Adventure In The Great Wide Somewhere

Have you ever wondered what it's like to take your kids on their very first cruise? Have you ever wondered if they'd like a Disney Cruise? Hop aboard and enjoy a throwback trip report in it's entirety!   Travel the Western Caribbean on the Disney Magic with two new cruisers!   Episode II: Magic-al Texas Thanksgiving with the Mouse Disney Magic November 17, 2012 Seven Night Western Caribbean And We're Off! And The Eating Begins Confession Time Princesses and Palo Naps, Formal Wear and the Disney Point Have a Little Character Go For the Ears Casual Evening Silence Before the Stingrays Tenders and Iguanas and Stingrays, Oh My! All Good Pirates Take Naps Is it Fall Back and Spring Forward or the Other Way Around? Innie Belly Buttons and Other Oddities It's Like EPCOT Cozumel Looks Very Nice From Onboard Thanksgiving! My Little Penguins Having a Food Moment Why Did They Have to Play the Goodbye Song? To answer the obvious question,...

Thanksgiving Dinner, y'all!   Our servers said we were welcome to keep these menus!  So happy. Heading to the aft and Parrot Cay, our table already had the cornbread service and butter out, along with some nondairy rolls for the vegans. All apparently super yummy. Love this! Aromatic, light and flavorful. Kylee and I had preordered stir fried veggies and the servers brought us more couscous, since we’d liked that the other day. You aren't in danger of starving. They also brought us the Gingered Soba Noodles, “just to try it”. Stir Fried veggies. I think the noodles were pretty good, the couscous was quite yummy but the stir fried veggies had this greasiness that was hard to get around. Chris and Ben enjoyed their standard Thanksgiving Dinner with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry jelly, and cornbread and honey butter. I ran to drop Kylee for a short time in the club and headed back in time to eat some dessert. This showed up… Tort...

So after another nice morning run, Cozumel is still out there somewhere. in which the weather seemed to finally cooperate and be cool but I ran cute little half loops back and forth as the forward section of the ship was blocked off for mooring operations… DO NOT ENTER.  Oh, Okay! I stretched on deck four and watched the various people running around preparing the ship for our arrival in Cozumel. Quiet morning. It really is dizzying to look all the way down off the side of the ship at the dock.  I don’t know how the captain docks. Apparently, it's like looking down from the seventh floor of a building to parallel park.  My hat is off to the captain. Anyway, I walked back through the ship to good old 5020 and Ben headed out for a run. I took both the kids up to the (entirely abandoned) Mickey Pool. Honestly, if you stay on board when the ship is in port, you can really make the most of things. So they splashed and fell in the pool and ran around...