“Worth Every Penny” – A Young Couple’s take on the Eastern Magic!

[Jennifer48]

Thanks for the highlighter tip. I wasn't going to bring one because I figured with just the two of us adults, I wouldn't need it. Guess I'll be packing one!

 

[funnybunny921]

I remembered reading on here that the closet had a Velcro strip, and sure enough, there it was. I also learned from the DIS to pack a pop-up portable laundry bag. I did, and here it is. Best tip ever! It worked great!

what pray tell is the velcro strip and what is it used for?

my dh and i are going on our first cruise to the med this summer.... just the two of us both 25 and both wondering why i am so crazy about the mouse

 

[YenSid1222]

what pray tell is the velcro strip and what is it used for?

my dh and i are going on our first cruise to the med this summer.... just the two of us both 25 and both wondering why i am so crazy about the mouse

The edge of the closet door has a velcro stip so that it wont slide open and closed if the ship is rocking. I believe the suggestion is to use that velcro to your advantage by hanging stuff that will stick to it.

 

[DeloreanGirl]

what pray tell is the velcro strip and what is it used for?

my dh and i are going on our first cruise to the med this summer.... just the two of us both 25 and both wondering why i am so crazy about the mouse

Hi Funnybunny,

There's a small strip up in the top corner of the edge of the closet doors. It touches the opposite strip on the edge of the closet. I'm assuming it's so the doors can't slide open if there were rough seas. I noted it on the first day, but never had to worry about it since our seas were as smooth as glass.

The hamper tip is completely separate. It has nothing to do with the velcro, lol.

 

[Eeyore3838]

great TR so far! . My DH and I got married at WDW and honymooned on DCL (7 night western) in Jan. No kids either, and we are 25 and 24. We LOVE sailing with the mouse by ourselves and are going back next year!

 

[funnybunny921]

Hi Funnybunny,

There's a small strip up in the top corner of the edge of the closet doors. It touches the opposite strip on the edge of the closet. I'm assuming it's so the doors can't slide open if there were rough seas. I noted it on the first day, but never had to worry about it since our seas were as smooth as glass.

The hamper tip is completely separate. It has nothing to do with the velcro, lol.

thanks... makes sense, i hope we won't need to use it, though i don't know if the folks on the transatlantic have been so lucky...

Where did you get the pop-up hamper, how big was it? I wasn't planning on getting one b/c the suitcase space is precious going over to europe, but it seems like such a good idea.... both DH and I have old laundry sacks and I was thinking of taking one of them but the pop-up fits so nicely in the closet.

Another question... I am thinking of using the pressing/laundry/dryclean service... can they just press something that is already clean? And is there a price difference between that and the dry cleaning?

Thanks so much!

 

[DeloreanGirl]

thanks... makes sense, i hope we won't need to use it, though i don't know if the folks on the transatlantic have been so lucky...

Where did you get the pop-up hamper, how big was it? I wasn't planning on getting one b/c the suitcase space is precious going over to europe, but it seems like such a good idea.... both DH and I have old laundry sacks and I was thinking of taking one of them but the pop-up fits so nicely in the closet.

Another question... I am thinking of using the pressing/laundry/dryclean service... can they just press something that is already clean? And is there a price difference between that and the dry cleaning?

Thanks so much!

Hi there,

I got the pop-up hamper for $5.00 at Rite-Aid and it wasn't that big, probably only 2 1/2 feet tall. It held enough for 6 days worth of lite laundry for 2 people, but not much more. I'm still glad I brought it.

Yes, they have both pressing and drycleaning on the ship. I'm not sure of the exact price, probably a few dollars. It was very reasonable. For DH to have his 2 long-sleeved shirts done it was $7 I believe. Laundry machines and dryers are on Deck 7 and run by quarters I think. They also have the detergent there to buy.

 

[JDBlair]

Totally subscribing to this one. Great job so far. I'm hooked!!!

 

[disneypoor]

I am thoroughly enjoying your TR. We cruised on the eastern in March, and this is bringing back some pretty "Magic"al memories. I also took the pop up hamper and was so glad that I did! Keep the TR coming--I only have 7 more days of teaching and I'm on summer break! I need some good reading!

 

[DeloreanGirl]

Thanks for all the nice replies everyone!

It seems like only yesterday that I was the one hooked on TR's and not the one writing one!

