I LOVE Comedians with Guitars......You didn't tell me that part...

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I noticed Brook has this little stool under her desk. I wasn’t sure if we had one in our room too, as I didn’t see it. I did later find out we do, and I think ours was a different pattern of covering too. I’m sure I eventually took a picture.

Here is the fish outside the doors (the Fantasy and Dream are not all actual fish, but have other things like seahorses too). Disney will leave notes on the fish. This is also where people hang their “Fish Extenders”. Those are people who join a group, usually on Dis, and they get so many members (10 -30) and then every room leaves a gift in the Fish Extender (FE) to all on the list. Kind of like a secret Santa type thing, but you leave it for everyone on the list and you don’t have to be anonymous.

We did not partake in it this cruise. With such a short time to plan, I just didn’t have time to get little gifts for each room. I am doing it for our Nov. cruise, and that’s been enough work there.

However, many people on our facebook page said they had more than enough gifts to share, and if anyone wanted to sign up on the “extra gift” list, we were welcomed to. Brook and I both did. I hung my FE out, but Brook didn’t. I think I got more than she did though because I was well marked and had a spot to leave the goodies.

I think Lisa thought I was a bit crazy at first for placing mine out and putting magnets on our door, but after a bit, she commented that she loved our decorated door and it made our room very easy to find when we came back to it each time. (That was the same comment my Mom had made last year on the Dream too)

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All 3 of us headed out of the room. We went to look at the shops area. This was not open yet, but I wanted to see what it looked like.

 

 

I really loved the window displays.

 

 

 

 

Look how cute the door is too.

 

 

A special shirt for this cruise…there were actually 2 and I liked the other one better but both were too pricey for me.

 

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I took a peek in through the window …… I spot Dooneys!

I had to get some shots of good old Walt. Something learned on a tour later in the week ….there is something missing from this famous picture ….do you know what it is?

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Brook took a picture of Lisa and I.

I then decided to give Claire a call. I didn’t mention this, but in the morning I had called Skip, and he had said he ended up going to my Moms and getting Claire last night. I guess he was already getting lonely. So she spent the night with him and my Mom came over around 9 or so and picked her back up this morning.

Claire wasn’t too talkative. She was busy playing, but we said “I Love Yous” and I told her I would try to call if I could, but I might not be able to. She was doing fine and told me about some of the fun she had had already. They had gone to a movie the day before and my Mom was keeping her very busy ….or vice versa!

A few more pictures randomly around the area. I think I might’ve taken some of them while I was on the phone.

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I stepped outside and looked at deck 4.

I liked to call this the Titanic deck. It just made me think of the movie so much with the look of it.

And back in again.

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More shop windows.

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I took a peek in through the window …… I spot Dooneys!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had to get some shots of good old Walt. Something learned on a tour later in the week ….there is something missing from this famous picture ….do you know what it is?

 

 

He was smoking a ciggarette.

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He was smoking a ciggarette.

 

 

YES!!!!! You are correct.

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We were thirsty now so we made our way up to deck 9 to the drink station.

A few while we waited for the elevator.

The drink station was a “happening” place.

We wandered a bit more.

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I have to say that I kept forgetting that Lisa and Brook had just met the day before. They got along fabulously.

A view off the side of the ship.

I wanted to see if I could take a look at the Vibe (Teen Club). I believe we separated from Brook at this point. Sadly when we got there it was already closed because the muster drill time was approaching.

So we gave up on that and headed towards our station.

I admired this artwork over the course of the cruise. Let’s just say the prices were not cheap and I would’ve been murdered for spending such an amount of money on any of these.

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Our muster drill station was in Animators Palate, along with several other groups.

We checked in and took a seat.

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It still amazes me how many people show up late for this. I figure if you get there on time you can be done with it much faster.

We had a loud family come in and stand behind us. They were kind of funny and they never realized they had to check in when they came in. Here they were calling out their room number looking for them and not one in the group of several rooms had even checked in.

The drill was painless, but something about it makes me sleepy. I think sitting for more than 5 minutes on a busy day does that to you.

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We were excused from the drill and we went to the room once again…I am not sure why we made a stop there, but I have pictures to prove we did …Probably to use the bathroom.

Here is what the beds look like separated. I think we also each took bonine at this point in time …just in case.

This is a terrible picture, but it shows that we had our port adventure tickets on our desk along with a movies guide.

And I took another shot of this picture.

And it was time to go to the sail away party.

I took a shot of these drinks. We didn’t get any, but they looked so pretty.

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Lisa was in charge of video. I am HORRIBLE at taking video. I make myself motion sick whenever I watch whatever I have taped. Lisa said she was bad too, but I said it had to be better than mine…well it wasn’t. Not worse, but no better.

I will post random video she took. I won’t feel offended if you can’t watch it all because you are feeling sick.

And some more pretty drinks.

