{"id":2108,"date":"2011-10-15T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2011-10-15T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:54:40","slug":"orlando-and-day-1-of-the-disney-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/orlando-and-day-1-of-the-disney-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando and Day 1 of the Disney Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

We woke up on Saturday morning and sometime in the night we had played musical beds…<\/p>\n

Well, actually just Geli and Jon switched rooms because apparently Jeremy was breathing heavy and it was bothering Angelica.<\/p>\n

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As it was the beginning of one of her chemo cycles, she was on the steroid Prednisone for 5 days and it makes sleeping difficult…so little annoyances become HUGE annoyances. Anyway, she crawled into bed with me and Judah; and Jon went and slept in the other room with Jer.<\/p>\n

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We got everyone up and repacked all our stuff because we had to have it ready for pick up at 8:30am as that is when it was being picked up to be sent to the boat. We grabbed a quick breakfast and then headed out to where the shuttle would take us to the ship.<\/p>\n

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It was about an hour’s bus ride from the airport to Port Canaveral and when we got there we got in touch with my cousin who lives in Florida. She lives about 2-3 hours away from Port Canaveral but Charlene and Jeff and all 4 of their kids had piled into their van early that morning and drove up to see us. We snapped a quick picture while we were waiting to connect with them…<\/p>\n

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It was SO HOT! So much hotter and WAY MORE HUMID than we were used to, but it was WONDERFUL at the same time. We were LOVING the heat and the sun. This next picture has nothing really to do with the story, but my little dude is just so cute so I had to throw it in….<\/p>\n

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Charlene picked us up and we drove to the closest Mcdonalds as we figured that would be the easiest and most comfortable place for all “9” of our kids to hang out and burn off some energy while we (the adults) got a chance to connect and chat.<\/p>\n

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It was SO AWESOME to be able to connect and hang out and see them and chat and…..well, I could just go on and on. It was such a HUGE bonus to this already wonderful trip and I am so grateful and thankful that we got the opportunity and that Charlene and Jeff went so out of their way. You guys are amazing!<\/p>\n

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We managed to get a few pictures of both Char and I and of all 8 million of our children…<\/p>\n

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We even got some nice stranger to take one with the Jon and Jeff included….<\/p>\n

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I so wish that we lived closer to each other. It would be so fun to be able to get together more often. Jeff and Charlene are amazing people and their kids are such cool little people!<\/p>\n

They took us back to the Port because the kids were starting to freak out about “getting on the boat” and so very reluctantly we said good bye.<\/p>\n

It took a while to get signed in and registered and our pictures taken and all of the other stuff required to get us on the boat and the kids were thankful for the couches and movies playing all over the Disney Terminal. <\/p>\n

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Finally, FINALLY…it was time. All the papers were signed and the kids were registered and we could go onto the boat….You walk through that Mickey and into the walkway that takes you right into the boat.<\/p>\n

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And with that, our Cruise…..Angelica’s Wish Trip officially started. It was SO exciting. We went up to the Promenade to be apart of the big Kick off Party….<\/p>\n

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There was music and dancing and shiny metallic streamers to shake and…….. well, it was pretty emotional to just be there. <\/p>\n

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Right in the middle of all of all the excitement and partying, Judah just couldn’t take it any more and he just fell straight asleep. My sweet boy, he’d done so well with all the travel and the different planes and bus ride and hotel and he just couldn’t take it one moment longer.<\/p>\n

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To say that we were excited is such an understatement. It was AMAZING to just be there. We sat up on the deck while the party carried on and watched the boat push off from the dock. It was a bit surreal to realize that we were finally here after months of thinking and dreaming. <\/p>\n

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It had been a pretty exhausting 2 days of travel and so we just sat for a moment and relaxed….<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to go and get dressed for dinner. They require you to dress up a little for dinners and I loved it….it made the dinners just a little bit extra special to have to get dressed nice and then the kids were on their best behavior because it felt extra special…We were seated at table 28 and it was RIGHT BY THE WINDOW. Just after we sat down to eat, we were treated to an AMAZING sun set..<\/p>\n

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That first day is a bit of a blur because we were so tired, but we basically walked around the ship a bit after dinner and then we headed back to our rooms and finally with much effort (because they were a little buzzed on the excitement of it all) got the kids into bed. The next day we were going to be getting off the boat at Key West and we couldn’t wait to go and see what Key West was like….<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in seeing the rest of the pictures from that day, click here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We woke up on Saturday morning and sometime in the night we had played musical beds… Well, actually just Geli and Jon switched rooms because apparently Jeremy was breathing heavy and it was bothering Angelica. As it was the beginning of one of her chemo cycles, she was on the steroid Prednisone for 5 days … Continue reading “Orlando and Day 1 of the Disney Cruise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,51,12,25,19,13,43,9,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-sucks","category-childrens-wish-foundation","category-family","category-firsts","category-gelica","category-kids","category-memories","category-special-days","category-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}