I'll start Chapter 6 tonight. I need something to get my mind off of American Idol's results shocker!

~Emily

 

[DeloreanGirl]

CHAPTER 6: Monday, at sea again!

Oh my gosh, I totally forgot to tell you all about the “water incident”. Okay, rewind to the first day as Mike and I are eating outside at Topsiders in the wind before setting sail. Some sort of salesman/server guys scour the decks asking people if they would like to buy the beverage packages. I inform Mike that I want to buy that $9.00 water package that folks on the DIS boards were talking about. It’s a total ripoff, I know, but I figured that $9.00 was a steal compared to how much the cruise itself cost and that we would have fresh water to take off the ship with us. So the guy comes around with his little pad and paper and asks if we’re interested. I say (with a mouthful of salad), “Yeah, I’d like to get the $9.00 package.” He then says to me, “We don’t do that anymore.” I thought it was odd that just a few weeks prior, folks on these boards were talking about it. Turns out later that night I find the Navigator insert, flip it over to the back page and, sure enough, there it is: “Package 5 – Six Evian Waters for $9.00”. I thought that maybe it was a misprint so I called Guest Services. [IMHO: I’ve probably said this before, but I swear that the people at Guest Services truly can make anything happen for you. You could ask for a parachute, a donkey, a clown suit, anything! They have it all, I swear. But I digress….] Guest services answers and says that Room Service takes care of that (did I detect a laugh in the background?) They transfer me over and Room Service picks up right away. I ask them about the package, and they reply with, “Sure thing, we’ll be right up.” We must have left our room and done something, because when we returned there was a bucket full of ice and six nicely sized Evian’s. A-HAH!

Son of a gun, I also forgot to cover the photo packages! Alright, so it’s day one again and we’re up in Shutters checking out our terminal and embarkation photos. [First, I don’t know why some people say it’s stuffy in there, because I guess all the times that we went it was just fine. But it is COLD!] I go to one of the two checkout desks to inquire about these new fangled take-out-a-second-mortgage photo packages. I really wanted the $80-something pack that was supposed to be a handful of 6x8’s (yes, the sizes are skewed like that). There are signs everywhere announcing the packages. I kid you not, with my hand to the sky, they start at... $169.00. Whoever is out there with the knowledge of the mysterious $80-something package, I should have called you! So, the photos are $20 a pop if it’s an 8x10 and some other smaller price for the wacky 6x8 size. I purposely saved up cash in a jar just for photos and knew that we wanted to take a lot. We ended up closing our eyes and handing over our KTTW card to purchase the $169 highway rob…..I mean package. The “good” part is that if you don’t get the eight 8x10’s and five 6x8’s, they’ll “refund” the difference. But by the end of the cruise they know you’ll have spent so much money on liquor, Bingo, internet and tipping that you won’t care at that point. [By the way, the next package up was $239 and the third was $299. It’s okay, you can pick your jaw up now.] Mike and I promised ourselves that we would go to every photo-op that is available (minus the boring ones) and try to get as much bang for our buck as possible.

Fast forward to Monday, our second day at sea. The night before, we received a cute formal-looking envelope invitation which would announce the show of the night, Twice Charmed. I really like Disney’s detail when it comes to things like this. Today was another lazy day of eating and discovering the ship. First, I never ate a lot on our last two cruises because of how dizzy I was from the motion. On this cruise I constantly was craving food throughout the day. Not crazy, fatty food - just small portions every few hours. We did a lot of walking which was good. I must add that Mike forced me to take the stairs, EVERYWHERE (our scale at home would later thank him for this) . I thought being on Deck 7 was cool because we’d be closer to the upper decks, but we realized that everything is on Deck 3 & 4 so we were definitely hoofing it up and down. Did you see the slow couple that was winded and bickering? Yeah, that was us.

We played trivia again today in Diversions. I don’t know if I mentioned it in my last report, but on Sunday we played Pop Culture Trivia and somehow won second place after being in dead fourth. They gave us really neat metal DCL keychains. Today was Adult Disney Trivia. It turns out that the questions were super hard. Luckily, a nice couple was added to our team and they did great. The questions were nuts, and a lot of people didn’t know the answers. Luckily we went from dead last, again, to second by our teammates answering a Mulan question. Then it was the final round and we decided to bet all our points, or a huge amount from what I remember. The last question was, “What does Scuttle call a fork in The Little Mermaid?” This was an easy one! We slapped down our buzzer as hard as we could and all yelled, “A Dinglehopper!” Luckily we bet enough points that it put us into first, and we all got red, white & blue necklaces with a gold medal that said “I’m A Winner” with a DCL logo on the back. Quite nifty. The host of all of the quizzes was Andy, and although he had an incredibly slow, dry sense of humor, he made it fun.

