Day 5, Part 4
It was now time for the evening show in the theatre. We like to get there early enough to get decent seats close to the front. Jen, Patty and Brook were already there I think so we sat with the gang.
Rob went and got a refillable popcorn bucket and a BB8 sipper cup.
The buckets are a good deal because they are like $8 or something and then only $1.50 for each refill after that.
I like seeing the welcome aboard show because you get to see the cruise director, sometimes the captain and the entertainment staff that you will be seeing for the next, well, 10 days in this case. I am really good with faces so I walk around saying "Oh look, it's the Genie!" and "She was Jasmine, and Mulan and Pocahontas!" to my family
Time for dinner!
Our first dinner was at Animator's Palate and we had a table of 10 but it was an oddly shaped table. It was like a leaf and so the people on the two ends, which happened to be Jen and I that night on one end (and J's family on the other end) were very close together and it was very odd. We felt like we barely had any room and since people tend to get multiples dishes, it really wasn't a good configuration!
We met our server Ferdie and our assistant server Lewis. They were good but we all had a hard time understanding Ferdie. I think I understood him best and had to translate to my family. Kira finds accents a little challenging and Rob is half deaf from being a DJ for 30 years so it was very difficult!
Here's our menu and the food that we ordered.
For dessert, Rob and I often would order 3 or 4 desserts and share them. 99% of the time I would take one bite and then pass it on to him. I'm not a huge dessert girl.
After dinner, Kira went with Claire to play Midship Detective Agency (where Rob ran into them and took that pic!).
I went back to the room to drop off my camcorder and then we joined Jen, J, Patty and Brook in The Tube for the adult show from Six Appeal. They did a couple of songs during the welcome aboard show and they were pretty awesome so I was excited to see their adult show!
Okay, so this is where I am going to complain about the ridiculously designed Tube
I don't know who's bright idea it was to place the bar in the center of the room because half of the people in the Tube cannot see the stage! Even beside the bar, if you sat in the chairs like we did, people would just come and stand in front of you! Why? Because the guy who designed this should be shot, that's why!!!
There's very little seating so it fills up fast and instead of having the bar at the back of the room like it is on the Wonder and Magic, it takes up half of the back area and only seats a few people around it!
So dumb!
They had a screen on the back side of the room but we would have to sit facing the entire crowd backwards almost, which was very awkward!
This is a zoomed in pic, the only way I could actually see them.
They sounded good but after seeing them at the other show, I knew that half of their entertainment was in their movements, which none of us could see.
Time to head back to the room and check out tomorrow's Navigator!
I would have preferred to go to the pool with Kira and/or myself but all pools were closed now
I can't even tell you how mad this makes me! I know if you have read my previous reports, you will know how frustrated I get about this. Why is the pool closed at 10 or 10:30pm in the middle of summer??????
They play movies on the Funnel Vision screen until midnight every night, Flo's is open very late, people are out there on deck, why, Disney, why can you not keep your pools open until midnight???
So you have to keep two lifeguards at the pools, big deal!!! You have a zillion people manning empty bars all over the ship until 1am, throw us a fricken bone and keep your pools open later!!!!!!
It had been a long day and my blister was killing me still and my ankles were all swollen, I would have LOVED to gone for a dip in the pool and hot tub, it would have made a huge difference to me that night!
Here's my very large ankles
And I know that you can't tell how swollen they are so here's my feet normally without the swelling, just for comparison
Bonus pic of my Boo in the background for you