Day 2- Day at Sea

So as I mentioned in Day 1 we stayed on the 10th floor. In my previous 3 sailing I have always stayed on Deck 6. I must say after the 1st night I like deck 10. We didn’t hear a lot of noise; we are in mid-ship so maybe under Eye Scream Ice Cream.   When we woke up in the morning mom ran up the stairs to get some coffee. It was very convenient to get drinks in the morning.

We decided to dine at Royal Place this morning. I went with the grits, sausage and cheese omelet, and a hash brown.  After breakfast we did some detective work while we waited for the shops to open.
Porg
Ewok

It was so nice to walk around and not have a ton of people all shopping at the same time. There was a lot of Star Wars merchandise for sale (of course).

Disney also came out with a new Pandora 2020 charm.

We headed back to the room to drop off all of our purchases J and find some clues along the way. Then it was back downstairs to a ship tour, but we found out the tour really was just showing you all the locations. We were hoping for some information about the ship and decorations. So we ditched that tour and headed to D lounge to do the Disney Vacation Club presentation. We were 30 minutes early for that so went to the loungers on the 4th floor to look out into the ocean. 11:30 we went back into D-lounge for the presentation. It was about 45 minutes and you received a $25 room credit and a Porg. After the first presentation we headed up to Deck 11 grab some lunch (chicken tendies!) and went back down to 4 to watch Frozen 2. The movie was good (2nd time I’ve seen it), then back up to Deck 11 to drop off our dishes, down to deck 3 so the 2nd portion of the DVC presentation (30 min) to get our prog (which in the ship stores sells for $20!) and additional $50 room credit. I will give up an hour of vacation for $75 in room credit! They go over the plans and financing options down in a room on deck 2. They took an inside state room and turned it into an office. The office was pretty cool. I wanted to look around at what they had done to change the stateroom into an office more than I wanted to listen to the presentation.

After that was over we headed all the way back up to deck 11 because there was supposed to be a different ship tour that talked about the design behind the ship. Well evidently the only way to get to the Meridian is through the Aft stairs which on the 11th floor were inside cabanas. So by the time we figured that out the tour had already started, so we decided to head to the Cove for an iced vanilla latte.
Then we heard the announcement that information and sign up for 5K was happening down at the tube at 4:30, so back downstairs. We learned about where to meet for the race, signed our wavers, got our bibs and walked back up to the 10th floor.
Inside the Tube while we were getting our information about the Castaway 5K.

As we cruised today we could see Havana, Cuba from our room. It was cool to see the buildings of the city as we sailed.

Dinner tonight was at Enchanted Garden. We were seated at the fun circle tables that are down the middle aisle!.
The flower and roof change as the dinning room changes room day to night. This is the day when the flowers are closed and yellow.
Night time in the dinning room and the flowers are white and open.
North Atlantic Lobster Ravioli- with roasted Garlic and Sweet Basil in a Tomato Broth
Seared Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Rosti Potatoes, Collard Greens and a Morel Cognac Sour Cream Sauce
Southern Pecan Tart with Bourbon Caramel Sauce

After dinner we headed to the Skyline lounge to have a drink and watch the different skyline changes. They change about every 10 minute.

I had the Paris 75 (Grey Goose Citron Vodka, Peach Schapps, Blue Curaco, Pineapple Juice, Sugared Rim, and a Souvenir Glow Cube (don’t worry nieces I will drink enough, so you each can have you own cube!).
This was the drink I had. I ended up getting it 3 more times during the cruise.
This is what mom decided to get on the first night.

The skyline lounger offers a Passport drink package -7 drinks for $65. They do it by drink not per person, so mom and I can share the package. The downside is it only works at Skyline, but that is ok.


After drinks we headed back to the room to relax and prepare for our excursion the next day. We finished watching Gemini Man (with Will Smith) and started watching Star Wars the Force Awakens. We noticed more deck noise tonight. Kids running and chair moving, which being under the ice cream I can understand why we heard kids running.

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