Part 3
(For
those of you who are just first reading about our cruise, be sure to check out
Part 1 & 2 first)
Monday, May 21st
Bahamas
We were all so extremely excited
because today was our Dolphin excursion.
We were supposed to meet at 7:45am to disembark the boat. So we decided to order breakfast room service
so we wouldn’t have to get up that much earlier. After a late night the previous night, it was
a struggle for us all to get up no matter how excited we were.
It took awhile to get through all
of the logistics for getting off the boat and to our excursion but once we were
off, we were loaded onto a catamaran and taken to a different island within the
Bahamas for the Dolphin excursion. Once
there, we had a short safety lesson and got to head out to our dock.
OH MY GOODNEESS! The water was ice cold but with a lot of
coaxing we got into the water onto a small platform that we could stand on and
the guide would bring a dolphin right up to us.
Our dolphin’s name was Abaco (Abby for short). We each got to feed her, pet her, touch her
teeth, hug her and dance with her. It
was amazing how docile and friendly she was.
Abby and Leah showed no hesitation at all, but Cameron was a bit
apprehensive and did all of this while Gregory held him. I am so thankful he at least still did it
even if he needed to be in Gregory’s arms.
We would have all been so sad if he missed the opportunity. This was such a wonderful experience that we
bought the video of our dolphin interaction.
(Let us know if you want to view it.)
After we took the catamaran back
to the main island, we took a little time and walked around the shops in the
Bahamas. The prices were so cheap and
the people we very forward with trying to get you to buy their stuff or use
their services.
Finally, we made our way back to
the Disney ship. We wanted to spend some
time at the pools and thought this would be a good time since a majority of the
passengers would be off the ship on the island.
We swam in the Goofy pool while watching The Little Mermaid and then we
headed to the Mickey pool which was shallower and easier for Leah and Cameron
to play around. There was also a huge
water slide the kids enjoyed several times.
After a couple hours, we headed back to our room to shower and get ready
for pirate night. Arrgghhhhh!
The kids got all dressed up in
their pirate costumes and we headed out to the Pirate Meet and Greet before
dinner. They got their pictures taken
with (and autographs from) Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Pirate Chip N Dale, Jack
Sparrow and Pirate Mickey. Then we
headed to dinner. Tonight we were eating
at Lumiere’s for a second night.
After dinner, there was a Pirate in
the Caribbean party on Deck 9. At the
end of the pirate party there was a firework show over the ocean. It was so neat. We stood up on Deck 10 and looked out over
the ocean to watch the fireworks. As
soon as they were finished we enjoyed some of the 25 fancy, decadent desserts
they had out. As we were heading back to
our room (because by this point all 3 kids were falling asleep literally as we
walked around) Greg grabbed for a Turkey Leg which we shared that night in our room after the kids went to sleep.
Tuesday, May 22th
Castaway Cay
We enjoyed some breakfast on one
of the decks and waited for some of the rain to pass. Finally, we decided to just go ahead and get
off and hope the weather warmed and dried up.
Right after getting off, we enjoyed some shopping and they girls and I
got Bahamian hair wraps. Then we played
in the sand and ocean for a couple of hours (despite the sprinkling) until
lunch. Disney served us lunch on the
island and we really enjoyed the bbq.
After lunch we dropped off the
kids in the secure kids’ area so Gregory and I could go on our parasailing
excursion. Wow! I had no idea what to expect and never
expected to love it as much as I did.
When Gregory told me he wanted to go parasailing, I was unsure because I
didn’t really know what it was. I purposefully did NOT look into finding out
so that I would not freak myself out about it.
I am so glad. It really is not as
scary as it looks or sounds. We could not
believe how incredibly peaceful it was when you are 700 feet above the ocean!
It was now time to head back to
the ship to get cleaned up for dinner.
We were to eat our last dinner at Animator’s Palate one last time. This was a sad dinner for us since it would
be our last.
After dinner, we dropped the kids
off in the kids’ club area so Gregory and I could go back to our room and pack
up. We needed to have our luggage
outside of our room by 10:30pm so that it could be taken off the ship in the
morning. When we finished packing up, we
picked the kids up so we could attend the “Till we meet again!” party where all
the characters would be gathered one last time.
As soon as we got there and picked out our perfect spot to have a view
of everything, Leah started feeling sick.
As I was taking her to the bathroom, she vomited all over the
hallway. I rushed her back to our room
to get her cleaned up and Gregory waited for someone to come clean up our “mess”.
Well we made it 2 full days
without any puking!
We got the kids to bed but we
still had some souvenir shopping to do. Luckily
the shops were open until midnight.
Gregory and I each took turns heading up to the shops to pick up a few
last minute items.
Wednesday, May 23rd
Disembarkation
day
We were scheduled to eat
breakfast at 6:45am at Animator’s Palate before we were to disembark. Before breakfast, I managed to sneak in some
last bit of shopping at Shutters where we were able to purchase all of the photographer’s
pictures they had taken of us the entire trip.
We had 2 free package coupons for booking 2 rooms through AAA. This was an amazing deal and I managed to get
about 15 prints for free.
We enjoyed our breakfast one last
time with our Michigan friends. There were
a lot of tears among us. (Abby cried for
about the next 2 hours.) Lean continued
to feel sick during breakfast so Gregory and I took shifts sitting outside the
restaurant with her while the other one
ate.
After breakfast we immediately
got off the ship. We had to go through
customs since we technically left the country when we went to the Bahamas. After customs, which was no problem, we
loaded on a shuttle and headed to Hertz to pick up our rental car for the
day.
(to be
continued…)
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