Adventure In The Great Wide Somewhere

STOP THE PRESSES! This just in ! The Disney Parks Blog announced that they will be adding Olaf meet and greets starting "In Summer" as well as adding a Frozen section to the well loved award winning musical "Disney Dreams...an Enchanted Classic." Now to return to your regularly scheduled programming.

In case you've been on a deserted island for the last two years, Which come to think of it, doesn't sound like such a bad plan. Frozen is kind of a big deal. It passed Toy Story 3 as the highest grossing animated film. It won two Oscars for best animated film and best original song for "Let It Go." The soundtrack went triple platinum and (in a totally non-scientific observation) almost every other girl dressed as Elsa for "Elsa-ween 2014" despite the movie being nearly a year old at that point. After drawing waits upward of 300 minutes (yes, five hours, not a typo) at Walt Disney World meet and greets, it only seems natural that you should be able to see Anna and Elsa on the high seas. Last summer, the sister visited guests aboard the Disney Fantasy, the Magic and the Wonder and finally in the last month, the Dream. So how do you get to meet the princess and the ice queen? Do you need FastPasses? Do they even do that on the ship or do the lines g...

The exciting evening the night before and cruising into the Atlantic time zone combined to make our rising considerably later than normal. Like, the sun was up in the sky! So strange. After breakfast in Cabanas, the children begged to head over to the Oceaneer Lab. So off they went. Ben and I headed up to Meridian to wait for the beginning of what is usually one of our favorite presentations, the Art of the Theme Show Ship Tour. Everything the cast member told us about was a fascinating tidbit, but forty-five minutes of the tour were us sitting in the lounge. So it was more a tell than a show and tell and I missed that angle on the presentation. My favorite new fact from this particular rendition? From a family perspective, the reason that many people find vacations stressful is the complete swap of the routine. By allowing for the family to separate for individual activities and regroup for other activities, you preserve a sense of normal daily life. I love that Disney thinks abou...