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Due to a mixup with the alarm clock in the room and someone keeping their watch on central time, we got up at 6:30 am eastern, thinking it was one hour later.
We took our time getting ready, making a pot of coffee in the room and then we headed down to the boardwalk to go to the bakery, get even more coffee and some yummy danish. It was pretty cool this morning and breezy, but we wore our jackets and sat on a bench in the sunshine and ate overlooking the water.
Back to the room to get our things and call for the car to be brought around, we are out the door by 9:30 am, or so we think. It is really 8:30 am!!!!!!
We discover this fact after a few minutes in the car, when I ask DH did he change the setting on the clock in the car.
We realize we had lots o' time and DH decides he wants to find some cords to hold his sunglasses. Well, stopping at SuperTarget and several other stores/gas stations (there is not too much open at 9 am on a Sunday morning on the 417), we found none. We headed on to Port Canaveral, taking our time and going through all the quarters I had saved for tolls.
Soon enough we were looking at the Wonder in all her glory as we came across the bridge. Not very much traffic and we unloaded the car and DH parked while I waited inside but downstairs before security for him to get back. It was very windy and still cool at this point. At 10:45 am we are inside and waiting in the returning cruisers line. It is a short time before they start checking everyone in, I am guessing there was some small computer glitch going on. A CM was entertaining the crowd by asking trivia questions and telling badly funny puns. We are soon checked in and get in line to board. Just before 12 pm they start to let us on. After we enter the Wonder a Crew member asks our name and I tell her we are going to be Homer and Marge for this cruise.... without batting an eye, she annouces us.... "Welcome Homer & Marge to the Disney Wonder!"
Our other choices were Barney and Betty, Fred and Wilma, or Chandler and Monica.
Homer and Marge make their way to BBB, as they like to eat outside.
Still windy, but it is warming up nicely and the shrimp is as good as always. There are a few new items on the buffett and I enjoy everything I try. I also enjoy the diet sprite, enhanced by the bottle of mango rum I have along in my daybag
Homer mentioned that it sure didn't take me long to enjoy that first adult drink of the cruise!
After eating we went to the other end of deck 9 to the adult pool and changed into our swimsuits in the bathrooms. By 12:45pm we were enjoying the sun and doing some power sunning. By 1 pm I am enjoying a Konk Kooler. Homer mentions that it didn't take me long to start running up our bill! After a nice break in the hottub by the pool, I enjoyed people watching as everyone boarding the ship by this time was walking around exploring. By 3 pm there were alot of people by the adult pool and alot of them were with a group from a chain of stores (I can't recall the name).
They start making the annoucement that the drill will be in 30 minutes, so DH and I throw on shorts and shirts over our suits, gather our things and head to our room, forward on deck 5. When we arrive our suitcases are all there and we quickly have everything put away and our life jackets on by the time the muster drill annoucement is made. We admire our REAS gift basket on the way out the door. It is a quick drill and soon we are back in our room. We shower and change clothes quickly and head up to the sail away party. We watch from deck 10 and get into the party mood, then as the ship starts to pull away from the dock we head up to the bow of the ship, as this is a tradition with us to watch the ship sail out to sea. Breezy and chilly but we love it!
We have late seating, rotation TAPP, so after we head out to sea we decide to check out the new changes to the ship. Diversions turns out to be our new favorite place on the ship. DH is in heaven here as this is the place on the ship to get Guinness on tap
We order our first of many Guinness's and enjoy the view out the portholes from the comfy chairs. The decor is right up our alley too, and we decide, change is good!
After lounging there for a good while, we head out to check out cove cafe and decide that it is a nice place too. We like the new wicker-like chairs on the deck and the internet terminals, DH used them here a time or two on the cruise. We head back to deck 3 and check out the internet cafe and DH gets the crusie length pkg. And he sends an email or two.
We stroll around deck four and things are really starting to get rocking and rolling... it is always rocky crossing the gulf stream but we can tell this is way more than normal. And Captain Henry did come over the PA earlier to say something about rough seas. Although we were not too worried, we decided to go by the guest services desk and ask for some seasick meds, just in case.
