April 30th - Day at Sea

On our first full day at sea, we took it easy, slept in a bit. We ate at the Mermaid's Grill for a late breakfast. Afterwards, the kids wanted to do some exploring on their own. They were to meet up with us at the cabin at a certain time. Chad and I took that opportunity to explore, play cards and just laze around. I was a wee bit worried about the kids since it was still new to us, but at least they had their walkie talkies, right? Wrong! They were left in the cabin. Chad and I went back to the cabin to meet them at the allotted time and they weren't there. We waited and waited and finally split up. It took us over an hour of searching before they finally appeared, I was in tears. I finally had told Chad to take off and I would hang around near the cabin. WE had our walkie talkies to at least communicate with each other. The kids insisted they had come back to the cabin a bit earlier than they were supposed to, but instead of waiting they left to find us and then it became a hit and miss adventure. Ugh.

We then rushed off to the kids lounge to "Build a Bear". Micki chose a calico kitty she named Love Ball. She picked out a cute girl sailor outfit for the kitty. I was bummed because I had forgotten my camera so didn't get pics.

Later, we went to the matinee comedy show. It turns out that this was the same comedian who was on our cruise aboard the Ecstasy in 2002. He had a lot of the same jokes, same opening routine, etc.

After the show, we had to hurry back to the cabin so the kids could get dressed in their formal outfits. Micki's group had a "cocktail party" at 4:45 and then Derek had one at the disco lounge for his group. Micki had fun with her group, Derek not so much, just a couple of girls showed up and then later right before he left a few boys showed up to check it out. Chad and I had gotten dressed up and we went to the adult's cocktail party. It was pretty fun, we had cocktails and then later dancing up on stage. After we collected the kids, we headed towards the dining room. Derek and I had lobster for dinner, it was pretty good. It would have been nicer had it not been for the screeching kid next to us. After dinner we left and had a few family portraits taken.

The Main show that night was called Wonderful World. It featured music, songs and dances from around the world. Very fun, I think we enjoyed the show more this night than even the night before. At midnight Chad and I went to the Adult comedy show, same guy but R rated with language and content definitely not appropriate for kids. Probably not appropriate for me
either.




Here is the family portrait we chose from formal night.

















I love this one of the kids. It has been a long time since we've had a professional pic of the two of them.















Our head waiter is the one on the left and the waiter is on the right.












Just goofing around with the camera.