Our Voyage on the Fantasy Begins

We got up about 7 that morning.  Anticipation had set in. We signed up for an Owner's update at our timeshare before leaving for our hour drive to the port.  We learned some interesting things and definately worth the $75 gift card they gave us.  We then headed to Chick-Fil-A for breakfast before the drive and realized we forgot to turn in the pool towel cards.  So back to the resort to turn them in to avoid the $30 charge.

We then headed out on our hour drive to Port Canaveral.  We arrived just about 11am and breezed through the check in process.  We got Katelin all checked into the kids club and got her bracelet.  We were boarding group number 5 and were on the boat before 11:45am. We went by guest services and applied all of our disney gift cards to the account and then headed down to Enchanted Garden for lunch.  It is a more upscale buffet at lunch.  Katelin settled on some lunch meat, sliced French bread and some garbanzo beans.  We all finished our lunch with homemade ice cream.

After lunch, we headed to the pools.  Katelin hit the mickey slide about 20 times and played some in Nemo's reef.  Tom and I cooled off in both the Mickey and Donald pools.  We spent about 90 minutes on deck before we decided to see if our room was ready.

We then headed down to see if our room on Deck 5 was ready.  Sure was, but the luggage was not there.  We rested for a few and then headed to the Midship Detective Agency to play a game before the mandatory safety drill. 

Last time we were in one of the lounges and we sat the whole time.  This time we were outside on the deck and stood in lines for about 45 minutes.  Try to tell a 4 year old to stand still and quiet for 45 minutes.  Good luck with that.  We then went back up to see if our luggage was available and not yet.  We then headed to deck 11 for the sailing away party.

After the party, we headed down to the room again and no luggage, so we decided to clean up and get ready for 5:45 dinner and what do you know, our luggage showed up.  So we changed and headed off to Enchanted Garden for dinner. 

We were at a table for 6 so we knew we would have table mates.  We lucked out and got a couple with their 4 year old son.  Katelin and Jordan became fast friends.  It worked out great.  Dinner was good.  Not great and our assistant server was a little slow the first night.  I was hoping improvement was around the corner and it was, thank goodness. 

Katelin wanted to go to the Oceaneer's Club, but only the Lab was open, so we dropped her off in there.  Tom and I headed to the spa to get our rainforest passes for the week.  The rainforest has two private hot tubs, some heated lounge chairs, some saunas and some showers.  So relaxing.  Wish we had used it more than we did.  Tom and I did some shopping and decided to get Katelin from the kids club so she could meet Ariel and Sleeping Beauty.

Overall it was an amazing day, but it was time for some sleep....