Antigua! We booked an excursion on the Excellence Power catamaran today at 12:40. We slept in and had breakfast via room service! Loved it. Anyway the kids didn't want to go so they stayed in the club and we got to do something alone! I highly recommend this excursion. My favorite thing is that you meet it right off the ship. I hate taking a bus so I look for excursions that I can get right at the dock. The crew was very professional and personable. They weren't begging for tips as I have seen on other excursions and the boat was new and extremely clean! It was really nice! I would do it again. The weather was beautiful and the ride was great! They were very careful and concerned about the well being of their passengers. I was completely impressed with the entire trip! They stopped at a nice beach and we enjoyed parking right on the beach and walking down the ladder. It wasn't mentioned on the flyer that we would stop at a beach, it was just supossed to be snorkeling trip. We loved the beach though. Also they provided really good rum punch and a non-alcoholic Captain's punch that was incredible! Another surprise was that they provides tuna sandwiches with the crusts cut off and homemade banana bread. WOW. Like I said we thought this was great. DH walked to the shops and bought himself a watch! I took the kids as well since it is right off the ship but they weren't impressed. We headed back to the ship while DH was getting links removed. Shortly before sail away I got a call from someone asking if my husband was on board yet! He wasn't but he made it. This is a running joke with us. He likes to get the full experience everywhere we go so he shoots to be one of the last ones on.
Tonight's show was Twice Charmed and we had never seen it before! We got there a little early which was easy since we were only one deck up from the Walt Disney Theatre. We sat in the middle center for perfect viewing. As it turned out Duckie Williams (disney artist) sat right behind us. He asked dd and ds what their favorite character was. I thought he was just making conversation so when dd said Cinderella he pulled out a sketch pad from his jacket like magic and started sketching! We couldn't believe it. Then he signed it to dd from Cinderella and his name. So cool. DS said his was Stitch and he proceeded to do the same thing for him. How much fun was that. The show was awesome! We loved the Evil Godfather! A very original story we loved it. I can't wait to see it again!
It was Princess/Prince Dinner night but we had reservations at Palo. The kids decided to go down together and eat in the dining room anyway. DH walked them down. They just loved the servers so much that they wanted to eat there instead of room service! We were sorry to miss the white chocolate slipper dessert but the kids saved us one. It was funny because ds wanted to "clean" it out for us so he ran it under hot water! You can guess what happened! It melted. The servers sent us a menu as well to keep how cool!
Palo with Marco as our server was amazing as always. We had a cozy booth and Marco brought out some favorites before we even ordered. Pizza, the olives and dips. Yum. I ordered a bellini and the shrimp appetizer. DH ordered the mozzerella and tomatoes and I'm sure other stuff that I can't remember. Anyway we had rack of lamb for dinner because it is sooooo good! I also had some seafood risotto (unbelie vable) and gnocci (just okay). We could barely squeeze in dessert. Chocolate souffle for dh and Marscapone (sp??) for me. Also for the 1st part of our dinner a man at the table next to us kept talking really loud about new Disney talent. I couldn't wait for him to leave since it was kind of annoying. I couldn't help but hear him say the name Bianca and 12 years old over and over. He also mentioned Hannah Montana. I would find out the next night that he must talking about Bianca Ryan the winner of America's got talent.
We knew tomorrow was early wake up for St. Thomas
So off to bed for us!
