Day one was travel day/embarkation day! Our flight left out of Nashville at 5:30 am on Sunday. We left for Nashville around midnight, arrived at the airport around 2:30, and flew out right on time. We flew into Ft. Lauderdale, FL and had to take a shuttle from FLL to the cruise port in Miami. The shuttle was about a 30 minute drive and only cost $15 per person! SO simple and worry-free! I totally recommend SAS Transportation if you ever need a shuttle in the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami area!
We arrived at the cruise port between 10:30 and 11:00 and our embarkation time was around 12:30. This allowed us plenty of time to go through security and get checked in with plenty of time to spare.
While waiting to board, we were able to meet Goofy!! So fun!!
We got on the boat in time to head to eat lunch before checking into our stateroom and getting ready for the show and dinner.
We ate lunch at Cabana's (the buffet style restaurant on the boat) and sat next to a couple and their two kids. Their little girl was the CUTEST and she leaned over and tapped me on the shoulder and said "Ma'am??? Where's your kids??" LOL!! I told her I didn't have any kids and her response was "Well who did you bring to Disney then??" hahaha.
After lunch, we walked around the boat and checked everything out to kill time before we could check into our stateroom and change clothes for dinner.
We watched the Sailing Away Party on the pool deck. Super neat and exciting!
After we checked in, we got ready for the nightly show and dinner. On Disney cruises there are two showings of the nightly show and two dinner seatings. If your assigned dinner time is 6:15, then you watch the 8:15 show. If your dinner time is 8:15, you watch the 6:15 show. Our dinner time was the second seating so we always watched the show before dinner each night. The show on the first night was "Twice Charmed" which was a different outcome of the Cinderella story--the show reminded me a whole lot of the plot of the Cinderella III movie. It was a super great, Broadway-style show. {To watch the show, click HERE!}
On the Disney Magic, you dine at a rotation of three restaurants for dinner: Animator's Palate, Rapunzel's Royal Table, and Lumiere's. On the first night, we ate at Animator's Palate. This was an awesome awesome AWESOME restaurant. The walls were decorated with black and white drawings and cartoon pictures and the ceilings were paint palates. It was all black and white until dessert time, and then there was a show with lights and colors and featuring Sorcerer Mickey!!
For dinner, you get your choice of 4 courses: Appetizer, Soup/Salad, Entree, and Dessert.
For my appetizer I ordered the Black Truffle Pasta Purseittes which was "pasta purses filled with truffle-scented cheese and coated with a delicate champagne sauce."
For my soup/salad, I chose the Baked Potato and Cheddar Cheese soup which was described as . It was delicious!! Probably my favorite dish of this meal!!
For my entree, I ordered the Pennete Bolognese which was "Pennete pasta mixed with a rich Bolognese sauce garnished with shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano and toasted garlic ciabatta. I liked it okay but this was the "safe choice" for me because I was a tad intimidated by all the fancy words and knew pasta would be "safe" haha. Next time, I believe I will choose chicken or steak, but this was very good.
For dessert, I chose the cookies and cream sundae. It was super good, but I was SO full by this point! Haha.
This is where the show starts. The lights lit up and the black and white drawings on the walls came to life in a colorful, animated, movie-type show. Super super neat!! My favorite part, of course, was when Sorcerer Mickey made his appearance and the Fantasmic! song played!!
After dinner, we pretty much went back to our room and went to sleep because we were super exhausted from traveling!
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