Good thing too, I ended up taking one right before dinner.
By this time it is getting close to our dinner time, so we go to our stateroom to freshen up and change. We meet our stateroom host Frany, and sign that we have received our CC gifts. Frany is very outgoing and nice and kept our stateroom spotless! We check out channel 11 ( I think it is 11) and sure enough, there is always someone playing basketball up there! How they can play with it the ship rolling, I'll never know! As we walk down the hallways, I notice that not only are we yawing, we are pitching as well. Fun, fun!
I step into a bathroom on deck 3 to use the restroom and see there is a supply of barf bags laying on the counter. In all my cruises, I have never seen this!
Dinner turned out to be a slow long process. We were seated with wonderful people, a mom and her 11 year old son from Mass, and a Dad and his 8 year old daughter from, suprise! Mass! The whole ship was filled with people from Mass. DH and I kept them all entertained, I'm sure, with our southern drawls
First cruises for both of them, and I'm sure they both wondered if they made a mistake by cruising after that first night. The ship is really rolling by now, the service was horribly slow, with servers that had no personality but loved to give the excellent speech, and here they are seated with Homer and Marge from TN!!!! What next!!!
The kids were really great kids and we all got along famously, and I reassured the adults that not every night would be like this one.
We were sitting, waiting, while all the other tables around us had long since gotten their entrees and we were still waiting on salads. Even the other tables being served by our team. And we had all gotten to dinner on time and no one had ordered an appetizer.
Those kids were so patient, but we all didn't stick around to even be asked if we wanted dessert. We all got up and left as soon as we scarfed our entrees down because by this time it was almost time for the movie DH and I and the Mom and son wanted to see.... it was 9:45 pm. We made it to movie (Mr 3000) just in time and swayed back and forth while watching the movie. (I just love Bernie Mack!)
As the movie was almost over, the seas calmed down and we walked ~ ~straight~ back to our cabin and went straight to bed.
We took our time getting ready, making a pot of coffee in the room and then we headed down to the boardwalk to go to the bakery, get even more coffee and some yummy danish. It was pretty cool this morning and breezy, but we wore our jackets and sat on a bench in the sunshine and ate overlooking the water.
Back to the room to get our things and call for the car to be brought around, we are out the door by 9:30 am, or so we think. It is really 8:30 am!!!!!!
We discover this fact after a few minutes in the car, when I ask DH did he change the setting on the clock in the car.
We realize we had lots o' time and DH decides he wants to find some cords to hold his sunglasses. Well, stopping at SuperTarget and several other stores/gas stations (there is not too much open at 9 am on a Sunday morning on the 417), we found none. We headed on to Port Canaveral, taking our time and going through all the quarters I had saved for tolls.
Soon enough we were looking at the Wonder in all her glory as we came across the bridge. Not very much traffic and we unloaded the car and DH parked while I waited inside but downstairs before security for him to get back. It was very windy and still cool at this point. At 10:45 am we are inside and waiting in the returning cruisers line. It is a short time before they start checking everyone in, I am guessing there was some small computer glitch going on. A CM was entertaining the crowd by asking trivia questions and telling badly funny puns. We are soon checked in and get in line to board. Just before 12 pm they start to let us on. After we enter the Wonder a Crew member asks our name and I tell her we are going to be Homer and Marge for this cruise.... without batting an eye, she annouces us.... "Welcome Homer & Marge to the Disney Wonder!"
Our other choices were Barney and Betty, Fred and Wilma, or Chandler and Monica.
Homer and Marge make their way to BBB, as they like to eat outside.
Still windy, but it is warming up nicely and the shrimp is as good as always. There are a few new items on the buffett and I enjoy everything I try. I also enjoy the diet sprite, enhanced by the bottle of mango rum I have along in my daybag
Homer mentioned that it sure didn't take me long to enjoy that first adult drink of the cruise!
