Trip Report I ESCAPED!!! (part 1) - The Dream Girls

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!

 

[Tiggerish]

Kelly, thank you for posting this report! I was absolutely craving to go after I started seeing so many photos pop up on Instagram from you ladies. I'm glad that so many of you are letting me live vicariously through your cruise experiences!

Your photo editing looked so good. I'm so scared to shoot in RAW, but I did put Lightroom on my Christmas list. So we'll see!

I'm really hoping for another ladies' only cruise in the future, and I'm really hoping that I can join. Even though I didn't go, seriously thank you for all the work you did put into it. It is such a great idea!

Rachel, there's another girls cruise next year, we'd love to have you on it!!

 

[Tiggerfanatic]

Kelly, thank you for posting this report! I was absolutely craving to go after I started seeing so many photos pop up on Instagram from you ladies. I'm glad that so many of you are letting me live vicariously through your cruise experiences!

Your photo editing looked so good. I'm so scared to shoot in RAW, but I did put Lightroom on my Christmas list. So we'll see!

I'm really hoping for another ladies' only cruise in the future, and I'm really hoping that I can join. Even though I didn't go, seriously thank you for all the work you did put into it. It is such a great idea!

Next September, check out the link on the Cruise thread! We'd love to have you - the more the merrier.

 

[iloverags2]

Thanks for posting your report...enjoyed it immensely! Even though I badly wanted to join in on this cruise, we had planned a sailing for October with friends of ours...which they cancelled out on. We switched it out to the February 2nd sailing on the Dream (I will be at Castaway Cay ON my birthday!). So bummed that all happened, but shooting for the next girls sailing if y'all don't mind.

When I sailed last year with a good friend of mine (was supposed to be a girls cruise that ended up with just the two of us...go figure!), it was the first time she had ever traveled alone...without her big ol' family. Seven kids and the husband left behind at home. She said it was sooooooo liberating! I knew she had been sweating it up to the day she left, and even after she boarded the ship. But she realized she could indeed fly alone, travel alone, and enjoy herself alone. It was tough, sure...and she was more than ready to get back home to her babies. But she found out what she is made of!

Looking forward to reading about your cruise with the hubby!

 

[PartOfYourWorld]

hah Yes I'm bringing this back to the top 4 months later!

I just got around to reading this. What a great report Kelly. It was great to see the different perspectives from everyone on the cruise, because even though we were all on the ship we all did a lot of different things.

That Aquaventure at Atlantis looks like a lot of fun! I think I mentioned it on Tammy's report too, but next time I go back I think I definitely want to try that out! That lazy river looks worth it alone!

Even with the ups and downs, I'm still glad you had a great time. I am so glad that I got to be a part of the inaugural cruise! It was so special and a lot of fun!