Happy Birthday M-I-C-K-E-Y!

Today is Mickey's Birthday! Did you know that? I'm sure all my Disney friends know this. You may say, all my Disney friends, you mean there are more like her? Yes, believe it or not, I'm not alone. In fact, I'm in quite good company! There are thousands of other 'crazed' men and women who love Disney just as much as I do, if not a little more and go to WDW and DL every year and multiple times a year!! I take grief all the time from my local friends and family. You can't be going to Disney again, they say! Well, it is where I love to go and where the kids like. It is my happy place!

People don't make fun of the people that go to Vegas every few months? What's the difference? Anyway, I'd like to say Happy Birthday to the Main Mouse and share some pictures with him over the years!

You can meet Farmer Mickey at The Land in EPCOT

Jedi Mickey is around during Star Wars weekends

Hawaiian Mickey is found at O'hana

 

Mickey and Minnie are found just inside the Magic Kingdom

This is Capt. Mickey on board the Wonder on our first ever cruise for our 25th!

 Here is Capt. Mickey on board the Dream, and it is a dream ship!!!

So, happy Birthday Mickey!


Cozyflier

Birthday on the Dream

Before the cruise I ordered a birthday cake for Kevin. He was surprised when the servers brought it out at dinner!

Zacky our server made EARS for Kevin!!!

This cake was Delicious!!!!  The face was white chocolate, not fondant! YUM!!


Celebrating special occasions on the cruise are memorable! I'm so glad that the member cruise was the week of Kev's B-day. Have you celebrated a special occasion on a Disney cruise or just at WDW? Our family has done both! Birthdays and anniversaries :-) I'm really hooked. Cozyflier

Kevin's Birthday Cruise on Disney Dream

How many of you have walked through these doors?  Do you know where this is?  This is the entrance to board the ship at Port Canaveral when sailing with Disney! I just love this sight!

This is the special flag that says this cruise is for Members only! See, we are Disney Vacation Club members. I'm not paid to say this, but this is the best 'time share' on the market. We have been members since 1997, and we now have 3 homes ~ OKW, AKV, and Grand Cal in CA. We may stay at any resort on property. We may trade thru RCI and go to other places like the Grand Hotel on Mackinac island in MI, or the Broadmoore in CO. Or we could go to Disney Paris. But the kids like WDW and cruising! this has been our 3rd cruise on points!!! OK, enough on DVC, you can tell, I'm a fan, but if you decide to join, tell them I sent you!!! :-)

In the terminal building, waiting for our turn to board!

We took our niece Stephanie and her husband Shawn. NO KIDS this trip!!! What an awesome experience this was.

Such an amazing ice sculpture as we entered the ship! There was another one up at Cabanas. So much detail.

Aye Aye captain!

Castaway Cay! So beautiful!

Aye Captain, I fear thar be pirates!

Pirates IN the Caribbean!

We like Pirate night.  ARGH!!!!!!!!

I believe in fairies!

Kevin and I changed after dinner, so we aren't dressed up!  Oh well, we still had fun!

3 cruises, 18 trips to WDW and this is the first time we've ever met Jiminny Cricket!

Minnie was so pretty in her evening gown!

A second day on Castaway Cay!!! Yippee!!!



In another blog, I'll show you all over Castaway Cay and all the fun amazing things you can do. Cozyflier

Disney From A Bird's Eye View!

Yes, I realize most people fly into Orlando commercially and may get to see WDW from the air. But Kevin and I fly in our little Cozy MK 4 and fly into Kissimme and that takes you right over the world. It is at this point I wish I could move around in our plane just a little more so I could get all kinds of pics! But I did some I would like to share. Now, let me explain why we were over the World!! We were heading down to Port Canaveral for a Disney Cruise. We used our DVC points to take a cruise with our niece and her husband for Kevin's birthday. The DVC member cruise fell during his birthday week. What a lucky co-winky dink!!! As luck would have it, George and Andrea, were going to Florida to watch the Endeavor fly on the 747 to CA. So if they went down a day early we could all meet up and hang together in Downtown Disney!!!! SWEET!!!!!!! Andrea's favorite holiday is Halloween, so we had to attack the Halloween things at World of Disney! OK, have you ever seen Disney from this perspective? 700' above ground level?


This is the Contemporary and Bay Lake Tower.  You can also see Space Mt.  Please forgive the blur at the bottom, that is the edge of the airplane.  If you read my previous post you will see the canopy come down and I have the camera right up against it.  I have no room to move!  Again, sorry for the reflection and glare of the canopy! 

EPCOT is apparent by Space Ship Earth!

 EPCOT foreground

 These next pictures show Fantasyland expansion construction.  Also Tomorrow Land.  I  can't decide if one is better than the other, so I'll leave all of them in!  Kevin had to put the airplane in a steep bank, this was on his side, and I leaned over him and I just snapped as fast as I could to get pictures!  Please remember, I don't have photoshop!

 I like the castle in this one!

 I like Space Mt in this one!

 Down Town Disney ~ on the R side you should be able to notice the Cirque De Solie building (spelling?)

 This shot shows the bright roof tops of OKW, BLUE, and red of Saratoga Springs; 2 of DVC's resorts that you can get to DTD using the Ferry Boats!

 EPCOT World Showcase, American Pavilion in center I believe.

 World Showcase.

 

Notice the long building with blue and orange on top?  that is TEAM Disney.  That is where you would go to be interviewed for a job. The round thing in the middle is a sun dial!  Look at my next picture!

 

 This was so hard to get!!  I'm sorry it isn't centered!  Again, Kev had to tilt the airplane into a steep bank for me to get the picture at all!  I just couldn't center the picture.  But I thought my Disney friends would want to see this picture!

I love flying over Disney, I get goosebumps!  I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Cozyflier