Denversail

That makes more sense.

Our excursion was a bust. After sitting in the Royal theater for over an hour it was pretty obvious which way the wind was blowing. So we requested a refund and went back to the room to drop our stuff. It was at that point that the captain made the announcement. All tendering had been suspended. If you weren’t already off you weren’t getting off. So now everyone is out by the pool trying to get a drink from the only open bar on the ship.

We have separated from Good Sport and Dupable. Wolf gave her a clue about where her ducks are. I think he suggested it was more like a clue to another clue. Anyways as soon as we walked away he promptly confesses that he has no idea where her ducks are. 🤣🤣 Just as I suspected. I realized when I came to get ready that I completely forgot to pack any water shirts. 😞

We are in Grand Cayman today. Dupable said it is a good thing I’m getting off. She says the cruise compass reported that only one bar will be open on the ship while we are in port. Wolf and I are doing stingrays and sandbar. Dupable and Good Sport are going to stay on the ship and toss their room looking for their ducks. Wolf has yet to relent. I’m not even sure he really hid them. Someone had said Icon is supposed to be here today. I don’t know if that is true. I haven’t spotted her yet. It is really hot out today. Should be a nice day to be in the water.

We have a duck theft folks. Dupable and Wolf are fighting. Wolf has stolen her ducks. She’s starting to get really worked up about it. We are at day 4 and she is running out of time to hide them. He keeps telling her she needs to find them like everyone else. I’m guessing he has hidden them in her room somewhere but with him who knows. Now normally I would take pity on Dupable and step in to assist her but this is her karma moment. We were at hibachi last night. I was seated next to a nice family from Venezuela. They had a shy little girl maybe 2-3 years old. I asked Dupable to give me a duck for the little girl. She refused! We even argued about it but she held on to those ducks. She wasn’t about to just start handing children her ducks. They will need to find them like everyone else! So we now find ourselves in a little game of duck duck goose.

It is 80’s night. Kicking it off with some trivia.

I’m proof this just isn’t accurate. I’m on a ship it is 6 pm. I’ve hit 17 bars today. I’m not even slurring.

Well it just finally happened. The elevator was packed and I was the one. I leaned into the dang buttons. The entire elevator crowd let out a loud roar. I was a little frightened but they all calmed down once I pointed out that we were going down and I had lit up all the upper floors. Once I explained we would be long gone and it is the next group that would be inconvenienced they let me live.

I came by our room to see our stateroom attendant Ketut. I just wanted to let him know I have some laundry that needs to go out. He immediately asked me if I wanted a flat pillow. He saw what I rigged up to sleep last night. To my credit I tried to just resolve the problem on my own. The weather so far has been perfection. Not hot or cold. Just the way I like it. The ship is rolling a little bit right now. It took a few folks to confirm that. Most people just responded with no you are just drunk. Well no *****, if I wasn’t drunk I wouldn’t be asking the question.

We stopped in Playmakers for an afternoon snack. We are doing Hibachi tonight but won’t be eating until 7:30. Playmakers is included in the dining package.

We had a light lunch in Chops. I did accidentally sober up long enough to remember Mr IT. I did a quick checkin with him. Wolf’s dog is still alive. She still won’t eat anything but steak. At least she is still eating. He also declared that whoever I got that marriage proposal from can just hop on a plane and pick up my pain in the ass dogs. 🤣🤣 Now back to my drunken state.

We had a really good time at breakfast. I’d like to apologize to my fellow diners for all the snorting. We aren’t crazy we just like to have fun with our mishaps. At first we were in a loop. They took our drink order 4 times. Twice was the same guy during a single visit to our table. After about 30 minutes we moved to the food. I don’t mean the eating part just the order. They eventually brought out some of our food. This seems to be a new theme. It happened to us last night as well. We just roll with it. One more time and we will start placing wagers on what food actually gets delivered. Good Sport had ordered Grits. They brought out the grits first by itself. Everyone knows you don’t just eat grits by themselves. You’re a real weirdo if you do. They kept trying to take his grits. He held the defensive line and wouldn’t let them take them. He eventually got his eggs. At this same time they decided to lead a party of 10 through the super tight space behind Good Sport. Every time he tried to take a bite another person bumped his chair. Don’t worry folks he eventually got that spoon to land in his mouth.🤪🤪 What can I say? We are easily entertained.

