I guess I'd better get caught up here, huh? KC has just about gotten through all of Thursday and I haven't even started. Okay, here goes.
I have a note that I had a 7AM wakeup call. See I had a massage scheduled for later that morning and I wanted to make sure to get some wakeup time before it. I'm not the type that jumps right out of bed ready to go. I need several cups of coffee and several smokes before I can really be human to anyone. So, instead of going into the spa lacking my morning drugs, I figured I'd set a wakeup call. Besides, days at sea are my favorites and I didn't want to waste a single moment.
When they tell you that the laundry gets a lot of use on sea days, believe it. When I got up I went to deck 9 and had 2 smokes and a cup of coffee. By the time I got back down to the laundry room it was full! So I went to the room and downloaded some pictures. So far I had 627! I then noticed that our fish extender needed a bit of repair. I couldn't find any of the tape I'd brought so I took it to Guest Services and stapled it. Hey, whatever works, right?
Since it's Thursday and I'd been adding to the door magnets every day, I had quite a few by now. Here's a picture of what our door looked like. And the fish extender made it real easy to see our door from far down the hallway.
So while I was waiting on a machine in the laundry to open up I took a few pictures. Before the cruise I'd heard that the anchors on the carpet always point you to aft with their red side (red and aft both have 3 letters). But I wasn't quite sure what they looked like. So in the hopes that it helped someone else, I took a picture of it.
About that time I went up to Topsiders for breakfast. The only note I have is that it was very windy. After breakfast I headed back down to the laundry and got a load in.
About this time KC woke up and joined me on deck. He was kind enough to finish the laundry load and even put them in the dryer and folded them while I was at the spa, which was
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!
I got to the spa and had to fill out a form. It had all kinds of medical stuff on it. I felt like I was at a doctor's office or something. But I guess all of that is important for some of the treatments they do so they probably just get the information from everyone. Then Bruno came to get me for my massage. I wasn't uncomfortable having a male masseuse because I figure he sees a lot more nubile bodies than mine on a regular basis. Besides, no part of any importance was ever uncovered. Oh, the massage was incredible!!!! The only possible thing that could have made it better was some soothing music. I could hear some music but not really well. At some point I asked Bruno if he could turn it up and he said he couldn't. Oh well. Man... I definitely gotta do that again whenever I go on another cruise. Or mabye here in town sometime. Talk about completely relaxed! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
I had lunch with the kids. I don't think KC was with us at this time. He really wasn't feeling all that well. But the boys and I saw Jaime at lunch and she asked us where we'd been. I kind of sheepishly explained that we just didn't want to miss all the fun stuff on the ship and that a 2 hour dinner just wasn't our thing. She assured me that they could fix that and heartily invited me to please try again. I told her we'd be there tonight though becuase KC and DS14 both wanted lobster and becuase it's semi-formal night. She seemed very happy with this.
For the rest of the day it really was just a lazy day. I caught up with KC at some point and we went to pay off some of the bill and then went shopping. They had some chains that were 99c an inch and I wanted to look for a chain for my new pendant. No luck there. I also wanted to get an anklet made with Mickey becuase it's hard to find anklets that fit me. No luck there either... guess the were all out of Mickey. And I didn't want Minnie or Donald or anything else they had. Oh well.
Now I can't remember if it was Thursday but it probably was becuase this is when we did our big shopping. KC asked me if I wanted to look at scrapbooking supplies. I told him I didn't really need anything becuase I do digi-scrapping now. But he said I'd need an album. We looked for an 8x8 becuase that's the size I like but they didn't have any. I picked up a 12x12 and looked at it. It looked great with the pirate treasure map cover and all the characters on there in their pirate outfits. It looked really, really good! But then I noticed the price -- $30. Ugh!!!!! For an empty scrapbook. I started to put it back down but KC wouldn't let me. Nothing must do but he was gonna buy that scrapbook for me. Now, I ask you.... knowing how he likes to squeeze a penny until Ol' Abe cries uncle, but gonna pay that much for a scrapbook to make me happy.... is there any question at all why I'm ecstatically in love with this man?
