Disney Cruise

October 2019

Steve and I did a 7-night Caribbean Halloween cruise on the Disney fantasy. A colleague of his invited us to his wedding in Jamaica during this cruise so we decided to go. Amazing! Never want to do it any other way!

We got in late Thursday night (even later because of hours-late flight) and after a few hours of sleep went to Universal. Lines were really long and it wasn’t really that much fun. We didn’t get to do the new Hagrid ride. I thought all day about how much better disney is at theme parks. 🙂

The Gadget Ride got us SO WET! And I never thought I would be able to extricate myself from the tiny car…my knee was not happy!

Saturday morning we boarded the ship and disembarked the following Saturday. Then we went to Disney world Saturday night, Sunday, and Monday morning before our flight back that afternoon. Steve was definitely Disneyed-out by the end but I was in heaven. 🙂

On the bus ride from Orlando to Port Canaveral

Posed with Pluto while waiting for our boarding time

First order of business…lunch. The food was amazing!

Beautiful ship!

We met in the Tube as a whole big group to get schedules straight, socialize and eat, and get presents. 🙂 I can’t name everyone but on the bottom row left are Brian and Serafina. Steve and I are 2 of the tiny head bumps on the back row.

Heading out!

We had choppy seas the first night which made for queasy stomachs but the coolest waves in the adult splash pool!

Each night when we came back to our room, our cabin person had cleaned for a second time, turned down the bed, and left some cool towel/blanket structure and some mints 🙂

Used my sunglasses a few times 🙂

Night on the boat was equal parts cool and scary

Also a great time to miniature golf in the rain 🙂

Glass-bottom canoeing and snorkeling in Mexico was super cool

Cool freak storm as we left Cozumel

I am totally in love with dolphins. We got to ride belly to belly and get pushed by one in a boogie board. Won’t be forgetting that any time soon!

The second part of our day on Grand Cayman we spent snorkeling out to the Wreck of the Cali (just rented equipment and went right out without a guide). Super freaky and also cool

We stopped for lunch at Rackam’s (yummy snapper and conch fritters which weren’t my favorite) and a jewelry store where we picked up cute caymanite turtle earrings which we later made into necklaces

Costumes were a big deal. Marissa and Steve won the costume contest!

Denise and Gabbie were super cute as Buzz and Woody 🙂

The wedding was so beautiful!

We waited for quite a while for it to start and the sun was beating down on us so I and a few others went wading into the ocean 🙂

Brian and Seraphina in front of the amazing falls

The bus ride back to the port was long and the tour guide rambled so much! It was very interesting to see the real Falmouth though…quite different from the port

Coolest detective game on board! We worked on the 3 different cases all week

Disney cruises have you eat at the same table each night so that you have the same servers…they move with you from restaurant to restaurant. We ended up moving around a bit but really enjoyed sitting with this family, Betsy and her kids Deyla and Dimitri

Yes of course fireworks on a ship…Disney, remember?

The view from this hard-to-find adults-only room is breathtaking

Castaway Cay is so amazing! We went parasailing, snorkeling, did the Stingray Encounter, and especially loved the adult-only beach 🙂

I really enjoyed the entertainment. Super interesting variety acts! The disney shows Steve mostly didn’t like, but the Mickey confetti they blew over the audience at the end was, however, a resounding success. 🙂