Day 2 continued
Tonight was formal night, so we were dressed fairly nice. I had decided DS had to come to dinner with us every night, so we all went together. I am sure I ordered the Caesar salad again, and this appears to be the beef tenderloin.
For dessert, DS ordered the carrot cake
DD had something, and I had the souffle. It was good, kind of eggy but that's how souffle usually is. The sauce was really good.
Then DS ran off to the Teen Club, and DD and I were left to wander until our next show. We had reservations for Hairspray, but much later in the evening.
Now, I had heard about the restaurant called Wonderland, and I went back and forth and back and forth on whether to reserve it. In the end I realized I really just wanted the dessert, not the main courses. We don't really eat seafood and that seriously limits what we can have at Wonderland, and at pretty much all of the other specialty restaurants.
I had asked online if we would be able to go to Wonderland for dessert, and I was assured that wouldn't be a problem. We would pay out of pocket per dessert, but it should be fine.
Well that is not how it works any more.
I had mentioned to our servers, who used to work in Wonderland on the Harmony, that we wanted to have dessert there one night. He said "Well, that might not be possible. Let me see what I can do, I will talk to my boss and see what we can do." He said they used to let people go there for dessert but they stopped allowing it because they are too busy now. I decided to stop by, and walk through the place, and ask there if we might be able to stop in for dessert.
It is definitely a cool space.
To enter, you go down the rabbit hole.
And through (or around) the magical door.
There is this cool seat here.
Now, you may not want to eat here, but maybe you just want to stop by and experience the place for yourself. You CAN go to the bar, and I believe they have a 2 for 1 Happy Hour.
And here, below, is the restaurant. If you look carefully, you will see the whimsy: mismatched chairs, chairs with rabbit ears, some random woman with a St. Patrick's Day fascinator looking at me, etc.
So I walked up to the host stand, and asked if we could have dessert. When I was looking over at the restaurant, I saw a couple that was just being seated and given menus. The place closes officially at 9:30, but they were just being seated, and there were empty tables, so I figured no problem, squeeze us in for a quick round of desserts.
Nope.
I asked if we could just go ahead and make a reservation for later in the week for dessert.
"Oh let me check, no, sorry, we are fully booked. And with such a full booking we can't really let people in for dessert. We used to allow it, but not any more, not for a year or so." (Um the ship is not a year old but ok sure.)
So we left, and were thinking about going back to the room, because I thought we had some time. I looked at the time for the show, maybe on the app, and realized I had the time wrong. I had been thinking about another show that started at 10:45 later in the week. Hairspray started at 10:30, and it was currently 10:35. Oh great.
We rushed to the theater and of course if had already started. So no Key benefit here, but it was 100% my fault.
We grabbed seats off to the side, so we weren't disrupting anyone. It wasn't the best location, but the show was still amazing.
Seriously, another winner. Go see the show. And check the time, and double check the time. This wouldn't be the last time this happened to us.
After the show I summoned DS to the room, where we found this guy waiting:
And that's the end of Day 2! Day 3 would be another day at sea, so more sleeping in! Yay!