Living a Fantasy!

Disney is a love shared by our entire family! We enjoy going to Disney and spending our time living a fairytale and experiencing the rides, shows, resorts and restaurants! Our family also loves cruise vacations and we have done many... very many! So if you are our family...What better combo than Disney and the Disney Fantasy cruise? We create so many wonderful memories together. Some think ... why go to Disney so often? There are a few reasons. Number 1. We love it! Number 2. We own DVC and therefore can enjoy wonderful accomodations at a low cost and Number 3...It simply makes us happy!

This year we spent one night at Bay Lake Towers next to the Magic Kingdom. Though we personally love the ambience of our home resort Animal Kingdom Villas more...we absolutely loved the ease and convenience of BLT, especially since we were staying there only 1 night before boarding the Disney Fantasy! Walking back and forth between the Magic Kingdom and the hotel proved to be a leisurely and sightseeing stroll! We grapped a quick meal and hopped on a few rides.

Po was able to ride his first coaster, Goofy's barnstormer and rode it we did... THREE times in a row! We hopped on the new double Dumbo, Aladdin's Magic Carpets and Pirates too! But of course, the highlight of Shasha's trip to the MK was meeting up with her kindergarten teacher...Miss G!

Can you only imagine the magical moments that will forever be remembered by my daughter? Shasha and Miss G emjoyed watching the Electrical Mainstreet Parade together, strolled down Main Street USA hand in hand and watched Wishes! Miss G truly is a teacher that has left a lasting impression on our daughter both in and out of the classroom! Teachers THAT great are hard to come by! The next morning we enjoyed the company of Mickey, Pluto, Lilo an Stitch at O'hana before heading over to the Harmony Barber Shop at the Magic Kingdom for Shasha's haircut. Shasha has only EVER had her hair cut here and on the Disney Magic cruise ship!And of course zipping to the Polynesian for our morning breakfast at O'hana was fun and fast on board the monorail!

Before we knew it...it was time to board the bus to whisk us away to Port Canaveral where we boarded the Disney Fantasy.

Thanks to a DVC offer for June cruises we were upgraded from our 11C stateroom and instead enjoyed a verandah room! Thank you DVC!

It was fantastic but I must admit the kids both were disappointed that we did not have a virtual porthole as we had last year.

But that was OK as we reminded them that next summer we will be back to an inside stateroom with a virtual porthole.

We loved our Western Caribbean cruise that took us to Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Costa Maya and Disney's Castaway Cay! We had terrific weather and wonderful adventures! We all enjoyed our visit to the Sea Turtle farm in the Caymans and our beach visits in both Cozumel and Costa Maya.

But of course, Castaway Cay is an absolute highlight! It is so beautiful with its crystal clear blue waters and white sandy beaches.

Having ice cream, drinks and a delicious Barbeque lunch at our disposal only adds to the true pleasure of the island!

And the weather was absolutely wonderful for the length of our entire cruise. It just doesn't get any better than that! Well, except seeing the smiles on our faces! That is how we know that this was a memorable vacation that was priceless!

It was very sad realizing that our time on this beautiful ship was over after 7 nights of calling her home. However, knowing that we were spending the next 3 nights at our favorite Animal Kingdom Villas resort took some of the heart ache away. I always book a value room at Jambo House and we lucked out this time with a beautiful savannah view room!

We spent many hours enjoying our balcony just relaxing and loving the company of the animals while enjoying drinks and snacks! Of course we also visited all of the parks and ate many great meals at some of our favorite restaurants!

We took in the Wishes fireworks once again from the comfort of the Tommorowland Terrace while enjoying delicious desserts on our last night and returned back to our resort where we slept with giraffes just outside our room. Our Fantasy vacation was turned into a reality! And... of course, we can't wait to do it all again!