Author: Tracy Whipple

  • The First Two Days Aboard

    Sleeping on the ship is always so relaxing.  For the first time in a long time, we both slept through the night and didn’t get up until after 7 am!  For me this is very unusual. The first day at sea was very busy.  After getting up and starting to function, we met with a…

  • All Aboard!

    So we’re all packed up and headed down to the lobby to wait for our driver to take us to the port.  The last time we went to the port for the Panama Canal cruise before we got to the port at 8:30 am and we were fifth in line.  This time we planned to…

  • I’m Too Excited To Sleep!

    I love that commercial for Disney!  And even though we’ve been to Disney World, Disneyland and on the Disney Cruise many times, it never fails.  Every time we leave, I’m too excited to sleep.  We finally got to bed after 11 pm last night (very late for me) and I got up at least twice…

  • Cruise Packing for the Obsessive

    Packing to go away on vacation is pretty straightforward. Figure out if you will do laundry or not then pick out the number of outfits to make it that long, a few toiletries and you’re all set! But not for a cruise! Granted you still need clothes and toiletries, but there’s so much more to…

  • DIS Meets

    Warning: This is my first blog so it may be a bit rough around the edges. When I first started on the DIS, I always wondered what the people I was meeting online would be like in person. For our first cruise, we met about 20 DISers onboard. It was fun cruising with people that…