In this Day‑1 vlog, licensed North‑Florida realtor Natalie Barnes welcomes viewers aboard the Disney Wish, introducing her family (husband Sam, mother, sister, and daughter Arabella) and sharing the excitement of their 23rd Disney cruise. The video captures the sail‑away ceremony, a family lunch at the Arendelle restaurant, and a detailed tour of their Moana‑themed verandah suite, highlighting storage, Disney décor, costumes, and amenities. Natalie outlines the cruise itinerary— a Nassau shore day, pool and splash‑pad plans, Halloween‑on‑the‑High‑Seas activities, tree‑lighting, a movie night, and her birthday on October 7— while noting reservations at exclusive venues (1923, Marvel, Palo) and describing food experiences (potato‑leek soup, grilled chicken kids menu, mac & cheese, steak, corn chowder, churros). She shares personal reflections on crowd anxiety, a past norovirus episode, and her real‑estate career, and includes playful moments with Arabella’s Disney play, costume choices, and snack reactions. The vlog blends travel logistics, family dynamics, and personal commentary to give viewers an immersive first‑day cruise experience.
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Here's our boat. Currently waiting for our boarding group to come.
Arabella, wave! Yay!
Ready everyone?
1, 2, 3, wish you a cruise!
Hi guys, what's up? It's me, Natalie. Welcome to— welcome back to my YouTube channel. Today we are on the Disney cruise with the Wish. We have already sailed away. I'm gonna flip the screen so you guys can see, and I'm back at the room. I got a nice little drink for sail away, but now that that's over, Sam and my mom are downstairs at the Star Wars bar, which you guys are gonna see soon. I just want to say hi if you've never seen my face. Hi, my name is Natalie Barnes. I'm a licensed realtor in North Florida, and yeah, I sell homes, but I also go to Disney, and we are addicted to going to Disney and going on Disney boats. I believe this is my 23rd Disney cruise, so we create— we cruise a lot. This is my third one for this year, and I wanted to bring you guys along, so buckle up and come along with us to experience the Disney cruise with us. Say lunchtime!
Let's go! Wow, lunchtime!
Nice and early. There, go, go walk in front. Yeah. For dinner, 215.
215.
I've never sat on this side before.
Cheers!
Cheers! Cheers! I got the potato leek soup. Ooh, get it, girl! My favorite soup. Do you want to try this?
That's good.
Worth a try.
It tastes wrong. I don't like it. So good.
I got the grilled chicken kids menu. And then Arabella got mac and cheese, my mom got a sandwich, Sam got a salad, and my sister got steak.
Got that dessert. Oh, that's beautiful.
Carrot cake and then sundae.
Yeah.
Oh, thank you. Hey guys, hard punched. Every time you get a coffee, your 6th coffee is free. Just finished lunch. Now we're going to Trey and's. I don't know who's right there. Disney wish, please welcome aboard the Wilson family.
Welcome aboard the Kumar family. Flynn.
We're heading to Trey's now.
Arabella, wave! Look at them!
Air, say cheese! Our stuff is here. We're in! I don't know how to do these lights. Oh, I turned it off. Turn it on.
Turn it off.
Wow, I really don't know how to work this. The Moana room. Oh, it is super rainy out. That's okay, let's go out here. Wow, it is gloomy and rainy out. That's okay.
Look at the view. What do you mean? Can you get my bed?
What?
Wait, can you get my bed to me?
Yeah, I'll make your bed.
Oh, we taking this blanket home.
No, you have to pay for it. Not if it goes in her suit.
No, you do.
They charge you. Was that on video?
Yeah.
First one of the cruise. Here, what'd you get?
I got—
Wow, that looks good. It's cheese platter. What is that? That's wax.
Wax.
Oh, wax. You don't eat that.
How do you eat that? Spicy.
No, it's not spicy, just— it's not— no, it's just not edible.
4, 3, 2, 1! Star Wars Lounge.
What'd you get? What'd you get? The Batuu. What? Batuu.
Oh. Ah, is it? Wow, wow! You want— whoa, whoa, whoa!
It's kind of gloomy out, but we just left. It's Tiffany over there.
Oh, hey!
