Friday, May 15, 2026
Minnie was waving to us (personally) as we came back onboard yesterday. Nice.
Dinner last night in Animators’ Palette was great fun. We were given sheets to draw a person on and then they took them and animated them for an end-of-the-meal video.
It started with just showing us everyone’s pictures, and then there was video of our characters, dancing and running and skating and etc.
As we were walking out, there were fiber optic dogs from 101 Dalmatians all over the floor. Nothing better than fiber optics in the floor (I’m looking at you, Epcot).
Keith had children food for lunch.
We walked up on Deck 13 for the first time and found a whole mini golf course. You think we’d get everywhere in 14 days, wouldn’t you?
All cruise long, people have been building boats. I’m not sure what Disney provided – I know they provided a lot of tape – and what people brought, but they were all cute and very ingenious. The staff put a can of soda and floated each in the pool to see if it was seaworthy. I’d say about 90% of them floated. They gave out awards for most Disney and most seaworthy and other stuff. Grand fun for all.
I noticed my dress really matched my Tokyo hat, so today was the day for that. Lots of people said nice things about my hat.
Land ho!!
The show tonight was called Believe. It was my favorite show of the cruise. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to go on a Disney cruise was I assumed they would have killer entertainment. They did! There was one kind-of-lame late-night show and other than that they were all A++++. Tonight had the genie trying to convince a guy to believe in magic. The genie was just excellent. He did about 40 different accents, impersonated dozens of characters, and almost spilled popcorn on people’s heads. Terrific.
I sat with Julie and looked at K and K for the first time. Should have thought of that earlier!
We dairy eaters had to have Mickey bars for our last dessert! I managed to melt a big piece of chocolate on the front of my dress. Skillz!
They brought Kristine a berry sundae, too. Keith had a sundae almost every night, but had cheesecake tonight for his pre-Mickey bar dessert.
They have a detective game on board with three different cases to solve. You get a badge and you hold it up to pictures throughout the ship. The picture comes to life and gives you clues. It’s really great. We kept saying we were going to do it, and we kept forgetting. After dinner tonight, Keith and I gave it a try. We did the Muppet case. We had to go to just about every deck, pick up clues from each video and figure out who did it. I really enjoyed it. I’m sorry Kristine and Julie had gone back to put their luggage out and missed out doing it with us.
Our course, Keith ended his evening with a little soft serve.
The POTD is of our dinner waiters, Manny and Chandra.