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January 17, 2008
On the boat
This morning we climbed out of bed and set about packing up our stuff. The World's Best Brother-In-Law climbed out of his bed earlier than anybody else and used the remaining parts of our meal plans to get breakfast sandwiches.
Our bus arrived at 10:30 and whisked us away toward Orlando and The Disney Wonder. We must have arrived by noon though I'm not sure; there was a lot going on, I had three boys to take care of, and paperwork was involved.
I want to start right off by saying that everybody involved with the Disney Cruise has been wonderful, helpful, patient and, in many cases, in possession of exotic accents.
That almost makes it sound like there's a "but" coming. There isn't. It just needs to be said.
Our luggage was taken at the curb and would eventually appear at our staterooms. The check-in process was painless; there were some forms that needed filling out, but not too terribly many and in cases where I made errors I was given polite help.
I needed to wait in, I think, two lines; one of them moved very fast and one of them moved so fast it never backed up far enough to really become a line. The point being that Disney has hired enough staff (Cast members) to take care of the people they are serving.
We were on the boat and eating at a buffet in pretty short order. (Having been a Baptist in a previous life I totally kick ass when it comes to working my way through a buffet line. If I currently had reasonably-priced Internet access (instead of 75-cents unlimited access or 40-cents a minute in 100-minute blocks I'd post a link to the quote "Nobody works a buffet like a Baptist.")
I thing we cast off around 4 or 4:30 p.m. We were eating dinner at 5:45 and Haydn had motion sickness to the point he wasn't able to order dinner with the rest of us — after a couple sips of ginger ale he was able to order and was fine. Samson had to leave dinner early due to motion sickness; after some Dramamine he was fine and I checked him into Oceaneer's Lab with Jack (where the two of them stayed — a mere beeper beep away from me — until midnight).
Haydn went to an age-appropriate activity as well. I went to a bar with Michael Connelly's new book and had one beer an hour for three hours.
The World's Best Brother-In-Law, Tony.
The Disney Wonder
One of the kids asked for some catsup (ketchup) [that's one messed up word no matter how you spell it]. At Disney it pours right out of the bottle looking like Mickey Mouse.
Posted by delmer at January 17, 2008 9:45 PM
Comments
Yep, at Disney, they're just mad about The Mouse.
Posted by: Icy Mt. at January 21, 2008 7:08 PM