At the end of May Charles and I decided to take a last minute Disney Cruise with the kids. The cruise was a gift to me at Christmas but I had been putting off booking it because I thought the kids were too young. Then one of my very good friends, Kelli, went on one with her 4 year old & they all had a wonderful time so Charles & I booked a cruise & left two weeks later! We went on the Disney Dream ship for 5 days & 4 nights. We had a balcony room which was so nice! Both Cameron & Olivia LOVED the balcony. The ship sailed to the Bahamas (we didn't get off the boat since Charles & I had been there quite a few times) and then to Castaway Cay, Disney's private island. We spent most of the time in the kids splash area, playing in the kids camp areas and of course eating! We definitely made some great memories & I look forward to going on another one with family and/or friends! :)
At the "sail away" party
Watching the ship leave Port Canaveral from our balcony
Dinner on the first night. The nice thing about a Disney cruise is that you have 3 different dining rooms for dinner. Everyone gets a chance to go to each one, they select which nights you go where.
Inside the Toy Story room in the kids camp. We never left the kids by themselves in the kids camp we just went when they had an "open house" where the parents could come in too. There was hardly ever anyone in the camp at those times so we almost had the whole place to ourselves.....amazing with a ship full of 3000+ people!
At one of the kids camp open houses Mickey, Goofy & Pluto came out to play games. We were just about the only ones there!
So excited to see Pluto!
Dancing with Mickey
Enjoying french fries & grilled cheese
Yummy! He loved having his Mickey bar every night
What a mess!
Enjoying the balcony. We did have a toy casuality though.....Olivia tossed Cameron's favorite monster truck over the side. It landed 5 floors below on the ship but was in 3 pieces. Poor Cameron was pretty sad. There was only a 2" gap between the deck floor & railing but Olivia figured out right away how fun it was to drop things.
The kids LOVED dancing to the music in the kids camp.
Here's Cameron & Olivia breaking it down....
Olivia with her new Minnie doll
Playing in Nemo's Reef, the splash area
Olivia on our bed with her dolls :)
Playing miniature golf
Playing Mickey's Detective Agency, such a cute game! You get a card to looking for missing puppies or paintings & hold your card up to pictures on the ship. The pictures come to life & help you solve the mystery
Preparing for the Mickey 200, carrot & potato race!
Family photo with our race car
Dinner on the 3rd night was pirate themed. Everyone was dressed up in their best pirate gear. They had a pirate party & fireworks. So fun!
At the pirate party (Olivia was ready for bed in her PJs)
Getting off the ship at Disney's Castaway Cay...... we met a few characters on the way to the beach :)
Beautiful beach! Just too bad it was such a gloomy day, it was overcast & drizzling the whole time we were on the island
They loved playing in the sand
The HUGE Disney Dream, much bigger than any of the other ships that were at our ports
Fireworks on the pirate night. Charles took this photo since I was in the room with 2 sleeping children. The fireworks didn't go off until 10 pm!
