Sunday On The Magic

After yesterday’s spectacular haul of “free stuff,” today will be totally anticlimactic. So as to not prolong your disappointment, here’s a brief recap of our day:

After breakfast at Topsiders, I decided to go to the DVC Member meeting (if you don’t know what a DVC Member is, ask a cast member the next time you go to Disney World. If you are buying into DVC, please mention my name so I get some more free stuff). At the meeting, I got free mimosas (just as quickly as I could swig one down, Fernando or Ingrid would quickly whisk the empty glass away and replace it with a full one). Molly smelled the offer of free drinks and joined me. We also received free DVC Member hats, a keychain, a tote bag, and a backpack, and a chat about how wonderful DVC is, to which all the mimosa-filled attendees agreed.

Molly and I wandered back to our room to deposit our goods, and decided that we needed some food to soak up the mimosas, so we had some pizza, which ended up being the appetizer to our lunch, which was an Asian buffet. We should have stopped at the pizza. Maribeth joined us for lunch, but left quickly after lunch, so Molly and I decided to play TV theme song trivia. And we won!! Never mind that there were only 4 teams (a total of 7 people) playing. Chance, our emcee, said the prizes he had were lame (which we found out later), so he took our names and stateroom number, and said he would deliver our prizes to our room. We ended up getting two Disney Cruise Line hats ($20 value each). We scored!

Next Molly and I decided to visit the Rainforest Room, which is basically a room with heated chairs, various forms of saunas (which were explained during the tour of the spa, but we weren’t really paying attention, so we don’t know which sauna was what), and various shower aromatherapy showers. First we went into Sauna One, where Molly walked in, declared that she couldn’t breathe in it, and left. So we went into Sauna Three, which was much more breathable, so we don’t know if it was working. We tried Sauna Two, which Molly could stand for 30 seconds, which was 25 more than Sauna One. We tried several of the showers, but we also weren’t paying attention when we were given directions on their use, so that also proved quite interesting. In other words, it was an episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies Go To The Sauna.” The best part was when Molly was trying to determine if the lady next to her on the heated chair was sleeping, or perhaps dead. Luckily, the lady woke up before Molly went for help.

Anyhow, we cleaned up and went to Disney trivia, where Steve and Maribeth’s team beat out all the other teams to win. The other teams consisted of one – me and Molly. Steve and Maribeth were awarded the prizes Chance had determined were lame – and they were. A keychain. Certainly not as worthy as a Disney cruise hat. Or even a chewed piece of gum or panty liner.

We finished the day with free drinks at the Captain’s Reception. We tried one last Disney music trivia game and lost, mainly because there was a much larger crowd participating, and the fact that we didn’t know any of the music or movies or bonus questions.

Tomorrow we are at sea again, so who knows what is in store for us. We haven’t played Bingo yet, so maybe we’ll get a really good prize then!

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Today's blessings: Winning at trivia with Molly; Rainforest room; dinner chat with Alicia