Monday January 16th - sea day #2
Today DH and I had Palo brunch booked for 10am. YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!
We ordered the girls room service for breakfast; we put the door hanger out the night before with a request to arrive between 8:30 and 9am. I set the alarm for 8:30 and of course, he showed up at 8:25! So I jumped out of bed lol, must've looked a right state!
Had also ordered coffee for husband and I and had planned to enjoy it on the balcony but the sea spray had covered all the chairs in a sea water film so I didn't feel much like sitting out there at the moment. Funny how I guess it just dries off as later on we definitely sat out there and it was fine.
Anyway, we got all glammed up, dropped the girls off at the club and went up to Palo.
Our server was Carl from South Africa and he was so lovely. Very friendly, personable, professional. Loved him. It was his second week back to work after having been off for the holidays to spend it back in South Africa with his wife and daughter. You could tell he missed them terribly, as he asked about our children and when he talked about his daughter his eyes just lit up, but you could tell there was a sadness there. It's easy for us to forget that everyone who works on one of these amazing ships has a family, loved ones, friends - that are left behind for weeks or months on end.
Sorry, didn't mean to get sad there!
We both ordered mimosas and DH took his obligatory "my wife dressed up, better get a shot of her boobs" photo
Actually I think that was after we ate as I see some crumbs on the table
Dh ordered the artichoke ravioli and I had pennette pasta, although I had intended to order the chicken parm. Not quite sure what happened there
Soon it was time to go up to the buffet. Now, this is the first time we have cruised since they introduced the whole 'let's have someone follow you around with a plate and you tell them what you want' dealio. I have to say - we didn't much care for that. I felt......awkward? Like, this isn't Downtown Abbey. I don't need a servant
Because of this dh and I probably got much less than we would have. Note to self: for next cruise, go up 2 or 3 times if you want. They don't care. You are paying for it after all!!!
The lady helping me actually gave me two plates as she didn't want my hot food touching my cold food
I quite liked that. DH's plate was just heaped on
For dessert we ended up sharing a plate (!!!!) so again as to not look like big piggies. Again, dude I'm getting my own plate next time!
Just as we were finishing dessert Carl came out with two more plates.
And wished us happy birthday and happy anniversary.
Ok....WHAT was going ON?!!
So then of course Carl is asking us how long we've been married etc. We answered 13 years because *technically* we will be celebrating our 13th later this year.
Anyway he wished us well and we sat there and then it DAWNED on me.
This cruise was originally booked as an Alaskan cruise for August 2016 before we cancelled it, changed it to the Bahama's on the Wonder and then ultimately changed THAT cruise to this Fantasy Star Wars cruise.
On the original Alaska booking I had put in a special requests section that we were sailing over our anniversary (which we would have been in August 2016, as the cruise went from the 15th to the 22nd and our anniversary is the 21st). As well, both DH and I turned 40 in 2016 so we had booked Alaska as a birthday present to ourselves but ultimately we did something else. So obviously these requests carried over to the new cruise bookings!!
I felt quite cheeky now, as we clearly were not celebrating anything but I couldn't tell them that!
Oh and if you're quite observant you'll now know what our names are
Another photo of the plates, artsy if you will
After brunch we took a wander around a little bit before collecting the girls from the clubs. We had a princess meet and greet to get to!
Only DD6 AGAIN did not want to go. Fine. Whatever kid.
So I took DD8 and off we went to the Atrium. And as we were standing in the first line we realized we had forgotten the anchor for the princesses to sign
oh my DD was NOT happy with me. She wanted me to get out of line but since it's a ticketed event I explained I had already handed in our tickets and I wasn't sure they would be happy to give them back to me to get out of line. So she suggested I call DH as he was back at the room with DD6 and they had the other two tickets. But my cell was locked away in the safe and I hadn't brought the wave phone with me.
Mommy fail! I promised her that we would bring the anchor with us to Alaska so that it would get filled up with more signatures.
Anyway, princess time!
I though this was cute, DD trying to mimic Belle
Darn, you'd think with a digital camera I would notice her eyes were closed
Back to the room where DD changed and we went up to the pool deck in search of some food for the girls and a round of mini golf!
Snapped these on the way to the elevators
It was rather breezy up top
Isn't this just a slice of heaven?
Panoramic shot dh took which of course makes me look like a hippo
The rest of the afternoon was spent by the pool. Lovely
The show that night was Wishes which no one really wanted to see (except me!) so anyways, I think we put the girls back in the clubs for a bit and then went up to Cove Cafe.
Dinner that night was in Royal Court for French Cuisine.
We missed the club CM's coming around to get the kids for the late seating so after we finished we took the girls up to the clubs and checked out Europa and settled on La Piazza for a cocktail each. I had a prosecco of some kind, very lovely. Can't remember what DH ordered but I remember it being very strong!!! So it even took him a while to drink it haha
We picked the girls up about 10:30/10:45 as we had a busy day ahead of us. Tortola!! And our excursion was meeting at 8:15am. Next entry will be very photo heavy!!