Today I woke up super early to get laundry started. The light coming from our verandah actually woke me up before my alarm went off which was a little rough as I was tired and not quite adjusted to the time change (1 hour forward). I went down to the laundry room down the hall in my pj’s and the hallways were eerily quiet. I came back to the room and waited for the room service that I had ordered the night before for breakfast. At 7:00 our coffee came, along with milks, juices and pastries. The kids were still sleeping so it was really nice to just sit outside in the quiet and watch the ocean waters. We were about to past Cabo, so everyone was on the look out for dolphins and whales.
Our morning plans included a more filling breakfast for the kids at the buffet, finishing our laundry and just generally being lazy. Matt and I had reservations for brunch at Palo. It had to easily be the best thing we had done yet on board. Free mimosas, unlimited brunch buffet of very high quality food. It was set up in different stations of antipasto, seafood, breads/cheeses, desserts and then a made to order entrée station as well. It was SO good, and we stuffed our tummies full. As we left we were passing Cabo and the arches and it made for some great views.
After Palo we went to get the kids out of the clubs which was good timing because Piper had just started crying and we were getting paged. Apparently she had been having a fun time in her club (the avg age is 4-7 where as Aidan's is 7-10 but you can go to either) but when she went to Aidan's she got kinda lost in the shuffle. At this point I was VERY concerned, as we were to leave them both in the club the next day for an adult only excursion- but more on that later. We went to get Aidan and took a walk up on deck 10 (sun deck) and laid in some loungers for awhile as the kids as ice cream. The sun was starting to finally get really warm (temps in the low 70’s) and people were all sunbathing or in the pools.
It got too hot for the kids and we weren’t wearing sun block so we left deck 10 and headed down to the Promenade family lounge to get drinks for us grown ups and grab a board game to play, but Aidan wasn’t having it so we went back to the room for a bit.
The kids did their homework and I enjoyed our verandah and the sun. After that the kids were watching a movie and I fell asleep face down on the couch, legs up on top of the arm rests. I will blame this on the early start of the day and the sun and not on the 2 mimosas and drink of the day right before this nap…
Matt woke me up at 5:30 (a 2 hr nap or so) and I was a little cranky…we had dinner at 5:45 and we all still needed to get ready. Oh well. I got the kids ready, threw myself together and was still really out of it as we walked down to our second night in Parrot’s Cay restaurant. The food was great (as always) and the kids only wanted entrees- no dessert. Despite Piper’s kid club meltdown she happily agreed to go play in her club for a bit. I ran the kids up to their respective clubs while we were waiting for our main course. It was nice to come back and just have a quiet dinner and dessert with Matt for once.
After dinner we went back to our room, got a glass of wine and headed down to the shops sans kids to look around. At 8:00 we went and got the kiddos from their clubs and both were having a good time. Piper had gotten her face painted and had story time with Belle (the princess came in and read to them) and Aidan had been doing his usual video games/computer time. We walked down towards the main theater and popped back into the shops where we got beach balls for our Cabo beach day and each kid bought a big plush Stitch (Lilo and Stitch). We went and got seats for tonight’s show- a comedy/hypnosis show with Ricky Kalmon who is apparently very famous and sought after as far as hypnotists go. The show was really funny and pretty Disney orientated (guy thinking his shoe was baby Simba and announcing him to the pride, people thinking they are Hannah Montana, guy thinking he was a seven dwarf, etc). Aidan really loved it and P once again nearly fell asleep during the show.
Afterward we went right back to the room where P took a bath and Aidan took a shower. P wanted room service which I happily ordered for her but she fell asleep a couple minutes later. Matt and I ate it though, and watched Beauty and the Beast on tv. I crashed pretty much right after that (I’m writing this the next morning).
PHOTOS OF TODAY (#1-#6) at: http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj194/mom2aidannpiper/Disney%20Cruise%20Days%203%20and%204/
No comments:
Post a Comment