Wednesday - Sea Day
This morning I woke up around 7am, but decided to let Kyle sleep in for once. This was, after all, vacation. And to some people, I hear vacations are supposed to be for relaxing
So I headed to guest services to get a few things sqaured away for the day. The gratuity process was really easy. I'm not sure if it was the DIS or Passporter that said to get their early and avoid lines, but whoever said it was right on. Throughout the day, more and more people had things to take care of with guest services. It only took me about 2 minutes that early in the morning!
While I was there, I also asked for the Hidden Mickeys Challenge, and Self-Guided Art tour. Well, she handed me the HMC quickly, and then had NO idea what I was talking about with the other. I had printed out a list of tips from the ever-growing
DCL Tips thread on this board. One of them that sounded particularly interesting for our day at sea, was a walking tour of all the art onboard. Apparently the poster forgot to mention (or perhaps didn't realize) that this is only on the Magic. When I reread my passporter a few weeks later (we booked a different crusie, you know -- I have to read up!
), it clearly spells that out.
But the sweet CM at Guest Services pretended to know what I was talking about and proceeded to hand me the "Fact Sheet" about the ship. You know, the one with the weight, number of rooms, etc? Yeah, not so sure how that related...... but I politely thanked her and gave up. Good thing, since it didn't even exist on that ship
I ate breakfast at BBB (of course), filled up our sodas, and brought Kyle back a bit to eat. At about 9:00, he was awake and ready to go. Ironically, it was almost time for Pajama Bingo. We had decided we HAD to go, since we hadn't made it to one bingo yet. Well, you get a prize if you come in your PJ's, so of course we had to! For those people that sleep in a bit, this was perhaps a bit less goofy. But Kyle found it a little odd that I was making him change OUT of his clothes and back INTO pajamas at 10:00 in the morning. Just play along, honey, this is fun
So off to wavebands we went...
Michael was running the bingo, and Melanie was assisting (as well as another gal, but I can't remember her name
). These two were the ones we had hung out with in Studio Sea for karaoke on the first night, so I was pleased to see them again. Partly because they were really nice, but mainly because Michael was freakin' adorable. We lost every game, which made Kyle a little smug (he hates anything that resembles throwing money away), but we both had a good time.
After bingo, we went back to the room and "got ready" for the day (ie changed BACK into our clothes, as everything else was done). We started to do the Hidden Mickey's Challenge, but let me just warn you of this before you go. If you have kids, I'm guessing it can be a lot of fun. It will definitely teach them reading, and critical thinking, etc. But the Mickey's are SO not hidden. They are what Mr. Barrett would call 'decorative mickey's. And maybe not even that. We're talking, for example, "The Mickey Pool". So that didn't last long, as we didn't really feel like walking the ship searching for things we had already seen, photographed, etc just by walking by
Later that afternoon, I wanted to go to the DVC presentation while Kyle relaxed on Deck 4. I didn't go to hear about DVC, as I'm quite sure I know more about it than that guide did (or he's a big fat liar, one of the two)..... but because I needed to win the $300 shipboard credit, you know?
I didn't win the credit. I didn't win ANYTHING, even though he probably gave out about 30 things to 35 people. But I did run into the couple from dinner, again. Kyle and I found that quite amusing, and said - yet again - that we should probably introduce ourselves since we obviously have a lot in common, as we have seen them at nearly EVERY event/place/activity since the first night of this trip!
After the presentation got done a bit early, I headed to Deck 4 to meet up with Kyle. We had about 15 minutes until we planned on meeting for lunch, so I grabbed a chair next to him and read a bit. Those 15 minutes were SO peaceful, so serene. There was not a person nearby, and we just sat on the deck chairs (the most comfortable ones on board, by the way), and watched the breathtaking blue ocean roll by. I think I could cruise every week, and never cease to be amazed.
And it just got worse when we came to the realization that it would have been a good excuse to get away from our equally insane tablemates, if we "knew eachother"!!! How sad is that? And I am not a shy person, so we had NO explanation as to why we didn't bug one another sooner. So we exchanged emails, shook our heads in disbelief a few more times, whined together about having to leave the next morning, and eventually called it a night.
