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Mobile Bloody Mary cart on Promenade if you like.

They have us now. Heading to the Bridge of the Atlantic, right on time if not a little ahead of schedule.

Looks like our escort has arrived.

The mains have arrived. Pork and Beef stroganoff.

Next course coming but I really recommend the pea soup. Salad and meat lasagna. Yes, this is live from table 3 in the Botticelli.

Pea soup and salmon app.

Tonight's menu.

Emerald Princess in Cartagena today.

The Boulevardier and a Tanqueray and Tonic at Skywalker's Elite Lounge live!

The Tui Marella Discovery 2 is along side today.

1850 and about 1000 crew.

Hello from Cartagena.

Crooner's right now. Godfather and Milky Way from your bartender Fidel. Now that's live!

You want live? As live as I can be...in the Botticelli dining room now, standing reservation for 2 at 7, table 47. First formal night. No wait, two glasses of Lovelock Pinot Gris each. And the wifi? These uploaded fine now didn't they?

Steamers and Planks have been eliminated from the Princess web site and eliminated from deck plans. Seems DOA for now. Sabatinis is open every night as is Adagio. Very minimal children on this cruise not even sure any youth programs are operating.

Got it. First group I downloaded after post 40 I thought I found an easier way. Guess.not. I'll repost later formal night tonight. Here is the one I'm glad I got. Let me know if you can see it!

Hmm. I did it two different ways. Did some of the pics come through on page one? Those I downloaded and attached. The others from a URL.

One more random thought I forgot to mention. The wi-fi speed is more than adequate for us. We're not trying to stream TV shows but we've had no problems listening to Pandora and streaming Google podcasts.

Random thoughts from the first two days of the cruise The ship is overall in great condition. E730 is perfect for this cruise. I know some say they hear noise from Club Fusion but we hear nothing. We also feel none of the reported “vibrations”. We have the Premier package and I must admit it’s a little bit of an adventure ordering at various bars….more on that in a future post. The food is very good, we’ve eaten in the MDR three times now and are very happy. The bartenders at Crooner's are fabulous. Crown Grill was wonderful, though the conversation from the table behind us was well, appalling. If your sentences start out with “I’m not prejudiced but…” and “I’m not a racist but…”, you are. I don’t know anything about karaoke, I wouldn't participate nor watch it so I don’t care how many times it’s offered. We didn’t corner the market on games to bring. We can’t compare Princess to NCL because you’d have to pay us to cruise NCL. Rule 1: If you have a go kart track, roller coaster, skating rink or flowrider, I’m out. We may have issues with the Sun Princess.

One more....lucky to get this one from our balcony.

And some random pnotos from the first full day on the cruise. Nothing in particular.

Dinner at Crown Grill on the first night was great. We did have an issue with ordering an Amarretto Manhattan. First one we got was an Amaretto Sour, then a straight up Amaretto with a cheery. Gave up and ordered an Old Fashioned as the waiter came back and said I could only get that at Crooner's. The bartender at Crooner's, Fidel, visibly flinched when I told him that!

Here's the funny part, I didn't! I'm in the dining room right now and that's how CC posted it!