the DISNEY MAGIC Cruise!
To celebrate my mom's 60th Birthday, my parents treated us all to the most amazing family vacation! Everything Disney does is over the top, impressive, FUN and memorable, and the cruise was all that and more! I cannot say enough good about it. I did my best to summarize a very full week of Disney Magic
The beautiful Disney Magic - we sailed from Galveston, TX - Grand Cayman - Cozumel
3500 passengers - 1000 crewmembers - the best service!
The Birthday Girl and her grandkids - who could guess she is 60?!
Mickey Mouse welcomes us aboard!
Journey loved getting her picture taken with all the Princesses...several times!
The Girls and Minnie - Hailey's mother-in-law, Kay, joined us as well
The Boys and Daisy
M - I- C - K - E - Y M o u s e
Every time we turned around there were character appearances and photo ops...so fun!
The buffet had the most elaborate, gorgeous watermelon carvings everyday!
And the food...oh my gosh...the food...incredible...crab, lobster, 7-course dinners...you cannot go on a cruise and not gain weight...it's impossible...and required, right?!
Every night our cabin host made us hilarious 'towel animals' We would be excited to return to our cabins each night to see what he'd made for us...A couple of our faves were the elephant and monkey!
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The Magic is the only ship with the Character breakfast...
After seeing all the characters, our waiters, Sam & Derek, made everyone hilarious
'napkin hats' of different Disney movie characters.
Tanner wasn't too keen on character appearances, but he jumped at the chance to meet the ship's Captain {center} and the Cruise Director {left}
Every dinner wasn't just a meal, it was an event. There was something fun and unique about each one. This was at the Animator's Palate, where the walls and wait staff uniforms (back left) start out black and white, but soon get colorful and come to life! Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?!
After two days at sea, and lots of eating, movie-watching and bingo-playing, we arrived in our first port...
GRAND CAYMAN
the softest, white sand and gorgeous turquoise water...a beautiful island!
We headed to Stingray City
It was so cool to be in 4 feet of water on a sandbar with stingrays swimming all around, and not caring if you held them, pet them and kissed them!
Tanner found a conch shell
We couldn't get enough of these gentle creatures, yes they still have their barbs {the thin black line above the guides hand}, but they are so used to the human visitors that they aren't threatening
Makai and I didn't want to leave...We could have floated with the stingrays all day!
The cruise gave the girls tons of quality cousin time!
Next stop...COZUMEL
the Caribbean is hard to beat...
we snorkeled in the crystal clear water..
saw another stingray and held a sea urchin...very cool!
Both islands were big hits!
I think my two favorite things about the cruise were the fabulous broadway-style shows each night...And the fact that there was something fun for everyone to do! My boys went to the teen clubs and made friends and stayed out til the wee hours of the morning.
Journey and Tatum danced with Snow White and went to cooking school and helped us play bingo. It was just so special to spend such great quality time together...
and make memories we'll never forget!
Until next time Disney...We will SEA you again!
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