Our Disney Cruise Day 1

We've been home from our Disney Cruise for about two and a half weeks, and it's taken me a while to decide how to share our experiences with you who are interested in hearing about it, without driving those who aren't, crazy.  Posting everything on Facebook just clogs up everyone's feed, so I decided I could share more this way.  I think I'll try to divide things up into a bunch of posts, so check back...


We took an Eastern Caribbean 7 night Disney Cruise on the Disney Fantasy.  Our ports of call were St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Disney's private island in the Bahamas, Castaway Cay.  This gave us several "At Sea" days, which allows for lots of fun on the ship.  We traveled with another family, that we are very good friends with, and we had side by side staterooms.

We stayed at a resort at Walt Disney World for 2 nights before heading to Port Canaveral to board the ship.  We didn't do the parks, we just swam in the pool, went to Downtown Disney, and hung out.

We hired a shuttle/limo service to get us to the port.  It took about an hour, and it was so exciting to see the ship for the first time.  It is a very big, beautiful ship.  This was our first glimpse as we approached: 

This is us with Minnie in the boarding area, where you have to get your security documents approved, and such.  Behind us is a replica of the ship.

This is Matt and the girls on the gangway to board the ship!  As we walked on, someone asked our last name and announced us and a ton of cast members were standing in the lobby/atrium clapping as each family boarded.  It was neat.

One of our first stops was to register the kids for the Oceaneer Club.  Because it was the first day, it was open for parents to tour.  Normally, it's secure.  These are only a couple of the areas...

Pixie Hollow was the girls' favorite because they got to create their own fairies on the computer and print them.  We must have 30 printouts of fairies.

This was the Magic Floor.  It was cool.  The outer panels are touch panels for your feet and they play games on it.  We were there for an open house once where they played a "Cars" type game that was really cool.

Here's a movie lounge.  There are always movies playing if you just want to veg-.  

There were also craft areas, and the girls participated in a cookie baking activity one day and as a family we went to an Open House activity where we made soapbox derby cars and raced them.

We also just ran into Rapunzel walking around.  Can't let that one go without a picture!

The Sailing Away Party

Our Verandah- because we had side by side staterooms with our friends, they opened up the divider between our verandahs. :)

Daisy! 

Our first dinner in the Royal Court

Check back for Day 2's pictures!