We scarfed down our food and then we had to hurry to get into our pirate gear for Pirate Night, before Beauty and the Beast. We went down to Tess and Morgan’s room, so they could help out. Now, Jay and I both have full pirate outfits already, and he just brought his standard gear. However, I managed to put together a completely white pirate outfit for Pirate Night, and then put on my Wonder Woman bracers, because I couldn’t find any jewelry I liked for it. Melanie laced me into my corset, while Zym and Morgan worked to get Lacey and my Mom into theirs.
I couldn’t find a white pirate hat for a remotely reasonable price, so we just bought an extra one at the Pirates of the Caribbean gift shop in Magic Kingdom and painted it white!
Melanie and I didn’t realize for several hours that we had somehow put my corset on upside down. Whoops!
As an added bonus, Jay, Scott, Melanie, Mom, Lauren, and I all had to go to a meeting about the Castaway Cay 5K to sign our waivers. Now, they were doing the sign up meeting the day before, instead of in the morning before the race.
I had once again told everyone Deck 4 for seating for the Beauty and the Beast show, but we got up there, and some people were still missing and never showed. Lacey, my Mom, and a couple of the others came in a few minutes late, but at least we had managed to save seats for them!
Weirdly enough, the coolest part of the Beauty and the Beast show is the stage. The way they transition the backgrounds and how the set pieces move is incredible. The transformation of the Beast back to being the Prince was AMAZING. I’d be fascinated to learn how they did it.
So, the show wrapped up, and we had to hurry up to Deck 11, to watch Mickey’s Pirates in the Caribbean before dinner. We got one of the Cast Members to take a group pirate photo for us while we were waiting. Jay and I had made dressing up for pirate night mandatory for all of our guests.
Mickey’s Pirates in the Caribbean is a very cute show with a lot of dancing, and entirely too much Daisy Duck. Then it gets crashed by Captain Hook, and he and Mickey have a Pirate Off. Adorable and lots of fun.
Hook is a Codfish! Hook is a Codfish! Oh, sorry, where was I…
We headed down to dinner at the Enchanted Garden, where I had my favorite food of the whole trip: the Ahi Tuna Tower appetizer. I so regret not ordering a second one.
It came time for dessert, and Jay and I both asked to order dessert from the Royal Palace, since we couldn’t find anything we wanted on the Enchanted Garden menu. Well then I looked at the time, and I realized we’d miss getting photos with Pirate Night Mickey if we didn’t leave right then, so we left our friends to collect our desserts and made a mad dash up to the atrium to get in line for Mickey. We’d already missed Minnie and I wasn’t missing Mickey!
After meeting Mickey, we tried to get in line for the Chipmunks, but then they left, and someone said Daisy Duck was coming back. PASS!
Then I got a message on my Navigator app, which I wish I had screen captured, from Zym.
“Sprint back up here, you’ve been volunteered to go on stage.”
Uh, what?
So, we get back upstairs to find our friends taking up a massive amount of space, just behind the kids viewing area, and we try to find out what exactly they’ve gotten us into, but nobody will tell us.
“I have no idea, but me and Melanie are coming with you.” Lacey said, shrugging.
“They saw our group and told us to pick one guy and three girls, so it had to be you all.” Zym declared.
In the meantime, we were just supposed to watch the show and someone would come get us when they were ready for us. Well, that didn’t sound suspicious at all. So, the pirates are back, this time without Mickey and Minnie, and they get the crowd singing a sea shanty, that I somehow know the words to.
Look, Jay plays a lot of pirate music around the house.
Soon enough a pirate with a name tag came to get us, and the four of us stood up and shuffled to the side. They had us standing near the bar, ready to go on stage, and he starts handing us instruments.
“This is for you.” He hands Lacey a mandolin, Melanie gets handed a violin, and I get an accordion.
Immediately I try it, “Oh good, it doesn’t actually make noise.”
I am not a musical person.
Then he hands Jay a jug of rum. Well, that’s fitting.
“Now when you get up on stage, they’re going to ask you what you would do with a lazy pirate, so you need to think of something.”
We all stared at him blankly for a moment, and it dawned on me.
“Do you mean Drunken Sailor?”
