Day 4 Part 1
Sorry, life sometimes gets in the way of trip reporting
I edited a whole schwack of photos on the weekend, found out that there were some photos from Rob's iPhone that didn't download to my computer!
Thankfully there was only 1 that I had wanted to add to my report so far, our family selfie from when we sailed away. I added that in since it's one of our traditions
Okay, now onto our first morning of the cruise and our first at sea day. I don't take as many photos on sea days so I might not remember some stuff or more than likely, I will remember it but it will be in the wrong order. Ugh, sea days, right?
The first thing we always do is check out our balcony
Then we got showered and dressed and headed up to Cabanas for breakfast. We love to sit outside at the back, the temperature was perfect and we even found a table in the shade!
As we were eating, I noticed Sasha was there. Sasha is a little famous here on the DIS, he's been around a lot and is really good at what he does. We should know, he was our server on our very first cruise on the Magic way back in 2002!
Pictured below, along with our equally fabulous assistant server, Atilla.
I got to talk to him for a bit while Rob and Kira were grabbing their food. I actually had spotted him in the dining room the night before so I asked him why he was no longer in Palo. I remember that he had broken his arm years ago and rotated out of Palo but that was a loooong time ago, surely he was back.
I honestly can't remember the details but I think he said he was headed back to Palo very soon. It was good to see him but I didn't want to keep him long and then Kira and Rob had arrived back to the table.
We enjoyed our breakfast but I was sad that the Wonder didn't have any breakfast ham like the Fantasy did.
I grabbed some bacon but I don't care for cruise bacon.
Also, they didn't have the over easy eggs on the buffet either. I did find some later on in the cruise but they were more like over medium or more and I didn't care for them.
Walking past the ice cream place, Kira asked if she could get one. HAHAHA Why not, we're on vacation, right?
Back to the room where we found this little piece of pixie dust. (The bag, not the fidget cube)
This was inside...so cute!!!
It was from our neighbours (whom I never saw the entire cruise! Either one!)
The card said we were pixie dusted. Since we joined so late and I was just lazy, I decided not to join the FE group this time. Instead, I got some things for Kira that I kind of snuck into our FE when she wasn't looking
One of them was that fidget cube.
I had some extra Canadian Chocolate bars so I filled the bag up and then regifted them the bag
We went back to our room for a bit. Spent some time on the balcony I think. Look, perfect weather!
We watched the Good Morning show on the TV, which I highly recommend doing every morning, especially if you are new to cruising. Very informative and entertaining.
Kira and I went down to the shops for a bit to peek at the merchandise more. It had been really busy the night before so not easy to look at stuff.
On the way back, we passed by our room we had last Christmas and told her to pose in front of it. As you can see, she wasn't too keen on it LOL! She was worried about someone coming out
Back to our room, she found some little goodies in the FE
I think we watched some TV and then got some lunch from Pete's for Kira and I to eat back in the room.
I don't have pics of Rob's lunch and I know he likes Cabanas for lunch so I am sure we went there for him too, somewhere in there.
Kira watching another ship go by.
We also did some laundry that day. We had some issues with the dryer. It didn't work the first time. It moved around but there was no heat. Then I put it in a different dryer after and while it had heat, the laundry was still wet after the first cycle so I had to put it in for a second one! Such a pain now because you have to buy credits from the machine and then use those credits at the machines.
Also, deck 6 laundry was stupid busy!! I ran up to deck 7 and the laundry room there was WAY bigger and there was no one there!
So, tip # 1, if you have laundry to do, use the launderette on deck 7 and tip #2, don't do laundry on Formal Night, because everyone else seems to do it then too.
Detour outside to enjoy the deck
Rob actually got some reading done on this cruise, a luxury he doesn't have much time for these days.
We went to see Coco in the Walt Disney Theatre at 2pm. We knew it would be playing on the ship so we didn't go see it in the theatre.
It was a fantastic movie and Kira and I were both balling in the end. If you've ever lost someone special in your life, you will probably ball like a baby like us! Kira was sad because she still misses our dog, Lilo (and Stitch too but Lilo was just a couple of years ago so it's still kind of fresh) and for me, it was my parents.
We prompted Kira to check out the kids clubs but she was not having it. She went exactly ONE time on the cruise and only because we made her
To me, it's such a waste but hey, it's her cruise too so I guess she will do what makes her happy. I think she was really missing the Detective Agency, Goofy Golf and the Aquaduck!
Tonight was formal night and Rob had mentioned that he wanted to get a formal pic done in the Atrium. I'm not big on getting these pics anymore because the lines are always atrocious plus I am cheap and I hate paying $20 USD for a less than spectacular photo
Since we were on early dining, I knew it would be a mad house in between the two dining times so I made sure we did it before our dinner, which worked out way better!
The only nice family photo we got last Christmas was in front of the tree that sits in front of the Buena Vista Theatre, so I wanted to recreate the shot.
We only did that one last year because the lines were ridiculous!
A kind CM took this one for us.
And then we headed down to deck 3 to get a pic in front of the tree and the gingerbread house. I snapped a couple while waiting in line and I just love them.
I'm a little biased though, considering the subjects
Here's the ones I took...
It was so dark in front of the GB house, only the professional pics really turned out.
Here are the two that we bought. I would like them a lot better if they weren't slightly blurry
Oh and can I just say that I hate the poses that they make you do?
There was actually one really beautiful one of Kira that they took, in front of the tree but the composition just sucked! About a third of the photo was the carpet! So dumb! If they had just tilted the camera up a bit and got the tree in the photo instead of the carpet, it would have been perfect!
We actually had some time to kill before dinner since the lines weren't as long as I had expected them to be. A nice CM demanded that he took this one of us
While we waited for Triton's to open, I snapped this one...
Especially since you've seen most of the shows.
So glad you've started another one.
