Disney Cruise Part 6: Formal Night and Pirate Night

One night was formal night, so we got to dress up for dinner.  The other nights, we could wear whatever.  We had our photo taken with the captain that night.

And one more picture of the kids in a window:

While we were waiting in line to have our picture taken, servers were walking around with trays of cocktails for the adults and apple juice with maraschino cherries for the kids.  I told Robbie to put his hand in his vest pocket and I'd take a picture of the kids looking sophisticated with their drinks... and this is what we got:

 

Looks like maybe he had one too many!

Robbie was a little worn out at dinner and he just completely zonked a couple of times.

Thursday was pirate night.  This is a really big deal for some people… we saw whole families in head to toe pirate costumes all over the place.  Robbie didn’t have any Mickey ears, so we got him a pirate-themed pair, and he really wanted a hook.

Erin brought her 50^th Anniversary Mickey ears that she got several years ago.  At dinner, we all had pirate bandanas with our place settings, so we tied Erin’s around one of her ears.  Rob got a pirate hat, and I wore my bandana on my head.  The food that night was pirate-ish; things like johnny cakes and spare ribs.

(OH - these photos were taken at Animator's Palate - you can kind of see the black and white detail I was talking about earlier)

After dinner, we went up to the top deck for a pirate party.  All the characters come out dressed like pirates and sailors, and they do a little show.  Then there’s lots of music and dancing.  Disney is the only cruise ship that’s allowed to do fireworks at sea, so we had some fireworks, too.

Robbie taking a little rest on me during the party.  Won't be long before he's too big for that.

Arrrrrr!