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Walking back to my room at 0030 from the TSL I encountered one of the night time butlers with not one but two pizzas headed to one of the cabins on our passage way. I love MSC’s pizza but I don’t think even I could eat pizza this late at a night.

We left the casino and head back to the TSL expecting to relax to the the soft music we had enjoyed during dinner. Unbeknownst to us the Tropical Party scheduled for 2030 at The One Pool had moved to the TSL due to rain. We managed to to find a table for two along the other rim and enjoyed the over loud but energetic music, AFter the party was over, I escorted my DW back to our room and then went and joined our friends @Best Cat Mom and BCD in the TSL for a night cap before we call decided to call it a night around 0030. I have some video’s that I may or may not post later of the crew and guest dancing the night away. Needless to say I wish I had taken my ear plugs with me. We enjoyed the beat of the music a lot, just not the volume. Okay, I admit we over over the hump and loud boisterous music does not do much other than get our toes tapping and us plugging our ears with our fingers. I guess we are officially ‘old fogies’ now.

After roaming about the ship post lunch we retired to our cabin where I caught up on some other CC boards and topics before heading to the TSL for a couple of refreshments while my DW took a nap. The walking about in the hot sun today took it toll on her. I came back to the room around 1745 and work her up at 1800 to start getting ready for dinner. Tonight’s dinner was excellent, WE both had an order of the spring rolls, and I also had the crab cake. The spring rolls were okay, We both prefer our springs rolls made with diced vegetables versus a paste like bend of vegetables which these seem to be composed of. Now we live in Virginia which is close enough to the People’s Republic of Maryland that we know a good crab cake when we taste one. Well, MSC are not bad but as I said in my Divina revive, Maryland has nothing to worry about with regards to their title of having the best crab cakes. Don’t get me wrong, it was not bad but it did not have the flavor or texture of an authentic Maryland Crab cake. For our entree my DW ordered the Pork Tenderloin And I ordered the beef short ribs. i let me eyes overload my stomach and also ordered the Lobster Bauletti for us to share All of the good was delicious and my DW cleared her plate but I could not finish all of my beef nor did we eat off of the Bauletti although I ought both tasted excellent. My wife passed on wine tonight but I started with my usual glass of champagne and paired my beef with a nice Malbec. For our dessert we could not resist the Apple Strudel. Instead of the white creame, my DW went with vanilla ice cream I ordered my strudel with the tiramisu ice cream but looks like I neglected to get a picture. Just imagine the above vanillin with chunks of chocolate bits belended in with it. After dinner we went to the casino and sacrificed more of our children’s inheritance to over casino overloads.

There is a breakfast and lunch buffet available on the The One Pool deck

I am hoping they do not resupply the regular on TAD in Miami Saturday and we get upgraded to the next available champagne on the 9/28 sailing. Selfish wishes huh!

Celebrity is not at all like Royal Caribbean. Forget everything about any/all perks you get as Diamond on RCCL. Celebrity’s works way different. All Suites on Celebrity have real balcony’s and come with an included premium beverage package and premium WiFi. If you sail in a suite, dining it is like sailing in a Grand Suite on an Oasis class ships. You have a dining room dedicated to suite guest, Luminae. You have a lounge dedicated to suite guest (there is no equivalent to the Diamond or whatever it’s being called now lounge). It is open from about 0600-0630 to 2300-2330 daily and offer a free drinks and light snacks as well as continental type breakfast. Your Diamond Status will match to Celebrity’s Elite. There is a dedicated breakfast lounge with a continental breakfast, sometimes seated service and sometimes buffet depending on how many Elite or above cruisers are onboard.

I could not really tell the difference but then again I do not have a skilled pallet.

I think it is called the Snow room and to me snow is a four letter word. I hate that fluffy white stuff.

I tried to order that wine with my sea bass at lunch today but they wait staff could not find it and the neither of the sommelier’s were available. I guess they are only here for dinner.

It’s actually a channel marker buoy but thanks for the laugh !!

We had lunch onboard My wife had the Caesar salad with chicken and a glass of Moscato I had the L’Olivo Salad and a glass of champagne. For our main courses my wife had a cheeseburger, without the cheese I had the pan fried sea bass with a nice chianti We decided to skip dessert and venture into General Population and seek out kunch at the Market Place Buffet fully expecting most people to be ashore - boy were we wrong. Vanilla soft serve and an oatmeal raisin cookie for her vanilla-chocolate swirl and a peanut butter cookie for me. Soft serve is something I do not believe is available in the Yacht Club. Since we were already there, I just had to checkout the Bridge of Sughs Remember earlier when I mentioned the long walk on the pier in the sun?

Some pictures of Taino Bay

Good afternoon (or it will be in 8 minutes) from Puerto Plata, or as I prefer to call it ‘PUERTO SWEATTA’ (more on that later). We went up for breakfast this morning and were surprised to see that @Best Cat Mom and her husband, BCD had arrived earlier than us. Anyway, we were quickly seated and placed our breakfast order. We both decided to have hot tea with honey and lemon. My DW order the ham, cheese, and onion omelette with an English Muffin. I had the Eggs Benedict, without the sauce, and a side order of ham. I asked for Tabasco sauce again and this time was provided a brand new extra large bottle of Tabasco. After breakfast we went back to our room and made preparations for going ashore (hats, sunscreen, etc..). After that we proceeded down to the TSL where we picked up a bottle of cold water and then were escorted to the security checkpoint at the gangway. The only people ahead of us was two other couples from the YC who were also with our escort. The gangway we used is near the bow of the ship, the same as the YC. The port is at the stren of the ship so we walked almost the entire length of the ship leaving headed to Taino Bay. Good news is that we were in the ship’s shadow the entire way. Bad news is that once we left the ships shadow it was in full sunlight until we got to the shops. The ship was providing free four person shuttles from the ship to the Duty Free enclosure but there was a long line of people so we walked. We spent about an hour browsing the small shops at Taino Bay going in and out of the sunlight. At one point my wife was behind me and noticed the back of my neck was soaking wet with sweat. I had to stop so she could take some Kleenex and dry my neck. Five minutes later she did it again, rinse and repeat until we got back to the Duty Free shop. At this point I had already decided we were taking the little free shuttle back to the ship so we climbed in with another couple and had a quick ride back. Walked almost the length of the ship to the forward gangway were we were the only people in line to re-board. Now we are cooling off in the room and will be headed to the YC Restaurant for lunch shortly. I am looking forward to that glass of champagne already.

@Best Cat Mom please inform BCD that I agree with his assessment of Puerto Plata being “Puerto Hella” but am going to refer to it as ‘Puerto Sweatta’ since he has already coined the other term.

I do not believe any words are needed.