Cruise, Day 3

The final full day on the cruise was at Castaway Cay, Disney's private Island. It was a little bit of a bummer, because it was really windy and they had to cancel all of the excursions. Most of my family was supposed to do parasailing. But early in the day, besides the wind, it was sunny and nice, so we had fun on the beach.


This is Christopher swimming. He liked it at the beach almost as much as the Mickey Pool.

Joel spent most of the day making this turtle. I took a later picture with someone elses camera, so I'll have to find it. It was cute because he made the whole shell out of actual shells. Little girls thought it was adorable and started collecting shells for him!

Christopher at dinner, eating his broccoli. Thank goodness he's not like his father with vegetables!When our waiter asked about our day at Castaway Cay, my dad explained to him that parasailing was supposed to be Mitchell and Shauna's birthday present (If I failed to mention, the day we left for the trip was their birthday. Mitchell forever crashed Shauna's day on her 8th birthday), so he brought these little cakes for them. Problem was, we had already had dessert! They brought them back to the staterooms, but not much of them ever got eaten.
That night, after the final show (Disney Dreams, which is Disney cheese in it's purest form, but very cute), the actors and characters were all in the atrium to meet and greet. We went straight to Chip and Dale. After that, the lines were much to long!

So, after a morning and lunch at Castaway Cay, C and Joel and I went back on the ship (It did get pretty cold). C really, really wanted to swim at the mickey pool one last time, but once we got up there he realized it was too cold. We took naps again and shopped and such. Dinner was at Animator's Palate; we went to the show, which C loved again; met the characters; did a little family Karaoke (Denise and I sang "Beauty and the Beast"), and lamented that we had to leave early in the morning. REALLY early. Ours was the earliest breakfast, 6:30! And then we shopped a little and debarked the ship. Christopher was SO upset. Literally crying and had his fat little bottom lip out. The castmembers thought it was the cutest thing! He's still talking about "the Mickey Boat" and wants to go back. Maybe in a couple of years.....

This was the first cruise for everyone but my parents, grandma, and Joel and I. I really hope everyone had fun. I had a great time with everyone and hope someday we can do it again!