After eating we went to the other end of deck 9 to the adult pool and changed into our swimsuits in the bathrooms. By 12:45pm we were enjoying the sun and doing some power sunning. By 1 pm I am enjoying a Konk Kooler. Homer mentions that it didn't take me long to start running up our bill! After a nice break in the hottub by the pool, I enjoyed people watching as everyone boarding the ship by this time was walking around exploring. By 3 pm there were alot of people by the adult pool and alot of them were with a group from a chain of stores (I can't recall the name).
They start making the annoucement that the drill will be in 30 minutes, so DH and I throw on shorts and shirts over our suits, gather our things and head to our room, forward on deck 5. When we arrive our suitcases are all there and we quickly have everything put away and our life jackets on by the time the muster drill annoucement is made. We admire our REAS gift basket on the way out the door. It is a quick drill and soon we are back in our room. We shower and change clothes quickly and head up to the sail away party. We watch from deck 10 and get into the party mood, then as the ship starts to pull away from the dock we head up to the bow of the ship, as this is a tradition with us to watch the ship sail out to sea. Breezy and chilly but we love it!
We have late seating, rotation TAPP, so after we head out to sea we decide to check out the new changes to the ship. Diversions turns out to be our new favorite place on the ship. DH is in heaven here as this is the place on the ship to get Guinness on tap
We order our first of many Guinness's and enjoy the view out the portholes from the comfy chairs. The decor is right up our alley too, and we decide, change is good!
After lounging there for a good while, we head out to check out cove cafe and decide that it is a nice place too. We like the new wicker-like chairs on the deck and the internet terminals, DH used them here a time or two on the cruise. We head back to deck 3 and check out the internet cafe and DH gets the crusie length pkg. And he sends an email or two.
We stroll around deck four and things are really starting to get rocking and rolling... it is always rocky crossing the gulf stream but we can tell this is way more than normal. And Captain Henry did come over the PA earlier to say something about rough seas. Although we were not too worried, we decided to go by the guest services desk and ask for some seasick meds, just in case.
Good thing too, I ended up taking one right before dinner.
By this time it is getting close to our dinner time, so we go to our stateroom to freshen up and change. We meet our stateroom host Frany, and sign that we have received our CC gifts. Frany is very outgoing and nice and kept our stateroom spotless! We check out channel 11 ( I think it is 11) and sure enough, there is always someone playing basketball up there! How they can play with it the ship rolling, I'll never know! As we walk down the hallways, I notice that not only are we yawing, we are pitching as well. Fun, fun!
I step into a bathroom on deck 3 to use the restroom and see there is a supply of barf bags laying on the counter. In all my cruises, I have never seen this!
Dinner turned out to be a slow long process. We were seated with wonderful people, a mom and her 11 year old son from Mass, and a Dad and his 8 year old daughter from, suprise! Mass! The whole ship was filled with people from Mass. DH and I kept them all entertained, I'm sure, with our southern drawls
First cruises for both of them, and I'm sure they both wondered if they made a mistake by cruising after that first night. The ship is really rolling by now, the service was horribly slow, with servers that had no personality but loved to give the excellent speech, and here they are seated with Homer and Marge from TN!!!! What next!!!The kids were really great kids and we all got along famously, and I reassured the adults that not every night would be like this one.
We were sitting, waiting, while all the other tables around us had long since gotten their entrees and we were still waiting on salads. Even the other tables being served by our team. And we had all gotten to dinner on time and no one had ordered an appetizer.
Those kids were so patient, but we all didn't stick around to even be asked if we wanted dessert. We all got up and left as soon as we scarfed our entrees down because by this time it was almost time for the movie DH and I and the Mom and son wanted to see.... it was 9:45 pm. We made it to movie (Mr 3000) just in time and swayed back and forth while watching the movie. (I just love Bernie Mack!)
As the movie was almost over, the seas calmed down and we walked ~ ~straight~ back to our cabin and went straight to bed.
That guy was funny. Oh, that rocking that night. It didn't bother me too much, but my family needed the medicine. I was hoping the rest of the cruise wasn't going to be that way, so I was glad it wasn't. It was such an awesome time! I just booked our first 7 day, next June 24th!!! Told the boys tonight, they were so psyched. Oh, and by the way, we are from...you guessed it...Ma.!!!!
