Last day of the Disney Cruise is a Sea Day. NJ has arranged a backstage tour of the theatre and a meet up with some of the cast. It's all a big surprise to the kids when she does her big reveal. We go straight to the stage where we get a run through on the trap doors, the dollys, curtains, and trap doors, and sets and trap doors. The boys are most interested in what happens below the stage (me too). This week they'll run 4 different stage productions all of the sets have to be stored in nothing more than a few cubic meters - impressive tetris, or is jenga?

Next, we meet a few of the cast, including an Aussie guy from the gold coast. The kids are full of questions about favourite characters, how they got here, what's it like to wear such and such. All very smitten, the girl that will dance as Belle tonight is one of the cast to meet us, Boo is so awe struck she almost can't talk.

One member of the cast we don't have a great pick with yet is Mickey. We get the whole family together for a picture with Captain Mickey, then head our separate ways for the last few hours on board. In the afternoon Boo has her stage show with all her new friends from Kids club. Her chance to get up on stage and dance with Mickey, never too old!

Dinner is the last opportunity for "The BEST" Mac 'n Cheese ever, so that's pretty much all Boo has on her plate. It's the last night to enjoy Kids Club so we lose them both until the show, and our chance to see Boo's new idol dance as Belle before the farewell party. For the third time this week Gab gets a tear in her eye as the cast descend the stairwell to say goodbye. Boo has me running around after her getting last minute photos with all of the cast she met today, including with Belle - in a "Mondrian inspired" dress she tells me.

To the bar for a final round, then we're all in bed by 2am :) We're up early in Copenhagen the next day. It's raining, it's Eid, 50% of the cities taxis are driven by Muslims - there are two huge cruise ships docked this morning, and it's peak hour. The Taxi rank manager tells us we can expect to wait up to an hour, there are thousands of people starting for queue behind us! Luckily we were third in line off the boat waiting for cabs. By the time I got Gab & Emerson a Über, a taxi had arrived to collect Fid and I - crisis averted. 

We'll only be in the air for 45 minutes from Copenhagen to Hamburg. There are just over a busload of us that will board this plane. "OMG I've never been in one of these olden day ones" says Boo - this plane has propellers! We end up sitting right on the wing, so when the first propeller starts up, and we can see that the second one hasn't I'm able to properly scare the kids into thinking the plane has problems, hysterics ensued, for both of them and I :)

At Hamburg we pick up our car, well I should say Limo. It's a brand new 7 seater VW Multivan, full leather seats, but the kids will tell you the best bit is the spinning seats and cafe table in the second row - they'll fight over who sits where for the rest of this week :)

If the car wasn't impressive enough we seem to have booked ourselves into the Castlereagh street of Hamburg, a significance of this error unfolds as we try to head out for a sight seeing stroll - "I'll just duck in here", "Ohh look at this mummy"... The Luxury area did eventually make it's way to the town square and the Rathaus. We stroll around down town and along the Inner Alster lake for an hour or so, it's a beautiful part of the world, but we'll see more of that tomorrow.

We jump a cab over to St Pauli and the Reeperbahn before it gets too dark and exciting. We walk past the worlds most heavily utilised ATMs, with up to 500k a day moving through it at some points in the year. Fid is in heaven at one of those big hanging plate over coal Wurst sellers, it smells so good I can even put up with an Erdinger. We check out the area for a bit, but without a guide to tell us much significant about the area, we seem to spend most of our time trying to distract the kids from, or coming up with creative explanations for some of the weirder stuff in the shop windows.

It's day one ashore, having partied too hard and enjoyed next to no restrictions for the past week, reality & tiredness are a bleak harsh cloak for all of us. Happily, there's a Franziskaner restaurant just down from our hotel, what a way to finish the first night of the comedown.