It's been a few years since our last Disney Cruise, but we just got home yesterday and are missing it already!

It was just me and my daughter this time. She's a high school senior now, but couldn't stop talking about taking another Disney Cruise, so we scheduled one and had been counting down the days till our Thanksgiving Cruise (had always gone over spring break before).

We set sail from Galveston this time (previous cruises left from Port Canaveral), and liked the shorter flight from Denver, although didn't care for sailing past the oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico. Seas were rough, which we enjoyed, but the weather wasn't great: colder than expected, windy and overcast much of the time. I've heard that Disney won't offer cruises out of the Port of Galveston next year, and I think that's a good call. We had fun despite the weather though and wrapped up in blankets by the pool. Read more