Billie)
Chuck had a trio dessert
After dinner we did a little shopping - picked up some postcards to mail from Castaway Cay. Then we went back to the cabin and found this little guy.
After checking out the Navigator and pouring some ice water (Thanks to Albert for the ice bucket fill) and checking out the verandah again, we got ready for bed. We put on Up! and fell asleep watching it.
The chocolate tour sounds like a good choice! I'm glad Chuck decided to stick with you, but CeCe is adorable and looks like she was a lot of fun. Dinner companions are always a bit of a concern on a cruise unless you're with a group of your own. I've been lucky, but always worry about it!
What a fun day of chocolate!!! Cece is adorable!! Glad Chuck came home with you
Dinner looks so yummy!!! Bummer your table mates weren't better matches for you two. That is the one thing I don't like about shared tables, you never know what you are going to get!
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Apparently they had seasickness on Monday night. They asked for A-1 to put on their Chateaubriand - ewwww! 
We ate and got outta there. 
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