On our last two cruises, I never had a chance to swim in any of the pools. I kick myself for that all the time because I absolutely love swimming and don’t get a lot of chances to do it at home. This time I swore I would go in the adult pool even if Mike wouldn’t go with me. Luckily, he agreed to go (AND take his shirt off and get a tan, which is rare) so we headed up to Deck 9. The Adult Pool was wonderful and they serve the best drinks. We learned that we both loved Pina Coladas and would have many throughout the cruise. However, the drink of the day this day was the “Yellow Bird”. Mike decided to try it as I splashed around. I could tell by the look on his face that he wasn’t enjoying it. I took a sip of it and my face squirmed up really tight. We agreed that it was a mixture of orange juice and gasoline. No more Yellow Bird’s for us!

Cruise Director Rachel’s ultra-soothing voice came on the loudspeaker and announced that they would be sounding the ships horn soon. It was a good millisecond after she said the word “…soon” That the eight notes of the horn blasted at full volume a mere 40 feet above our heads! But I love that darn horn, so I wasn’t upset. [Note to self: Plug ears immediately when horn announcement begins.]

I frolicked in the pool some more and actually was able to snag a lounge chair! [Yes, it really IS that hard to get one, and yes, people leave towels on them even though it is printed ON the chair not to.] I basked in my luck of finding two empty chairs and we attempted to lie out as long as we could. They were starting to set up for the High Frequency band to come and play (it wouldn’t be such a Quiet Cove after all….) so we decided to leave.

We had lunch in Parrot Cay and it was gooooooooooooood. [IMHO: What’s the big hubbub about folks not liking Parrot Cay? I purposely scheduled our Palo dinner for Thursday evening because everyone said to reserve it for the Parrot Cay night since that restaurant was boring. It turned out to be my favorite restaurant! Out of the three, Lumiere’s was my least favorite. Go figure!] I was excited to eat here since the atmosphere was so lively and casual. I had a salad and ribs and some other mixed and mangled concotion of food. It didn’t matter. It was delicious!

Mike and I learned that we would get horribly tired in the middle of the day and take these insane, deep 1-2 hour naps. It was weird, I know, but it really felt great and we were energized for the rest of the day. I’m sure our room steward hated us for having the “Do Not Disturb” sign up at odd hours. [We never saw or met our room host for the first few days, which was interesting since people on the boards rave about how amazing they are and how they’re always around.] But he left great towel animals each night!

Dinner that night was in Parrot Cay. I loved the room décor and I loved the fun tropical and Jimmy Buffet music. The servers have the cutest outfits on too. Sorry, I can’t remember what I ordered, but I’m sure it was amazing!

Love that ceiling!


Mike and I didn’t feel up for seeing Twice Charmed. I felt guilty, but we were tired and there must have been something else that came up because I remember that we filled most of our evening time up pretty well. I think we roamed around the Beat Street area. I assured him that we’d watch it on tv. Well, the night came and went and by the time we got back to our room, all the viewings on the tv stations were over. Oh well. I’m sure it was great! We were excited to wake up to land the next morning, as it was our first stop in St. Maarten!


Next up: Chapter 7: The stickiest I've ever been in my life!

 

[nenner1]

Great Report!
Hopping on board!

TFS!

 

[manntra]

Love your TR!! My niece and I are going on our first cruise in August, and I am so much like you were----Passporters, Disboards, the DCL recorded on my tv, etc. Yeah, you could say "slightly" OCD about DCL and Disney! Hmmmm...well I am going in August and I already have a room in my house set aside for the trip with things to take----laundry thing, highlighters, door room ideas!! Thanks for such a great trip report!! Also, I think your towel animal was a frog not a lobster!!

