Brig Unicorn and Beaches

If it is Day 6, then today must be St. Lucia. This is the only day we planned to be apart as a family, with Janie and the boys heading out on the Brig Unicorn, which was featured in "Pirates of the Caribbean" while Rebecca and J. R. headed to the beach. We originally didn't plan it this way, but Thomas really wanted to go on the Unicorn and we couldn't book the Cruise to the Pitons we had originally decided upon, so we decided to give Thomas what he wanted and Rebecca and J. R. would go relax.

So Janie and the boys headed off to their excursion after breakfast at Topsider's and Rebecca and Dad hung out in the room watching 'Playhouse Disney' until it was time for us to go. The guys and Janie boarded the Unicorn right off the dock and then headed out to sea. Each of the boys got a opportunity to "pilot" the ship before they disembarked for some time on the beach. Rebecca and J. R., on the other hand, headed over to Rodney Bay, grabbed a couple of loungers and an umbrella and relaxed. Rebecca mostly played in the sand and went out in the water a little with some friends she had made. The experience could have been more relaxing, but we kept being bothered by locals trying to sell us stuff. Don "Ducky" Williams was on our bus to the beach and back and we had the opportunity to say "hello". We would have liked to talk to him some, but figured he was on an excursion, too, and probably wanted to relax.

Pirate Night

Janie and the boys got back first and ate and then went to the pool. Rebecca and J. R. came back about an hour after them and grabbed some food and ice cream for Rebecca from Deck 9 (since Dad had promised her ice cream on the way back so she wasn't upset over the wait for the bus).

Since it was Pirate Night, we came back to the room to get dressed. Thomas had been a pirate for Halloween and we brought his costume. Janie made Alexander a pirate jacket and he had bought a hook on Key West. Janie made herself a pirate costume as well. Rebecca was going to rewear her Tinkerbell costume from two Halloween's ago, which we figured was close enough to a pirate outfit. As for J. R., since he was born and raised in Pittsburgh, he chose to dress as a Pittsburgh Pirate, wearing a Pirates batting practice shirt and cap.

Dinner

Dinner was a pirate theme and our servers were dressed up as pirates as well.

Captain Jack

After dinner, we headed down to get a picture taken with Jack Sparrow. Alex wanted to play bingo next, so we headed off to find where the bingo was being played. The navigator said Promenade Lounge, but they were line dancing in here, so eventually we found someone to tell us it was in Rockin' Bar D. This was one of many "mistakes" we found in the Navigator on this voyage, something we hadn't noticed on our first trips. Bingo was a lot of fun even though we didn't win anything. The most fun was throwing our expired bingo cards at the callers.

Pirate Party

We had some extra time before the pirate party, so we decided just to go up on Deck 10, have some drinks and relax. The kids were pretty tired, but wanted to see the fireworks, so we let them nap a little before the party. As a result, we stayed up on deck 10 rather than coming down to the party, which we regretted a little because the party looked like a lot of fun. But we had a pretty good view of Mickey coming down the zipline to take on Captain Hook and the fantastic fireworks show. It was a little cold up on deck 10, so we needed to cover up our pirate costumes.

Night Time

After the fireworks, it was time for bed. The boys grabbed some various desserts from the buffet laid out on Deck 9 and took them back to the room for all of us to enjoy before bedtime.

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