Leisurely morning, spent in the cabin and on the balcony. I watched the sunrise and took photos of course!
Showered, dressed, relaxed with coffee on the balcony some more. My most favorite part of cruising… coffee, balcony, camera. We waited for the announcements of the first tenders being loaded to go to the private island. Then we headed out to Blue Lagoon for breakfast. There was only 2 other tables filled in there. Service was awesome! We really were skeptical, as we hated the Blue Lagoon in the Dawn. Food great, service great – we are liking this spot! We had a relaxing breakfast, while hundreds of other passengers were waiting in lines to go to Private Island
We had a ‘catamaran tour’ at (thought it was for …but that’s not what our tickets said) We made it to the island about , too early for tour, so we wandered a little bit. We had a brief rain shower, actually lasted about 10 minutes and then it was over. The ride over in the tender was very rocky! Very wavy!!
We docked on the back side of the island – new to us. Saw the construction stuff all over and they were working today, too. Our new camera decided to crap out on us! SO, we spent a few minutes trying to get it to work. We didn’t bring our good camera with us – of course, we left it back on the ship thinking this was all we needed for today. Therefore, not many photos today, Darn it. Not happy about this with our new camera that we got so we could have it to take water pictures.
We checked in at the tour booth and were told to wait over in the covered picnic seating area. Then we were herded to the other side of the island (short walk we were told – about 15 minutes) I have difficulty with arthritis and this was a very long walk for me. Had I been better informed, I would not have done this tour. Our ‘catamaran’ ended up being a small tour boat. Not a sail boat, as I had assumed. Yeah, I was not that thrilled at all with this excursion. The tour was nice and the guide and captain friendly and informative. The guide fished out some star fish and a crab and brought them onboard for us to pass around. That was interesting. The tour was nice and interesting – just not what we had expected from the description.
After the tour – about an hour – we headed back to other side of island. Thought it was time to grab something to eat from the buffet area. We had a nice lunch, (burgers, salads, fruits and pizza) then we relaxed while watching the limbo contest and listened to the band “Soul”. The picnic area was shaded and nice to just sit and chill. Decided we didn’t really want to swim today and we were ready to head back to the ship, about 2pm. They had chilled, damp washcloths at the dock to wash off the sand before boarding the tenders. That was a nice touch!
Back onboard, Mark went to the cabin while I escaped to the Spa. I assumed – correctly – that it wouldn’t be that busy this afternoon, while everyone was still at the island. Ahhh.. very nice way to spend over an hour. I loved every minute and wished that I had the opportunity to do this at home at least once a week, which would be heavenly. I took a shower and got dressed while at the spa and headed back to the room. I ordered coffee and a fruit plate from room service and caught up on my journal, while Mark read his book on the balcony. Mark then got restless and went out for a walk about the ship. Knock on door – afternoon snack from CAS – sweet treats today. How nice! There was also ‘mail’ from the cruise consultant with our Silver + party invite and VIP tender tickets and a “Gold status’ Laundry pass. Huh? Go figure, somebody must have made a mistake, as I am only Silver and Mark is Bronze still. We had no intention of doing laundry and didn’t think we’d have need for the tender tickets, either. But, we love the idea of being spoiled, so thanks! Mark back on balcony w/ book and I’m caught up with this journal for now. Think I’ll take a short snooze.
Later, after resting, we went to ‘Name that tune” w/ Tatiana on the piano whilch was outside LeBIstro. I think we got 4 of 15 correct! Ha ha But, we were not alone! There were a couple of younger girls sitting next to us, who did just as badly. We shared several “HUH?” looks with each other during the game. We enjoyed it anyway! We then headed around the corner to the casino to kill some time. Then on we went to the buffet, for a quick supper. It was very nice doing to the buffet. Self service, get what you want, when you want…and we really always found something to eat. It was very nice to be so relaxed and didn’t feel the need to be ‘waited upon’ most of the time….or to make each meal an ‘event’. This night, I had a big salad, some coconut rice and pork cordon blue, with some carrots and broccoli. Dessert was mini muffins (2 were skewered on a toothpick) and some chocolate covered fruit skewers. YUMMY!
Spinnaker lounge was the place for our evening entertainment tonight. The Newlywed / not so Newlywed show was going on. That was a blast tonight. Great couples and Julie is a terrific cruise director. I am almost positive that I have enjoyed her as a CD on a prior Dawn sailing, but not positive. She certainly seemed familiar to me. Anyway, we had a few chuckles at the show this evening! Decided to go back to casino for awhile and stopped at the Stardust Theater on the way to catch a few minutes of That’s Entertainment. Few minutes was enough of that for us and we were off to casino for about an hour.
Off to the cabin for the night and discovered a towel animal! Carlos was our cabin steward and he was awesome! Always smiled and said hello whenever we would pass in the hallway. He seemed to have some kind of radar to know when we were out of the cabin, as it was always straightened up when we returned! A couple of times – later in the cruise – he would stop by while we were still there and he just ‘worked around us’ quite nicely. The ship rocked us to sleep this night, without delay.
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