Vacation: Part 8

It's Friday and we spent the day at Disney's island, Castaway Cay. This is a private island in the Bahamas and it was another beautiful day. It started out pretty cloudy, but by noon it was another hot and sunny day.

We got up early on Friday for breakfast and the amazing view from our balcony.




We spent the day on the beach swimming, playing in the sand and going down the water slide multiple times.










We tried snorkeling again but Max was done five minutes in so I went back to the beach with him while Andy went to snorkel for fish, Mickey and the submarine at the bottom. They put Mickeys and a submarine at the bottom to lure the fish in for better snorkeling. It also makes it more fun for the kids, but my kid still wasn't interested in going out there. He had no problem snorkeling in Cayman where there were no fish, but if there are fish he really is not into it. Hopefully he will be in another year or two.








After a full day in the sun all I wanted was a family picture in front of the Castaway Cay sign with the boat in the background, but guess who was tired and not into it? Yes, that would be Max. Here was our best effort.


Then we tried this.


I tried to get one of just Max with the boat behind him, but that didn't work with a very tired six year old.


We had our last dinner in the main dining room and the kids went to kids club for an hour while the adults had some time together at the wine bar.


We picked the kids up for some night swimming so they could go down the aquaduck one (or eight) more time.

Saturday morning came and we had our last breakfast together on the boat before we stood in line forever to disembark.


We got off the boat and the kids were excited that our ride back to Orlando was in a limo and not a giant van.


We hung out in the airport hotel for hours before our flight took off at 4:00 to head back to reality. Max got a salad and watched one of his shows and he was a happy camper.


We made it back to Arizona with no problems. Grandma L picked us up from the airport and the dogs were super excited to see us, but I am sure they were spoiled by grandma L while we were gone. It was such an awesome vacation and I look forward to doing another Disney cruise...hopefully sooner rather than later.