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First of all, CONGRATS on DH saying Yes and getting your confirmation for your TA trip!! You are living my dream and I hope to be able to do this very same thing soon!!
Secondly, I love all your photos and what a touch of magic you found your card! Your DD is adorable..........Thanks for sharing!!
Love, love, love Claire and the Pirates pics! DD is obsessed w/ pirates and I'm really looking forward to Pirate night. She even has her own Captin Hook costume for the party. I can't wait!
The pirate show looks fun!! It looks as though they have updated it since our days on the Wonder!! I can't wait to see it next summer. Did you see the Pirates in the Caribbean part with Capt. Jack?
Yes. the show is a bit different than the Wonder from what I hear. It's seperated into 2 parts. I didn't see Captain Jack, but I heard he did ziplone down. We were standing in an area where we couldn't see the stage for the fireworks and that is when I heard he came out.
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The pirate show looks like a lot of fun. I love the pictures of Claire.
Thanks. It was fun.
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First of all, CONGRATS on DH saying Yes and getting your confirmation for your TA trip!! You are living my dream and I hope to be able to do this very same thing soon!!
Secondly, I love all your photos and what a touch of magic you found your card! Your DD is adorable..........Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks you! I'm glad we found that card too. It would've been a pretty boting TR up to this point if we didn't. LOL!
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Great pirate night pictures.
Thanks
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Your TA itinerary sounds fantastic!
Love, love, love Claire and the Pirates pics! DD is obsessed w/ pirates and I'm really looking forward to Pirate night. She even has her own Captin Hook costume for the party. I can't wait!
It should be fun. There is one small glitch though...and a small possibility of not going. But I think/ hope it gets worked out.
How wonderful to have such a cool costume. She will have so much fun.
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Thanks for this amazing trip report and all of the great photos! We sailed the Dream in March, and I can't wait to sail again next year.
May I ask, where did you find the great tie-dye Mickey T-shirts/dress you wore for boarding?
Thanks again!
I got the tie dye shorts from a girl who posts on the Dis. But she also sells on etsy. I think her user name is pixie something or other. I can't remember it offhand.
But if you search Mickey tie dye you should find them.
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Claire’s food arrived at the same time our appetizers did.
Soon it was time for our main meals. Claire’s dessert came out then too.
After we finished up our main course (mom and I got the same thing) the dessert menu came out. Isn’t it so cute? It was an Invitation.
We ordered and waited for that. Claire got a little antsy that we were taking too long, but we reminded her that she didn’t want to go to the club, so she would have to wait patiently and she seemed fine after that.
A quick shot of Brent, our server.
And dessert!
Mom and I shared the soufflé as well. But I think I ate most of it.
Srdjan came over and entertained Claire while we finished up. She was all googly eyed!
Great meal! And it's the little things, like the dessert menu, that all add up to magic. I'm always amazed that the servers are so attentive to entertaining the children. It's not like they have nothing else to do! And they manage to do the entertaining without skimping on meal service.
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What great servers you had! And the food doesn't look too shabby, either! (As I sit here eating my bowl of oatmeal...) Can't wait to hear/see what you got at the shops.
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Great meal! And it's the little things, like the dessert menu, that all add up to magic. I'm always amazed that the servers are so attentive to entertaining the children. It's not like they have nothing else to do! And they manage to do the entertaining without skimping on meal service.
They really do a great job!
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Wow, nice dinner. Glad you were able to recover one of the lost cards.
Me too!
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What a great meal!
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What great servers you had! And the food doesn't look too shabby, either! (As I sit here eating my bowl of oatmeal...) Can't wait to hear/see what you got at the shops.
During dinner, I had secured the Light up Tink onto my camera bag so we wouldn’t lose her. I leave you with that to ponder on….. LOL!
When we left Royal Palace, Claire and I jumped in another line for more Pirate pictures. This time the girl we liked was taking them.
I asked if she could do the Captain Hook one that I had seen on the boards, but she gave her Tink instead.
And then I got in for a few
After we were done we noticed Pirate Minnie was still out for Pictures, so we jumped in a short line. It was cut off shortly after that, so we had just made it!
Minnie seemed a little puzzled
She called the CM over. The CM said that our last signature was from Minnie. I said, Yes we saw her earlier that day in her Princess outfit. So the CM wanted to know if we still wanted her signature. Now I thought this was a dumb question. Why would we have brought our book up there if we didn’t? I told her yes, so they flipped the book back a few pages so the signatures wouldn’t be back to back.
We met back up with Mom, actually I think she came back out to check on us, and we headed over to the shops. Claire went off with Mom. I think she thought she had a better chance of mom buying her something than me! LOL! I looked around and picked several things up, but in the end put it all back. I was debating on another sweatshirt, but none of them just appealed to me the same way. I needed it to say Dream, or DCL cruise line and they were too generic. Mom picked out a Dooney wristlet for her friend and then she said I could pick one too. YIPPEE! My FIRST Disney Dooney and Bourke!
Mom ended up getting Claire a hat. It was cute, basic white. What was weird was the logo said WDW. You would think it would’ve said DCL.
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You are living my dream and I hope to be able to do this very same thing soon!!
Your DD is adorable..........Thanks for sharing!!
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