Day 8 - Day at Sea
As you can imagine, we were well ready for a day at sea at this point. We had to move the clocks forward an hour, per our Navigator, so we had done that the night before, but, no biggie, we had nowhere to be!
Interestingly, we got a notice that morning saying that the Scottish powers that be had decided that we needed to present, in person, to the Walt Disney Theatre (the whole party), with passports in hand to be checked.
This was a bit unexpected- and you could tell that from the message. We secretly figured that some Scottish immigration folks wanted to hang out on a cruise ship for a day... but, whatever. I am pretty sure we had an assigned window of time in which to attend.
We assembled our passports after breakfast and headed off to join the line- when we got there, it was outside the theatre. Happily (see title), it was a day at sea and we had nowhere to go. Conor started recounting everything he had read, in minute detail, in his first Percy Jackson book, much to the amusement of the couple in their late 50s/early 60s ahead of us. Turns out the gentleman was a big Percy Jackson and Harry Potter fan, and he was impressed at Conor's level of detail (it's nice that new people find it charming... it does wear a bit over time, I assure you!)
So, the line-up passed quickly, and we got stamped, and all was well.
With that, we sorted out some kind of plan for Conor (get early lunch on deck 9 and then club I think), while DH and I went and got ready for our Palo brunch.
We arrived a few minutes early, and happily waited. Meanwhile, some folks showed up looking for the Art of Design or whatever it's called tour. The Palo manager politely informed them it had left an hour ago... oops! Missed the time change.
So- DH and I were seated, assuming that
DCL Queen would show up shortly.
And she didn't. I tried to message her via the app- no reply. We thought they might be stuck in the line-up... but then DH decided to use the actual phone to call her cabin.
And... OOPS... They had not received their navigator, nor the little card telling them their clock was turned back, and their clock had NOT been turned back. When you travel with 2 teenagers, it appears they are not helpful in this regard ... as they sleep in.
However, Queen that she is, she arrived in about 10 minutes, and we were off to the races.
It was lovely. As usual. All good.
After brunch, we had plans to venture into the land of... Towel Folding. Yep. We Are Wild.
Voila!
Having achieved towel art perfection (or something), Conor decided he needed to review the real reason for towels and asked to go swimming. It was, at this point, about 10 degrees Celsius.
However, I am a lovely parent, so... he swam....
And I huddled under a blanket in the sprinkling rain and read my book. Coffee was involved.
Fortunately, this didn't last super-long (like 20 minutes or so) - largely because we had to get ready for supper and (I think) for Tangled? I was well behaved so I didn't take any photos.
Regardless... we saw Tangled, (the musical) at some point (even if it wasn't that night), and it was great. Flynn Rider at one point is running away from someone or other, and he ran up the aisle, and we were in the front row of the back section, so he threw his bag at Conor to catch, and landed on the floor at our feet - grabbed the bag back from Conor - stated "Stay in school!" and ran away. All in all - thrilling, despite Conor's concern of "too much romance" (that would be any romance).
For sure (this I know- I have photos!), we had Officer Pin Trading. Dude loves this.
Up until this point, Conor had not really wanted to see characters. For some reason, he decided he did today. And, really, how could you not with Goofy wearing this sort of finery in anticipation of our next port?
Finally, we made our way to bed. This photo was taken off our verandah at 9:00 p.m. - just to show you how much daylight there still is! (Seas were quite nice this time.)
But.... we still fell asleep quickly!
Okey dokey- only one more port to go.
More later!