This was our first Day At Sea. We slept in a bit this morning (at least later than the day before). We decided the night before that since we were going to be missing Triton's on our rotation, since they had previously booked our Palo reservation for night 3, we wanted to eat there as much as possible for breakfast and lunch. I forgot to mention before that our dining rotation was APTAP. I had called
DCL a few weeks before the trip to see if I could find out our rotation and possibly request one. We wanted to make sure that we got to eat at all the restaurants and if we had to give one up it would be Parrot Cay. (I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to traveling and vacations.) The CM that I spoke to said that rotation #2 had been already requested for us - must have been done by the rep who took care of all our appointments and reservations. The rotation he told us was APPTA. This worked out perfect for our Palo dinner. However, this rotation was for the Cozumel/CC sailings that they had already done ours was the first GC/Cozumel itinerary so I guess they changed it at the last minute. (I even called again a few days before to double check this and the CM I got that time said that I would find out once we got on the ship and didn't give me any other information.)
DS was still a sleepyhead, so we left him in the room. At Triton's, I had the Express breakfast. DD had the Waffle Sandwich and has craved it everyday since! DF had Egg's Benedict.
I had a manicure/pedicure scheduled at 10:30am. DF is a foodie and loves to cook so he was going to Disney's Art of Entertaining The Appetizer at 10:15am, followed by Napkin Folding at 11am. DD went back to the stateroom to get DS up and they were going to meet DF at 11:30 for the Family Animation lesson.
I had a great time in the salon with Belinda who did my nails. I was there for about 2 hrs and enjoyed the fabulous view out of the windows.
I met DF, DD, and DS at Triton's for lunch. We happened to get our dinner server, Hans, which was great. I got the Rueben, DD got a pasta dish, DS got a burger with cheese, and DF got a chicken salad with a lemon dressing. (I am guessing at this since we didn't write it down and none of the menus that others have posted match with our pictures.)
After lunch, the kids went off to watch The Avengers in the Buena Vista Theatre while DF and I went to do Disney Movie Trivia in the Promenade Lounge. I'm okay at this but if it were Disney MUSIC trivia I would have done much better.
We then went up to the Art of the Theme Show Tour at 3pm. We really enjoyed this tour and loved learning all the little details done for the ship. Our tour was an Adult Only tour and I would recommend it highly. (My DD was disappointed that she wasn't allowed to do to this activity, along with the napkin folding class that was earlier.) We ended the tour at Route 66, which was convenient since DF had his Tequila/Margarita Tasting in the Cadillac Lounge at 4:15pm. One thing I noticed on the carpet in the Route 66 area is that it's missing a town from the infamous song. The song lyrics are: Goes to St. Louis, down to Missouri; Oklahoma City looks oh so pretty; you'll see Amarillo, Gallup New Mexico; Flagstaff Arizona, don't forget Winona; Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino... Well on the map in the carpet they forgot Winona!! I asked our tour guide, Steven, and he said that he wasn't that familiar with the song but that yes they must have forgotten it. Not really the answer I wanted but oh well.
I headed up to my facial at the spa. They knew me by name at this point.
Aileen was doing my facial and she was excellent. She asked me lots of questions about how I take care of my skin and gave me some additional tips. She then asked what kind of facial I was having and I actually wasn't sure. I explained that I had won the cruise, all my treatments were included in the prize, and they had been scheduled for me. She thought it was the Pro-Collagen Treatment but she suggested that I have the Oxydermy facial instead since it's one of the best treatments. She said that she would charge it to the prize account and if it kicks it back she would discount the price so I wouldn't be charged any extra. What a unexpected bit of pixie dust!
I had only had a facial one time before this about 10yrs ago, and it was just a basic one. My skin was incredible! Everyone could tell. I now know why people get them regularly (not that I could afford $169+tip regularly
).
I went back to the stateroom and met everyone else there. The kids just hung out the rest of the day and watched Disney movies and cartoons on the tv. DS wasn't thrilled with last night's show so he passed on The Golden Mickeys tonight. It was dress-up night and I felt quite under dressed compared to everyone else since I didn't have enough time to change before the show. I didn't care much for this production. The character of host of the show was annoying to me, but DD liked it which I was glad about.
We went back to the room and all changed for dinner. I wanted to do the game So You Think You Know Your Family? but when I asked my kids earlier in the day, they said that they weren't good at trivia games like that, so we passed on it which is good because we were running behind getting dressed up for dinner (or I should say I was as usual hey it takes a lot to look this good!
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