We got home from fall break last Sunday. I have spent the last week recovering from my vacation, getting back in the groove and doing a shit ton of laundry. First, the cruise. We had an amazing time, and the only negative thing I can say is that Charlie and I were hoping for a little more time to ourselves but the girls didn't like the kids' club quite at much as we did. It's not that the kids' club was bad, they had a ton of activities, it's just that the girls would have rather been with us. So, most of the time we let them. Sigh. However, the food was great, the service was excellent and the shows were amazing. Disney does not disappoint. They have "wave phones" in all the rooms which are cell phones that work on their network so you can talk and text on them. Two to a room. So we gave Andy one and just let him go wherever he wanted on the ship. It was a little nerve wracking at first but he loved it and he had a blast. We barely saw him the whole week. The girls weren't quite old enough to be able to want to do that, but we were able to sneak away for and adults only dinner one night and an adults brunch another day. Amazing!
Overall, it was an amazing trip. They had characters out and about all day long, there was a pirate party and a Halloween party with shows and characters (and fireworks one night) and the customer service was over the top. Sarah lost a tooth on board and I went up the the service desk to ask if they did anything. Mainly I wanted to see if they had any of those plastic tooth necklaces like they give out at school for the kids to put the tooth in, because she has been dying for one of those. They didn't, but instead they gave us a pin/button that said "I lost a tooth", which several of the cast members then asked her about, and a certificate that had her name on it commemorating that she lost a tooth aboard the ship. So cool! It's the little things that makes Disney so special.
We got in on Friday and as a bonus the kids got to spend two days with Charlie's mom while I drove up to the Orlando area for a quick visit with April from Florida then we headed home early Sunday morning. From the moment we got home until late Wednesday night the washer and dryer ran non-stop. I am not kidding. Between the three outfits per day we wore on the cruise and all the stuff we had bagged but not yet washed from our lice incident before we left, we were working those machines overtime. I finally thought we were done until Charlie pointed out two bags in the basement yesterday afternoon. I think those might sit for a few more days.
So we're home, back on schedule, and in the end I didn't gain any weight despite drinking wine and eating dessert every night (but also working out everyday on the ship). Now if I can just get Charlie to do it again next year...
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