The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

seahawk7

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For day two we woke up at 7 to get our free breakfast, which we ate outside on their verandah by their lake. Our LaQuinta reminded me very much of Coronado Springs, just not as huge. :) (I wish I remembered to take a picture.) We caught a shuttle my friends had booked to take us to the Cruise port in Miami, a 20 minute drive that blew by. The driver talked about the area and his sons in college were singing in musicals and they just finished their run of Aladdin.

We got to the terminal and checked our bags at the porter station. Luggage is delivered to your stateroom in the afternoon so there's no need to tote it around. You can't actually get into your room until 12:30 but you can enjoy the ship. As some of you may remember I had a hospital stay last year. I was finally diagnosed with spinal stenosis. 97% of my days are good, the other 3% are horrible. :cry: My doctor recommended I take my walker just in case one of those 3% happened aboard ship. (Standing in lines for more than an hour kill me.) The lines at the cruise terminal were crazy long being Spring Break and 3,500 people waiting to board. My friend grabbed one of the free wheelchairs just to sit in line. One of the porters came over said "I'll help you and you'll be helping me." :confused: Ummm, okay? He was new and needed experience pushing people in wheelchairs around the terminal then onboard. I refused a few times because I didn't want special treatment until he whipped these out......
View attachment 89355and I couldn't say no. (I was the only wheelchair person there.) We were escorted down a long hallway (I swear we were heading to the janitor's area! :jawdrop: ) but he said "Shortcut! Express lane." We actually rode on a maintenance elevator to the assisted boarding area where there was nobody waiting to be checked in. Awesome. He was so happy he did a great job he pushed me onto the ship and all the way to the Italian restaurant for lunch.

The restaurant was delicious and we were so famished I forgot to to a picture. For lunch they have a pasta bar. :hungry: They give you a paper menu and pencil then you check what you want. We all had bread and caesar salad. (The salad dressing is made fresh on the ship. At least the anchovies were diced really small so I didn't think about it. Not an anchovy fan. :hungover:) I picked farfalle (bowtie) and my daughter picked linguine (because of Ratatouille :joyfull:) with Bolognese (meat sauce), grilled chicken, sauteed onions and green peppers.
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After lunch we could get into our rooms. :geek: Waited for our food to digest, we then hit the pool in the back of the ship to watch Miami sail away. Now I had mentioned I had a big phobia of boats and being where I can't swim to shore. :eek: :bawling: The adrenaline of the morning had kept me from thinking about it. Now I'm at the top level of the ship and we're moving! I'm holding onto my deck chair white-knuckled when my friend orders me a beer. :happy: Good way to forget about being scared. Honestly once we got going out to the ocean I was okay. :D
I like how your friends look out for you and I'm sure you look out for them. Your daughter sounds so sweet.
 

seahawk7

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My DD and I are early risers when at WDW. I loved pulling on sweats over my Jammies, going down to get coffee and tea in our mugs just as the sun was almost starting to rise over the Sassagoula River. It was so quiet the fountains splashing in the stillness was so peaceful as the sun rises over the 10 minute span of my coffee run.
When we stayed at the Boardwalk, we did go out at sunrise and have a coffee on the boardwalk. That was lovely. I love love love morning air. Its invigorating.
 

seahawk7

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contemporary and the bus waiting area of MK.

You can still see the pageant ( a bit blocked) from Ohana.

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I wonder how long until they cover the view of the Wilderness Lodge as well, with awful Teepee type water bungalows.
So the Pageant goes over to Bay Lake from the Seven Seas lagoon? I'm really uninformed. Now water teepees
are just wrong. Teepees are supposed to be on land.
 

seahawk7

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Well, I hope nobody wrote May 23rd down in pen .... Now, it's looking like September!
And if it's September; it may in fact, be either/both Hubby and I.

But do not fret, I start work today. The Builder has decided to flip the four units he personally purchased, and yours truly has the privilege of doing all the work ... for free. He's going to make an extra $50K + per house, and I'm going to be out a couple of hundred bucks in gas and tolls.
Nobody ever said buying Karma was cheap.