 

[lvstitch]

Parrot Cay is my favorite too. I love the chicken wings and ribs. Yummmmmm

 

[branv]

Great trip reports! I snorted when I just read your post about taking really deep 1-2 hour naps. DH and I did the same thing on our Wonder trip. We felt drugged; I dunno what it is. It would have been great -- considering how deeply we slept -- except for everything we kept missing. That and the one or two times we showed up at dinner with pillow creases still on our faces. We're taking another DCL cruise in May '08, and we've sworn to not nap unless it's an emergency. We figure the only way to do this is to ban all access to the cabin during the day -- which means you can find us by looking for the 2 snoring lobsters around the adult pool.

Can't wait to read the rest of your report!

 

[mormadsmom]

Hi,

I looked at your photos on your link and I know we were on the same cruise, but I have so many of almost identical photos. Even the ones sailing away from St. Thomas through the rainbow. What were you, deck 7 midship too? I am going to have to post those on my TR. That is too funny!

Michelle (mormadsmom)

 

[DeloreanGirl]

Great trip reports! I snorted when I just read your post about taking really deep 1-2 hour naps. DH and I did the same thing on our Wonder trip. We felt drugged; I dunno what it is. It would have been great -- considering how deeply we slept -- except for everything we kept missing. That and the one or two times we showed up at dinner with pillow creases still on our faces. We're taking another DCL cruise in May '08, and we've sworn to not nap unless it's an emergency. We figure the only way to do this is to ban all access to the cabin during the day -- which means you can find us by looking for the 2 snoring lobsters around the adult pool.

Can't wait to read the rest of your report!

I almost didn't mention the naps because I thought people would think I was crazy. But thank you for stepping forward and admitting it! I don't know what it was either - the rocking of the boat, climbing up and down the stairs, or just being so excited! It was the wierdest thing, taking naps at 3pm. I guess we needed it?

 

[DeloreanGirl]

Hi,

I looked at your photos on your link and I know we were on the same cruise, but I have so many of almost identical photos. Even the ones sailing away from St. Thomas through the rainbow. What were you, deck 7 midship too? I am going to have to post those on my TR. That is too funny!

Michelle (mormadsmom)

Michelle,

That's too funny because before sailling I SWORE that I would take "new and different" photos of the ship.

Nope! Still the same as everyone else's!

I was on Deck 7 just a few doors behind the aft elevators. Whenever I browse through my photos I say, "Dangit, my photos look like the rest of the thousands!"

 

[DeloreanGirl]

CHAPTER 7: We’re on land!

On prior cruises, there was something about the motion of the ship slowing down and docking that would always make me wake up at 4-5am. Not this time! I was one happy cruiser and could easily have slept in until 10am. So today, instead of opening the verandah curtains and seeing an endless blue sea, there were green hills and a city!

We were in St. Maarten!

So, a few weeks prior to the cruise, my husband and I have this bizarre fascination with watching vacation-related movies. This time we chose “Speed 2: Cruise Control”. It’s laughable, but the funny part is that the cruise ship crashes into the dock of St. Martin. What are the odds? I was secretly hoping we’d be on the same side as the film set, but I’m thinking that it was the French side.

The crazed seagulls were in full annoyance mode (Mine! Mine-mine, mine, mine!) and swarmed the lightposts of the dock. Through our binoculars, I could see everything that I had been viewing in photos online; the hot pink lettering, the St. Maarten sign, the checkerboard flooring and the tiny dockside shops. Mike and I threw on our lightest clothes and walking shoes and went to breakfast. We then lathered up the sunscreen and headed down to Deck 1 to leave the ship. It was pretty windy, as you can tell:

Ports are always weird, because you’ll see photos and read reports about the city itself, but then you dock there on your vacation and you’re like, “Oh…the city is…way over there….” (and I don't mean for that to come across in a William Shatner tone...) So I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to walk it, or take a cab? I do remember the information about the water taxi so we chose to pay the $5.00 p/p fare to ride it back and forth all day (as if someone would do that!) The water taxi’s were cute and played fun Caribbean music. The waters of the sea were turquoise and perfect and the sailboats were all in their picturesque positions. We docked at a small pier near the busy part of the maine beach. The shops looked cute and welcoming. We started walking down the main street which paralleled the beach and the first row of buildings. I wanted so badly to just throw down a towel and run into the aqua waters – until we found out that it came with a hefty fee. Apparently it was $10 just to sit in a lounge chair and use their ocean. *Sigh* Only 15 minutes off the ferry, we noticed that the heat and humidity was a killer. It must be a California thing, because we were not used to how much energy it drains out of you! Mike and I walked up and down the streets and into a few shops. On the bright side, the St. Maarten locals do not haggle with you such as the Mexican locals did. We REALLY appreciated that. Sure, they would say, “Come in for 80% off….” but they never ever followed or harassed us as in other ports. I ended up buying a cute brown St. Maarten shirt, a magnet for our collection, and a small, dorky trinket for our travel curio cabinet back home. I had tentatively booked a 2pm horseback riding excursion, but Mike and I agreed that it probably wasn’t going to happen due to our fatigue, the heat and the humidity. After another hour of pacing up and down the town’s streets, we decided that we had seen and done St. Maarten.

