4-Night Eastern Caribbean Cruise from San Juan to Port Canaveral

Good Morning from beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico. These are the views you get at 6 a.m. We are back in port and half-way through our vacation. Seven days have flown right by and so many incredible memories have been made. Today we are taking a private tour of the forts and Old San Juan before re-boarding the Wonder for our 4-night re-positioning itinerary. St. Thomas tomorrow, a day at sea, Castaway Cay (Disney's private Bahamian island) and then Port Canaveral, Florida.

We are back on the ship after a tour of Old San Juan and Fort San Cristobal. I'm glad we took a tour. There are over 400 of us doing the back-to-back. It took awhile to process everyone off the boat and back on again. We walked off and came back on without any waiting. It was easy peasy. The kids also earned junior ranger pins and certificates at the fort by completing an activity book. Sneaking in some education. What a fun day!

Who ate the centers out of an entire basket of dinner rolls? The Carb Queen. Another night of delicious fare at Tiana's Place. Bring on the Crawfish Crooners.

By Michael

Lisa and Thomas signed in at the kids' club soon after we got settled, in between a first lunch onboard. They went through the Marvel Super Hero Academy, watched a Lion Guard show, and got to meet one of the characters afterward.

That evening we had donuts for a treat, and came back to the stateroom to find the first towel animals of the cruise waiting for us on the bed, wearing sunglasses.

Good Morning from sunny St. Thomas! Off to Maegan's Bay for some beach time.

Beautiful St. Thomas.

Beautiful views.

Pictures don't do this island justice. What a great day of fun in the sun.

I have taught her well. We dip our fries in mayonnaise.

Patiently waiting for the pool to open.

Goodbye St. Thomas. We are pulling out of port now. Tomorrow is a day at sea on our way to Castaway Cay on Wednesday!

By Michael

After breakfast we caught an open-air safari bus up into the hills to Drake's Seat, the overlook where you can see the whole curve of Magens Bay laid out below. We got the family photo everyone takes there, Thomas and Lisa sitting on the rock wall with the water behind them, and I tried a panorama to fit all of it in one frame.

By Michael

From Drake's Seat we came back down to Magens Bay itself and spent the rest of the morning on the beach. Lisa flexed for the camera the second she hit the sand, and later buried herself up to her shoulders while Thomas waded out into the turquoise water and got caught in a few waves along with her. I wrote our name in the sand under a palm tree. Kathy got the four of us together for one photo out in the water before we packed up.

We stopped for a family photo at the St. Thomas welcome sign near the port on the way back, and grabbed a snack for the ride. The Wonder pulled away from St. Thomas around 3:30 that afternoon.

Ready to rock this 5K!

The course was beautiful and the rain held off until after we crossed the finish line. Now it's pouring. Lisa came in 6 minutes faster than I did and I beat my goal time by 8 minutes. I'm proud of us both

An overcast day and our jet ski excursion was cancelled. It's still paradise and we'll be back here on Saturday for a do-over . Fingers are crossed for warm breezes and sunny skies. It's hard to believe we've been on the Disney Wonder for 10 days. Only 4 more sleeps until we are back to reality. No!!!!

Well, that turned around quickly. The sun decided to make an appearance. What a beautiful day.