Tuesday, Sep 2, 2008

Castaway Cay Day

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Well, today was Tuesday, and we ended up at Castaway Cay. I got to bed – even after delivering fish gifts – my magnet with Rumbly Tumbly’s words, and got to be before midnight. I fell asleep almost immediately and did not awake until 10:30. Go over 10 hrs of sleep. Steve and I hung around an almost empty ship. I did however, see Father Mike up at Pluto’s Dog House and I respected his body language and did not interrupt. He is after all on vacation. LOL

So, we ate and then got off the ship about 12:30. The ship was 95% empty. It was actually really nice. Topsider’s was closed and we didn’t make it to Parrot Cay. So after getting off, we walk by the Post office and realized it was closed. Par for the course – it was open on Sunday on the EB and closed on this one. Oh well, it wasn’t like I was going to send anything anyway. LOL

We rented bikes for $6/hr and being the rebel I am, kept it out past the 1 hr. We rode from the end of Family beach to the observation tower over on Serenity Bay area. The tower was open but it sure swayed with the wind. We got a nice view of the Magic and the place where we went some time ago to do the kayaking. Me, trying to avoid a repeat of heat exhaustion, stopped at every water station and gulped those small round cone shaped cups of water. Steve then wanted to stop at Serenity Bay so we did and snagged some chairs and went into the water. The water was much deeper than on Sunday on the EB and Steve ended up balancing on the tip of the chair. I sat in the water with my hat – the black and white one, my ipod in its waterproof case and sunglasses and up to my shoulders and sat there for about 45 minutes before I snagged a lounge chair with an umbrella.

We left there about 3:15 and return the bikes which we really had a nice time using. We got back to the ship and took a shower and were definitely ready for dinner at 6. I kinda like this time for this cruise. Not 100% sure I’d like it for an extended cruise but both Steve and I agreed that we like it since we are both pretty hungry the last two days.

Did I mention that our waiters are: Collin from Trinidad, Mariano from Argentina – who really is quite a nice looking man for being on the vertically challenged end but who cares – he’s taller than me which works for me! ROTFL. For a second night in a row, Abbey, Christie’s granddaughter, who really is cute as a button, fell asleep at the table. It is hilarious. I am going to wait until tomorrow night to see how she falls asleep. Different position every night I hope. Anyway, we also saw our old waitress – Chyntana from the Wonder who served us all on the 11 Night and the expression on her face when she seen us all was priceless. Sorta of a mini-11-Night reunion; priceless I tell you- Priceless.
So on the way out I ran into Vlado shom I hunted down and gave him his magnet. After 2 cruises, I finally am getting the hang of what that man likes. I searched for him last night but boy he is all business – serve, get them done and move on to the next seating.

OH, I forgot. I love my servers, mentioned Collin and Mariano but did I mention our head server? He is Arnold. I think from Jamaica I think. He sorta resembles Samuel Jackson in a sexy Shaft sort of way. Never did think he was cute before but this man stand over 6’2 inches – taller than Andrew I know and is a very courteous man. He came around the first night and introduced himself to everyone and hung around for about 4 minutes. Then our servers started doing their thing. I totally forgot that they make recommendations of the dinner menu which is something that we missed the entire time 15-night voyage. How I missed that I don’t know. Anyway, they even got some time to talk. Collin, of course talks every night but Mariano does too. We are finishing dinner around 7:15-7:30 which their next seating is 8:30 so this is nice.

On the way out, I ran into Ken and Christie, while we are on the same rotation, the tables on the Magic are stationary and if we want a huge table to serve us all, we will have to move from the windows and side of the restaurants which Collin said we might want to stay at. So Ken and Christie walked out with us and we spent a very relaxing night in Diversions talking and catching up.

Went to bed around 1 and got up at 10 am to the bright sights of Nassau.

So on to the next blog. TTYL


Laura