MAY 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12, 2015
There are 4 days at sea which could be interesting since the Pacific tends to be much choppier. 😝. Now 5 days due to the fact we will not hit the Puerto Vallarta port.
We do dock in Puerto Vallarta on Tues. May 12th, which seems like an awful lot of days at sea. The captain thought the route looked pretty good, so we shall see. The Capt. made a recent announcement that we will NOT be stopping in Puerto Vallarta since there has been some unrest in the recent week. The Disney Cruiseline does not feel it is safe so we will be at sea one more day. We sort of thought they might stop somewhere else, but I guess Cabo San Lucas will be our last stop before San Diego. FIVE full days at sea. 😒
FRI. MAY 8, 2015
(Sorry about the sideways photos, can't figure out how to shift them)
This morning we had a character breakfast. The characters of course are always cute.
Minnie looking fresh so early in the morning.
Mini Mickey waffles.
The characters look really cute-too bad those insolent folks got on the photo. 😀
We listened to another presentation with Capt. Pucket who was a pilot for guiding the ships through the canal. He has lot of interesting information about the canal regarding past, present and future.
Captain Kenneth Pucket a retired Panama Canal pilot who assisted ships through the locks. After seeing the locks and how narrow they are, guidance from the pilot is very instrumental. He will continue to give talks until the end of the cruise. He began with the history and how ships go through the canal and then spoke of the future of the canal. There is also consideration of building a canal in Nicaragua. We will hear more about that.
It is neat to find characters onboard throughout the day. Friday was Pixar Day and we saw Sully, Mike Wozowski, Mrs. Incredible, the Ant from THE BUGS LIFE and of course Woody & Jessie along with Remy and Dug. We also were able to attend TOY STORY THE MUSICAL. It was actually very well done.
Mike Wozowski has a nice smile for the crowd.
Sully was really quite tall and pretty fluffy. He has trouble because he is so tall. He had to stoop in the large elevator. Poor Sulły.
We even got to see Dug from UP. As you can see, it was dress up night again.
We checked out the Cadillac Lounge. It was relaxing with a pianist playing in the background. Very nice.
This huge grill is the bar.
The Cadillac fins are on the sides of the wall. The red tail light is facing the ceiling. These are much larger than the real car fins and grill, but look pretty classy.
Here is the entrance along with the fins on the wall.
We had to walk down Route 66 to get there.
SAT. MAY 9, 2015
Today is Pirate Day and it is pretty scary with all the little pirates and their parents. It may prove to be really loud and scary tonight when they meet on Deck 10 for the pirate party. We shall see if we can avoid any pilfering they may do.
Poor photo of us with Capt. Hook and Smee. It could be dangerous out on the high seas.
We did experience fireworks at sea as a culmination to Pirates Day. There were pirate type of things all day long with dinner and also the party out by the pool deck.
Here is one mean pirate I would hate to come upon.
Nice photo with Peter Pan.
Fireworks over the ship were pretty neat even with the wind.
SUNDAY MAY 10, 2015 MOTHER'S DAY
Morning sunrise from out the window.
We had a diversion early in the day as we cruised into Guatamala for an emergency disembarkment of a family. The ship dropped anchor at Puerto Quetzal and awaited a tug to take the folks to land. This took place about 11 AM and we finally left the port area around 2:15 PM. We had to wait until we had clearance to leave the port. It didn't help that it was a Sunday so service was not very efficient. Supposedly we are still to arrive in Cabo San Lucas on Thursday, May 14th at 7:30 AM. It really doesn't matter that we are there that early since shops and everything else does not open very promptly in Mexico. They will be good to go at 10 AM or abouts, at least that was true in Cozumel. We just have to locate free WiFi somewhere near the port.
This is what we saw of Guatamala.
This is the tugboat meeting our anchored ship.
Nothing quite like taking a photo of a Disney ship while making an emergency stop to pick up folks.
The tugboat is finally ready to take the family with the medical emergency.
There are a lot of activities going on, lots of trivia, bingo, Disney info, cooking lessons, movies, musicals, talent such as Illusionists, magicians, singers, comedians and more. It would not be a problem to be busy all day long if you so desired. The characters are varied so the kids and adults can catch a glimpse or pose with them. You won't see that on other cruises.
