Adventure In The Great Wide Somewhere

Here's one of my new favorite blog hops today: Three Things Thursday!  (Be sure to link up on her blog !) Since I already have a blog (and three blogs preceding this one) what haven't I already shared? Once Upon a Time There Was a Princess Who Hit the Submit Button on Round 2 of the Disney Parks Moms Panel Application and then...   1.) Sighed a deep sigh of relief!  And done! After a long afternoon of editing, homeschooling, and proofreading, Chris ended up with an upset stomach. Rather than wait to see if I also got sick, I ran outside to take advantage of the last bit of daylight and shoot my application video (after cleaning up the floor and taking care of my kiddo, of course). Once the children were nestled all snug in their beds, I uploaded, copied, and compressed my video. Then I took out my trusty application and prepared to copy it word for word, comma for comma, into the online application. ( No copying and pasting! ) Aft...

Welcome to those of you joining me from Disney Mamas and those of you just hopping aboard. I am the 3rd stop on our Magical Blogorail . Sometimes you just need a little push to get through the frustration of learning something new. For our (then) toddler son, swimming seemed insurmountable. Then one day, while we lazed around (because napping wasn't going to happen that day) Samantha Brown hopped off of a ship in Grand Cayman, into a whole group of stingrays. He knew, that very moment, that he wanted to learn to swim. And he wanted to swim with the stingrays. Disney Cruise Line offers two very different stingray experiences on a Western Caribbean itinerary. So what's the difference? Castaway Ray's Stingray Adventure Location: Stingray Hut and Lagoon, Castaway Cay, The Bahamas Cost: $36 ages 5-9, $45 ages 10-adults Duration: 1 hour (10 minute orientation, 50 minutes with the stingrays) Simple as stepping off of the ship and onto the dock, Castaw...

Hang onto your pixie dust! In case you don't follow the hullaballoo on either twitter (via #DisneyMP ), Facebook ( Amazing Adventures of the DisneyMP 2014 Search and others), or discussion boards (like the DIS  Moms Panel Search thread), the last six weeks slowly melted away. 2015 Disney Parks Moms Panel Search | R2, is that you? We submitted our round one applications, featuring such puzzlers as " How many "frozen fractals" do you think Queen Elsa had all around?" before the end of Friday, September 5th.   Then we waited, visited, and wondered about rice and the number 71. We debated the virtues of the Oxford comma, spellcheck, and generally hung out having fun. After all the mystery clues and spectacular fun of waiting in round 1 , last Friday, my email exploded with pixie dust! That's about how much I read, before I forwarded it to my husband, dropped the phone, and started bouncing around the house. I spent most of the weekend gri...

Welcome Wordless Wednesday Blog Hoppers! Thank you to Focused on the Magic for hosting!  

The first time we took the plunge (so to speak) the ship looked beautiful, the staterooms comfortable but would "rotational dining," prominently featured in the Disney Cruise Line planning DVD live up to the Disney magic? Besides, what is rotational dining? Do I need to make ADRs? What about snacks, room service, and coffee? Rotational Dining   n. an innovative and unique dining plan where a family and serving team rotate to each of the three main dining rooms together and in turn so that you can experience each of the different restaurants. Main Dining or Late Dining? During booking, the option to select either the main or late seating for dinner pops up after you enter your cruiser information. During each dinner seating the Walt Disney Theatre hosts the evenings show so while main dining enjoys dinner then a show, late dining enjoys the early show followed by late dinner. This is really a matter of personal preference. Late diners enjoy t...