Tonight we have 1923 for dinner. I think the lineup is 1923, then it is Marvel, and then it's Marvel again, and then it is Arendelle. We did, we did book Palo, which is going to be really fun. Palo is the, um, exclusive restaurant you can book that's not like the regular dining. So Sam's first time at Palo, I'm super excited. We got a bunch of little goodies. I don't know where Arabella put the other bag, but we got another Castaway Cay towel. I use this for Lady because she pees and poops all over her like little spot, so these are really good to clean up because they're microfiber. And then we got another one of these bags. Like, I'm super grateful, but literally have like 15 of these bags. I don't know what to do with it. Um, and then we got a little beach towel bag as well. Let me close this. Let me show you guys around the room. Okay, when you first walk in to the right, we have the toilet room and then some storage right there. Arabella and Sam's stuff's right there with a little sink. To the left of the door, um, like when you when you first come in. We have a lot of storage for clothes. Oh, this is so heavy. Sam's side. We have my stuff, my bathing suits, and then mine and Ara's— Arabella's stuff. This is a Mickey on the High Seas cruise, so we brought a lot of different dress-up stuff, costumes. Then we have the shower tub duo with a full-length mirror. And then a vanity right there. This is where I'm keeping all of my stuff. There's me, my little sail away outfit. This was super comfy, it's from Shein. I don't know what I'm wearing tonight. This is a Moana themed room, so we have the bed right here and then Arabella's bed over there. It is kind of messy because we've just been hanging around the room a little bit. We did request for them to bring up princess themed sheets, so hopefully they're able to bring that. Let me turn on the mirror. Then this is obviously where we get ready. We got the All Hands on Deck cheese board, and that was really good. My mom got it for us. Um, and then we have the Lysol disinfecting spray. I put all of Arabella's stuff, like her shoes, her PJs, are in here. And then her outfit. So she has this whole entire corner of the room, and then we have all of that. So for the itinerary this cruise, we have today, which is sail away— we are literally leaving port right now— and we have the 1923, like I said, for dinner. We ate at Arendelle's for lunch, and then tomorrow we have a Nassau day. I don't think me and Sam are going to get off. I don't think he's ever gotten off, and I've— I haven't gotten off in a really long time. I used to go all the time with my dad and my mom. Well, my mom got scared, so then she started staying more on the boat with my sister. But I remember they had like a really sketchy but good straw market, and I'm like kind of dying to see if it's still there. I don't think it is, or maybe it's like in a bigger building. And then, um, they also used to have really good rum cakes. I remember that when I was little, and those were really good. I got a drink of the day. Has alcohol in it. I think it's like pineapple and like strawberry, I don't know. But Disney does these really cool straws and they're made out of fruit, or like they have the chocolate one which is really good. But I got that when we did the sail away party. So yeah, so we have that tomorrow. NASA— I don't think we're gonna get off the boat. I think we're just gonna stay on it, and depending on the weather is also going to determine if um, we do the pool or not. That's the day we really do like to do the pool, um, especially Arabella. She likes to do the splash pad, um, and I think she might even be tall enough to do the actual slide, not the Aqua— Aqua Ride or Aqua Dunk, I don't even know what it's called. I don't think she's old enough to do that yet, or tall enough to do that, should I say. I think we might do the kids' splash pad, and I definitely like to get the beignets. Beignets down at the bayou are my favorite. I can eat like 15,000 of them and not get sick of them. But last cruise we did, we got super sick. I think we caught norovirus, which was awful. Um, and we caught that like our second to last night. Well, actually it was our second and third night, like the last day, full day, and we were at Castaway Cay and we caught something and it was awful. We were throwing up and pooping ourselves the whole cruise, the whole rest of the cruise. So Sam's never had the 1923. We've tried Marvel. That's tonight. I should probably start getting ready, but I have no idea what I even want to wear for that night— for tonight. And yeah, I think out of all the restaurants, Marvel has the best spread and the best food, but I have to pace myself because I'm not used to like eating a lot. When I eat a lot, I get really sick, so pacing myself. I already had one ice cream. Then tomorrow night we have Marvel again. That's our second night and we'll have Marvel. And then our last night we have Arendelle, which I know Arabella is gonna love the most. She normally likes that like little show and she's gonna dress up as Elsa, which is really cute. We have the tree lighting tonight. She has a beautiful little dress you guys are gonna see for the tree lighting that they do. So Halloween on the High Seas, there's different activities. We're gonna do trick-or-treating and then we're also going to do the fun little lighting that they have, the tree lighting. Ariel is super excited. I love stuff like this, but I have really bad anxiety when there's a lot of people, and I get really uncomfortable pretty fast. So that's something I'm not looking forward to, is the crowd in the atrium. But that's okay. I think we are gonna skip the shows. We've been on this boat so many times that the shows, I could literally probably do it, and I'm just— they're not like my favorites. So I think we might skip that. Um, Sam did mention that tomorrow night they are playing Elio. I think that's— yeah, I think Elio, which if you guys haven't seen that movie, it is so cute, and Arabella really likes it. So I might sneak downstairs to go to the movie theater. And tomorrow, which is Tuesday, October 7th, is my birthday, so I'm super excited. I don't know what I want to do. My mom wants to book me a spa package, and I just don't know if I want to do it or not. But yeah, anyways guys, lots to do on this cruise and I am so excited to bring you guys along. Also, I'm so sorry, most of the lighting and clips that I talk in, I try to talk loud enough for you to hear me but not loud enough for people around me to be like annoyed. So if I talk pretty low in my other clips, I just don't want to be annoying to anyone else on the cruise, but I'm trying my hardest.
Baby Yoda! What is it? My baby.
We gotta do our tour.
Come on, what'd you get? My baby Yoda. Yoda. Yoda.
What are they? Are they for popcorn?
No, those are drinks. Drinks?
Are you gonna bring them for dinner tonight?
Oh yeah, all right, ready?
Super cute.
Oh.
Broken.
So cute.
Tonight we are Sleeping Beauty. Can you do a spin? Whoa, boat is rocking. Can you do a spin, Sleeping Beauty? Whoa, do a spin. No, I can't. You want to show them your beautiful sparkles in your hair? Wow, so beautiful. On the way to dinner.
That—
how cute! That's my mom's room. Our room's over here. My birthday cruise. How cute!
Happy birthday! Thank you.
Beautiful. Bread, honey butter, my favorite. This is the menu. I think I'm gonna get corn chowder with this pasta. She said super yummy. Yeah, they have a lot. This is really good too. All right, love it.
Maybe do blue.
Here's the corn chowder, super good. It's like a 7 out of 10. My favorite, the churros. Literally my favorite.
Let me see.
We just got back to— oh, those are good chocolate.
Come here, Mom. Come here. Minnie Mouse! No way! And then Minnie Mouse pillow. And your pillow.
Wow, you're So lucky!
Woohoo!
And the mini sheets. You're so lucky.
You want to take off your shoes?
Well, let's not ruin the bed, okay? Did you see your new friend? Look, it looks like a manatee or something.
