One More Magical Day

(I know, I know.  We are all sick of looking at these Disney Cruise posts.  Sorry.  Life has been, well, no luxury cruise for me, and my blog was the first to suffer.  But I have had a few days this week to work with my backlogged file of photos, and I hope to get caught up with everything real soon.  But first, I have to finish the posts about the Disney Cruise, then finish the RV trip posts, and then the holidays, and then...  Well, I might not get caught up as soon as I'd like, but I'm sure gonna give it a shot, 

so here we go!)

HAving had a fantastic few days in the sand and sun of Cabo, we were ready to spend the last day and a half hanging out on board while the Wonder speeded its way back to LA.  Luke apparently took "hanging out" quite literally as he was hanging his head down the stairs of the main lobby as the passengers were making their way to the dining rooms.

Friday night was a special night in the dining room - it was international night!  After dinner, all of the waiters came parading out of the kitchen holding the flags of their various countries.  It was so cool!  There were some many different countries represented there.  At the end of the parade were the chefs carrying the grand finale - flaming baked Alaska!  Yum!

Of course, our favorites were a certain Jamaican and a certain Italian who need no introduction.  My boys loved these guys!

Good ol Andre.  I wish we could have taken him off the boat with us!

Saturday was the last full day on board and a sea day, so the kids had one more chance to do all their favorite stuff.  For Caleb, that was cooking school at the Lab.

Luke was at the Lab too.  He developed an addiction to Mario Kart on this trip.

Nathan doing some last minute pin trading with the crew.

I turned around and saw Peter Pan himself watching all the action with Goofy in the lobby down below.  This kind of thing, just having the Disney characters popping in and out and hanging around is part of what makes a Disney Cruise so magical.

I gave Al & Nate a camera to get some pics of the adult-restricted teen lounge up on the very top deck of the ship.  They took dozens of pics, but these are the only ones that actually looked like anything.  I guess what goes on in the teen lounge will remain top secret.  It must be a great place, though, because they spent an awful lot of time up there.

I took the opportunity on that last day to get a few fun shots of the place we called home all week.  I LOVE the little Disney details, like the Mickey hand pointing to the floor # over the elevators and that all your favorite Disney tunes are piped into the hallways 24/7.  Zippadeedooda!

All hands on deck!

Look up! Its the great chandelier.

The statue of Ariel in the main lobby.

The whole ship was a great combination of glamor and whimsey that I loved!

In the afternoon I got a text on my WavePhone inviting all the parents to the main stage for a special performance!

All of the kids on board got to perform some awesome singing and dancing "Friendship Rocks" on the big stage with Minnie and Mickey themselves.  It was awesome and so fun to see how excited they were to be up there performing for us!  What a great way to say goodbye!

That night, we saw the final farewell stage show that celebrated so many of the Disney movies.  It was awesome - almost as good as the Friendship Rocks show that the kids put on.