The Cruise Begins

One bit of trivia: to conserve energy the electricity in the stateroom will only work if a room key is left in the slot by the door. That's swell, but when you have adjoining rooms you often enter through one and walk through to the other, meaning you are in utter darkness until you find the light catch. All in all, the earth conscious step was a pain in the behind. 

Anyway. 

After the party Lisa and YaYa had a wee disagreement about the latter's behavior at said event, but soon enough we put her in her dreaded club and went on with the afternoon. It turns out, btw, that her "horrible" club would CONSUME her time on the ship. Given a free reign, and a midnight curfew, she seemed to spend every free moment at Edge, or with friends she met there. Meanwhile LuLu seemed more withdrawn, spending time at the club but also retreating to the cabin to read or chill out.

 As with every night, the family reunited for dinner at 5;45. Disney does rotational dining, where every night you eat at a different restaurant but are served by the same crew. The trouble with night one was that the ship was rocking. I mean literally rocking. The weather in Florida was cold (47 on one day) and when that cold air hit the water it did not create ideal conditions. I like the feel of a ship beneath me, and find it comforting, but this was NOT the norm. By dinner PD, Mom and I were a little 'eh"but ok, LK and GC were unaffected, but poor Lu was gray in the face and sick to her stomach. 

I offered to leave dinner and retrieve dramamine from our stateroom, but that was a mistake. The ship is big - one lap of the deck is 4/10th's of a mile - and I had to wind through the length of the ship over several decks. Most of the time I was swaying to one side with the roll of the ship, and I saw one child get sick. By the time I returned to dinner I was done, and almost as ick as LuLu. We both excused ourselves before dessert and headed to the stateroom to lie down. Lisa finished dinner, put Parker and Lauren in their club, dispatched the older two, and returned to the stateroom.

By eight I had recovered enough to attend the musical "The Golden Mickey's" with Lisa and Junie, who we of course picked up from the club. Before the show the captain appeared to explain the reason for the harsh conditions, but promised by 11 it would vanish and it would be smooth sailing. That earned him an ovation from the crowd. And you know what? The rest of the cruise was like buttah. 

The show was good, and afterwards Lisa and I put Junie back in the club with Smiley and lounged around. At 11 or so I retrieved them both. The pic of the air hockey table is the last one you'll see from that area of the ship, as they've updated their security protocol  and ban photography from the kids areas (I didn't know at the time). 

I took the two little one's up to the 11th deck, where I got them  some pizza and we all sat and watched the moonlit water. From there it was back to the room, with three more great days ahead of us on the Disney Dream.