Today's port adventure was Disney's second private playground, Lighthouse Cay. I'm guessing they had to build a second one because they are adding a bunch of new ships to their fleet, and didn't have enough days available at Castaway Cay to service them all. Our cruise director told us that this Very Merrytime Christmas Cruise was rare because it stops at both places. Since I'd only ever been to Castaway, I was interested in seeing what Disney had going on at the new port adventure.

What's different about Lighthouse Cay is that there's a long, long walk from the ship to the shore...

They did this to protect the coral and wildlife in the area.

Then once you get to shore, you're immediately greeted by luxury cabanas available to people who want to pay hundreds of dollars to have their own private retreat and beach. For everybody else, you take a tram to the other side of the island.

The design of Lighthouse Cay is very much Caribbean-inspired with bright colors and festive art everywhere...

The weather was very much improved from previous days, which made for a nice time to have drinks on the adults-only beach...

After lunch I realized I had forgot my sunscreen and was getting pretty red. So it was time to head back to the ship...

One thing I had never done at sea was a waterslide, and The Wish has an "AquaMouse" that went around the ship's upper decks. Not as cleverly named as the "AquaDuck" that's on the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy, but it was still pretty clever, with a story you watch as you climb up the tube for the slide down...

Unfortunately they don't allow cameras in the tube, so I wasn't able to video the experience. Instead I went to the adults-only upper deck and grabbed a drink from the Cove Bar so I could air-dry...

Dinner was at Arendelle again, but there wasn't any performances because it was Pirate Night. There also wasn't a show in the theater for some reason (the first day was some kind of Goofy stage show, the second was a weird re-telling of The Little Mermaid stage show which made no sense, and tomorrow is an adaptation of Aladdin). Instead it was movie-time, where everybody could watch Zootopia 2 which is just as entertaining as the first one. I'm fairly certain that this will be another billion-dollar blockbuster for Disney.

After the movie, the ship was eerily lacking in people. I guess most people have kids and are off to bed with them...

Tonights towel sculpture is an octopus? I think?

It's gotta be some kind of sea creature. Or maybe it's the head of one of the cursed pirates from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

Anyway... tomorrow is a day at sea as we head back to Florida.