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They are so good! They layout it excellent and they feel shockingly roomy!

Sorry! I'm not sure why the updated posted twice! That is weird!

The inside rooms are really nice! The only time I've wished maybe we had a window or a balcony has been when I was in isolation, but even then, I was mostly just sleeping so it wasn't bad! For the price, I would definitely do an inside cabin again. If you turn on the "Bridge Cam" on your tv in the room, you can see outside live and its like having a window! And if you want to go out, its super easy to just go out onto the public decks or windows around the ship.

Sunday, March 12, 2023 - Sea Day Got up for breakfast at the buffet with a couple pastries and fruit. Tried one of the yogurt granola parfait things. It was disgusting. Pastries and fruit were delightful though! Then off to Knitters and Knatters! Met a couple new friends and had a lovely time. A little grandma who didn't speak a word of English (Chinese I think?) stopped on her way past to look at the blackwork embroidery I was making. She was so enthusiastic and excited, even though we didn't speak the same language. I am going to make her a little blackwork bookmark this week to give her at the end of the cruise. Her joy was so contagious and she made my day. Today the lido deck was PACKED. Lots of kids and all the chairs filled. It was a beautiful sunny day, so it wasn't surprising. I decided to check out the art auction in Princess Live because I have never been to one before. It was a lot of fun! There are so many different styles of different art that they are offering and the auction was very lively and fun. Even if you aren't there to buy art, they make you feel included. I stayed for the full thing and was flabbergasted at the prices of some of the pieces. But they sure were beautiful! Definitely some pieces I would get if I had the money! Haha! During the day, Princess Live is well air conditioned, especially on the far side. This is nice, but be aware that if you are wearing shorts; you will get chilly in there pretty quick. And that is coming from a Canadian! Then it was off to steel pan class with Wilson again! He is so wonderful. The class was fun. We learned Oh When The Saints Go Marching In again. I am excited to get to do the second half of the program and the recital this week! Next I headed to the Piazza to watch the Cha Cha class! One of the entertainment staff is a professional dancer apparently, so he has been doing some dance classes. There were lots of people participating and having fun! Headed back to the room for a nap. Forgot to set an alarm but by some miracle woke up at exactly the time I needed to! It was formal night, so got a little dressed up! Went up to the buffet and had a great dinner. On our way down to the show that night, we stopped at one of the many photo stations set up on board. They took a few photos of us and it was fun! We also stopped at the Piazza to catch the dance performance before the champagne waterfall. Last week on one of the port days we saw the new cast rehearsing in the Piazza for this, so we were so happy to see them doing it for the first time now! It was very good and the little surprise part was so funny and entertaining. i don't want to spoil the surprise, but I will say I audibly gasped! Then it was on to Rock Opera. And it was actually Rock Opera this time! I have heard so much hype about this show so I was very excited to see it. And I was... a little disappointed I guess? I never really had a WOW moment like I did in the other two shows. Rock Opera is more of a concert with some dancing and fancy dresses; which I'm sure is great for a lot of people! But I was expecting at least somewhat of a story line like the others had. The new cast was FANTASTIC!! They had a great opening night and are so talented! I am excited to see them again. The singer that was Player One in 5 Skies last week (whose voice I LOVED), is still on board and a part of this new cast too apparently! I was thrilled to see him up there again! All of the dancers are very talented and fun to watch. The blonde girl in particular is very elegant and entrancing to watch. She also definitely had all the best costumes in this show. The other one that constantly caught my eye was the asian dancer. She was expressive and you could really see and feel the emotion through her dancing. Her facial expressions were excellent and her stage presence was so natural and bright. It was also really great to see the entire cast, including the dancers, mic-ed up for this show!! The other two shows only the singers had mics. It was really great to showcase everyones talents as "Dancers that Sing" (job title often shown in theatre auditions). Despite the show not being my favourite show or personal cup of tea, I did really enjoy it and I can see why others love it so much. I have seen a lot of hate for 5 Skies, but I think that was my favourite one so far! It just goes to show how much variety they have and how they have something for everyone to enjoy. By looking at Journey View, I can see there is only one other production show this week: Spotlight Bar. I assume they also have 5 Skies coming, but not on this cruise. The next cruise this ship is doing is a 14 night transatlantic, so with all the technical moving parts in that show, I would imagine they will do the tech rehearsals and polishing over the next couple weeks to get it up and ready. I really hope they are keeping all three shows on board. I decided I didn't need to see Rock Opera a second time, and headed to the Vista Lounge for the Marriage Match game show. Everyone else in the ship had the same idea, but I had a better one. Instead of slowly snaking from the front of deck 7 to the back with the entire crowd, we went up the aft stairs to deck 8, speed walked down an empty hallway all the way to the forward stairwell, and were deposited right into the Vista Lounge and skipped the crowd! Saved us at least 5 minutes. It was still pretty full when we got there, but a very helpful server offered to find us two chairs and make us a spot and it turned out great! The game show was sooooooo funny and entertaining!! Definitely go watch this if you have the chance. Our cruise director, Paul, is so great and has wonderful natural comedy. After the game show it was off to bed. What a great day!!

