Cruising with Disney circa. 1995

We are back in Long Beach, California after a week onboard the Disney Wonder. This was a most wonderful week with Grandma (my mother-in-law). The older two kids bunked in Grandma's room and we were next door with the younger two. We ate to our heart's content and spent our days at sea in the Mickey and Goofy pools or exploring the ship. The shows were awesome, even if they were a little too 'musical-theatre-ish' for Andy. Annika loved the cruise dancers and singers, and we're thinking she might end up working on a ship doing exactly that. Andy and I loved our date nights/afternoons. We went running together, hot-tubbing, played BINGO, went to the 'adults only' ventriloquist, or just got a hot chocolate and strolled around the ship. The only weird thing about the Disney cruise was that it was totally all old-school Disney. There was no mention of Rapunzel or Pixie Hollow or Cars or even Finding Nemo. The movies they focused on were Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Cinderella....you know, the ones that were released during MY childhood...not my kids'. Not sure why Disney doesn't acknowledge the last decade of accomplishments, and I found that kind of annoying. The Disney movies and shows that my kids are familiar with were non-existent.

Our three sailors.

Cinderella meets Belle.

Snow White (aka Brandi from Indiana).

The Wilsons and the ducks.

Soren LOVED the pools. We had to hide his swim diapers, so he didn't get kicked out.

We cruised from L.A. to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, then spent two days at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We didn't get off the boat on one of the days...we were having too much fun to bother and it was nice having an almost empty boat to ourselves. On the second day in Cabo, we went on a glass-bottom water taxi that we did with my family back in 2009. It was the exact same as two years ago, but the kids loved seeing the  tropical fish and the sea lions.

Andy, climbing where he is not supposed to.

Kai, on the water slide. 

Goofy and Kai.

The Wilson's, hot tubbing.

This was our third time going on a cruise, but the first with our kids. We were thinking we needed to wait until they were older to take them, but it was awesome, especially with the extra help from Grandma. It was hard to drag ourselves off the boat at the end and we were already discussing when we could go on the next one. Cruising is the ultimate all-inclusive vacation. I plan on being one of those seniors who are on their 40th cruise or something insane like that.

Pirate Night 

Scurvy Sea Dogs. 

Cabo Sunset.

Pirate Sawyer.

These fish weren't dead, but they laid flat against the glass bottom boat for some reason.

Cabo beauty.

Playing at Lovers Beach, with our ship in the background.