travels, races, and other musings

We woke up early. Me, because I was in the wrong time zone. I considered going for a workout, but we had planned to take the nature trail and there’s a long walk down the pier from the ship so I decided that was my workout and I would just skip the gym. We had originally wanted to do a sit down breakfast but we were sitting in the room hungry and ready to go at 7:30 AM so we just went up to Marceline instead because it was open, and sit down wouldn’t open for another 30 minutes.  We returned to the room and finished readying ourselves for the day. I wanted to meet Maleficent at 9:15 so we got in line around 9:05 which was already far, far too late. As long as you were in the line by 9:30, you got to meet her. By 10:45 I was finally meeting her. It was a long wait, but I made friends with the folks in front and behind me and Heather contented herself with taking some photos around a less-busy ship. Maleficent was a fabulous meet and well worth the wait. However, if I had it to do ov...

Lookout Cay I woke up at 7:00 AM and went to the gym to see if I could find a space to do a workout. I carved a little space for myself and practiced a Shapes class. Everyone else got up when I was done around 8:00 AM and we all had breakfast in Cabanas before going to the Walt Disney Theatre to see if we could get Emmaline on an earlier golf cart ride down the pier so she could save her joints and energy for walking on the nature trail and doing a little snorkeling. When we had checked the day before, the only slot open was 11:30 AM but they told me that they might be able to accommodate her on an earlier cart if we were willing to wait standby.  When we arrived around 9:15 AM, a group was just leaving and the crew members there said it would absolutely be no problem to get her on an earlier cart. I waited in the theatre with her until they said they had a cart ready and then I met up with Roger and we disembarked together around 9:30 and made the half mile walk from the ship to t...