Bringing Home the Magic - Part 2 - 8/18/07 - 9/01/07- list of cruisers on page 1

[mickeymom923]

I just want to say that I want to be back on the Magic. The 14 days just flew by. The positive side was meeting so many new people and seeing so many old (not age) friends. I tried to say hi to everyone no matter which side of the boards they were on. Many people are on more than one side. We all were on the cruise to have fun and I know we did. Our cabin steward was great. And my "sister" in the gift shop just added to our trip making it more special. Thank you everyone who made my mom feel so special.

Negative side - the amount of unsupervised kids running around and being rude. That is one thing that really surprised me. I would like to thank the people that left us gifts in our fish extender and I had heard that people were taking some gifts out, which is a shame people have to do it.

We just booked the 9/23/07 4 day Wonder and celebrate DD Lindsay's and my birthday. Laura, aren't you going to join us this year for a piece of birthday cake.

Anyway, to quote my mom "This was the best vacation I ever had". Words just can't describe it.

Looking forward to cruising with you again.

Bev

 

[gailadams_uk]

Hi everyone,

Finally got home to UK - spent 3 days at the Beach Club after the cruise but both my husband and I were too tired to visit the parks - this was a first for us as we normally can't keep away. I blame the cruise, we enjoyed it so much.

The cruise was great - fantastic weather, made some good friends, took part in lots of acrtivities and still found time to spend quality time with daughters - what more could we ask for.

Hope everyone received the gifts we put in your fish extenders. Seems some of you had problems with "loosing" items. I gave out 50 of "things you might need" gifts from myself, Gismo1554 and Rikimuk, and also later in the cruise a personalised chocolate bar showing the route we took.
Here's a list of those rooms I gave gifts to - 1042,1044,1046,1076,2016,2024,2056,2058,2064,2079,2080,2135,2137,2138,2500,2502,2504,2635,5142,5518,6012,6037,6139,6148,6112,6114,6120,6122,6140,6142,6545,6568,6628,6643,6647,6654,7014,7136,7537,7570,7598,7600,7634,8030,8074,8100,8548,8560,8566,8582. (I am sorry but I could not leave the chocolate bars at rooms without fishextenders).
I would be interested in hearing how many of these gifts "disappeared", as if its a lot I would think twice about doing this on future cruises.

Sorry to see so few of us made it to the pirate picture - thanks Diana for taking the time to sort the photographer out for us.

I too found there was a lot more noise from older children this cruise, with them playing around in lifts and congregating on decks 4 and 3 in the early hours of the morning (1 or 2 am when my oldest daughter and myself always went for a walk around the ship). Even saw a group of yougsters one lunch time giving their server a headache, and on the last night one teenager was opening up the "unwanted picture" box in shutters and taking pictures away.
Looking at some of the ages who were hanging around I must be getting old as I would not have let my children be unsupervised at that time of night/morning.

Sorry we didn't get to meet many of you, time just seemed to fly by, and we were always rushing from one activity to the next.

Hope to meet you all again on future cruises.

 

[GrayFal]

No words for this one! Always in character!!! Or should I say A character???

Hey, that is my DH in the background...wearing Mickey ears....Todd and Gang - you looked FAB!!!

Here is my picture of you with the Hannosmom group.....

and me and DH - not quite as spiffy but enjoying ourselves none the less....

edited to add - I was a little concerned about Deck one - Cat 9 but I have to say that we really enjoyed the location between the forward and mid ship elevators and the QUIET hallways - the few times I went to deck two hallway - it struck me as being a VERY busy location.
Wouldn't hesitate to do deck one again.
JMHO

 

[disneyjunkie]

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude or offend anyone.

You guys have been of the ship for almost a week now. That’s more than enough time to rest, unpack, blah, blah, blah. Now, can you please get busy posting rest of the pictures???

 

[kaseyC]

I just want to say that I want to be back on the Magic. The 14 days just flew by. The positive side was meeting so many new people and seeing so many old (not age) friends. I tried to say hi to everyone no matter which side of the boards they were on. Many people are on more than one side. We all were on the cruise to have fun and I know we did. Our cabin steward was great. And my "sister" in the gift shop just added to our trip making it more special. Thank you everyone who made my mom feel so special.

Negative side - the amount of unsupervised kids running around and being rude. That is one thing that really surprised me. I would like to thank the people that left us gifts in our fish extender and I had heard that people were taking some gifts out, which is a shame people have to do it.

We just booked the 9/23/07 4 day Wonder and celebrate DD Lindsay's and my birthday. Laura, aren't you going to join us this year for a piece of birthday cake.

Anyway, to quote my mom "This was the best vacation I ever had". Words just can't describe it.

Looking forward to cruising with you again.

Bev

Bev, I really enjoyed meeting you and Lindsay. Especially, during our loooong walk from the top of the rock of Gibraltar to the bottom. Whenever I think of it my calves begin to ache. Hannah and I thought this was one of our best trips ever. I know our 7 night in Dec. is going to seem way to short.

 

[got2travel]

Hi everyone,

Finally got home to UK - spent 3 days at the Beach Club after the cruise but both my husband and I were too tired to visit the parks - this was a first for us as we normally can't keep away. I blame the cruise, we enjoyed it so much.

The cruise was great - fantastic weather, made some good friends, took part in lots of acrtivities and still found time to spend quality time with daughters - what more could we ask for.