At some point in the afternoon we stopped by the room and found another blanket animal. I guess it's a squid?
As KC mentioned, later on that afternoon we played bingo. No, we didn't win. It would have been great to win, but I figured it's a lot like playing the lottery.... you don't expect to win (although you wouldn't give the money back if you did) but it's fun just to be in to win so you can dream about what you'd do with the money. I snapped a pic of KC while we were waiting for bingo to start. Kind of hard to take a picture when you're sitting right next to the person, but it came out pretty good.
Later on that afternoon I got some shots of the boys in Ocean Quest.
Here's DS14 piloting the ship. He loved this simulator.
And here's DS12. Don't know what he was doing or about to do. Doesn't that chain look good on him?
Then it was back to the room and time to get ready. I headed back early so I could get in the shower and get the makeup done and get the dress on. Can't parade around the room in my altogether with the kids around, don'tcha know. We thought DS14 was late again because I thought I'd said 6:15. Called The Stack and the first words out of his mouth were "It's not 6:30 yet" which is when I remembered telling them 6:30. But getting the shower first worked out well becuase it let me not stress, get a few last minute things done, help the family and get this great picture of KC teaching DS14 how to tie a tie.
And check out the vest on DS12. Picked that up at Goodwill the week before the cruise for $4.50!!!!! Of course we had to get the picture with Mickey in his formalwear. Actually, this is my favorite of all the pics we had taken. Well... 2nd favorite. My fave is the one of my babies in their tuxes.
So we're back at Animator's Palate again tonight. Got a great pic in the porthole. Loved the way the colors worked together.
Jaimey and Aditya were really happy to see us again and they made everything lightning quick! Definitely, if you're not enjoying your two hour meals, let your servers know. I had heard that I should let them know anything, but I figured there's nothing they could do about this becuase they've got so many people to feed. But they just worked their Disney magic and life was great! Yes, KC and DS14 had lobster. I had the fettucini alfredo. Everything was delicious!!! I felt so bad for KC because he'd been looking forward to this meal for a while. Oh well... he did finish his lobster. Guess I'll just have to take him out for a good lobster for his birthday at the end of the month, huh?
Here's DS12 watching the cartoons that played to entertain the kids while at Animator's Palate. We take him on a wonderful cruise to a fancy restaurant in his darling duds and what does he (and DS14 do)? Zone out to the **** tube! Kids!!!
Here's KC. He doesn't look that ill, does he?
And he said I couldn't get away without having this picture taken.
Here's the guys with our servers. This serving team was great and made us feel like they were so very happy that we were there! And the way they joked around with the kids and such! They made dinners such fun!!
After dinner KC went and hit the sack as he wasn't feeling well at all. I went ot Rockin Bar D and listened to the band for a bit waiting for the comedian to come on. But when he came out, I only listened to the first few minutes of his act and then I had to leave becuase my leg was bothering me with RLS again.
I met up with a7moulton (I'm terrible with real names and am doing well to remember board names sometimes) and her husband on deck 4 and we talked for a while. It was really windy though and my dress kept threatening to do a Marilyn Monroe on me. I decied to go down to the room and change. I then putzed around on deck 9 again just enjoying being at sea.
At some point during the evening KC got up and helped DS14 get ready for the homecoming party they were having in the Stack that night. Everyone was to wear their dress clothes. So he wore all his good stuff, including the vest. Man, but this boy looks good, don't he! Later that night he came back to the room to get some little headphones thing. He put the thing in his pocket and had one earplug up in his ear. Said it made him look more like an FBI agent. I've given up trying to figure that boy out
Later on I ended up in the room and DS12 and I were hungry so we got a cheesburger and pizza from room service. DS14 woke me when he got home from the homecoming dance (as I'd asked him to). Thus ends another perfect day at sea......
Next up from me .... We're really, truly and finally at
Castaway Cay!!!!!!
You guys looked great again in your finery
Keep up the great work.
I can't wait to see the rest. (I figured the click thing out - hey it's early in Michigan!) I love the Mickey pin tacks.
