Or perhaps it should be titled Ick! The humidity of the Caribbean is Back! This is actually the last sea day of the Atlantic crossing, but we still have days in St Maarten, Tortola, the real last sea day, and Castaway Cay before docking at Port Canaveral on Saturday, October 2nd.
What can I say about the intervening days? It's only been a week since my last post and it's included both dinner and brunch at Palo (we're on the waiting list for an additional dinner; others have told us that they had no trouble booking additional nights; we'll see if they love us or not), dinners rotating through Lumiere's, Artist's Palate, and Parrot Cay in addition to breakfasts and lunches at Topsiders Grill, the food court on Deck 9, new shows featuring talent brought on board at Funchal (a hypnotist, a comedian, and a magician with a new set of talent boarding at St Maarten), and the daily Cookies & Cream drinks at the Cove Cafe in the adults only section of Deck 9. Mustn't forget the Martini, Mojito, and Margarita tastings, too.
We found that you can download Kindle books while in the middle of the Atlantic, so running out of reading material has been solved. We've learned to deal with the on-board laundry (luckily the do-it-yourself laundry was too busy to use...) and the short-comings of the formal wear rental company. Lots of down time spent reading and napping. The sun was hot, so time was spent in the shade outside the Cove Cafe (coffeehouse) or in the cabin. Although the larger suites were nice, our cabin works fine. And the balcony is shaded with a huge open-air porthole for watching the world slide by.
Tonight is another production number developed especially for this Mediterranean season, Walt Disney, The Dream Goes On. Over the next few nights we have Jodi Benson, the Crew Talent Show, the classic production Disney Dreams (with more special effects than you can shake a stick at) at which I will cry at the ending when Tinkerbell sprinkles her fairy dust over the entire theater (I start to tear up thinking about it), and Remember the Magic: A Final Farewell (don't know this one).
Then it will be time to say goodbye to all the friends we've made on board during our 14-day crossing of the Atlantic and cruising through the Caribbean.
Once we're back in Florida we've 6 days in WDW at the Boardwalk Villas with Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, Food and Wine in Epcot, and non-stop bus riding to the various parks for fun, adventure, and dinners at our fave restaurants.
Should be able to blog on a daily basis while there. Then a quick non-stop flight to Mexico City on AeroMexico (Mexicana being in bankruptcy; Note to Self – will our travel insurance cover the cost of the new tickets if Mexican doesn't refund our money?), a stay at a nearby hotel, and bus/taxi the next morning back to San Miguel – home, sweet home. Collect the dogs (hope they remember us) from their boarding kennel and we'll be back to normal. I suppose it's time to buckle down and drill the holes in the walls to hold the nails from which we'll hang the pictures.
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