On the plus side, I'm going to hit him up for a commission advance.
He's usually pretty good about stuff like that.
Happy first work day! Hope it goes well!
 

seahawk7

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On board the Carnival Breeze they have a 4-D Thrill Theater. (Kinda like Captain EO but the whole seat moves.) It's an extra cost of $15 but you get unlimited visits which is what we did. There are different ten-minute movie shorts (two at a time) showing at a range of times through the days of the cruise. Our assigned dining was at 8:15 each evening and our restaurant was down the hall from the theater so we went often before dinner. I learned not to go after dinner. :depressed:

This night we got to see Happy Feet and Bamboo Express. (B.E. is a rollercoaster ride through the Himalayans. A lot of the scenes reminded me of the Jungle Cruise but the elephants did spray you in the Thrill Theater. :p) Other movies playing were Spongebob, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Speed Racer The Movie, and Extreme Log Ride. (E.L.R. was very extreme. Basically you are a log that has been cut at the top of a mountain and you go down ramps, rivers and sail through the air to a platform to be shipped. This is the only movie that made me ill. :hungover: )

My favorite movie was Planet Earth:Shallow Seas by the BBC. It was a movie for the "older" cruisers (not sure what that says about me :hilarious: ) who can't or didn't want to be tossed around in their seat. The whales still got you wet though and "the sea breeze blowing through your hair" was nice when you're sweaty. :joyfull: One scene with an electric fireclam gives a shocky jolt to your back and I thought....holy carp! CLEAR....ZAPPP!

Our assigned restaurant was the Sapphire. (The picture below isn't mine but it is the same view we had from our seats.) Our head waiter was from Peru, the main waiter was from Bosnia and the drink waiter was from Indonesia. I did take food pics of our meals but I must admit my daughter and I had steak more than once. :oops: Sooooo good! She was excited she didn't have to order off the kid's menu every night. This evening the two of us had caesar salads for apps, steak with roasted garlic, baked potato (for me), herbed fries (for her), and fresh apple pie ala mode for dessert.

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After dinner we explored the ship some. Grown-Ups 2 and Ride Along were playing on the poolside Jumbotron (not appropriate for a 9 yr-old, IMO) so we retired to our room while our friends hit up the casino. My daughter was very happy the two kids channels on board were Cartoon Network and Boomerang. :)

TO BE CONTINUED (after catching up some more) with Guy's Burgers :inlove:, rain is a four-letter word and "Did you see who that was?" :jawdrop:
So you are assigned a restaurant? If you wanted to try the other restaurants, could you?
 

seahawk7

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Just wanted to recommend to everyone (those who haven't noticed a thread yet) called, "A Week of . . ." which is located in here in the General Chat & Non-Disney Discussions forum.

Since everyone here loves food, englanddg has put a great deal of effort into photographing and explaining cooking steps for a number of delicious dishes. On his two most recent pages, 10 and 11, he's been recreating some of his favorite Disney dishes from various restaurants around WDW. He's very talented and shares clear explanations of the steps involved in the cooking process. :happy:
I thought I saw you there!
 

donaldtoo

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Y'all are just mean!
Meany McMeanersons!

Actually, my last name is Tomaterson..!!! :joyfull: :D ;) :)

And, if it makes ya' feel any better, here's a pic of somethin' I don't much care for (beets, in general - but will eat them in a pinch ;)), a beet sandwich...

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MOXOMUMD

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in other news, just came from seeing Dreamworks's Home.
Definitively a little kid's flick, but a lot of it was adorable.
the message of friendhship is really deep.
Also the movie was full of tiny surprises.

Sadly I dont think most of the jokes translated very well into spanish, I will see the movie again once its on bluray, but in english.

Also, the songs really fit the theme of the movie perfectly!

I shed a manly tear during the "FEEL THE LIGHT" song.
Loved, loved this movie! My daughter liked Pigcat. :cat:
 

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