DAY 4 - May 17th, 2011 - Day At Sea #2 (Part 1)
My eyes opened and all I saw was pretty much pitch blackness. Ah, the joys of having a stateroom with no window, haha. I check the clock and it reads almost 10:00. Uh oh. We had a wake-up call set for 9:00. What happened?! We were supposed to be heading to breakfast with Mom and Dad at 10:00. Eeeeeks! So, I call their room and they are ready to go. Whoops. We tell them to go ahead and we’ll meet up with them later.
About two minutes later, the phone rings. It’s our wake-up call. Looks like the system didn’t update to one-hour forward today like it did yesterday. It seems this will be unreliable, so we decide to triple check our clock and set the alarm on that one each night. So frustrating though!
By 10:40 we were ready and head downstairs to purchase the special Transatlantic pin with our wristbands. After purchasing those, we run into Mom and Dad in the lobby. Today was the
Castaway Club reception, so James and I were on our way to that (Mom and Dad weren’t invited since they’re just at the Silver level). We walk over to Rockin’ Bar D and see a fairly decent line of people and crew members handing out nametags. We decide to skip it (it appeared to be a lot of “mingling” to us and we really didn’t want to do that). So, we walk swiftly back to the lobby hoping Mom and Dad hadn’t left. They were still sitting enjoying the view, so we rounded them up and invited them to have brunch with us at Lumiere’s! (I know, I know...they already ate, but they were willing to keep us company, haha.)
Brunch menu:
And so, into Lumiere’s we went. Marianne’s section was full, so we had a different server (don’t remember who it was, but we weren’t impressed. I guess we were spoiled with Marianne!). I got Froot Loops and a chicken caesar panini. James got fish and chips.
My panini:
For dessert, we both got the banana crepes (so good!):
At the the Guest Services desk (it cracked me up every time I saw it!):
Upon devouring the scrumptious dessert, we proceeded to Diversions to play games. The DVC presentation was starting soon, so we went to the Promenade Lounge instead. What game did we play? Why Phase 10 of course! While playing, we sat through Pictionary and origami. I ran upstairs and got our glasses and got a round of the drink of the day (“Blue Heaven”). To be honest, I don’t quite remember what was in this drink or if we enjoyed it.
We finished playing at about 1:30 and dropped off the games and glasses in our room. At 1:40, we went to the Walt Disney Theatre for a wonderful special guest performance! We had the pleasure of having Alton Fitzgerald White (current Mufasa in “The Lion King” on Broadway) sing for us! He started at 2:00 and it was a wonderful “concert”. He was to perform twice on the cruise: this one was Disney specific songs, and his second one was more his “favorites”. In this performance he sang:
“Be Our Guest” - Beauty and the Beast
“Beauty and the Beast” - Beauty and the Beast
“Fortune Favors the Brave” - Aida
“Radames’ Letter” - Aida
“You’ll Be in My Heart” - Tarzan
“Feed the Birds” - Mary Poppins
“Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious” - Mary Poppins
“Can You Feel the Love Tonight” - The Lion King
“Hakuna Matata” - The Lion King
“Part of Your World” - The Little Mermaid
“Under the Sea” - The Little Mermaid
I was in heaven to be quite honest. I’m a huge Broadway fan, and Aida is my absolute favorite musical! He did such a phenomenal job. It was him and a piano player (from the band that was on board). Alton messed up “Under the Sea” but was able to get back in it and finish the song. Afterwards he confessed he worked so hard on that one and was mad he still messed it up, haha. Here are pictures from this performance:
By 2:45 the performance was over, and we went to Diversions. What game shall we play this time? Well, Scattergories was sitting out, so we grabbed that and played it! While playing they had trivia going on. At 4:30, James and I went upstairs to grabbed some food and drinks for everyone. We got chicken fingers and pizza (surprise) and who served us at Pluto’s? Why Marianne of course! She harassed us for eating all that food before dinner, haha. Back downstairs we went, and after we ate, they had 70s music trivia! My Dad was actually excited for that, so we participated. I believe we came in 2nd or 3rd! I was in complete awe and how much he knew! I had no clue, that’s for sure.
We left Diversions just after 5:30. On our way to the room, I took another picture of the chandelier, and then we took a picture of the dinner menu (tonight was the rotational dinner at Animator’s Palate).
We collectively decided to skip the show tonight (Alfred and Seymour). James and I instead went to see “Gnomeo and Juliet” in the Buena Vista Theatre at 6:00. It was...alright. By 7:15 we were leaving the theatre and heading back to the room to get ready for dinner. Within 30 minutes we were out the door again with the lobby as our destination. We grabbed a picture with Mickey and snapped a photo or two outside on deck 4. Within 15 minutes or so, we went back upstairs to collect Mom and Dad for dinner. I was REALLY looking forward to dinner. I love the show night in Animator’s and I love the menu! Once again, the doors opened at 8:30, and into the black and white scheme we went!