dolphingirl47
In Search of the Tag Fairy
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Hopefully there will be another installment either today or tomorrow. It is about half typed up.
Corinna
Corinna
I was teased mercilessly by our server for this. He told me that I must prefer our assistant server to him. I had absolutely no idea where this was coming from. He repeated this again and explained as our assistant server was from Jamaica and his name was Romaine, my choices must mean that I prefer him. For my main course, I chose Braised Jerk-seasoned Pork Chop with Cornmeal Cakes. I was more than a little tempted to tell him that I had chosen this in his honour as he was being a jerk.
What a fab day!! I love all the photo's, especially the one's of you, Woody & Jessie.
Did you book the Madiera tour direct with Disney or was it privately arranged? I am getting so many fab ideas from you for my WBTA next year.
Day 8
After the photos were taken, I had still a bit of time left before I would meet Graham for lunch. So I headed up to Mickeys Mates to sort out my appointment for Bibbidy Bobbidy Boutique. I had double-checked the schedule that morning and noticed that they had given me the wrong date for formal night. Formal night was not on the 24th, but on 25th September. When I got there, I said that I had noticed that formal night was a different night and asked for an appointment on 25th September. The timings on that day made a lot more sense. I managed to get an 18:30 appointment, which was perfect. I hung around a bit longer looking at some of the 2010 merchandise, when I heard another member of staff speaking to the colleague that made my appointment. To her credit, I think she genuinely believed that I had left the shop. I could overhear her saying how unfair it was that I just came in and changed the date. I was absolutely floored. It was them who gave me the wrong date and I was just putting right their mistake. I made it very clear from the start that I wanted to do this on formal night. If anything, I would have expected them to apologize for the mix up, but was OK with the fact that they didnt. However, then having a go at me behind my back for trying to sort out the mess that they created was a bit rich. I was so tempted to turn around and just cancel full stop. Instead I quietly left the shop.
Some of the ladies had arranged to meet for a Champagne Girls Party. This had been done on previous cruises and we decided that this would be a bit of fun. Initially we had tried to get DCL to organize the champagne tasting, but they were not very forthcoming. So we decided to do this ourselves. Everybody was dressing in pink, wearing tiaras and boas and we were each bringing a bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine. I had managed to get a nice pink dress in the sales and also bought a pink tiara. Unfortunately it was the style with the comb that would not stay on at all as my hair is so fine. I passed on the boa as I hate the texture. The person who had organized this had brought spare tiaras so I used one of those.
Before the cruise, about 20 women had signed up for this and one of the members of our cruise meet thread had kindly offered to host this in her suite. With 20 people, this would have been perfect. Unfortunately on the day about three times as many people turned up and this was not fun. It was just way too crowded. When we signed up, we were asked to bring a glass each. I kept the glasses that we were left with the stateroom gift and brought one of them. I think I was the only one who did. Sue had asked for some glasses from room service expecting the original 20 people. So there were not enough glasses to go round either. I was more than a little relieved when somebody suggested that we should head for the landing to have some photos taken. We tried doing this just on the stairs, but there were too many of us. So somebody suggested that we should go down to deck 6 and the photos were taken from a balcony on deck 8. This worked fantastically well.
Corinna I love the pics , especially of you and Graham!!! Can I post some on our MR website?? Can't wait for more!! =0)
Here are some of the items Corinna taught us to make in the jewellery classes she held on the cruise:
The necklace in villain colours :
The pirate themed phone charm:
A massive thanks to Corinna for the classes ... I know everyone really enjoyed them. I also learned a few things whgich I can put to good use in making bits and pieces in the future.