“Well, it’s a lazy pirate, because it’s Disney, but that works too.”
Drunken Sailor is a pirate song. Not only is it a pirate song I actually know all the words to, but it is my favorite pirate song, and Jay and I had a conversation MONTHS ago about how we were sad they would never play it on a Disney Cruise. So, we put it on the CD for the drive to the cruise!
Jay: “Shave his belly with a rusty razor?”
“That works!”
Me: “Can you say put him in the longboat til he’s sober?”
“Sure!”
Melanie: “What about put him in bed with the captain’s daughter?”
Our pirate friend paused and then, to our shock, said, “Yeah, that’s fine!”
It was Lacey’s turn, but we all stood frozen. We knew there was a fourth verse to the song, but none of us could think of it.
“Well, what do people usually say?”
He tossed out a couple of suggestions, and Lacey decided to go with “Feed him to the sharks”, which was very appropriate since Jay used to work with sharks.
So, they bring us up on stage, and we’re all paired up with a pirate. Mine asked what do I do with a lazy pirate, and then she asked for my name. I told her Chelsea, and then she asked if I have a pirate name, and I actually do, but I told her to go with Chelsea. At the same time I was afraid Jay would give them his pirate name instead, but he didn’t. (He is Captain Bartholomew Grimm and I am Seraphina, if you’re curious.)
They introduce us to the crowd. Lacey gets to be Lightning Lacey, Melanie gets to be Marauder Melanie, Jay gets to be Jumping Jamming Jungle Jay (say that three times fast), and I get to be Pirate Chelsea. Lame. Also, we don’t know where they got Jungle from, because no one said anything about us being Skippers. I checked with Zym later.
Now we have to tell Captain Jack Sparrow what exactly we’d do with a lazy pirate, and they actually repeated mine wrong. Instead of saying “Put him in the longboat til he’s sober” they said “Put him in the longboat til he sobers up”. Yes, they mean the same thing, but one has too many syllables.
“Oh, that’s the worse one yet!” cried Captain Jack Sparrow.
So, the song starts, and we go through each verse, and I am singing as loudly as I can, while pretending to play this silly accordion.
Then they pull us up one by one to dance.
I don’t think anyone was prepared for what came next.
Lacey busts out a mandolin solo.
Then Melanie pulls out a freaking Irish jig.
I did something between a Zumba move, and a can-can. I’m not used to dancing in heels and a corset, while carrying an accordion.
When it was Jay’s turn, I tried to tell him to Charleston, because it was something I knew he could do really well, but instead they just had him blow into his rum jug really hard…. right as the ship’s horn went off.
And that’s how my friends and I wound up leading an entire ship through singing “Lazy Pirate”/”Drunken Sailor” on our wedding night.
We went back to our group to sit through the rest of the show, and watch the Pirate Night fireworks. They weren’t the coolest fireworks I’ve ever seen or anything, but I also live next to Disney World and can hear their fireworks from my house. It was really cool to see an entire show dedicated to pirates though! Plus, Disney Cruise Line is the only cruise line that does fireworks at sea, so that’s awesome.
Once the show was over, Jay and I made our way to the table to eat the desserts Michael had been carrying for us since we left Enchanted Garden. Then I wound up out on the dance floor with a bunch of our friends, until the DJ cut the Pirate Night party off early due to daylight savings time.
We relocated up to the top of Deck 12 where we hung out and talked for about an hour before it got too cold. I can’t tell you really what we talked about or did, but I do remember making fun of Scott for being cold. (It had something to do with the fact that I never wear sleeves.) I also remember Lacey going up to the bartender and asking for something that would, and I’m quoting here, “get the bride drunk who had been sober all day”.
It worked.
Once we were too cold to stay up there anymore, we headed below deck.
We tried to go to Pink, which is a champagne bar, but they were closed. The bartender was nice enough to let us hang out in there though, and go next door to order drinks.
We wrapped up sometime around 2:00 am, and got back to our room to find rose petals everywhere, more Iron Horse Fairy Tale Cuvee in an ice bucket, towel animals and chocolate covered strawberries.
Safe to say we passed out instead of doing anything with that, since we had to get up in four hours for the Castaway Cay 5K.
Best day and night of my entire life, let me tell you.
