Disney Magic Vacay- Day 3

Before I get started recapping our first day at sea, I just want to say that we worked so hard to stay healthy before our trip! We kept Emma out of school, stayed at home as much as possible, took extra vitamins. Then onboard we washed our hands religiously, used anti-bacterial wipes before eating anything, and we all stayed healthy through-out the trip! We've been home two days, and Emma is sick. Running low grade temps, coughing, snotting, and cried herself to sleep about her ear hurting. Back to the real world, I guess.

Sometime in the night I woke up feeling the boat move, we had set sail at 3 a.m. Thankfully, we didn't experience any seasickness! But I have to admit it was pretty creepy to look out the window and only see water!

A cargo ship right before daylight...

Sleepyhead Emma seeing the sea from our window for the first time!

We had our character breakfast that morning, so we headed to the Parrot Cay (pronounced KEY) restaurant! Emma was a little nervous about the characters at first, but she got over that really quick!

Pluto was really excited to see his own page in Em's autograph book!

Squishy face Emma

Marista made Emma a Minnie bow out of her napkin!

Clinton got a Peter Pan hat!

Big hugs from Dale!

Mickey's handler offered to take the picture, so I jumped in this one!

Goofy was pretty quick! So this is the only shot I got!

Chip was pretty mischievous!

Signed the book on top of Em's head!!

Emma tried to tickle him! Ha! Tickling the characters turned out to be a recurring theme for Em!

After the breakfast, we took Emma to the kids club for Toy Story Boot Camp! I think Clinton and I just wondered around for a little while! We picked Emma up to get changed into her princess dress, the PRINCESS GATHERING was next! Thankfully we got in line when we did, because the line for this was LONG! We only had about 20 people in front of us, but it could have been about 200!

I wish I could have heard what all she told them!

This is one of my favorite moments of the cruise!

Emma twirling with Snow White. *Tear*

She squeezed them all so tight!

I can't remember what we did for lunch that day. I'm pretty sure Emma ate in the kids club, she was already hooked! Clinton went to see The Avengers in the movie theater, while I relaxed in the room.

Heaven!

I went to pick Emma up to do a cooking class, but they were in the middle of "Do-Si-Do with Snow White". She wasn't about to leave that! I snuck a couple of pictures!

We tried to go to the "Ratatouille Cooking School", but it was way crowded, so we left. We went to the shops to spend Emma's gift cards. She bought herself a Princess Jasmine costume. Like she needed another one! Ha! We ran into Pluto outside the shop!

Another big hug!

The Cast members told us that Daisy would be out next, so we waited around for about 10 minutes, and voila!

She was wearing her fancy dress for Formal night!

We went back the room then to get in our formal dresses and head for dinner at Parrot Cay.

My app- some kind of squash and cheese.. didn't really like it!

Clinton's app- crab and cheese dip with pita chips. He cleaned his plate!

My entree- Grouper, I think, with grilled shrimp and saffron rice. Just ok.

Clinton's entree- ribeye, potato, and corn. Can't go wrong there.

Emma's dessert- strawberry shortcake! Love the chocolate Mickey!

Clinton's dessert- Creme brulee cheesecake.

My dessert- Pina Colada bread pudding, a No Sugar Added Dessert. Delicious!

Right before our desserts came, a photographer came by to get picture of families in their formal dress. Emma chose THAT moment to melt down. So we didn't get a picture of us all dressed up! Clinton was very upset! Anyway, I took her back to the room, and Clinton brought my dessert, so I ate it in the room! Emma was devastated at the thought of missing the show, so she straightened up pretty fast!

The show that night was Twice Charmed: An Original Twist on the Cinderella Story. It was really good, it was all about what had happened if Cinderella hadn't tried on the glass slipper. Of course, everything turned out with a fairy tale ending!

On the way out of the theater, we ran into Donald in his tux!

Another big hug!

We got all of the Fab Five autographs in one day!

Then it was off to bed after a day full of characters and fun!

Disney Magic Vacay Day 1 & 2

Thought I might as well get started since it will take me a year to post all of this! Ha! We had an amazing time!

We drove down to Galveston Friday, and spent some time playing on the beach!

