Day 2 - Monday 30th May 2016
All at sea
Today was a sea day; action packed and full of fun.
We started the day off with room service which arrived, on time but unannounced, at 7:30. Woken by the knock at the door and disorientated; I stumbled around the room for a bit before eventually locating the door, inviting the server in and fumbling in the safe to find money for the tip. $2 lighter I showed the server out and clambered back into bed, only to then receive a phone call from room service. On our WBTA cruise we got a call every morning telling us room service was on it’s way - we used it as our wake up call. Assuming they’d forgotten, I told the person who called to see if we were happy with our service, that we were not because we hadn’t received a call. Unfortunately, they took no notice and only once on this cruise did we get a call before room service arrived.
Stateroom 2576
It was about 8:15 when we woke Isabella to share the fruit and croissants with us. Once breakfast was done we got ready as we had an appointment with Anna, Elsa and Olaf at the Frozen Meet and Greet. Isabella put on her Elsa dress and off we went.
We headed down to Animator’s Palate, which was decorated with Frozen backgrounds, music, lighting and animations on the screens. We joined the short queue waiting to meet Olaf, followed by Anna and Elsa. There was a family of about seven people in front of us who we nicknamed the “Many Configuration Family” as they arranged and rearranged the members of their party into multiple combinations for a number of photos. It’s a good job we didn’t have anywhere to be urgently - although lunch would be nice!
Finally it was our turn - well, Isabella’s. No multiple set ups here. One autograph in her new autograph book (an Asda-bought notebook with the addition of a daddy-designed sticker on the front), a couple of photos and a warm hug later and she was done. On to the sisters and I’m pretty sure that Anna was the same girl that had been Rapunzel on the WBTA. Another couple of autographs and photos and we were done.
Waiting to meet the Frozen characters
The book
Arendelle comes to Animator's Palate
Do you wanna meet a snowman?
Isabella likes warm hugs
Olaf
Meeting Anna and Elsa
Anna and Elsa
Well sort of. Because next up was the Princess Gathering; three more Princesses to meet and greet in the atrium. As we were running a few minutes early - despite the earlier hold up - we had a little sit down in the Promenade Lounge before eventually heading down to the atrium.
On the way to the atrium there had been an unfortunate sea sickness incident. By all accounts (well, Jo’s account) a child had been feeling ill but hadn’t told the parents until it was far too late!
We joined the queue for the princesses and within ten minutes Isabella was meeting Belle, Rapunzel and Cinderella. As usual the princesses gave her cuddles and chatted with her for a few minutes before signing her autograph book and posing for a photo or two.
Isabella was actually pretty tired this morning due to the clocks going forward and us losing an hour in bed and she wasn’t alone - there were a lot of tired looking kids wandering around the boat this morning.
After all the meeting and greeting it was time for some eating!
Having a cuddle with mum
Water water everywhere...
Meeting Belle
Meeting Rapunzel
Meeting Cinderella