egesicki
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2011
Hi everyone, welcome to my first pre-trip report. I have learned so much reading reports others have written, and have very much enjoyed living vicariously through trip reports, so I think it's time I try my hand at one. Bear with me, I am a little intimidated to learn how to link the posts for a table of contents, and I have heard posting photos takes a little patience so I will do my best to catch on. Any helpful tips are appreciated!
Cast of Characters:
For this cruise it will be me, Liz, age purposely left out but let's say I have a good chuckle when I get carded buying alcohol, which happened earlier this month. But I digress.. As the title indicates, DH Chuck is not sailing with us. More about that in a sec. I am bringing our two boys, Ted, 10 when we sail, and CJ, 5 when we sail. We are from NE Wisconsin, a small town, but less than an hour from Green Bay, and DH is a huge Packer fan. We all love to travel, and we have a goal of visiting all 50 states. We are not quite to 40 states yet. DH is a commercial carpenter, I manage the Material Planning team for a packaging company.
This is us at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone earlier this month.
Chuck, Ted and I have been on two Disney cruises before. We sailed the Dream the February she launched on a 4 night Bahamas with Nassau and Castaway Cay. After CJ was born we sailed on the Wonder, a 4 night Bahamas with Key West, Nassau and Castaway Cay, that time my dad went with us. I am totally hooked, on cruises and on DCL in particular. Before we had kids, DH and I were on vacation in Key West, and were kind of just hanging out in Mallory Square, and we happened to see a ship depart. I cant recall which one, it was white, lol! But we were both amazed how big it was, and in particular how it rotated 180 degrees in place to depart. Ever since then I wanted to try a cruise and I was able to convince DH twice. Now, the novelty is worn off for him and he'd rather try something new. I on the other hand have really come to appreciate the service, the cleanliness, the time the kids can spend on their own, in short, peace of mind so I can relax. We could probably find this on other lines as well, and for our budget we may very well try another one. But for now, knowing where everything is, how stuff works, etc is one more thing that takes the stress off me. Our first time I felt like we missed things, the second time was better but still had a list of "next time" things. Seriously, it's like you can study for a cruise! But this studying I thoroughly enjoy. I spend hours reading up. So on to the other sections, and I will fill you in what I have planned so far.
Cast of Characters:
For this cruise it will be me, Liz, age purposely left out but let's say I have a good chuckle when I get carded buying alcohol, which happened earlier this month. But I digress.. As the title indicates, DH Chuck is not sailing with us. More about that in a sec. I am bringing our two boys, Ted, 10 when we sail, and CJ, 5 when we sail. We are from NE Wisconsin, a small town, but less than an hour from Green Bay, and DH is a huge Packer fan. We all love to travel, and we have a goal of visiting all 50 states. We are not quite to 40 states yet. DH is a commercial carpenter, I manage the Material Planning team for a packaging company.
This is us at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone earlier this month.
Chuck, Ted and I have been on two Disney cruises before. We sailed the Dream the February she launched on a 4 night Bahamas with Nassau and Castaway Cay. After CJ was born we sailed on the Wonder, a 4 night Bahamas with Key West, Nassau and Castaway Cay, that time my dad went with us. I am totally hooked, on cruises and on DCL in particular. Before we had kids, DH and I were on vacation in Key West, and were kind of just hanging out in Mallory Square, and we happened to see a ship depart. I cant recall which one, it was white, lol! But we were both amazed how big it was, and in particular how it rotated 180 degrees in place to depart. Ever since then I wanted to try a cruise and I was able to convince DH twice. Now, the novelty is worn off for him and he'd rather try something new. I on the other hand have really come to appreciate the service, the cleanliness, the time the kids can spend on their own, in short, peace of mind so I can relax. We could probably find this on other lines as well, and for our budget we may very well try another one. But for now, knowing where everything is, how stuff works, etc is one more thing that takes the stress off me. Our first time I felt like we missed things, the second time was better but still had a list of "next time" things. Seriously, it's like you can study for a cruise! But this studying I thoroughly enjoy. I spend hours reading up. So on to the other sections, and I will fill you in what I have planned so far.
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