ariel1025
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- Sep 14, 2008
Holy Moly, I have to hurry up if I'm gonna stick to my promise of finishing this before we celebrate our Anniversary 
It looks like when I last left off we had just drifted to sleep after our first day aboard the Disney Wonder. Now, I was slightly worried that once I laid down to sleep that I would notice the movement of the ship, but I never did
I was, however, exhausted and fell asleep in about 10 seconds flat. I woke up to "When you Wish Upon A Star" being played over the intercom followed by our cruise director letting us know that we had docked in Castaway Cay 
I immediately ran onto our (upgraded) verandah and saw the most beautiful sight in the whole world
It was absolutely breathtaking! I stayed out there for quite a while observing the surrounds while I let Candi sleep a little longer. How he slept through the intercom I will never know
Once I couldn't handle it any longer I pounced on the bed and let Candi know it was time to wake up.
We decided to grab some breakfast on the ship first because we knew we had a big day ahead of us. So, we went up to the buffet and had some Mickey waffles and juice and then proceeded out to the island
Our first order of duty was some snorkeling!!!!!!! I was so excited about this, but Candi was really nervous. He isn't a very strong swimmer and he was really nervous about going out into the ocean. I assured him that he would be fine (I had been trying to teach him in our pool before we left) and we came up with some hand signals for each other so we could communicate under water. As we ventured off the ship and towards the gear stand to get our snorkels and fins we, of course, had to stop and admire this
I think it's so cool that it was actually used to film the movie and now it was here for me to see!! I contemplated getting in line to take a picture with "Captain Jack" but decided I was too impatient and wanted to get into the water. We checked out our gear and were still lucky enough to grab a hammock that was empty
I had heard that the hammocks go quickly, so I figured that since we got a late start there wouldn't be anymore, but I guess it was our lucky day. We reviewed our hand signals one more time and then started making our way into the ocean.
OMG!!!!! It was so much fun!! Now, I realize if you were to do more serious snorkeling you could find way cooler fish and other sea creatures, but Disney makes their lagoon so awesome with all their underwater "treasures."
This, I believe, is from the movie 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
They also had all sorts of sunken ship pieces, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and different plaques with different sayings on them....oh, and of course fish. Unfortunately, my underwater camera worked like poo so most of my pictures didn't come out
I turned around to make sure Candi was doing ok
And he was
So, I motioned for him to go out further with me. He was hesitant, so I grabbed his hand and we went as far as they allowed (it's roped off at a certain point). Then Candi goes up above water for a minute and I continue to look around. All of a sudden he tugs on my arm so I come up to the surface to find out what's going on. Then he asks me how come everyone else's vest look "bigger" than his. I asked him what he meant and he said "ours look really flat, but some of the other people's look bigger." I told him it was because they blew theirs up......OH NO!!! He started freaking out and immediately lost control....IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN!!
*** See the life vests had to be manually inflated, but I intentionally didn't inflate mine so I could swim under the surface easier. Well, I am a BAD wife and I forgot to tell Candi to inflate his.
Anyway, just knowing in his head that his life vest wasn't inflated caused him to panic. I quickly swam underneath him and aired up his vest (very hard to blow up under water by the way) and then I flipped him over onto his back so he could float and catch his breathe. The lifeguard got there about this time and I assured him everything was ok. Needless to say Candi was kind of mad at me for a little bit. We swam back to shore and laid in the hammock while he calmed down (both of anger and panic). Now, I'm not saying that it wasn't scary what happened, but it just proves that it was mind over matter with his swimming. He was swimming GREAT until he realized he didn't have his life vest inflated, plus HELLO!! what good did you think a "flat" life vest would do?
He calmed down quickly and we decided it was time to grab some lunch. WE went over to Cookie's BBQ and had some super yummy BBQ food. They had all sorts of foods and we chowed down. In my opinion, this was WAY better than the food from the buffet that we had for lunch the day before. After we were good and full we decided to explore Castaway Cay for a little bit.
I don't have anymore pictures for this portion of the day but Castaway Cay is beautiful. For those who may not know, it is Disney's own PRIVATE island and the only people there are the workers and the guests on the Disney cruise It's also split into several areas (family beach, adults only beach etc).
We had an amazing time just walking around enjoying the scenery. However, there were some amazing adventures coming up that would allow us to see Castaway Cay from a whole new angle!!
