First off Happy New Year everyone!!!!
A little rain shmain isn’t going to ruin our day!
So we woke up at O stupid O’clock again and the boys were all sleeping. I can’t get over how when we are at home on a weekend the boys are up early wanting our attention and we would rather just pull the covers over our heads and sleep in. On vacation WE are up early and THEY are still sleeping! So we head out to the balcony, which was becoming our morning routine. It was a little foggy and you could feel the moisture in the air but it was still nice and warm. We were leaning over trying to figure out which room was my parents and they happened to be out on their balcony having their coffee.
My lens kept getting fogged over and this shot is not that clear but if you look closely my parents are waving to us from the balcony between the first and second life boat.
Once the boys rolled out of bed we headed for breakfast. We had no plans for the morning before we docked…actually we had no plans for the entire day. On our 2010 cruise, Costa Maya was one of our stops and I have to say it was one of our favourite ports ever. Back then we didn’t make any plans either we just walked over to the transportation area and bought an all inclusive pass at a beach bar and took a bus to the beach. It was only $2 per person for the bus and the pass was $25. It was such a great day and we had an hour long massage on the beach for $20. I really had no idea what we were going to do that day since it’s a different experience with kids and I didn’t think there would be too many options since unlimited booze would not appeal to the kids.
Anyway we walked around the ship and decided to play shuffle board. We were not that good at it and Gabe was getting a little miserable again. He has that bit of competitive nature from his momma that if he is not good at something he’s not having fun. I still have fun but I like to do like to win!
We have to work on sportsmanship with Gabe.
While we were in that area they were sprucing up the ship and Luke came across this sign and leaned in to read it lol.
It was so funny…. I think he thought he was going to be in big trouble until dad took out the phone to take a pic.
We got a text from Rob and Jen as we had made plans to play some cards so we met up with them on deck 3 at the booths by Bon Voyage lounge. After we played a few hands of Bohnanza we decided to go and have some lunch and then all of us were going to venture into Costa Maya. Rob and Jen had no plans either so we were all just going to wing it. We went up to Cabanas for our first time for lunch and discussed ideas of what to do in port. While we were dining it started to rain. I didn’t really feel up to going into port when we had no plans to get soaked. Soooo I thought what better time to go to the spa and use our pass to the Rainforest room from Wendy and Joh and fam. We put the boys in the kids club and headed to the Spa. It was not very busy being a port day so that was perfect! We were given a tour and we were given a Mickey band thingy that would get us into the Rainforest room. The lockers and showers in the spa are free to use for anyone 18 years old and over. They even have a small sauna in the locker room! I was really looking forward to lounging in the heated mosaic loungers. I had a tour of the spa on our first cruise on the Magic and I think they had 4 of these chairs, on the Fantasy they have 10. There were 2 other people in the room when we entered and we picked our chairs. They are sooo heavenly!
It was funny but one of the other ladies was pretty comfortable and started to snore. Nate and I looked at each other and were smiling and silently giggling to ourselves. Well it didn’t take long before Nate was joining the chorus lol.
After the lounge chairs we headed out to the hot tub until we were nice and pruney. On to the different Saunas and hot rooms. They had 3 different saunas or hot rooms and 4 different showers. They had the Laconium, which was a dry sauna, the Caldarium which was a steam room and the Haman which was a steam bath. The showers were Water Fun, Tropical Thunder, Raiforest and Cool Mist Experience. All the showers had 3 different settings and sounds to go with it. Nate and I were like kids on an elevator going from shower to shower pushing all the buttons. I liked the Laconium the best of the saunas but I couldn’t tolerate them for more than a few minutes. The Caldarium you really need to take a few towels in to sit on or you will burn your butt! I didn’t go into the Haman but Nate popped his head in to check it out. It was so much fun and relaxing that I don’t think I will go on another
Disney cruise without buying a Rainforest pass.
Here’s the locker and shower room that is free for all guests to use.
This is still in the locker room and you can see the sauna here too.
This was inside the Rainforest room in front of the wall fountain.
My FAVOURITE!
The shower and sauna area
We left the spa feeling pretty good and relaxed and now the sun was shining! Nate and I had decided to just get off the ship and walk around the touristy area. We stopped for a beer before heading back on the ship. We picked up the boys and got ready for supper at Animators… my fav!
We mixed up the seating again at dinner…our servers must have just LOVED us lol. I just loved dinner time because we all got together and sometimes it would be the first time we would see them that day! When we got to the table the servers gave us a place mat and a marker to draw on. I almost didn’t do it because I was too busy socializing. I don’t want to ruin it for anyone since I didn’t know about it… but make sure you do your drawing!
After dinner we stopped and got some Character pics… It was easier with little Logan since he occupied Luke and he forgot that he should be upset about standing in a line.
While we were getting pics and milling around the lobby I bumped into Holly and Scott. This was actually the first time I officially met Scott and I was telling him how disappointed I was that he was out of the show early on the night before with the hypnotist because we wanted to see what his thoughts were. He thought it was all fake and didn’t work at all for him. After we finished chatting we headed to the Walt Disney Theater to watch Wishes. I really liked it and watched most of it but I found every night once I would finally get to sit.. in a comfy chair.. in the dark I would almost ALWAYS nod off during the show. Again weird since I’m a night owl and I am never sleepy before midnight. It was all those darn early mornings! Once out of the show and walking around I rallied. We had noticed that in the tube they were having an 80’s trivia, which everyone in our group was talking about. I LOVE the 80’s and Jen is apparently an 80’s trivia superstar. Cassie had offered to watch the boys for us so we could enjoy some of the adult entertainment. Anyway we got there early, ordered a few drinks and texted our friends to let them know where we were sitting. Well everyone went to bed early that night and Nate and I were on our own. We did quite well with just the two of us…I think we got 19 right out of 25. We were pretty tired when we got back and we had a big day the next day... Nachi Cocom!
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