Hitting the Road: Disney Dream.....3 Night Cruise....for Valentine's...does it get any better???

Of all days...on Friday 13th...we headed to Port Canaveral to board the ship....I was like a kid I was so excited. I've been wanting to go on a Disney Cruise for a long time. This Valentine weekend was just perfect. Dan and Cheryl, and Greg and Brenda were going too...we were going to have a blast.

It was about a 1.5hr drive from where we were staying....here's our first glimpse as we cross the bridge.

It was a chilly FL morning, but we dropped our bags at the curb and parked. Then we proceeded into the big checkin building...but I got few more pics as we got closer.

The line moved fairly quickly and we were checked in, in no time. We had our "card to the world" card and we were ready to go...

Our friends were waiting on us to take the Mickey picture...

Our whole gang...Greg, Dan, me, Mickey, Cheryl, Denny, Brenda....Disney here we come!!

Loved Mickey and Goofy greeting everyone...and the ship model was just too cool.

On the back side it even had inside ship details...leave it to Disney...details..details...details...

We were boarding #10....we waited what seemed like a long time, but was probably only about 30-45min...then it was out turn...They announced your party as you boarded and they applauded...how cool

The chandelier on deck 3 as we go on was gorgeous...I bet there are some hidden Mickey's in there.

We were all ready for lunch...so up to deck 11 to Cabanas for an amazing buffet. I enjoyed stone crab, shrimp, soup, cheeses, deli meats, and chocolate moussee ...delish. The others had carved beef, salad, pasta, pizza, salad, fruit, ice cream..you name it we could have had it. After lunch it was time to check out our cabins and drop the junk we'd been carrying. We had an amazing cabin...it was a fantail corner cabin deck 7. We had a HUGE room...and our balcony wrapped around the side of the ship....oh yeah, this was going to be amazing. We asked for 2 robes, they were brought right away and we were set!!!

Our bath was great...this was technically a handicap room...we hadn't ask for that, but we were assigned it, and it was going to be very nice. We booked a specific category and waited to be assigned the best of what was left...we did very good.

Yep...this balcony was as big as it looks........WOW.

That building way out there is the VAB at Kennedy Space...just last Dec we'd been there and had seen a Carnival ship in port...today we were on the ship and could se the VAB...cool.

This is the bridge we were on when we first got a glimpse of the ship...now we're on the ship looking back at the bridge.

We went to a Port and shopping chat...and then it was time for the Life Boat Drill...We were Muster station M.....for Mickey!!

This didn't take long then we headed back to the cabin to find the others. We mis-communictaed a bit so Denny and I went up to Deck 11 to see the Sail Away Party...we missed a good bit, but it looked really cute. See that big screen...they showed movies on it during the weekend.

We grabbed a drink and just enjoyed...it was cool watching us leave port...

Our Pilot boat.......

Canaveral is a HUGE port, there was only one other ship in port....way across the water.

Eventually we found the others and we drank and chatted a while...then it was time to go see our first show... The Golden Mickey's...it was, as you might expect, in fantastic Disney style. Then we found our way to Animator's Palate..our first night of dining...