Boy Oh Boy did I have a good time on our vacation.  I met so many people, who all fell instantly in love with me.  It was GREAT!!.  We rode to FL on Amtrak.  That was a lot of fun but a very long and bumpy trip. Mom and Beth were all bruised from parts of that trip and it was really funny when we were coming back from dinner and suddenly Mommy was gone. We found her with her face plastered against the wall in the hall way.  It hurt but she was ok with no black eyes. I think that the engineer was a real cowboy who thought he was way out west but he was not.  We had something horrid happen on the way home that made us really late, because we had to do something nice for people on another train, but I am not going to tell you what it was, cause that will not make you happy. 

We got to our Hotel Saturday afternoon and after they put out stuff away we got cleaned up and relaxes a little and then went to the Saturday Night Sea Food Buffet at the Hotel.  That was the best ever.  Mom and Beth ate snow crabs until their hands hurt too much to crack open any more. Then they went to the biggest shrimps I ever did see-it too three bites to eat one.  There were so many fantastic salads and stuff and then the DESSERTS-even I do not know words to describe them.  There was more outside and on the grills but we were too full to even go look at that.  WE all agree that was the beary best buffet we has even seen and cannot wait to go back.

In the Morning (Sunday) we got dressed and had breakfast and then headed for our ride to the ship.  After we got on board we just started to have fun.  Then there was the life boat drill and then Lunch.  We left port around early dinner time and we soon on our way.  I must say that there were really nice people taking care of us on the Ship.  She is Wonder of the Disney Line and she is a wonder.   The second day we were out we got to see what a wonder she was as we ran into a storm and she danced like a real talented dancer.  She had us dancing too.  The captain knew what to do and we were not worried or sick.  It rained a lot but that did not stop our fun.  So many people came just to see and talk with me.  The Characters liked me a lot too.  I have lots of pictures of them with me.  We did not go ashore at the two ports we stopped at but that was fine with us. We went for the cruise and the relaxation of that. The food was so good and I was stuffed the whole time I was on board.  We made some special friends there just as we did at the restaurant at our hotel when we had breakfast.

The people on the ship were the beary best ever.  We had a beautiful lady named Wana who took care of us in our stateroom (that is what they call the bed room on a ship) Every time we went to our room and just after we left she came in to make sure we had not made a mess.  It was great. If I left my clothes on the floor she quickly came in and picked them up, folded them and put them away.  I really liked that as I am eleven years old and a boy and so you know how I am about picking up after me.  She took really good care of us and also made animals out of towels that she put on Mom’s bed. There was a elephant, bunny, dog who wore Beth’s sun glasses, and a really big lobster.  That was so much fun.  They she came in before we went to bed and “turned down” the bed and left chocolate on the pillows-one on Beth’s and two on Mom’s-one being for little ME. There were so many wonderful people to take care of our needs that it is hard to remember all of them.  There were wonderful waiters who did so much to help-even at the buffets where we usually had breakfast and sometimes lunch.  We found the Coffee Cove and the great ladies who took care of me there.  They got the coffee stuff for Mom and Beth too.  The best was at the bar by the Adult Pool.  There were two really great gentlemen there.  Adam and Shem were the beary best every. Mom wanted to bring one or maybe both home with her. Mom and Beth laughed a lot and talked a lot but I really do not understand this thing with old ladies and young men but it is Ok with me.  I know Mom kept saying that if she brought both of them home with us their age might just be right if you added them together.  I really do not understand old ladies but Mom is Mom, so it is OK. What I do know is that she had a lot of fun and really did enjoy these extra special young men.  I also know that Adam sure kept her smiling and laughing and that is not easy when you are going to be 65 in a couple of days.  I guess he made her forget how beary old she was, at least for a little while and that is good.

On Thursday we docked and then on to a week at Disney.  We had a wonderful time, even if the bear show was not there.  The garden and flower show was going on and we saw all the wonderful characters they grew and all the beautiful flowers-who I must say were very happy with all of the rain.  It rained every day a couple of time. rain harder than I have ever seen but it was really needed so it was OK.  The girls got really wet a lot but they were Ok with that too.  We went to England for Mom’s Birthday dinner and Ireland for Beth’s.  That was a lot of fun and the food GREAT.  We had so much good food that I was scared that my seams would split but I managed to stay together. 

Suddenly it was time to pack and come home.  I do not know how that happened as we had a lot of time to spend down there but it happened and soon we were back on the train (after getting rained on twice that day) on our way home.  WE did manage to not get very wet that day as all of our clothes were already on their way home so we would have had to wear all those wet clothes on the trip home.  By that time they had it down to a science so we did not get wet.  Then the bad thing happened and I know our vacation was over.  We had a fantastic time, met wonderful people and cannot wait to go back again.  I know Mom would be back on board that ship (Wonder) real fast if she could.  She really loved that.

I do have to apologies to any one who tried to contact us. We had the computer with us but could not use it on the ship.  We thought we could once we got to Disney but were not able to there either because the services that we use do not work from there.  Mom is working beary hard to catch up and make up for anything that was not good due to that. Please forgive us as we tried our beary best.

Bear Hugs

TB & MOM