exploring the lido deck and our first drink of the day

So after the sail away we were really starting to get cold and were a little hungry as we had not eaten anything since around 9 that morning. We decided to head down one deck and explore the pool deck and get a quick snack.

This was a neat splash area for little ones themed around Fantasia.

This was under the mickey hand holding up the slide for kids only. No adults are allowed to go on the slide. So we were a little sad.

A better view of the Mickey slide area.

Here we are waiting for the first show to begin. We sat in the same seats for each and every show.

Before our first dinner we decided to give our stateroom attendant plenty of time to make the room. So we decided to go listen to a father and son duo that played celtic country music. We had to of course have our first drinks of the cruise. We had orange margaritas on the rocks with no salt. This became our go to drink most nights.

Our first towel animals of the cruise ended up being a lobster we believe.

Sail Away continued

So our cruise director comes out to get the party started and to introduce the main cheese himself.

They started the dance party and we really got to see a lot of Mickey and the gang all week. We would run into Goofy just walking down a hall to get from our end to the front of the ship. We ran into Minnie twice and Ian kept telling her she needed to ask Mickey where her ring was. She would just giggle and throw us kisses.

They shot out confetti and did some minor fireworks for when the countdown to sail away had hit 1.

Exploring the ship and sail away party time

So after the muster drill we wanted to take our time with walking up the stairs 6 flights to go for the sail away party.

Here was a gorgeous shot of the art glass they had hung in the lobby area.

They had this beautiful iron work on the elevator banks. There are even some hidden mickey's in it as well.

They had a huge tv called funnel vision that showed where we were at and where we were headed for our first port of call. Through the week they had various movies played on it as well as sporting events.

Here our great cruise staff are leading us in a dancing party for sail away before they bring out the characters to count it down.

Day One Continued

So around 3:30 we heard the Magic's whistle indicating it was time for the muster drill in case anything were to happen to the ship and we needed to learn how to evacuate it.

Our meeting location was the lovely Animator's Palate restaurant. This is the place where it goes from black and white to color over the various courses of your meal in here. It was truly a neat experience. I wish I would have thought to bring the camera to dinner this night but alas I did not. Back to the story....

So Ian and I made our way down to Animator's for the muster drill. We discovered we were actually about 15 mins early as that whistle was for the crew members to head down first. So we took advantage of the empty location to get some good pictures in.

This whole wall during the dinner in here lights up to a sunset color and is absolutely beautiful.

Here is Ian at one of the paint brushes that light up during the course of the dinner. On the painters palate the "paint" also lights up.

Here Tammy is in front of Timon who happens to be one of her favorite characters.

What a "Magic"-al Vacation

We had such a fantastic voyage on the Disney Magic. We boarded the cruise ship with no issues on Jan 4th. We made it through the check in process and were on the ship within about 30 mins of arriving at the port. So not too terrible.

We went up to our deck and it was just about time for them to open up the rooms. So we wanted to do that first. We had booked a gurantee balcony room. We ended up getting a pretty great room on deck 5 aft.

Here is Ian laying on the full size pull out couch. Most of the state rooms accommodate up to 4 people.

You also get a shower and tub combo in each stateroom which you usually only get in suites on other ships. This was heavenly. You have a sink in the bathroom with the shower/tub. There is also one in the other bathroom that has the toilet as well.

They had these neat phones in the room that you could use to keep track of each other if you wanted. Or if you had kids using the fun kids club they could take one and contact you when they were done or wanted to go to bed.

I will be back in a bit with more from day one!! Need to go check on the laundry now.

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What a Magical time with the Mouse

We just wanted to give a small update for now. We made it safely to my parents in Kingwood after the long delay due to the fog in Galveston last night. When we get home be prepared for a huge update along with some fun news.

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Happy New Year!!!

We just wanted to wish our readers a very Happy New Year! We hope you have a year that is filled with love, laughter and good times!

My year has already started off with a bang. Ian and I went to have a New Years brunch at Texas Land and Cattle. It was delicious. Then we went by Barnes and Noble since there is one right by the restaurant. We picked up a few magazines for some light reading by the pool.

Then we made it into work and found out there were three open spots on my team for New Years day. So I hit up Ian asking if he minded if I left early as his team was full for outages today. He was like nope, go for it. So I hit up my team manager asking if there were still any open spots or were they taken, and he said that there were still 3 open spots as I was the first rep to ask about it. So I got one. It allowed me to go get the oil changed today as we were going to have to leave early to get it taken care of before we he hit the road on Thursday morning. So hurray to that. I told Ian when I come to pick him up at midnight I would bring sweetpea with me. He was happy about that.

I know it must have sucked to see me leave early and he has to work all day today. I felt bad but at the same time had I known that on Saturday I would have requested it then and then I wouldn't have left early to begin with.

So now I'm going to take today to relax as my allergies were kicking my butt last night. I had to take a claritin and put ice on my right side by the nasal passage as it was swollen and it hurt like you know what.

It feels better today but I figure it won't hurt me to rest as we have a cruise in three days and I want to feel absolutely perfect to enjoy it with my hunnie.

That is all for now.

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