{DAY 4}
of our Disney Magic Cruise...
was a day in St Maarten.
We opted for a day at the beach,
the weather was perfect!
We waved goodbye to my parents on their verandah...
And headed off for our day of fun in the sun...
And fun it was!
A quick taxi ride to Dawn Beach and we felt the sand in our toes... ahhhhhh
There was a lot of playing in the powerful waves.
Kenna and Jadyn had their hair braided.
and Saige and Tayler opted for a hair wrap. That they weren't a 100% pleased with. :)
There was plenty of sand playing time.
And maybe a little too much time in the sun without enough sunscreen.
Just Shane and Saige... and Jadyn's poor chest that I forgot to put ANYTHING on! SORRY JADY!
We didn't miss the cold weather at home... one... bit....
After several hours we headed back to the ship...
dropped Kenna and Jadyn at their club...
and sleeping Lydia with my mom and dad.
And the rest of us headed out to do a little shopping.
It's fun having big kids that like to be with their family.
I had to beg, and press and prod... and pretty much force them to do anything in their clubs.
The problem was that Tayler could go to Saige's but Saige couldn't go to Tayler's.
And the kids in the younger group were pretty young and "immature" according to my girls.
More fun stuff was going on in the teen club but Tayler did NOT want to go by herself.
The1st time she did go {for smoothie hour} she met a girl who was from Ohio who asked her where she was from....Tayler told her and she said, hey you don't happen to know a Paige Wegener do you? Tayler was like... um ya she's my cousin! Apparently she had been on the same cruise last year when Paige and her family were with Grandma and Poppa. CRAZY!
Anyway...
we had fun together that afternoon in St. Maarten!
And lots of fun when we got back on the ship too...
It was "Pirates in the Caribbean" night.
Give us your best "ARGH"...
O and did I mention that we ate LOTS of Mickey Bars.
Especially my momma who surprised the waiter and passed on all desserts... every night... in exchange for a Mickey Bar! Yummy
This little girl was a complete joy the WHOLE trip.
Such a good little monkey.
We were crazy and continued our attempt at potty training.
It worked!
The last 4 days she had no accidents...
day OR night.
You can hate me it's OK. :)
And we were told about 20 times that next to "their own kids" she was the cutest little thing they had ever seen!
Totally agree.
After dinner we went to "Beauty in the Beast in 3D"
Took pictures with "pirates"...
And then we were off to the Pirate Deck Party.
Which was fabulous until it started POURING!!
We waited it out for a bit and although we didn't get to see the rest of the show they did do the fireworks for us...
There was an... 11 PM food and dessert bar.
We ate WAY too much.
And HAD to get one of those huge "barbaric" turkey legs.
Guess what it was SO delicious... I was pleasantly surprised!
Quote of the day by Jadyn...
"Smee {Captain Hook's friend} has a REALLY big bum!"
{Don't feel bad Smee, unfortunately she has told me that before too... :)}
Another great day in our memory book!
{DAY 5}
St. Thomas...
the weather wasn't quite as cooperative.
I had planned on us going to Saphire Beach for the day,
but my kids were sunned out.
(and Shane was COOKED).
And growing tired from our busy days that started WAY earlier than they were hoping for. So we agreed to let them sleep in until 8:30 :)
And not go to the beach but shop around St. Thomas instead.
A good idea because there wasn't much sun at all which wouldn't have been the best for a day at the beach.
So we took a slow breakfast.
Spent a little time with Poppa...
Then headed off the ship for some shopping..
The girls found some stuff and after several hours we went back to the boat.
The weather cleared up and we spent the afternoon on the deck lounging by the pool... and/or in the pool.
Eating more ice cream than we should...
Just because we could!!
We all went up for storytime with "Belle"... since it was Open House time, Lydia was pretty excited that she got to participate!
Had a great dinner together in Parrot Cay.
We ate some more Mickey Bars...
Then Kenna and Jadyn were off for a Royal Ball in their club with "Princess Tiana".
We all watched an INCREDIBLE magicial/illusionist Jason Bishop.
It was awesome and didn't creep me out like the guy we saw on the Carnival Cruise last year... hehehe
We visited with a few more characters...
How is it again she knew my baby?????
I figured it was some sort of dance on the deck.
Alas... it was glow in the dark dodge ball.
Tayler's comment at the beginning of the week was...
"I won't be doing anything that involves ANY sort of a ball."
Not sure why she thinks she is untalented at all things sport like.
But... she was a good "sport" and stayed to play.
And then let me know that she was completely graceful and got her toe caught in the outside net while trying to get away from someone... causing her to fall and about break her finger in said net...
How is it that this child of ours is so awesome and graceful when music comes on and dancing is involved?
Another fabulous day!!
{And more fabulous days to follow}
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