Mother and daughter cruise Feb6-9 Day2 ...continued

[perdidobay]

Cruisers: Me -45, third Wonder cruise
DD-26, first Wonder cruise

We boarded the Wonder after stopping to take a few photos, and admiring the look of the ship at dusk as the lights began to shine and reflect on the water
On the way back to our room, I stopped by Guest services to prepay my gratuities. I love being able to charge them (along with everything else) back to the room. When I get home I have only one bill from the cruise, and since I post everything I charge in my check register, this makes my life easier!
Back in our stateroom, we find our invitations to the Castaway Club reception and a note informing me of my $50 stateroom credit (a Disney Club member perk)
We shower and change clothes for dinner, then head to Shutters to check out the new photos of the kids and princesses, taken that morning in the atrium. They are all so precious!
The previous evening I had seen PJ, my head server from my last cruise, at the entrance at Tritons. I had stopped to say hello, and let him know that we would not be there that night. He told me he would let my servers know, and I asked him who our tablemates were. We were at a table for six with two other couples in their 50's. We were not at one of PJ's tables, but we had good servers. Marcelo, server, Luzanne, assistant server and Daniele, head server.
Tonight's dinner was at Animater's Palate, and we arrive to a couple already seated, the second couple stayed in Nassau to eat that night.
They were very freindly and we all chatted while DD filmed between courses. They were DVC members and were cruising on points.
DD and I both had the caesar salad and cheese canneloni. I cannot remember what I had for dessert, but I know I had one!
DD enjoyed the show and was mad that she had forgotten an extra battery, the one on the camcorder ran down before the end of the "show". She came back after dinner to take a few photos but of course AP was back to black and white at that time.
It was close to 10:15 by the time we left dinner, and we rushed back to our room then headed down to the sail away to enjoy the band. DD and I danced a bit and we wished this once that we had room for some of the good stuff on the buffet line
We headed up to deck 10 to watch the ship leave, then headed back down to deck 9 to pick up some cookies to take back to the room. We were still full but we hope to eat them later
Our room has been turned down and we have a towel cute dog on the bed The night before it was an elephant.
We head to bed, after watching Nassau slip out of sight from our veranda. I really like looking down to see the water rush by with only the lights from the ship illuminating them. We get to bed by 12:30. I set a wake up call for 6:30am
Tomorrow: Castaway Cay... and really! the water feels good after you get used to it!!!!!
edited!!! I'm only 45, don't know why I put 46 no rush to get there!!

 

[taswira]

Thanks, perdidobay! We look forward to the next installment.

I always select late dining (even though I <I>really</I> hate to eat that late!) because it means going to the earlier shows, not rushing to get to dinner, not feeling rushed <I>during</I> dinner, fewer <I>little</I> kids, and being one of the last off the ship on debarkation day (having the later breakfast time). But the two things I don't like about it are being too full for the late dessert buffet and (depending on the servers) maybe being late for the deck parties. The latter is what bothers me the most.

 

[perdidobay]

I know how you feel... I hate looking at my watch when dinner drags on, wondering what I may be missing!