M-I-C-K-E-Y...

Wow!  It's been a long time since I have blogged.  Working full time has made my blogging time hard to find.
Lucky for me, we just got back from an amazing Disney Cruise vacation.  Hurricane Sandy attempted to thwart our journey, but did not succeed!
We drove down to Cape Canaveral a few days early with plans to explore the Kennedy Space Museum.  Once we got there, we realized admission was $140!  We figured we could spend our money better elsewhere so we just hung around the hotel, waited out the storm, and did a little beach side shopping at Ron Jon.

Logan, King of Something...

This was our space encounter (in our hotel lobby)

Logan managed to find some miniature astronauts at Ron Jon's.

I have only been on one cruise my entire life.  It was a few years ago before we had Logan.  It was the most horrible experience ever.  The embarkation/debarkation process was a mess, the ship was small, it was boring, and if I didn't hear from several people that not all cruises were like that, I would have never taken a cruise again!
Our embarkation process went very smooth.  Thank you Disney Cruise Line!  We found the port easily, dropped our luggage off, parked our car and walked right up to present our passports in the terminal.  No waiting at all!
While we waited a very short time (about 30 minutes) to actually get onto the ship we found a few photo opportunities!

Logan meeting Donald Duck for the first time!  He was so excited!

Cool entrance to the boat, huh?

Our Family boarding photo!

We were quickly aboard the ship!  Our room wasn't quite ready so we ate a quick lunch at the buffet and explored the upper deck a little!

Logan wasted no time in catching some rays!

Once our room was ready, we took a quick trip back to the room and got changed into our swimsuits.  Logan was insisting we "go skwimmy" even though it was quite cool and VERY breezy!  I got the luck of the draw and went into the Mickey pool with Logan.  We forgot to take pictures of this extremely cold adventure...

The upper deck was really nice with two pools and a massive TV screen (you'll see photos of this later!).  There was an awesome water slide that a giant Mickey's hand was holding up in the air and the Aquaduck.  It was just way too cool on our cruise to take the plunge into either the water slide or the Aquaduck.  We probably would have done the Aquaduck (think lazy river meets tube slide hundreds of feet in the air!  You basically ride an inner tube inside a plastic tube that wraps around the ship's upper deck) but Logan wasn't tall enough yet and we never got the chance to do it on our own (more on that later...).

Our room was quite large with a huge porthole window!

After warming up and then eating ice cream (I know, it makes no sense, but we were letting the 3 year old call the shots...), we took the opportunity to meet a few more friends!

Getting a hug from Dale

Logan was still a bit in shock at this point

Meeting Mickey for the first time.

Logan was a fan of Goofy!

Yes, I did purchase some of the Cruise Photos!  They were too cute to resist!

 On that note, it was great that Disney allowed you to take photos with your own camera.  That being said...I need a new lens...and need to learn how to use my camera.  I was able to salvage some of my photos but often I didn't catch the smile like they did!

Our first night's dinner was in the Royal Palace.  I apologize, we didn't take any pictures.  It was all so overwhelming.  We forgot the camera a lot or had the camera but forgot to take any pictures.  The Royal Palace was a neat restaurant and our server Barbie was great.  She was able to tame the beast AKA Logan during his cranky time!  Our ship was rocking a lot during dinner.   At one point, we looked out the window and saw sky, then water, then sky, then water....you get the point.  Thank you, Hurricane Sandy.

After dinner, we had a few more photo ops with Donald.  Notice Logan is already in his PJ's.  We were going to the show afterwards and figured he would fall asleep during it.

I actually caught a pretty good picture here.

 Let me tell you!  The Disney Dream shows were amazing!  The first night was "The Golden Mickey's"  There were a few new songs, but most of the songs were classic Disney songs but the dancing and theatrics were so good.  I felt like I was watching an Broadway tour show.  Logan stayed awake for the whole thing and loved it!

 We wandered around the ship a bit more that evening, then called it a night so that we would be ready for our first port of call, Nassau, the next morning.

The gorgeous chandelier in the atrium

Oh, we did have to make one stop in the gift shop that night to pick up something VERY, VERY important!

Mickey Ears!!

Coming Soon: Day 2 at Nassau!