Day 5 St. Thomas
Wow was this week flying! Hard to believe we only had a couple days left
, but we were going to make the most of it!
I had called for a wakeup call at 5:45
Hey I'm on vacation here! We had to be in the theatre for INS at 6:30. They finally strolled in going on 7:00. The whole process is relatively painless. They have coffee and muffins/rolls for you. From there we headed to Parrot Cay for the breakfast buffet. I checked my cell phone and I had a signal! I checked my messages (this is the only phone I have I dont have a land phone) and had a birthday one for Baylee from Grandma & Grandpa and another one for her from her daddy. That made her day. I decided not to call my mom yet, as it was only 6:00am in Minnesota,
We headed up top to take the requisite photos of St. Thomas. It really is a beautiful island. Then we headed to Studio Sea and our 8:00 excursion. Today we were doing Coral World and Mountain Top. Left the ship and went to our meeting place where we boarded some open air safari buses. The tour guide was great and explained that they drove on the wrong side of the road, but that we would be okay.
The tour of the island was great. He explained that we would go to Mountain Top first, then on to Coral World. On the way to Mountain Top, we were on some very windy roads and kept climbing and climbing. Keep in mind I am afraid of heights. WOW! What spectacular views, but I started getting antsy and wanted to be away from the road on walking on dry land.
We got to Mountain Top, which is a little shop area and look out over the islands, including St. John. Beautiful view! The shop owners were not pushy at all. We bought a couple souvenirs and got back on the bus and headed to Coral World. Going down was much better than going up.
I had to laugh at this older couple behind me. They mustve been by themselves with no kids. She was telling her husband that she would wait until they got to the Bahamas and do the rest of her shopping. He told her that we werent going to the Bahamas, only
Castaway Cay. She said, surprisingly, We arent? I thought we stopped in Nassau!! No honey, remember I told you about Disney's priviate island? You mean we're not going to Nassau??
They kinda got into a little spat behind us and Baylee was rolling her eyes. I had to chuckle! We got to Coral World and IMHO it was just okay. It seemed a little run down for the price. We walked around and looked at the fish. You couldnt see any sharks because they were hiding. Iguana Alley was very cool. It was very hot and sticky. Baylee started to get whiny because she was so hot. We ended up going to one of the inside exhibits and sitting because there was air conditioning in there. We were to be there only an hour and a half, but to me, it seemed too long. Soon our time was up and we got back on the bus to go back to the ship. Some people got off for the tram and some shopping. I asked Baylee if she wanted to do some shopping and she said no, she would rather go to lunch and the Goofy Pool. Hmmmm
We got back on the ship and went to the room, suited up and headed out. She wanted to eat in Lumieres again. The service and food were great. Did I mention that squirrelgirls DD got Baylee addicted to Shirley Temples? She drank them all week, and they even made their own at the drink station! Anyway, she had TWO at lunch and I called my mom.
Baylees conversation with Grandma:
Baylee: Hi Grandma!
Grandma: Hi pumpkin where are you?
Baylee: Lumieres!
Me: She wants to know WHERE you are
Baylee: But Mom, we ARE at Lumieres
she did end up telling her we were in St. Thomas, eventually. We went up to the Goofy Pool and it was pretty empty. We stayed there a couple hours and I really wanted to do a couple loads of laundry,
so went back to the room. Baylee immediately fell asleep
and I did two loads of laundry. The laundry room was pretty busy. She slept for about an hour and a half. We had decided to skip the dining room tonight and go to Topsiders for dinner. There were a bunch of characters scheduled for pics during the normal TWO HOUR dining time and she didnt want to miss them. We decided to do some character chasing that night. Plus, we really didnt feel like dressing for dinner that night. We chased some characters down for photo ops and actually ran into Pocahontas and Belle (in the blue dress) in the hall and they both stopped for pictures. Baylee had brought an autograph book, but forgot it in the room several times so we just gave up on the autographs. We brought pillowcases to sign anyway, so it wasnt a big deal. I had dropped them off at guest services Saturday night and they were to be delivered to our room Friday night. I wanted to get my pic with Pluto
because hes always been my favorite. He stepped on my foot! The picture is so funny because it looks like Im trying to get away from him. OUCH!
Did that hurt! We headed on up to dinner after that. Actually, on our way to dinner we realized Baylee lost her dolphin bracelet that she bought in St. Martin yesterday somewhere on the ship today. UGH! So we filed a claim with Guest Services. Well see if it shows up.
I had forgotten that Topsiders menu was the same as in the dining room. Lucky for me, they were having porterhouse. Baylee got pizza and fries, and the server had to order the fries from another dining room. The porterhouse was SUPERB! It was so big and it was done the way I asked. I was impressed. They also had salad bar instead of just soup or salad, which was a nice change. There were several people there, but it wasnt crowded at all. We had a table for two and it was really nice. However, if I did this again, I would probably skip Parrot Cay as opposed to Lumieres.
We left with full tummies and headed out to do some more character chasing. Baylee really wanted to try swimming in the Goofy Pool at night, so we went up there to check it out. There was hardly anyone in the pool, so we went down and got our suits on. By the time we got back up there, the pools were closing due to lightning. Baylee was so disappointed!
Now what? We decided to head down and change and see what was going on. There was a High School Musical party in the Promenade that I was trying to talk her into doing. She said no, so we decided to try the Gary DeLena show. We were passing through the Promenade to just check out the party and squirrelgirl and DH were there. They said DD had been there, but left to go to the lab. It wasnt long before Baylee was in the mix of the party and singing away.
She is quite the entertainer! The party was supposed to last until 8:30, so squirrelgirls DH went up to the lab to get DD and they came back down and the party was over! It was disappointing, as it was only 8:00! Their DD wanted to go back to the lab but Baylee didnt want to go, so her and I headed to the show.
I thought Gary DeLena was hilarious.
Baylee was laughing hysterically! After the show, there were a couple more character lines to stand in. I think she was on a mission to get everyones picture. We did end up missing only Daisy Duck, Max and Terk by the end of the cruise. We hit Mickeys Mates and Treasure Ketch. Baylee had her own $$ to spend and picked out the Mickey Mouse Captain plush toy
and a small Pluto
. We then strolled through Shutters. I loved our Captain Jack picture and put it aside, thinking I MIGHT purchase that one. We were exhausted at that point AGAIN and decided to head up to the room. Our towel animal was an elephant and Nova put my sunglasses on it and it was cute. Cant remember what was on TV as we both were sound asleep before our heads hit the pillow.
Next up Day 5 at Sea and Semi-Formal Night
Gorgeous view from Mountan Top
Iguana Alley at Coral World