Thursday, March 22nd--a day at sea
We all slept in a little bit today. The seas were REALLY rough today, and I woke up not feeling well. This was by far the worst that I had felt throughout the trip. I can't remember how high the waves were, but I do know that I couldn't even look towards the water without feeling ill.
I tried to rest for a little while, but it really wasn't helping. DH and kids went and found their own stuff to do for a while so that I could try to get to feeling better. I showered, and although I was sortof sick, I decided to do some more laundry. Pathetic, I know.
The laundry room on deck 2 was EXTREMELY hot, and I felt like throwing up the second I got in there! I started my laundry and then headed back to the room to try to recover from my own personal summer.
Basically, all I did for the entire morning was lay around and try to talk myself into not feeling whatever it was that I was feeling. I was sortof grumpy too
, and I think DH decided to stay away from me so he wouldn't have to throw me overboard. To be honest, I felt so lousy that I didn't even bother to ask what DH and the kids did on that morning.
Finally, at around 1:00 I decided to go to a DVC meeting. I made an appointment for DH and I to visit with a lady about becoming DVC members at 4:30. Should I tell DH, or just surprise him?
I also decided that a cure for any ailment is shopping, so I hit the stores on the ship. Although I don't really think the stores have all that much to choose from, I did manage to spend a couple hundred dollars in about fifteen minutes.
I was feeling better though.
I bought shirts, pins, a lithogram (which I got signed by the captain), a 2007 photo album, and a scrapbooking kit which will probably just go in the drawer with the kit from 2006 that I haven't even begun working on yet.
Wow! It's amazing what a little shopping can do for a woman!
At 2:30, DH and I decided to go see "Wild Hogs". We had planned on doing this since we first boarded the ship, and I knew DH would be very disappointed if I didn't go with him. As it turned out, I was glad I did! It was very funny, and I actually started feeling a whole lot better after the movie. I guess laughter makes a woman feel even better than shopping.
Did I mention that DH despises anything that even sortof resembles a timeshare speech? Well, I had to break it to him that "we", not "I", had an appointment at 4:30 to meet with a lady about becoming DVC members. Boy, he loved that.
He's just not into that sort of thing, and I knew it before we went. But, I thought maybe just this one time he'd see the benefit. Wrong! I think the lady that we met with was ready to get rid of us. She didn't pressure us at all, and I think she was rather relieved when DH couldn't ask her any more questions.
Maybe next time.
After our grueling meeting with a DVC rep (and I mean grueling for myself and the DVC rep
), we decided to go to the room and order room service. I ran into the ship's doctor on the elevator on the way back, and he asked me how my sea legs were doing. I told him that as long as I didn't look at or think about the water I thought I was going to be okay. Apparently there were a lot of people who were much worse off than I was according to the doctor. Although I'd say this hadn't been a very good day for me, I do have to admit that it could have been much worse.
We relaxed in the room for a little while after eating some snacks from room service and just waited around for the show. The show for tonight was Disney Dreams. I really liked that one! We were in the front row again, and things are just SO amazing when you see them that close! I'd highly recommend getting to the shows early enough to sit towards the front. During one of the shows, one of the characters even came down and sortof sang directly to DD. She didn't quite know what to do, but I thought it was a magical moment.
Dinner tonight was at Animator's Palate. I don't recall what I had for dinner that night because I was still trying to fight off being seasick. However, I'm sure I ate. I don't turn down good food that easily.
We headed back to our stateroom and found our towel animal for the evening--a lobster. I started thinking about all of the packing that I'd have to do tomorrow night and began to get a little sad that our trip was soon going to be coming to an end. However, tomorrow was
Castaway Cay, and that was my favorite part of Disney cruises! I couldn't wait to see that place again, and I was also excited thinking about the fact that I'd get to go there twice in one cruise for our 2008 cruise! It just doesn't get any better than that.
It started storming outside and rained for most of the night, but we all fell sound asleep in anticipation of the day ahead of us.
Next Installment: Can I move to Castaway Cay?
All of the naked people are cracking me up and the mental pictures that keep flashing in my mind are scary
Okay, now I'll work on getting current pictures.
