Eggs

Colored eggs, that is. It's been many, many years since we dyed eggs at our house. We're pretty sure that Daniel and never done it before, so we spent Saturday morning coloring eggs.

We started out with some solid colored eggs. One of the kits we got was for tie-dye eggs, which we did next. They turned out really neat!

I went a grabbed a box of crayons and we all started drawing on them. Yep, mine is a Disney Cruise ship.

Daniel's smiley face.

Spring

Spring is finally here! For the last couple weeks, if you looked outside, you'd see signs of spring. The trees are blossoming, the birds are tweeting, and yesterday we finally got some warm weather!

Until yesterday, it's been quite cold out. Oh, and we've had lots of rain as well. But yesterday it warmed up and today's the same, warm and sunny. We'll have to see if it lasts...

Water droplets aren't particularly "spring-y", but I thought it looked cool and decided to throw it in here anyways.

Disney Wonder, The Mexican Riviera: Part II

(Notes: If you missed Part I, you can find it here. Also, I have so many pictures, too many to share here. If your interested in seeing/hearing more about our vacation, I posted a whole trip report on a Disney forum, which includes a post for each day of the trip, if your interested.)

The view of Cabo San Lucas from decks 9 and 10 were beautiful! The days at sea were a bit windy, but all three days in port were warm.

You can see Lover Beach over on the right.


Thrusday was Pirate Night! Sadly Alina ended up getting sick that day and spent the day in the stateroom, which was disappointing since she was really looking forward to Pirate Night. The rest of us got our pictures with Captain Hook and Smee, Mickey and Minnie, Chip 'n Dale, and Peter Pan in the pirate outfits.


Our dinner was in Parrot Cay, where we had a pirate themed menu. We all got Pirates in the Caribbean bandanas and they had all the kids dance around the dining room and do the limbo. Afterwards was the Pirate Party up on deck, finished off with fireworks. Disney is the only cruise line to have fireworks at sea. There was a HUGE buffet, where they had everything from desserts, crepes, ice cream, and turkey legs, but we were all full from dinner.

We ate a Triton's for lunch and dinner almost all of the days. In the bottom of the windows was a hidden Mickey.

The last Animation was Daisy Duck. Mine turned out a little cross eyed...

Two of our amazing servers, Ozer and Marvin. They were awesome! After dessert they would have a magic trick or a puzzle for us to solve using crayons. 

On the last day I was making my way across the ship on Deck 4 when I came across Cinderella, then Snow White!

Disney Wonder, The Mexican Riviera: Part I

This was our first cruise, but I've been a Disneyland fan pretty much my whole life (and so is the rest of my family). We were excepting the Disney quality and service and we definitely got that, plus more! The live shows every night were fantastic, the activities were lots of fun, the food was amazing, and the crew were awesome, especially our servers.


(note: I have so many pictures, too many to share here. If your interested in seeing/hearing more about our vacation, I posted a whole trip report on a Disney forum, which includes a post for each day of the trip, if your interested.)

(The Wonder looks tiny from this angle...)

On February 26th we boarded the Disney Wonder, the second oldest ship in Disney Cruise Line's (DCL) fleet and sister ship to the Disney Magic. The first two days were at sea, then 1 day at Puerto Vallarta, 2 days at Cabo San Lucas, and one more day at sea before we arrived back at LA.





Our first day at sea my siblings and I went up for breakfast at The Beach Blanket Buffet together. Having a doughnut with breakfast made me happy! We don't get them a home very often, so I enjoy them when we get to have them! 

One of my favorite activities that I did was Animation, where crew member Ponz taught us all how to draw different characters. I missed the first day with Mickey Mouse since we were watching The Muppets, but I was able to go to the rest of them. Here we have Ponz showing us how to draw Goofy.


And here is my finished drawing. I'm quite happy with how it turned out!

The day before we arrived at Puerto Vallarta, our first stop, there was a fun Mexican show up on deck at the Goofy Pool, called Minnie's Fiesta Grande. I loved seeing all the classic characters in their Mexican outfits!


Both Tiana and Daniel decided to buy sombreros in Puerto Vallarta!


In Puerto Vallarta, we went for lunch at Margarita Grill, by the suggestion of our van driver. They make the guacamole and salsa fresh at your table! Here Grandma and Grandpa are enjoying their drinks.


We also got to see LOTS of characters! And every day they had different outfits on as well. I'm a big character fan, so I was always getting my pictures with them! It seems to be the older I get, the more excited I am to meet them!


Mexican Mickey and Mexican Daniel!


There are three dinning rooms, and on the Wonder they are Triton's, Parrot Cay (pronounced "key), and Animator's Palate. We were really looking forward to Animator's Palate, because throughout dinner the room changes from black and white to color!

Here's a time lapse video my dad and I made of our table at AP:

I have more pictures to share, so I'll be working on getting part II up soon! 

It's Been A While...

...since I've been around here. Since my last post, which was, wow, over five weeks ago, I was busy prepping for our vacation, which we left for on February 26. My whole family, plus grandma and grandpa, were able to go on one of our dream vacations: a Disney Cruise! Thanks to the Kids Sail Free promotion (which I barely made, since I turned 18 just a few days after coming home) we were able to book a really great deal last fall to cruise on the Disney Wonder to the Mexican Riviera. And it was awesome! Everything from the actives, the characters, the food, and our servers where fantastic! We all had even more fun than we thought we would and were very sad when the trip came to an end.

So until I get the rest of the photos edited and posts written up, here's one of my favorite shots of the characters from the Adventures Away! Deck Party when we left LA.