July 19th, PAD Challenge

We woke up today already docked at Disney's private island called Castaway Cay. Living in Florida, we are spoiled by beautiful beaches and have access to them at any time so we were not too excited about a beach day. BUT it was amazing. The water was beautiful and the weather was perfect. After breakfast, we made our way down to the beach. In the harbor, Disney's The Flying Dutchman ship, used in the Pirate's of the Caribbean movies was anchored. It was very cool looking. They have hundreds of chairs all positioned with umbrellas and amidst palm trees for natural shade. This was all at the family beach. There was a climbing structure in the water and Daniel took a few tries at climbing across the rope before they had to close it due to low tide. We rested in the shade, read our books, listened to music. Daniel went to his kids' activities for a bit and then joined us for lunch, which was a BBQ. He also ran down to watch the crab races which he thought were funny. Sarah and Daniel went over to the game pavillion and played pool, ping-pong, chess, shuffle board and basketball. Daniel found a treasure chest with coins, too. Bill and I walked around and Bill tried out a hammock which he fell out of.
After cleaning up, we went to the show of the evening and it was wonderful. Sarah was happy to finally see Cinderella, too. Dinner was at the Animator's Palace and dinner was wonderful. Bill and Daniel had the filet mignon, Sarah had Pasta alfredo and I had salmon. Yum!
After dinner, we needed to pack up our suitcases because they needed to load them up for our disembarkation. We had to have them in the hallway by 11 p.m. We all then went down to the movie theater to watch Wall-E. We went to bed late and were very glad that we had the second breakfast the next day.