This was in our room for Mother's Day. It is towels folded in the shape of a rose along with some Giradelli chocolates. We have had some very nicely folded characters each day. They are really well done. This one is white on the white comforter so may be difficult to identify. Very nice.
MON. MAY 11, 2015
Another day at sea. Five days is a long time at sea even if there are all sorts of activities. After 5 days there begin to be repetitions or something so similar that you are tired of it. How much napkin folding can a person do? 😀😀😀. Either way it is time to get off of this ship and walk around a town and check out some different scenery. We have seen all of the characters that they have onboard. They change costumes but still, Mickey is Mickey whether he has a Captain's costume or a pirate outfit. They are cute but who cares after 5 full days at sea. I imagine that you picked up on the fact I feel a bit trapped after seeing water on all 4 sides for 5 straight days. It is a wonderful cruise but after the Panama Canal, the rest is just anticlimactic. Now off to Knot tying. 😀. I much prefer a glass of wine and will continue on my blog later. 🍷
I did forget that we had a great presentation from Capt. Pucket relating to the fact that Japan was very close to bombing the Panama Canal and dam in that area. The Japanese were also very involved with doing major damage to the west coast of the U.S. They had a huge submarine , the I-400 that could be used as a small aircraft carrier in that it held 3 airplanes that could land on water if they had the pontoons connected. If the pontoons were not on, it was a suicide mission. The Japanese also painted some of these planes with American insignias which could have really been a problem for the U.S. These planes could have easily flown over the Panama area and wouldn't have been noticed very much due to the proper markings. This huge submarine also had torpedoes that went farther and without a wake. The sub had a crew of about 165-200 while most of the U.S. subs at that time held about 85. It had technology that was not yet available to the U.S. If we had not already taken out Admiral Yamamoto and the war ended this could have been disastrous. It seems the Japanese army and Japanese navy had very poor relations and that the army seemed to have put Yamamoto in our crosshairs. The army had been trying to secretly assassinate Admiral Yamamoto. After Yamamoto was no longer there the army took control and forced the navy to only guard the coastline of Japan. The navy was no longer the strong entity it had been. When the war ended we found lots of these I-400 submarines and also some of the airplanes. It wasn't until later that we discovered they had painted some of the planes with U.S. Insignias. The U.S. also found the plans to bomb the Panama Canal and the west coast. It was a good thing that army beat navy in this instance.
We were walking on the deck and Pluto waited for us. What a nice dog, not like Goofy at all. He posed for a photo and then we had our photo taken too.
Here Pluto is waving to us down the hall on deck.
We are a bit wind blown but we decided to try a photo anyway.
He played a little shuffleboard while we were there.
TUESDAY MAY 12, 2015
Another day at sea 😟. At least tomorrow we will get to Cabo San Lucas and be tendered into port. Hopefully we can find some free WiFi to get this blog out. We did get to see Olaf this morning. He sure is cute. The line was starting at 8 AM and he wasn't to appear until 9:00 AM. There was quite a line and we noticed that the Disney cast member even made the sign of the cross when he entered the room. Poor guy. Olaf was really good with the children and adults who were patiently waiting for him so that made it worth the wait.
We played shuffle board with our table mates today. None of us were very good so one gal changed the rules so that we could make a few points. How pathetic is that. The 8 of us had a good time. Tonight was another formal night and the "Officers Ball" which entailed dancing. That was sort of silly since the area for dancing is very small but the thought was there. Photographers were out again to either take professional photos or candid type ones. Some folks truly dress very formal with long gowns and tuxes. We just don't pack that type of clothing unless you take a couple of steamer trunks.
There is additional entertainment we should be able to see but we do want to get off of the ship fairly early tomorrow if possible. They are having us all meet in a large room where we will be given a number to embark on your tender at a given time. They will start this process at 7:00 AM.
We listened to Chuck Wagner a Broadway singer who is wonderful. He was the Beast on Broadway for Beauty and the Beast and has an excellent easy to listen to voice. We have seen and listened to him a couple of times while on the ship.
It is supposed to be hot tomorrow but the air at sea this evening is quite cool compared to what we have experienced up to this point. We have had very hot and humid temps and later today we approached the area closer to the Baja Peninsula and it began to cool down. Probably just getting us prepared for the cooler weather of CA. 😒
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