A New Ship | Something About Apples

On fetching our cereal boxes and fruit from the lounge, Julia mentioned that they happened to recently complete the cabanas at the end of the family beach if we happened to be interested.

The Lounge Hallway

Intrigued, I let her know I'd check with Ben and get back to her.
We ate breakfast.
Thought it over.
Looked at the bill for the cruise so far (it had been delivered either the night before or early that morning and was still well within our budget) and decided to go for it.

Kylee takes Jazz.
Not that you can tell or anything.

Since we had gone back a time zone, (back to eastern from Atlantic) we were up very early. After wandering around the ship, we decided to drop off the last of the Fish Extender gifts. Ben joined us for handing out gifts, usually he sits out and we both remarked how the halls jagged to the right and left as you walked up the passenger decks. At the Art of Animation tour, the cast member had explained this was to avoid the endless hallway effect. We just felt it made it difficult to tell how far down a deck you had travelled and how much was left.



Because Moped!

After a brief stop in La Piazza to play with the moped we queued with our tickets for the Gingerbread House construction.

It's up!
It hasn't fallen over yet!
Quick take a picture!

Another of the "free but limited tickets" events, this one took us back into Animator's Palate. The gingerbread is made fresh onboard and smells amazing! After very little in the way of instructions (other than everything is edible) off we went on the construction and decoration.

Do you want to build a snowman?

There *may* have been some snacking involved.

Despite having massive amounts of space in which to display our gingerbread house in our stateroom, as you may've noticed in the above photo, Chris had already begun disassembling/snacking on the gingerbread house while Ben was distracted by the frosting.
(Chimney first, of course.)
Chris had enjoyed the gingerbread house immensely, but because of the previous two port days, was feeling rather low on Oceaneer's Lab...so he went back to get a refill.

There never needs to be a reason to make crafts.

Kylee hung out to make some lovely door hangers while she was waiting for our appointed audience with the princesses. Then we went to the main atrium.

Yay! Ariel!

After fifteen minutes of waiting, Kylee took a minute to warm up to Cinderella, but she was eager to meet Ariel. On our previous couple of cruises, Ariel kept swimming around in the ocean with Flounder, so Triton's youngest was on my princesses must meet list.

Unlike Kylee, I am not scared of Cinderella, she let Ben and I eat in her castle on our honeymoon and everything.

And K and Tiana go way back, naturally.

K still talks about dancing with Tiana on her first cruise back when she was three.

Kylee eagerly told Jasmine how much she liked seeing her in Aladdin.

Kylee especially loved the magic carpet in the musical.

She asked her where Aladdin was. Apparently he was busy. Something about apples.
Then, worn out from her royal engagements, Kylee wanted to head back to the comfort of the Oceaneer's Lab and all the crafts.

#Team RizzoTheRat

I wanted to finish out the Muppet Midship Detective Agency, to Ben's amusement, so we took a good picture of Pepe's door (trust me, having the details off of this door, keeps you from needing to double back later.)
And headed off to seek the dastardly villain who stole the Muppet Show.

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This is Part 16 of an Ongoing Trip Report "A New Ship."
Additional sections will be found on the Trip Reports page after they are posted!