Sunday, March 12, 2023 - Sea Day Got up for breakfast at the buffet with a couple pastries and fruit. Tried one of the yogurt granola parfait things. It was disgusting. Pastries and fruit were delightful though! Then off to Knitters and Knatters! Met a couple new friends and had a lovely time. A little grandma who didn't speak a word of English (Chinese I think?) stopped on her way past to look at the blackwork embroidery I was making. She was so enthusiastic and excited, even though we didn't speak the same language. I am going to make her a little blackwork bookmark this week to give her at the end of the cruise. Her joy was so contagious and she made my day. Today the lido deck was PACKED. Lots of kids and all the chairs filled. It was a beautiful sunny day, so it wasn't surprising. I decided to check out the art auction in Princess Live because I have never been to one before. It was a lot of fun! There are so many different styles of different art that they are offering and the auction was very lively and fun. Even if you aren't there to buy art, they make you feel included. I stayed for the full thing and was flabbergasted at the prices of some of the pieces. But they sure were beautiful! Definitely some pieces I would get if I had the money! Haha! During the day, Princess Live is well air conditioned, especially on the far side. This is nice, but be aware that if you are wearing shorts; you will get chilly in there pretty quick. And that is coming from a Canadian! Then it was off to steel pan class with Wilson again! He is so wonderful. The class was fun. We learned Oh When The Saints Go Marching In again. I am excited to get to do the second half of the program and the recital this week! Next I headed to the Piazza to watch the Cha Cha class! One of the entertainment staff is a professional dancer apparently, so he has been doing some dance classes. There were lots of people participating and having fun! Headed back to the room for a nap. Forgot to set an alarm but by some miracle woke up at exactly the time I needed to! It was formal night, so got a little dressed up! Went up to the buffet and had a great dinner. On our way down to the show that night, we stopped at one of the many photo stations set up on board. They took a few photos of us and it was fun! We also stopped at the Piazza to catch the dance performance before the champagne waterfall. Last week on one of the port days we saw the new cast rehearsing in the Piazza for this, so we were so happy to see them doing it for the first time now! It was very good and the little surprise part was so funny and entertaining. i don't want to spoil the surprise, but I will say I audibly gasped! Then it was on to Rock Opera. And it was actually Rock Opera this time! I have heard so much hype about this show so I was very excited to see it. And I was... a little disappointed I guess? I never really had a WOW moment like I did in the other two shows. Rock Opera is more of a concert with some dancing and fancy dresses; which I'm sure is great for a lot of people! But I was expecting at least somewhat of a story line like the others had. The new cast was FANTASTIC!! They had a great opening night and are so talented! I am excited to see them again. The singer that was Player One in 5 Skies last week (whose voice I LOVED), is still on board and a part of this new cast too apparently! I was thrilled to see him up there again! All of the dancers are very talented and fun to watch. The blonde girl in particular is very elegant and entrancing to watch. She also definitely had all the best costumes in this show. The other one that constantly caught my eye was the asian dancer. She was expressive and you could really see and feel the emotion through her dancing. Her facial expressions were excellent and her stage presence was so natural and bright. It was also really great to see the entire cast, including the dancers, mic-ed up for this show!! The other two shows only the singers had mics. It was really great to showcase everyones talents as "Dancers that Sing" (job title often shown in theatre auditions). Despite the show not being my favourite show or personal cup of tea, I did really enjoy it and I can see why others love it so much. I have seen a lot of hate for 5 Skies, but I think that was my favourite one so far! It just goes to show how much variety they have and how they have something for everyone to enjoy. By looking at Journey View, I can see there is only one other production show this week: Spotlight Bar. I assume they also have 5 Skies coming, but not on this cruise. The next cruise this ship is doing is a 14 night transatlantic, so with all the technical moving parts in that show, I would imagine they will do the tech rehearsals and polishing over the next couple weeks to get it up and ready. I really hope they are keeping all three shows on board. I decided I didn't need to see Rock Opera a second time, and headed to the Vista Lounge for the Marriage Match game show. Everyone else in the ship had the same idea, but I had a better one. Instead of slowly snaking from the front of deck 7 to the back with the entire crowd, we went up the aft stairs to deck 8, speed walked down an empty hallway all the way to the forward stairwell, and were deposited right into the Vista Lounge and skipped the crowd! Saved us at least 5 minutes. It was still pretty full when we got there, but a very helpful server offered to find us two chairs and make us a spot and it turned out great! The game show was sooooooo funny and entertaining!! Definitely go watch this if you have the chance. Our cruise director, Paul, is so great and has wonderful natural comedy. After the game show it was off to bed. What a great day!!

