Dinner last night was at the artist pallet. It’s a beautiful room full of screens with amazing art that cycles throughout your meal. Disney is no better than princess at providing vegan or plant-based or vegetarian meals than princess. Things exist, but it sort of feels like an afterthought or an irritation. Julie and Kristine keep a pretty good attitude about it I think. I guess that’s the only way to go.
Keith’s goal is to do multiple laps of the deck everyday and he started last night. After dinner. I sat in a deck chair and read my book. I was tired.
Our porthole is so cool. It was a nighttime animation. When we got back to the room. It got a little cloudy and a little darker and we left it on all night as a nightlight. This morning while we were in wake awake and still in bed you would see flickerings and have to turn around to see things like Goofy water skiing or Gonzo parachuting or the hippos from Fantasia dancing on the water. Most delightful.
There was beef tenderloin on the kids meal menu for lunch so we went to a sit-down lunch at noon. It was delicious. The food here has been really top notch.
Kristine and Julie were up doing pool and water activities while we were doing nothing in our room.
We went to Pixar trivia and sat down with some people and just told them that we were being on their team. They just stared at us. They did speak some words about other things but didn’t welcome us, so it was a little strange. The game started and they just played separately from us. Too bad for them because they got 3 out of 20 and we got 11. Ours was nothing to be proud of, but 3. Three is really not very good. I thought it was a really fun game of trivia because there were several questions that were like um, um, um, I should know this! Those are fun to think about and try to figure out and it doesn’t matter if you don’t.
While Keith did laps this afternoon, I went to draw Captain Minnie. It was a video of an animator doing the draw circle and add this and that and the other thing. I was a little disappointed because a lot of the time the camera was on him, not his drawing. He would tell you what he was going to do, but not necessarily do it before he was telling you about how great it is to draw anything and you should just practice all the time. I was a bit lost. In between steps, his drawing changed. He drew tight eyelashes that went under Minnie’s hat in one step, and they were wide and out of the hat on the next picture. I did’t think it really would affect us that greatly – what am I saying – it confused me totally. My hat is awful. It does not matter, but it matters.
Kristine joined us for general trivia later in the afternoon. We played with Jim and Heather from Michigan. This is their ninth Disney cruise. They said they’ve won so many medallions for trivia that they don’t even care anymore. The game started and Jim was looking up the answers on his phone. The first one was super easy and we all just put down the answer, so I wasn’t sure he was looking up the answers for a couple more questions. Then it was obvious and I just marked the ones wrong right away that I didn’t know. I guess it’s really easy to get a lot of medallions if you just look up the answers on your phone. I kind of couldn’t believe it because it’s just no fun whatsoever to cheat. We (I) tied for the win and got the tiebreaker wrong. There were two questions we marked wrong that I would have fought for, if I was going to fight for a trivia answer. One was what is the gemstone for Gemini? I don’t know how Gemini can have one gemstone since it crosses both May and June. We put down emerald which is for May, but the answer was Pearl, which is June. What is the largest desert? I do believe that Antarctica is the largest desert, but the answer was the Sahara. We would have had a clean win with either of those. Jim and Heather did not think that this was general trivia because the questions were way too hard. I got 15 out of 20 with no help, so I think it was pretty general. I wonder how I will feel if Jim and Heather beat me tomorrow?
The ventriloquist show tonight was terrific. It started out cute and funny, but nothing too special. I was definitely enjoying it. Her bit with a bear and two kids helping her doing Goldilocks was pretty great – especially since the one kid wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. She was very careful to be respectful, but it was still funny. When she brought up a teen and two adults, it was golden. They (especially Chris from Mexico City) were all perfect. I absolutely cackled!! What a surprisingly good show! (Why? I came on this cruise with the idea that the shows would be great. One for one!)
We came down the stairs for dinner and met Cinderella in the hall. She was just lovely. She pointed out that we were both wearing bibbity boppity blue before she glided up the staircase. It was very magical.
Dinner tonight was in the Enchanted Garden. Such a pretty restaurant. As the evening passed, the lights changed the room from day to night. It’s just very nice here.
We played Movie Quote Trivia after dinner. We got 6 out of 20. Hahahahaha! Fun! We saw this amazing door while we were walking back to our room. We got back to the room and there was a present on the doorknob. Wow. People make and bring a LOT of things to share.
More pictures from around the ship:
You KNOW that I thought those lights in the (dining hall?) were flying pigs!!! Glad you took the second photo. They SHOULD have been flying pigs!!! Oh, well…..
Wouldn’t that have been hilarious? Quite a different feel to the place with flying pigs!