Hello fellow cruisers! we are finally back home after the B2B
Wasn't it the best week ever?(well apart from the 2nd week - but I don't want to make you all jealous of that now do I?
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Thank you to all those in the Mickey FE group - what fun and fab gifts we recieved.
The X-stitched ornament was great (8 stars yay!), all the candy we got we enjoyed, and the kids really enjoyed getting all their bits and bobs.
I loved the Parrot clips that we recieved, they came in so handy for pegging up our rain coats on the towel rails in the bathroom when we ran out of hanging space to dry our coats! Thank you, they are in my case ready for the mext cruise, but for pegging the beach towel to the chair this time
It was great to meet Mellers as we caught her delivering our gifts - DS loves the origami x-wing fighter, and it was lovely to chat to MsNoble in the photo queue one day, but cannot remember which character it was for - Minnie in her furs I think.
We enjoyed the whole cruising experience - I have never been to a more beautiful place - I wished I had my camera on me when we saw the rainbow on the last sea day!
We had fab servers for the first week Vijay from India and Steven from Hungary, they were so attentive and funny too, Vijay was so good at his job that by lunchtime on the next cruise he had stepped up to Head server along side Deniz, who was our head server for the first week! We also had just the best room host Christina who went out pf her way to make our 2 weeks feel like home from home! bless she had tears in her eyes on the last morning when we said goodbye!
We changed dining slots on the second week by request so lost our serving team(they couldn't get us a four top in their section for early dining
) - the second one was not so great - Violetta from Peru was ok but Pablo from Argentina was uninterested - he kept forgetting to bring the bread amongst other things- one night we went a whole meal with no brewad but a bowl of dip!!! But we didn't let that spoil things.
And get this! We met a server who was from our home town in the UK(although she is Spanish, she has lived there for the past 4 yrs to study at the uni, ) it was great to update her on local news.
Well the Jet lag is still hanging on, and the kids and I are back to school tomorrow so I guess I should try and sleep!
, so I was able to finish downloading pix. A total of 1648 pix were sent for printing. If I have time this weekend, I will try to post a few. I needed to get them ordered in time for my scrapbooking weekend starting 9/9!
I had a groupon I needed to finish using at Picaboo, so I created a photo book of us with the characters, which was fun. I can't wait to get it. Next is to get the autograph pages placed into an autograph book. Then I need to figure out which photos to send to be printed, so that I can start my scrapbooking. Whew!
I didn't notice the bread thing as much as the drink thing. On previous cruises, our drinks were on the table if not before we were seated, then within 5 minutes, and were constantly refilled. With Pablo, it was a minimum of 20 minutes before we received our drinks (usually we saw them sitting at the wait station with the ice melting) and we had to beg for a refill. Apparently, we were only allowed one refill per meal maximum. 
Anyway, it made for some mealtime fun timing the drink delivery.