It looks like when I last left off we had just drifted to sleep after our first day aboard the Disney Wonder. Now, I was slightly worried that once I laid down to sleep that I would notice the movement of the ship, but I never did
I was, however, exhausted and fell asleep in about 10 seconds flat. I woke up to "When you Wish Upon A Star" being played over the intercom followed by our cruise director letting us know that we had docked in Castaway Cay I immediately ran onto our (upgraded) verandah and saw the most beautiful sight in the whole world
It was absolutely breathtaking! I stayed out there for quite a while observing the surrounds while I let Candi sleep a little longer. How he slept through the intercom I will never know
Once I couldn't handle it any longer I pounced on the bed and let Candi know it was time to wake up. We decided to grab some breakfast on the ship first because we knew we had a big day ahead of us. So, we went up to the buffet and had some Mickey waffles and juice and then proceeded out to the island
Our first order of duty was some snorkeling!!!!!!! I was so excited about this, but Candi was really nervous. He isn't a very strong swimmer and he was really nervous about going out into the ocean. I assured him that he would be fine (I had been trying to teach him in our pool before we left) and we came up with some hand signals for each other so we could communicate under water. As we ventured off the ship and towards the gear stand to get our snorkels and fins we, of course, had to stop and admire this
I think it's so cool that it was actually used to film the movie and now it was here for me to see!! I contemplated getting in line to take a picture with "Captain Jack" but decided I was too impatient and wanted to get into the water. We checked out our gear and were still lucky enough to grab a hammock that was empty
I had heard that the hammocks go quickly, so I figured that since we got a late start there wouldn't be anymore, but I guess it was our lucky day. We reviewed our hand signals one more time and then started making our way into the ocean.OMG!!!!! It was so much fun!! Now, I realize if you were to do more serious snorkeling you could find way cooler fish and other sea creatures, but Disney makes their lagoon so awesome with all their underwater "treasures."
This, I believe, is from the movie 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
They also had all sorts of sunken ship pieces, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and different plaques with different sayings on them....oh, and of course fish. Unfortunately, my underwater camera worked like poo so most of my pictures didn't come out
I turned around to make sure Candi was doing ok
And he was
So, I motioned for him to go out further with me. He was hesitant, so I grabbed his hand and we went as far as they allowed (it's roped off at a certain point). Then Candi goes up above water for a minute and I continue to look around. All of a sudden he tugs on my arm so I come up to the surface to find out what's going on. Then he asks me how come everyone else's vest look "bigger" than his. I asked him what he meant and he said "ours look really flat, but some of the other people's look bigger." I told him it was because they blew theirs up......OH NO!!! He started freaking out and immediately lost control....IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN!!
*** See the life vests had to be manually inflated, but I intentionally didn't inflate mine so I could swim under the surface easier. Well, I am a BAD wife and I forgot to tell Candi to inflate his.
Anyway, just knowing in his head that his life vest wasn't inflated caused him to panic. I quickly swam underneath him and aired up his vest (very hard to blow up under water by the way) and then I flipped him over onto his back so he could float and catch his breathe. The lifeguard got there about this time and I assured him everything was ok. Needless to say Candi was kind of mad at me for a little bit. We swam back to shore and laid in the hammock while he calmed down (both of anger and panic). Now, I'm not saying that it wasn't scary what happened, but it just proves that it was mind over matter with his swimming. He was swimming GREAT until he realized he didn't have his life vest inflated, plus HELLO!! what good did you think a "flat" life vest would do?
He calmed down quickly and we decided it was time to grab some lunch. WE went over to Cookie's BBQ and had some super yummy BBQ food. They had all sorts of foods and we chowed down. In my opinion, this was WAY better than the food from the buffet that we had for lunch the day before. After we were good and full we decided to explore Castaway Cay for a little bit.
I don't have anymore pictures for this portion of the day but Castaway Cay is beautiful. For those who may not know, it is Disney's own PRIVATE island and the only people there are the workers and the guests on the Disney cruise
It's also split into several areas (family beach, adults only beach etc). We had an amazing time just walking around enjoying the scenery. However, there were some amazing adventures coming up that would allow us to see Castaway Cay from a whole new angle!!
) and they go over safety instructions and then we are ready to go. Candi and I volunteered to go first and I ask one of our super nice cruise-mates to take pictures for me.
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