We were the ONLY cruise ship in port that day! I heard rumors that we were the last ship of "the season"? What? How is there a season? What about summer!!

This is my artsy shot of the palm trees. I love how the colors change with height:

This is me, desperately seeking shade. At least it's pretty shade!

[IMHO: If I had to do it again, I would rent a car and go see the sights on my own with a little A/C. I’d like to see the French side which some say is prettier, otherwise we were too out of it to walk any further. Maho Beach was tempting!] It was also their Labor Day that very day, so the town supposedly closed down at 2pm and there was some sort of crazy Carnivale parade. The thought of free soft-serve, a room with A/C and a pool beckoned us, and we hopped on the first ferry back to the ship.

On a funny note, before we turned on the engines and pulled away from St. Maarten, there was a guy in a forklift that was driving around the dock like mad, gathering up the bars for the gangplank. He was driving rather fast back and forth and in the middle of the dock were lines of payphones. Mike chuckled, "That would be funny if he took out a payphone." Sure enough, Mr. Zippy Forklift comes zooming down the dock with the metal bars hanging off his forklift like a highwire balance support and whacks a few payphones so hard that the phones themselves come flying off the bases and dangle at the bottom. Sheesh.

Back on the ship, I should also note that our room was never “cold”. I wanted to call Guest Services but I never did. I suppose I thought that the temperature on max cool was what it was supposed to feel like, or maybe we were just hot all the time. Looking back, I should have called. When we got back to the room, we threw down our bags and flopped down on the bed, winded. Were we really that out of shape? Or was it just the humidity? We took another zombie nap just in time to get ready for our Pirate Night dinner!

Mike and I checked out the Navigator to see if there was anything fun going on between the afternoon and dinner time (remember, we had the super-late dinner that took forever to get to!). I browsed over to the Adult Exclusive Entertainment section of the Navigator and stumbled across an event that literally made me laugh out loud. It was “TV Fan Club”, and the part that got me howling was the description that read, “Gather with other TV fans and discuss the latest ABC television shows.” Honestly? Really? Just gather and talk about them? And just ABC only! Yes I know they’re owned by Disney, but the fact that this was considered an activity made me giggle. Whenever Mike and I were looking for something to do, we’d always joke that we could go down to Diversions and “discuss” our favorite ABC shows. I thought it was cute.

Later that evening I unpacked the pirate outfits from last Halloween. Mike was less than thrilled to wear them, but I swore that he’d thank me after he saw how cool the photos would turn out. It took us a good twenty minutes or so to perfect the bandanas, boots and vests, but I thought we looked darn nifty. We first headed down to the Disney theater area where none other than Captain Jack Sparrow was doing photos with a nice backdrop. The line was long and swerved around the gift shops and past the snack stand, but he was worth it of course! Captain Jack did a good job and everyone loved him. He messed with my pirate hat and mumbled something about his ship. We ended up with this nice print:

We later wandered around the atrium and noticed that a good amount of people were dressed up. Mind you, it wasn’t in full leather pirate gear, but I was happy that about 70% of folks had some sort of shirt or hint of pirate stuff on them. Despite not liking the white background, there was no line for the freestyle portraits so I drug Mike to take a few. We ended up loving them…

