Disney Fantasy Cruise - Day 7

Okay, how cool is this!!! This totally made my day at Castaway Cay.

I had to hold on to that wonderful feeling cause we found out our stingray excursion was cancelled! We were both looking forward to that so much, but I guess the water was too choppy or something. It was overcast a bit and a bit rainy when we first woke up.

We walked to the tram that would take us to Serenity Bay - the adults only beach on Castaway Cay. Curt is NOT what you would call a beach person, however, I did get him to sit at the edge of the beach with his feet in the water. I went in about waist deep, but that was all. It was kind of rough out there. I could not believe the number of shells I kept digging up. Sheriff Curt made sure I kept them on the beach since it was announced they would appreciate us not taking the shells. Oh how my scrapbooking page will suffer without that shell ... ha! Wow, this island was so gorgeous and we had a fantastic time at the beach.

 

 

 

 

See my awful sunburn from the St. John excursion.


We stayed on the beach for a few hours then went to eat at the buffet. I had my first hamburger of the trip! Now, I've got to tell you the funniest story here. Curt is not a seafood lover ... besides Long John Silver's fish, he will not eat any seafood. They had the hamburger patties, chicken and mahi mahi in buffet covered dishes to keep them warm. There are place cards in front of each dish. Well, Curt and I sit down at a picnic table and I'm putting my hamburger together while he digs into his meal. He says "Cheryl, you have got to try this chicken! It is just so tender and tastes great." I look up and over at his plate and see the "chicken" he is eating. It doesn't look like chicken to me and after tasting it I was very happy to inform him that he was eating the delicious mahi mahi!! Bahahaha! He was such a good sport about it and even tasted it again saying "Now I can taste the fishy aftertaste".  Ha .. he just cracks me up!!!

We decided to do some shopping and walk back to the ship to check out the AquaDuck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we got on the ship it was empty! We went immediately to the AquaDuck and enjoyed riding it three times in a row. We would have done more, but there are 70 steps to climb up each time!! The first time we jogged right on up those steps, the 2nd time we marched right on up, the 3rd time we were waving the kids behind us to just pass us (and pray for us)! After enjoying the heck out of that ride we decided to go to Satellite Falls on the top deck. This is for adults only and is totally relaxing. We sat in the pool up there for a while and laid out on the beach chairs before figuring we had better go and get ready for the get together for the AllEars group in the Tube. This was a fabulous event and many thanks to AllEars and MEI Travel! There was a small buffet and free drinks for everyone.

Doesn't it look delicious ... and the mojoito I had was the best ever!

Curt and I found out we got an honorable mention for our door decoration and with the raffle tickets we collected we also won a prize.

At the end of this wonderful event we were thrilled when Captain Mickey entered the room for pictures! *Squeal* *Squeal*

 Below is our picture with Deb Wills of the AllEars group. She is such a sweet person!

Now off to our last dinner. Of course, when we are all together there was all this grumbling across the table from me. Seems some people felt there was just too much seafood on the menu tonight. Curt, Ryan and Gail were complaining so we asked Gavin to get them the kiddie menu (with crayons).

They did finally order from the adult menu and were glad they did. It was sad to say good-bye to our new friends, but we had some packing to do! We also had to say good-bye to our head server, Gavin, and his assistant, Carly ... they were awesome! The picture below was taken the night before ... loved those ties and shirts!

We didn't see the show on this night. I was under the impression we could watch it on our TV, but was wrong. We were packing all our stuff to get in the hallway by 10:30PM.

I'll leave you with this fun picture ...

This was in Ooh La La which is one of the nightclubs in the  Europa district. In the evenings the Europa district is adults only and consists of four nightclubs. We only went to The Tube (London theme). There is also the Irish bar named O'Gills Pub, Ooh La La (French boudoir theme), and Skyline (cosmopolitan lounge) has several European skylines. On our next cruise I plan on spending some time in Skyline!

Tomorrow we dock at Port Canaveral and the cruise is over! We booked a few more days at Disney World so we wouldn't have to go cold turkey leaving immediately ... plus I'm so excited to see my sweet scrapping buddy, Karen, and her hubby, Guy. These two are the most adorable and sweet cast members Disney has. They were so sweet to offer to pick us up from the port and we are looking forward to spending the day with them. Thanks for dropping by ...

Disney Fantasy Cruise - Day 6

What a relaxing day! Curt and I just enjoyed the ship this morning and took some more pictures. The art on the Fantasy is amazing ... the pictures I took of them are not. Ha!

 

 

 

 

 

My "picture taking" disclaimer ... the stabilizers on the ship do work! I just didn't seem to be able to take a picture straight! I must admit that the last picture is one of my absolute favorites (notice I didn't take it). The picture of Walt is stunning .. he was such a dashing looking man and the man on my other side is quite dashing too. :) 

We decided to eat at Enchanted Gardens for lunch today and the buffet was wonderful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After our lunch we went to another presentation by Gary Hoffmann, an Imagineer at Disney. In the first one he talked about his latest project ... The Art of Animation resort at Disney World. He is the project manager on this and I have to say this resort looks incredible. It is another value resort from Disney and has some wonderful theming that will offer family suites. 

In the presentation we saw today he talked about Disney all around the world. He went through the new things happening at Disneyland, Disney World, Disney Paris, Disney Tokyo, Disneyland Hong Kong, and the new Shanghai Disney resort opening in a few years. There was a wonderful question/answer session again and I am hoping to see a Cars Land coming to Disney World. He didn't say it was coming, but I'm still hopeful!

Now, on to the night I have been waiting for ... dinner at Animator's Palate and the "Draw Your Own Character" show. This was a semi-formal evening as you can see from our picture at the top of the post with the ever beautiful Minnie Mouse. When we sat down at our table we had a piece of paper where you were to draw your character. They gave you about 10 minutes to draw and then picked up your drawings to get them ready for the animated show.

These were Curt and my drawings. I loved Curt's sci-fi character! I am still trying to figure out why I only have one Mickey on my character's shirt and why was it a belly button Mickey????? I know it was a last minute addition, but some times I just have to laugh at myself!

 

I have posted some pictures below showing the drawings animated. This is just so awesome ... then they add the Disney characters and have these animated drawings interact with them. Disney is just in a league of their own regarding innovation.

I was thrilled when I saw my drawing dancing with Pinocchio (I'm on the right in the orange)!

 

 

 

 

 

I was going to post videos I took showing the animation, however, I just should not be allowed to handle a video recorder! All was going well until I announced (why do I talk during these things) "there's my character" ... then I proceeded to lower the camera so we saw the legs of my character. Really? I was all over the place on filming that! The video with the Disney characters was just as noisy (me talking) and chopped up. At least I managed to tape my character dancing with Pinocchio and got some stills from that. Whew!! 

After that the night just got better with going to see our evening show.

Another "shed a tear" production that Disney does so well. We decided to go to the "Tube" that evening to see the magic show with David Williamson. He was so entertaining and funny!!

I forgot to take a picture of the animal towel tonight. Maybe it was the excitement in knowing that we will be at Castaway Cay (pronounced "key") in the morning. That is Disney's private island and I have heard so many wonderful things about this ... thanks for dropping by.