True to form the day started with room service brecky at half 8. No order issues this time and the same chap delivering so he now chats with us. We were out by 10am and off to our first trivia of the day; Disney theme tunes. After about 5 questions we felt really smug thinking we were doing so well. Even with our debate about what movie the song reflections was from, which Paul insisted was Pocahontas but I knew was Mulan, we figured we were well in it to win it. We were so wrong. As they were scored we had got so many wrong and ended up with an appalling score. Still, we met some new friends, an older American couple who were travelling with their pink haired daughter who we getting married. Straight after the tunes trivia was another Cruisin’ for Trivia. Our Chicago friends Shaila and Apurva joined us some had some reasonably intelligent and knowledgable folk between us. We stormed the science questions about chemical names and bones of the body and again thought we must be in with a shot at winning. This time we were close, second I think, but second is not winning.
It was now time to go eat (all we do is quiz, eat and sleep). We opted for the Cabanas equivalent buffet, Top Siders but the choice was poor so again ended up with pool deck hot dogs and fries. We chilled out for a while on sun loungers (I completed your first 3 days blog for posting) then I headed off to the spa. I had a manicure and pedicure which was as good as always. Paul met me afterwards telling me he’d actually won some trivia on his own. It was general knowledge and despite only getting 11 out of 25 the others were clearly not very knowledgable as this was the winning score. Another damn keychain added to the collection.
We headed back to our cabin for my feet and hands to totally dry ahead of getting ready for dinner. Tonight our Boston table mates were at Palo so there were just the four of us. The restaurant was Parrot Cay which is a dreadful tacky mix of a Mexican restaurant and the Tiki room at Magic Kingdom. It’s being changed as part of the refurb as apparently no one liked it. To start I had pulled pork on a pizza bread base, followed by a chilled pineapple and coconut soup. Paul had a shrimp salad, eating all of the shrimp but leaving every shed of salad. For mains we both had the rib steak which was very tasty and tender.
After dinner guess what we did? Yep, trivia. We’d arranged to meet Shaila and Apurva again as we were reigning champs but when we got there it was trivia with a difference. The room was divided into 2 halves with each half being a team. Each team then nominated a runner to represent the team and run up with the answer. We nominated Apurva who did a great job hurling himself at the buzzer in the middle, flying across the room and sliding along the floor. Sadly though, the other team knew more answers so yet again we lost.
It was now show time and tonight was a comedic juggling act. He was a really good juggler and got a lot of audience members on stage making fun of them to provide the amusement and comedy value. It was an OK show. Afterwards we took a walk on deck 10. We were actually anchored at Freeport as we’d stopped for fuel. We could see loads of tankers around us and the lights of a Carnival ship in port. We did a complete circuit of the ship with Paul taking a few pics along the way. After this we decided to turn in and go to bed. Now you’d think this would be the end of the days blog but actually it’s not. Sadly there was some late night drama for us. It happened about 2:30 am with Paul waking me up to tell me the toilet was broken. The flush wouldn’t work and the bowl was full of water. An inch or so away from flooding. We called guest services who sent a housekeeping guy. He obviously could not fix it and told us we would need a plumber the next morning and in the meantime use the public toilets a deck down! Not finding this acceptable Paul got back on the phone to guest services. About 15 minutes later an engineer arrived. He was in a small technical room next to our cabin for about 10 minutes before he too announced he couldn’t fix it. Paul was back on the phone again, by now on first name terms with Elanor at tho the end. He explained it wasn’t good enough but all we could be offered was another cabin. So, at about 3:30 am we trudged along the ship and up a deck to another room (me in my pjs I might add). We did manage to get some sleep and use the toilet :-). We had breakfast on order as ever so Paul rang Elanor one more time to ensure it came to our new room. It turned up on time with our resident sever.