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That's gonna do it for me tonight. Next up, Miami for turn around day.

My appetizers were Michigan pasty and Buffalo cauliflower. For my main I ordered the salmon. Dessert was the chocolate and cheese brownie and cappuccino pie. Everything was good and they sang the sad last night song but I smiled on the inside because I have 10 more days.

Tonight's dinner menu is the extra menu they throw in on 8 day cruises. My mom loves this menu for the cherry soup. Lido menu.

Normally it's always a kid. But this cruise has almost no kids on it lol.

The water is very flat today. So pretty 😍

After lunch I checked out celebrity heads in the theater. It was very funny 😄. I will have to look for that again. Back to the room now. I've spent most of my day cruise shopping. My friend wants to do a Panama Canal cruise and I think that's a great idea.

For my starter I had the California roll. This was maybe a step below a nice sushi place, but better than supermarket sushi. A nice tasty treat and I can't recall the last time I saw free sushi on a cruise. For mains I had the spaghetti zia teresa and pan fried filet of swai nicoise. These were both very good. Finishing off a great meal were two great desserts. I had the ice coupe black forest and chocolate gateau.

I had a very lovely lunch today in the MDR. I've really enjoyed these new menus especially considering how far back the bunch menu has been reduced. A nice wake view. Lunch menu.

Perfect, Spirit does her crossing back to Seattle in April.

I slept a blissful 10 hours last night. That means tonight will be a challenge to sleep but I'll pay that toll when I get to it. Schedule looks light today. I have to do vifp treasure hunt today so that will fill up part of my afternoon 😁

It's been a hard day of relaxing all day so I'm going to bed. One last sea day before Spirit is back on east coast.

I didn't grab tonight's menu since it is the same as the second formal night menu from last cruise. I did get the me u for Lido. For my starter I got the crab cake. For mains I got the teriyaki salmon and the Greek spinach pie. For dessert I had the grand mariner soufflé. They poured the sauce on which I wasn't expecting so you can't see the soufflé. Dinner was good again tonight. I haven't tried the greek pie in some time because I didn't like it but I enjoyed it tonight so I may need to work it into the rotation.

They had a handful of art classes early on on the sea days. They were very popular and seemed to draw a huge line. I will keep an eye out on the 8 day for exact times. I couldn't tell you about the desserts but none have had a bad taste to me, so I would guess not artificial sweetener but I could be wrong.

Youngest platinum/diamond onboard was 33. She was platinum. I'm 34, I wonder if I'm the youngest diamond onboard? Heard there were almost 1200 total, they had two parties. Checked in for dinner early. It's formal night so already a bit of a wait.

The line for the VIFP party was all the way into the casino. The rest of the ship is about to be real quiet 😆

That was an amazing performance. There are some very talented crew on this ship. I have never seen the theater that full before. The show was put together in just three days but it was very good. There were multiple standing ovations.

Should have just booked the Spirit and pretended like you didn't understand what he meant 😅.

Three minutes to showtime and we are moving. Deck 4 port side if you are here and want to sneak in. None of the other entries are open. I suspect we aren't starting on time. One minute after showtime people are now streaming in the other doors.

I've only seen it on reviews for splendor and Spirit. I'm hoping it wasn't just an Alaska thing. The menu does indeed look amazing and I'll be kicking myself if I didn't try it when I had the chance.

The crew is putting on a talent show at 115. Eight minutes to showtime and they haven't opened the doors. Somebody got impatient and we started going in, but now the line has stopped somebody must have got scolded lol.

It was divine! But too expensive for sure. The crab and avocado sandwich was a much better value.

They also have a steakhouse brunch option for $25. I have not gotten the chance to try it yet because it was always on a day with a lunch menu instead of the standard brunch. Im hoping it is still offered on the Caribbean cruises so I can try it out.

More.

Lido lunch before the crowds.

Idk what the app was doing. Seattle time is 3 behind not ahead. But it fixed itself before i got to brunch. I decided to get the last pay item today, lobster Benedict. This was a messy delicious treat and they were very generous with the lobster. But at $19 it's just priced too high and I probably wouldn't get it again. For dessert I went up to Lido for a slice of key lime cheesecake.