Day 4 Part 2
Okay, looking at my pics again, Kira did the FE gift delivering later on in the day. The pics I used were from Rob's phone so they were not in MY iPhone folder so I had done them separate and apparently jumped the gun
What I can say though is that today was a huge FE day. I would say more than half of the gifts were delivered before dinner which is why I asked Rob and Kira to start delivering ours.
I am so glad we did FE this time, Kira had the BEST time getting all her little gifts and delivering them too. I almost didn't do the FE because I was pretty late to the ball and because the last time we did it, it was too much for me. It took up way too much room in our suitcase, there and back and we had 20 rooms to buy/deliver for and it ended up being too much work for me. I actually didn't participate for the FE gifts on our last family cruise in 2013 because of those reasons but we have some amazing friends named Nancy & Chuck, who were on that cruise with us and they delivered some gifts to our door for Kira every single day
Here she is with her two faves...
Better view...
I think I grabbed me some lunch just about then
Kira hated that the bun always came apart when they toasted it but it didn't bother me
Their fries are always so good!!!
After dropping her off at her club, we headed down to Crown & Fin for the
Castaway Club reception party. I don't think I've made it to one of those since 2005!
We had a chat with some officers and then Captain Robert talked for a bit.
Rob had to leave early because Kira paged us to be picked up.
But I got one of these on the way out for Kira...
Which she devoured immediately!
This is when I had a little chat with Kira. I asked her if she would like to have check-in/out privileges for the club. I told her that it would be much faster getting in and out of the clubs for her and she wouldn't have to wait for us to come and get her.
She was STOKED about the whole thing!
I asked her if she was comfortable getting to and from the clubs from our room on her own and she said yes. She was very sure of herself and promised me she would be okay. I told her that we would do it together, letting her guide me before I made my final decision. I know most people have no problem letting their kids run around the ship alone, trust me, we saw it ALL week long but my kid is a bit of a chicken and I was just worried about her getting lost
At the same time, she enjoys her freedom and I knew she would have a better time if she could do it on her own.
Kira and I headed to the pool, she was desperate to try the slide!
She did it twice, both with about 10-15 minute waits and then she was done waiting in lines...just like her mother
She wanted to go into the family pool but it was very crowded and she couldn't actually swim, so she got bored fast!
Rob joined us and was hungry so I sent him to the buffet as he enjoys a lot of variety. Told him to meet us out on the pool deck but he didn't think you were allowed to bring the buffet food/plates out of Cabanas.
The line for hot dogs was very long and she didn't want to wait in it so I suggested we go to the buffet but she didn't have her swim cover up on and I didn't want to bring her into Cabanas in a swim suit. I know a lot of people do it but it doesn't make it right
We waited until Rob was done and then I went into Cabanas to see if I could find something she would like but there wasn't much of her kind of food.
She gobbled up what I brought her and she was full, she did have a rice crispy bar just before swimming, after all
I think I mixed this part up too because we swam AFTER shopping. Getting old sucks
Oh well, who cares
Nancy & Chuck had sent us an on-board credit so we let Kira spend it all
Can anyone guess what she got??
Bueller?
One of her purchases is here on the counter...
The lady at the Star Wars shop was awesome and asked Kira for her "signature"
Then we checked out the portholes
Apparently one of these portholes, I think maybe even this particular one broke on our last At Sea day. I don't know the details but I read about it on our FB group page and I had noticed that it was covered up behind curtains that day.
Here she is with one of her purchases...notice the new addition?
There's actually two new Stitchs in this pic, the smaller one is behind the big one
Going back, I asked her to find our stateroom all on her own....which she did, with a small amount of guidance from her momma.
This totally helped!
I made her take me to the club with zero directions from me, and asked her how to get back to our room and she did great so we dropped her off at the Club and gave her check-in/out privileges!
I gotta tell ya, this was NOT something I was prepared for but it ended up being a great thing! I was super nervous at first but after a few times I was happy with my decision.
There were some rules...with great power comes great responsibility
Rules we gave her:
1-You must ask the CM at check-out to send us a message saying you are checking out.
2- You must go directly back to the room, always!
3- We will head to the room when we see the message, stay in the room until we get there.
4- Do not go on the verandah or leave room.
That was pretty much it, for now
It was quite funny because the messages sent from the YA CM's were sent to both the messages part of the app AND the wave phones but the messages from the wave phones always came through WAY later, so most of the time the wave phone would vibrate/ring after she was already back in the stateroom
She did great honestly, she only broke one rule, one time and that was the last day when she forgot to ask the CM to send us a message but she came back to the room right away and we were there anyway.
As the days passed, we gave her some more independence, which she was THRILLED with and actually helped us all have a better cruise
Well I hope now that you're on board the Wonder it was smmooooth sailing from hereon in ;-)
