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What a joy to be able to also get time with family before your trip. Loving all of the luggage but for that many nights how are you not supposed to have that much. Great first day on the boat.
First day fun!! I hope Andre did well in the clubs, I have my own youngest who is giving me major potty anxiety. I'm hoping he'll be totally ready by cruise time, but so far #2 has been a big struggle for us!
Love the surprises so far! Can't wait to hear more
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Cont’d……. We freshened up a little bit and headed down to our first dinner at Animators Pallete. I was so excited to see the place and meet our servers. Limbert and Marianne met us at our table and I knew they would be goof fun. Marianne quickly got us informed on the wine package, which BTW, I told Arnaud about a few months prior and got no real reaction from him. However tonight he was like………..WOW look at this great deal for a 7 night package!!! So he set us up with that so now we would be good to go with wine for dinner every night!!!
I’m terrible at taking food photos but I do have to say, everything was always usually pretty good. I do know that this night noting jumped out for me on the main menu, so I got something from the lighter side and tonight it was salmon with veggies. Basic, but very good. The kids every night usually had a soup and something else, again, nothing fancy but it suited them just fine.
There wasn’t a show in there tonight, just the gradual changes in color. After dinner we knew we HAD to let the kids to the one thing they were begging for ALL Day!!! Swimming!!!! So we went to the room and changed into our suits and hit the pool deck.
Well as you can see, we had the whole deck to ourselves…………..like for real!!! I didn’t go in tonight because it was a bit windy and I knew the water looked cold, so I let Arnaud take one for the team and they all had soooo much fun! Pinocchio was getting ready to play on the Funnel Vision, so the kids finished up with their swim and I bundled them up on some loungers and we all started watching the film. At one point Arnaud noticed that the Aqua Dunk was running, so I said you bet get to it while there is no line. We sat and watched him go down, but then we didn’t see him return for a while. Turns out her rode that puppy 3 times in a row!!! He said the first time he screamed his head off because it was a bit of a shock, and a little scary. But after that he just said how much fun it was and just kept going. The kids were begging for me to try it too, but I used the whole………..whoops, don’t have my suit on………maybe tomorrow.
We finished watching the movie and decided to call it a night. We got the kids back to the room and settled into their new sleeping arrangements for the next 12 nights. Josie was bursting at the seams with sleeping on the top bunk, while poor Andre was not too happy. After a little TV watching they were out cold. I tried to organize our room and get everything packed and put away. We both were in bed not too long after the kids and finally dozed off in those super comfy beds with sweet dreams of CC the next day!!!
I have to apologize for the short update, I wanted to get this day done so I can move on. We had a stupid crazy week with gym shows, dance recitals, mom's 70th bday party, and last day of school............finally!!! Only to have summer camp starting tomorrow I can now update and post on a more timely fashion!!
Yay - you're on board and ready to set sail! How great that you got the Rainforest Room passes for your whole cruise. I suspect I'll be doing the same thing for me at least two weeks tomorrow!
I'm knew to the whole Rainforest Room, so I'm interested in hearing your take on it. I loved just about everything, BUT the showers never seemed to be working right for me?? I'll get more into that in a later update
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Joining in. Sounds like your cruise started off great. What a sweet guy your husband is for buying the passes!
Hi!!! Thanks for joining!!
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Can you get Arnaud to teach Mike a few things about surprises? He is too sweet though as are the rest of you. So excited you're on the ship now and sailing away. Now that I've experienced it - it's the best feeling EVER!
IT IS the best feeling??? WHY though?? Much different than just a park vacation, right?
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What a great start to your cruise! Your hubby is so sweet to buy the Rainforest Room passes! But really, what a silly system that is, only allowing 30 people to buy passes, and forcing them to get length of cruise passes. That makes no sense.
Yeah, I'm still having a hard time trying to understand that. IDK if it was becse of how long the sailing was..........is it like this on a normal 7night?? I wonder?
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Good start to the trip! How cute was your little man while waiting for Mickey? Bet he's glad he mastered the potty!
OK, wait............let's not say "mastered" just yet
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First day fun!! I hope Andre did well in the clubs, I have my own youngest who is giving me major potty anxiety. I'm hoping he'll be totally ready by cruise time, but so far #2 has been a big struggle for us!
Love the surprises so far! Can't wait to hear more
This was our rule, for us...........I would never leave him in the club for longer than 2 hrs, I would try and make him go #2 before he went to the club, and I would still send him in a pull up...........he was fine with doing #1 on his own, and on occasion #2..........but I just wanted to keep things easy going
Great first day and night! Glad you got good servers-- makes such a big difference. The kids (and Arnaud!) look like they're having so much fun in the pool. I love watching movies on deck. So cool that the pool area was empty and Arnaud got three rides on the aqua dunk!
What a great first day, full of surprises! So nice of Dawn to send you some bubbly, and what a sweet hubby you have getting you those Rainforest Room passes! You weren't kidding about having that pool deck to yourselves, what a great way to end the night.
That's so bizarre to me about the Rainforest Room. I'm positive it wasn't like that on our cruise... maybe they made some changes due to past experiences, but that's a really weird rule to have...
Ok, I'm intrigued about the Rainforest Room and it'll be interesting to see what happened with the showers. I'll be sure to check them out for myself in a few days' time!
I have no idea how I missed your PTR or the start of your TR.
How exciting to do a transatlantic cruise to celebrate your 10 year anniversary!! So happy belated anniversary. My DH and I's anniversary is May 15th and we just celebrated 15 years! Cool that you are also celebrating your 40th! I turned 40 in January and while I wanted to celebrate it in WDW and couldn't I will be celebrating in WDW in October. I hope you celebrated like crazy girl!!!!
Looks like the cruise started off great! Everything just looks amazing and the kids look like they were having the time of their lives!
Can't wait for more!!!!
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Wonder why the pool deck was so empty?! I assume the kid to adult ratio was lower than some cruises since school was still in session for most.
Fun night!
I'm going to love this even more now because we've decided to cruise on the Magic next! And I don't think I'll be doing the AquaDunk - it doesn't sound pleasant. : How awesome that you got the whole pool to yourselves! I hear you on the bunk bed situation - we've told them Lukas was too young the last time but next time he gets top bunk.
And I don't know why it's so awesome but it's just so different on a cruise - it feel so special!
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!!! So he set us up with that so now we would be good to go with wine for dinner every night!
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but I do have to say, everything was always usually pretty good. I do know that this night noting jumped out for me on the main menu, so I got something from the lighter side and tonight it was salmon with veggies. Basic, but very good. The kids every night usually had a soup and something else, again, nothing fancy but it suited them just fine.
!!! He said the first time he screamed his head off because it was a bit of a shock, and a little scary. But after that he just said how much fun it was and just kept going. The kids were begging for me to try it too, but I used the whole………..whoops, don’t have my suit on………maybe tomorrow
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How great that you got the Rainforest Room passes for your whole cruise. I suspect I'll be doing the same thing for me at least two weeks tomorrow! 
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: How awesome that you got the whole pool to yourselves! I hear you on the bunk bed situation - we've told them Lukas was too young the last time but next time he gets top bunk.
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