We were up earlier than I thought. We had to have our bads ready for pick up. We headed down to the atruim of the hotel and into the shoping area of the airport to get some "breakfast". For the first time ever my kids refused McDonalds! Huh - who would ahve thought? I personally think its because they werent getting a "toy" with breakfast. However I talked them into some pancakes with sausage and thank goodness for Starbucks. The famiyl was happy. We were able to sit still for a little bit before heading to the "Disney Magical Express".
We made our way the the check in counter and onto and bus with windows just like large port holes. IT would be a 50 minute ride to the port. They kept us entertained with trivia questions, short cartoons and a short movie of the boat we would be cruising on.
We made it to the port and once up stairs we saw Mickey first thing!! And Pluto came out next. We had to wait for our boarding group which thankfully was #6. We walked up the gang way (which was a large yellow mickey head) They took our picture and than annouced to the entire ship "Welcome Haase Family". Ok - I cried - I was so over whelmed that we were there and really going on this cruise.
Although our room was not ready for another 2 hours we headed up stairs by a pool and had pizza. Maddie ate 4 pieces - Zach -1. Dan and I enjoyed a bahama mama!! Now - thats a great start to a vacation! We headed to the oceaneers Lab and Club and got the kids checked in and got their bracelets on.
We roamed around the boat some more and got into our room around 130. Our luggage would not come til around 5pm. So we decorated our room and headed up for a late lunch at Top siders beach blanket buffet. Even the water cups had mickey heads on them.
We had our emergency drill at 4pm and than headed straight to goofy's pool stage for the "kick off party". Now this was fun. We danced with the kids, they us all streemers to shake around. And they brought out all the characters! We staryed and danced a bit more (although Zach was in Dans arms almost the entire time) and Maddie got right up there and danced with Daisy Duck! We had tocome back down to the room and get ready for dinner at 545.
Tonight we ate at Animators Palate. We have a nice family from Canada dinning with us. This dinning room is made to start out as black and white and turn into a colorful palate with lots of Disney pictures on the walls coming to life. After Dinner we checked the kids in at the oceaneers kids club and Dan, Krissy and I did some shopping. But we only had 45 minutes before we checked them out of the club and headed to the show.
the show was about a young boy who was going on a disney cruise and wanted to be a captain some day. They also had a couple of the comedians there to give you a sample of their show that you could go see later in the week.
We had 2 very tired kids and so we headed back to our room and ordered milk and cookies for all! After all - it was 1045p!! And we have our character breakfast at 8am tomorrow!! What a fanatastic day!
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Was so much fun just to read about the day. Sounds like Grammy would have been tired! Thanks for keeping us with you, here. I'll keep looking here for more news, would love to be with you all.
Kissy Kissy to each of you.
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