At Sea

We woke up feeling quite a bit better, but still pretty red and sore. Unfortunately, our two big plans for the day had been visiting the Vista Spa (the Rainforest Room- heated massagers and different saunas) and hanging out by the pool. So both of those things were out! Instead, we had a quiet morning, exploring the ship some more, playing shuffleboard and meeting characters. Andrew and I sat in the shade watching an ice carving demonstration while the kids made chocolate chip cookies in the kids club. (We also enjoyed a kid free lunch at the Beach Blanket Buffet, while they ate with the kids club).

After that, the movie theater was having an encore showing of Up (in 3-D!) so we were excited to have a second chance to see it. We all really enjoyed it (although it was very sad at parts :( ), and Rebecca spent the next day asking us to buy her Doug (the dog from the movie).

THen it was time to go back and change for dinner. Our last evening was at Triton's, which is probably the most elegant of the resturants. I started off with Escargots Gratines (and shared some with Andrew who decided they counted more like seafood or poultry, than meat :) ), and the Market Salad (with yummy peppered goat cheese!) and Andrew and the girls had Tomato-Basil soup (Andrew loved his- it was a bit too seasoned for the girls taste). For main course I had the 3 Cheese Lobster Macaroni, and Andrew had the Seared Sea Bass. We were getting full, but not full enough to skip dessert! We shared again- Andrew orderd the Grand Marnier Souffle, and I got the Sweet Temptations (small servings of Creme Brulee, Chocolate Mousse and Praline Petite Choux (pastry filled with Hazelnut cream). And at the end of the meal, Putu made more origami- a fish for Rebecca and a jumping frog (which was much fought over!) for Isabelle.

We had some time before the show, and, since we hadn't really gone to much of the entertainment, decided to go to the lounge, where they were having How Well Do You Know Your Disney Music? (which seemed like a perfect choice, since I'd been quizzing everyone on the music playing at Animator's Palette when we ate there.) They had a pianist play a few bars of various music from movies, theme parks, shows. Some of them were really easy (It's a Small World), and some were really hard (a bit from the Broadway version of Beauty and the Beast). They also had bonus questions (who was the actress that played the male lead in the show this comes from?), so there were 15 songs, but 40+ possible points. Our family ended up in a 3 way tie, and, after the bonus questions, tied (twice!) with another family. So they declared us both winners, and gave us a gold medal, and a hat that said Winner (which was a big hit the rest of the evening).

The final stage show was Disney Dreams....An Enchanted Classic. It was a really awesome show...until un unscheduled stop due to technical difficulties. The performance has bits where actors and props rise from below stage...and part of the mechanism failed, leaving a gaping whole in the stage where the cast was supposed to be dancing. While they fixed it, they had kids in the audience volunteer to come up and sing. Once again- Isabelle was unexpectedly shy, and had finally considered going up...when they fixed it. The cast was really professional, and didn't seem flustered at all by the unexpected break. I was glad to see the end of the show, and we finished in time to get to Until We Meet Again, where they brought out all of the characters (including Peter Pan and Anne Marie- the stars of Disney Dreams) to have a last appearance and sign autographs.

It was a lot of fun- we hadn't caught up with a couple of the characters before, and since Rebecca was wearing the Winner hat the whole time, everyone made an extra big deal over them. After getting the autographs, Andrew took the girls back for bed, and some frantic last minute packing (since luggage had to be out by 11, and it was 10:30- although, in all fairness, we were mostly packed), while I stuck around to get a final photo of the entire cast (and to pick up some pixie dust- Mickey shaped confetti that they dropped from the ceiling).