Denversail

I’m gonna have to ask y’all to tone down the like’s on Mr. IT’s post. This entire situation is a bit out of control! He now thinks he is an artist. I thought I’d bring him on as a number two but he has other ideas. I’m not sure how we all move forward from here.

The weather is looking nice so far. We are looking at mid 70’s in Florida and around 80 for the weekend. We were able to pre-order our meal for our flight out last night. That’s what made it feel real. If we are ordering food we are practically already on the trip, right?

I’m getting pumped for this trip. Just 3 more days. Things are starting to settle down a little bit. My mouth is functioning again. No pain when I eat and I can mostly feel my tongue. I was supposed to go back to the dentist tomorrow but I called them this morning to cancel. No way they are touching my grill with their devil tools before my trip. They can continue with my torture sessions when I get back.

Well my live is falling flat. I post the hotel stuff and beg Mr.IT to give the blog a little boost. I say I gave him a life line and as a co-writer he should jump in and say something witty. Isn’t that how this works? He then expresses that he is an “Artist” whatever that means🤷‍♀️ He says he isn’t available on demand.🙄

We will compare photos when we get there Thursday. We will be reeling in any false advertisers! All of our investigative breaking news will be posted here first!

I feel like I really suck at the hotel shopping. I booked us at Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront. In my mind at the time of booking this place was amazing. I did all the research and everyone loved it. Well now when I go back and check out the hotel the reviews are awful. It is the most hated place on planet earth! Is it me?

This would be so amazing to see. It looks like a SpaceX launch. Has anyone seen these launches before? Do you think we will be able to see it from the ship? That would be so cool. I think the time has been updated to 3 pm on the website. Would love to hear about anyone’s experiences seeing these from the ship.

Unlike a hotel you will need to put in their birth information. I think this is compared to their travel documents. I personally wouldn’t fudge this in an attempt to save a few bucks.

I just can’t express how excited I am that Mr. IT has joined us here. It does increase the pressure a bit. It feels like I got a promotion. I mean I now have a co-writer. What? What? I can’t believe how far I have come in such a short amount of time. Dupable is now also wanting to join in. Some of you will remember I had told her on the last live she could join in as long as she came in character. She was here just a little while ago asking me how she can get set up. I of course couldn’t show her since she didn’t know how to log into her account. We will see if she joins in later once she has it all figured it out.

Mr. IT is in the house. Way to show up in character! Everyone meet our trip photographer, fellow partier, and vacation cruising enthusiast Mr. IT. This is going to be fun!

I always seem to take a punch when I book a vacation. I think of it as the universe balancing itself. I went to the dentist on Thursday to get a crown. This was for my lower back left tooth. I have a very small mouth and the dentist warned me it was going to be difficult work. I spent 3 unpleasant hours in that chair. It was the most uncomfortable dental procedure I have ever been through. It’s over so why do I mention it? Half of my tongue is still numb from 4 days ago. The dentist explained to me this morning that I have a Lingual Nerve injury. I had to google it. 90% of these heal on their own within 8 weeks. Some take up to a year and less than 1% never heal and become permanent. Food now tastes strange and the textures all feel mushy and fuzzy. I repeatedly bite my cheek while eating. This also involves occasional drooling. So that is all just very lovely.

We started off Monday cold and snowy. I opted to work from home today rather than attempt driving downtown. Mr. IT doesn’t have that option. He reported the roads as a slip and slide adventure. He made it in safely. Don’t worry I have already checked the forecast for when we leave. Reporting so far is showing sunny skies in Denver when we leave on the 4th.

I typically get early boarding times but when I don’t I ignore the suggested arrival time. The only time that I thought I was going to be turned away was in Miami last year. I was in line with probably the first 40 people or so and noticed the guy checking and turning people away. I think they just do this in the very beginning when letting the first folks through. I was solo so I just nodded to the people ahead of me as if I was with them and he let me through. We didn’t have issues in FLL or Galveston this year. Fingers crossed on this port. I have read other reports from folks going out here that it wasn’t an issue. In my experience once they let you in the building you are good. I’ve never had anyone check it past that point.

We are 25 hours in and I think with 17 followers. Followers, fans, stalkers, you all call yourselves anything you want. The duplets could be a good name choice. I’m just sayin this following can be anything we want it to be. Let’s reach for the stars.

Our excursions this trip will be a resort pass to Margaritaville in Nassau. We are doing the Beach Club @ Coco Cay. You will notice a theme. This is my 3rd time in a row doing the Beach Club. I really enjoy it. It creates a relaxing day for me. We won’t need to be to the airport until 2 pm on Monday. My plan so far is for us to take our time getting off the ship and head over to Disney Springs. I thought we would be able to do some shopping and get some lunch.

Mr. IT and I were last on Allure of the Seas in Oct of 2016. We loved the ship! Here are a few of Mr. IT’s pics from that trip.

We will be enjoying an ocean balcony on deck 9. We booked the drink package and 2 WiFi devices. We opted to book our dining individually instead of the package. I didn’t want to have to run on the ship and book reservations. For convenience we booked Giovanni’s boarding day lunch and 150 cp, chops, and samba for dinner.

We will wake up on cruise day and head to Simply delicious for breakfast. We will plan to get there a little before they open. We will see how it goes. We will then head back to the hotel and checkout. I would like to be heading to the terminal by 10:30 at the latest. Our hotel is 6 miles away and we plan to park at the cruise port again for convenience. We obviously checked in late for this cruise and got the latest possible boarding time. We will be ignoring that *****.

We will then drive to Cocoa Beach. Our hotel for the night is Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront. We have a king bed with an oceanfront view booked. We figure with arrival time, rental pickup, lunch, and drive time we will arrive at our hotel between 3 and 4 pm. That is perfect since the hotel has a 3 pm checkin. Our plan is to hit the beach for a few hours if the weather is nice. We have dinner reservations for Gregory’s at 7 pm. I’m sure after that we will call it a night.

Let me lay it out for you all. 4/4 Depart - we will be arriving at the Denver airport at 4 am for our 6 am flight. We will park at the airport for convenience since we will only be gone thru the 8th. Arrival - noon in Orlando. We decided to rent a car for the duration of the trip. This is in the theme of convenience. We will pick up our rental at the airport from enterprise. I know that we will be starving at this point. Our plan is to stop at rocksandbrews.com for lunch.

Mr. IT and I have been discussing how to proceed with our live. Mr. IT is super into photography. He loves taking pictures. We have decided that he will provide the photo content for the trip. Prepare to be photo dumped! We are getting really excited about our trip! We leave in 11 days.

Mr. IT has what we like to call a vacation setting. We have both purchased the drink package. We will not be spending a huge amount of time in the casino. We don’t have any sea days this trip. I would guess Mr. IT will spend maybe two hours gambling this trip. I’m sure I’ll spend a few more than that. We have enjoyed some comedy shows in the past, trivia’s, and a few dance clubs. We have also enjoyed some of the performers in the pub on past cruises. We don’t ever seem to make it to any shows. This trip will be very beach heavy. I’ll be posting details soon.

The Pups are both doing well. Wolf’s dog is back on her normal kibble feeding plan. She has put a few pounds back on. Thank you for asking. I keep reminding Dupable that she is not coming on this trip. I’ve gone over our plans in more detail with her than Mr. IT. She was just here actually telling me word for word the update I should post about her on this live. She was so ecstatic that you asked about her. She thinks she is a star with fans now. She of course also requested I talk more about ducks. Always the damn ducks. She is trying to convince me to take her ducks and hide them on the ship. I think she has joined a bunch of duck groups on FB. 🐥🐣🦆🐤