After the photos we were starving and headed for the oh-so-classy Lumiere's to have our Pirate dinner. The servers had adorable pirate outfits on, and I really liked the head server’s giant fluffy pirate hat. It was awesome that we got to keep the pirate map menu which I added to my already growing scrapbook pile. The dinner was very good and everything had silly pirate names added to it. During the last portion of the dinner, the lights went off and there was some flashes. The servers had pirate flags and loud pirate music cued up and a parade followed!
(See, I told you Disney liked dinner parades!) The song that was blared over the restaurant speakers was some form of “techno” version of the POTC ride song. As if the POTC ride theme wasn’t catchy enough, I would soon have this new techno version in my head for days. “Yo hooooooo. Yo hooooooo.” <boom, tsssh, booom, boom, boom, tsssh, boom, tsssh> If I could type what techno sounded like, that would be it. The servers started a conga line and the conga pole was right down the classy marble entry way. It was too funny rip-roarin’ it up in such a nice French restaurant! This was the night that I had a migraine too, and this bumpin’ music didn’t help. But I was having a a great time! I managed to grab my camcorder off our table during the conga line and filmed a good portion of the silly dance.

Everyone with the late dinner seating was in quite a rush to high-tail it outta there since the huge Pirate Party up top was starting instantly. As soon as the conga-techno-party was over, the restaurant cleared out fast! I honestly thought that the food portions during dinner this night would be “smaller” since there would be a gorging buffet feast just a few decks up. But no, I was wrong. The portions were the same and our server had no sympathy that we would soon be stretching our guts with turkey legs and chocolate-covered strawberries just minutes after finishing a four-course meal.

Mike and I stumbled up the stairs to Deck 9 where it was something short of a madhouse at the Goofy Pool. We somehow found a spot miraculously on Deck 10. The music was in full swing, lights off, party lights on and pirate-themed characters dancing. I was uncomfortably full and didn’t feel like jumping up and down like Mickey asked. All I could do was hold my camcorder over my head and film what was going on onstage with the viewfinder screen pointed down so that I could see what was happening! Every few minutes, a character would say, “You know what we really need?” and I was hoping that would segway into Mickey ziplinging and the fireworks. But no! It would just be an intro to another 70’s song. Song after song after song played. Cast Members were as hyper as ever. Kids were jumping. It was like Studio 54, but very G-rated. It went on and on. Finally the excitement built up and the lights grew dim. The skull appeared on the screen and “bad pirates” started dropping from ropes. I was waiting for a great duel, but in true Disney mode, the pirates landed on the stage and couldn’t think of anything better to do than – dance! I just about did a spit-take when I witnessed right before my eyes, Mr. Smee doing “The Safety Dance”. I never knew Smee was an 80’s child! They followed with some more random 80’s songs and a Dixie Chicks country song. Bizarre? Instead of watching the dancing, I was mesmerized by the hidden crew members in both smokestacks with tiny flashlights preparing the zip line. Yep, I’m a tech geek, can you tell? I’m assuming they were “preparing” Mickey for his intro. Mike and I still ponder if his head goes on before he climbs up there, or after. And how tight is it snapped in? Anyway… Mickey quietly emerged in the dark on the aft smokestack as Captain Hook and Smee were probably doing some sort of crazy Mr. Roboto dance. Folks caught on and soon enough half the ship was pointing and saying, “Mickey! Mickey!”. He did his best to shush us, but Captain Hook saw him and the show began. The spotlights flooded on and Mickey did his best to zipline from stack to stack to “save” the ship (all to the great song of “Hero” from the Shrek flick). Mickey then announced that instead of a party, he was going to give us a party….in the sky! Like clockwork, Mike and I turned to our right and there being launched off the forward pool deck was a great 5-10 minute fireworks show! And no folks, it wasn’t a few cheesy backyard illegal poppers, it was the real deal. Disney completely rocks for having been able to do that at sea. I believed we were stopped or going incredibly slow at the time. Through the booms and bangs, Mike yelled to me, “Carnival can kiss it. This cruise just paid for itself!” A single tear welled up. I love that man.

After the finale in the sky, we headed down to Deck 9 where there was none other than the famous Pirate Buffet. We joked with some fellow passengers about how many pounds we gained. “I’m totally gaining ten pounds.” “Ten? I’ve already gained twenty!”. The buffet was cool looking, but I would’ve lost my cookies if I were to push down a 9-inch long turkey leg and an Oreo cheesecake. Honestly people.

We got back to the room and ripped off our itchy Pirate outfits. They did the job and we probably wouldn’t need them anymore. Plus, it was more room for souveniers! Mike and I were so full from the dinner that we couldn’t sleep. We ended up staying up until 1am watching that soccer documentary on Mia Hamm.

Next Up: So that’s what a sunburn feels like!

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Love your pirate garb! Very festive!