As I awoke on day four I had my fingers crossed as I approached our curtains hoping when I pulled them back I would see clear skies over Castaway Cay, and I did! I lightly encouraged the troops to get their butts out of bed because it was beach or bust today. I am sure this will come as a surprise to you but believe it or not we had breakfast at Cabanas. The view overlooking Castaway Cay was simply perfection as we ate and planned our island activities for the day. We swallowed our last bites of Mickey waffles, grabbed our prepped go bags from the room, and headed to deck 1 midship to hit the island.
We had originally pre-arranged bike rentals for the first Castaway Cay day (and when I say we and pre in the same sentence you can assume I mean Emily) but due to the weather they were kind enough to extend the offer for use of the bikes today. We lugged our bags to a great beach location, grabbed our phones and cameras and headed to the bike rental spot. After a little arranging we were ready to explore the island. There are some really cool views of the island that can only be experienced via these bike trails so I highly recommend it.
After barely completing the 5K on bike we had had enough and were ready to cool off in the ocean. Emily got the boys and toys set up while I headed off for drinks and Emily’s favorite fresh fruit. We relaxed and splashed around a bit and built our highly unimpressive sand castle (or roughly shaped pile of sand as I like to call it). We brought our old waterproof camera which provides for some awesome shots while in the water.
The last time we were at Castaway Cay on a previous cruise I tried the Pelican Plunge water slide and I really wanted Hunter and Emily to try it this trip. Luck would have it that the minimum height for the water slide was 38″ so the entire family could go on it together. This truly was the highlight of the afternoon as the entire family went on the Pelican Plunge slides 3 times. Emily and the boys started on the slow slide at first but quickly wanted to experience the thrill of the fast slide. It was a riot watching how far into the water the fast slide spit you out. So many laughs.
We were getting hungry as it had been at least 30 minutes since our last meal. We dried the group off and made our way to Cookies Too for some lunch. Our Griswold moment was when we said hey let’s sit in the back section with beach umbrellas because nobody is back there. It was true there were very few people at these tables because there wouldn’t have been room to share with the one million seagulls who were fire bombing unattended plates. The only thing Emily loves more than birds is birds in mass quantities. So relaxing. Sawyer was counting down each bite of hot dog until he met the sufficient quota to get an ice cream cone. After the boys ate their weight in ice cream we agreed to check out the shops and head back to the ship. Emily wanted to walk back and take photos so I took the boys on a tram ride. It was a truly perfect day on the island.
We decided to try our luck at the water activities on deck 11 thinking it wouldn’t be busy as Guests would still be on the island, wrong. Although it was busy I took Sawyer to Nemo’s Reef and Em and Hunter went on the Aquaduck. The boys hit up the hot tub and Mickey slide as they are creatures of routine.
After we had our fill we headed to the room to chill and get the boys some dinner before heading to the Walt Disney Theater for a 3D viewing the Pixar movie Inside Out. We brought our $290.00 popcorn bucket for our $150.00 refill and Emily brought some movie candy for us all to enjoy. The movie was really good but sadder than I thought it would be. Even Sawyer, who sat on my lap for the second half of the movie said, “it’s sad”.
After the movie the boys wanted to go to kids club and we weren’t opposed to another quiet dinner so we came to an agreement. Em and I then headed to Currents on deck 13 for a drink before dinner and went to chill at these cozy chairs at the front of ship. It was blissful until 5 families with their pirate kids decided to plunder the front of the adult section of the ship. Thanks for being respectful, ass clowns.
We finished our drinks on the way to Royal Palace on deck three where we had dinner without the boys. It was pirate night so Emily had some guilt. Maybe it was because she didn’t get a chance to spend 250 bucks on light up pirate glasses, maybe it was because she wanted to experience more open mouth chewing, or perhaps it was her need to have an endless debate about the number of bites required to cross the dessert threshold. Regardless she was feeling sentimental and missing the boys.
We finished our dinner with continued awesome service from our wait staff, and headed to get a few fun surprises for the boys upon arrival to the room. We split up and I went to get the boys as Sawyer had just messaged us and was ready to call it a night, and Emily went to prep the room. Hunter loved his plush cruise ship but Sawyer was expecting yet another Vinylmation and was ready to trade his ship in upon receiving it.
Sawyer and I got our pajamas on and went to bed as Hunter and Em went to deck 4 to get some cheese to cap the night. Pretty perfect day 4!