Great update!
I love your dress and shoes. So cute! I figured I would take a sundress for each night of the cruise, but I guess I can do a little dressier for one night.
If you are doing Palo, you may want something dressier than this. I wore this to brunch on the Wonder at Palo and then on the optional dress up night on the Dream but for Palo dinner went dressier than this. I really like those shoes, they are fun and casual and go with a lot of things. The dress sadly is going to get retired which bums me out but oh well. I may just have to get another new one of something for Hawaii to replace it
My friends have decided that they want to go, so we are meeting with them on Friday night to discuss details and decide what category they are going to book and all that. I am going to book them through my TA so we end up on the dining rotation.
I don't think just b/c she books them it will automatically put you on the same rotation but I'm sure if she links the ressies somehow or requests that you are together, you will be. Are you going to request a specific rotation?
So when I checked cabin availability I found out that we are on the C rotation which means our first day is the "sea" day. I swear it was NOT like that when I booked the cruise, but I'm OK with it because it will make me want to get off the boat more when we get to Nassau. Still trying to decide what excursion to do. It is a lot cheaper to book at room at the Comfort Suites and go to Atlantis. I am sooooooooo undecided.
I didn't love our port rotation either. CC was on the last day which made me nervous as if bad weather had kept us out, no chance of recovery. WAH!
The Comfort Suite option is great, especially since there are 4 of you. I'd totally go for it! That is if everyone likes water parks. If not, maybe not.
Anyway - so glad you got to meet the captain. Did you bring that wine from your room? I read some thread where people where flaming that. ugh!
Seriously? In the first place it could be wine from a lounge, no one would have any way of knowing one or the other and secondly if
DCL allows it, what's the harm? I think DCL knows what side their bread is buttered on and in the big picture I can't see it hurting their bottom line at all, only helping it. Heck, even though we had beer, wine and rum, in the room Jeff still ordered a 3 bottle package and that didn't include the special bottle we knew we'd get at Palo! Granted we didn't do hardly any mixed drinks or beer or wine at the lounges beyond that but I'm quite sure they still made $$ off of us.
Yes, it was from the room.
We hit Publix on the way to the port specifically to stock up. We overbought but that's another story entirely.
I did find out that my friends are driving down, which actually works out good because they are going to Disney after the cruise. That means Denny and I can drive back with them. Yeah! Still haven't decided how we are going to get to the port.
OK - I am writing too much about me again. You know - its ALL about me!
So will you fly down and drive back with them, then? You are driving in June, right? Well for jsut 2 of you, if you don't need a car now, I might just pay for the shuttle, it does make it easy to get there. Or a towncar. A rental is cheaper for sure but it will eat more time. Do you arrive the morning of or the night before? I can't recall.
II also love Kendall's dress, Jeff looks super happy, and the boys are so cute. It's great that you all got to go your separate ways after dinner.
It is a super cute dress on her, isn't it? She was bummed, the sandals she wanted to wear had been trashed on the turtle walk so ended up wearing a different pair until she could clean the other ones. Her other outfit was super cute too (a xmas present from us actually) but she forgot a key piece to go with it so couldn't wear it. Which cracked me up given the huge volume of clothes she brought! Jeff was super happy, he was so cute with the Captain, I loved it! It was just a great night all around.
I just found your TR a few days ago and am all caught up! I love finding TRs after they've been on here awhile....it's like finding a book series where you can sit and gobble up all the new stuff without having to wait!
Hi and
!! I know exactly what you mean
You did way more in Nassau than we did, the one and only time we were there! We had gotten incinerated at
Castaway Cay the day before so just hung around the ship being hot. That was the first time I tried the family pool...very odd. Like a big, hot, box. At least you got to enjoy a nap! Can't wait to hear more (now that I'm all caught up, darn it!).
I confess, I've never been in the family pool and that doesn't make it sound like fun at all! Incinerated is no fun to recover from at all! I am grateful that the kids have been old enough that they can be in the pool on their own and we can head to the adult one. I do think they did a much better job on the Wonder on the layout of the adult pool though, but the Dream does have a wonderful deck area.
I am loving this !!! I had already perused the menus and Belles onion soup and the filet and lobster medallions were on the short list and for sure creme brulee !!!
It was a great dinner! For some reason I think the menu changed and there was a different entree I'd wanted (duck maybe?) that wasn't there anymore but I absolutely loved it all.
Looks like a fun evening with everyone getting to do a little of what they wanted to do. You all clean up good (love your dress and shoes, and Kendra looks so grown up).
Sigh, she is grown up! Taller than me, I just cheated with heels. It was a very fun night. I think of those shoes as being perfect on a cruise ship. You get the heel but have the stability of the wedge for all those stairs!
We generally skip the elevators.
Ok, I just saw that I only read half of your post - my browser jumped directly to the second part of your upate. Stupid me! But then I got a bonus update to read today, so that was nice, too!
Sounds like a lovely meal! I think the restaurants on the new ships look very nice!
I've had that happen more than once, it just goes to the last post sometimes, versus my last unread
It was a lovely meal and I really loved the decor at Royal Palace. You will be on the Wonder, right? I will be curious to see what you think. I'd probably say decor wise I'd go Parrot Cay, Animators and then Triton's. Which, prior to the cruise is the opposite of what I thought I'd like. So you never know.
I've seen that "Ta-Da" trick before on a cruise, but I love how the server taught your son how to do it!
I think he is Dutch, isn't he?
