It began the way the best stories always do, with a boy and a girl who fell in love.
In the 1950's, Jay and Sandy Niederhauser met on a street corner in Salt Lake City, Utah. More in love now than they were in 1959, the couple has now spent over 50 years together. Today the couple spend their days...
We started a tradition the year we went to Iceland: Buy a book in each place we visit. We started this tradition in Iceland, specifically, because we celebrated Christmas here and it is an Icelandic tradition to give or get a new book on Christmas Eve and spend the night reading it. This practice is called jólabókaflóð. We absolutely...
Well, naturally after boarding the Disney Magic, and then the Disney Wonder Disney Cruise Ships, it only made sense to move on to the Disney Fantasy. Bigger, bolder, and better? We had to find out.
While we did want to cross off sailing on all four Disney Cruise Ships, we didn’t exactly intend to go on three Disney Cruise...
When it comes to cruising with Disney, there may actually come a point where your child walks by Mickey Mouse and doesn’t beg to see him. Shocking, I know! When you visit any Disney park, at no point do you ever balk at the 90 minute marker to see Mickey Mouse. You just do it, because he’s the reason...
I don’t want to know how magic is performed. As far as I’m concerned, it’s all real. I am the giddiest person in the audience, even more so than my own children sitting next to me in the auditorium.
I love watching each and every illusion and marveling at the wonder of it all. I love gasping, oohing, aahing,...
Let's just call Castaway Cay what it is. Castaway Cay is Treasure Island.
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Disney Cruise Fantasy
Port Stop: Castaway Cay, Bahamas
Excursion: N/A
We anticipated visiting Castaway Cay from the moment we knew it existed. We have a long history of crossing Disney parks and experiences off our bucket list and Castaway Cay was no exception. We booked a cruise...
Nothing is as synonymous with cruising as a buffet, right? That, plus the cigarette smoke filtering into our room is pretty much most of what we remember about cruising with Carnival during the worst travel experience of our lives. On a Disney Cruise, the buffet isn’t quite as memorable but perhaps only because everything about a Disney cruise is...
Cancun has never been at the top of our list for places we were even remotely interested in going. Cancun is synonymous with spring break bikinis and extremely poor judgement involving copious amounts of alcohol. When we found Panama Jack's in Cancun we decided to risk it and we took a break from the bitter Utah winter to travel...
Do you know what a premEAR is aboard a Disney Cruise Line? It’s when Disney releases a new movie while you are cruising the high seas! No need to wait until you get home to see the new Star Wars, Marvel or Disney feature length animation film! You can see it in the ships huge Buena Vista theater! We...
One of the distinguishing characteristics of a Disney cruise is the luxury factor. The grand lobby, the glass elevators, the exquisite foods, the private island… This even extends where most cruises stop: your stateroom. On a Disney cruise your stateroom is one of the largest. Though you won't be spending most of your time here, it makes all the...
