Narnia_girl
He's not a tame lion, but he is good.
- Joined
- May 11, 2009
It's time for another fun cruise adventure (our third) and trip report!
We are latecomers to Disney vacations. I took my first trip to WDW when I was 47 years old; our youngest child was 13 then. So we didn't do the whole "little kids at Disney" stuff. We actually took a Disney cruise before we ever visited WDW. Since then, we've gotten hooked and have had several trips to Orlando.
Now, that's not to say we didn't love Disney, we really did. It's just I always had other places in the U.S. I wanted our kids to see, and I thought WDW was too expensive. I didn't know the ins-and-outs of making Disney more affordable and I can honestly say I learned almost all of that on the DIS Budget Board. That board made it possible for us to afford Disney vacations.
Our first cruise was on the Disney Wonder in 2009 when our oldest child graduated from high school. In 2014 we enjoyed the Disney Dream when our second child graduated. Fast forward another five years, our youngest child graduated from high school, so time to cruise again! That’s where the “New Adults” in my title comes in. On our past cruises at least one of our children were just that, children. Now all of them are officially adults—18 and older—and able to go to the adult areas on Disney ships. This will turn out to be one of my favorite aspects of this cruise.
Here is our family in 2014 before we boarded the Dream.
Although our family has grown (our oldest married a wonderful young woman) our cruising group has shrunk. This time around it’s just mom, dad (Rick), DS (24) and DD (19).
You can read about the rocky road which got us here, in my pre-trip report: Red, Hot & Blue. There I describe the changes to our trip (originally a Baja cruise) and how we visited Galveston in July, planning to scope out sites to see when we returned in January for our cruise
We are latecomers to Disney vacations. I took my first trip to WDW when I was 47 years old; our youngest child was 13 then. So we didn't do the whole "little kids at Disney" stuff. We actually took a Disney cruise before we ever visited WDW. Since then, we've gotten hooked and have had several trips to Orlando.
Now, that's not to say we didn't love Disney, we really did. It's just I always had other places in the U.S. I wanted our kids to see, and I thought WDW was too expensive. I didn't know the ins-and-outs of making Disney more affordable and I can honestly say I learned almost all of that on the DIS Budget Board. That board made it possible for us to afford Disney vacations.
Our first cruise was on the Disney Wonder in 2009 when our oldest child graduated from high school. In 2014 we enjoyed the Disney Dream when our second child graduated. Fast forward another five years, our youngest child graduated from high school, so time to cruise again! That’s where the “New Adults” in my title comes in. On our past cruises at least one of our children were just that, children. Now all of them are officially adults—18 and older—and able to go to the adult areas on Disney ships. This will turn out to be one of my favorite aspects of this cruise.
Here is our family in 2014 before we boarded the Dream.
Although our family has grown (our oldest married a wonderful young woman) our cruising group has shrunk. This time around it’s just mom, dad (Rick), DS (24) and DD (19).
You can read about the rocky road which got us here, in my pre-trip report: Red, Hot & Blue. There I describe the changes to our trip (originally a Baja cruise) and how we visited Galveston in July, planning to scope out sites to see when we returned in January for our cruise
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