The first day of the Mediterranean cruises is a sea day, letting everyone relax after their travels. I woke up around 9:30 and we headed out to breakfast shortly after. We went down to Lumiere's for sea day brunch, and we had Alicia, one of our troublemaking friends from November, serving us. Around 11 we all left Lumiere's and headed upstairs to Studio Sea for the Gold and Platinum Castaway Club reception. We got photos with Mickey, and then talked with Peter, the assistant cruise director, for a while. Captain Thord came to thank us all for coming back to Disney (like they could keep me away if they tried), and Brent, our cruise director, showed us several new videos about the Disney Dream and Castaway Cay enhancements. On the way out of Studio Sea, Mom and I talked with my friend Katrina for a while and got some advice on the various ports.
My parents headed off to relax and enjoy the ship, and I headed down to Parrot Cay for the college club lunch at 12:15; after all, I hadn't eaten since 10:00. I was expecting to be alone, but fortunately several people showed up. Warren and Brittney from Canada, and Tim and Jenny from Minnesota. We were joined by Dave, one of the cruise staffers, and heard some awesome stories about how pretty much everything in Australia can kill you. After the college club, I met up with Mom at 2 for the Disboards meet. On the Disboards, there are several forums where you can talk with other people going on your cruise, to share advice, tips, and planning. We quickly said hi to everyone and then headed upstairs to the Historian's presentation on Pompeii in the Buena Vista Theatre. It was very odd, the lady seemed quite surprised about several of the things on her powerpoint, and didn't know how to pronounce many of the Italian words.
After the presentation, we headed up to deck 9 to get some food for Mom and Dad, and some ice cream for me. It was only my first ice cream of the cruise. I am really starting to slip on the whole eating thing. We ran into Mike and Susan by the pool, so we sat and talked with them for a while by the pool. We also got to see Sammy for the first time. He is our favorite server, and we had requested him but not gotten him. We talked with him for a while, introduced him to Mike and Susan, and he filled us up on Pizza. After a while a combination of cold weather and dinner forced us all to head inside. Mom and I headed downstairs to see Twice Charmed. When we had sailed in March, the cast had just come onboard, and they were pretty terrible. But this time, you wouldn't even know it was the same cast. Awesome show! Since it was formal night, they were having the Captain's welcome aboard reception in the atrium, so we met up with Dad there. I grabbed a picture with Katrina, and then talked to Peter, the assistant cruise director, some more. Later on I joined in on Mom's conversation with Barbara, the head of housekeeping. She was very fun to talk with, and had even worked at Newport Bay Club, the hotel we were staying at in Paris.
Dinner was at 8:30, so we headed into Lumiere's. We had the most prized dinner rotation onboard, Lumiere's on formal night, Parrot Cay on pirate night. Summer and Igor were waiting for us, and our tablemates showed up shortly after we did. Our tablemates were Howard and Nellie from New York, and there friend Trina from LA. Trina works for Walt Disney Imagineering, so I was obviously very happy to have them at our table. We had some great conversations over dinner, and we were very glad that we had good servers and good tablemates for our longest cruise ever. Once dinner had finished up, we headed over to Rockin' Bar D for Phil Keller, the French illusionist's show. It was a great show with some very impressive stuff. I talked with my friends for a while, wrote a blog post, and went to bed.
Up next, our first port of call: Valetta, Malta
Saturday, May 15, 2010
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