We slept in a bit on our 3rd day, it was our day at Disney's private island: Castaway Cay!!!!!! We had
another yummy breakfast and then made our way down to Deck 1
so we could disembark the boat.
The day was already hot and neither of us are big beach fans (maybe because I've lived so close to it almost my entire life?) so our goal was
to take a look around Castaway Cay, buy a Christmas ornament, and find
Marge's Barges so that we would know where to go at 1:30 for our
glass-bottom boat tour. We got a cute Castaway Cay ornament, toddled around and took some
pictures. After
awhile we were roasting so we decided to head back to the boat for some
lunch.
In front of our ship is the Flying Dutchman that they used while filming the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
We decided to hit the ship for lunch. While I grabbed our lunches (salad
and fruit from for me, chicken fingers and fries for Michael) Michael went up to the top deck to get some pictures of the
amazingly clear water and Castaway Cay. The island is separated into 2 beaches: a family beach and an adults only beach. There are lots of activities including parasailing, snorkeling, those gigantic water bike things, and waverunners. There's also a souvenir store, a bar area, and 2 lunch places (1 per beach).
Where we ate lunch

We finished up our food and headed for the glass-bottom boat tour that we signed up for. The glass at the bottom of the boat was pretty cloudy and scratched up. We had better luck looking over the side of the boat.
We were given handfuls of oats to throw for the fish. Man, did the fish
love those oats!!!!! They were swimming over each other and fighting
for them! Michael found an "underwater" setting on our camera and got some
great shots.
Fish fight!!!!!!!
One of my favorite pics from this trip.

After the boat tour we went back to the ship and lounged around. We then watched the ship pull away from Castaway Cay. With snacks and a drink of course. It was nice to just sit and watch the water go by. We definitely plan on doing more of that on the next cruise!
Bandaids made with blister medication really work!
I really wasn't feeling very well and I realize now that I'd gotten
seriously dehydrated. Normally I keep glasses of water nearby and sip
throughout the day, but I had completely forgotten to drink ANY water
since we'd been on the cruise. I hadn't had very much to drink at all.
We stayed up on Deck 9 for awhile, just relaxing and enjoying the
breeze. Tonight was formal night and we'd promised our parents pictures
of us all dressed up. We dragged ourselves back to our room and got
ready. After we took the formal pictures (I wish I had some to show, but we don't have a scanner.) we watched the water some more until it was time for dinner.
Dinner was in Animators Palette, which is the ship's animated restaurant. The decor of the room is black and white. And the art on the walls is black and white. Then, slowly throughout dinner the art (all disney art of course) turns to color. Oh, and parts of the room turn to color too. I wish I would've taken pictures, I will next time. The pillars are paintbrushes and they are so cute. Even our waiters were dressed in black and white, but were wearing colored vests by the time we were done! At the end of the dinner there is an animated show! Very cool. The food here was also our favorite and was cutely presented. My fillet was presented like a ship with scallops as smokestacks. And our Chocolate Peanutbutter Pie was served on a painter's palette with dipping sauces where the paint would go. Very fun!!!!!
After dinner we had to rush and get our bags into the hallway. They were picked up at 11 pm. We were exhausted and went to bed. I have never slept as well as I did on the cruise!
So this ends our trip report. We've really decided to make travel a big part of our lives. At the end of December we will be going to Arizona to visit family and to see Sedona. And we have our next Disney cruise to the Western Caribbean at the end of February. I'm so excited about these upcoming trips and I hope that we'll be taking smaller trips in between our big trips!
Thanks for reading about our wonderful vacation!