Day 5 - St Thomas

Another day, another tropical island paradise! We hopped off the ship and caught a ride into town with some of the Disney gals. Since we over did the sun on St Martin, we were thrilled to get a great recommendation to walk to the SkyRide station. Here, we could take a ride up to the top of the island to Paradise Point, where we could shop, relax on high and even take a Ferris Wheel ride!

Needless to say, a Ferris Wheel ride on top of a mountain is not my favorite place to take pictures but we did get some amazing shots on the ride up and when we were on stable ground as well.

Back on the ship, after dinner, we waited patiently to meet Aladdin & Genie with a surprise visitor, Sleeping Beauty!!!

The Three Amigos!

Cheeeeese! 

Knuckles with Sugar & Daddy. Sugar was our server from Jamaica and he made our meals very special! 

Yes, mommy is more excited than Ariya at this point in the day. 

Loving the one-on-one time with Al & Genie. 

Monkey!!! 

Day 4 - St Martin

We awoke to a seemingly unusual site for being at sea for so long, LAND! We had arrived at our first port of call, St Martin / St Maarteen if you are feeling frisky.

We had a lovely breakfast at The Royal Court and hopped off the ship and into a water taxi to the first beach we could find. We found some chairs, got a bucket of Red Stripe and hit the surf. Ariya loved being in the water, but wasn't a fan of how it tasted.

That night was our Pirates IN the Caribbean night, complete with Pirate servers, menu, show and FIREWORKS at sea!

Arrrr me hardies! 

Pirate Donald & Daisy

Goofy!!

The Pirate Crew

The most handsome pirate I've ever seen! 

Oh bummers! Donald is stuck in the ship! 

Elephant Towel

Day 3 - the fun continues!

OK - it was a low picture taking day but we'll recap anyways! The day started out hot, sunny and perfect. We hit the pools early to beat the heat. After naps - Ariya spent some time in the "It's a Small World" nursery while Jamie & Miranda went out to a fancy dinner at Palo, one of the two fine dining restaurants on-board.

We were treated to a romantic, early birthday dinner celebration with delicious martini's, delectable wine and three courses of amazing Italian cuisine. On our way back from dinner, we stopped at one of the ship's shops (yea, say that 3 times fast) and Ariya picked out her beautiful Ariel jewelry box that plays the tune, Under the Sea. We nabbed some Princess stickers and a keepsake Christmas tree ornament to remember the trip by.

Day 2 - At Sea with Princesses

Sunday started off with a little breakfast at The Royal Court, followed up by a magical encounter with who else?? Disney Princesses!!! After the Princess Meet & Greet, we headed back down to The Royal Court for a very fancy formal dinner.

By day 2, Ariya already had the servers trained that she LOVES cheese. 

Princess Ariya in her Cinderella gown

Her first love, Aladdin 

A chance encounter with Snow White 

Dancing with Princess Tiana 

Going 'Under the Sea' with Ariel 

Capturing Belle's heart and hand...

Loving on Aurora (mommy's favorite!)

Twins!

VERY tuckered out after Princesses, dinner and dancing. 

Towel Donkey

Vacation - Day 1 "Hello, Florida"

On September 8th, the Rasmussen Trio found themselves in Orlando, Florida. They were nervous & excited to go on a week long journey through the Eastern Caribbean on a magical Disney Cruise.

Upon embarkation, they discovered that there was nothing to fear on the beautiful new Disney ship, the Fantasy. Ariya found herself quite at home on the veranda, at the Nemo's Reef splash zone and well, pretty much anywhere we went!