Here you go kids. Hopefully this will tide y'all over until the weekend.
Cast of Characters:
Ward thats me
Cheri the lovely wife
Sadie the lovely 13 year old daughter
Wednesday May 24th Day 5 Part 2: Losing A Ball, Losing LOST, and Foreshadowing for Disaster
Well of course when we got back to the ship from shopping on Cozumel we did what we always did
go up top for some grub. What grub do you ask? Come on now. I bet by now you can say it with me. Go on
say it with me.
Chicken fingers and Ice Cream! Of course. But let me throw a curve ball at you. Instead of finding a seat up top, this time we took our food back to the room and ate lying in bed watching TV.
Yep, we lazed about eating Chicken Fingers with gobs of dripping honey mustard sauce. Okay, the subject has now come up. I have to break here to tell you exactly how much I love the honey mustard sauce that Disney uses in its restaurants and quick service locations.
Its Kens Honey Mustard Salad Dressing (believe me, Ive researched it) and it is divine! I pretty much slather it on everything! Chicken, pork, or drink it right out of the bottle. Just hook me up to an IV
Im good.
Anyway, we ate and watched Fun with Dick and Jane on TV which Id never seen before. It was okay. Im not much of a Jim Carey fan but it was entertaining enough to have on the tube while eating lunch and trying to keep your eyes open. After catching a few winks we got our showers and got dressed for the evening and again, Sadie left us. Im sure youre beginning to catch onto the routine by now, right? Cheri and I went to the lobby for portraits and then went to Sessions for awhile to listen to the piano man. It was on this trip to Sessions that I realized they had CD listening stations lined along the walls. Hey, its dark in there
I didnt notice before. So we relocated from the couch we were at and went to sit next to the windows so I could listen to some Disney music. When the piano mans session was over we went next door to Diversions where I showed Cheri how to play foosball (thank goodness the beast was nowhere in sight this time. He must live only on deck 9
). Then something happened that I am not particularly proud of, but Im going to come clean right here on this board in the presence of all of you fine people. I made a particularly menacing play with my spinny men and the small ball sort of ricochet violently off of the wood next to my wifes goal and flew out of the table and into the darkness.
Uh, I dont know where it went. We did look for it! Oh yes, I promise that we canvasses the shadowy corners for a good uh
minute or two but I say that we must have, right at that moment, passed through a portion of the Bermuda Triangle (geography, not my strong point
) for the ball had completely and utterly vanished. So we hightailed it right on out of there! Again, Im ashamed of my cowardice.
So for those of you on the cruise that followed ours
if the foosball table in Diversions was missing its ball, I am to blame.
Okay, enough drama for now (I promise there is much more to come). Dinner was at Lumieres and it was Pirate Night.
There were bandanas waiting for us on the tables and again I needed assistance with mine. Yes, for all of you that are wondering, I pretty much always need help dressing. My first attempt at donning the headgear didnt go so well as Hector, our tablemate, told me I looked like the pope. I had sumptuous pork tenderloin and my wife ordered the spicy chicken which turned out to be raging spicy! Much more raging spicy than anyone ever dreamed so she sent it back for pork tenderloin of her own. Our head waiter Ronald told us to prepare ourselves for he had prepared a dessert especially for our table. Why, I dont know but we didnt ask questions! We were brought these decadent soufflés and we were the envy of those around us. HA! As we were getting up to leave, guts busting to the extreme,
Ronald reminded us that we were to move our clocks ahead one hour this evening before retiring for the night (very important) and we headed up to the Pirate Party on deck 9/10.
We really enjoyed this party very much. I think it was a blast. The entertainment was entertaining, the fireworks were spectacular, and the buffet was very buffet-like. As much as I would have loved to dive face first into that table of delights I couldnt possibly as I was doing good just to be standing there right after dinner. There had hot and cold items. We decided that we couldnt let the opportunity pass us by so we did take just a smidgeon of cake and took it back down to our room.
It was at this point upon entering the room and seeing the television that the realization hit me and I may have physically stumbled against the stateroom wall for a moment before righting myself long enough to go sit on the edge of the bed. Tonight was the season finale of LOST! I am a total LOST freak-a-zoid. I had always known that the show was on this evening but I guess the excitement of the week managed to push it from my mind. Thank goodness the TV doesnt have ABC or I would have been dashed to find out that I could have watched it onboard and didnt. Yes folks, yes
. I so totally would have spent two hours of my
Disney cruise vacation watching LOST on TV. True fans of the show would understand. So I regained my composure and made a mental note that watching it was priority number one when we got home (thank God for DVRs).
As usual, Sadie came back around 1:30am
fade to black.
Up Next: A Wrinkle In Time and the Ships Scar
I am going through trip report withdrawals
doesn't he know the thin thread by which I hang?
I LOVE that! 
You know at the end where Marlin, thinking that Nemo has died, leaves Dory to go back home. And then Nemo comes up to Dory asking if shes seen his dad. Then, when she finally realizes who he is, her eyes grow wide as her entire life (P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney) flashes before her eyes in a quick progression in a blur of epiphany. Yeah, I experienced that right at that moment. 
My eyes widened and behind my eyelids I saw flashes of Head Server Ronald telling us last night to turn our clocks ahead. Then time flew. It was suddenly no longer 9:30, but it was 10:30am. 
How could I have been on this ship for six days and not realized that there was a kids side? So we went down that side getting chicken fingers, and hot dogs and French fries, spaghetti
it was superb! 
We bought all five cards to play all five games (what they hey) and took a seat. Michael, Simone, and Pikey were taking care of us during the games with Michael running the machine and calling numbers. He is so entertaining to listen to and makes it exciting. They all are. About midway through the Jackpot game Michael revealed what the prize was and you guessed it
$4200! Wow! That would have been a good early Xmas present! If I remember correctly, one woman ended up winning it. If I had one it
Id have been right to the online booking desk booking my next cruise! Ah well
it was fun anyway. 
Maybe a a couple paragraphs a day would get me through the weekend.....NAH!! 
Thanks for your story.
