Door Decorating
Decorating our cabin doors was something I had never done before...but decided it would be fun since we were traveling as a bigger group. I found a package of “tiki god” decorations at the Dollar Tree store and thought they would be an easy way to decorate the doors. I used poster putty from Walmart to stick the stuff up and that seemed to work very well. I didn’t put much effort into this project, but it did make our doors easier to find…and I think it helped our room steward learn our names!
Before the cruise I had emailed packing lists to all of the kids…more than once. They know I go overboard in cruise planning so I figured they wouldn’t even look at the list. One of the items on the list was post-it notes. I explained that they would be good for leaving notes on our cabin doors.
Each day we would wake up and find 2 or 3 notes stuck to our door…and usually they didn’t really make sense. We found out later that a friend of Zach's had “pre-written” a whole pad of post-its so he would have plenty of “notes” to put on our door!
I also added a happy anniversary sign for Matt and Marji and a happy birthday sign for Erica.
During the week one of the "heads" was stolen and another "relocated" to a cabin down the hall, but the rest were left alone. I didn't see any other door decorations but I chuckled when I walked down our hallway each day. A few doors down, someone had left a small note taped the the mailbox that read: "Grandpa, this is your cabin".
Crew
I mentioned our great waiters in a previous post…but will mention again…they were awesome! Our kids still talk about the fun they had with our waiters on the Carnival Victory five years ago. Can you imagine their surprise when we were sitting in the Unicorn Café and looked up to see our waiter from the Victory, Bobalito, walk by!
Marji is a middle school geography teacher so on the day we boarded she got the idea to keep track of how many countries she could find that were represented by the workers on the Legend. We all took a guess as to how many she would find…and I am happy to announce…I won with a guess of 39! Marji is very outgoing so would engage many of these workers in conversations asking about their countries.
Our room steward, Putharat Jeeraurit (Jerry) was the most personable of all the cruises we have been on. I’m not sure how many cabins he was responsible for, but it seemed like he worked very long hours. In spite of the workload, Jerry knew everyone of us by name and took time to talk when we met in the hallway.
Pool Time
On both of the sea days we took our time eating breakfast in the main dining room and didn’t get to the pool until 10 am or later. Can you imagine my surprise when on BOTH DAYS we were able to find 8 chairs all together at adults only pool!! We never did spend any time at the main pool so we missed out on any of the activities going on there.
We did make it down the water slide…but just once. Just to be safe Tim (who is 6’3”) had to make sure he met the height requirement before he got on the slide!
The kids thought it was funny that I ended up behind Mr. Speedo.
I brought along my Canon D10 camera and wanted to test it out underwater at the pool. Matt and Marji were happy to do a little underwater smooching in the name of research!
One interesting discovery that we made was that pre-made box lunches were available at the adults only pool. For those not willing to miss a minute of sunshine to go inside to the buffet you could get shrimp focaccia, turkey wrap, Caesar salad, or eggplant sandwich. I think the sandwiches came with a salad and a pickle.
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