Our 1st Day at Sea and Gettin' Gussied Up!
Today was one of the days that I was most excited about! It was nice to not have anything planned for the day except relaxing and doing whatever we wanted!!!
We slept in until around 9:30, which was nice!! Normally we don't sleep late on vacation as we don't want to waste any time, but today was a different story!
After taking our time with getting ready, we finally headed up to Topsider's for some breakfast. And this time I actually remembered to take my camera and get some pics!!
I was so excited to finally have a Mickey waffle. Either they only offer them on certain days, or I just somehow missed them on all the other mornings.
Gayle and Brandi had already had breakfast and were at the pool by the time we even made it to breakfast, so we decided to stroll around a bit before meeting them at the Quiet Cove pool.
I love this shot of the back of the ship that I grabbed as we were leaving Topsiders:
As we mosied around, I took a couple pics of the
DCL logo in different places...
This one was another one of my favorites from the day:
After our walk around the ship, we headed back to the room and suited up for the pool. Gayle and Brandi were relaxing up on deck 10, so we joined them for a little while. I love being in the sun, but I've never been one to just lay out in it...especially when there's a pool around. So Mike and I went down and enjoyed the nice cool water. Both aussieinvasion and ibela's mom were there, so we had a nice chat with them for a while.
After soaking in the pool for a bit, we went back up to sit with Gayle and Brandi for a while. Between the swimming and sun, we'd gotten a little hungry. Since we were right there, we figured we'd just run down and grab a cheeseburger. It was so nice to be able to walk right up, tell them what you want, and then them hand it to you. After we'd finished our yummy cheeseburgers, we lounged around and chatted with Brandi and Gayle a little more before we packed up and headed back to the room. I had a hair appointment, and I wanted to get back to the room and shower before I went.
Originally, my appointment had been scheduled for 3:15, but I'd gotten a call a couple days before asking if I could come in at 2:45, which was no problem with me. So, I showered and headed up the the salon at 2:30. I checked in right away, but had to wait a few minutes, which I expected since I was a little early. As I was sitting there, a gentleman sat down next to me, and I noticed that he was wearing one of the lime green bracelets that had been given out at our DIS meet. I asked him if he was part of our DIS group, and he said that his wife was. Turns out, he was dibond's hubby! Too neat!! I'm normally a very shy person around people I don't know, but it's so cool how DIS'ers are just so friendly! We chatted for a few more minutes, and before long Alex had called me back. I was a little nervous about having my hair done, yet excited at the same time. I had no idea what I wanted, so Alex asked me to describe my dress to him. I trusted him to do his thing, which is another unusual thing for me. As he was doing my hair and was almost finished, he brought over these chopstick looking things that were black with rhinestones on the end. He asked if I wanted him to use them in my hair, and of course I said yes. Small mistake!!! Once he was finished, I was very impressed. He really did a good job with my hair, and I liked the fact that he left it curly. Then the bill came...As I was signing it, he told me that he forgot to add in the "chopsticks" so he had to go back and add that on as well. Turns out, those chopsticks were almost $30!! Guess I should have asked before I just told him yes! Oh well, I was still happy with my hair regardless, and this was something that I had planned on splurging on from day one, so it really wasn't a big deal. I don't remeber the exact total now, but between the actual upstyle, the chopsticks and the tip, I think my total ended up being $85 or so!
With my hair done, I headed back to the room to start getting ready for dinner. I couldn't wait to show everyone my hair!! Mike really liked it, so that made me feel good. I got Mike to snap a couple shots for me before I got dressed. The back...
And the side:
And the front:
I'm really not trying to be vein by posting all these pics of myself. I just want to pass along as much info as I can. I remember when I was planning for this trip, I had a hard time finding any info or pictures of upstyles. Hopefully this will help someone out!!
Finally dressed and ready to go, we headed out a little early so that we could get some pics of us all gussied up. We came across Minnie first, and even though I was sad that Mickey wasn't with her, I think this one turned out to be the best pic of the night:
We took a few of the professional shots with the ship in the background, but none of those turned out really well, so we didn't buy them. We then headed downstairs to get one in front of Helsman Mickey, which we liked well enough to buy:
With all the photos done with, we made our way to Animator's Palate for our Golden Mickeys dinner. I was really excited to see what was on the menu for the evening.
For our appetizer, I chose the Double Baked Aged Reggiano Parmesan Cheese Souffle:
This was REALLY good. I LOVE cheese, so this was right up my alley!
Mike went with the Carmelized Bay Scallops:
He really enjoyed those as well.
Next up was the Broccoli & Maytag Blue Cheese Soup for both of us:
Now, I like broccoli and I like blue cheese, but I wasn't really sure how they would taste together. I'm happy to say that it was delicious!!
For the main course, I chose the Jumbo Shrimp and Porcini Mushroom Tagliatelle:
While Mike had the Roasted Filet Beef of Wellington:
We both really enjoyed what we picked...Yummy!!
Lastly, for dessert I decided on the Chocolate Cake:
And Mike had the Trio:
My cake was really good, but REALLY sweet!
As we were eating, a photog came by and got this shot of us:
Dinner was so good, that suddenly my dress just didn't fit the same as it did before dinner!
If anyone figures it out let me know!!
With us being more done than our dinner, we were ready for the Golden Mickey's, but not before we waddled back to our rooms for a few minutes. We had a sweet little puppy (I think) waiting for us when we returned.
The shoes that I had on were killing my feet, so I decided to change into a pair of dressy flip-flops that I'd brought for semi-formal night....Much better!!
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We had just enough energy to walk to the HRC to meet up with some friends and then back to the ship!! 
so this is good information before we get off the ship
