Here are the scanned Personal Navigators for today.
Clay was up early today and in a bad mood. Got me up at 6:30am. Clay walked deck 4 this morning instead of on a treadmill. 3 laps equals one mile, proving this is a big ship. He says the proper direction is counterclockwise and it comes with some sharp corners and an incline. Yesterday the gym opened about 10 minutes late and had about 50 people lined up for it and no wipes out to clean your equipment. Clay was pretty unhappy about that.
Clay did a small load of whites this morning. Twenty-three minutes to wash and lots of machines available. But, 44 minutes to dry, so no machines available. We just hung them up around the cabin. $1 to wash and I brought our own detergent. You use your KTTW to pay for everything in the laundry room. (In hindsight, we should have just packed to be prepared to hand wash and hang to dry everything, because you couldn't find an available machine except in the wee hours of the night, unless it was during port hours which I didn't try. Given the amount and size of luggage we saw come onboard, we were both shocked at the volume of people constantly competing for machines in the laundry room. It was a few doors down and across the hall, so we could keep a pretty close eye on it and it was always packed or out of service. Not good for people like us that came on a 15-night cruise with only carry on bags! Since we packed light with the plan of doing laundry every 5 to 7 days, we had to improvise a little to get through the trip! Oh, well.)
WDT show tonight is Comedy and Magic of Mike Super again. Maybe we'll make it to that this time.
I guess the skies have been really clear as they've been having stargazing every night!
At 11am Captain Fabian Dib from Argentina was signing things in the Treasure Ketch shop. We each had t-shirts signed and Clay again did not have a camera on him, so Bob missed a photo with the ship's Captain!
We had lunch outside too. I had 3 small pizza slices and a salad. Clay had 2 chicken fingers, 2 slices of pepperoni pizza and fries. We both had chocolate soft-serve ice cream for dessert. We watched Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 on TV in the cabin and napped. Clay had signed up to do Hawaiian beer tasting today at 3:30pm. We have no idea what the "nominal fee" will be. (Note: when we saw our bill, it was $15. Clay's said it wasn't worth that.)
I went to the laundry room to iron my white blouse for the trip home while it was still damp. Clay had commented that the laundry room was poorly designed and it was. It was busy and there are lots of machines but people can't cross in front of them because of the narrow space, like at the foot of the bed. Serious points off for the irons too! Both of them were burnt and left black stuff on my white blouse! If we have to wash again before the end of the cruise, we want to make sure we go before breakfast again and still hope for small enough loads not to need a dryer. People just kept coming in with bags of wet laundry saying they got a washer early in the morning, but had been wandering from deck to deck the rest of the day looking for an available dryer. That's crazy!
Tonight our DCL tote bag was delivered back to us. It only had 5 signatures on it and none were of the Fab 5, or any other standards like Princesses but all the more than dozen packs of Nabs and the Sharpie were gone. Obviously, there has been some miscommunication. The tote bag will go back to Guest Services for another try at this.
Some final comments on the day. We would never want to cruise without a balcony. But, here is one area with points off for Disney. There is a permanent ashtray out there welded to the wall! Fortunately, none of our neighbors seem to be smokers! Worse though is the dirty, cloudy Plexiglas sheet over the metal rails forming the balcony railing. You pretty much have to stand and look out over the waist high rail whether inside the cabin or outside on the balcony. I can see why people are loathe to pay the balcony price premium for it.
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