Disney Magic - Halloween on the High Seas 5-night cruise - Day 2 - At Sea

-

Saturday October 24 - At Sea

I wasn’t sure I was going to like being at sea but as it happened I really liked it. There were so many things to do on board the ship. It was impossible to do everything we wanted to do. After breakfast at Cabanas we started our day in the pools. I took Emmaline to the pool while Roger headed to deck 4 to check out the running track. After he was done running, he came to the pool and I headed up to try out the Aquadunk, a water slide for those over 48 inches tall (so, not Emmaline). You stand upright in the chute and after a countdown, a trap door opens under your feet and you plunge straight down, go around a curve and end about 10 (adrenaline filled) seconds later. The view from up there was lovely and that’s about all I have to say about that slide.



After that, we showered and changed and went to Cabanas for lunch before heading back to the room to change Emmaline into her Halloween costume for room to room trick or treat at 1 PM. This was not a ship-organized activity, but instead something that I organized on the Facebook meetup group. Roger took her to the staterooms that had signed up while I stayed behind and handed out candy. The trick or treating wrapped up at around 1:30 and then we relaxed in our room for awhile before Roger and I put on our costumes for the Halloween party in the atrium.

The Halloween party in the atrium was INSANE. There were too many people in too small a space. We couldn’t get from candy station to candy station, and forget playing the games that they had set up. Impossible. It was sort of disappointing. Evidently the earlier party was much less crowded. During the party, quite a few people complimented our costumes and we posed for photos with a little boy who was also dressed as Link.



After the insane party, we went back the room and relaxed for a little bit before heading down to the atrium to have photos taken in our Halloween costumes. Then we attended the second show of our cruise, “Twice Charmed,” which was a Cinderella themed show in which Cinderella’s step sisters go back in time and try to prevent Cinderella from ending up with the prince. It was actually a clever show and the production was very well done. Between our show and dinner we participated in pin trading with the officers of the ship before our dinner seating. Emmaline was happy to trade all the pins that she had brought with her that she no longer wanted.

Dinner for the evening was in Carioca’s. Unfortunately, this was my least favorite restaurant, theme-wise and my least favorite food. I don’t even remember what I had - it was that memorable. Roger was similarly un-enthusiastic about his dishes. After dinner, it was time for the Halloween festivities for the grown-ups. We took Emmaline to the kid’s club where she had her own Halloween party there. We headed to Fathoms (the nightclub) for an adult-only act by the ventriloquist/comedian we saw a preview of the night before. It was standing room only, but we still thoroughly enjoyed the show. It was absolutely hilarious. She was great. After that, it was time for the costume contest. All the contestants came to the floor and danced to techno versions of Halloween songs while crew members wandered through the crowd selecting the finalists. If you got a card, you were a finalist. I was handed a card right away. Hooray!



We continued to boogie while other people got cards (or didn’t) and a crew member dressed as Captain America came up to us and told us how amazing our costumes were and he was really hoping we would win. He told us how much he loved Legend of Zelda and how awesome we looked. It was very flattering and I knew that no matter what happened with the contest, our costumes were appreciated by those that knew who we were.

After this, finalists in each category was ushered up on stage. We were in the “Most Original” category along with several other couples: a bride and groom, bellhops from the Tower of Terror ride, and an older couple dressed as servers from Animator’s Palate. The audience cheered for their favorite. Bride and groom turned out to actually BE a bride and groom, having gotten married on the ship earlier in the day. So…not really costumes. They didn’t get many cheers. Tower of Terror couple were up next, they got a lot of cheers. Then us, we got some good cheering, but clearly not as many as Tower of Terror couple. Then it was Animator’s couple and people went wild. I guess it pays to dress in something Disney themed and specifically Disney Cruise themed. So the cute little old couple got the big prize of the genuine gold plastic trophy. They were cute so I wasn’t bitter.

By this time, it was late (like 11 PM late) and Emmaline was still at the club so we picked her up and headed to bed.

Click here for Day 3. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

10-Night France, Iceland, and Norway Cruise - Day 7 At Sea

-
Image
At Sea It’s another day at sea. And this time without laundry (don’t worry, more laundry is coming). Which is good because the day was jam-packed with activities we wanted to do. I woke up at 6:30 and headed to the gym. I found a tiny little piece of real estate and I did a BODYCOMBAT. I had already started learning the chorey for the next release I would be teaching and I knew it somewhat and so I put on the masterclass and listened, but didn’t watch (there really wasn’t any way to watch anyway). I’m sure people thought I was a weirdo punching and kicking in a little corner. It wouldn't be the last time I'd eke out a little corner to punch nothing for an hour. After that I went back to the room and showered and put on my pajamas. Yes, my pajamas. It was time for our FB cruise meet group pajama breakfast. We all descended on Royal Palace at 8 AM decked out in our jammies for breakfast. It was a lot of fun and some families went all out in matching PJs. Emmaline ate breakfast wi
Read more

Fitness Instructor Journey, Part 4: Unbreakable

-
Image
It's been one year since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Not that this is something to celebrate, but it's going to be a hard day to forget for the rest of my life. As I've said previously, I'm not an "everything happens for a reason" person but I do find that sometimes the course of our lives can shift in unexpected ways when we face great challenges.  As I stood on the podium this morning to teach my BODYCOMBAT class, I couldn't help but reflect on the fact that if I had not faced the challenge of having cancer, I likely would not have ever become a BODYCOMBAT institutor. Taking that journey was far outside my comfort zone and not something I ever thought I would do.  When I started working for Fitness Connection 5 years ago, I took a BODYPUMP class for the first time and immediately fell in love with it. I loved the music and how it made me feel. I had a big goofy grin on my face the whole class. I also took a BODYCOMBAT class. I did not love it. I
Read more

10-Night France, Iceland, and Norway Cruise - Day 8 Reykjavik, Iceland

-
Image
Reykjavik About a month before we were supposed to set sail someone posted in our FB cruise meet group that there was an issue with the dock at Isafjordur (our second stop in Iceland). They were dredging the harbor to create a new dock that could accommodate larger ships, like the Disney Dream. But apparently it wasn’t ready and a lot of ships were having to cancel that stop. Some of the smaller ships were able to use tenders.  We kept waiting to hear what would happen and we were hopeful, but then, with less than a week before we were set to leave, we got an email from DCL that the port was cancelled and unfortunately, they were unable to secure an alternative port for us. We were really unhappy about it. The cruise already had more sea days than we really wanted and now we were getting another.  I was scrambling to figure out how to get the horseback riding that Emmaline really wanted to do tacked onto another port day. Ultimately, we decided we had the most time in Reykjavik and we
Read more