Day after the cruise

We had an extra day in Florida after the cruise so we stayed at the Sheraton Dolphin and extended our fun!

The hotel is right on the Disney Boardwalk so we smuggled ourselves into the Boardwalk hotel and enjoyed their carnival themed pool and water slide.

In the evening Ryan got to be part of the entertainment.  What can I say the cruise was pricey and he needed the tips..haha!

Here are the girls on the plane flight home...we wore them out!

Until we meet again!

This was definitely a "Dream" vacation and we look forward to "seeing you real soon" Mickey!

Miscellaneous...

Here are a few pictures that I liked:

In the main lobby was a handmade gingerbread house.  The entire lobby smelled of gingerbread!

There was a detective game the kids could play on the ship.  The clues were found in different pictures displayed throughout the entire ship.  We definetly got our exercise in running from picture to picture to solve the mystery!

My mom has famous sayings like whatchamacallits, whozi whatzits, etc.  The ship had a store name just for her!!

Castaway Cay

Our favorite stop is always Castaway Cay.  We had not been here for three years and it had a few changes made to it from the last time we were there.  There are now two "Cookie's", private cabanas and  a water slide/play area.

They had the island decorated for Christmas so we had to stop for the photo op!  Even the trams were decorated with garland.  I love the holiday season.  We were so lucky to be able to come during the holiday season and see all the decorations!

Ryan got up early and ran the 5K on the island.  He was so glad he did since the had been eating his fair share of Mickey heads on the cruise!

Here are two of my favorite photo spots.  I love that the ship can be seen in the backround with Pluto and I love the paintings on the bouyies.

A family tradition is to rent cruisers and ride along the bike trail.  The first time Meredith went on the cruise she was 4 years old and was able to ride the entire trail.  We all love to ride bikes and have lots of fun and laughs as we do so together!  

Horn War!!

During our day at Sea the Disney Magic was docked at Castaway Cay so our Captain decided to do a "drive by" and have a friendly horn war with the Magic.  This was probably the highlight of the trip!  The Magic is only able to play "When you wish upon a star" over their horn.  However the Dream has six different horns:  "A dream is a wish your heart makes", "A pirates life for me", "It's a small world", "When you wish upon a star" are among some of them.  It was great to hear all the different horns!  Needless to say the Dream won!

Here is a picture of the Magic:

 Here is a far off picture of the Dream.  The Dream is twice the size of the Magic!

Horn War!!

During our day at Sea the Disney Magic was docked at Castaway Cay so our Captain decided to do a "drive by" and have a friendly horn war with the Magic.  This was probably the highlight of the trip!  The Magic is only able to play "When you wish upon a star" over their horn.  However the Dream has six different horns:  "A dream is a wish your heart makes", "A pirates life for me", "It's a small world", "When you wish upon a star" are among some of them.  It was great to hear all the different horns!  Needless to say the Dream won!

Here is a picture of the Magic:

 Here is a far off picture of the Dream.  The Dream is twice the size of the Magic!

Character time!

What would a Disney Cruise be without some pictures with some characters.  There were plenty of photo ops available.  Here are some that we took advantage of:

Pirate Night

One of the dining night is Pirate night.  People dress as pirates, the characters dress as pirates, Jack Sparrow can be seen wandering around the ship and there is a firework display to end the evening.