When we were at Chops last night a photographer came through to take pics. Dupable loves to have her photo taken. He takes the pics and says he will be right back with them. Umm, okay. He comes back and drops the pics. Dupable likes one of them. When comes back he says it is $30. We ask if we can use our diamond benefit and he says no. You can only use that on boarding and port photos. So we decline the purchase. Sure enough when I checked her account this morning the photos weren’t there. Has anyone heard of this?

We let Dupable set our breakfast plans this morning. I forgot from our last trip that she forgets to check the venue time. This means Dupable was up and ready to go with no where to go. I hate how Royal manages the opening time for food venues. If you have a huge mob outside waiting for you to open you are opening too late. Just sayin.

So much fun tonight. Caught up with more crew that were on Oasis earlier this year. I also played blackjack with a fun group. I even got a marriage proposal! The best thing I learned though was from another passenger. He takes his unused Diamond vouchers from the day and buys Fosters for the crew. He then gives them to the casino workers. How great is that?

Haha… I mentioned IFLY to Good Sport earlier. He showed some interest but said he hadn’t heard about it. So I turned to Dupable looking for an explanation. She said those activities don’t interest her. Apparently when something doesn’t spark her interest she just avoids sharing the information.This got an eyebrow raise from Good Sport.

From the moment we booked this trip and Dupable found out Wolf and I are jumping to Harmony she has been grumbling. Why is she going on the SMALL ship? I’m not even sure she knows the name of this ship. She just calls it the small ship. Good Sport joined in on her gripping once we boarded. He is upset they don’t have Central Park to sit in. They never just sit in Central Park! He is also upset that they don’t have a Johnny Rockets. He likes to get the milkshakes. Funny I’ve never seen him get one of those either. They both thought they were super funny on the way down the dock this morning. They kept cracking jokes to the folks getting off The Wonder….. like… how does it feel to be on a real ship? It looks like an adult next to a small child. Our ship looks like the Wonder regurgitated it. Dupable’s favorite…. Short trip, small ship. They both laughed after that one. I think a high five was even included. 🙄

Dinner was in Chops. No food porn tonight. I’m trying to clean up my act! I would like to hit the casino but they seem to only have the tables I want open later in the evening. We will see if I manage to stay awake long enough. My pocket book will be thankful for the lack of gambling access. If I can’t do it my way I just ain’t gonna do it.

We made new friends while we were there.

Lunch at the Beach Club was nice. We all enjoyed it. We were really hungry when we sat down. This was my second time having lunch there. Each time I thought my food was overcooked. This time I got the grouper. The flavor was okay but it was really dry. The piece I got was really thin so that might have had something to do with it.

Let’s do a little rant session. I say little because my complaints are pretty minimal. 1. My bathroom has a very loud buzzing sound. I can’t hear it on the bed side of the room as long as we keep the bathroom door closed. 2. Our room is located aft starboard at the very end. It is a very very long walk to our room. I feel like this is because of where they placed the two elevator banks. 3. The pillows are awful. I mentioned this to Dupable and she agreed. I will not be using those the rest of my trip. If our room steward can’t find me something else I’ll just roll up some towels or clothing and use it as a pillow. I’ve never had a problem with the pillows on a cruise before. 4. If you want to have an unpleasant encounter then go ahead and charge at me when I’m trying to exit the elevators. 5. The casino is smaller than I expected.

We tried to do that last we were there and they wouldn’t let us. We didn’t try this time though.

We have made it to the beach club. The weather is nice just a little breezy. We have blue skies. When we were exiting the ship they insisted we had to get towels. I even said we are going to the beach club and he still said we had to get them from the ship. I shouldn’t have listened they have towels here. Now we have to lug a bunch of towels around with us that we didn’t need. We will just be lounging until our lunch at noon.

Following up 12 hours straight of drinking with Pickleball is not a good idea. I lasted 30 minutes until I looked and felt like a drowned rat. All that liquor started pouring out of my pores the second I started running around the court. Dupable and Good Sport are 1 hour and 15 minutes in. Good sport is well taking it like a sport. Dupable started begging me at the 45 minute mark to fake an emergency. 🤣🤣

We have made it to Coco Cay. The Wonder of the seas is pulling her fat ass in to join us. Weather is looking okay so far. We have partly cloudy skies and hardly any wind at the moment.