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Well, that's going to be a tough choice deciding between amaretto and chocolate soufflés. I love amaretto, but Palo's chocolate soufflé is my favorite dessert ever. Good thing we have 2 dinners reserved, as I guess I can do one at each.
Or of course one of you could order one and the other orders the other one, then you could.... are you sitting down for this idea... share them both?
What a great meal you had at Palo from your two apps, which looked so good and your Dover Sole entree with such great presentation by Nicola! She certainly is quite the server from what she does for you and her knowledge of the menu! Dessert looked great as well. Great that you had such good company by spending a few hours here just enjoying the evening together! Love that plate for Daryl!
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It sounds like you had a wonderful dinner at Palo. I was totally unaware that you could request room stewards! It seems that would be sort of hard on the steward to have cabins spread about on the ship. They seem to have quite a few in their given area to work on as it is.
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It sounds like you had a wonderful dinner at Palo. I was totally unaware that you could request room stewards! It seems that would be sort of hard on the steward to have cabins spread about on the ship. They seem to have quite a few in their given area to work on as it is.
A perfect meal to end the cruise. Amaretto soufflé looked wonderful! And the dessert plate worked as expected!!
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Ok.... now deep breath. I did suspect I might get this reaction, but you know it's part of the therapy... must learn to share soufflé... ok, repeat after me... must learn to share soufflé...
Oh and by the way, one day, when you reach that point of being able to share, will you tell me how you managed it?
Ok.... now deep breath. I did suspect I might get this reaction, but you know it's part of the therapy... must learn to share soufflé... ok, repeat after me... must learn to share soufflé...
Oh and by the way, one day, when you reach that point of being able to share, will you tell me how you managed it?
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I really did not want to know when the alarm went off at 6:00am. We’d set a wake-up call last night, and I was sleeping so deeply, I really struggled to wake up. However, when I looked on the Donkey Sanctuary webcam to see my adopted donkey Gareth, there was plenty to entertain me there, as while we’d been on the cruise, three new miniature donkeys had turned up in his paddock, and they’re all adjusting to each other, shall we say?
Sadly, we were back in port – and Mark said we’d only recently berthed back here, which surprised me, given we were pretty close when we went to bed last night. I guess even though it’s Disney’s cruise terminal, they probably have various rules they have to say they can’t dock too early.
We got going, and headed over to the elevators to meet up with Barb and Daryl. From there, we headed up to Cabana’s. Ok, so who let the cat out of the bag about this place? This was not the plan – that people found out about our secret bolthole on embarkation day! Usually we’re lucky if we see 20 people, but my goodness, by comparison, the place was packed out today…
This guy was hanging around for some leftovers…
It was a sad breakfast, not just because our cruise was over, but also because we had to say goodbye to Barb and Daryl. We have their email address, so hopefully we’ll stay in touch.
We headed back to the room, brushed our teeth, gathered our stuff together, and headed down to deck three just before 8:00am. We were expecting to walk down to the stairs, but there was an empty elevator, so we took that – result!
When we got there, loads of people were hanging around. Some were sitting on the steps to Triton’s. So far they’d said that express walk off could leave, but hadn’t said anyone could, but like a previous cruise, we figured we’d take the risk, and see if our luggage was out. We headed out, and got stuck behind a group of people who had to go through their stuff to find their Key to the World card. There seemed to be a lot of this. I appreciate there seemed to be a lot of first timers on this cruise, but if you’ve got off at any other port, you’d have gone through exactly the same process, so why would this be any different?
We headed down the escalators, and there was a female porter waiting for us at the bottom, so we grabbed her, and quickly found our luggage, and joined the immigration/customs line. We were through in only a few minutes, even though it looked long.
From there, we walked over to the garage, took the elevator to level two, and both followed Mark, as he was the one who’d parked up, and I had no idea where the car was. With everything loaded in the trunk, we were off….
It took us longer to get out of the parking garage than we both remembered, but finally we were on our way out, and saying goodbye to the Wonder… well until January 2018 and the Southern Caribbean cruise anyway!
We headed past some beautiful countryside…
… and some not-so-beautiful…
… and even found some cows on the way!
The GPS decided that the I-4 wasn’t playing, so we ended up going back via the 417 that runs out to the airport, and actually I think that was cheaper in tolls, although be warned, if you come off at exit 3 here, it’s an automated toll, and you have to have the exact coins available. Fortunately we did.
Next: ... and as we're about to return to Walt Disney World property, this instalment continues in the Walt Disney World trip report forum... hope to see you over there!
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Dessert looked great as well. Great that you had such good company by spending a few hours here just enjoying the evening together! 
Amaretto soufflé looked wonderful! And the dessert plate worked as expected!! 
SHARE?! Chocolate soufflé?! 
This was not the plan – that people found out about our secret bolthole on embarkation day! 
Usually we’re lucky if we see 20 people, but my goodness, by comparison, the place was packed out today… 
There seemed to be a lot of this. I appreciate there seemed to be a lot of first timers on this cruise, but if you’ve got off at any other port, you’d have gone through exactly the same process, so why would this be any different? 
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