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Tonight's dinner menu. It has a couple new items that were showcased in a cooking demo earlier in the day.

Off to dinner. No wait again tonight. Old menu tonight but with a couple different items tonight.

Lol nope don't think its the same person.

I believe her name is Jodie.

And now we are caught up. I'm heading out now to have my caricature drawn.

With the new shortened brunch hours it was closed when the lecture concluded so I made a buffet run. Carnivals buffet is not strong enough to support as many trips as I've taken there at this point. I made my own chibang style plate. Half Asian half Mexican. The Mexican was surprisingly good 👍 For dessert I had a piece of tiramisu cheesecake which was also very yummy.

We're almost caught back up, not counting what I've not posted from the first internet outage. Today is our last full day in the pacific ocean. Tomorrow is our canal transit. We lost another hour last night and now we are just one hour behind eastern. First up today is the lecture on the Panama Canal. Very poor planning as it was help in the comedy lounge while the theater was used for a port shopping show. They are scheduling an extra show so others can see because the lounge was standing room only.

Stewart is doing a great job. My mom stole my sheet because she was cold. Last night when he saw that he brought her an extra blanket I've never seen before without being asked. He's definitely going above and beyond.

Some Lido dessert pics and the menu for last night.

For my starters I ordered the jalapeño poppers and the venison spring roll. Both were good. For mains I ordered the chicken pot pie and the pork picatta. I didn't care for the pork dish but the pot pie was good. For dessert I had the amaretto cake.

Last night's dinner menu is a new menu for me. I think we are about out of new ones, they didn't spread them out real well.

I found out the festivities in Puntarenas yesterday were for us to celebrate us being the first ship of the season. The president of Costa Rica even showed up and came onboard. As far as I know he did not make a public appearance onboard but that is still pretty cool. Sunset as we were leaving Puntarenas. You could still hear the drums in the distance as we sailed away. A very nice experience and wonderful welcome from the Costa Rican people.

The internet is being a pain again. It went down last night and is still very slow this am. Ironically it started having issues as I was purchasing wifi for some cruises before the price went up.

All checked in for dinner. Under a 10 minute wait much better tonight. New menu to try out also.

I went for some lunch while there was a break in the trivia. Lunch offerings. My plate Next trivia isn't until 3 so gonna run up to the gym for a bit of exercise.

I'm here for trivia which was supposed to start one minute ago but there is nobody here to host. Hmmm 🤔

Back on the ship after a nice day exploring Puntarenas. The weather was warm as you would expect without being too hot. There was lots of shopping to be had as soon as you got off the pier. Reasonable prices and not too many pushy vendors. I found a locally designed t-shirt for $12 that I'm happy with. There was also some sort of parade and festivities going on so the atmosphere was very festive. The beach right off the pier did not look very inviting but everything else in the immediate area was nice.

Good morning. We are docked in Puntarenas and apparently the dock is level with the cabins on deck 1. I'm not sure who was more surprised to learn that, me when I opened my curtain in my underwear or the crew on the other side of my window 😅.

My 33 day cruise is half way over. Going to bed. Up next, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

Yw! Enjoy your cruise.

Dinner was OK. The salmon was the only thing good although nothing was bad its just nothing else was more than just ok. Certainly not worth the wait. Thankfully like I said this is not the norm. Food and service have been very good most nights.

For my starter I got the ragout of wild mushroom. I also got the oysters Rockefeller. They are there I promise 🧐 For my mains I ordered the ancho roasted salmon and the beef wellington. For dessert I had a tasty bit very sad piece of baked alaska. I suspect the presentation was quite different in 1987.

Dinner was.....long. I won't complain about the wait time to get in. Carnival does MTD right and royal could learn a thing or two. Dinner service, though, took way long Lee than it needed to, almost two hours. This was an anomaly and I'll chalk it up to formal night, service has usually been much better. Tonight's throwback menu.

Captain's reception was nice. Very similar to the vifp party without the video. Drinks were flowing freely. I may have had two when all I wanted was a diet Pepsi 🤭. Never did get that diet Pepsi lol. Checked in now for dinner. It is a 70-80 minute wait. Yikes must be the whole ship is hungry at the same time. If I'm not at dinner by 7 I may need to attend the next Captain's reception 😁

BREAKING NEWS: Masks may now come off. Excellent news. I was trying to continue catching up, but every time I tried to type my mom started chatting me up lol. I'm heading off now to the captains reception with my face on full display 😁