Wednesday - pic intensive!
I know, I know, this is the day you've been waiting for! I'm going to start out by saying we had a GREAT day, so if you're looking for negative reviews - look elsewhere. I will say that I was disappointed in no cantina in the bar, but we did our own fun pub crawl and closed down the tube at 2am. What a long but fun day!
Below are food pics, not just on SW day but all week. Decided to share it here so that my report isn't full of food I miss so terribly already
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We woke up around 8am, so excited to see what the day had in store for us. I tried really hard not to read spoilers so some of the day would be a surprise for me. At some point during the week (I cannot remember for the life of me exactly when..) the tickets for the meet & greets appeared in our room. Because we had 2 connected rooms, we got tickets to all three of them. We were out on the pool deck for the next little bit, saw some stormtroopers while the kids swam. Bespin in the Pub was up first at 9:30am, we got a photo with Boba Fett, in the hallway we saw two imperial guards which of course hubby had to get a photo with. They took their roles very serious
We wandered around a bit before ending up in Royal Court for lunch (yay, finally off our bucket list!)
Lauren and auntie Jackie
At some point according to photos we spent some time in Satellite Falls and trying the drink of the day - Galaxy in a Glass (not my fave at all) Tatooine in the DLounge was at 2pm, we got to meet C-3PO and R2D2 and then finally in the Tube was Dark Side at 4:50pm.
We were the last in our time group to arrive Captain Phasma was there, but taking over for her at 5pm was Darth Vader. When we left DH was a little disappointed and asked the CM if he could get another ticket to meet Vader, she said to just scoot in line again as some people hadn't shown up yet for their time. Score - so DH and the kiddos got to meet everyone they wanted to, except one...
After that we went out onto Deck 4, as I heard sometimes you see the characters walking up the port side and boy were they right - he couldn't stop for a photo so we took one on the run (literally!)
Dinner was in Animators Palette and the new star wars menu - I have to admit our group ordered a lot of food as we wanted to try everything - sand people salad, beef empanada's (DH ordered more), mos espa sandwich, flatbread was all passed around the table. I think I had the nerf steak and the sundae for dessert - it was so good and a welcome change from what is normally offered. After dinner most of our party went to watch the Force Awakens,DD went to make Chewy cookies and I wandered around listening to jazz music, taking photos and then went to grab some space for Summon the Force. The show was awesome, but I have to say I preferred the pirate fireworks - either way it was fun.
We grabbed some snacks at the star wars buffet and then took the kids back to the room to watch some movies, we adults were on a mission. Tonight was our "unofficial" pub crawl, since I had told them ahead of time no one wants to be hungover on
Castaway Cay, this was our last night to do it. Started out with a drink in La Piazza, which actually was playing Cantina music, there was no special drink menu or anything but still fun. They were getting ready to close so we wandered over to Skyline so Ashley could make us chocolate martinis. They were pretty strong and we were pre-drinking during the SW day so it didn't take much to get us in the mood to go dancing. We shut down the bar at midnight and then hit up the Tube where we danced until almost 2am. There was really no one in the bar, which meant we had the dance floor to ourselves. Apparently we were outside at Meridian after that, as photos prove, but not everyone in our party remembers that
Amazing day at sea!
Up next... MORE mixology?! My liver is crying for mercy! Our last day at sea