We went to bed that night ready to get up in the morning and head to the boat! We woke up the next morning to black out fog and an email from Disney. It said that the Magic was offshore and was unable to come into port, it was closed due to the fog. Our Port Arrival Time was delayed by 4 hours. So instead of arriving at 11, we were to arrive at 3 pm. Ugh! This complicated matters because check out was at 10 AND our hotel was supposed to shuttle us to the port! Apparently the hotel was full of cruisers because the lobby was full of displaced guests!

We wondered around Galveston for a few hours. Got another email saying to delay arrival by SIX hours from original Port Arrival Time! NOOOO!

Then we got news that the port was allowing people to check in! So we twisted the hotel people's arm into taking us! So we were finally on our way! YAY! We arrived at around 3 pm. Went through security and received a check in number of 11! :( The terminal was PACKED!

 We had to wait around for a couple of hours, but little missy stayed in pretty good spirits! We had a Facebook group of people going on this cruise and one really nice couple (The Rileys) told us a little shortcut on checking in AND then grabbed us to walk on with them (Group 5 instead of 11!!) We were really appreciative because that cut the wait WAY down! Which was good because Em was starting to get tired! We walked onboard around 5:30 pm.

She perked right up, though, when she saw who was waving at her in the atrium!

Minnie Mouse!!

We went right to our room and decorated our door!

We, also, met our room host Arya from Indonesia! He showed us where the life vest were! Very important! Then to our first dinner at Animator's Palate. The coolest restaurant because it started out black and white and it slowly changed to bright and colorful! We, also, met our servers Nesha from Trinidad and Marista from South Africa!

The best picture I got, couldn't figure out a good way to take a pic of it with flash, no flash, etc!

My app- mushroom risotto

Clinton's app- shrimp cheesecake

Em's food- mac n' cheese!

Nesha made Em a smiley ketchup face!

My entree- turkey alfredo like dish, can't remember the exact name.

Clinton's entree- he thinks it was a pork chop dish! Ha!

Em's dessert- a MICKEY BAR!

My dessert- strawberry shortcake with marscapone cheese. Yum!

Clinton had a apple pie thingy...

Then it was SHOWTIME! Mr. Mouse himself led a parade around the room!

 After dinner, we went by the kids club to get Emma's Mickey band bracelet, which checked her in and out. She spent a little time climbing on "Tick Tock Croc" while we were there!

Next we headed towards the theater for the opening night show, "All Aboard! Let the Magic Begin!" On the way, guess who we ran into... Princess Tiana!!

Em told her she went to New Orleans all the time, so Tiana told her she needed to try out her restaurant next time! Ha!!

Once in the show, I snapped a few pictures before I knew that that was a NO, NO!

 

 

On the way out of the theater, we ran into another special person! Minnie!!

We went to our designated meet up for the Muster (Safety) drill. It was at 10:15 pm! Everything had to be shifted because of the late boarding! Dang fog! It was at this time that Emma started to melt down. It had been a long day! So unfortunately, Em and I didn't get our safety briefing. We went to bed! We had to leave it up to Clinton to get all the info we needed!  Day 3: At Sea coming up next!

I'm not dead, I'm packing...

So I haven't posted since last year...hahaha. Sorry, terrible joke. But I haven't posted since Christmas and that's not good blogging!

Nothing too exciting has happened, so here's a little weekly (2 weeks + some) wrap-up!

We played in the snow while we had it!

At this point, she was DONE playing in the snow!

Daddy thought he'd cheer her up by throwing a snowball at her, hit her in the face...

Of course, he laughed. I did, too.

We. Are. Turrible.

We spent New Year's in Dallas in an impromptu trip. We had some fantastic pizza as our NYE dinner!

Em playing with the dough!

The next day, Clinton played golf with his cousins and Em and I shopped with the girls! Got the rest of our trip things we needed!

Sassy pants!

She conned me into a Build-a-Bear, but didn't like the noise!

Giving "Crystal" a bath!

I've been packing, and procrastinating about packing. I DO have Emma packed. This is one of her suitcases. It honestly has NOTHING in it but princess dresses, princess shoes, and tiaras.

So in 4 days we leave for Galveston! I really need to be packing, and working, and packing, AND working more. (Year end reports, eww!) So there will not be any more posts from me until after vacay! Disney here we come!