Day 11
We got up at 7:00 again and went to our stretching class. After the
class, we headed to Topsiders to get some breakfast. Duly fed and
watered, we headed up to deck 4 for Walk A Mile.
Graham had attended some lectures on both the Med cruise and on this
cruise. I had always had something different to do and had never made
it. The lecture that day was about St. Maarten and we both decided to
go. I had expected that it would be about what to go and see while on
the island, but it turned out to be a historic lecture about territories
that were Dutch own over the years ending with the Netherland Antilles
and St. Maarten. Even though it was not what I had expected and St.
Maarten took up a comparably small part of the lecture, it was very
interesting and I really enjoyed it.
I had seen something else in the Navigator that was of interest. They
were running a series of Top 10 Disney Innovations on a number of
topics. That day it was all about the innovations as they related to the
theme parks. So we decided to go and see this. It was very interesting
and included some aspects that I take for granted like the hub and spoke
design and the single entrance to the parks as well as the utilidors and
animatronics. It was both interesting and entertaining.
After this presentation, we went to get some lunch at Parrot Cay. I then
went to Desperate Shipmates. Graham had decided that he had done enough
for the day and went off somewhere to chill out.
That day was the last proper installment of Desperate Shipmates. When I
got up in the morning, I had found a letter under the door advising that
the cabins of Dr Shadowski and the Creepier twins had been located and
that we would have the opportunity to have a look at those in the
afternoon. The meeting point was Diversions. When we got there, they
divided us into two groups. I was in group 2 and we were asked to stay
behind in Diversions while group 1 was taken down to deck 2 to inspect
the cabins. They were showing the TV footage from the previous sessions
on the big screens. A little while later, a cast member came and got the
next few people. I was part of that group. They had used two of the
category 12 cabins for this and there was a long line to get into those
cabins. Again, I was amazed about the attention to detail that had gone
into this. There were a number of clues in both cabins, but they also
filled the wardrobes with stuff and left things in the bathrooms.
We had been told that the answers for who had one it needed to be handed
in by 22:00 that evening. They would leave final clues at the shore
excursion desk at 19:00 and at the same time; a drop box for the answers
would be set up. There were a few people from our cruise meet thread
that had inspected the cabins at the same time as I had and a few of us
went back up to Diversions to discuss the clues and who we thought was
the guilty party.
A short while later, I headed up to deck 9. I always have my hair
braided when I am on a cruise. Because of the make over for formal
night, I had to wait a bit longer than usual to get this done. I was
going to make an appointment, but the person doing it was not overly
busy so offered that I could wait. I was only too happy to do this and
enjoyed the nice weather.
Once I had my hair braided, I headed back down to deck 4 for some more
photos. I managed to get photos with Captain Hook and Mr Smee, Terk and
Lilo and Stitch. I also got portraits with Daisy and Minnie, Chip and
Dale and Mickey and Pluto in their tropical outfits.
Once I had enough photos taken, I met Graham by the adult pool. We swam
for a while and then headed for the Rainforest Room for a bit.
Dinner that night was the Taste of the Caribbean menu. This was a new
menu for us. I was rather excited about this as the rotational menu for
Parrot Cay that also has a Caribbean flavour, is one of my favourite
menus. However, this particular menu did not quite live up to my
expectations. I cannot actually remember what we had to eat that night, just that I did not like it.
I was in a bit of a rush to get out of the dining room that night. Timon
was out for photos at 22:00 that evening and I had missed him earlier in
the cruise. I did manage to get my photo with him.
At the far side of the atrium, they had a white backdrop up and one of
our favourite photographers was taking the photos there. So we decided
to head over there. He had a number of props and Graham chose a pink
umbrella. We had a couple of photos taken. The photographer then offered
that I could hold my hand out and Tinkerbell would magically appear in
the photo. This is something that I had always wanted to do. Of course,
Graham was in a mischievous mood and took the umbrella to beat poor
Tinkerbell up. I love this photo as it captures our personality
perfectly. Still, I was glad that I also managed to get a photo with
just Tinkerbell.
Once the photos were taken, we headed back to our room. Our stateroom
host had left us a towel swan. We moved the swan somewhere safe and
headed for bed.