Hey! Just had to check in. Hope its ok to post here. I'm the only one in the cabin awake and I really want to see old dogs at 10:45 so I have to stay awake. Been a fabulous trip so far!
I think I'm a couple steps behind everyone though. We came in Saturday morning on the auto train. No delays and our car was #60 out of 188 so it wasn't bad. Got to my sisters house by 11 and then were picked up by the van service at 11:30am. Were at port before 12 but by then many people must have been on board. Glad we missed the huge line - we got on very quickly after a picture with mickey in his sweater - that was a new one for me.
Got settled into our cabin easily. Realized we packed WAAAAAY too much. This has to be the messiest cabin Rex, our cabin steward, has ever seen. And I forgot dh's suit jacket and tie although I did pack his tux.
Ran into Wendy almost right away. Gorgeous lady with a beautiful southern accent. She got us set up with our mini- navigator - not that we've done well at making it to things though. Sorry about that. And the fe group - holy cow! We are going to need another suitcase to take everything home- people are so creative and generous! From bags to scrapbooks to hairbands its been so exciting for the kids to see what arrived. And Chun - the name tags have been fantastic for identifying people. Thank you so much everyone! We've done one run so far and still have stuff to deliver but haven't made it out again. Will have to work on that tomorrow.
I still have to figure out who Chuck, Lisa, Mason, Karen and Andrew are. That's on the list for tomorrow too.
I also have to go online and find a cove cafe mug since they don't carry them any more.
So far the memories that stick out are
1. the huge group of blue shirts at the sail away party. Very cool.
2.sat night the adult scavenger hunt (oh my word!!) followed by the so you know your spouse game(!!). I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I was going through tons of cocktail napkins I was crying from laughing so much. Couple #3 was related to a turkey and I can't remember who right now, Ellie & John I think were their names and married 46 yrs I think.
3. DS9 is thrilled with his boy scout patches!
4 After our spa visit we stopped at the hot tub monday night and who should be in there but Prince Charming! I didn't recognize the other person. He was talking about doing Christmas shopping on friday and was wondering if there were any good internet sales going on that he could take advantage of. So I told him that I was told by a reliable source that Vera Bradley is discontinuing some more fabrics on friday and that he should be able to find them on the internet. He looked at me and said - 'My mom doesn't sew."
I thought that was too cute.
5. Tues we did the bernard tour - thank you whoever recommended it we loved it. as we were leaving orient beach bernard asked, so did you like what you saw? (our family had the first 4 chairs right where the nude beach/non nude beach met). and the bus is silent until my ds9 mutters - not EVERYTHING. Then again as we were heading back to port we started quizzing the 3 older cousins, (my mom's a teacher- can't help it-in the genes or something), about the island and they talked about 2 sides and I asked so - tell me some differences between the 2 sides. And dnephew goes - the FRENCH side has the NAKED people. Ah well, hopefully they got a little more out of it than just that.
6. our servers are fabulous and since my dh, dsis & dbil loved the tuna appetizers they have been bringing them every night - even when they aren't on the menu any more. this is our 3rd time crusing and we've always had good servers, but these two are amazing.
7. paradise point didn't have great reviews but we just loved it . we rode up and sat up there for hours enjoying the view and their famous bushwackers. i could do that every day. if anyone has the recipe for a bushwacker - please post it - its fabulous.
That got longer than I expected - can you tell its been great!!
And everything was fine during the power outage. I heard one engine overheated and made a bunch of smoke but that it was under control. We will be late to
castaway cay though. I think they said we'll arrive at 10am. hopefully my dmom will get to go parasailing since we are scheduled for 10:30.
tomorrow should be a blast. characer bkfst, brunch at palos, galley tour, tea with the mad hatter.... can't wait.