Hope everyone received the gifts we put in your fish extenders. Seems some of you had problems with "loosing" items. I gave out 50 of "things you might need" gifts from myself, Gismo1554 and Rikimuk, and also later in the cruise a personalised chocolate bar showing the route we took.
Here's a list of those rooms I gave gifts to - 1042,1044,1046,1076,2016,2024,2056,2058,2064,2079,2080,2135,2137,2138,2500,2502,2504,2635,5142,5518,6012,6037,6139,6148,6112,6114,6120,6122,6140,6142,6545,6568,6628,6643,6647,6654,7014,7136,7537,7570,7598,7600,7634,8030,8074,8100,8548,8560,8566,8582. (I am sorry but I could not leave the chocolate bars at rooms without fishextenders).
I would be interested in hearing how many of these gifts "disappeared", as if its a lot I would think twice about doing this on future cruises.

Sorry to see so few of us made it to the pirate picture - thanks Diana for taking the time to sort the photographer out for us.

I too found there was a lot more noise from older children this cruise, with them playing around in lifts and congregating on decks 4 and 3 in the early hours of the morning (1 or 2 am when my oldest daughter and myself always went for a walk around the ship). Even saw a group of yougsters one lunch time giving their server a headache, and on the last night one teenager was opening up the "unwanted picture" box in shutters and taking pictures away.
Looking at some of the ages who were hanging around I must be getting old as I would not have let my children be unsupervised at that time of night/morning.

Sorry we didn't get to meet many of you, time just seemed to fly by, and we were always rushing from one activity to the next.

Hope to meet you all again on future cruises.

We got both the useful items and the candy bar. And let me tell you the useful items came in handy. I had forgotten to bring anything to put my hair up under my wig on pirate night, so the rubber bands were much appreciated!

 

[got2travel]

This is by no means a complete trip report (that's coming later and will be quite long....I tend to ramble a lot). But wanted to get some pics up since so many folks have been asking.


General Onboard Pictures


In Paris, waiting for the train to Barcelona

My very first live view of the Magic. This was my first Disney cruise.

Waiting to board in the Barcelona port.

The only sunset I actually took time to catch. Can't even remember where we were, but I don't think we had left the Med. yet.

Formal night at our table....sorry Chris, I guess I didn't get a picture of you that night

Looks like a lake huh? This is the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. I couldn't believe how calm it was.

At the Prince and Princess dinner. That's our Assistant Server, Geddings, hanging out with his princesses.

Group Brunch at Palos

The worst drink I have ever had, a Bloody Brain

Arriving home in Port Canaveral

My cheeseburger at the airport! I had been craving a rare, juicy cheeseburger. On the cruise, they would only cook them well done and dry as a bone. I joked that I was going to ask my friend to bring one to the airport when he picked me up. I asked for a home cooked one and ended up with a Nations burger, but it was still heaven.

 

[got2travel]

Barcelona


Chocolate Museum

They even love Disney films in Spain

And our beloved castle - this was not actually in the museum while we were there, just a photo of it

La Sagrada Familia

The end of our bicycle tour

 

[got2travel]

Gibraltar



Gathering for our tour

The 'Rock' - little did I knew when I took this picutre that I'd actually walk the entire rock!

The cable car up

The Magic as seen from the top of the Rock

Our friends at the top

 

[got2travel]

Cadiz


We did a DCL excursion to the Bee and Honey Museum...more of a bee farm than a museum.

We donned real bee keeper suits and played with the bees.

The bees were everywhere, even on the lense of my camera

The Magic in the port of Cadiz

Went to Flamenco at La Cava that night

Spanish Tapas during the show - Jambon=ham, Chicaronnes=crispy pork - at home this would have been fried pork rinds, but obviously different here. It looks like all fat, but it was actually quite tasty meat (at least I think it was meat, but it was good).

 

[got2travel]

Tenerife


The town as seen from the ship

A cute market I found while wandering the streets

On the way up to Mt Teide....geez, thought I'd left the fog in San Francisco

Further up the mountain, much of Star Wars Episode 4 (the very first one made) was filmed here

Several observatories on the mountain. One of these is used to assist NASA when the space shuttles are exiting or entering the atmosphere.

 

[got2travel]

Castaway Cay


Sunrise over the island

They welcomed us back to the island

Leaving.....very sad momment, this means it's almost over

 

[got2travel]

Last but certainly not least......


Pirate Night


Me and Mom

Mom and ..... uh oh....Captain Jack

Fun in the dining room

Look out, there he is again

Chip....or is it Dale?...was quite fascinated with...yep, you guessed it...Captain Jack

There be pirates lurking

But look, Mickey's on his way to help

Dancing pirates

Ending the night with fireworks

 

[bellelinus]

Monica, your pictures are awesome! I will share one of me with Todd -- Todd, I emailed you three pictures taken that night.

 

[GrayFal]

Barcelona and Gaudi .....

A sidewalk......

Early morning breakfast at Topsiders ....and just plain EARLY or is it very late?

Caviar at Sessions

Alone Time Spa Villa.....ahhhhhhh

Arriving in Tenerife

...and Garcia Rocks at Mt Tiende

 

[ejw]

Hey Monica,

kenny thinks photo credits should be given! He's pretty sure he took the one of you at the bee farm.

ellen

 

[ejw]

Hey Pat,

Kenny wants to remind you how pencil thin our cruise director is in person!

ellen

 

[got2travel]

Hey Monica,

kenny thinks photo credits should be given! He's pretty sure he took the one of you at the bee farm.

ellen

You are absolutey right. Thank you Kenny for your outstanding photography skills.

 

[ladypoo]

Monica, I didnt realize that was you sitting at Todd's table. Show's how observant I am. Until I saw the pics here. I thought you were his family along with Melissa. LOL...

 

[rikimuk]

OK heres a link to the Disney Pirate Night photo. Enjoy

If the photo doesnt show heres the web address -> http://www.box.net/shared/ug6nc8h85b

Lindsay