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Sorry again for out of order photos. PhotoBucket sucks!
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Personal Navigator and the fireworks letter from this evening. Is it my imagination, or is there a lot more blank space in the adult schedule now than there was on the outbound trip?
The seas were quite rough last night. We're back to things falling and doors slamming in our cabin. Swells look larger today. Temperature at 7am is 68 degrees F. Mostly cloudy and windy. We move the clock forward another hour tonight. Captain Fabian Dib is giving a presentation in BVT at 10am. We plan to attend. The only other firm thing on our agenda is getting our Ducky Williams lithograph signed. Ducky is signing up to 2 items per cabin for decks 7 and 8 between 4 and 4:45pm today in WaveBands. Tonight is casual and Pirate Night with fireworks. We hope! The Personal Navigator says weather permitting and we hope the strong winds won't interfere. We'll have to stay up late to find out as the Pirate deck party is from 9:45 to 10:45pm. Dinner tonight and tomorrow is in Parrot Cay for us. Last night was Triton's. Tonight is the Wonder Crew Talent Show in WDT at 8:15pm. We'll probably go.
They had a brunch in Triton's from 9am to 12:30pm today. Desmond asked us to go at dinner last night. We were up late this morning, so went about 10 of 8am to look at the menu to see if we'd wait for brunch. Only the regular breakfast menu was posted, so no. We walked aft and they opened the doors to Parrot Cay just as we approached. They serve a BBB-style buffet with assigned seating and sit down beverage service. It was nice, as well as quieter and less crowded than BBB. But, I can't get a mocha latte right outside the door like on deck 9. After breakfast, we walked straight forward to Diversions to kill time.
We walked up 2 floors and aft to BVT at 10am for Capt. Fabian's talk about the design and build of Dream and Fantasy and how things changed in the 12 years or so since Magic/Wonder. It was interesting but I was really feeling the seas and his background curtain and projection screen were swinging wildly while he alternatively staggered or gripped the podium. Trying to get back to the cabin, I got overwhelmed (between the motion sickness and I think the repeating stripes of the hallway carpet pattern triggering my Meniere's vertigo). I knocked myself out with a big dose of Dramamine. I can't really see them, but we must have finally reached the big swells we were in on the way down, because we've got the same pitching and rolling movements.
I missed lunch. I was sad because after 2 days of pasta at BBB, they were supposed to have a Mexican buffet. Clay went up to the pool deck and had a hamburger alone. He said it wasn't very good. Too much bread and the meat patty came out of a warming drawer. I woke up around 3pm and Clay and Bob were gone! They came back after 45 minutes. They had gotten a photo with Capt. Jack Sparrow. We went to see Capt. Hook and Smee and Peter Pan and Capt. Jack again, but didn't get in any of the crazy long lines. In fact, when I saw Capt. Jack, I asked Clay if Jack held Bob and he said yes. I'm not sure if I'd have given Bob to him!
Dinner was Pirates menu in Parrot Cay. They give each person a triangular half of a Mickey Pirate printed bandanna. The preferred method of us seems to be to tie it on your head. Clay had jerk chicken salad, and
1 BBQ short rib! (It seems if the menu says BBQ short ribs, that should mean more than 1! He said these were the same type of ribs served at BBB lunch the other day and he had more then, he was expected a dinner-sized portion vs. a lunch or appetizer sized portion. He was disappointed and a little steamed!) I had crispy pot stickers and some kind of beef. Clay had fruit cobbler and I had very crispy floating islands. That was a first! Every floating island I have ever had was a soft meringue.
After dinner, we went to a game show called A Pirate's Life for Me in Studio Sea. Then we went to WDT for the Wonder Crew Talent Show, which was unexpectedly a real mixed bag!
Oh, Clay told me that he had been watching as man worked on deck 9 every sea day in the afternoon at a table on a large model of Wonder in Legos. Tonight, it was on display! Pretty impressive.
After, we went back to the cabin to get outwear and blankets and went up to the pool deck for the Pirate Party. We didn't pick a good place to stand and we couldn't see much except Mickey's flying entrance and the fireworks. If it hadn't been so cold and windy, we'd have gone up to Deck 10 starboard and looked down for the show, then turned around for the fireworks and we'd have stayed off Deck 9. (The fireworks are shot off the starboard side and most everything is blocked off towards the back of the ship on that side. We even had a letter in our cabin asking us to stay off our balcony and keep the door shut during the fireworks.) But, it was just too cold and windy per Clay and we stayed put. Then, as soon as the fireworks ended we got a real shock when some 1500 people swarmed like rioters into long queues for 2 buffet tables fore and aft on Deck 9 portside right where we'd been standing. You'd think they'd not eaten at all today! I have no idea what they were serving as we never got anywhere near the tables. We had to go up to Deck 10 and all the way forward to get back inside the ship and to the cabin. We caught of glimpse of that service dog during that journey!
Clocks move forward again tonight, so it is midnight now. Wonder is still really rocking! The fireworks at sea were pretty special. I don't think you often see that, at least it was our first time. I know DCL can't control the weather, but crowd control should be possible and that was a nightmare scenario played out up there for me with the buffet out there after the fireworks.
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