I decided to try and find Graham and I did find him in the gym. He pointed to the middle of the gym and there was Pluto joining in with a Yoga class! Graham had told me on previous cruises that he had come across characters just wandering around the ship, but for me, this was a first. This happened regularly throughout the cruise and I really liked this.
Pluto soon decided that Yoga might not be for him after all and worked out with the hand weights for a while. He then headed to the Rainforest Room and by that stage I was in hot pursuit. Pluto got his escort to tie a towel around his waist. I had my camera at the ready as I was half expecting for Pluto to get into a heated tile lounger. Instead he signalled his escort and then made his way towards the door. His escort told be that Pluto wanted a photo with me and we both followed him. We posed together in front of the Vista Spa sign and the resulting photo is probably my favourite character photo from this cruise.
I decided that it was time to head for my next activity. I thanked Pluto and headed for the lifts. Pluto also had enough of the spa and we ended up sharing a lift down to deck 4. When I came past Treasure Ketch, there was hardly anybody in there. So I decided to try my luck and see if they still had a Castaway Cay pin lift. They still had two or three baskets with pins and I had no problems getting one.
Pin in hand, I headed along deck 4 and down to the Promenade Lounge, where Disney Movie Trivia was supposed to take place. I was more than a little surprised when I found Bingo there instead. By the time I figured out that this had been moved to Wavebands, they were on question 4 or 5. So I decided to just find a seat and wait for Disney Theme Park Trivia, which would be straight afterwards. As it was, I don't think that I would have done well with the Movie Trivia.
Theme Park Trivia was another matter. I got 24 out of 25 questions right. The only question that I got wrong was "What body of water does Tokyo DisneySea overlook?" Still, there were a lot of teams that got all 25 questions right and they had to do tie breaker after tie breaker until they had only one winning team. Watching this was almost more fun than doing the quiz itself.
After the quiz, I headed up to deck 9 to see if the hairbraiders were there. Unfortunately they were not and according to the sign on the hairbraiding station, they would not be open until midday on the following day. I think they missed a trick there. People had ended up with an unscheduled sea day with nothing planned. I sure that some people also had intended to have their hair braided on Castaway Cay. I am sure that they would have made plenty of business had they opened.
On the way back, I spotted Graham in the adult pool. I decided to dip my toe in the water and it was lovely and warm. This surprised me as the pool
was empty. I got my swim stuff and joined Graham for a while.
When I headed back to the cabin, I found a Magical Moments certificate and three Stitch pins on our bed. I had told our stateroom host that Stitch was my favourite character and that I was hoping that he would be out for photos before heading out in the morning. This was a lovely surprise.
Once both Graham and I were changed, we headed down to Triton's for lunch. Graham had Tortilla Soup followed by Angus Chuck Burger with Cheddar, Fries and Coleslaw and I had Tortilla Soup, Mild Chicken Curry with Vegetable Rice and Poppadom and Chocolate Cake for dessert.
After lunch, I went to Guest Services to check if they would offer a Galley Tour this cruise. They confirmed that they did have a Galley Tour scheduled for the last sea day, but that this was already full. They were however able to add me to a waitlist.
I spent the next couple of hours just relaxing and reading my book. Shortly before 16:00, I headed up to Palo. When I did the Trivia in the morning, the member of Cruise Staff, who did this, mentioned that he would do The Art of the Theme Ship Tour that afternoon. This is something that I always wanted to do, but never got around to on our previous cruises.
I got to Palo a little early and already there were loads of people there. By 16:00, the elevator lobby outside Palo was packed. They have only recently started to do this tour on the Wonder and had never seen anything like this. Our guide radioed for back up and the group was split in half with one group starting at the top of the ship and the other half at the bottom. Both groups met up briefly outside the Walt Disney Theater, which worked out perfectly, before finishing of their tour.
The tour was great fun and very interesting. Some of the stuff I had known already, but most of it was new for me. I was quite shocked that there are more than 27000 signs on the ship. It was also interesting to find out just how many different carpets there are on the ship and that they are used to set the scene, but also act as sign posts. My favourite bit was that the metal borders with the characters on that can be found around the atrium are actually representing the various departments on the ship. If you ever get the chance, have a closer look.
When the tour finished, there were already characters in the atrium for photos. I decided to get in line and managed to get photos with Mickey and Minnie, Chip and Dale, Donald and Daisy plus Goofy in their nautical outfits. One of the character escorts told me that he had heard that I am a special friend of Pluto. News definitely goes around.
They also had portrait opportunities against a white backdrop and in front of the ship with a sunset. So in between character sets, I had some portraits taken as well.
Once all the photos had been taken, I headed up to the Rainforest Room to chill out on a heated tile lounger before it was time to get ready for dinner.