The ship was still pretty empty when I got back from Nassau; I snapped a few pictures on my way back to my stateroom.
Woodwork by the Buena Vista Theater
At this point in the day I abandoned my camera so no more pictures, I’m afraid. I spent some time cooling off in my stateroom and taking advantage of the on demand movies. I’d only seen Tangled once so I watched part of that. Over the course of the five day trip I wound up watching Ratatouille and Princess and the Frog as well, though never in one sitting. It was great to have my own space to escape to for a half hour or so during the day, especially during peak heat.
I met up with Shannon at the adult pool and we spent some time in the hot tub critiquing the Celebrity ship docked next to us (we unanimously felt the Dream was superior). I also rode the Aquaduck, which was fun but once was enough for me. In the time it took me to wait in line and ride it Jake and Shannon had played a round of mini-golf – they were practically the only people playing.
Our Palo dinner was that night. Palo was lovely and the service was impeccable and while the food was good I wouldn’t say that I was blown away by it. I had the tuna sashimi which I liked quite a bit, both the mushroom and saffron risottos which were fine, the steak – cooked perfectly but didn’t blow me away- probably more to do with it not being my favorite cut as opposed to anything being wrong with it, a bit of the liver which was yummy but I was too full at that point to really enjoy it, and the soufflé. I know it’s practically blasphemy but I didn’t love the soufflé either! It smelled amazing but didn’t quite taste amazing, at least to my palate. That said, $20 is a bargain for the upgrade and I’d encourage anyone to try it at least once.
After dinner we collected the kids from the club – Becca had eaten there but still asked to be taken to “the restaurant”, I think she meant Animator’s Palate which she had really enjoyed. Because of our Palo dinner we’d missed that night’s show, The Odd Life of Timothy Greene, so Jake was assigned babysitting duty while Shannon and I went for drinks at Pink (poor Jake!). I LOVED the mango Champaign cocktail I had and Shannon felt the same about her peach one. Pink was very quiet, only one or two other small groups in it. It was great to have such a girly place to enjoy a fruity drink.
We stopped briefly by Alfred and Seymour’s adult show but it was too crowded by that point to stay so we took a walk on the deck four promenade instead. I’m so glad we did – it turned out that the ship was at a full stop and the ocean was nearly as calm as a glass of water. Looking over the edge of the railing we were able to see fish swimming by the underwater illumination lights. It was a beautiful sight and we spent a good bit of time just chatting and enjoying the evening before turning in to bed. Our Palo Brunch was the next morning so we both had a lot of digesting to do that night in order to fit more food in the next day.
I had a little frog waiting for me when I got back to my room.
