Ok - so - During the Muster Drill, I went to Station E by myself, and Grant went with Angie to help her with the kids at their muster station. I had the pleasure of standing in front of one of those kids who is such a brat, you’d think that they were planted - like seriously - no one really acts like this, do they? So Brat Girl is talking in the snottiest tone I’ve ever head to her mother, bitching about the bracelet she has to wear (each muster station is designated by a color, and every child on board under the age of 12 o 14 wears a bracelet that will show anyone what there muster station is - so that in an emergency, parents do not have to go and find their kids - staff will bring the kids to the musters station…) Anyway this girl was going on an on about how stupid the bracelet was and how she didn’t want to wear it and “like anything is going to happen…” and “this drill is so stupid I don’t want to do this. I am gong to take it off…” blah blah blah. BRAT! We’re all crowded and uncomfortable and she’s making the situation miserable - I mean - funny, but annoying.
Then, Grant rested while Angie and I went to the Camp Carnival Orientation to sign the kids up for Camp Carnival and figure it all out. I think the kids are going to have a lot of fun there!
AT dinner, we found out that we had a table just for us five - thank goodness - and it was right close to the door, which was good in case the kids needed to leave for anything.
The kids menus are pretty cool - lots of activity pages, and then they bring out the kids fruit (if they order it) with the adults appetizers.
Hmmm… what did us adults have to eat? I had Beef Barley soup, a wedge salad, and sweet and sour shrimp, with fried rice. Grant had smoked salmon, , cream of asparagus soup, wedge salad, and rack of lamb. Angie had the Cream of Asparagus soul and a wedge salad and I can’t remember her entrée…
The kids did fairly well for the long meal but they were definitely getting squirrelly by the end!!! For dessert, we shared two crème brutes and a warm chocolate melting cake - which was heavenly and is an alternative selection that will be offered every night!
After dinner, we looked around the ship a bit before heading to the ice cream sundae party for the kids. (By the way - our suit bag didn’t arrive until after dinner - so I had to wear my Capri’s and Grant had to wear shorts and a t-shirt t dinner. Oh well… many other people did as well…)
After the ice cream party, we went upstairs to check out Camp Carnival - it was open for a tour. The kids are going to have a lot of fun!
Finally, we went to the Welcome Aboard Show. Cori slept through the whole thing - but Andrew stayed up and loved it. Our cruise director is Wee Jimmy - who is famous on the Cruise Critic message boards. He is awesome… he has this thick Scottish accent and came out in a kilt - Very funny, very entertaining.
After that it was, of course, bed time.
Key West.
ON Sunday, we went to Key West. However, the ship wasn’t scheduled to arrive until noon, which was nice - it gave us plenty of time to sleep in. The kids went to Camp Carnival for a bit, while Grant and I ate lunch and Angie finished unpacking.
In Key West, we visited the Pirate Soul museum - which was really quite impressive - there was a lot to see, and many authentic artifacts. Andrew loved it and I thought it was pretty interesting myself! After that, we stopped next door and had some snacks. It was HOT, so we went back to the ship around 4 and had a quick dip in the pool before dinner.
After the first day, Camp Carnival reopens for the kids at 7:00 PM. I had read online the following strategy, and we decided to try it out… the kids came with us to dinner at 6:15, and we ordered there food right away. Then at 7:00, Angie ran up and put them in the kids club, so we could enjoy the rest of our meal. It worked out will last night, and I think we’ll continue to do that for the rest of the trip.
I bet you’re wondering what we had for dinner? Well, I had a chicken quesadilla, French onion soup, and pasta with shrimp, scallops, and calamari. Grant had the sushi sampler, proscuitto, and chicken. Angie had French Onion Soup and spare ribs. We all had the chocolate melting cake for dessert.
When the waiter took orders for the kids, Andrew read his menu and wanted to order himself. He says to the waiter, “I’ll have…fruit cocktail….cheese pizza….French fries….and a cheese burger…” The waiter is just nodding and writing - no big deal, and Angie was talking to Grant and didn’t notice, so I was like, “Wait a minute - Andrew - you never eat all your food - that is way too much - just pick one, the pizza of the burger, and if you are still hungry, you can order more…” So Andrew says, “ Ok, well, I’ll have the pizza… and a Peanut Butter and Jelly…” At this point, we all laughed… eventually he just got the French fries, fruit and pizza.
After dinner, Angie Grant and I watched the 6:30 show - a juggler and a comedian. Then we finally got to explore all of the ship. It is laid out just like any other Carnival Ship I’ve been on, for the most part, just a lot bigger. We peeked in the windows of the kids club and watched the kids playing. Then we watched some Karaoke for a while. Finally we headed out to the midnight show - the r-rated comedy show (the comedian from the Welcome Aboard Show.) Apparently, he and the comedian from tonight were friends, so tonight’s comedian introduced him. Except he decided to play a joke on his friend. The introduction took ten minutes, and as he proceeded to tell us how great the comedian we would be seeing was…”and his opening bit, it is just great, you see he coaches little league…” and he proceeds to do his friends whole opening bit, badly…Well, it really threw off our main comedian and he was both pissed off and thought it was funny - but you could tell his act was weak - he just didn’t know where to go with this whole thing. It was pretty funny.
Then we picked up the sleeping kids from the Kids Club Slumber Party/ group babysitting and carried them downstairs to Angie’s cabin, and went to bed.
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