This is exactly how I feel! I have chronic illnesses with many of the symptoms that are also covid symptoms, so as soon as I felt something that was out of my "normal" I went to get tested. I am glad I mostly kept to myself before I got it anyway, so there is less chance that I gave it to many people. There is a lot of guilt that comes with a positive test result.

The ship was full last week and is again this week. I don't think they are moving anyone anymore.

Here are some pre sickness pictures!! San Juan Patter A picture of San Juan from the ship A cute towel puppy we found in our room A cruise duck (unicorn) that I found!

Saturday, March 11, 2023 (Ft Lauderdale turn around. Part 2) My mom had private escort through the in transit immigration process, do to the staff confusion earlier in the day. She says it was very easy and quick. She had to sit and wait in the terminal for maybe 15 minutes and then they were heading back on board. The terminal staff were a little less friendly and helpful than the ship staff are. Maybe they were having a bad day. Freedom!!! I was released from my room and finally back to the ship! I headed up to the lido deck to grab some lunch and watch the sailaway. In the outside aft lido deck, right beside the doors to go back inside and to the buffet, there is a sort of hidden spot with these big orange couches. It is really nice and often not occupied! There isn't a lot of air flow, so it does get a little hot, there is a great view and comfortable calmness in that spot. I stayed there to eat and work on my computer for a bit while the wifi was good. Checked some work emails and got some work done (have to keep making money so I can go on another cruise!!) before heading back to the cabin for a short nap. The heat always makes me sleepy. After the nap, it was back up to the lido deck for the sailaway! It was fun to watch the new cast perform for their first time. They looked like they were having a blast! We watched the Celebrity Edge go first, then a Holland America ship (I can't remember the name). Then it was our turn! We enjoyed watching the land slowly disappear and waving to everyone back on land. We saw some people on the grass waving and they had a giant Princess flag!! I had seen them post on Facebook several times over the last few months, and it was so exciting to see them waving to us now too! ...I can't for the life of me remember what we did between that and the show. I'm sure we must have done something. But I can't say what lol. Then it was off to Rock Opera!! We got there nice and early as usual and grabbed perfect centre seats. I had heard so much about this show, I was excited to see it. And then the show started and it was very much... not Rock Opera. It was Ross Hunter! Apparently they had had to change the schedule around and we never got the memo. Oh well. I don't think I would have chosen to go to the concert if I had known, but I am so glad I was tricked into going!! He is such an incredible singer. He sings a very wide range of songs, and has such and wonderful presence and energy on stage. He very clearly loves what he does. I really enjoyed his concert, and would recommend everyone go see him perform. After the concert, we stopped at the Yes No Gameshow briefly to watch a couple contestants. Princess Live was packed, so we didn't stay long. We went back to my favourite place, Take 5, the jazz lounge. It is always fairly quiet and has wonderful jazz playing. It is a beautiful little club that people often overlook. The waiter that always serves us there was excited to see us back again and took our orders. I can't remember his name right now, but I will get it next time I'm there. We enjoyed some jazz then headed for bed. A great day and a start to another wonderful week!

I'm not in the cabin right now, but from what I recall, there is a USB outlet on each bedside table lamp, and then two North American and two European plugs on the desk. And then one in the bathroom for razors. It has been more than enough for us, but we don't use a ton of devices, and the ones we do use, don't all have to be charged at the same time. We considered getting one of the power bars that every one always suggests, but we decided against it, and haven't regretted it.

