I didn't make it to the masquerade ball :-( it was my own decision not to go though. I was just too tired and seen as we don't get off work until gone 11.30pm I ended up drinking strongbow with Tyler and nick in my cabin for a while before crashing out. In the daytime of Friday I went to Atlantis for the first time though which was great. It is very beautiful there but expensive. The taxi was only $4 each way for each of us which was surprisingly cheap. We went into the casino for a bit and wondered around the shops. I got a Pandora bracelet and three charms for $115 due to a special deal and it being tax-free! Yay! I already had a bracelet but it was getting rather full so now I have two.
The weekend was pretty standard with Castaway on Saturday and Canaveral on Sunday. I ended up going to Chilis on Sunday with Nick but apart from that it was uneventful.
This brings us to yesterday which was the long-awaited late night day. We still had to go into work for the morning because we couldn't just have the whole day off unfortunately. We usually would have done counts on a Monday morning which is basically an audit and stocktake we do every week. However, it's the last week of the financial year for Disney so we didn't have counts. I changed over the display on the front table and did some cleaning. We had no crew drill so we got done at about 11.30am. A last minute decision lead to going back to Atlantis again... Tyler, nick and I got pizza for lunch, I won $50 playing card games and we got Starbucks. An awesome day! Tyler headed back early to have a nap (he's still getting over his first week exhaustion!) and therefore Nick and I left at about 5pm. We got back and went via costuming before getting ready for Palo!!!
All I wanted since I found out I was on the Dream was to go for dinner at Palo so I was super excited that it worked out. It was soooo good. It started with a bread service and some antipasti, the prosciutto and Parmesan with balsamic vinegar were my favourite. Then for appetiser I had calamari which were lightly breaded with a tomato and pesto sauce, nick had a portobello mushroom and polenta dish which he loved. For entree I had lobster pasta as well as a side order of the scallops which were amazing. I loved that we could just choose to have two entrees or a side order of an entree and they actually encouraged it because you just pay a cover charge and you're not paying for each dish. Nick had the lobster pasta as well plus a leg of lamb which he said was great. In between the app and entree we had a palate cleanser which was a new experience for me. Sadly we were not allowed wine because we were crew and we can't drink alcohol on stage so that was the only downside for me. For dessert of course we had the infamous chocolate soufflé. It was nice but I was so full by that point that I kinda had to force myself to eat it! I'd happily go back right now and eat one haha. Also, by sheer coincidence, our server was Simone who I was in traditions with so that was really awesome!
We finished dinner and walked around the outside of the ship a bit, admiring a night view. Remember that we are always working or at sea when it's dark so it was a weird feeling to actually be on land in the night time! I took the opportunity to get off the ship and take a couple of photos of the dream at night time before heading back to my cabin to change out of my dress. Originally we were going to then head out into Nassau to find other people in the bars or go to crew bar but to be honest, I was so tired and full that we ended up watching American football on TV (or in my case falling asleep) and I actually ended up with 8 hours sleep.
The other reason I wasn't out late was because they scheduled us safety training at 9am today for fire zones 0 and 1 which is what I'm in for traffic controlling. So I went to that which was held in the crew bar (always strange going there in daytime) and then I got breakfast. Now I'm just typing this up whilst I wait for cabin inspection which will be in 10 minutes. They are very strict on cabin inspection here... It makes the Commons housing inspections look like nothing. You have to have everything tidy and bed made with lifejacket on top... Bathroom clean, lights off, no dust, clean the vents, the door, the mirror, the carpet, the fridge... I am pretty sure we are going to fail on carpet this week. But there's no vacuum cleaner to my disposal right this second so it will have to do. Wish me luck!
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