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Message: <blockquote data-quote="k8einwdw" data-source="post: 9051560" data-attributes="member: 128692">Not going on this trip? J. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😭" title="Loudly crying face    :sob:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png" data-shortname=":sob:" /> Since this is a girls trip, he was not invited for the cruise portion of the trip (to be fair...Mom said he and D could get their own stateroom, but J refuses to get on a cruise). I tried to convince J to drive down on 2/18 to meet me in WDW to extend our trip together, but he didn’t want to make the 7-hour drive by himself. This trip (5 nights) will be the longest we’ve been apart in our 6 years of marriage. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😭" title="Loudly crying face    :sob:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png" data-shortname=":sob:" /> We spent the first couple years of our relationship long-ish distance while I was finishing college, and often went weeks at a time without seeing each other. Since we’ve been married, the longest we’ve spent apart was 4 nights while Mom and I were in NY in April.We planned this trip for a couple reasons. 1) Mom has been wanting to do a girls’ trip for a while, but wanted to wait until A was old enough to access the adults-only areas on the ship/Castaway Cay. A just turned 18 in December, and has a break from school for Presidents Day, so here we are! 2) A is graduating from high school in May, so this is also in celebration of that. She’ll be moving away to college <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😭" title="Loudly crying face    :sob:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png" data-shortname=":sob:" /> so there’s no telling when the next opportunity for a girls’ trip will be.Now, for a run-down of our plans. Mom and M are off work on Thursday 2/13, and I am taking a half day, so I’ll be off at noon and have time to go home, wash my hair in the non-Florida water, and finish up some packing before heading to my parents’ house in time to meet the gang to leave when A gets home from school. We’ll be driving as far Valdosta (a stone’s throw from the Florida line) that night, and driving the rest of the way to Port Canaveral the morning of 2/14. We hope to board the Dream around 1:00 - Mom is the seasoned Disney Cruise veteran, and said it’s best not to board *too* early since you can’t get to your stateroom yet and there are tons of people puttering around waiting for their rooms to be ready.Speaking of staterooms, we are staying in a Category 04B Deluxe Family Oceanview Stateroom w/ Verandah. This particular category has 4 beds - the queen, the couch bed, the pull-down bunk above the couch, and a pull-down by the door to the verandah. So everyone gets their own bed! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙌🏼" title="Raising hands: medium-light skin tone    :raised_hands_tone2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f64c-1f3fc.png" data-shortname=":raised_hands_tone2:" /> Now, four girls sharing one bathroom for 5 nights will be the real challenge. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy    :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" />Our cruise will stop at Nassau on 2/15, where none of us have plans to disembark. We’d all rather enjoy an empty ship! We have passes for the Rainforest Room that day, and we’re hoping to score a Palo Brunch reservation <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤞🏼" title="Crossed fingers: medium-light skin tone    :fingers_crossed_tone2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f91e-1f3fc.png" data-shortname=":fingers_crossed_tone2:" />. On 2/16, we’ll be in Castaway Cay, enjoying the adults-only beach! On 2/17, we’ll disembark and head to WDW for one night. J and I haven’t been in WDW since September, so I’m excited to have even just one night there! We’ll be staying at POFQ, having Afternoon Tea at the Grand Floridian, spending some time in Disney Springs, and having dinner at ‘Ohana! I’m also planning to sneak over to Epcot to get my AP magnet for Festival of the Arts, and I may have made a couple FastPasses for while I’m there. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤫" title="Shushing face    :shushing_face:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f92b.png" data-shortname=":shushing_face:" />We started planning this trip AGES ago, but it’s hard to believe we’ll be on the ship two weeks from now! I’ve been so busy with a new position at work and planning our Disneyland trip that it really feels like this trip snuck up on me. I haven’t started packing yet, but I do have a packing pile started in the corner of our bedroom, so that’s a start! I’m so excited to be going on this trip, and I’m excited to take you all with me!</blockquote>

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