And more video.

We spot Brook and Susan not too far away. They wave us over, but we decided to just stay where we are and not bud in on others views.

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Now let me tell you, it was VERY hot this day. You could see the sweat pouring off these poor dancers.

Do you see the black girl? I went to a class she had a few days later. She is so nice, by the way. She is a theatre arts major if I remember right and is from California and plans to take her Mom on this cruise around Thanksgiving ….anyways. She was talking about how hot it was that day. She said she was like melting chocolate. They had just come from NYC and she said this weather just threw them for a loop. They hadn’t had much heat like this in a while.

And some more people near us were having some nice ice cold beverages.

Peter, our cruise director came out. I really liked him.

I see Carolyn now too.

And the characters are about to come out!!

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I had described the horn to Lisa ….I also told her that some of us “fans” sometimes tear up when we hear it …or at least get chills from it. I had her tape it.

More pictures form the party.

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There go some more drinks!

And there is Carolyn and Susan.

Looking around

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After the characters left, the dancers kept going…those poor people. They played quite a few catchy tunes and I spotted this lady down on the deck below us. She was an older lady, with short grey hair. And she had the moves! This lady could dance. We watched her and were amazed at how good she was. We ended up seeing this lady a lot on the cruise, though we never talked to her. Yep, we became stalkers. We just loved her and we ended up nicknaming her “Jazzy”. We pointed her out to Brook one day and she started referring her to Jazzy too and I think she even pointed her out to Carolyn and gang.

I didn’t get a picture of her that day, but I think she might be in one many days later while we were doing a tour. I’ll point her out if I do.

The bar staff hard at work.

I really like this picture.

This party was completely different than the one on the Dream. Of course we saw that one indoors due to rain as well.

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As we were about to sail away, Lisa said she was going to go inside because it was so hot. I told her I was just going to stand at the railing and watch us go. Well wait…She said she better not miss this too and she stood out there with me and we just had such a nice time watching us leave the real world.

I totally enjoyed it. If you read my trip report about our Dream Cruise, you know it rained that day ….very hard, and the sail away party was inside in the Atrium. It was also at a later time because the ship stayed late to let passengers who had flight delays because of the bad weather able to make the ship. (Ironically I had the same experience on the last NCL ship I sailed too) We left late and we didn’t start moving till it was time for us to go to the first show, which I did not want to miss, so all we saw from our balcony was us moving away from the dock.

Lisa and I hung towards the back of the ship and we were practically alone back there.

We were making news!

We first watched them untie us.

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We did lots of waving!

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And we blasted the horn once more if I remember right.

We did walk from side to side at times to take it all in.

Lisa and I both grew up on farms and then married farmers, so we had to get a picture of all the tractors lined up.

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Lisa told me to be sure to get a picture with the John Deere’s and combines in it.

While we were standing there, we noticed that the windows into Palo looked like a mirror and we easily each lost 20-30 pounds while looking at ourselves in them. We wish we could walk around with those reflecting our images all the time. It doesn’t take much to excite us.

I was so amazed at how many ships we saw out at sea.

And I really liked this sail boat.

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And we then decided to head back to the room and relax a bit, get showers and get ready for the show.

We showered and just hung out and watched the world go by on our balcony.

I remembered to take a picture of the goodies inside of the bag.

We then headed off to the show ….All Aboard, Let the Magic Begin.

This is the Disney Magic Performers…A.K.A. the cast that would be entertaining us at the main shows, and also a comedian, David Williamson and a Venquilotrist, Lynn Trefzger. The performers had a small storyline and then the other entertainment would come out.

I really enjoyed the show. I am at such a lost that we can no longer take pictures of the shows though. I love taking pictures of things like this, and I was soooo tempted, but I refrained. The Comedian was really funny and brought kids up on stage. The Venquilotrist was good, but she kind of over did her 2 things and it became a little too long.

We were happy to see the show and Lisa got her first taste of what a Disney show is like ….and she liked what she saw.

After the show we headed back to the room once again. We had a little time to kill.

Our beds had been turned down and we had a new friend & chocolates.

Something about chocolate left on your bed make it tastes so much better. We ate them each morning …breakfast of champions!

We had a little time to kill so we went down to the shops before heading to dinner.

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I was happy to see a few Galveston related items.

I loved this hat. I was so tempted to buy it. I loved the look and color …but I am not a hat person. I never wear them, they look horrid on me and my head must be weird shaped, because they never sit right on me.

We weren’t inspired to buy anything, so we headed out and explored a bit more before dinner.

We saw Minnie out for a greet.

I had a thing about trying to take the perfect chandelier picture. You will notice this is a theme for me. I did it on the Dream as well, and also of a few other items as well on that cruise.

We stopped and learned a little history about the Magic.

And we walked through Studio Sea since we hadn’t yet looked at it. This is more the family type club.