I would still get an inside cabin in the future. The price and the darkness is worth losing a window or balcony over. 🙂

I was on board last week as well, and I have definitely noticed the average age of passengers on the ship has dropped drastically. I saw maybe 5 kids total last week and now I see them lots. But it still doesn’t feel like 750!!! I’m glad the kids club seems popular!

Hello!! I am so sorry for the long delay between updates! I promise I will do better this week. We had an unexpected turn of events on our first week and I wasn't able to update on here. So now I will do a short (it's not very short) summary of the last few days!! Monday, March 6, 2023 - Sea Day! I woke up with a migraine still 😞 and with a terrible allergic reaction to something. Couldn't stop sneezing and had hives and a rash! Managed to pull myself out of bed around noon to go find some food. Felt much better after leaving the room... so the allergy was something in there. It never occurred to me before hand that the ship would be so full and busy on sea days!! The lido deck especially was packed! One thing I forgot to mention before is, I can't believe the number of people that don't wash their hands before going into the buffet! I stop at the hand washing station every time I go in, but I have only seen a handful of other people use them. There is also hand sanitizer there, but those barely get used as well. I go on autopilot and automatically use the hand sani like 5 seconds after I wash my hands at the sink!! Haha! Today in the Piazza there was a first time cruisers "Welcome to Princess Celebration" where the cruise director Paul (who is AMAZING by the way) gave some basic ship and medallion class introductions and gave away a ton of prizes! We received an invitation to go to this event in our cabin on embarkation day. It said to bring it with us and to write down the reason for our cruise or if you were celebrating something. At the end of this cruise, we are actually celebrating me being one year tumour free!! I had a tumour removed from my ear last year and thankfully it has shown no signs of regrowth or complications, so I would say that is cause for celebration! At this introduction event, they raffled off a whole bunch of prizes from tons of departments across the ship. Then they went through everyone's forms we filled out and chose 3 guests to win a "grand prize"! And we were one of the selections!! Awful ear tumour was worth it in the end!!!! We one a free day pass for the Enclave for both my mom and me. (And believe me, by the end of this post you will see why we need it lol) After that we raced to our next event: steel pan class! Wilson, the steel pan player on board, is the chillest, coolest guy I have ever met. He is so laid back and awesome. I want to be him when I grow up hahaha! The class was very fun! My mom and I are both musicians so we found it very easy, but fun none the less! I had another nap in the stateroom in the late afternoon to early evening, but woke up with another allergic reaction. I was not having a great time sleeping this trip!! Spotlight Bar was the next production show featured this cruise! It was fantastic! Less of a plot than 5 Skies, but just as fun I think! This show was more featured around the dancers, and the singers were more background characters. It takes place in a bar, and through the dances you are introduced to the lives and thoughts of the dancers' different characters! It was really fun. Also there was a tap number !!! with cowboys !!!!!! that were shirtless!!!!!!!!! That was worth it in itself to be honest, but the whole show was incredible once again. It was also the final performance of this production cast!! I wanted to go see the second show of Spotlight Bar, but my migraine was reaching a peak I couldn't stand anymore. So I headed to bed. Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - San Juan, PR I woke up with another allergy attack. Yay for benadryl. We realized maybe I was allergic to the feather pillows!! Our wonderful room steward, Bernabe replaced the pillows for me and when I had a nap that afternoon, I felt sooooooooooo much better!! I could finally sleep! It had never occurred to me before, but I remembered my grandma is very allergic to feather pillows as well, and usually as a precaution when we travel we always just request foam pillows right from the start! What a difference it makes! It was a lovely port day, and was especially nice because everyone got off the ship and it was nice and quiet!! I spent most of the day in my cabin with my nice new pillows catching up on sleep though. I don't have much to report from today. I just slept really. My mom went to the comedic magician and said it was just alright. I didn't miss much by not getting out of bed apparently. Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - Amber Cove, DR First day waking up without hives from the feather pillows!!! Woohoo!!!!! Its going to be a great day!!! (spoiler: it would not last long) Most people went to land, so the ship was empty! A beautiful sunny day!! The mountains on the island were beautiful!! What a lovely view!!! Read a bit, checked out the enclave so we could decide when to use our prize, then laid around and read some more. After lunch I went back to the room to change... and felt... weird. Something was wrong. It wasn't the allergies anymore, but my nose had started running again. But different. The benadryl was not the answer anymore. Back to the medical centre for a covid test!!!! ... ... ... positive. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! As someone who is deemed "extremely vulnerable and high risk" for Covid, this was not great news. This was my first time having it. On the other hand, as someone who is deemed "extremely vulnerable and high risk" and lives in BC, Canada, I had early access to all the best dosages of the vaccines. 