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Sea days are just so relaxing!
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- Sep 8, 2006
Day 14, May 11
Day at Sea
Dress Code: Semi Formal
Dinner Menu: Taste of California
Show: Disney Theatrical: Gavin Lee
Weather: Cloudy, 78°F/26°C
Today's Navigator can be found here.
Today was Mothers Day. But I am not a mother, so for me it was nothing special. And my own mother is not very interested in it either, so I did not have to worry about that. But I have a nice Mothers Day story!
It was also the second of the four sea days and we were getting into a routine of being lazy on the ship!
Once again I was up halfway early and got some tea to go to the Cruise Directors Morning Show at 8:30am. Today it was quite funny as Ashley had arranged with the producers of the show that she was going to call her mother from the ship to wish her a Happy Mothers Day. Her Mother was pleasantly surprised and they chatted for two or three minutes. It was really rather sweet. It made me realise how isolated those people working on a cruise ship really are from the general world. While Ashleys mother was pleasantly surprised, Jimmy was surprised as well but not pleased about it that Ashley now was the loving, caring child. And he was not. So, he decided that he needed to call and surprise his mother as well. When his mother answered the phone he told her that her favourite son was wishing her a Happy Mothers Day and she was at first really baffled and then asked: Peter, is that you? We got a good laugh out of that and once she realised that it was not Jimmys brother, but Jimmy calling her, she was quite happy, too.
Jimmy also liked to ask trivia questions during the show and there was a promise that people could win something. Today he asked about which country had the southern most capital in the world. In case you want to try to guess yourself, the answer is in white:
I ended up guessing this correct and after the show Ashley asked for my room number and said I would get some prize.
After the morning show I headed to Beach Blanket for some breakfast and while passing through took some pictures of Shutters, the place where you buy the pictures taken by the onboard photographers.
interesting carpet:
This area was only added during the last dry dock in January. I think it is a great improvement and looked very nice!
Today I went for a bit of a different breakfast:
As you can tell by the fog on the lens, the weather had improved and I was eating outside. After my breakfast I headed to my new favourite spot: deck 4 to read. I had read on the Navigator that they had a character meet with Cinderella, Suzy and Perla and decided that I wanted to go there. The line was really short and I quickly got my picture and then returned outside to deck 4.
At some point I met up with Michael. We wanted to go to another talk by George Scribner at 1pm, so we got an early lunch at Tritons before that.
Here is todays menu:
Michael had the Cream of Cauliflower Soup:
And then the Whole-Grain BLT:
I had the Cajun Spiced Ahi-Tuna with Romaine Leaves, Avocado, Hard-Boiled Egg and Louisiana Hot Sauce:
This was a great dish! But the hot sauce lived up to its name and was really spicy!
After lunch it was time to listen to George Scribner about the Making of the Gran Fiesta Tour at Epcot:
Theater shot:
He worked on that attraction as well and told us a lot of the process again and how they made the little animated sequences with the Three Caballerors. He talked about how Donald is such a well loved character by the animators and that it is considered a high honour to be allowed to draw Donald.
This is a picture of Walt and Lillian visiting Mexico:
Here is a picture of when they were filming on location in Mexico. All the films were done in Mexico city:
I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of this ride, I would prefer something that shows more of Mexican culture. But I also thought the ride was horribly dated before its refurbishment. I just wish they had taken the old ride into modern times, instead of adding characters.
We had a lazy afternoon, certainly spent some time at the pool. I also had some cake form the Cove Café:
I have no idea what this was, but it was delicious. It had some kind of buttery caramel taste. It was one of my favourite things to eat on the cruise! I am glad I did not find it until the second half of the cruise, who knows how many I would have eaten otherwise!
I also got a chicken strip as a snack at some point:
In the afternoon we headed to the stateroom and I was just about to leave again when I realised that we had a pretty large bag hanging from our fish. My prize had been delivered. I unpacked it and this is what I got:
A re-usable shopping bag (which I really use here at home!), a water bottle, a hat, a key chain and a note book. Michael got the hat I think he never wore it as he loved that DVC hat! In all our pictures he looks like the walking DVC commercial with that hat!!!
It seems that I used the opportunity and also took a picture of the map of our cruise on the stateroom TV:
And a view out of our obstructed window:
Up next: A Taste of California
Day at Sea
Dress Code: Semi Formal
Dinner Menu: Taste of California
Show: Disney Theatrical: Gavin Lee
Weather: Cloudy, 78°F/26°C
Today's Navigator can be found here.
Today was Mothers Day. But I am not a mother, so for me it was nothing special. And my own mother is not very interested in it either, so I did not have to worry about that. But I have a nice Mothers Day story!
