Disney Cruise - DAY 1

Without a doubt the best gift received this Christmas was a Disney Cruise with the Stevens side of the family.  So the week after Christmas we flew over to Florida, met the rest of my family and set off on the Disney Dream cruise ship.  We decided that it would be a little bit more difficult to have our 2 little ones there with us so we left Connor and Dylan at home.  We had scheduled for Joyze, Camille's sister, to come and babysit.  Boy was it worth it!!  No diapers, no naps!!  AWESOME!!  There was so much that we experienced each and every day that I decided to break it up into blog posts for each day.  We also took so many pictures that we had to spread it out over each day.

After waking up and eating breakfast in our hotel in Orlando we all piled in a shuttle that took us to where the Disney Dream was docked.  It took us about 45 minutes before we could see the ship in site.  It was a beauty!!

WE ARE READY TO GO!!!

We checked in and this was the first view of our room...

After we got unpacked from the room we all wanted to hit the top deck....Logan was in the pool within seconds and the rest of us just took in the whole scene.

THEN WE HAD A SAILING AWAY PARTY!!  This consisted of the whole entire upper deck turning into a dance party with many Disney characters coming out on stage. Even my Dad was working it :)

 

As we were sailing away we went to lookout at the Florida coast to waive goodbye.  They gave everyone these colored waivers to wave goodbye to all the people watching us depart.  Whenever we would leave anywhere we would sound a loud horn and it always played a Disney song.  It was fun!  Beautiful view as we are leaving.

 

On our way to dinner we ran into Captain MICKEY and had to get a picture!!

We ate dinner in the Royal Gardens restaurant the 1st night.  It was spectacular and the food was incredible.  I had 3 entrees and 3 desserts almost every night and the 1st night was no exception.  

It also was CAMILLE'S BIRTHDAY on our 1st day of the cruise.  What a way to celebrate her 28th birthday!!  The funny part was that for some reason our waiters thought that she was 21 so they came with a 21 sign and gave her a speech about how now she could drink and drinking is so wonderful :)  Haha!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMILLE!!  WE ALL LOVE YOU!!

 

Right after dinner before going to our 1st show we had to sneak in a quick game of miniature golf....

After a delicious dinner and miniature golf we went to the Disney broadway production of The Villains.  It was an amazing show that all of us really enjoyed.

After our show it was time for bed.  We were exhausted and ready to sleep.  We were so excited to walk in and see that a bunk bed had appeared for our kids!!  Seriously Disney thought of everything.  We took a few pictures and then crashed.