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Glad you are having fun!
Michael and Judy are so nice.
That really sucks about this phone. I wonder why it's not behaving for you. At least you can do facebook and calls. I guess better than nothing but not always convenient.
It's all sorted now! I emailed the company and they rebooted the SIM and I was able to text Marnie (Colexis Mom) and she was able to text me back, so it's Ok!
Well, we are on board the Dream and heading into Nassau. To go back a bit, we had a really fun breakfast at 'Ohana, then headed back to the Magic Kingdom for a couple of great rides and some really fun Photopass opportunities. We also had an interesting sight on the monorail line - I'll leave the rest for the trip report.
We made it fine to Port Canaveral and late boarding, when your room is ready, is definitely the way to go for us. It's so nice just to board and drop your hand luggage off straight away. We've got a wonderful room, perfectly located and it's lovely and big.
We managed to get the issues with the cell phone straightened out, just as we head out of American waters - typical, but at least it will be fully working when we get back.
Last night we ate at the Enchanted Garden and we saw Jennifer and it was so nice to briefly catch up with her - I have copies of the new cruise PassPorter now and it looks amazing! We had a wonderful dinner, then both went to the spa for treatments (massage and facial for me on special offer and shave for Mark) and then we hit the sack.
Today we just plan on relaxing and letting those who want to go ashore to Nassau go. We will be in the adults only section for much of the day I think!
By the way, I just realised I'm into the cruise portion of this pre-trip report, but I'll stick with posting it here, as I think it works - and I'll just put the trip report portion in the cruise line trip reports forum.
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As it was 9° when I left my house this morning (farenheit), I am just daydreaming as to how nice it would be to spend the day in the adult only section of the Dream, in Nassau.......soak up some sun for me!
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Great start to the cruise. Nice that you got up with Jennifer.
Judy and I enjoyed having lunch with you and Mark on Saturday. It was nice to find other adults that enjoy meeting the Characters as much as we do. (Of course, I knew that about you before we got there. Poor Piglet.) Hopefully we will get to do that again someday.
We envy the warmth and sunshine you guys will have on the cruise especially since we got home to clouds, temps around 10 F and this morning a light blanket of snow. Think about us as you travel.
All caught up here at PP. Glad the phone is all fixed and ready to go for your return to the US. Sounds like you are taking advantage of relaxation on the ship, it can only help your CF!
Great to hear about how your trip is going. The warmth sounds heavenly as it's either pouring with rain and wind here or frosty. Either way it's cold. Loving your pics on fb. Definately bringing some sunshine into my world. Looking forward to our trip to WDW in the summer even more now.
As it was 9° when I left my house this morning (farenheit), I am just daydreaming as to how nice it would be to spend the day in the adult only section of the Dream, in Nassau.......soak up some sun for me!
Oh wow - that is cold! We did soak up a bit of sun, and may soak some more up today... we'll see.
Great start to the cruise. Nice that you got up with Jennifer.
Judy and I enjoyed having lunch with you and Mark on Saturday. It was nice to find other adults that enjoy meeting the Characters as much as we do. (Of course, I knew that about you before we got there. Poor Piglet.) Hopefully we will get to do that again someday.
We had an absolute ball with you guys and we too hope we'll be able to get together with you one day again.
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We envy the warmth and sunshine you guys will have on the cruise especially since we got home to clouds, temps around 10 F and this morning a light blanket of snow. Think about us as you travel.
We had a very relaxing day yesterday - we were in the hot tub in the adult only area by about 9:00am, and in the adult pool before 9:30am, and it was lovely and quiet. We then spent about an hour and a half in the Rainforest in the spa and really got our money's worth there.
We had lunch at the Royal Palace, which was excellent, then went to a talk about the making of the Dream, at which we learnt quite a bit. We wandered around, took a few photos and watched sail away from Nassau, before getting dressed up for Palo.
We had drinks in the Skyline Lounge first and then an absolutely superb dinner at Palo - the place really redeemed itself after our awful experience there in the summer on the Med cruise.
Today is Castaway Cay, but (and please don't throw anything here ) but we probably just won't get off. The heat in intense already - we were out on the veranda just before 9:00am and could only manage a few minutes out there. We just don't want to be messing around with the hot weather and may instead do things like the AquaDuck and the spa again... I know it's a hugely popular place for so many of you, but we just cannot face it in this weather (and my apologies for complaining about the heat when so many of you have such horribly cold weather ).
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We've got a wonderful room, perfectly located and it's lovely and big. 
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We did soak up a bit of sun, and may soak some more up today... we'll see.
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