Day 2 in Bermuda!
After breakfast and packing the beach backpack, we decided to try the minibuses today. The public bus was fine but did take a little longer than we'd liked and it picked up and dropped off closer to the pier and the beach. The public bus pass for 1 day was $49 and roundtrip for all 3 of us was $42 plus some tips. So roughly the same price. But the public bus passes can be paid with a credit card, the mini buses were cash only. With the public bus it does stop several places but since we only wanted to go to Horseshoe bay again, this was perfect. We caught the bus there at the pier super easy, got a few more passengers from the Dawn and headed out to the beach. A short 30 min later, they dropped us off down the hill and right at the beach. We got the chair and umbrella this day since it was sunny and much prettier than our day before. AND much more crowded. But we expected that. When you rent the chair and umbrella, the guys actually drag it to a spot on the beach you like and then they dig the hole for your umbrella. Nice touch! We of course, tipped him for that.
Much nicer day(thanks for the answered prayer!)....and look at that sea of umbrellas. This was taken at about 11.
At the same lookout point from the day before....yes, I walked up the decking to get the picture.
We spent about 2 hours here. Got a chip snack in the Rum Bum bar area and then caught the minibuses back. Since I had a chair and umbrella already, I didn't want it to go to waste. So I looked around for a family with a small child who was just sitting on the beach with a towel and no chair or umbrella. I went over to the mom, said "hi, I bought a chair and an umbrella and I'm leaving. Would you like to use it?" She was excited and said yes! So as we gathered our things, she brought over her stuff and we left.
The minibuses were there waiting for people when we were ready to leave about 12:30-1pm. Got back to the ship in about 30 min again and ate lunch at Sorrento's yet again. It was really that good!
We again, went back to the indoor pool. (yes, we used it a lot!) (it was also near the ice cream so that helped too) I took some pictures of the America's Cup ships practicing.
Below is the entire America's Cup Village. The far left is where the grandstands and food and racing will take place and to the right of the picture is where many of those who come by boat have paid to park the boats while they are there. In other words, those with some decent money. Or so we've been told. The celebrity ones are in a different area of the port.
Then back to the room for our cruise tradition. We love to sit on our balcony and watch the slackers come back to the ship really close to all aboard time and see if they make it. In 6 cruises, we've seen 2 different sets of people left on the pier.... While we waited, I took some pictures of the dockyard from our room.
After watching a few run back to the ship, we went to Izumi for our reservation. However, the kid doesn't eat sushi so we wanted to know if we could just get it to go. They said yes, so we put in our order and was told to come back in 30 min. After we walked around and took some more pictures, we grabbed our sushi to go and went to WJ to eat and get the kid some food. They were offering chocolate covered strawberries that night which were excellent.
You may have noticed that we had my time dining and have not once went to a dining room at this point. We love the dining rooms on Disney but we knew that after two days in Bermuda we'd want quick service not 2 hour dinners and that first night we went to JO's and the second night we went to the Solarium Bistro. So we had made a ressie for the last night in the dining room. It worked for us but I wish I had tried to go one other night as well. Oh well, next time.....
It was our night for Spectra's Cabaret. I had read so many varying things about this show I wasn't sure what to expect. Some say its strange, other say its a technology marvel. Since the Gift and We will rock you aren't 8 yo friendly, we thought we'd try SC. We did really miss the shows on this cruise as we love the Disney ones so what did we think of the show? That's up next......