Cruise Day!

Sunday morning = Cruise Day!! We packed up at All Star Music and had one more character meal before heading to Port Canaveral. We went over to the Grand Floridian to 1900 Park Fare for the Supercalifragilistic Breakfast. It's a buffet and features Pooh, Tigger, Mary Poppins, Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter. The character interactions were great. Jacob loved seeing Pooh and Tigger and the Mad Hatter. He was not too keen on Alice or Mary Poppins. This disturbed Mary Poppins who was smitten with Jacob. She kept coming back to our table to try to get Jacob to talk to her. It never worked. Pretty funny. The kids enjoyed the interactions. I thought the food was good (yummy strawberry soup), Paul thought it wasn't his favorite but a fun morning. We love the Grand Floridian too - so beautiful! We also had some snack credits to use up so we popped into the Polynesian to use up those credits (still not sure how we had so many left). Then it was Port Canaveral or bust!

Our arrival time was scheduled for 11 - 11:30. We arrived right at 11am and got into the building pretty quickly. We got our key cards and we were boarding group 3..definitely an advantage in checking in online early. We thought about getting in line to get the kids registered for the kids clubs but it was so long we figured we'd wait until we got on the ship. We only waited maybe 15 minutes and then they called our boarding group. We were on the ship by 11:30! We walked around a bit and then headed up for to the kids clubs so we could register the kids. It didn't open until noon but we waited and met a nice family from California who had girls the exact same ages as Emma & Lily. The girls bonded pretty quickly and wanted to hang out the whole cruise. We finally got the kids registered and let them explore the amazing kids clubs areas. I wasn't sure Jacob was ever going to come out of Andy's room!

By the time we finished up there Erin & Tom had boarded! We met up with them and headed for lunch in Enchanted Garden. Gagi and Grampy were also on board so we met up with them too. After lunch our rooms were ready so we went to check them out. We had 2 adjoining inside staterooms and it was perfect for our family. The kids loved the virtual portholes! We went to a DVC Member meet up and got some fun goodies. And before we knew it it was time for the safety drill then the Sail Away party and dinner!

We met up with whole traveling party at dinner - Nana, Papa John, Mimi & Waggy, Gagi & Grampy and Erin & Tom. It was nice that we all got to sit together and we loved our servers! After dinner Emma & Jacob went to play in the kids clubs and then Julia, Lily, Paul and I went to the Golden Mickey's show. It's a fun show and the girls really liked it. It was a pretty late by that point so we finally collected Jacob and Emma - who didn't want to leave and headed back to our room. The kids always love coming back at night and seeing the bunk beds set up. A great day and a great way for our vacation to continue!