Dinner and a show

After the sailaway party, it was time to change for dinner. Disney has 3 main restaurants that they use for dining, and you are assigned a rotation of each of these restaurants (and are also free to go to the upper deck buffet, or make a reservation for one of your evenings at Palo, the adults only restaurant). The wait staff travels with you through the rotation, so even though you are eating at different restaurants, you still get the cruise experience of really getting to know your servers. Our first dinner was at Animators Palette, which is a really cool restaurant. The decor in the restaurant starts out all in black and white animation (including the waiters vests), but the dinner show (set to tunes from Disney movies of course) is that the art on the walls changes and lights up during the meal. By the end of dinner, the walls are colorful, and the waiters change to brightly colored vests. Our waiters were Carlos (I think, from Peru) and Putu, from Indonesia (who managed to get Rebecca to eat, better than we did!), and they were awesome.

We started off the meal with specialty cocktails (I can't remember what they were called, but...yum!) I had the Wild Mushroom Risotto with Porcini and Black Bean Chipotle cakes, Andrew had the Ahi Tuna Tartare and the Phyllo wrapped Salmon Fillet. For dessert, we split the Cranberry and Orange Cheesecake and Double Fudge Chocolate Cake.

After dinner, the kids asked to go to the Kids Club, so DH and I took a walk around the ship, enjoying the sun starting to set over the water, and touring the spa where we went the next morning for a massage. Then it was time to pick up the kids for the Golden Mickey's. It's a stage show set up like an awards show where they feature numbers from different movies. You walk up to the theater on the red carpet, where lots of cast members posing as paparazzi pretend to take your picture. They also have someone doing interviews with people who are on their way inside- it's projected on the screen in the theater. Surprisingly, Isabelle didn't want to be interviewd. No flash photographer, and camera display needed to be turned of, so pictures aren't the greatest (but this is the only show I actually brought my camera to!).

When the show ended it was time to head back to the room where our cabin steward had worked his magic on the beds- turning down ours, and leaving chocolate and a towel animal, and transform the couch area into bunk beds.