3-night Cruise on the Disney Dream & WDW - Day 3 - Castaway Cay, er, maybe not, Sea Day!
Castaway Cay Sea Day!
The plan was to get up at 7:15, get breakfast at Cabanas at 7:30, go back to the room and regroup, and then be at Marge’s Barges for our Walking and Kayak Port Adventure at 9:00. As we anticipated, the weather had other plans and so ours changed too. I woke up at 7:15 and I could feel the ship rocking, and hear the rain pelting and the wind howling. I knew pretty much instantly we weren’t docking. So we sort of relaxed in bed for a little while before we got ourselves up to breakfast.
On the way to breakfast a lady in the elevator said, “That was an insane storm last night wasn’t it?! Lightning and thunder and wind!” All three of us just sort of stared at her. We slept through the whole thing. We were wrapping up breakfast around 8:30 when Captain Jason came over the speakers and gave us the news that we wouldn’t be docking. I figured. But the people in their swimsuits at the table next to us looked absolutely dejected. I really felt badly for them. He said that we would attempt to sail toward better weather and that the cruise director would be making announcements soon about added entertainment, which he did, informing us of all sorts of added activities like extra movie showings (including Dr. Strange in the big Walt Disney Theatre) among other things.
I felt pretty good about our chances for docking the next day. The weather looked like it was going to be much better and I knew they would want to try to dock. We were still just happy to be sailing and on vacation (and we have cruises with CC on the schedule next month and next February), but I really hoped for all those families for whom this was their only chance.
After breakfast we went back to the room to ready ourselves for a day at sea (and per the cruise director, we refreshed our apps to see what entertainment offerings were added). Emmaline wanted to do a little shopping first, so we went down and checked out the shops. Then at 10 AM Emmaline went to Edge to see what activities they would have there for the day. They don’t load the Edge schedule into the app (which is really annoying) so she would have to go take a photo of it with her phone every day. And apparently they were a little late opening, probably because they were trying to rearrange and figure out what they were going to do now that it was a sea day. At 10:15 Roger and I decided to try our hand at Disney Parks Trivia, even though we are generally terrible at trivia. District Lounge was MOBBED with standing room only when we arrived 10 minutes early and more people just kept showing up. They really needed to have that one in a bigger venue because it was popular. It got super hot in there and it was really hard to write trivia on a piece of paper while standing up. We got exactly half the questions right. Like other trivia on DCL, some of the questions are super weird and specific.
Emmaline joined up with us and we all stayed for the next activity which was a craft at 11 AM (most people left so we were able to sit down). We colored some little wooden nautical things that we stuck magnets on the back of. I got a ship wheel, Roger had an anchor, and Emmaline colored a mermaid. At 11:30 we went back to the room and regrouped and since we wanted to make the 12:45 showing of Dr. Strange. We decided to go ahead and go to lunch so we wouldn’t have to rush. We made our way to Cabana’s to eat, but they weren’t open until noon so we just hung around awkwardly until they opened.
We quickly finished lunch and Roger and I went to the Walt Disney Theatre to watch Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. We had originally had this planned for the showing in the Buena Vista Theatre on our sea day, but we were happy to see it in the Walt Disney Theatre. While the two of us were at the movie, Emmaline went to Edge for a while and then went swimming, did some karaoke, and went to the Goofy sports deck with some friends she met in Edge.
After the movie, Roger and I went up and got some coffee and relaxed in Cove Cafe. Then we went back to the room and I made some notes for my trip report before we went and got a few snacks on the pool deck. Emmaline eventually made her way back to the room around 5:15 after her busy day with her new friends and showered before we went to the show, Beauty and the Beast. We had never seen this one before and wow, what an incredible show! We were all really in awe of this production. Everything about it was super great! So much about the staging and sets were so creative and innovative. We were all blown away. At the show, the cruise director told us that we might make another attempt at docking at CC. It was heavy on the “maybe” and “might” and “possibly.” We were all impressed with how incredibly noncommittal he was.
Between the show and dinner we would have normally had the first part of the pirate festivities. It was, in fact, pirate night, but we opted not to get all dressed up. We also had so much other baggage, with this vacation being both cruise and parks, and it just felt like more than I wanted to deal with. We just wore some themed t-shirts instead. Anyway, at some point in the evening, we were informed that the pirate deck party and fireworks were canceled because we were sailing back into the terrible weather. For the most part, the captain had been able to sail us out of the terrible weather, but we were done making donuts and had to start sailing back the other way.
So instead, we continued our game of Midship Detective Agency. After playing that for a bit (we still weren’t done - this one was long!), we went to pirate trivia. We also lost spectacularly at pirate trivia, as per usual. At one point the chipmunks accidentally crashed the trivia, which was pretty funny. I love those kinds of spontaneous moments. Then we went to dinner, this time in Royal Palace. Thankfully, being a 3-night, we got the Royal Palace menu instead of the pirate menu as none of us are fans of the pirate menu. Dinner was lovely (I think this is everyone’s favorite menu) and after dinner we played some more Midship Detective until it was time for bed.
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