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For my starter I ordered the appetizer portion of the pasta carbonara. For mains I got the striped bass and the lobster. My mom's dessert. And mine - coffee cake. Great meal and great service. The only dish that I didn't care for was the lobster. I'm not sure why I continue to even order it lol.

The wait for dinner was only about 35 minutes so not as long as it said. The dinner menu in the app had been updated to reflect the menu I expected it to be. This is the normal night 2 menu and the one I forgot to post last week.

The sun was setting as we made our way to dinner. This one was taken from our window.

Checking in for dinner now. It is formal night and there is a 50-60 minute wait.

People hide ducks around the ship usually with a tag on it with the family's name that hid it and the ship and sailing date and instructions to keep or rehide as well as to post it to one of the Facebook pages dedicated to the duck hiding. You could probably Google cruising ducks to find one of the groups I don't actually belong to any my mom just gets a kick out of finding and collecting them. She's a big kid lol. If you remember the friendship rocks from a couple years back it's like that but with ducks. You will move up to platinum the first day of your second sailing but you may have to have your card reprinted because they are printed before the system counts your first leg. The same thing happened to me when i did a b2b on my milestone cruise. They gave me a white card for that then my second cruise I still had a white card, I did not correct that one lol.

I still didn't make it to the casino. When I got there my card was declined because I hadn't set up a card in file. I thought I had $400 obc but I forgot I had used some to purchase internet. I went back to the room to grab my card to out on file. When I returned every machine I wanted was taken. I took it as a sign I do not need to gamble this trip. I'm heading out now to get my exercise in I definitely need it after that hearty brunch. I'm happy to see the steamroom open also. I wasn't sure if it would remain open with the stricter protocols.

I got "upgraded" to ocean view on three of the four legs. I actually prefer an inside for the dark lol. I'm learning from those onboard I am not alone, there were many many people who had their reservations messed up with the changeover.

I think it will. I also thought it was 30 days to flatten the curve though and here we are 2.5 year later so what do I know?

Yes that would be a better way to describe it I think. It's a crabcake with poached egg and hollandaise sauce on the one bun. On the other bun a very generous portion of sliced avocado sprinkled with some sliced cucumber which gave it a nice crunchy texture against the softer crabcake and avocado. Finally topped up with half a salad that Just gets in the way. The avocado/cucumber medly was pretty enough I don't think it needed a garnish. It was very good and at $8 a pretty good bargain if you want an elevated meal over what the brunch menu has become.

I love the farcus style lol. I find this ship pretty tame compared to most of his. Except for the exposed breasts everywhere 😆. What makes the PVP thing so bad is I did have a good one. I remember once I didn't book a casino offer event before the deadline and she said she would take care of it and get my name added to the list. I get onboard and guess what? Not on the list. I plead my case to the casino host who had zero interest in what I was saying. As soon as I said my PVP's name her whole attitude changed. She practically fell over herself apologizing and said she would get in contact with her personally immediately to verify I should have been included. Fifteen minutes later I was on the list. This booking was so screwed up I have unfortunately had to fire her as my PVP. Although I believe technically she fired me as her customer. I got four sea days I'm gonna get the whole story typed up eventually lol.

There is a cooking demo at 11 that I was going to attend but I can't possibly eat anymore so I am going to skip it. This is the first time I've seen it offered since the restart. Going to the casino for real now.

Brunch today was fantastic. Best meal I've had in a very long time. That's the good news. The bad news is I ordered from the upcharge items not the free brunch menu. Circling back to good news, at least if you are paying extra the food food good. I always worry about paying and then not liking what I order. This was way too much food and I need my scale more than ever, I did not realize at the low price point how big the servings would be. Shrimp and grits $6 This was very good very full of flavor and a little spicy. I have a high tolerance for spicy so if it registered as spicy to me I would use caution ordering this if you don't like spicy. The only thing I would change is get rid of all the leaves on top. One of two for a garnish but not a half a salad. Also maybe take the tails off. There is a lot of sauce and I didn't see there were tails still on. My first bite was a surprise 😮😋 This was more than enough food. But wait there is more. Crab and avocado sandwich $8. This was also very good but I think would enjoy it more if I hadn't already had a full pot of grits. This was a beautiful messy mess of a sandwich and I would also order this again but again this is a meal on its own. Too many leaves again and I wasted a whole salad between the two meals. Under the bed of leaves is a beautiful mess of avocado that begs to be on display. A very great meal and if you don't mind the upcharge I would recommend both of these items.

Already a 30-40 minute wait on brunch so gonna check in there and do casino after I eat. Scale not working with the ship movement again. That could be dangerous with no scale accountability for four days. On turnaround day I had gained .4 lbs for the first week of the cruise. While I would prefer a loss that small gain is within my acceptable range.

I want my bed back from last week. This one is very hard. I was pretty tired though so I was in a pretty deep sleep. My view this am. There was a medical response call about an hour ago. I hope everyone is all right. The good news is we are still close to land if they do require further attention. Looking on the map channel looks like we are about 80 miles west from the northern edge of Oregon. There is a lot going on today not sure if I'm gonna do everything I marked but we shall see. First up, casino should be open now.

The bed is calling my name so I'm going to sleep. Next up, the first of four consecutive sea days 😯

Thanks 😁. I'll make sure the food is restocked before you board 😋.

Just kidding, casino has not opened yet.

Off to the casino for just a little while. Don't plan on staying long hoping fate is kind to me.

Dinner was great again tonight. I don't have tonight's menu because it is identical to the night 1 menu from last week. I am super excited for 8 new to me dinnet menus on this 16 day sailing. For my starter I ordered the cured salmon. First main was the chicken parmesean. The portion was huge and it was piping hot, I think this was as good as the cucina pay version. I also got a large portion of the salmon but it wasn't great tonight. It was overcooked. Dry and starting to burn a little even. For dessert I enjoyed the tiramisu.

Usually they burger is so good but it was overdone and dry on here. Thanks 😁

And we are caught back up. Dinner is on a 20-30 minute wait tonight. I'm sitting in the waiting area outside the MDR waiting for my app to buzz. New stuart this week is off to a rocky start. There was hair on the nightstand next to my bed. I checked the rest of the cabin after that and it appears to be the only oversight. Then when we asked for ice he told us we would need to call room service. We politely mentioned we got it last week and he said he would try. He did return with the ice bucket. It's still early and the big test will be if we get our PM service as requested 😆.

Heading out to dinner there was a knock knock knock on the door. Special delivery for b2b guests. Yay I was starting to think with so many b2b they didn't have the budget to give out the champagne. Sunset on the way to dinner.

Another brief internet outage. Rewind about 45 minutes and we were pulling away. My view is now ocean view. Water is getting choppy already. Can't feel it but can see it this close to the water.

Going to the spa raffle again to try to win some spa loot for my mom.

The weather must know we are heading back to Florida. It is warm out today almost hot even. The midship roof is open. Also the country music overhead has been replaced with carnivals standard playlist of 70s and 80s rock and pop.