Hey everyone -
Sitting in the outlook cafe, ordering a martini and looking out at San Diego. We ended up not getting off the ship because the kids wanted to swim and do the kids club. I STILL have to do most all of my FEs too!
So the gift they are giving everyone for this cruise is (spoiler alert) -- a lithgraph of the wonder with Pixar characters. If you get the white Disney Wonder Pixar cruise t-shirts they have on sale on the ship, it is the same picture on hte back of the shirts.
The guest lecturer yesteday was Jay Ward, who is the person who --I can't remmeber the exact title - but he is responsible for kind of overseeing Cars merchandising and marketing to make sure it is homgoenous. His presentaation was about the building of Carsland and was very interesting. Makes me even more excited to go or the first time next week!
Later they did an authograph sessoin.. I have to say, it was a little poorly run, and I hope they learn the next time. I got there about 15 minutes early, thinking there would be a line. But instead they were handing out numbers, and this was the order you would get in line for the autograph signing. This was a good idea actually, and I would have got there 30 minutes early if I had known The bad thing was, no one was "handling" Jay Ward (who was doing the autographing) so ppeople would talk to him ofr like 5 minutes, and he seemed a very friendly guy, so he wasn't moving them along. We had #36 and we didn't get up tehre until 5 (the event started at 4) and I saw people with numbers in the low 100s, so not sure how they were going to finish on time. Oh, BTW, this was only for people who were CC club members and Disney Visa holders.
The other thing was they were selling books and prints. My son - the Pixar expert - told me that Jay Ward only worked on Cars and Monsters Inc, but they were selling Cars, Ratatouilee and UP posters. The CMs selling them told me he woked on all, so I bought my favorite, an UP poster of Dug the dog. But of course, Jay Ward told me he DIND"T work on UP so I dind't have him sighn it.
Okay, that is all the PIXAR related info. AS for the cruise, the food continues to be fantiastic, the service too. Tonight is pirate party.
We are docked right next to the Midway and the Midway museum. Lookes really neat, but too lazy to get off the ship, especially since we have so little time left on this cruise and I love just beingo nt he ship.