Rubyfisch

I'd like a word with whomever designed this bathroom. First, you need to step up into the bathroom - I know at some point, right I have woken up, I'm going to forget that. And it's probably about four inches. Next, you need to basically vault into the tub and dismount from the tub - none of which is helped by the fact I'm blind as a bat without my glasses. I don't understand tubs to begin with, but we'll set that aside. The tub is very short, so like, why have it. Next, the showerhead seems to only exist in positions that require you to basically be on top of the controls to be under the water. That being said, the water pressure and temperature and both good, so it serves it's purpose well enough.

At 10 am, it's still a 45 minute wait for tenders .... I thought by now, it would be less, particularly because the ship seems completely empty. We have tickets now, and are just waiting around.

I went to the MDR and had the aloo masala. It is very good, but took quite awhile. I feel like they may have had to make it specially for me. It's quite spicy, but again, it's really good.

Also, to back track a bit ... I love tracking the number of steps I get on cruise ships. I am someone who generally gets between 10,000 and 12,000 steps a day (ignore my weekly tracker - business travel to hotels without gyms makes getting steps really hard ...). I feel like I did nothing yesterday, but got in over 15,000 ....

The pastries were fantastic. The lido was crowded but not unpleasantly so. I was offered water as soon as I sat down and asked if I wanted more coffee (they didn't realize it was tea) when I still had half a cup left. I'll take more pictures on another day (or later today).

I did fall back asleep, but was woken up again by the start of tendering announcements. I gave up on getting more sleep and went for some pre-breakfast tea ... And had to inspect the pastries ...

We are on deck 6, most of the way aft. Those thrusters will make you up here. We are coming into Bar Harbor, so I grabbed some pictures (before hopefully falling back to sleep):

Just going to leave this here ....

We listened to a couple of songs - folks seem to be out and about listening to music. We're pretty beat, so we have headed back to the cabin.

Also, we ran into our assistant waiter from our cruise last year on Zuiderdam - I have no idea how he remembered us (and where we sat - we were in a corner table).

Dinner was good, with food service. It was a pleasant hour and fifteen or so, in part because I got the onion soup, which was served at roughly the temperature of the surface of the sun .... Tomato and mozzarella salad: Onion soup: Southwest salmon bowl (we both got this and we're very confused with how it looked versus the description, it was good): Ice cream and hot fudge (and decaf coffee):

The lido was quiet as well - I'm not sure how full this sailing is. I was chatting with someone who booked on Wednesday.

We went to the PRIDE meet up in the crows nest, which got mixed in with the solo/single meet up. It's a lovely space and it was nice to chat with people. We then did some laps on the promenade. We late traditional dining (7:30 pm). The dining room is the quietest cruise ship dining room I've ever been on. We have a nice two top on the rail, on the port side. Deck four looks mostly empty....

Menus for today. Lido lunch: Lido dinner: MDR: Late night:

Current position:

More sail away pictures:

Boston:

Planes landing into Logan:

Pictures from the (very tame) sail away party:

We left maybe 45 minutes ago

I feel like the muster station check in would be better if they did it on boarding, like Royal Caribbean does.

We are on the first one up to Quebec.

Cabins were ready when we walked on at noon.

We're in a vista suite - here are a couple of pictures. We've asked our stewards to put the beds together. Room: Current view:

Best dessert .... Peanut butter silk pie ...