3 years and 4 shots in, and I am ready to put my vaccines to the test. By some miracle, my mom tested negative. The rules they gave us were these: - JJ cannot leave the stateroom until a negative test. - JJ will get tested again on Saturday (usually they do 5 days from symptoms, but because of the weird allergy thing, they decided to call that day one and see how the results were and how I felt on Saturday) - To receive room service, you cannot open the door unless you are wearing a mask - Because Mom had negative test, she was allowed to leave the room, but only if she wore a mask when out in public. And she had to sit alone at a table to eat (I am the only one she usually sits with anyway haha so that didn't change much) - Mom also had to test again on Saturday to see if I ended up giving it to her It seemed weird to us that she was still allowed out, even though we were staying in the same room, so for the most part she just stayed in anyway. We didn't want to risk getting other people sick. Thursday, March 9, 2023 - Grand Turk (apparently) I slept through most of this day. The seas were a little rocky, which lulled me to sleep like a baby all day. The doctors gave me medicine that I could take for my sore throat... but I didn't have a sore throat. Never did. I told them that and they said to "take this for your sore throat". Oh well. I felt a lot better today. Clearly my vaccines did their job, because the allergic reactions to the pillows were way worse than how I felt with Covid. At least I could sleep now. They set us up with menus from the MDRs, so we could order room service from there as well! That was a really nice! The customer service this whole time was really great and they took great care of us. When my mom went out briefly to get some fresh air (and to escape me I'm sure), she mentioned to Sarah, the assistant cruise director (also AMAZING) that I was sad I was going to be missing the crafts this week. That night, we received a big backpack full of oragami instructions and paper, and a couple other fun crafts to try! And a hand written card from Sarah! It was so kind and really cheered us up! My mom said Grand Turk wasn't as pretty of a port as Amber Cove and San Juan. She conveniently forgot to take pictures, so I am not sure if she was just saying that to make me feel better, or if it was actually true. We looked at the MDR menu for tonight and it was lobster formal night!!! So we ordered our surf and turf, and got dressed up in our covid formals (our PJs and robes) and ate steak and lobster in bed. It was lovely. The steak was DIVINE. The lobster was alright. I'm sure to lobster lovers it was great. I love crab, and always go into eating lobster with crab in mind, then am always disappointed that it isn't crab. Friday, March 10, 2023 - Sea Day (could've been anywhere really. I don't have a window) I felt much better today!! But still couldn't leave the room, so I slept a ton again. I was probably only awake for 6 hours today! I read lots. Finished one of my books. My mom left the room briefly to go get me a piece of lemon pound cake in the morning, and said it was so busy out there. So she stayed in the room the rest of the day too. She watched a bunch of movies and worked on her crochet. I slept more. In the afternoon, one of the immigration officers came and scanned our passports, because there was a chance I would still be positive tomorrow when we got back to Ft. L. and my mom might test positive too. In that case we wouldn't be allowed off the ship with our in transit cards and would have to just stay on board in our room. Someone from the staff would go through immigration on our behalf and sort it all out. Saturday, March 11, 2023 - Fort Lauderdale (turn around for second half of B2B cruise!) I felt great when I woke up this morning! No symptoms and back to normal. I was hoping, praying, (begging), that I would get a negative test and be allowed out! The doctor came just before 9 am and did our tests. He left right away after and said he would call us as soon as he had our results. We waited... it was like waiting for a pregnancy test. "Please be negative... Please be negative" The phone rings.... WE ARE BOTH NEGATIVE!!!!!! FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!! I jumped around and danced in the middle of the cabin while my mom stared at me. We called guest services to see if we needed to go out and do the transfer now, even though it was late and they had scanned our passports the night before. The lady said "no, just wait in your room. We already have your passport stuff." Half an hour later we get a call from a guy going "where are you??? Why aren't you here with the rest of the transit guests???????" ...Um, because you told us to stay in our room! We explained, they checked a couple things on their end, and called us back later. Turns out now they have decided that my mom does need to get off after all, but I stay in the room. So away she goes. The process was surprisingly quick and she was back way earlier than I expected! I saw a post on Facebook later that day in a Princess group where another in transit guest was saying "who was the idiot that couldn't follow instructions and made everyone wait?" and the comments were filled with people saying things about "self centred guests that don't think the rules apply to them". I didn't respond, but I guess we were the "self centred idiots", that were given a bunch of conflicting information and instructions. A good reminder that there is usually more to the story than someone just being selfish! I hope the extra 10 minutes that man had to sit in a chair while on vacation wasn't too awful for him haha! I am super tired now, so I will do another update in the morning talking about my first day of freedom and fresh air, and then our first sea day today! I will also try to interview my mom about what the process was like for the in transit guests. Stay tuned. My computer doesn't want to cooperate and upload my photos, so tomorrow I will also upload the patters and some pictures I took. Let me know if you have any questions! I will get back to proper updates now!!! Thank you for being patient with me! I am awake for more than a few hours per day now, so I should be set for this week. 🙂 -JJ

