Day 4: Another day at sea!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
All through the previous night we woke up to the banging of our bathroom doors, or the steamer trunk doors--sometimes LOUD banging. I cannot blame the waves completely since we did not have the doors shut all the way, but they were loud! I was feeling so freaked out all night, but did not know why….it wasn’t just the noises, it was the rough weather too, and just a weird feeling.
Well this morning, the captain announced that we had sailed through the Bermuda triangle during the night. DH said, “No wonder you were so freaked out…”
A lot of you on the boards have already heard about the rocky waves we have had today. The winds were really windy. We never stepped foot out on the decks today. We did from our own verandah, but not for long. It was windy and the waves looked pretty big. The captain said it is supposed to subside tomorrow….we shall see.
We slept in again, every night is an hour forward, my worst nightmare (lucky west bounders
) so we slept in again. One of these sea days I WILL go up to see the sunrise. Rachel the cruise director said only 5 people showed up for the morning walk. It sounds like everyone else is having a hard time in the morning with the time changes like we are. I will succeed one morning.
We got up, took DS to the Oceaneer’s Club and went to the Desperate Shipmates, the whodunnit mystery. I love things like that. It was really cute, but seems to go on throughout the week.
We had thought we missed the special Princess tea in Lumiere’s (invitation only), but was relieved to find out it started at 3:00 and not 12:00 like I thought. We had turned in our RSVP pretty late the night before, but it said anytime on Monday to drop it off at a box outside of Mickey’s Mates.
Here are some pics from the Princess
We went to the buffet lunch at Parrot Cay. It was Asian night, so we were pretty happy. The make your own stir fry was really good!
We then went to the presentation of Don Ducky Williams in the Walt Disney Theater. He was really good, but alas, we did not win any of his sketches. L Since it went a little long, and took awhile to get out of there since there was so many people, we were freaked out to see the time was about 3:20pm. The party started at 3! Thank goodness, they had heard that some people were running late due to the presentation going late, so they let everyone in. DH went and got DS out of the kids clubs, and we had a great time seeing and taking pics with the princesses. DS is still ok with that. J
After some down time in the room, DH and I went and played in the Yatzee tournament. We love games. Unfortunately, luck was definitely not on my side that game. I probably had the lowest score, but DH came in second, but did not move on to the final round. I think the dice were biased.
We had to immediately head to dinner afterwards and boy was it a great menu. Right up my alley. The menus looked brand new to me!
We had the island chicken wings, and fresh green salad for appetizers. DH had the chilled cream of mango and papaya soup. He said he was really starting to love those chilled soups. I still prefer the hot soups. The cold soups taste too much like a dessert to me…J I told you I do not have gourmet tastes.
We both had the baby back ribs for the main course, with the spice island chicken for us to try (I love our server). The sauce was sooo good. It was a prickly pear bbq sauce and was really tasty!!! Yum yum yum!
All of a sudden, our server disappeared for awhile, and our assistant server had to take our dessert orders. We figured there must be a dessert slow down in the kitchen again, so we just took them and left. We feel bad for just up and leaving again, but we had a neat show to go to!
As we got to the theater at a little before 8:00 there were people already lined up outside of the doors…quite a long line actually. But we were still able to get great seats on the aisle in the center section 4th row behind 2 little girls. Since we figured Chase (DS) could see really good, DH went to go get him from the kids clubs.
Mike Super, was…..super! I love his humor, and he did great tricks too. DS was not really entertained, but we sure were. It was a great show.
As we were packing up the laptop after talking to the kids tonight, he passed by, and we told him we loved his show, and he was soo gracious. He kept thanking us for loving the show! LOL He asked our names, and was really a friendly approachable guy. Our DS asked about a LED pin/magnet on his shirt, and he gave it to him! That was soo nice!
And that is about it for today/tonight. Tonight we have to set forward our clocks another hour! (dang west bounders) and so I better head to bed.
And I have been writing my posts in a word document and then pasting it into the disboards to save valuable minutes (Thanks Timon/Cass, taught me everything I think I know LOL). I also try and message my kids while I post and do things online to conquer 2 birds with one stone.
OH! Two things that were interesting that I observed on this special cruise:
They did Flubber for the 3-4 year olds in the Oceaneer Club. I asked about that because I thought I had never seen that available to the younger group before, and the staff told me they only do that on special cruises. Cool, huh??
And I saw Jiminy Cricket available for pics in the atrium!!! We did not have DS with us (DRATS), and I already had my pic with him from Tokyo
Disneyland. I was quite surprised and impressed though!
Coming up tomorrow:
Destination Lecture series: History of Pirates
On The Nose game show, I am really curious and excited about that one….
Tropicalifragilisticexpialidocious deck party at 9:15 pm
No family or adult cabaret show tomorrow.
). Keep 'em coming!
