Day 4 - Day at Sea
Days at sea are a favorite. Not just because of the multitude of activities on board or the ability to relax in little nooks around the ship, but a big reason is Palo's brunch.
Since I knew we didn't have to get up and rush, we all slept in. Until I got a phone call at 9 am from my friend to let me know brunch was at 10:30, not 11:30. I rushed up the stairs to Cabanas to grab the girls some food. DD11 met up with her buds to never been seen again until dinner. Then we dropped DD5 off at the kids club. She had looked over the Navigator that morning and had big plans. She told us the night before they had Cinderella for story time and today Belle was supposed to be there. Good, because we had big plans today too. First was brunch, then later we had tickets to some tastings.
We were the very first guests to arrive for brunch so I got to take pictures before everyone demolished the tables. Not that the tables ever look bad. I will let the pictures speak for me.
Our Motley Group in the beautiful entrance to Palo's
Priorities - my first picture was of the dessert table
The hot breakfast food items, though a few had not been put out when I took the picture. You can order any of these. I had the Eggs Julia, which is a poached egg and smoked salmon on an English muffin with hollaindaise sauce. Yum!
This table had caviar, cheese, crackers.
This had pastries including some really amazing hot cinnamon buns.
The seafood table. Loved the crab legs, shrimp and the shot glasses with bloody mary mix and baby shrimp (no alcohol.)
There were also some really good lunch options to choose. DH ordered the chicken parmesan and we all shared a few pizzas.
Our waitress Nicole was great. She worked for years on the Wonder then moved to the Dream. She said she may go to the Fantasy because she's tired of just going to Nassau and
Castaway Cay all the time.
After eating so much, all we wanted to do was a whole lot of nothing. DH and his friend had a beer tasting to go to, so my friends and I went to the nice spot on Deck 12 forward to read. My friend was peering over the front and was trying to figure out what was below us. A CM told us it was the concierge suites. She told us for the maiden voyage of the Fantasy, one family has booked the Roy, the Walt, the suite in between and the 2 suites on either side. All 5 concierge rooms. For a week. She figured it'd be at least 100k.
Boy, would I love that kind of money to be able to do that for my family.
We got DD5 out of the kids club for awhile, she still had more plans because there was a Tinkerbell talent show later. But until then, we walked around the shops, checked out the animated art, and DH took her to play mini golf. My friends and I met some members from the DIS board for a meet at Currents. There was a huge group in the FE, but only a few were able to make it to the meet. I was glad we made it. But we couldn't stay long because we had a martini tasting to make at Meridians.
DH dropped DD5 off at the kids club and the 5 adults met up for martinis. I have attended a few on the other ships and the tastings are always a little different. Though they always start the same, with a nasty gin martini.
I can't remember all of the ones we tried, but DH fell in love with the Eco-tini. It has some sort of Acai liquor and it comes with an acai seed bracelet. We now have quite the collection of those.
My DD5 came back from the kids club with different face paint every time. I think that's a heart on her face or maybe she was a kitty or a mixture of both because we never washed it off.
We were trying to kill some time before dinner so we just took a few pictures around the ship.
Dinner was at the Royal Palace again, but this time we got the regular menu. I didn't get the chance to take many pictures at dinner. I'll just say again that traveling with a divorcing couple can be awkward to say the least. But here's my steak with the lobster medallion.
And really, I do have another DD, but you would barely know it with how often we saw her, so there aren't a lot of pictures.
Now since this was the last night of the 4 night, normally we'd be getting ready to go home. But we weren't... getting ready or going home. So next I'll talk about how we did the getting off the ship and back on again.
Coming up next. Let's Do It Again!
The kids loved the banana/chocolate. And I do eventually ride the Aquaduck. 
), nothing surprises me any more.
So, I have a VERY important question for you: what did you think of the hair dryer on the Dream? I've reads many different things on these boards. I have thick, curly hair & it takes a while to dry my hair at home. Should I bring my own dryer or did you find the ones on the boat to be fine? Thanks!
My family and I quickly got dressed and headed up to Cabanas for breakfast. We watched all the sad people getting ready to leave the ship, knowing we were about to get right back on! 
