Day 4! (And Happy Valentine's Day!)

Happy Valentine's Day! Here are my 2 favorite Valentines heading off to school this morning. (From the conference room at my office.)

If you've been here before you know that I love Valentines more than most people. Now that C is in middle school they don't do an exchange, just a big ice cream sundae party. But M still gets to exchange! This is what she brought in: 

And yesterday they had prayer buddies and made these adorable crafts. I am a big fan! 

Anyway... back to the cruise. Day 4 was Castaway Cay Day! That's Disney's private island. I had one goal: do not get sunburnt. Okay, and I wanted to relax. And we had the most perfect day! 

M has always wanted a coconut drink. So I got her the non-alcoholic drink of the day in a coconut cup to make all her dreams come true. 

Disney doesn't offer any drink packages the way most cruise lines do. Pop, coffee, tea, milk, etc. are all included as long as you get them yourself. Everyone pays ala cart for fancy lattes, alcohol, and specialty drinks. 

We had learned from last cruise to NOT bring your food to the beach since the seagulls are intense and I do not do birds. So we had our lunch in the shaded shelters on the island, which was a good call. 

Other things that were a good call: I bought a collapsable sand bucket set and brought it with, the kids really enjoyed that. We tried out Pelican Plunge for the first time. (Never made it that far last cruise.) M saw the bikes and lamented that we should have gone for a bike ride, which was in fact my plan B if it was too cold to swim. (The weather was PERFECT clearly, but it had been so cold just the week before that I was making all kinds of back up plans.) 

Somehow even though I spent all day in the shade I got sunburnt and so did M! Boo. After a long day on the beach we headed back to the ship and everyone showered and got ready for the evening. It was Frozen night! So we were all excited about that!

Our dinner was in Animator's Palate which was the restaurant we were looking forward to the most and it turned out to be a total letdown. (The food was great, we had just read about the experience of the restaurant and it wasn't as cool as we were expecting.) 

But the Frozen show MORE than made up for it. 

I realize this is a really short recap of Day 4. But truly... we just were beach bums for most of it. :)