It has been a while since I posted last. Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are in the past and will be missed on my blog. And to all of you out there who have been on Cruises before, just let me, first timer, tell about my experience in my way. Kirstin, Jeff and boys were going on a Disney Cruise and invited Judy and me to go alone. We debated for about a week and decided to take them up on it. Thanks Kirstin and Jeff. This was an experience and not an adventure or cruise. We left a day early to allow for any delays and spent a night in Orlando. It is a good thing we did because we traveled though Atlanta and Atlanta got a half inch of ice and a lot of snow the next day (there was still snow on the ground a week later when we returned). Then off to Port Canaveral Saturday morning on the Disney Cruise Line Bus.
Lian was a trooper and helped with the luggage. He had a much lighter backpack, which he did not want to hold. He opted to pull a carry on for mom instead.
Logan wanted to wear his backpack. He appears to be laboring under the weight of it, but he is fooling us. The boys were really excited. Kellan took it in stride by riding in the stroller.
This is what we saw when we got there: The Disney Magic.
Mickey was there to greet us at the beginning of our journey.
Judy was not in the Mickey photo because she took the picture. So we posed for this shot in front of a Mickey Statue of the next Disney Cruise ship , The Disney Dream, which leaves on it's maiden voyage on Jan 26. The Dream is 40% bigger than the Magic and has over 5000 beds.
We finally got to walk on board. Excitement!!!
We immediately went to the Parrot Cay (pronounced key) Dinning room for lunch. Kellan is enjoying his one Cheerio lunch.
We are right across the bay from the Space Shuttle launch site. I have a closer shot of the building but chose this one because of the DCL bus in the foreground. There were a lot of them coming because we had about 2400 cruisers on board with 980 crew members. Every crew member that passed you anywhere on the boat always smiled and greeted you, as though you were their great friend.
This is one of the ceiling lights in the Parrot Cay dinning room.
This is the water slide in the Mickey Pool.
There was always a competition between the boys to see who got to push the buttons on the elevator. "Up or Down" was always the question.
Everywhere we went, including at our home port, was the competition. They followed us throughout the Caribbean. Here is the Carnival Dream. The boats are not side by side but this is a much bigger boat, with about 4-5 more floors. Notice the water slide on top - adults only.
And here is the Norwegian Sun.
More launch sites.
Okay. Here is the Jumbo tron above the Goofy Pool, for families, in the middle of the boat. You can sit in the pool and can watch all the Disney animations or full length movies, like Pirate of the Caribbean, all day long. Late at night they show football games for the dads.
The entire boat was "Disney" decorated. Look at the elevator floor indicator.
Mickey's logo was the most prominent decorating feature
The Mickey pool from the tenth floor. Recognize anyone?
Ahoy down there.
This is the chandelier in the main lobby of the boat.
When the Disney Magic was set to leave port, they had a cast-off party. It was like a pep rally to get the excitement levels peaked. I must say that with the loud pop music, and hollering going on, it was LOUD. I think that we wanted the bigger,quieter, boats knew that we were something to be reckoned with.
Mickey and Minne as well as several other characters were there to encourage loudness.
Everyone got a red or blue pompom to shake around and then they blasted paper streamers into the crowd. You see here that Logan and Liam had greatest fun ever and wrapped themselves in the white paper streamers that flew through the air.
Daisy came up to see what all the fun was about. We got our picture taken with here and a "new" member of the family, who just would leave. This little girl scolded Logan and Liam at one point because they were fighting. She told them, "You should not be fighting; you are brothers."
Then we had a mermaid join us.
This is our first Sunset at Port Canaveral.
This is most of the of our group. Can you guess who is missing?
This is the Animators dinning room and you can see paint brushes holding up the ceiling and art on the calls that comes alive.
When ever someone on the boat had a birthday, they were sung to and then they received a quarter piece of cake with an eatable cruise ship.
I think that every country in the world was represented by the crew. This is Dogan (pronounced Don) from Turkey. He was our main dinner server and got to know us really well, what we wanted and didn't want for dinner. I always had two big glasses of chocolate milk for dinner.
