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Bruschetta and Arugula Parmesan salad (salad is exceptional).

Double Toto’s? Don’t know what that is, but will ask at the Music Hall the next night or two. JC

Another less than beautiful day outside. We are supposed to IFly for second time in 30 minutes. jc

New conundrum for the group. I just left the cabin, and there was a note that not all guests have received their luggage, and they want the cabin steward to inspect our bags to make sure we don’t have someone else’s bag. So, I walked from behind the aft stairs to the front stairs to come down to the DL to check in and do a bit of work. I saw not one other note on a door for this. I don’t care that they inspect the room, but why wouldn’t they be checking all of the rooms? That seems nuts as well. It has been exceedingly cool. Last night when we went to bed it was 44F. Right now it looks hazy and cloudy. Flowrider yesterday for two hours it was never sunny and a bit breezy, so I didn’t go back after lunch. Dinner at WonderLand, we had a below average waiter. We were easily on schedule to go to the Gift, but he literally disappeared before dessert. Ordered a double Gran Marnier neat and got a single. Dessert took 45 minutes. The people next to us, who came after left 20 minutes ahead of us. We got to the show at 8:15 it was packed we stood and watched for 10 before heading to bed. I am not sure how ventilation works on the ship, but it was in the 40s outside, I left the door open and I was still melting in the cabin a few hours later. JC

That is nuts.

Is it glass or plastic?

Here are my shoes after 2 days of walking in the rain had to buy new

Important stuff that I tried to post that didn't and is now lost will quickly recreate. Room Service 1 time per day. Cruise Compass can be had, although our steward didn't last night. Blankets required to sit on balcony in the sun. They are available. robes don't come with ties, and the crew doesn't seem to notice. DL concierge cleared our reservation on IFly and we can do it again in the future for free. Krystal was over served last night, I became aware as we were sitting in Jamie's and I said there is the captain, at which point she shouted captain and waved. This was about 30 minutes after the turn around. He acknowledged continued on his way. Returned about 2 minutes later and shook hands. I will have to ask her if she remembered doing this. 🤣 Sigh....

Hmmm weird double post. That is what happens when you are typing on multiple devices

Still not able to log into work. So, after Chops lunch, I skipped dessert and left K with the two Pam’s we met at lunch, and was off to the FlowRider, it was about 12:30, and there were 4 people there. One a guy doing boogie board of all things with a cloudy windy 56F day. The wave apparently is 2 days old and they haven’t painted the line down the sides yet. It is a very easy wave, the only problem I have discovered with it is that you can’t feel when you are at the top, and I surfed off the top at least three times in my two hours and about 20 runs. It was tolerable when the sun popped out but freezing even in my 3mm full suit. Not horrible, but not optimal at all. On the upside, I did close to 20 runs in 2 hours. They never changed the staff on the wave during the whole time I was there, which seemed odd, especially since Poppy and Maria were freezing. There is a lot of water on the top of the wave I was having a lot of trouble finding my board when it was buried after surfing off the top and then running out the fall to not fall. I texted K at some point and asked if she was in room with luggage, she replied yes, so went to the room, rigged my clothesline on the balcony, and changed into dry clothes hung the wet clothes, and we went to find the solarium and the gym, where she will spend much of the next 10 days. Then we got a cocktail at the Solarium bar, and went out to find a spot about 45 minutes prior to sailing past the Statue of Liberty. The sail by was fine if unexciting. After we went to DL for a couple of glasses of wine. Why do some of the staff bring you a receipt and others don’t? Had that experience in both the DL and Chops last night. I don’t get it. The DL was full, but they didn’t open up, and I suspect they will not open up Music Hall as an overflow. After dinner, I ordered a double Gran Marnier neat, tasted very cognac not very orange. I suspect it is either a knock off brand or they blend it with a cheap brandy or cognac. Not complaining it tasted fine, just not quite right.😂 Needless to say, after dinner I flipped channels on TV and we were both asleep by 8:30. I woke up with the sun obviously hitting the curtain beside the bed, it was 5:59AM when I checked my phone. Guess I will gather some food and a coffee to take back to the room now, as we are approaching 1 hour til IFly, and after that FlowRider at 10. JC

I have a conundrum, apparently we hit a milestone on this cruise, I am supposed to fill out a piece of paper by today, in order to get my block. Do I really want the block? K, definitely doesn't want the block. I need guidance from the group. jc

According to a little old lady I just helped by "fixing" the coffee machine, at 11PM we were met with a helicopter from Halifax, which always made more sense to me logistically, than Boston. We are definitely sailing east as the sun is on the DL side of the ship.

Statue of Liberty from Anthem deck 15

Ship, not really

Finding Adrienne's.

Here are some shots from inside Statue of Liberty. I filmed in on my X3, but haven't dealt with those files yet.

Here is a completely out of context shot of Rhodri sleeping as we took the new Airstream to Alabama.

So, the view from room 921. And the row from row D seats 10-12 before the play Six. If the play had an intermission I am not sure how people would have returned to their seats as they were super tight.

Well let's see if I can post a few pixies.

LB it is all good. I am well aware how CC works!🤣

yeah, they announced and turned the ship while we were in the DL meeting new "friends". We were supposed to get close enough for helicopter to do the lift. No clue if it happened or not already. From the DL at this time I can't tell if we are sailing east or west.😀

So, as I mentioned in my reply to Jimbo, getting on the ship was easy and quick. I am sure I have never boarded a ship that early. We were boarding while people were still disembarking with luggage from the building. We booked all of our dinners (UDP) for the whole cruise based on show times and port times. I think we booked 6 Chops, 4 Jamies and 1 Wonderland. Probably have sushi for lunch one time if it is open then. The DL this am is busy and noisy, but not insane like some TAs we have done. I am going to try to log into work on my Mac now, as I was struggling with the two factor authentication and reached out to my IT guy to turn it the heck off for me. JC

The Pizza was pretty much as I remember, but due to the weather and the time of the year we weren’t eating on the little street. Of course the last time we were here K didn’t have alpha gal, and I am sure the multi Italian meats that I probably ordered tasted better than grilled chicken and artichoke hearts. 🤣 It was a nice lunch, and it was fun to search it down. Mini adventure that I love being a full type A personality.

With tip it was 33, this was for a 9:10 pickup, as our scheduled boarding time was 10. Our driver had to fill up his car.😂 So, we got to the port at 10:04. Star Class got on the ship at 10:20, we followed with the Key about 2 minutes later. I booked the Double tree using 50,000 points and money came to $342. Since I have the Amex Centurion card, I got a $15 dollar a day food and beverage credit. I used about $20 of my $45 on 2 glasses of wine in the small bar. The connection to the train station was never open during the weekend. Do not buy round trip tickets from the machines and the ticket taker takes your ticket as if it was a one way ticket. When I argued I got the blank stare fortunately they didn’t take my ticket on the return, because no ticket taker got around. I am 100% convinced they would have! We wanted quick easy access to NYC. I am sure there were better hotels in the area. At least I hope there are. The DT was fine, the neighborhood not so much.

Here on board, in the DL. No key, fortunately people inside let us in. We were the first to the Key check in at about 10:20, nobody there. Krystal found a deck in the lobby between Chic and Grande. Somebody needs to tell me what we are supposed to do with it. She took a picture of it and needs to identify the find and relocate. jc