Day 6, Part 1
Just so you know, I had every intention of waking up early every morning, watching the sun rise over the ocean and going for a walk on deck 4 and then having a nice quiet breakfast at Cabanas.
This happened exactly ZERO times this cruise
There were many reasons for this, the main one, early on especially, was my feet/ankle situation.
They were already sore and I put on about 15,000 steps every single day on the ship anyway so I didn't want to make it worse.
The second and most important reason was that I really enjoyed sleeping in and snuggling with my husband every morning
For the past 10 months, this has been a rarity for us as I get out of bed at 6:30am to get Kira off to school during the week and Rob is often gone by 9am on Saturdays for work which leaves us only Sunday morning to snuggle.
We get more cuddle time in the summer but at that point, Kira's last day of school was the day before we left so while my alarm went off at 6:45 every morning on the cruise, that was Rob's cue to come closer and snuggle
And honestly, it was one of the very best parts of the cruise
We did this every single morning, except for St. Kitt's day and then we showered and we would all go for breakfast together at Cabanas.
Kira only ever eats sugar cereal on cruises which is weird but whatever. If she eats cereal at home, it's healthy stuff which is a HUGE step up from childhood because ALL I ever ate was Captain Crunch, Froot Loops and Boo Berry cereal
She decided on a second course today and this would become her staple every morning. She got 2 or 3 pancakes and even cut them herself
This made me happy as I am usually the one getting and cutting her breakfast instead of just going to grab something for myself first. I love her growing up and doing stuff herself
This is what I had every single day...something I rarely eat at home but absolutely love!
And here's Rob with his usual three plates
Rob loves cruises mainly for the buffets I think. He loves variety and he has a crappy wife who only makes like 3 things for dinner every night
Keep in mind that he is a slow eater and eats a lot, which led to a little frustration with Kira. She's like me, she wants to eat and go. I don't mind to linger sometimes to keep him company because he's my husband and I know he likes the company but Kira lacks the consideration gene sometimes
At the beginning of the cruise, I kept him company for most of his meals at Cabanas but towards the middle of the cruise the crowds and noise from Cabanas would often get to me and I would just have to leave. I felt bad because he's not like me, he doesn't like to be alone.
I could spend three months alone and enjoy every second but Rob, like most people I think, prefers to have company all the time.
I am an introvert to the core. My dad told me that he couldn't punish me by sending me to my room when I was a kid because I would just sit and draw or read and just enjoy my alone time
It might have something to do with the fact that I was the baby of 5 kids
I don't like crowds or noisy areas, people drive me nuts! Okay, most people drive me nuts and the introvert in me would much rather run away to a secluded place and be alone. I know, I'm weird
So, for the whole cruise, I would compromise and go to the buffet every day for breakfast and lunch with him and I would sit with him until I just couldn't do it anymore and then if I didn't eat then I would grab a burger or tenders from Flo's and go eat alone in the room watching a movie
It kind of worked out well, we both got what we want with a little bit of compromise
He tried to eat as much as he could in one sitting because he has Invisalign braces and he needs to floss and brush his teeth after every meal before putting his trays back in.
We got back to our room to find this...
We were a part of our FB Fish Extender group and we also did a group FE with J, Jen, Patty and Brook.
Kira loved it and was super spoiled by everyone
I had two big boxes with our gifts to deliver but I had thrown them both in the closet the day before and hadn't even touched them! Deliveries would have to wait until tomorrow
Kira was texting Claire on the app since 8am wondering if she wanted to do something. Claire wasn't responding so I told her to stop texting her. Clearly, she has zero patience and didn't listen because I think Claire woke up to a bazillion messages from Kira.
Jen later told me that Claire sleeps like a teenager and doesn't do mornings
Kira was getting impatient and thought Claire was ignoring her. I guess she just had these visions of her and Claire hanging out all day and all night and well, that wasn't the case.
I told her that she should go to the Club and make some friends. She refused and didn't want to do anything but stay in the room and watch the darn TV!
I was really hoping she would be with Claire too
She kept talking about Claire and asking me a million things like when do you think she will like to do stuff and a whole bunch of stuff that I couldn't answer for her. She was getting rather annoying and driving us both nuts!
It was now almost 11am and we had to run down to the theatre to make it to our
Castaway Club meeting. I was excited for it as it was very different from previous versions.
The cruise director and captain spoke for a bit.
He explained that they would show us a scene from Aladdin, like we would see it later tonight. After that, they would do it again but this time they would show us a behind the scenes take on it where we can hear the people who make it run smoothly. So we can hear the lady in charge help set up lights and sets and actors and everything else plus the floor manager was there on the stage doing his job but where we can see him.
It was so intricate and chaotic and amazing and impressive! I knew there was a lot going on behind the scenes, I took drama for many years and was the prop master so I wasn't new to behind the scenes of a big production but this just blew me away!
On top of that, they deal with a rocking ship too so this just really made me appreciate all of the effort that goes into entertaining us even more!
Kudos to Disney because that was fantastic!
Back to the room I think and we got more FE gifts. I also gave Kira those two Stitch spinners in her FE, which she loved!
Once again, I urged Kira to go to the clubs but she refused. I felt bad for her on one hand but then she was all crabby and had a bad attitude so I didn't feel so bad
I asked her if she wanted to join us for lunch but she didn't. I think she ran upstairs and got something from Flo's and ate it in the room while she watched TV.
Rob and I went up to Cabanas, oh yay!
Here's two of his plates...he got dessert later but I don't have pics.
This is what I got:
I didn't eat much of it actually but I stuck around to keep Rob company for awhile.
Later, I was still hungry so I left Rob to finish his desserts and got myself this...
It was quite delicious and totally hit the spot! I had brought it down to the room and watched The Founder on TV while I ate it. I actually ended up having to steal the TV away from my kid. She wasn't happy with me and went off to play midship detective by herself.
I had asked our stateroom host to keep us filled with ice and he was really good at it and as I had diet coke in my fridge, I used my Cabana Bay mug! It was perfect, I filled it with ice and then poured some DC in there until full and kept doing that until the can ran out. This is how I like my drinks, super cold with tons of ice! I am so glad I had brought DC with me because this is what I did almost daily for my lunch, which totally worked out. I got some alone time, good, cold DC and watched part of a movie every day.
Your sign made me cry, Hun. But it was a good cry. Even Chuck was tearing up. 
