DAY 10 - May 23rd, 2011 - Day At Sea #7
Beep, beep, beep, beep! The alarm went off at 10:00. We notice that the ship is STILL moving A LOT. Hmmm. We start getting ready, and I read in the newspaper delivered that the ash is going away from Europe now. Yay!
At 10:50, we head down to the Walt Disney Theatre for the Don Ducky Williams autograph session. (We were assigned a time slot based on what deck our staterooms were located. Our session happened to be today!) There wasnt a line when we got there and he graciously signed our lithograph (the gift we received at the beginning of the cruise).
I took the lithographs back up to the room and then we proceeded to Parrot Cay for a buffet breakfast. Within 30 minutes, we were done and we made our way to (where else?) Promenade Lounge. We played games and also decided to grab the gratuity form from Guest Services to get that squared away. As we were playing games, the music starting BLARING. It was obnoxiously loud and took a few minutes to stop. I guess they were having technical issues? It happened again to us later in the cruise as well. Weird! The Drink of the Day today was the Island Hopper, so we decided to try it.
HOLY. VODKA. Vodka and I arent too good of friends, so James and I took a few sips and went back up to the bar to get more juice added to it. It was still too much for me, but I drank about half of it before handing it over to Dad to finish.
At 1:30, James and I went up to Topsider to grab a plate of food to bring back to the lounge.
Before we knew it, it was 3:30. We went up to our rooms to fill out of tip forms and gather our gift cards and then came back down to Guest Services. There, we dropped off the forms and put our gift cards on our account. (Note that, in our minds, our rather large amount of OBC we received for rebooking this cruise onboard was going to go to the large amount of gratuity required for this cruise and the gift cards covered the rest of it.) Afterwards, we dropped of the tickets and our folio printout in our rooms (but not before snapping a picture of the dinner menu!).
Then, we decided to look in the gift shops. Again.
At 5:00, there was going to be a special DVC Member Mixer/Social happening in Diversions. So, at 4:45 we entered Diversions and grabbed a seat. It was a wonderful event. Why, do you ask? FREE alcohol! Did you catch that? Maybe I should mention it again. FREE ALCOHOL! So, I enjoyed 4 Heinekens. James enjoyed a glass of pinot, a Corona, and a glass of Asti Spumanti champagne!
By 6:00 we were making our way out of there. And yes, we were feeling goooood. Tonights performance in the Walt Disney Theatre featured Charo. No thank you. We happily skipped that and went back to our rooms to chill and relax until dinner time.
At 8:10, we started making our way do to dinner. Tonight, we would be dining in Animators Palate. I snapped a few pictures as we waited to get in:
At 8:30, the doors opened, and off to our table we went. I guess its time for food pictures now!
Beef turnovers:
Chicken cordon bleu:
Pork dish:
We also ordered cheese soup, but I didnt take a picture (since it was similar to the cheese soup earlier in the cruise).
Dessert menu:
Nothing sounded appetizing to me, so I settled for the Seasonal Fruit Jalousie (wasnt too great in my opinion either):
Sundae:
At 9:45 we were exiting the restaurant. The sun still hadnt fully set yet!
Once in our room, we saw our towel animal, but no excursion tickets for tomorrow. Hmmm...we havent done a Disney excursion before, so I didnt know if we should have them or not. I assumed we did though.
After snapping the towel animal picture, James and I went back down to Guest Services were they reprinted the tickets for all 4 of us. I say reprinted in quotations because I noticed the following morning that a lot of people had the reprints. Looks like the real tickets didnt get delivered to many people...
Anyway, by 10:15 we were in bed. Our excursion was scheduled for 8:00, so we wanted to make sure to get some sleep! We set our room service order on the door and fell asleep shortly thereafter dreaming of CADIZ, SPAIN! Stay tuned!