Glad I Did/Wish I Did posts are a fun way for me to quickly share with others what worked and what didn't. It's been really helpful for us to refer back to over the years when preparing for our next cruise.

Glad I decorated our Stateroom Doors

Door decorations are very popular on Disney Cruise Line, and I'm always glad to partake. In the past, I've printed the door decorations onto magnetic sheets. This time, I made the door decorations out of metallic cardstock because I wanted Mickey's hat and shorts to be shiny and festive for New Year's. To magnetize them, I used super strong Neodymium magnets that I stuck to the paper with double-sided removable glue dots which ended up sticking to the door much better than the magnetic sheets. Because I went with fancy paper, I wouldn't say this is a cheaper way of making magnets than with the magnetic sheets, but at least this way I can reuse the magnets for our next cruise door decor.

We woke up bright and early on Day 2. It didn't help that we had to turn our clocks an hour forward the night before.

The Encore arrived at Great Stirrup Cay at 7AM, and we had planned to take advantage of our Cabana early tender, but I got a call from Judy that we'd be pushing our departure time to 8AM - fine by me!

Great Stirrup Cay is a tender port, meaning that rather than docking, the ship drops anchor in the bay and passengers go to shore via smaller tender boats. The last tender was scheduled for 1:30 PM - not much time on the island!