The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique

We enjoyed the Disney Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique experience for the first time when we returned to the ship after our day at Castaway Cay. I hadn't been planning on doing this with the girls originally, but then I realized I wasn't sure when we would do a Disney vacation again and the girls were pretty much the perfect age for absolutely loving the full princess beauty treatment!

Reagan seeing herself for the first time as Princess Minnie

I thought this picture was so sweet, both Reagan admiring herself and Kennedy peaking out at her from the porthole in the background. :)

Missy K seeing herself for the first time as Princess Ariel

Missy K enjoyed admiring herself as well :)

 Again, I love the Disney Cruises for the truly personal experiences they provide. When we came to the Boutique to schedule our appointments as soon as the beauticians heard the girl's names they were very excited and asked "Are you the Reagan and Kennedy?" They told us the princesses had their hair done here and they had all be talking about them, especially Ariel. They had been waiting and hoping we would make appointments because they wanted to meet the girls too. They had to hear the girls do their Merida quotes and were just super sweet in general getting to know the girls, helping them select their dresses etc. During our appointment, later in the week, they discovered their favorite beautician had been a Girl Scout so they all had to recite the Girl Scout pledge together. So cute and sweet! :)

After our appointment, we met up with the boys who sweetly posed with the girls. Here are their highnesses Princess Reagan and Prince Rory

and their highnesses Princess Kennedy and Prince Riley

and my sweet princesses being driven by my wild little prince!

Missy K could not stay awake another moment at dinner! :)

After her dinner nap Missy K was ready to go and see her prince charming, Mickey Mouse, one last time :)

Two beautiful Minnie Mouses!  

Two beautiful Ariels in matching dresses (and matching princess pose too!)!

Three gorgeous princesses enjoying their last "special time" visit together

As always, Disney provided us with another incredible vacation and many magical memories! This time it was all the better becuase of the family that came along. Thank you to everyone who made this vacation one of our best and most memorable! 

This and That Around the Ship

Here are a few pictures I couldn't quite decide where to put, but wanted to include. This first one was the best family picture we captured on one of the formal nights

 This is a group shot leaving Port Canaveral

 Here are the kids dancing together (and I think with Goofy) in the Oceaneer's Club

 Andy's room in the Oceaneer's Club was super cool!

 This is one of my favortie pictures from the trip - I love that Stacy crawled in and thru Slinky! lol :)

 One wiped out little girl! In the middle of seeing a princess one evening Missy K laid down on the floor and declared she couldn't go one step further. lol :)

 These are a couple of creative and beautiful shots Grand-Dad took of the ship

 Such a sweet picture of the girls with Aunt Jen and Grammy

Thank you to everyone for all the fun throughout the week! :)

Disney's Castaway Cay

Our last day on the cruise was spent on Disney's private island, Castaway Cay. Their beach is incredible and we have loved it everytime we've visited. I wish you could just come to this island and stay! :)

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As we disembarked we were able to get a LaBar family picture with the cruise ship

 A Lueker family picture with Donald

A girls picture with our favorite chipmunks

Meanwhile Riley and Rory found Jack Sparrow and had a great time playing with him :)

Jackson was unsure about the characters all week long. On Friday he surprised us by walking right up to Minnie Mouse and giving her a hug with Reagan.

Reagan being goofy with Goofy

Aunt Jen, Missy K and Aunt Stacy on the beach

My two little mermaids

I love this picture of Reagan and Rory - ADORABLE!

Riley, Reagan and Kennedy having fun with the Nemo floats from Grammy

Riley with at least two (maybe three?) Nemo floats :)

Grammy and Jackson enjoying the beautiful ocean water and day

This is such a great picture of Rory and Uncle Rich having fun together - two good looking guys! :)

Grand-Dad, Missy K, Grammy, Missy Reagan and Tim all lined up with their floats.

Missy K and Grand-Dad having fun together

We had lots of fun on the beach playing in the sand too

I love this picture of Missy K and Grammy talking while heading off to find some lunch

Jackson discovered the perfect meal while visiting Castaway Cay - ice cream and corn on the cob! 

There were little lizards running all over the place which all the kids enjoyed. Jackson was so cute watching them and trying to inch closer and closer to them. :)

Grand-Dad keeping Jackson company on the beach while the rest of us played in the ocean

Cute (but tired) baby boy

Reagan got caught by the enormous fish with the hot dog as bait lol :)

If St. Maarten wasn't my favorite day, then this was - it's a hard call to make. I think it would be worth taking a Disney cruise just to keep coming back to Castaway Cay!  It's so relaxing and fun to hang out and play all day on the beach and in the water especially at this gorgeous beach! Doing these posts makes me realize how much I'm looking forward to spending a week at the beach this October on St. George's Island. I hear the beach and those ocean waves calling my name loud and clear! :)