Day 7 continued
Our stateroom was ready. Yeah! The card to your room gives you your dinning rotation for that cruise, your muster drill station and concierge also gives you a shiny gold one. What is neat is on accessible staterooms the door is automatic. You have no idea what a help this is to somebody like me who either sometimes walks a little with a rollator or is in a wheelchair. Also a plus of conceirge is the corridors seem less crowded of staterooms, a little wider and have less carts. Try getting past a cart with a chair with a room on the opposite side with people coming up. Like the video game Frogger.
We decided not to do an FE this time. Ill health had prevented me from dedicating the time. We did bring items though to randomly drop in other peoples FE. Pixie anonymous dust! Why not.
The door opened by itself as if by a ghost host. This was no stateroom this is a space station...
It had a lounge, bedroom, bathroom, plus a separate rest room. Plus a good size verandah. I don't care for verandahs usually but I was to u turn this notion of my view of the ocean by the end of the week.
At home I am in one open planned room consisting of the lounge and kitchen/dining area during the day on the ground level of my house for nearly 12 hours until Jo gets home. I can't get up the stairs on my own as I can't get off the stair lift at the top. This stateroom was bigger than my day area at home! I jokingly call my home situation 'Room' after the book and now a good movie about a lady who was captured and locked in one room with her son. They call this area 'room'.
There was a lovely basket of fruit on the table. I laughed to myself thinking the cover will most likely stay on that. It looked good though. Coconut, bananas etc. Sure enough at the end of the cruise outside each stateroom was a basket of old fruit untouched. What a waste! The cookies they left got a good clearing though.
Jo was pleased it was Elemis products..
I prefer H2O especially orange so when we meet our lovely stateroom host later I asked for these. He would give us ridiculous amounts daily. Sadly there was no orange. He was either suggesting we had body odour problem or very generous. I liked to think the later.
Jo was amused at the size of the cupboard which had an automatic light...
The mirror in the bathroom had a TV in it. But I never quite understood the attraction of that. One needs peace somewhere in the world. I am not sure I want to brush my teeth watching the Walking Dead. Hang on the TV isn't on..... Oh it's me.
Soon it was time for the DVC meeting in the D lounge. We like these meetings. Following this would be the muster drill. I like to make up random facts to tell Jo. Even though she knows I do this and have for 20 years she still falls for them. Probably because I also tell her truthful facts. I told her that it was called muster drill because the life boats are mustard colour. It got shorted to muster over the years. Her eyes were wide and she seem to buy it.
We entered the D lounge and were greeted by macaroons and sparking wine or orange juice. I suddenly invented a bladder issue then that would make me leave the D lounge and come back in several times picking up more strawberry macaroons on my way. I just love macaroons. I became a DVC macaroon thief.
We had a character join us so we could take photos. I was pleased to see Corinna's favourite guy Stitch....
The hosts divided the room in 2 teams and played a game of name that tune. Of course there was no winning team it was a tie but it was fun.
Then as usual they attempt to sell us Alauni and The Villa's at the Poly. No thanks time to leave. But then they do the prize draw for cards you filled out on entering the lounge. We were selected to win a Diamonds International necklace and charm bracelet. But you had to go to the store on Nassau the next day to get it. Jo said she might. I said be careful they don't try and up sell you some 3 million dollar ring!
We left and then moved on to our given station at the 'mustard' drill.
To be continued... Next up the mustard drill, Enchanted Garden dinner and goodnight folks.
..... Jo doesn't read the DIS right 
Switzerland was fine though, mostly because I'm real happy to be eating Raclette & Fondue every day.
