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Europe » Norway June 26th 2010

Geo: 59.9138, 10.7387We arrived in Oslo sometime early in the morning because when the alarm went off we had already docked. Just outside our balcony was the Akershus Fortress. It was a beautiful day already with blue sky (of course, the sun had come up around 4am).We had breakfast in Parrot Cay and then made our way to Rockin Bar D for our shore excursion. The tour we had chosen was an Oslo Highlights Tour.Our bus took us through the streets of Oslo as we made our way to Vigeland Sculpture Park. This park has over 200 sculptures and more than 758 figures in it. All the sculptures were created and the park was designed by Gustav Vigeland. It was quite an amazing park. Then after spending some time in the park we boarded the bus ... read more
Kelsie and Regan 10 pm
Ship
Family with Daisy

Europe » Denmark June 25th 2010

Geo: 57.2077, 7.00928Today was an At Sea day. We at breakfast at Lumiere's and then walked around the Promenade Deck in a vain attempt to work off some of the food that we ate yesterday.A presentation about Berlin was getting ready to start and we had a little time before our first party of the day so we went. Part way through the presentation, Regan and Kelsie ducked out and then met up with us afterward for the Gold Castaway Club Party.The party was in Rockin' Bar D and we were served drinks and hors d' oeuvres', fruit and cookies. We saw a little video about the Disney Dream and then Captain John spoke and also the President of Disney Cruise Line, Walter Holz, was onboard and thanked us for our loyalty of the cruise line.After ... read more
Kelsie and Regan at Dinner
Nikki and Ric at Palo Tea
9:30 pm

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Kent » Dover June 24th 2010

Geo: 51.1297, 1.31114Today was embarkation day and we had to have our luggage ready to go by 8:00 am. Once we knew our bags were packed and properly tagged we went down to breakfast in the hotel restaurant. Our bus pickup time to get to the Cruise Terminal was 9:30 and we had a few things we needed to pick up. So, after breakfast, we went on a walk to find a grocery store. We had to go to three different shops in order to get what we needed but were successful. We made it back to the hotel and caught our bus to the cruise ship. It took us about 2.5 hours to get to Dover from London because of the traffic in London and we also made a "potty" stop part way through the ... read more
Dover Castle
White Clifs
Lifeboat Drill

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London June 23rd 2010

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236Breakfast was in the hotel this morning. It was a Full English Breakfast Buffet.Once we ate, we walked to the Houses of Parliament and then on to Westminster Abbey. The Abbey didn't open for about 30 minutes so we walked on to Buckingham Palace through St. James Park. We saw the palace and watched the guards marching in front of the castle then walked back to Westminster Abbey. We toured the church using the complimentary audio guide. It really is a beautiful church. Kelsie really didn't like the fact that Westminster Abbey house many tombs.Once finished there, we walked to the Underground and rode it to Tower Hill where we went to the Tower of London. I really like the history of the Tower and the girls liked to see the Crown Jewels. We ... read more
Regan and Kelsie at Big Ben
Kelsie, Regan and Nikki at Westminster Abbey
White Tower (at Tower of London)

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London June 22nd 2010

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236Our flight left Minneapolis at 9:40 pm. We used Frequent Flyer Miles to upgrade to business class so the girls were quite excited about all the amenities and cool seats that we got. Kelsie even thanked me for getting us the seats.Shortly after taking off we were served a meal. We all started off with chilled tomato basil soup, salad, and an appetizer of shrimp on lemongrass and hearts of palm and beets with blue cheese. Regan and Kelsie had steak with baked sweet potatoes and squash, Nikki had a pasta with a gorgonzola sauce and I had salmon with a citrus sauce, boniato puree and asparagus. Nikki and I finished with the fruit and cheese plate and Regan and Kelsie had ice cream sundaes.We then all slept for a few hours before being ... read more
Waiting for Mom
Fire Monument
At the Millennium Bridge

North America » United States » Utah » Salt Lake City June 21st 2010

Geo: 40.7595, -111.888Well, after finalizing our packing the day is finally here to leave for our Trip to Europe. My dad picked us up at noon and we were on our way to the airport. We dropped off our bags (after all of my talking to the girls about he weight of their bags, mine ended up being the heaviest at 65 lbs, nobody else's was over 50 lbs). After going through security we went to the Delta Crown Room to wait for our flight to Minneapolis. The flight was smooth and uneventful and we arrived in MSP twenty minutes early so we didnt have a gate. Once we got off the plane we headed to the Crown Room to kill 4 hours before our flight to London. ... read more

North America » United States » Florida » Orlando September 22nd 2009

Geo: 28.5377, -81.3774Well, both of us were up before the wake up call. We got ready to leave and left the hotel around 9:00 to go to Disney's Hollywood Studios and ride Toy Story Midway Mania. The Fastpass tickets weren't for 2 hours away and we had limited time so we got in the 40 minute standby line which turned out to be only about 25 minutes. After Toy Story we got in the car and headed over to the Magic Kingdom. We wanted daytime photos and realized we forgot to ride Pirates the night before. When we got into the park, we took photos, and then on the way to Pirates decided to see if we could find the son of a friend of ours who works in Tomorrowland so we took the long way ... read more
InfamousToy Story Fast Pass Machine
Miss Inga and Miss Jennifer
Minnie and Mickey

North America » United States » Florida » Orlando September 20th 2009

Geo: 28.5377, -81.3774This was our marathon day. We decided that we would go to all four Theme Parks today and started off at the Animal Kingdom. Before going to the park, we went over to Jambo House to have breakfast at The Mara. We were at Disney's Animal Kingdom for rope drop and rode Expedition Everest, Primeval Whirl and Kilimanjaro Safari and got our photos taken with Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Kenai and Koda. Next was Disney's Hollywood Studios. Where we rode Rock n Roller coaster, Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, The Great Movie Ride and had lunch at Pizza Planet.It was a really hot day and we decided to go back to the hotel to cool off in the pool. While we were there, they had a Disney Trivia contest and Steve and I won.After ... read more
Everest
Tree of Life
Rock n roller coaster--front car

North America » United States » Florida » Orlando September 19th 2009

Geo: 28.5377, -81.3774We planned on leaving the hotel around 8:00 and head over to Sea World for the morning. Since we were both up early this wasn't a problem. We got to Sea World at about 8:15 and the parking lot wasn't open so we sat in the car waiting for it to open. We were the first car in the lot and were able to park in a shady spot. Then we went up the gates got our tickets and went into the park. Our goal for the morning was to ride the three roller coasters. The first was the new Manta roller coaster that is a flying roller coaster with an awesome queue through an aquarium full of Manta Rays. It was a really good coaster. Then we grabbed a bite to eat at ... read more
Manta
Manta
Journey to Atlantis

North America » United States » Florida » Orlando September 18th 2009

Geo: 28.5377, -81.3774We had asked about early entry for OnSite Hotel Guests and were told that we could get into the parks 30 minutes early so we headed over to Islands of Adventure where we were going to start our day. We found out that the Early Entry was only at Universal Studios so we went over there. There was a whole group of Brazilian Tourists going into the park so we were a little concerned about crowds but we went into the park ahead of them. We decided to go ride the Mummy.Turns out the Brazilian Tourists were having a private event on the lawn in front of the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit so we headed right past. We were stopped by an employee who told us that the only two attractions open for early ... read more
Ric, Bart and Steve
Universal
WET!




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