A New Ship | Heffalumps and Sea Turtles
After a lovely whole family morning hiking to and from the fort with the whole family, Chris decided to retreat to the club. Kylee hung out with Julia coloring in the concierge lounge while Tracy called up the future cruises desk to book us a "dummy date" for 2016. (We hope to float this spring date to a September Eastbound Panama Canal cruise when dates are released.)
Kylee talked her way into another non-dairy hot cocoa with Mickey sprinkles. Julia also gave her a coloring book of all of her favorite princesses just for her very own. Settled into coloring and cartoons, we finished rebooking onboard before Kylee finished her cocoa. We sat and watched the new Mickey cartoons while she sipped.
I thought that they were a bit of a combination of cool retro Mickey with the gross out factor common to many modern cartoons.
Not my favorite, but I sure like them better than Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Kylee, finished with her cocoa, was ready to hit the club.
And stumbled upon Mrs. Claus reading stories on the way. I love that they do so many little special things for Christmas all through the month of December. It makes for a really unique cruise.
Afterwards, Kylee joined in with the fun in the club and Ben and I went off to try to find Mickey hidden in the clubs.
No sign of Darby O'Gill or Mickey in O'Gills Pub, so we were off to Skyline Lounge.
My favorite lounge on the Fantasy, Skyline is vaguely hypnotic. As much as I knew that we were at sea, the perpetually moving people and cars out of the "windows" said differently.
If you look closely, you can see Mickey Mouse walking past the windows in the buildings just across the Skyline from you...and some characters from a galaxy far, far away too.
Did I mention the bathrooms in the District are absolutely gorgeous?
After a while, we decided to retreat to our own private paradise and enjoy the lounge chairs and the sun. I *may* have taken a really long nap and slightly burned. I woke up to the announcement that we would be pulling away from port shortly.
We experienced a second dinner in the Enchanted Garden, but the highlight of this evening was heading back to the Walt Disney Theatre to Disney's Wishes. Chris preferred to head back to the club and so we agreed to pick him up on our way back.
Ben and Kylee and I queued early in hopes of sitting in the box seats in the balcony. Kylee loved Wishes. I thought it was precious (although Dreams is still my absolute favorite.)
I do not recommend sitting in the side box seats as many of the effects don't work very well from this angle.
Chris and Kylee were tickled pink to each get their own (different!) towel animal at turn down service.
Kylee shot toward her elephant and added it to the growing towel-menagerie on the shelves next to her bedside.
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This is Part 15 of an Ongoing Trip Report "A New Ship."
Additional sections will be found on the Trip Reports page after they are posted!
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| Our own little family café. |
I thought that they were a bit of a combination of cool retro Mickey with the gross out factor common to many modern cartoons.
Not my favorite, but I sure like them better than Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Kylee, finished with her cocoa, was ready to hit the club.
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| When what to our wondering eyes should appear... |
And stumbled upon Mrs. Claus reading stories on the way. I love that they do so many little special things for Christmas all through the month of December. It makes for a really unique cruise.
Afterwards, Kylee joined in with the fun in the club and Ben and I went off to try to find Mickey hidden in the clubs.
No sign of Darby O'Gill or Mickey in O'Gills Pub, so we were off to Skyline Lounge.
My favorite lounge on the Fantasy, Skyline is vaguely hypnotic. As much as I knew that we were at sea, the perpetually moving people and cars out of the "windows" said differently.
If you look closely, you can see Mickey Mouse walking past the windows in the buildings just across the Skyline from you...and some characters from a galaxy far, far away too.
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| The men's room has an awesome matador mosaic, reportedly. Ben declined my encouragement to take photos of said mosaic. |
After a while, we decided to retreat to our own private paradise and enjoy the lounge chairs and the sun. I *may* have taken a really long nap and slightly burned. I woke up to the announcement that we would be pulling away from port shortly.
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| I suppose the sky alone was worth waking up. |
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| Waiting for the drama to begin. |
I do not recommend sitting in the side box seats as many of the effects don't work very well from this angle.
Chris and Kylee were tickled pink to each get their own (different!) towel animal at turn down service.
Kylee shot toward her elephant and added it to the growing towel-menagerie on the shelves next to her bedside.
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This is Part 15 of an Ongoing Trip Report "A New Ship."
Additional sections will be found on the Trip Reports page after they are posted!
I loved all the Christmas events they offered on the ship. Unfortunately we didn't hit many of them. There was just too much to do all the time!
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