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Great photos with the characters - and I love the commentary, particularly the rule breaker!
That's terrible about the drinks bill though...
It cracks me up when people do that....because I would be one to do it on accident too!
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Wow, your drinks server was pretty bad! I had one who wasn't up to par on the Alaska cruise, but she was no where near as bad as yours! Adorable photos with the characters and I love Claire's Golden Mickey dress. That's my favorite show as well. I on photo of Abby and Mickey I think she's got her hand inside his jacket!
She was not good. Very friendly, but just not her calling to be a server.
I did notice had her hand up the jacket too.
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Love Claire's Golden Mickey's dress. Pictures of the kids are adorable even when they don't pose perfectly
They are cuties ...and devils
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They look some great character meets
Thanks
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Great pictures with the characters! Love Claire's dress! Did she gets any comments on it from the CM's?
We spotted Donald and he was giving us a little performance of his own.
We separated from the rest. I think Gail wanted to get Abby to bed.
Claire and I went off on our own and roamed around freely. I think we checked out the stores a bit and then we HAD to get a picture of her in the Golden Mickey dress with the Golden Mickey.
Another bathroom stop, and I just had to take a few more pictures.
More exploring.
I just love how colorful the deck of the Dream is. The Magic was pretty, but this is better.
A stop for a drink.
And we headed back towards the room for a minute. I don’t remember why for sure, but I probably wanted to drop something off, change my clothes or pick something up.
Claire’s bed all turned down.
We did whatever it was we headed to the room to do and then went back out again. We ran into Pluto and stopped for a picture. The handler there noticed Claire’s dress and complimented it and said “You guys have sailed Disney before, haven’t you”. Yes we have!
We then headed up a flight of stairs and got in line for Captain Mickey.
I need to get in the habit of carrying my big flash with me on the ship. I really think my pictures would come out better if I did.
We wandered a bit more, going through the art gallery.
And then we went into D Lounge to see what was going on there.
There was a game that was getting close to the end and we sat down to watch it a bit.
I really was getting tired now. It was close to 11 and I swear I was nodding off as I sat there. I mentioned to Claire that we needed to leave, but she had seen Donald lingering out in the hall and wanted to see him come in first.
Donald was teaching Salsa Dancing.
He then went out on the dance floor with the kids. I tried to get Claire to go out, but she was too shy. She preferred to watch.
I couldn’t last any longer, so we headed back to the room.
Before I went in the room, I decided to get a picture of our door. I went the whole time on our previous Dream cruise and never once took a picture of out decorated room door.
And that was pretty much it for the night. We got dressed in our PJs and turned the TV on for a few minutes and laid our head down on the 4th pillow of the trip. Oh the Places We Go! We also met some new friends! Oh the People We See!
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We still have the plague ....um I mean the flu at our house. Claire has not gone to school all week. She is coughing up a storm. Skip and I also started, but we're not nearly as bad as her and I am probably the best of us all. Skip coughed continously for 10 minutes this morning and I was to the point of hitting with a frying pan to put him (and me) out of his misery. :rotfl: Claire was sleeping on the floor a little bit ago and I got a new lens, so I thought I would play and take a few pictures. She woke as I pulled out the camera and then pretended to go back to sleep, so you can see a little smirk on her face, as she knows I am taking pictures.
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sorry to hear you are all sick - glad this isn't a face to face trip report.
I do hope you are all feeling better quickly.
I'm having trouble viewing the photos of Claire smirking and the last update on the report - did you do anything different posting them? Anyone else having problems?
Sorry you're all sick! The cough from the flu lingers on and on...
This cough is definetly the wrse part of it.
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Love all the characters you met this night!
Sorry everyone's sick. Hope you feel better soon!
I wish we were there now and free of all our germs!
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sorry to hear you are all sick - glad this isn't a face to face trip report.
I do hope you are all feeling better quickly.
I'm having trouble viewing the photos of Claire smirking and the last update on the report - did you do anything different posting them? Anyone else having problems?
I am using flickr now, because photobucket changed and it's horrid! But I have been using flickr for most of the last several updates. Could you see all those pictures? Maybe something was going on for a bit yesterday?
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The pix of Claire are cute. She is so photogenic aven sick and pretending to sleep. What new lens did you get?
I got a sigma 18-200mm. I wanted something more all in one. While traveling I uually bring a couple of lenses and it's kind of a pain to tote them all around, so I usually leave most in the room and pick one for the day, but because of that, I tend to miss some shots I would like to get. Or if I have the other lens with me, by the time I siwtch it out, the shot is no longer there.
I also ordered a sigma 30mm prime lens. I didn't "need" that, but I've wanted one for awhile and they are so costly. But they are clearancing out this model making room for the newest one coming out in a few months (which will probably cost double what I paid for this one at least), so I took the plunge and got it. I only played with that one last night a few minutes, but I already know it will be good for what I want it for,
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