I have the Princess Plus package, so have internet for one device. It is really "one device at a time" so I am able to turn it off on my phone and then use it on my laptop, and switch between as much as I want. I don't know about the other package options or where to look for that. I would assume they're the same across all Princess ships. As for the internet quality, I haven't had any complaints. I haven't tried streaming videos or anything, but so far I have been able to do everything I want to, without it being too slow.

March 5, 2023 Princess Cays First thing on the agenda for today was Knitters and Knatters in the Crown Grill lounge. Met a couple nice new friends and showed the different projects we were all working on. It was very nice, and we got to hear some stories from some long time cruisers. Ordered a hot chocolate through the Medallion App. It was delivered promptly right to me! I have been enjoying that a lot. Next up was breakfast; once again at the World Fresh market buffet. You are going to notice I will eat most of my meals at the buffet. Due to food sensitivities, it is easier for me to just pick and choose from the buffets. We might hit the MDRs a couple nights for dinner, but I will be buffet-ing most meals. There are so many options and different themes every evening, that it doesn't get boring! I am impressed with the quality and variety. Then it was off to Princess Cays! I have never been to a tender port before, so that was a very cool experience. The island was beautiful! I am not a typically "sunny - beachy - tropical person" so this whole thing is out of my comfort zone. I am also VERY pale and sunburn incredibly easily, so it was shade and tons of sunscreen for me! We found some loungers in the shade at the south beach and enjoyed some nice drinks from the nearby beach bar. Staff had been saying all day that this was the best weather for Princess Cays that they have had all season! It was a little hot for my Canadian preference, but I can't argue that it wasn't a beautiful sunny day! After splashing in the ocean to cool down a bit and grabbing some snacks from the grill buffet by the beach, we decided to head back to the ship. Approaching the ship from the little tender boat really makes you appreciate the size of the Sky Princess. It is huge! When we got back to the ship, I was exhausted and went for a nap. Then it was off to watch 5 Skies! After learning from the previous night, we got to the theatre right as the doors opened and got some great seats right int he centre. As a musical theatre actor myself, I was very excited to see the production shows on board. W O W!! That show was so good. The talent was exceptional. The technical aspects were mesmerizing. The Player One actor has such a beautiful strong voice; I hung on his every word. I was really impressed with the different dance styles and costumes. The lighting effects they were able to create with the use of a scrim was so well done and really helps to immerse the audience in the world of the video game. I wasn't a huge fan of the voices of the two female singers, but that was simply personal preference of singing style. After the show, I went back to enjoy some jazz in Take 5 (I LOVE jazz - fun fact, I almost went to university to study jazz professionally... but changed my mind last minute), before going to the second showing of 5 Skies. I always enjoy going to shows multiple times. you get to see different things each time. Sometimes (always) it is fun to watch the ensemble and see all the individual storylines and small things going on in the background that you wouldn't typically notice when you first see it. I was so impressed with this cast, in that there was no weak link. Your eyes weren't drawn to anyone that was any more or less talented than the other dancers. They all complimented each other very well and were so enjoyable to watch. While watching the second performance, I noticed a couple things that made me wonder fi this cast was performing this show for their last time. It turns out it was! The production show cast is turning around this week, so we get to see their last shows, and the new cast's first shows next week! How cool is that! After the show, we were very tired, so off to bed! I woke up in the middle of the night with a migraine, so I went for a little walk around the ship to wait for my medication to kick in, without waking my mom in the room. I have to say, the lido deck is very peaceful and quiet at 2-4 AM! No fighting for chairs at that hour! I found a nice couch to lay on and read in the aft deck area for a few hours, then went back to bed. Despite my chronic migraines flaring up at inopportune times, it was still a great day! Thanks for coming along with me!