Last Day of the cruise continued:
I left off with us leaving
Castaway Cay. It was more than a little odd for us to be leaving in the middle of the day, we absolutely love CC, but the wind was getting to me and mom wanted to find some sun to lounge in where I was comfortable too.
First stop, Cove Café to try and find those delicious flourless chocolate cakes from a few days prior. We thought we had hit the jackpot and sat down here to enjoy them
Sadly they were not the same, just regular chocolate cake which was too dry for us. Mom loved the éclair which was mocha filled, and I totally enjoyed the peanut butter bar. Sweet teeth content for the moment we headed to the room. Stopped by the beverage station and walked through Cabanas. I was trying for pictures I hadn’t gotten before but I think these are all probably repeats.
There was nobody on the ship, which was really cool. We did not regret for a moment that we left CC.
One of these trips I WILL sit and watch an entire movie out here, I have only caught snippets.
No line for the Aquaduck, neither of us was in the mood though.
Back in the room we found these. The sure sign that the trip was coming to an end.
There were also our tip slips but there was a name we weren’t familiar with. The one that should have said Karen said Antoinette and I wanted to make sure there hadn’t been a mistake. Mom had been hoping we would find some sun on our balcony but no such luck. So we headed out in search of sun and stopping at Guest Services on the way to see about ‘Antoinette’.
Did I mention how beautiful I thought Guest Services was? I just loved it!
They cleared things up for us; Antoinette is Karen so we left that as it was. Since we were there I added a little onto Fitz’s tip and Jerron’s as well. They both went the extra mile and I wanted to give them a little extra. The others, well, they were not the best as I have already shared.
Mission accomplished we searched for our sun, and where did we find it? The magnificent Satellite Falls fit the bill nicely.
We have yet to get in the water, so must do that next trip on the Fantasy.
We set up shop near the railing where we could see Castaway Cay, it was 2:00. I wrote in the journal and mom might have just lounged. I think she had finished her book and not brought a second one. While we were just enjoying life we saw a true act of heroism. An inner tube escaped from the safety of CC and happily bobbed its way to freedom. From out of nowhere a CM on a jet ski raced out to the rescue. This was not his first rodeo with a wayward tube, he was ready with a rope and just tied the tube up behind him. We were both very impressed. At some point after that we saw Martin walk by, he stopped and chatted with us and checked that we were coming to dinner. It was a little embarrassing for him to see us in our swim clothes only because we see him in a formal environment. He was very nice and asked how our Palo dinner was the previous evening. We assured him we would be at dinner tonight. We stayed until just before 4:00 and left our little piece of paradise.
We decided to head to the Rainforest Room one last time. We wouldn’t have a chance to go after this, we still had packing, the show, and dinner to get to. We made the most out of our last visit. I had managed to go the whole week without trying any of the saunas or showers so I rectified that. I tried each of the saunas and most of the showers. Mom had enjoyed the hot tub for a while and then went to the showers. We met up at the heated tile loungers and sat for a bit. We decided we should head out since we still needed showers before the show, we got as far as the hallway when I heard the whistle. I figured that meant we were leaving CC so we went back into the RFR to watch. Goodbye CC, we’ll see you in January!
We left for real this time and stopped by Flo’s V8 Café for some snacks, dinner was three hours away and we weren’t going to make it without some sustenance.
We took our food back to the room because the wind had picked up yet again. We put on Toy Story 2 again, we’d been trying to finish this for a few days. After eating we got ready for the show. I started packing while mom took a shower, and she did vice versa. We headed out at 6:10 and made it to the show in time. I think we were hustling. We sat in the balcony as usual. The show was called An Unforgettable Journey. This is what the navigator says ‘Join us tonight as we celebrate our magical voyage, inspired by the words and wisdom of the man himself, Walt Disney. Featuring the Walt Disney Theatre cast, World Famous Disney Characters and the comedy and magic of Magic Dave.’ It was cute but a little corny. Clayton would come onstage between sets and have us clap for the different teams on the ship. That was nice. After the show we stopped at the
DVC podium to see about the gift of the day. It was another picture of Aulani. I happen to have several prints of this exact picture and would have left it behind, but mom said she wanted it. Then we headed back to the room where I finished my packing. We also actually finished Toy Story 2. Bags outside we headed down to dinner.
The last dinner was at the Enchanted Garden. It was a fabulous meal all around, we chatted and caught up on the last couple days. We told everybody the amusing story of canceling Palo and rebooking once I saw the menu outside AP. We really enjoyed our tablemates this cruise. Well we have really enjoyed all the tablmates we’ve met, but this group was extra fun.
Mom and I both started off with a goat cheese and potato appetizer. It was so good!
I had an edamame and cabbage salad. Martin really tried to discourage me from getting this, said it was not good. I still wanted to try it. It started off not good because there was no dressing, but after asking Karen for some balsamic it was absolutely delicious!
Mom skipped the salad course.
We both had the seafood pasta but no seafood. Basically linguini with a white wine sauce, very yummy!
Mom also had a phyllo wrapped mushroom/onion/tofu dish. She said it was very good.
For dessert mom had a Mickey bar
And I had the Celebration Cake, which was cheesecake layered with strawberries and white cake. It was very rich but very good.
And then we found out why Martin was making sure we would be at dinner that evening. He brought us both birthday desserts! After my fabulous Celebration Cake it was hard to eat chocolate but I managed to eat some of it.
It was such a lovely dinner. No need to say goodbyes just yet, everybody would be at breakfast in the morning.
I hadn’t seen this beautiful fixture before, it was just outside the Royal Palace.
We happened upon the See Ya Real Soon show and stayed to watch while the characters came down.
He got better as the cruise went along, but no where near as magical as the servers we have had on previous cruises.
Which is a shame.
The phyllo wrapped entree looks delicious. Fair warning, I'm a disgusting carnivore, like marrow loving carnivore. 
Weird your seafood pasta didn't have seafood. 
no, I'm not a vegetarian any more. I eat fish and some seafood. Mom on the other hand is a complete vegetarian. She was raised that way, and raised us that way. It doesn't bother me at all to see people eat meat, no worries! 
i hope you're able to, theres nothing like relaxing in the spa! I haven't decided whether to buy a Rainforest pass for our cruise yet. We've never really sat and enjoyed the pool because we're always in the spa. I'm thinking if I don't buy a pass it will force me to enjoy the pool more. What to do what to do 
I love thin crusted pizza. How's that grape and gorgonzola pizza at Palo? It looks amazing! I really like that sweet/sour combo. 
They would probably need to send me there every other week.