Fantasia Mickey was there and pointed at me, so I took his picture.
Like I said, everything was Disney related on the boat. This is Ketchup for dipping french fries for Logan and Liam
This is our first night on board and when we came back from dinner, this is what was waiting for us, a towel sting ray. I did learn how to make mouse and fried chicken napkins. I might share them with you sometime.
Lian was a trooper and helped with the luggage. He had a much lighter backpack, which he did not want to hold. He opted to pull a carry on for mom instead.
Logan wanted to wear his backpack. He appears to be laboring under the weight of it, but he is fooling us. The boys were really excited. Kellan took it in stride by riding in the stroller.
This is what we saw when we got there: The Disney Magic.
Mickey was there to greet us at the beginning of our journey.
Judy was not in the Mickey photo because she took the picture. So we posed for this shot in front of a Mickey Statue of the next Disney Cruise ship , The Disney Dream, which leaves on it's maiden voyage on Jan 26. The Dream is 40% bigger than the Magic and has over 5000 beds.
We finally got to walk on board. Excitement!!!
We immediately went to the Parrot Cay (pronounced key) Dinning room for lunch. Kellan is enjoying his one Cheerio lunch.
We are right across the bay from the Space Shuttle launch site. I have a closer shot of the building but chose this one because of the DCL bus in the foreground. There were a lot of them coming because we had about 2400 cruisers on board with 980 crew members. Every crew member that passed you anywhere on the boat always smiled and greeted you, as though you were their great friend.
This is one of the ceiling lights in the Parrot Cay dinning room.
This is the water slide in the Mickey Pool.
There was always a competition between the boys to see who got to push the buttons on the elevator. "Up or Down" was always the question.
Everywhere we went, including at our home port, was the competition. They followed us throughout the Caribbean. Here is the Carnival Dream. The boats are not side by side but this is a much bigger boat, with about 4-5 more floors. Notice the water slide on top - adults only.
And here is the Norwegian Sun.
More launch sites.
Okay. Here is the Jumbo tron above the Goofy Pool, for families, in the middle of the boat. You can sit in the pool and can watch all the Disney animations or full length movies, like Pirate of the Caribbean, all day long. Late at night they show football games for the dads.
The entire boat was "Disney" decorated. Look at the elevator floor indicator.
Mickey's logo was the most prominent decorating feature
The Mickey pool from the tenth floor. Recognize anyone?
Ahoy down there.
This is the chandelier in the main lobby of the boat.
When the Disney Magic was set to leave port, they had a cast-off party. It was like a pep rally to get the excitement levels peaked. I must say that with the loud pop music, and hollering going on, it was LOUD. I think that we wanted the bigger,quieter, boats knew that we were something to be reckoned with.
Mickey and Minne as well as several other characters were there to encourage loudness. 
Everyone got a red or blue pompom to shake around and then they blasted paper streamers into the crowd. You see here that Logan and Liam had greatest fun ever and wrapped themselves in the white paper streamers that flew through the air.
Daisy came up to see what all the fun was about. We got our picture taken with here and a "new" member of the family, who just would leave. This little girl scolded Logan and Liam at one point because they were fighting. She told them, "You should not be fighting; you are brothers."
Then we had a mermaid join us.
This is our first Sunset at Port Canaveral. 
This is most of the of our group. Can you guess who is missing?
This is the Animators dinning room and you can see paint brushes holding up the ceiling and art on the calls that comes alive.
When ever someone on the boat had a birthday, they were sung to and then they received a quarter piece of cake with an eatable cruise ship.
I think that every country in the world was represented by the crew. This is Dogan (pronounced Don) from Turkey. He was our main dinner server and got to know us really well, what we wanted and didn't want for dinner. I always had two big glasses of chocolate milk for dinner.
Fantasia Mickey was there and pointed at me, so I took his picture. 
Like I said, everything was Disney related on the boat. This is Ketchup for dipping french fries for Logan and Liam
This is our first night on board and when we came back from dinner, this is what was waiting for us, a towel sting ray. I did learn how to make mouse and fried chicken napkins. I might share them with you sometime.
