PART 1 OF 2
Oh come on! Y'all didn't think I'd actually NOT post some sort of telling of the tale, did you?
#seriously?
Wait! I take that back! There was a rule about hashtags! Crap! @Ariel484 , you had the list of rules, right?
No notes to use. Just the pictures and the memories that stand out. For whatever reason there's holes here and there in my pictoral timeline. Oh well. Prob'ly better that way.
Many of the girls said things like, "What happens on the girls' cruise stays on the girls' cruise." Um, yeah. No promises on whether or not what follows is strategically edited. Chances are it is. If you want to know what really happens on the unOfficial WDWMagic Girls Cruise you'll just have to book yourself a stateroom on the next one. Needless to say, 27 ladies + 1 cruise = a hellagood time.
Part 1 of 2. This was a 2-part runaway from home for me. I decided to do these recountings in 2 pieces then link them to each other accordingly. Part 1 contains the girls cruise experience. Part 2 contains the 20th anniversary escape for me & my Sweetness. Definitely 2 vastly different trips connected by time. You can see part 2 HERE.
Also, please forgive whatever crap I post for pictures. I got a new camera a few days before I left home. I played a lot with my shots and have been experimenting heavily with editing. Oftentimes you'll see pictures taken only seconds apart that look very different. That's because in editing I'm still playing with a range of settings to find what my mind's eye enjoys. K?
With that, lets get this thing rolling!
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) doesn't mean it's an automatic okay. Duh! The sandals were pretty neutral, I thought. You could dress them up or down. I thought the outfit was resort nice. Some people go in wearing like cocktail dresses or I've even seen floor length sequined deals. To me, those come off like people wanting to make it more than it is. Definitely think it's just me on that, tho. I put it in context: it's a nice restaurant on a Disney ship. People are on vacation. It's a Bahamas cruise. Most likely you've just spent an entire day in your skivvies in the sun, possibly wearing your breezy cover-up, or in shorts running around. A solid "resort nice" is now, in the context of the vacation, "dressed up". To me. I'll be clear. That's me. But then, I'm not at all amused with the notion of formal nights either. In fact, I hate them. After having tried it out and hated it, we simply don't participate anymore. Even dressing cruise casual (sundress for me, khakis and polo for him) has become enough annoyance that you'll see a biiiiiig difference in how we handled dinners in the next part of my trip. Again, I totally accept that this is mostly just us. We don't dress up for anything aside from weddings or funerals. We're not accustomed to wearing the nice clothes so it's uncomfortable for us to do so. Plus, it feels economically STUPID to spend so much money buying up the nice clothes to wear them for 2 hours out of a day then peel 'em off. We only wear the stuff for dinners on cruises. Not as big a deal when just Tracey & I cruise because we aren't growing anymore. When our boys cruise with us it's a killer. I've taken them on 2 cruises this year. We're going on another next month. Each. and. EVERY cruise, count 3, I've had to spend between $100 - $200 on EACH of them for new dress clothes/shoes because they outgrow stuff so dang fast. That's $600+ on useless clothing that they wear for a couple hours a night for a week then they get lost in the back of the closets until they outgrow them. Right now, with teenagers, that happens in a flash. I can think of a lot better things to do with $600+. Eh, but I've rambled off-subject. I knew there was a dress code going into Remy. I did NOT know it had been modified. It's a non-issue now. I won't go back. I don't say that necessarily because of the 1 bad experience I had. I had a great experience the first time. It's simply that I personally enjoy meals more when I'm physically comfortable. The dress level isn't physically comfortable to me. Additionally, sitting for 3-4 hours for a meal isn't my cup of tea either. Again, I can think of much more enjoyable things to do with 3-4 hours in comfort. 
