Author Archives: Patrick

Disney Fantasy 10 Night Caribbean Cruise – Day 6, Sea Day

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Another beautiful and calm morning on the Disney Fantasy.  Having just enjoyed two awesome island days at Aruba and Curacao, we were happy to have a relaxing day to enjoy the ship.  I woke up at my normal vacation time of 6:30, made my way up to deck 11 to get my Diet Coke, and wrote my Hayesvision.com blog posts… Read more »

Disney Fantasy 10 Night Caribbean Cruise – Day 5, Curacao

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It would be hard to top day four in Aruba but we were willing to give it a try at the island of Curaçao.  One of my favorite Disney Cruise morning activities on days in port is to wake up early and head up to deck 12 to take a timelapse video of he ship coming into port.  Unfortunately, today… Read more »

Aruba | Disney Fantasy 10 Night Caribbean Cruise | Blog Day 4

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After a turbulent day on the ocean during our second Disney Fantasy sea day, we were excited to be approaching our first island stop of our cruise.  We awoke around 8 am, as the ship was still making its way to Aruba.  This gave me time to get the GoPro set up on the veranda and take an approaching timelapse… Read more »

Disney Fantasy 10 Night Caribbean Cruise – Days 2 & 3, At Sea

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Thursday, June 29th, Disney Fantasy At Sea After a fun and eventful embarkation day on the Disney Fantasy, we were looking forward to some more fun and relaxation on our first of two sea days on our way to Aruba.  The seas were quite calm and we wanted to spend a little time this first morning on deck 11 enjoying the water… Read more »

Disney Fantasy 10 Night Caribbean Cruise – Day 1, Embarkation 

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Needless to say the entire Hayes household arose early with excitement as our Disney Fantasy Cruise embarkation day had arrived. To backup the storyline a bit, this cruise was two months in the making, but we only told the boys about it the Sunday before we departed.  In classic Emily style we wanted to have a fun and unexpected reveal… Read more »

Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort Day Seven – Dolphin Tour

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Regardless of the amount of time you spend on a vacation, you inevitably get to the last full day.  With such an amazing week behind us, from our arrival day, a week prior, through today, we were not ready to leave.  But today, the realization set in that this was the last day to enjoy all of the fun that… Read more »

Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort Day Six – Coastal Discovery Museum

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Having had our fill of Resort breakfast for a bit, I got our day started by heading down the street to pick up some delicious bagel sandwiches from the Island Bagel Co.  This has also become a sort of Hilton Head tradition. The Island Bagel Co. is one of the few places we have been able to find an Everything… Read more »

Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort Day Five – Harbour Town

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We awoke to a quiet Hilton Head morning.  This was our first day without the wonderful company of Kee and Colonel, who left for home the day prior.  We took our time getting up and ready as we kept our social calendar pretty open for the day.  We chilled in the room for a bit, allowing the boys to play… Read more »

Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort Day Four – More Resort Fun

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Coming off the heels of an action packed, full filled birthday for Hunter, we were all ready for a chill resort day at Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort.  Although we were all exhausted, this was unfortunately Kee and Colonel’s last day at the resort, so we wanted to get a few things in before we had to say our goodbyes…. Read more »

Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort Day Three – Hunter’s 10th Birthday

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After a fun day two relaxing around the resort, we had finally arrived at our day of celebration, Hunter’s tenth birthday!  We were first awoken by Hunter at 3:30 am when he was knocking on the bathroom door, which startled Emily and I a bit because we weren’t expecting a knock.  Hunter had a hard time getting back to sleep because the… Read more »