The day started much as any other with breakfast delivered and devoured. The day continued as others too with Disney Trivia. We joined forces with Tracey and Dex (UK couple from DIS Boards) and they had an amazing knowledge of Disney films. They seemed to have watched dozens in their cabin. Despite our joint efforts we were beaten by a solo player who only got one question wrong. Later we discovered she had sailed on 42 Disney cruises. Now since they only started in 1998, you do the math.
The day continued as others with lunch on deck. Sandwiches and chips and a little relaxation time. So, given our days go food, trivia, food, trivia you’d think more trivia is next but today we had a special event in the afternoon; our mixology class. It started at 2pm and was in Sessions bar. Each table was already laid out with a shot of clear liquor (which turned out to be rum) a glass with mint and lime in it (so we figured e’d be making a mojito), a wooden muddler, a stirrer, cans of sprite and club soda and an already mixed cocktail. We took our seat and our teacher/host was a Jamaican bar tender called Anne Marie. She began by getting us to drink the first cocktail which was a watermelon cooler. As we drank she showed us how to make it and got a member of the group to go up and help. It turned out to be southern comfort based with the fruit liqueur and a splash of club soda. It was piled with ice and very refreshing. All our cocktails were in tiny glasses but the helper ended up getting the full sized one she made. You can imagine after this first one that there were plenty of volunteers for all the others. We also had a gin based, mango margarita and a passion fruit martini all of which were really nice. It was then time for us to make the mojito. We muddled our lime, trying to extract the juice and not crush the mint. We added crushed ice, the rum shot and topped up with sprite. The sprite produced a sweeter version than adding the club soda. As everyone sipped away you could her the bunch getting louder and merrier. We finished the session with what they call a B54, although in my day I swear it was a B52. It is kaluha, layered with amaretto and Baileys to produce a layered dessert type drink. By this time we were still ok but there we definitely some tipsy folk.
Immediately after the mixology was another trivia. We got a table and joined forces with Mandy and Curt from DIS Boards. Mandy herself was deffo tipsy, especially as half way through there was a movie quote question and she said it must be Notting Hill as he said it in an English accent. We did try to point out he actually was English and had asked every question so far in an English accent but I’m not sure it went in. As the quiz progressed more and more people from mixology arrived. DJ Matt who was quiz master seemed to spot them so easily. The swaggering and volume was a dead give way. They were a tad rowdy but we thought it highly amusing. Paul himself got a coffee sensibly.
After trivia, which we didn’t win, we went for a walk around deck. It was very windy and Paul took a few pics. We then got ready early as we had heard about drinks on the hidden deck 7 with the DIS Boards crew so we went along for 30mins or so. We then headed into dinner, back in Animator’s Palette. It is different to Dream as the tech is a few years older. Basically, it is all black and white (walls, chairs, tables decor the lot) and then the show is all the artwork becoming coloured and some Disney video clips. The huge paint brushes that are ceiling pillars also light up. We were both pretty full (hardly surprising when you eat loads and burn no calories) but since it was baked potato soup on the menu Paul still had two bowls. We followed this with beef tenderloin with wasabi mash. The meat is so succulent.
The evenings entertainment began with trivia (we figured it would be a change ;-)) followed by the show which was an entertainer called John Charles. He played Disney songs with the lyrics changed to become funny. He did a great one about the cabin attendants with lyrics such as “if I don’t answer the second you call, you just go and steal it from my cart in the hall”. It was actually really amusing and I am looking forward to the adult show later in the week.
Sticking to form we went back the cabin to blog for a while before adding on yet another hour and going to bed.