It was also the second of the four sea days and we were getting into a routine of being lazy on the ship!
Once again I was up halfway early and got some tea to go to the Cruise Directors Morning Show at 8:30am. Today it was quite funny as Ashley had arranged with the producers of the show that she was going to call her mother from the ship to wish her a Happy Mothers Day. Her Mother was pleasantly surprised and they chatted for two or three minutes. It was really rather sweet. It made me realise how isolated those people working on a cruise ship really are from the general world. While Ashleys mother was pleasantly surprised, Jimmy was surprised as well but not pleased about it that Ashley now was the loving, caring child. And he was not. So, he decided that he needed to call and surprise his mother as well. When his mother answered the phone he told her that her favourite son was wishing her a Happy Mothers Day and she was at first really baffled and then asked: Peter, is that you? We got a good laugh out of that and once she realised that it was not Jimmys brother, but Jimmy calling her, she was quite happy, too.
Jimmy also liked to ask trivia questions during the show and there was a promise that people could win something. Today he asked about which country had the southern most capital in the world. In case you want to try to guess yourself, the answer is in white:
I ended up guessing this correct and after the show Ashley asked for my room number and said I would get some prize.
After the morning show I headed to Beach Blanket for some breakfast and while passing through took some pictures of Shutters, the place where you buy the pictures taken by the onboard photographers.
interesting carpet:
This area was only added during the last dry dock in January. I think it is a great improvement and looked very nice!
Today I went for a bit of a different breakfast:
As you can tell by the fog on the lens, the weather had improved and I was eating outside. After my breakfast I headed to my new favourite spot: deck 4 to read. I had read on the Navigator that they had a character meet with Cinderella, Suzy and Perla and decided that I wanted to go there. The line was really short and I quickly got my picture and then returned outside to deck 4.
At some point I met up with Michael. We wanted to go to another talk by George Scribner at 1pm, so we got an early lunch at Tritons before that.
Here is todays menu:
Michael had the Cream of Cauliflower Soup:
And then the Whole-Grain BLT:
I had the Cajun Spiced Ahi-Tuna with Romaine Leaves, Avocado, Hard-Boiled Egg and Louisiana Hot Sauce:
This was a great dish! But the hot sauce lived up to its name and was really spicy!
After lunch it was time to listen to George Scribner about the Making of the Gran Fiesta Tour at Epcot:
Theater shot:
He worked on that attraction as well and told us a lot of the process again and how they made the little animated sequences with the Three Caballerors. He talked about how Donald is such a well loved character by the animators and that it is considered a high honour to be allowed to draw Donald.
This is a picture of Walt and Lillian visiting Mexico:
Here is a picture of when they were filming on location in Mexico. All the films were done in Mexico city:
I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of this ride, I would prefer something that shows more of Mexican culture. But I also thought the ride was horribly dated before its refurbishment. I just wish they had taken the old ride into modern times, instead of adding characters.
We had a lazy afternoon, certainly spent some time at the pool. I also had some cake form the Cove Café:
I have no idea what this was, but it was delicious. It had some kind of buttery caramel taste. It was one of my favourite things to eat on the cruise! I am glad I did not find it until the second half of the cruise, who knows how many I would have eaten otherwise!
I also got a chicken strip as a snack at some point:
In the afternoon we headed to the stateroom and I was just about to leave again when I realised that we had a pretty large bag hanging from our fish. My prize had been delivered. I unpacked it and this is what I got:
A re-usable shopping bag (which I really use here at home!), a water bottle, a hat, a key chain and a note book. Michael got the hat I think he never wore it as he loved that DVC hat! In all our pictures he looks like the walking DVC commercial with that hat!!!
It seems that I used the opportunity and also took a picture of the map of our cruise on the stateroom TV:
And a view out of our obstructed window:
Up next: A Taste of California
I gained so much during this vacation... It was kind of embarrassing!
Well, the morning after the sleepover had a funny episode in the Morning Show. The officer responsible for organising the characters was called Drew, he was not very tall and looked so young. Ashley had mentioned on the second Morning Show that some guest had made a comment as he had seen Drew, Ashley and Jimmy together about whether Drew was their son since they were all dressed in matching outfits. So, after the sleepover Jimmy and Ashley got a call during the Morning Show from a CM from the kids clubs telling them that they have failed to pick up their son Drew on time, scolding them for forgetting all about him. Shortly thereafter, Drew came storming in, dressed as a kid, all excited about how wonderful the sleepover was and what kind of mischief he had been up to etc. It was a lot of fun. I really had the impressions that the CM were really enjoying doing stuff like that because they had the time for it and it was fun for them as well.
