The Royal Treatment ~ R is for Running Around in Circles

After an early wakeup call to help settle Kylee (who had missed a rung on her way out of her bunk), I tried going back to sleep, unsuccessfully. So I got my running clothes together and decided if I were to wake up I might as well take advantage of it.
Waking up bright (actually it was still dark outside, actually it usually is dark out at 4:30 in the Caribbean) well, early anyway, there was plenty of time to take pictures and go for a run before the day started.



Midship, convenient to everything.

Deck 8 mural

Left my home deck on 8. And took the stairs down to deck five.

Stairwell art. Mickey and Minnie classics!

Down a few floors until I reached the landing on five.

Anchor Inset

In the Art of the Theme Show Tour during our third cruise they told us that an easy way to tell you were on a deck with entertainment is the insets in the carpet show anchors.
Why anchors?
Because entertainment is the anchor of Disney.

All clean and vacuumed for the day.

The main atrium, still lovely and dressed for Christmas.

Christmas in the atrium.

I think Ariel is my favorite of the atrium statues.



Beautiful!

I wandered down to deck four.

Studio Sea

Admired the wreaths for a bit.

Spot the photographer...

Wandered around the other side of deck four.

Walt, Walt, Roy.
Seems like Duck, Duck, Goose for Disney-philes.

And after a few (dozen) more pictures...



Four Forward between Mickey's Mates and Disney Treasure Ketch.

Christmas at Preludes.

Pretty murals.

Port Adventures Desk.

I love the decorations!



So on a hunch that my other favorite hidden Mickey from the Magic also might be missing, I checked out the wall between the elevators.



What? No hidden Mickey?

I took the stairs back up to four.

Donald!

Clarabelle, Pete and Daisy.

Walked past the Future Cruise Desk seating area.

Beautiful Art Nouveau.

Selected a likely looking bench to stretch.

Good enough for me.

And set out for some running.

Running before dawn at sea is a unique experience.

Four forward houses an area where you can see some rather "behind the scenes" type ship equipment.

Mooring lines and such for use when docked.

By the way, the laps heading into the wind seem REALLY long.

Deck four.

This is more properly viewed as a jogging track than a running track. The aft of the deck narrows considerably.

Pretty narrow, actually, for a full out run.

Stretched again, still quite predawn so rather than waiting on deck for sunrise, I double back to our suite to discover that someone else in our FE group is a morning person.

Gifts galore!

And popped inside the room to catch a shower.
Mom was awake in the living room but Ben, Kylee and Chris still slept.
I popped out on deck and visited with Diana for a bit while watching the sun peek up.

Good Morning!

Sadly, out on deck we both missed the doorbell and Ben stumbled out onto the verandah with mom's coffee from room service.



It's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow.

This is Part 7 of an Ongoing Trip Report "The Royal Treatment" additional sections of this report can be found on the Adventures page.